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Family has changed their job, making their financial situation different, now they can't afford travelling for Christmas with the rest of the family: 'I communicated this clearly to my in-laws, however, this was not received well.

María Cetra

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Sister's husband wants to flex his promotion by inviting breakfast but then gets upset about paying for what the brother ordered, even though he always eats the same thing: 'I would have happily paid the bill, like I usually do'

María Cetra

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Dad refuses to go on a family vacation unless his 16-year-old nephew's friend gets disinvited because he picks on his 15-year-old daughter at school: 'This kid is a full-fledged nightmare.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mother of the groom doesn’t like his fiancée, so she doesn’t want to invite her to her 70th birthday trip, as she alleges she doesn’t know her enough: ‘My wife isn't invited, so I've essentially said I won't go, as I feel she should have been invited’

María Cetra

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30-year-old couple just bought their first home, but the boyfriend's parents are insisting that they take on their old furniture, the couple doesn't like it: 'His mom called me two days ago, she said we were ungrateful and disrespectful.'

María Cetra

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Boyfriend gets tired of girlfriend's family taking advantage of him and his money, using him to buy things like food for the girlfriend's 27-year-old sister: 'I’ve also been using the (very real) excuse that my bank has been flagging my purchases'

María Cetra

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Business-owner mother-in-law refuses to give her helpless daughter-in-law a job at her company, despite her son's wishes: 'If I fire her, that would just make it worse, and I know she won’t be a good employee.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mother includes her married son in new family portraits but excludes his wife, then hangs the pictures by the front door and daughter-in-law confronts her: '[The pictures had nothing to do with you]'

Celeste Mello

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Woman's in-laws refuse to return her gold ring during her divorce, then demand the phone and laptop she bought with her own wedding money: 'They say everything belongs to them'

Cata Holmes

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Future in-laws claim couple’s fixer-upper as their monthlong August vacation home before they even get the keys, invite the extended family, then call them selfish for refusing: 'Our home isn’t a public hotel'

Celeste Mello

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Mother-in-law refuses to call daughter-in-law by her preferred name, so she teaches her toddler to call her grandma a name she doesn't like, meemaw: 'The entire 11 years my MIL has used my whole name'

María Cetra

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Family argues with in-laws because they are moving out of the country, and now they can't see each other very often, even though they never got together when they lived close by: 'You already see each other just once or twice per year.'

María Cetra

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Parents hijack son's vacation plans and repeatedly push back against inviting his wife's family, so he cancels the trip altogether: 'My wife's family isn't his family'

Cata Holmes

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Wife pushes husband to shorten his parents' month-long visits or get an Airbnb after years of handling the hosting alone: '[He] historically does not take PTO while they visit'

Celeste Mello

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40-year-old wife stops inviting husband’s family to parties after relatives refused to attend child-free pool celebration and criticized her home all night: ‘When we host, they either criticize it or don’t come’

Cata Holmes

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Woman refuses to visit her Mississippi in-laws because it's 80 degrees inside their house in the summer, sparks debate when she suggests an alternative: ‘It's unbearable; I do not sleep'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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