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This could qualify as a horror story. It would be a good A24 film. A man gets smart-fridge notifications in the middle of the night while everyone is sound asleep. In this case, discovering a snack-eating ghost would’ve been a better outcome than what really happened. Infidelities are not solved via an exorcism

Man catches wife’s affair thanks to his smart fridge’s notifications: ‘She said she slept the whole night through, no interruptions. That was the exact wrong thing to say to a man holding fridge-door notification data’

Since when has shutting down and going quiet been considered overreacting? Of course, it can be used to make someone else furious, but I don’t think this is the case. Sometimes, when you receive a complaint in the form of aggression, the best you can do is stay silent and wait a while until, eventually, you are able to talk about it with the other person in a more mature manner.

Man shuts down when his girlfriend gets insecure with a restaurant server and spends the entire evening making petty remarks about her: 'I was wondering if I was overreacting by going quiet and just keeping to myself for the rest of the night'

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Two wrongs don’t make it right, but at least we’re even. Sometimes, in relationships characterized by disappointment, and even more so when disappointment always comes from one end, we have to revert to something more than words to set a boundary. I mean, when we are already tired of talking, and it falls on deaf ears.

27-year-old woman considers not celebrating 28-year-old boyfriend's birthday because he didn't celebrate hers: 'I just don’t care that much if he feels special or loved'

I have the strongest opinions about this story, but let’s bear with her, because I presume we all know what it’s like to be in love and how hard it is, sometimes, to see the red flags for what they are. It starts with a long-distance relationship; can you guess where it ends?

27-year-old man hosts his long-distance girlfriend for a week in his tiny room at his parent's house, 29-year-old girlfriend is afraid of bringing up moving to her cousin's house for the remaining days to be more comfortable: 'I feel so awkward'

I don’t know about you guys, but I consider picky eating a very serious issue. To me, it’s unthinkable to be more than 7 years of age and still unable to eat anything with garlic.

Entitled 29-year-old picky-eater demands his girlfriend to exclude every ingredient he doesn't like from her diet leaving her wondering if she should accomodate: 'After I told him they were for me, he kept saying things like, “You know I don’t eat that”'

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Realistic hopecore Reading stories like this reignites my faith in humanity. Probably all the hearts he broke are mended by now, but he can at least stop himself from breaking more in the future. I thought my cold exes could never be self-aware, but this story makes me think they might be, one day, when they turn 34.

34-year-old man realizes he has been the toxic one in every single relationship he had and wonders what to do about it: 'I always thought codependent people had the problem and i was fine because i don't need anyone. but not needing anyone isn't strength'

If you can't explain it to a Victorian child, it doesn't count I'm amazed by the quantity of stories that exist today that fifteen years ago would've been unthinkable, or at least absolutely dystopian. I remember watching the movie Her, and while I was crying, I was like, c'mon, this can't happen to anyone.

Woman cancels wedding two days before the event after finding out about fiancé's relationship with an AI model: 'He cried and said it doesnt count because shes not real'

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Ex-husband refuses to let ex-wife dog-sit at his house while he’s on a couples trip with his new girlfriend, friends cancel over pet-sitting drama: 'If the roles were reversed, I'd do whatever it took'

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30-year-old man thinks his 40-year-old girlfriend is delusional about her project to start medschool because she keeps failing or missing the exam to get in: 'It will just impact our future if she keeps believing in it'

Many couples go through a stage where attraction decreases; for some, this is just a stage, for others, it means the end is near. When children are involved, especially if they’re very small, responsibilities increase, routines emerge, and parents’ identities shift.

'You look like a mom': 33-year-old man says his wife changed after having kids and complains after she gets a haircut, leaving her questioning how to continue with the marriage succesfully

This boyfriend showed up where he shouldn’t have. God knows not every run-in is a good one, and this one was of the bad kind. Some people advise not to meddle in someone else’s affairs, and there might be a point to that, but sadly, not when it comes to your closest friends.

Woman bumps into friend's boyfriend at a restaurant having dinner with another girl and is confused about wether she should tell her friend or not: 'It's been about 3 weeks, I still haven't said anything and they seem totally normal from what I can tell'

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I’ve lived every possible failed romantic story, and I’ve heard countless ridiculous excuses for bad behaviour, trust me, but blaming a heavy piece of furniture because you said another person’s name is one I've never heard of before. I think it’s clear that something is off about this situation. The problem is, what can you do about it when YOU JUST FINISHED MOVING IN TOGETHER? How does one proceed?

25-year-old boyfriend accuses girlfriend of "making stories in her head" after he calls her another name: 'I don’t even know any Olivias. I’m exhausted from the move, it’s hot out, and I was carrying a heavy piece of furniture.'

We all have that old friend from high school who was secretly our crush back then. They’re not in our lives anymore, aside from the yearly happy birthday message or some random like on a picture here and there. They’re just a happy, wholesome memory, about the first times we felt something for somebody else, floating on the internet.

28-year-old man refuses to stop messaging his highschool crush while he's in a long distance relationship with another woman: 'I am making him choose me or her'

When the birthday requirements are over the top We definitely deserve some form of special treatment from our loved ones on our birthdays, and if we are lucky enough, we get it. Having said this, some people demand a little bit more than special treatment and command week-long tributes, constant attention, praise, and presents. All the while believing those requirements are an obligation for the people around them. Beliefs like that are really hard to shake, and that’s exactly what happened to…

30-year-old woman wonders if she exaggerated by telling her 28-year-old boyfriend to plan his own birthday dinner: 'He has been staying with dad because “I ruined his birthday”'

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These blessed phones Let’s start by saying that going through phones is NOT okay. There is nothing we can do now because the protagonist of this story has already gone through one and found things she shouldn’t have. The only thing we can do now is deal with the aftermath of what came to light.

29-year-old woman goes through her 35-year-old girlfriend's phone and finds out she is planning to leave her: 'Whole time she was miserable and apparently using me which she won't say she is because we live together and split bills'

When the household chores won’t do themselves I can’t say how many times my mother has tried this technique with me when I was a teenager, surprise: It never worked. I’m not saying I don’t do my household chores now; in fact, I just put all my clothes in the washing machine, I’m saying it didn’t work THEN. I had to learn this all by myself when I became independent, having countless issues with roomies.

24-year-old girlfriend decides to only do her laundry and dishes and leave her slothful 27-year-old boyfriend to fend for himself: 'You can’t really help me help you. The only way to take something off my plate is to do it yourself'