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The movies that taught us how to act and feel when in love forgot to mention stuff like mortgages, inflation, and the cost of airplane tickets. When we enter a partnership, we do so without knowing what pervasive bad habits our loved ones have and what damage they’ll eventually cause in our relationship. That unknowingness is, in part, good because if we knew everything from the get-go, we would never form any kind of couple.

Frustrated husband considers leaving his wife due to her repeatedly making bad major life decisions over the last 10 years: 'Am I being resentful and unfair?'

I wish someone or something could protect us from the ridiculous fights we pick and the mistakes we make in our first relationships, but we are at the mercy of stronger forces and find ourselves pushed to go through that character arc alone. Everything feels so dramatic when we're in our early twenties; you couldn't pay me enough to go back, but no one can take the pleasure of watching and analyzing someone who's still in the trenches away from me.

22-year-old college student got dumped by his 21-year-old girlfriend simply for talking to a female friend: ‘From my girlfriend's perspective, she believes: I hid important information.’

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Are we always obliged to follow our loved ones' rules? Our most meaningful rules might appear ridiculous to somebody else, but part of the art of learning how to love is respecting what our significant others deem important, even though it sounds ludicrous to us. That’s my position anyway, but let’s see what this Redditor has to say.

32-year-old neat freak is mad about his same age fianceé not taking her shoes off inside his house: ‘Refusing to respect my rules regardless of how silly you think they may be will send me into orbit’

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31-year-old man states that his coworkers' flirting is part of their culture, insists on ‘separating family from business’, leaving his girlfriend questioning whether he simply enjoys the attention: 'Am I overreacting?'

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Husband lands himself in hot water by proposing they purchase a Mother's Day present that is clearly for himself: 'We have a 50-inch that is older but works well enough for me...'

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26-year-old boyfriend who earns considerably more than his 24-year-old girlfriend grows wary of her increasing demands for his money: 'I earn $95k working in corporate finance'

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Dad pulls 15-year-old daughter out of gymnastics against his wife's wishes in order to protect her when he discovers why she wants to leave the sport: 'She is a sophomore in High school and wants to stop competing'

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‘I worked hard to get where I am’: Husband insists 29 y/o wife quit her job because he received a sizable salary increase, she refuses on principle

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28-year-old husband gets heated when his 25-year-old wife serves them and their 1-year-old son spaghetti for dinner: 'You know i don’t like spaghetti [why do we] we have to eat spaghetti once a month'

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Aspiring bar owner chooses her career over controlling boyfriend after he forces her to choose between him and her dream: '"If you take it, we're done"'

'Our relationship was built on a lie': Guy confesses to his girlfriend of two years that he orchestrated their meet-cute, internet drags her for justifying staying with him

'Our relationship was built on a lie': Guy confesses to his girlfriend of two years that he orchestrated their meet-cute, internet drags her for justifying staying with him

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‘I've been in a financial hole for years now and this job would help bring me out of it’: Man considers accepting a job that would give him a $20k+ pay increase, but his girlfriend tries to guilt him into declining because he'd be unavailable on weekends

36-year-old man pressures 31-year-old fiancée into letting his 18-year-old son from a previous marriage walk her down the aisle, she puts her foot down, sparking family feud

36-year-old man pressures 31-year-old fiancée into letting his 18-year-old son from a previous marriage walk her down the aisle, she puts her foot down, sparking family feud

31-year-old discovers she's been paying rent for two years for an apartment owned by her husband and MIL: '[They] let me keep paying rent for two years like a clueless roommate!'

31-year-old discovers she's been paying rent for two years for an apartment owned by her husband and MIL: '[They] let me keep paying rent for two years like a clueless roommate!'

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50-year-old recent divorcé packs up and leaves overly critical 40-year-old partner at 2 AM, she wakes up to a note: 'Quiet dumping is the way to go'

50-year-old recent divorcé packs up and leaves overly critical 40-year-old partner at 2 AM, she wakes up to a note: 'Quiet dumping is the way to go'

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'[He] comes home, sits on the couch, and waits for dinner to be served': 30-year-old woman tells her 32-year-old husband that she's 'done' cooking for him after he refuses to help or learn how