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I'm 35 and childfree. My sister is 33 and a mother of 3 kids - between 6 to 10 years of age, two boys and a girl . I have always had a strained relationship with my sister and usually avoid being around her kids, as I don't really like kids in general. Yesterday, my sister came over unannounced with her kids. She told me her brother in law had met with an accident and she and her hubby needed to go see him in the hospital. She said she needed me to watch her kids for the evening as our parents are out of town.

I told her to get a sitter, but she said she couldn't get one on such short notice. I refused again, telling her I had never babysat before and was looking forward to a quiet evening. First she told me she was just leaving them there. I told her I would call a child welfare committee and would report her for abandonment if she pulled something like that. She begged and pleaded and actually began to fake cry. As I didn't want to provide my neighbours with entertainment, I re

When I got a good job in a low cost of living area where his job prospects were abysmal, he said he wanted to try his hand at being productive around the house, and see if he could come up with ways to save and make money from home.

He's knocking it out of the park! He grows fruits and vegetables in a huge garden, has some fruit and nut trees going, learned how to can, makes all our food from scratch, does a great job with the housework, keeps bees as a hobby so he can get out of the house and go to the local beekeeping association meetings, has made us lots of interesting friends who keep bees, homebrews all our beer, and last week he learned how to make soap. I'm proud of him. He sells produce and honey at the Farmers market on weekends during the growing season.

People act like he must sit around and play video games all day. The things they say are horrible. I had to stop talking to one friend because she told me to divorce him. It's crazy. If it was him working and me busting m

I’ve been very happily married for twenty-four years. We have a twenty two year old son- Jackson, who recently had to move in with us with his wife- Amanda, now I don’t like Amanda but I told him it’s his life and I’m not going to keep commenting as long as he knows I do not like her.

In general, I think she is rude and overly political, but she’s been a decent houseguest, and I like having Jackson around. I’ve always gotten the impression that Amanda has an issue with my lifestyle. I’ve been a housewife/ stay at home mom since I got married. I really don’t care what other people do, but working never appealed to me and I married a man who is a good provider.

I love my husband and I’m happy to play the doting housewife role. He’s a lawyer and works long hours, so when he comes home, I like to make him a drink, and every night I take his shoes off. This seems to really piss Amanda off and I don’t know if it is the kneeling in front of him, or the physical act, but I have noticed her s

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My mother is widowed, without many funds and suffering from heart failure, with an ejection fraction of less than 15% and a bunch of other stuff wrong with her. She isn't eligible for a transplant for a number of reasons and at this point according to optimistic doctors she has another 10 years left. Before her diagnosis, she had a lot of money saved for retirement but since then, to pay for all of the medical expenses she has and her expensive meds on a monthly basis she's had to sell her home and move in with me, her only child.

So I've been letting her live with me rent free for about three years now since she fell sick. Things have mostly been fine, but that's because I haven't been in a relationship during this time. I've had relationships in the past that would end because of my fear of my parents finding out, who were always extremely homophobic, especially my mom. My mom isn't homophobic with the excuse of religion, she just blatantly hates the entire LGBT movement and has sa

Like breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, first degree murder, terrorism, etc... the coordinating police chief in charge of the raid should be held responsible for whatever happens.

Thanks for the awards. Glad we’re on the same page......

Usually I eat the ugly piece of fish or the veggies on the grill that got a little more char than you wanted. Am I alone in this?

Edit: wow, thanks for all the replies, glad to see I'm not alone!

I have a five year old daughter named Colette. Ever since she was born my mil called my daughter "letters" as a nickname (because Colette ends in lette i'm guessing). It's not the greatest nickname in the world but I let it go.

The other day, my daughter randomly said: Why does grandma call me "letters". My name is Colette.

I told her: It's her nickname for you.

Colette: that's weird

me:Do you not like being called "letters"

Colette: not really

me:it's ok to tell grandma that you want to be called Colette instead of letters.

Colette went to my MIL's house today. My husband dropped her off and picked her up so I didn't see my MIL at all that day.

That night I get a call from my MIL. She tells me that it was really rude for Colette to say she didn't like her nick name. And that I shouldn't have told her to say that. She said I was raising her to be bratty. She also said that Colette couldn't come over until she apologized and says that she likes being called letters.

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