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I've been with my husband for 9 years now. I just gave birth to our son 5 months after years of infertility. We underwent 3 rounds of IVF before we had a pregnancy that "stuck" (4 miscarriages). This was such a a big turning point in our marriage. We got unbelievably closer, despite all the grief, and for the first 3.5 months of our sons life he was easily the most attentive and helpful man I have ever in my life met. Life was happy.

Well, his mom all the sudden came back in to his life when our son was 3.5 months old. She moved back to our state (she moved to Canada without him when he was 13 and has barely seen him or his siblings for 17 years). There have been multiple occasions where her presence has made me incredibly uncomfortable. Like she has come here a good 5-6 times since our son was 3.5 months old, never held the baby either. When my husband says "look, it's grammie", his mom will raise her eyebrows and say "hi" before looking away. 99% of the time that she comes here, she asks my husband to go outside with her (away from me and the baby) and she's started to ask my husband A LOT to go to her place and needless to say, me and the baby are never invited. He says that she's "just trying to catch up" with him and make up for lost time but I'm honestly just done with it.

Today was his only day off this week. The baby has a spiked fever and is super cranky. I had to call out of work for the past 3 days due to this (I work from home). The house is an absolute mess. I haven't showered in 4 days. I can't put the baby down without him screaming. I need help. Well, around 10am his mom calls and says she "needs" him because she has a surgery and needs a ride to and from. So, he leaves. There was no prior notice. Well, he called me and hour ago and told me that her boyfriend is there too so I asked him why he is still there when she clearly has a ride and a support system? He says that she just asked him to be there and he wanted to be there for her. Well, he just called me again 10 minutes ago and tells me that she's in recovery and asked him not to leave. I told him that I really needed his help and that ever since his mother has popped back up, he's been MIA and I feel like I'm doing everything alone. He told me he's sorry I feel that way and that he "wants" to be home with us but his mother needs him. I guess something inside me just broke when he said that. Because I'm telling him I need him and his mom "needing" him is more important. So I told him if he didn't come home I was done. I would file for divorce. I'm not playing second to a 'mother' who ditched her kids off 17 years ago and has seen them all of twice since. Me needing his help is more important than his mother wanting him there when she already has support with her. He says "are you fucking serious?" And I just hung up. I hardly see this man any more because of this woman and I don't want to live a life like this anymore, even though it's only been a month and a half since this started happening. AITA? The hospital is only 15 minutes from us so if he's not back in 30 minutes, I'm packing my stuff.

ETA: I own a property that I rent out for AirBNB. That's where I will be going. No, I don't have a support system. I grew up in foster care. My biological mother died during child birth and my dad didn't want me. I was never adopted out. My best friend moved 2 years ago. It's just me, and used to be my husband.

Edit: on my way to the AirBNB now. The last phone call I received was him telling me his mother would be discharged within the hour and he would be home after dropping her off. Her boyfriend (who lives with her) is still at the hospital. He could drive her. But mommy wants her precious son to. So, I'm leaving. Thank you everyone who took the time to comment. I will update as the night progresses.

Reading the comments on my last post made me feel a bit better about everything. To be honest, all these discussions I’ve had with my wife, it just gets extremely tiring, and I sometimes start feeling guilty about everything, but reading the comments made me feel better.

I had a discussion again with my wife last night. I didn’t show her the post because a lot of the comments were pretty harsh towards her, but I did feel confident last night when we had the discussion. We came to a decision that I would walk my niece down the aisle, but we would also go to marriage counseling, because my wife had a lot of things to get off her chest. I asked my wife what some of those things were and she said the primary issue was that she felt like I was playing happy family with my sister and my niece all these years, and that she feels like I have taken the role of an SO to my sister, which I disagreed with, but we’ll speak about it in marriage counseling. She then talked about how she sometimes wished she was my sister instead of my wife, because she wished she had that same emotional connection with me that I had with my sister. I didn’t really know what to say to that, so I didn’t say anything.

She then talked about how I’ve been more of a father to my niece than to our daughter, but I disagreed again, because my daughter and I always have been close, and I’ve never sensed any jealousy from my daughter. Again, something we’ll both talk about in marriage counseling.

So that is it for the update, a pretty exhausting discussion, but marriage counseling should hopefully help. I am glad I will be able to walk my niece down the aisle because she said it really means a lot to her.

I disagree with everything Project 2025 stands for and wanted to know more about the execution of their plans. I decided to apply to their prospective political appointee program, The 2025 Presidential Transition Project and was accepted. After taking around 30 hours of courses in their Presidential Administration Academy and earning 3 certificates from the program; I have learned a great deal about the Heritage Foundation’s version of conservative ideology and how they intend to I execute Project 2025.

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I (29M) am engaged to Tina (26F). We are getting married in August. We are planning on hyphenating our last names. She was an only child and was raised by her mom and grandparents. Her last name is a big deal to her. My surname is kind of like the Hispanic version of Smith. And my grandparents already have great grandkids with their surname.

My fiancee and I were visiting my folks last weekend and talking about our plans for the wedding and the future. I mentioned the plan for our last name and my parents said they understood and they were happy that we were using both. It is funny but in proper names in our culture the mother's surname is part of the children's name. So, using fake names here, my dad is Carlos Cornelius Rodriguez de Mancha. With Rodriguez being my grandfather's family name and Mancha being my grandma's. So my parents aren't unfamiliar with the concept.

My brother (22) was at the table with us and he called me a cuck for "bowing down to my Fiancee and her family". I said he was out of line and that it wasn't any of his business. He doubled down and made some remarks I will not repeat. I have no idea how the little shit got like this.

So I said that I was marrying a beautiful, intelligent, sweet, caring woman who would have my back forever. She is going to be a professional and we are going to have a great life together. I then asked him if besides his little anime toys if he has ever touched a breast.

He got really mad and started yelling at me and went to his room. My mom said that I went too far and that he is sensitive about not having had a girlfriend or even a date. I said that with his way of speaking and behaving I could understand why.

He has been messaging me non stop for days now about how I am letting a woman ruin me and that he will not be attending my wedding. I told him I accepted his polite declining of the RSVP and that I would be putting him on the list of people who sent their regrets. He said that I am an asshole for putting a woman over our family.

Our parents are trying to stay out of it publicly but have asked me to apologize so we can all pretend like he isn't a hateful little fuck.

AITA?

My husband and I flew a 3.5hr flight with our 3mo old and 2.5yo recently. We were unable to buy seats together so I was in the middle aisle with baby and he was across the aisle of me with the aisle seat and the toddler in the middle.

About an hour into the flight my husband gets up to pee while I’m nursing baby and as soon as he leaves the toddler crawls over to me. I try to get the toddler to sit on my lap but he causes baby to stop eating so baby is crying on me while I’m trying to hold the toddler and not disrupt the two people I’m sitting next to. Plus my husband got stuck behind the beverage cart so he could grab the toddler for 20 minutes.

Later, my husband gets up to pee again while I’m feeding baby and same thing happens of trying to feed baby with a toddler on my lap. Ending up with a crying baby and a toddler in one middle seat.

Back story, my husband pees a lot. I’ve worked with a pelvic floor therapist and told her how frequently he pees and she agrees it’s too much and he should work with PT to avoid issues down the road. He says he doesn’t need help and blames it on drinking lots of water. He does work a full time job in an office and does go hours without peeing when he has back to back calls so he’s capable of holding it. He’s never peed himself or had an accident. He did go to the urologist this year who ruled out any prostate, or cancer.

After the flight, I told my husband how hard it was to balance both boys and asked if he can just hold his pee. So many times I have to pee when I’m watching the boys but hold it until timing is better. He said he can’t.

Next, I asked if he could ask me before he pees and go when baby isn’t nursing and I have two hands. He said no and he should be able to pee when he has to go.

We have a full summer of flying ahead of us including a few international trips and I’m worried.

*edit he gets annual physicals and is extremely healthy. No diabetes and all labs are WNL. He does ultra marathons and has never peed on himself during a long run.

*I only mentioned the PT because of a conversation we had. She said if you pee excessively (even if just out of habit) it can lead to problems down the road and recommended peeing only every 3-4hrs.

I just want to start off by saying I (24f) love my baby sister more than anything in the world. I drive a 3 row car because it was able to fit her and my other siblings (9f 7m) and some of their friends. My fiancé and I watch the kids after school every day and they spend the night with us 2-4 days a week. My fiancé is great with the kids and they adore him.

My fiancé proposed 6 months ago and when we told the kids, the older 2 were excited but Evie, the 5 year old, was furious. She started crying and hitting me because she wanted to marry him and if I marry him she can't. She refused to speak to me for almost a week and now she's mostly ok but she gets mad at me and starts crying and hitting me any time she sees me kiss him.

She was supposed to be our flower girl but I really don't think she'll be able to sit through the wedding without some kind of outburst so I called our dad, told him about all of this, and said that she won't be allowed to attend the wedding unless she starts seeing a therapist before the wedding. The wedding is in September so he has a couple months to get her in therapy.

He's saying she doesn't need therapy, she's just a 5 year old with a crush on my fiancé, I'm overreacting, and she won't forgive me if I exclude her from the wedding. AITA for banning her unless he gets her therapy?

My exwife and I got sick of each other about 10 years into our marriage. We had three kids by then and we tried to make it work for their sake.

It didn't work and we divorced. I let her keep the house because it was the kid's home and I wanted them to have some stability. I paid child support and I paid for extracurriculars on top of that.

I had to work a lot of hours to afford everything I was paying for but I thought it was worth it. My mental health improved being away from my ex and the kids were taken care of.

I tried to stay involved in their lives but I couldn't support them financially as well as be there for every event.

I made an effort to be there for all the important things. Birthdays, Christmas, holidays. I also made sure that my custody time was sacrosanct. I would turn off my work phone and be present when we were together.

But no matter how I tried they got resentful that I wasn't always their. It didn't matter to them that they only got to participate in these activities was because I was sacrificing for them. They wanted me to pay for the extras but somehow not work to pay for the extras.

When they got to be older teens I tried reasoning with them. But their argument was that their mom worked and still managed to attend.

We grew apart and they cut me out of their lives. I hated it. I still made sure they all graduated from college without debt. One of them got a scholarship so I actually had a little extra money to give them.

I rarely saw them after they left high school. I have not seen them in years now.

My ex passed away and I sold the house. It was mine as per our agreement. She could live there for free until she got remarried. She never did.

The kids were expecting to get money from her estate. And they did. After everything was said and done they each got about $31,000.

What they didn't get was a share of the profit from the house. That will fund my retirement.

I disliked my ex but she was a good mom. I never wanted to get this money this way. I would have been fine letting her live there another thirty years.

The kids came to my house to talk to me. They said that they were all counting on that money. I asked why? What made them think their mom was going to die on vacation at 53?

They said that it wasn't fair that I got the house. I said I owned the house and that their mom didn't leave it to me. As part of our divorce I owned the house and even paid the taxes and for maintenance.

They said that they could really use some help. I said that none of them were really my problem any more. I hadn't been invited to their homes and that I hadn't been asked to participate in their weddings. I attended as a guest.

They all think I'm being an asshole and stingy. I think they would not have bothered talking to me except for the money.

I probably have over 100 dms asking for an update. I’m going to make this pretty brief and I’m leaving out some details out of respect to my gf and because I’m very angry, very sick, and I want to hurt people very bad right now.

I bought a test and took it over to her house today just like she asked. I listened to the advice here and decided to not make myself an even bigger asshole by forcing her to pee in front of me. She left the door open behind her anyway. I didn’t stare at her and the idea of her having a pregnant woman’s pee stashed in the bathroom was pretty ridiculous anyway. She handed me the test and it was still wet with no result yet. I watched it turn positive very quickly. I immediately felt like I was going to pass out. I fully admit that up until that moment I fully thought she was lying and I was expecting her to confess at any moment.

Long story short, she is really pregnant but says it’s not my baby. She claims that a friend of her older male cousin’s raped her when she was over at her cousin’s house, after giving everyone something he claimed would make their mouths numb. My gf doesn’t even smoke pot so why she would take anything from this supposedly weird ass dude she only met twice in her life is beyond me. I yelled at her for that and I feel really bad. I called her an idiot and a dumbass.

I even tried to convince her maybe it’s my baby because suddenly that sounds a hell of a lot better than the alternative. She says she knows it’s not my baby because one of the first things she did was look up when she would be ovulating and it happened when she was in her fertile time of the month. We didn’t even have sex that entire time she could have got pregnant. She swears she was never going to keep the baby, she wants an abortion. She just is scared to do it alone so she figured I would help her and she wouldn’t have to tell me the truth about what happened. She won’t tell her parents because she says they will be mad at her and blame her. I told her she needs to report the guy but she won’t do that either. She says she just wants to forget it happened. She even called her mom to come get her right away after it happened but didn’t say a word to her mom. She didn’t even get plan b or do anything. If she would have told me right away I would have helped her. She said when I demanded proof and stuff she just didn’t expect me to act that way and she freaked out and didn’t know what to do and whether she should tell me the truth or not.

She won’t even tell me his name. She claims she doesn’t know his last name. All she knows is that he’s friends with her older male cousin, he has greasy hair, and she would never want to be seen out in public with him let alone ever have sex with him.

Sorry, he gives my girlfriend some drug that I still can’t identity (what’s something that can make your mouth numb but really make you out of it? She said her mouth really was numb but she also was very out of it like she was drunk.) Rapes her, puts his filthy fucking dick in her, nuts in her, gets her fucking pregnant and doesn’t have to pay? No fucking way. I punched a hole in her bedroom wall. There’s nothing I can do. She refuses to report him because she thinks she’ll get blamed for taking whatever he gave her and her parents will be mad at her for being stupid.

So I’m helping her to get an abortion immediately and I’m going to be there for her the entire time she’s going through it. I also convinced her to get a full std check, but only by agreeing to go get one done with her myself so she’ll feel less embarrassed. I’ve never actually had one so I probably should anyway.

I feel like I can only hear my heartbeat in my head, like my blood pressure has to be through the roof and this all happened hours ago. I stayed with her for a while and since I’ve got home I feel like all I’ve done is paced, plotting how I’m going to find out who this guy is and what I’m going to do to him.

I also win the award for asshole of the year. I feel a bad about it that I don’t even think I can break up with her before I leave for college like I planned to. I wasn’t going to break up with her because I don’t like her. I think I probably love her, but I guess I just wanted freedom to do whatever I wanted. Now I feel really bad. She didn’t let on that anything like this had happened. The only thing that I now realize changed is that she hasn’t been as into sex over the past month or so, but she just said she was stressed about her final exams or busy doing stuff with her family and things like that. I was oblivious.

Sorry I had to edit this for spelling errors a million times because I’m so fucking mad I can’t think straight.

So my husband passed away late 2018. It was sudden, it was devastating, and I still miss him. He was only 33 and I was 29 when it happened. He had been my best friend for almost half my life, way before it became a romantic relationship that eventually led to us getting married in 2014.

Fast forward to today and I've found love again with a new man (36). We've been together for about 2 years, and 5 months ago he moved in with me. It was going pretty good until a couple weeks ago. This man has always been so patient and understanding. We had a bunch in common and would get each other's references to like old cartoons and movie quotes. He laughed at my bad jokes. Every now and then, he'd get moody when he'd want to watch TV with me and I would get caught up in a painting or project. To be fair, this happens a lot. I don't like watching TV when we could be doing something else and I have a lot of hobbies and just started a small business. I feel like 1 or 2 movies a month seems sufficient and it's basically the only activity he ever suggests. I try things like working on something in the same room as he watches something, but apparently it only counts as "quality time together" if I'm also watching with him. I don't get it, but this was the biggest problem we had until recently. A couple weeks ago, out of nowhere, he started acting very angry and insecure. He keeps bringing up events or statements he says I made months ago and accusing me of "hiding things." I know that I haven't done anything I'd have to lie to him about, so even if I don't remember a particular comment I made last February or something, I can be sure that it wasn't anything meant to deceive him or mask my secret doings or whatever. I don't have the time or energy to be in a relationship where I have to hide stuff and if it came to that, I would rather be single.

Anyway, sorry.. That was a long backstory. Back to the main point. In our bedroom, there's like a nook in a corner where I keep my business supplies and a tall bookshelf that I mostly use for general storage. There are several bins and like my sewing machine and of course, some books. You can't see any of it from the main part of the room, but I use it regularly. Taking up maybe 1/4 of a one shelf (just under a foot long) I have a place where I display a little urn with some of my husband's ashes, a mug he got me that says "Wifey," a little stuffed Minnie doll and an infinity cube I decorated years ago that says I❤️U. Behind this, there's a picture of my husband kissing my cheek. My boyfriend told me last night that it's disrespectful and unfair to him that I have that up in our room because I'm not married to him anymore. That he and I are now together and he shouldn't have to look at me with another man. I would agree with that if my husband wasn't dead, but he is.

Am I wrong for being firm on this? For the record, this whole display is easy to overlook and he doesn't have anything in that little enclave of the room, so he wouldn't have to see it if he didn't try to.

I [M40] have a blended family and a cousin [M34] on my step-parent's side who used to be close to me. However, due to him moving abroad and conflicts over an inheritance, we no longer talk these days.

Recently, I've been receiving calls from various local and overseas relatives asking for financial help for my cousin. He has defaulted on his house payments and is more than six months behind on mortgage and loan repayments because his wife [native Chinese] convinced him to buy a house in Shanghai. He [ABC, by the way] had a good job in what should have been a stable company, but the virus f'ed them hard, and he has never recovered. Apparently, it seems he got laid off eight months ago.

When we were still talking, and he told me that he was going to buy this ludicrously expensive 2.8 million RMB house (about 400k USD) that was basically a concrete box. I told him he was insane and would regret it for many reasons, but particularly because he would never actually own the place due to Chinese laws. Now, four years later, he still owes nearly 2 million RMB on his mortgage since his payments have only been covering the interest, and near an additional 1 million RMB in loans for the decorations used to make that naked concrete box a place you can live in.

I am a teacher in the US, and I don't earn enough money to own my own damn house, so how am I supposed to give someone else money to pay off theirs when I warned them this would come back to bite them HARD? In the Chinese real estate market, you are always just one bad day or one conman away from losing three generations of savings. This house was so expensive (for him) that it took up 70% of his monthly income just to pay the interest on the mortgage.

Now, I am being harassed for his stupidity to help him out of this hole because I let on that I had a decent savings account. It's not house money, but I want to buy a new new car; something nice for once and not just new to me. Even my biological family is giving me grief about this. But I don't want to help.

Will I be the asshole if I don't help them?

Edit: Thanks for the comments and reassurance, Asian family guilt is a crazy WMD on it's own. Yea so they are trying get everyone to "donate" to cousin. All of this is because one auntie overheard me talking about getting a new car and they all started circling like vultures, and the guilt has been raining for days.

Just came back from local courthouse after presenting the divorce intention document to the family court. My friend filled out my info on a one pager draft and that was it. I called my wife to let her know I started the process and I am okay with 50/50 everything. She called for marriage counseling and told me I should take what I did back. I realized I am extremely burnt out from trying and do not want to try anymore. That's what 3 years of trying with no results does to someone I guess. I told her we can have a separation counseling near the end of the divorce so we can understand the relationship from each others' points and end it amicably. She tried to talk it with me but I asked her to please make it easy for both of us and hung up.

She is messaging me and calling me still but I have no intention of talking to her if lawyers are not involved right now. My lawyer friend told me it's okay to leave the house as we do not own it anyways. I'll be staying with my parents for now. Next update will be once the divorce is completed. Hopefully it will be in few months, not years. There were a lot of comments on the original post and I could not answer all of them. Thank you for all the advice and help.

What is the best way to respond? I’m not talking about sarcastically responding to someone who uses that as a way to say “don’t talk to me”. I mean when you’re having a good conversation with a person who you feel a genuine connection with. You ask for their number or a date and they politely let you know they’re taken. Absolutely no hard feelings, we each go our separate ways, maybe continue as friends depending on the situation. “Congratulations” sounds way too formal, “good for you” sounds sarcastic. It’s kind of in the ballpark of not knowing what to say when someone knocks on the door of a bathroom you’re using.

Side note, I hate those men who take rejection really badly and flip out when someone politely turns them down. They give all of us a bad reputation.

A bunch of friends and I planned a dinner and drinks out at a brewery this past weekend.  A friend that we are cordial with said they made a reservation.  I was the first one to arrive with my wife.  Turns out the reservation was for outdoors.  I asked if we could move indoors.  They said yes but needed a few minutes.  

More friends arrive as we wait and we are all led to our table. All had no issues being indoors.  We ordered our first round of drinks while others arrived.  The friend that made the reservation walks in without his wife.  He asks why we are indoors when he made the reservation for outside. He informs us that he brought his 3 dogs.   He said a table was still available so we could move outside.  He asks why we moved the reservation inside.  

I said I didn't think it mattered and preferred to sit indoors.  He said another friend brought their dog too. I said i'm going to stay here, I don't really want to sit outside. I informed him I think letting everyone else know you are bringing your dogs is need to know information.  He said we are supposed to be sitting outside so it didn't matter.  I said it does matter, I don't want to sit around 4 dogs while I eat and drink.  He called me the asshole for switching it up and not telling him.  The friend group was split.  Some people went outside to be nice, but the night fizzled out and wasn't really what every one expected.  AITA?  

Edit: The person who made the reservation volunteered, he did not plan the outing. It was more like in a group chat, hey anyone want to do this? People were interested, place was chosen, the guy that brought the dogs volunteered to do the reservation.

So I (32F) and my husband (29M) live in an area with an extremely high cost of living. I work a job that pays decently well, which is kind of necessary to live where we do. My husband worked a job for years that paid less than mine did, but was okay overall, though he absolutely hated working there.

Around October of last year, my husband managed to get a job in his dream career field. He had been working at it for years, and was really excited about finally getting there. However, it's come with

The big issue is, the pay in his field is abysmal. He works as a freelancer (which is standard in his industry) so his job has zero benefits, and it's a pretty significant pay cut from his old job.

We don't have combined finances, and after he took the new job, we had to rearrange how we pay for things to account for his lower income. Previously, he had covered a slightly larger percentage of the expenses due to me having student loans to pay off while he didn't. As it is now, I have to be the breadwinner since his income was basically halved, paying for a larger portion of the expenses.

I sat him down recently and told him I felt he needed to quit his job and find a better-paying field because it just wasn't feasible. He got upset, since like I said, this is something he's dreamed of for years and worked really hard to get, which I understand. But I just feel this isn't fair to me. We've had to cut back on a lot of things and there's not really any sign of a pay increase at this point. I feel like I'm carrying him.

He offered to get a part-time job on the side, but I know anything he could get that would be feasible for him while keeping his current job wouldn't provide much. He suggested we move somewhere less expensive, to which I said absolutely not, since we'd have to go quite a ways to find something in that range and it'd mean ridiculously long commutes to my work and being further away from my family. He offered to have his parents help, which I don't want because it's not a long-term solution.

He's extremely upset, and I understand it, because I know he worked hard to get here. If he quit now, it'd basically kill his career and it would be extremely hard for him to get another shot at this job. It's not like we're struggling, which is true, we can pay rent and put food on the table, but I hate feeling like this. I work long days at a rather difficult job, while he works from home doing something he did before as a hobby and only makes half as much money now. My point is that it's not like he has to stop doing what he does altogether, since as I mentioned, he did it as a hobby beforehand, but he's upset because he said this is the only thing he's ever wanted to do career-wise and giving it up now would mean he likely never would be able to make it work.

AITA? I understand this is important to him but I'm starting to resent him because I feel like the burden of our finances are being placed on me and we've had to cut back on a lot of things.

I (29F) am the proud aunt of two amazing kids, Chloe (7 y/o) and Harry (8 y/o).

I get along really well with the both of them and their parents (My sister Amber (37F) and her wife Kate (38F)) ask me to babysit them sometimes. We have a special bond

The other day, the kids Amber and I went out to the park. Kate wasn't there because she is a general surgeon and her work-life balance is nonexistent at this point. Kids were playing together in this playground area and Amber and I else were sitting together having a chat.

We heard a scream and rushed to the kids. It turns out Chloe fell and was crying holding her arm. We both freaked out. Together, Amber and I took Chloe to the hospital that Kate works at. They took an x-ray of Chloe's arm and everything.

After Amber trying multiple times and finally reaching Kate, she came down to the ER. She took a look at the X-ray, talked to the ER doctor, and without letting even the slightest bit of emotion or compassion toward her crying daughter and wife, said it was just a small fracture, that it didn't extend to the joint and would be okay in a few weeks' time with just casting.

The only compassionate thing she did was holding Amber when they got Chloe's little arm into a cast. I got really mad at Amber and said she was downplaying her daughter's broken arm and acting as if nothing was wrong! She simply said kids get injuries like this a lot and there was nothing extraordinary going on here.

I may be TA here because I called her an ice cold insensitive mother. Amber got so mad she practically kicked me out of the ER and said she'd go back home with Kate and the kids herself. She said I'd better apologize to Kate before coming over to their house again.

So was I TA for expecting a more human reaction? Should I apologize?

Over the past couple days I've been seeing a lot of posts about new rulings of the Supreme Court, it seems like they are making a lot of rulings in a very short time frame, why are they suddenly doing things so quickly? I'm not from America so I might be missing something. I guess it has something to do with the upcoming presidential election and Trump's lawsuits

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