reddit story – United Yam

Dad fakes sick for 2 months to avoid going to work, blames mom for them not having enough money to buy their 15-year-old daughter a new iPhone: ‘I am also unable to work because my youngest is 6 months old’ #Fun

unitedyam May 11, 2025

A kid faking sick to avoid going to school usually means that something bigger is going on with them. One might assume that a kid would do this because they’re lazy and avoidant by nature, but that’s not usually the case. If a kid is constantly saying they have a stomachache, despite there being no medical evidence that they have the stomach flu or kidney stones, it might mean that the kid is suffering from pretty severe anxiety. I have a friend who would stay home from school sick all the time with no obvious illness, only to figure out later that she had Lyme Disease the whole time. It’s very common for more chronic illnesses to slip through the cracks and symptoms to appear to be symptoms of viral or bacterial infections instead of the more severe problems that they are. Most kids are not lying about being sick for attention.

‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out #Fun

unitedyam May 10, 2025

Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But it’s hard as a student to call out your teacher. The inherent power structures are so strong that you often don’t feel like you get the right to criticize them. After all, though, you are an adult and they are a fallible individual. Even if they don’t make you feel like that is true, it is true.

Another thing that supposedly smart people sometimes do is dole out insults in the guise of intellectual language. They hit you with so much jargon that you don’t realize you’re being roasted. But that doesn’t make it hurt any less.

Girlfriend won’t let picky eater boyfriend join her on vacation since he will only eat chicken fingers and grilled cheese, constantly complains: ‘I just don’t want to hear about it while I’m on vacation’ #Fun

unitedyam May 8, 2025

Odds are you have at least one picky eater in your life. It’s hard to go through this world without knowing one or two. Most of them come by it honestly, they just can’t help what they don’t like. But most of the picky eaters I know manage to keep it from being everyone else’s business. They handle their own food needs and they don’t yuck anyone else’s yum.

Even so, it can be hard to go through life with a picky eater if you’re someone who loves food. If you’re a food lover (like me), chances are food is a big part of your life. You love exploring new restaurants, new cuisines, new recipes, and new places. You are delighted to share a food experience with someone, and it’s a big way to bond with others. If you’re, let’s say dating someone with really restrictive food preferences, it might take some of the joy out of these experiences.

26-year-old daughter cuts off family after 20+ years of parental favoritism toward her 34-year-old half-sister: ‘My parents [are] not going to change’ #Fun

unitedyam May 6, 2025

Growing up as the alienated child and being given nothing but a scolding every time you complain about child favoritism breeds resentment. Children should not be treated as Kentucky Derby competitive race horses on which parents place their life savings. At the end of the day, DNA doesn’t equate to love—but it sure as heck feels bad when the person who brought you into the world gives you no tools to get started, while your half-siste,r who is nearly 10 years your senior gets everything handed to her on a silver platter. Things could always be worse, but sticking around to witness the continued favoritism sounds like an awful plan—so you get gone, instead.

The 26-year-old woman in this next story does exactly that, and for good reason. Her now-34-year-old sister, after 20+ years of clearly being the parental favorite, is back for vengeance. This time, the woman’s half-sister decides to try and hijack her new home… and the woman moves house while he parents and half-sister are away. Scroll to read.

Workplace asks employee to clock out for 30 minute lunch break but requires them to continue working: ‘If you are working, you have to be paid’ #Fun

unitedyam May 4, 2025

The thing about a break is that you don’t have to work. That’s kind of the very definition of a break. You get a couple of minutes where you don’t have to think about your job. Your responsibilities are on hold, you’re not needed, and you can think about something else. Plus, you can do anything you want on a break. Maybe you’ll just use it to eat lunch, but heck, you could go jump rope in the park for 30 minutes if you wanted to. You could work on your novel. You could go pet every dog you see on the sidewalk. You could call your mom and ask her how she’s doing.

The point is that the time is your time. You can use it as you please because you are released from your duties. This certainly doesn’t mean that you should be working while you’re on your break. Then, by definition, it’s not a break.

33-year-old gets excluded from her friend’s bachelorette party while 5 members of their friend group of 20 years attended without question: ‘I feel humiliated. Like a spare part in a friendship I thought I was still part of.’ #Fun

unitedyam May 3, 2025

We’ve all had the experience of being The One excluded from our friend groups, and it’s so painful. Most of us like to think that now that we’ve graduated from junior high, we’re much less likely to be intentionally excluded by those closest to us, but that’s not always the case. One of my best friends lived abroad for a year and returned to find that her six best friends had all created a group chat without her called “The Sixers,” refusing to even take a picture with her upon her arrival home. These were literally adult women! The way I see it, if you decide to cut off a friend like that, you should be strong enough to at least tell them to their face instead of letting them find out about their exclusion from other sources. Nobody wants the stomach-churning experience of seeing all of your besties tagged in a photo at a place you weren’t invited to.

Woman lends 00 Macbook to friend, after months they claim they lost it and offer 0 as compensation: ‘Friends think I’m being petty and putting money over friendship’ #Fun

unitedyam May 2, 2025

When you lend something to someone, part of you has to be okay with never seeing it again. When you let your friend wear that blouse on a night out, a piece of you knows you won’t see it for weeks. When you offer a pencil to someone in class, it’s pretty much their pencil now. When you give someone some of your Doritos, you would be crazy if you expected to see them again.

But if the item you’re giving out is super valuable, like a laptop, then both parties should expect to follow through on the agreement. If the item is over $100 in value, then you should make well sure that you get it back (and you should be careful about who you give it to). But sometimes you think you can trust someone and you find out you actually can’t. Some of us don’t show our true colors until it’s too late.

unitedyam April 24, 2025

Many people have to accept at a very young age that they will eventually serve as full-time caretakers for their family members. Whether it’s a parent who is aging and doesn’t have enough money for retirement, or a sibling who isn’t independent enough mentally to take care of themselves, it’s a big burden to bear.

The duty of caring for another adult is very different than caring for your own child, who will hopefully grow more independent with time and be able to move out and live life on their own. If you’re the caretaker of an adult who presumably won’t become independent, and will likely become less and less independent as time goes on, that’s a lifelong commitment. Sure, some people are more than happy to throw their aging parents into a nursing home or commit challenged family members to be a ward of the state, but most want what’s best for their family, and that’s often staying at home.

‘I don’t understand why she can’t just wear a blanket’: Woman won’t let boyfriend turn on AC even though the apartment is 80 degrees, storms out of the room #Fun

unitedyam April 23, 2025

Everyone has a different sense of internal temperature. Some of us run hot, some of us run cold, and a lot of us run somewhere in between. But it seems that the people who run hot and the people who run cold always manage to find each other, fall in love, and start a home together. I guess it’s part of the old axiom, “opposites attract.” This doesn’t always make it easy to live together.

You might have arguments over the thermostat, and both of you might end up slightly uncomfortable. One of you will be a little bit chilly and one of you will be a little bit hot forever and ever until the end. These are the sacrifices you make when you love someone. This doesn’t mean it’s always easy, though, to survive the day-to-day. Temperature is a huge part of comfort in the home and it’s mighty hard to ignore.

14-year-old ignores her 17-year-old sister after she starts calling her “her brother” because the younger sister likes to work on cars with her older sister’s boyfriend: ‘She started yelling and accusing me of trying to steal her boyfriend’ #Fun

unitedyam April 22, 2025

There is never a time when gender norms are more strictly enforced than during childhood. When you’re an adult, you can present yourself any way you want, and most people won’t question it to your face, but kids pick up on the slightest deviation from any norm. The reason they do that is because the adults in their life are judging people based on their gender expression, but they’re just not doing it around the people they’re questioning. Children will listen, and they will especially listen when they hear their mom saying, “Did you see that woman at the grocery store who didn’t shave her armpits? Please promise me you’ll never do that when you go to college.”

Sometimes kids scrutinize the interests of others based on whether they seem like a “boy thing” or a “girl thing,” even far beyond typical playground jaunts that you’d think they’d grow out of by high school.

Boss asks freelance worker to change their name so other clients can’t contact them: ‘If he wants exclusive rights, he should pay for it’ #Fun

unitedyam April 22, 2025

Freelancing is great for some reasons, but terrible for others. It gives you freedom to choose when you’re going to work, doesn’t attach you to any particular company, and lets you do multiple things instead of holding one role for one place. You might be able to piecemeal together a better life and a better salary freelancing than you could with regular work, plus you can take a 3-week vacation if you feel like you’ve earned it.

The downsides, though, are many. You have to spend so much time (unpaid) looking for work. You may go through boom and bust cycles that can be hard to plan a budget around. And you don’t get any benefits from the companies you freelance for (like healthcare and PTO). Also, companies love to take advantage of freelancers, so you have to get really good at advocating for yourself. Otherwise, you might end up with nothing to show for it.

26-year-old boyfriend doesn’t want girlfriend to join him on vacation to Florida since she can’t afford it, she says she’ll ask money-insecure father instead: ‘I know her family is struggling’ #Fun

unitedyam April 13, 2025

Relationships are usually imbalanced in some way. One of you might be older or younger and have more or less life experience. You might come from different educational backgrounds and thus have access to different kinds of jobs. One of you might be more attractive than the other and thus experience the world a little differently. And one of you might make more money than the other. That seems to be the most common kind of imbalance in a relationship. After all, who is making exactly the same amount as their partner forever?

These imbalances are inevitable. The way you navigate these imbalances, though, is what’s worth considering. If you’re on the same page as partners and are comfortable communicating with each other, then everything else should be okay. But this is easier said than done, especially when there are tender feelings surrounding certain subjects. That’s what happened in this situation, where a couple found themselves disagreeing about money.

37-year-old boyfriend refuses to contribute to girlfriend’s mortgage despite him living there full-time: ‘I pay almost 00 in mortgage and all the bills are under my name’ #Fun

unitedyam April 11, 2025

Sometimes, when you’re with someone for a long time, you might find that you sort of accidentally live with them. You’re spending the night most nights, and you realize it has been weeks since you’ve been home. You didn’t talk about moving in together, but you just sort of do. And this can happen under your nose despite all your best intentions. And it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Maybe you wanted to live together anyway and now you can do so without the pressure of putting a label on it and making it a big deal. You can be low-key about it.

The problem arises, though, when you start to think about money. Why is it always money that gums up the works? If we all had enough of it, then maybe everything would be okay. But we live in the real world and that’s not going to happen.

Parents track 24-year-old daughter’s location behind her back using her phone, she finds out and removes their access, they retaliate in response: ‘They want to control me’ #Fun

unitedyam April 9, 2025

Many parents believe that parenthood grants them access to their kids’ private lives, even without proper permission. They fully expect their kids to be okay with everything their parents might drop on them, and they often forget that those kids are real people too. Being a parent doesn’t mean you need to know about everything that is going on in your kids’ lives, especially as they get older and more independent. Boundaries should always be set, both for the kids’ and the parents’ sake.

For example, parents often want to know where their kids are at all times, and up until a certain age, that makes sense. You need to know where they are for their own safety. But at a certain age, 18 the latest, demanding to know where they are at all times becomes a violation of privacy. Even it they are still your kids, they need space to breathe, and they don’t need their parents breathing down their necks as they do so.

That is what led the 24-year-old daughter in the story below to take actions against her parents.

27-year-old daughter takes in retired mom, allowing her to live in her room, only for entitled mom to criticise her about how ‘messy’ she is: ‘I feel small and unappreciated’ #Fun

unitedyam April 8, 2025

Many young adults move back in with their parents during their 20s, at least for a little while. Some do it because they want to save money, while others simply because they want to feel secure and carefree like they did when they were kids. Either way, you hear of many young adults who are happily living in their childhood bedroom, playing roommates with their parents.

Other young adults would tell you they can never see themselves moving back with their parents again. Something about them being granted freedom and a chance for independence is irreplaceable, no matter the cost. They may love their parents, but they outgrew the four walls they grew up in, and that is completely valid.

How do you think these young adults would react if they somehow had to combine these two experiences–living with their parents, while also living alone in their own space? Just like the 27-year-old woman in the story below, who somehow found herself welcoming her retired mom to her home and letting her stay there for almost a year.

16-year-old graciously cooks his family’s nightly dinner, stops when his dad and siblings incessantly criticize his meals: ‘Too spicy, wanted rice instead of noodles, didn’t want soup’ #Fun

unitedyam April 6, 2025

There are some household duties that typically constitute a kid’s chores; cleaning your room, taking out the trash, and doing the dishes are chores kids of any age can do. Cooking dinner every night for your entire family is typically not one of them, but that was a chore assigned to a 16-year-old boy with a passion for cooking. He started by cooking meals for himself, but his family insisted he was wasting food by making meals for one. Instead of thanking him incessantly for taking time out of his busy after-school schedule to make the family a hot meal, they repaid him by complaining about nearly every meal he made. He even made a meal plan to remedy this, but nothing seemed to help. It’s not even that he’s a bad cook; his ungrateful dad and siblings are just woefully dissatisfied with what he’s making, with no compromise in sight.

‘I’ll find out whose stuff I’m getting when the surprise package arrives’: Employer calls ex-employee 16 months after they quit for being called ‘insubordinate’ for using FMLA, claim they have their ‘personal effects’ #Fun

unitedyam April 5, 2025

After you leave a job, you might never look back. Maybe you connect with your former employees every now and again if you were particularly close, or maybe you ask them for a reference. But you’ve probably crossed your t’s and dotted your i’s and don’t really want to hear from them again. Quitting a job can be an emotionally taxing decision.

You have to tell a workplace, that you’ve probably invested a massive amount of time and effort to, that you’re not going to keep showing up there every day. It can be as awkward as a breakup. You give them a list of reasons and you hope that they understand. You put all your ducks in a row to make sure that you have a smooth exit. You might even help them look for your replacement if you’re an especially nice person. But once you leave, you hope you made a clean break.

Husband finally tells wife of 8 years that she can’t cook after she serves him raw chicken: ‘You’re almost thirty, that’s no excuse’ #Fun

unitedyam April 2, 2025

Some people, bless them, just don’t know how to cook. Or rather, they have no instinct for it. Maybe they try to chef up a meal every now and then and it always ends up either burned, undercooked, under-flavored, or over-salted. Cooking requires a non-negligible amount of intuition. Yes, you can try and follow a recipe, but there are still some implicit skills you need in order to carry it off correctly. You need to know what it means to “sweat” an onion versus “caramelize.” You need to know the difference between a head and a clove of garlic. And you need to know what a “pinch” means. I won’t lie, it’s not always easy. And some of the best cooks still mess up sometimes.

If you’re a bad cook, though, it’s your obligation to recognize that. It’s your job to understand your shortcomings and, most importantly, not foist them onto others. You wouldn’t want someone to do that to you, would you?

Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’ #Fun

unitedyam April 1, 2025

Little kids are the messiest monsters that ever lived, and there’s nothing you or I can do to stop that. I do not expect a two or three-year-old to be able to fully cut their chicken parmesan and eat it without transferring at least 40% of the bird onto their shirt, and neither should you! They are literally learning how to do everything from scratch, and their hands have minimal experience with transferring foodstuffs from their plates to their mouths. They had mom and dad do that for them for their first year, so they’re true beginnings at the skill of eating. I admire any toddler who eats with both hands and gets at least half of their meal into their stomach without problems. They’re doing a lot better than a lot of adults who have been eating for decades and still can’t figure out how to do it right.

Mother drags 17-year-old teen away from hometown because of her new husband and stepchildren, teen forms a plan to move in with grandparents: ‘She said I was totally selfish’ #Fun

unitedyam March 31, 2025

Anyone who grew up in a turbulent household with a lot of unfamiliar faces knows how important it is to be around familiar family who you know are looking out for you. An example of this is a family going through a divorce or even a family dealing with the absence of a family member without legal proceedings. If you grew up in your hometown always going to your grandparents’ house on Sundays, then you will struggle to reconcile with leaving them behind. Without a lot of constants in your life, you’ll end up feeling lost, uncomfortable, and yearning for the days when your mother didn’t remarry…

In this next story, a 17-year-old daughter hatches a plan to move back in with her grandparents after her mother packs them up to move away with her stepdad and stepsiblings. Though her mother might’ve thought she was doing her daughter a favor, the daughter wants to leave. It makes sense. Her mother, however, is treating her as if she has no right to her own wants and feelings. Scroll to read.

Man buys 00 worth of MLM cookware against partner’s wishes, partner refuses the ‘gift’ and ices him out: ‘He has a history of buying me things after I explicitly say no, then getting upset’ #Fun

unitedyam March 30, 2025

One of my biggest fears is being at a party that turns into a multi-level marketing sales pitch. Maybe you think you’re just going over to your friend’s house for some rosé and finger foods, and suddenly someone brings out a brochure. They try to make it seem all casual like they’re just asking you about what saucepans you use, and then wham you’re accidentally dropping a band just to avoid having an awkward situation with your friend. Multi-level-marketing schemes are so predatory. They rely on your relationships with others and make you exploit them for cash. It’s a quick and easy way to ruin a friendship in my humble opinion.

But what happens when someone you love is implicated in one? To what end will you go to appease their desperate cry for sales? Is it your job to get them out of there or do you just let sleeping dogs lie?

Boyfriend inherits $800,000 from late uncle, refuses to help long-time girlfriend with $900 car repair: ‘After years of supporting him emotionally and financially […] he left me hanging’ #Fun

unitedyam March 29, 2025

When you inherit a lot of money, there might be some strings attached. It might come because of the demise of a loved one, meaning that buckets of grief come along with buckets of money. It might mean that people from all over your life come out of the woodwork asking for help with their issues. It might also mean being forced to define new relationships with those you love, especially those you share your finances with.

Generosity is always a good idea. Nobody likes a hoarder, especially if they specifically neglect the people they love. If you come into a huge chunk of money, odds are you’re excited about sharing it with your loved ones (that is, if you have any sense of character at all). You’re not a completely selfish person who thinks their stuff only belongs to them. You’re always thinking about others… ideally.

25+ Activities that were easier 100 years ago than they are in 2025: ‘You could just disappear for a while without explanation’ #Fun

unitedyam March 27, 2025

It can be hard to imagine what life was like in 1925. Odds are, none of us were around to see it. We’ve read The Great Gatsby, but after all, that’s fiction. We imagine flapper girls and gangsters, old-timey automobiles, and the stock market crash. But generally, most of us have the sense that life was generally harder to live back then. There was no television, no internet, no texting, and no chickenpox vaccine. I don’t know about you, but my life would be drastically different without those inventions, and perhaps for the worse. I couldn’t have the job I have now (I probably couldn’t have really any job, since I’m a woman) and I probably would have lost a bunch of friends to preventable diseases. For those reasons, I’ll take 2025 over 1925.

But what are the things that were easier back then? Are there any ways that our lifestyles have declined since then, or has it only been uphill in the last century?

‘By privilege he means leaving the time my shift ends’: Manager asks workers to work 9 hour shifts when max is 8, demands they come in on Saturdays #Fun

unitedyam March 26, 2025

One of the most important things about a job is making sure they respect your time. It’s the biggest sacrifice you make for a job, after all, is to give them your time. So you better be sure the terms and conditions of that exchange are workable for you. Ideally, you know when you’re working and when you’re on call. You have an idea of what time you’ll be able to leave that day when you clock in in the morning. You know that when you’re off duty, nobody will bother you. These are ideal conditions, but sadly not always realistic ones.

When this happens, it’s unfortunately on the workers to stand up for themselves. If you feel like your time is being taken advantage of, then you have to speak up. Then it’s the job of the manager to listen to those complaints and address them accordingly. But this doesn’t always happen either.

‘You are not his boss or his mother’: Coworker calls out peer for looking unkempt and messy at a meeting, others call him out for being ‘out of line’ #Fun

unitedyam March 24, 2025

We grow up learning not to comment on other people’s appearances, especially if it’s negative. We learn the old adage “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” And that’s generally a good rule to keep to. Only when your dear, dear friend asks “Is this outfit ugly?” and they’re at home ready to change it, can you feel free to speak your mind. Otherwise, if they can’t fix it in five seconds, don’t point it out. Not everyone has internalized this axiom, though. Some feel the need to point out every little thing that might be wrong. Maybe they’re control freaks, maybe they’re insecure, or maybe they’re just plain mean.

The man in this story might have been a combination of the three. When a man who looked like he was going through a hard time showed up to a meeting looking that way, his coworker couldn’t resist a comment.

‘She was not happy’: 21-year-old daughter refuses to inform controlling mother of an internship she landed abroad due to her mother’s reaction to her last opportunity #Fun

unitedyam March 22, 2025

Some parents make a point to create an environment that brings their children down instead of one that raises them up. Usually, these kinds of parents don’t want to admit their child is capable, possibly out of fear or out of envy… Either way, it’s an unfortunate situation and definitely not the kind of example you want to set for them. If children are constantly discouraged by their parents, they’ll either never take the risk in their personal lives or careers, or they will stop staying in contact with you. Maybe even both.

The 21-year-old daughter who posted this next story explains that her mother constantly belittles her achievements and discourages her from making strides in her academic career. The daughter landed a fellowship and her mother went berserk, going so far as to listen in on her online interview. Now, the daughter landed another internship abroad, but she plans on keeping her mother in the dark about it. Why should she tell her mom, anyway? Her mother never gave her a nurturing environment to feel safe in. Scroll to read about how she has been giving her mother almost $12,000 over the span of two and a half years.

Daughter refuses to give up college fund to bail her parents out of debt due to careless overspending and failed investments: ‘I wasn’t going to throw away my future’ #Fun

unitedyam March 21, 2025

Student debt is a right of passage for most folks who attend college. The government allows freshly-18-year-olds to sign away their future to big loan companies so they can profit off of their naiveté… That’s just showbiz, baby! If you’re one of the lucky few who graduated debt-free for any number of reasons, count your blessings. For borrowers, student debt becomes their best friend for about 10 years after they graduate from university, and sometimes more if they’re borrowing privately.

The daughter in this next story didn’t have to worry about all of the financials since her grandparents set up a college fund for her. However, her parents have been trying to play for keeps on it ever since they’ve landed themselves in a good amount of debt due to their own carelessness. The daughter shouldn’t suffer for her parents’ missteps, and she knows this. So, she refuses her parents’ inquiry regarding her college fund… and naturally, this rejection doesn’t go over well with them. Scroll to read.

‘Aren’t you the guy who told everyone in the office I cheated on my husband with a white or Asian man?’ Mom calls out her husband’s coworker who said he couldn’t be the father of her baby because of his race in front of their boss #Fun

unitedyam March 18, 2025

Are you about the drama I’m one of those people who can’t tell if I like gossip, rumors, and drama or if I hate it. I certainly feel burdened with knowledge when I find out the personal happenings of two acquaintances I barely know through someone else who also barely knows them. When I hear drama and secrets that have nothing to do with me from a primary source, I usually forget about it nearly as quickly as I hear it. But when I know something about Peggy Sue that she doesn’t know I know, and I see her all the time, that’s certainly a source of stress for me.

It’s easier to be ambivalent or intrigued by drama when you’re not the one at the center of it, but when you are, it can create a maelstrom of abject humiliation that could take months or years to recover from.

Husband refuses to let his 6-month pregnant wife eat a burger because she served their kids first, against his wishes: ‘Now there’s no burgers for you because you wouldn’t listen.’ #Fun

unitedyam March 17, 2025

Some families take the order in which members are served at dinner very seriously. I never really gave much thought to the idea that children should eat first, the cook should eat second, and everyone else should eat last. In my family, we were so well-adjusted and normal that everyone got their food simultaneously and waited for everyone else to get their food before they ate. Imagine that? Granted, that’s pretty easy when only four people are eating, but I still don’t think it should be that big of a deal.

There are some families where the father takes umbrage if he is not served first. He thinks he is the man of the house, so he should get the Rice-A-Roni before his puny children and his wife. In most families, even if there is not a strict hierarchy, it’s not uncommon for the mom to be the last to eat.

unitedyam March 15, 2025

If there’s one thing you should know about etiquette, it’s not to show up at anybody’s house empty-handed. If someone is hosting an Oscars watch party, a baptism for their pet pig, or a good old-fashioned house party, you should at least come with a bag of chips if you can’t afford anything else. It’s showing a token of appreciation for the host’s invitation and ensuring that they don’t have to buy all of the drinks or the appetizers themselves. This aspect of etiquette is often lost on young people, but it’s never too late to start if you’ve spent most of your adult life being hopelessly oblivious.

Even so, you shouldn’t go into hosting with the expectation that everyone is going to bring enough for everyone. There’s a balance that must be striken, and if you host a party with no food or drinks for anyone, you are a bad host.

Boyfriend’s mom refuses to call son’s partner by his given gender-neutral name, partner snaps at her and calls her bigoted: ‘I am half Asian […] it’s a unisex name that isn’t short for anything’ #Fun

unitedyam March 13, 2025

A name is an incredibly powerful thing. It affects how we feel about ourselves, how others see us, and how we make our way through the world. If you go into a job interview and make a great impression, but your name reminds the hiring manager of their evil stepmother, then you might just lose out to an equally qualified candidate with a neutral name. Even if it’s not conscious on the hiring manager’s part, these subconscious associations have an effect on how we see other people. This is why some of us choose to go by variations on our given names, nicknames, or different names altogether. Everyone has a different reason why they’ve chosen a name, but what’s important is that we all respect it.

In this story, though, one family member didn’t even respect someone’s given name. Instead, they had all sorts of expectations about what their name should be based on biased prejudices about their identity.

Woman spends entire bachelorette trip crocheting instead of joining bridal activities, demands apology from bride for asking her to limit crochet time: ‘We gave her the option to stay home’ #Fun

unitedyam March 4, 2025

Some of us (I would actually venture most of us) have limited social batteries. We can’t go all day talking with people, especially people we don’t know that well, and come home and do some more talking. Most of us need some amount of alone time so we can recharge, regroup, and feel like ourselves again. If this sounds like you, odds are you’ve had some practice setting boundaries in this way. If we’re on a big trip with a bunch of people, we might say “I’m taking a recharge walk by myself, see y’all in a couple hours.” And if you’re clear and respectful about communicating your boundaries, then your friends have no choice but to respect them.

The woman in this story, though, had a weird way of going about boundary setting. Instead of trying her best to participate in group activities when she could, she neglected all of them in favor of her crafting activity.

10-year-old son overhears his parents talking about how they love each other more than they love him, 8 years later he decides to cut contact: ‘Leave me alone’ #Fun

unitedyam March 2, 2025

We often dismiss what kids hear and comprehend when they are extremely young. We think don’t understand what is being told around them, that they don’t even listen, or that they won’t even remember anything by the end of the day. But sooner or later we all come to learn just how much children actually intercept and just how everything they hear from a young age has an effect on their adult life.

Think back at your memories from elementary school, for example. We all have some really good memories from that age, but also some memories we wish we’d forget. Whether we want them or not, those memories shape us. So as adults, we have to be mindful of that whenever there are kids nearby. Otherwise, you should be prepared for the impact your words may have on them for the rest of their lives.

When the son in the story below was 10 years old, he overheard a conversation between his parent that he was never meant to hear.

Mom insists her 23-year-old daughter, who has financially supported her for 5 years, send her and her 5 other adult children K per month: ‘If my mom supported me financially growing up I would have, but she didn’t’ #Fun

unitedyam February 28, 2025

I’ve never understood when aging parents solely rely on their kids to support them through retirement financially. These parents often use the justification that their children owe them moola for all of the years they spent raising them or they just failed to plan to support themselves into retirement. Some adult children feel great pride in helping their parents in anything they want and need. I don’t think that not wanting to finance 20-30 years of your parent’s life means that you are not honoring them as your parents. It’s a lot of stress supporting 3+ people, which doesn’t even begin to factor in your partner, kids, or other family members you might be helping. I believe that aiming for autonomy, even in old age, is an admirable goal. Also, there’s a big difference between sending money so your parents can stay in their house and eat and sending them money so they can go on elaborate vacations.

‘The baby hasn’t done anything to deserve being rejected’: Man fathers a baby with his brother’s girlfriend and tries to put brother’s name on the birth certificate, brother’s parents ask the jilted man to support the baby and her parents #Fun

unitedyam February 25, 2025

It’s easy to use a baby as a scapegoat. A baby has not wronged a single person, and if you have a baby (especially a fresh one), you can claim that every negative act done towards you is in turn an act against a poor, sweet, innocent infant.

We all know that’s a load of nonsense. If I decide not to be in someone’s life because they wronged me, their baby is not going to know a difference between a life with me or a life without me. Of course, this logic doesn’t apply to the parents of said baby. If a mother cheats on the father of her baby and he leaves both of them never to be seen again, that baby is going to be emotionally damaged because they’re being punished for something they didn’t do. But if a friend or an extended family member chooses not to engage with a babies parent for whatever reason, it’s well within their right and usually morally sound.

‘They treated me like a child’: Store manager takes employees’ phones away at the start of each shift, won’t let them access it until break #Fun

unitedyam February 22, 2025

Having your phone at work is one of the things that keeps you tethered to your own humanity. It’s what helps you feel like you’re not living in the TV show Severance. You can send off a text to a friend, or you can look at a picture of your dog… all to prevent you from getting too lonely and work-brained. This, of, course, is not to be taken advantage of.

You don’t want to spend all day on your phone or else you’re probably not getting any work done. But checking your email every now and again to see if any incredible, life-altering news has come through? Necessary, if you ask me. Not to mention if you have a family that relies on you. If you’re unable to check your phone, it might put you in a bad spot, and you might miss something important. There are always exceptions to this, depending on what kind of job you have, but if it’s not life or death, I believe in having the freedom to keep your phone on your person.

Newly single ex-wife demands 0 per week to keep up with expenses, ex-wife with 3 jobs refuses to pay: ‘Stop communicating with her effectively now’ #Fun

unitedyam February 14, 2025

One of the reasons to get married is to combine finances. Odds are you’re excited at the prospect of doing that, or else you would just live together and forget about the legal stuff. There can be huge advantages to combining finances. Maybe both of you work high-powered jobs, and now you get to double the kind of fun you’re having. Maybe one of you earns more money than the other, so you can support them to do other things (pursue art, raise children, etc.) Maybe you’re both struggling to get by on your own, but splitting a one-bedroom is a lot more affordable than trying to do it yourself. As many advantages as there are, though, it also makes life more complicated.

Maybe one of you will start to resent the other for depending on them. Maybe one of you becomes afraid to leave the other if they feel like their future won’t be secure. And worst of all, when you split up, things get even more complicated.

Dad refuses to attend the funeral of his ex-mother-in-law because she offered to buy her daughter a house if she divorced him during the 34 years they were married: ‘My kids are pressuring me to go’ #Fun

unitedyam February 13, 2025

There is a lot of judgment surrounding how people deal with loss. You’re either too sad or not sad enough. I hate the idea that you can only take a week off work after losing someone extremely close to you. As a society, we really need to bring back formal morning periods, where women wear black for a whole year, to signal to everyone that she’s going through something right now. A lady should be able to cry about her mom passing in the frozen food aisle of Gristedes without a bunch of nosy Nellies asking her, “Why?”

Displays of pure, vulnerable emotions regarding loss are socially punished if they persist for what society deems as “too long.” You will never stop missing your parent, child, or friend, and the fact that those losses are supposed to be put aside to facilitate the comfort of others is just plain wrong.

‘Your employer is in the wrong and they know it’: Company scams employee at charity raffle, takes his money and sends him a different item #Fun

unitedyam February 3, 2025

Charity is always a good idea. If you have a little change knocking around, giving it to someone who really needs it can not only make their lives better but make you feel good too. Helping others is a great way to help yourself, whether it’s through money, time, or spreading awareness. It’s important, though, to be judicious about who and what you’re giving to. I recently watched a docu-series called Telemarketers (highly recommend) that basically exposes the telemarketing industry as a complete and utter scam. If anyone calls you asking for money for the Fraternal Order of Police, hang up immediately!

As long as there are scams to be scum, scammers are gonna scam. Hopefully, though, nobody at your place of work is scamming you. You would think that if your employer is putting on a charity function, they would do their due diligence and make it a legitimate affair. It’s not so hard to do.

‘That’s not legal at all. It’s wage theft’: Boss calls 20-year-old employee ‘ungrateful’ after she refuses to work overtime for free #Fun

unitedyam January 14, 2025

The best thing about employment is getting compensated for your work. No doubt about it. Sure, there are plenty of things we do, and enjoy doing without the incentive of pay. But we call those activities hobbies and volunteering, not work. This is the main tenant of jobs. You work, and then you are paid, so you can live your life and pay for the necessary goods and services it takes to be a human in this world. This is a pretty simple axiom, and yet it seems to trouble many employers.

When you’re a salaried worker, you might be willing to do a little work outside your job description now and then in order to help out your company. This will increase your chances of higher compensation in the future, you think. But when you’re an hourly worker, especially at a low-paying job, the idea of working for free is insane. Not to mention illegal.

‘I’m not your safety net’: 26-year-old mooch begs her roommate to use their emergency savings fund to pay for rent after spending her money on a ‘weekend getaway,’ frugal friend refuses #Fun

unitedyam January 11, 2025

Living with someone is the quickest way to see their true colors. With their guard down, Q-tips scattered on the floor, their dishes undone, and the bedroom door left ajar, there’s no room for secrets when you share an abode. However, when you move in with your best friend, the unlikeliest character reveals can often leave friendships in tatters, especially when one roommate is a frivolous mooch who feels entitled to their friend’s emergency savings account… Like the college girl in this next story.

When you’re in your early 20s and don’t really know anything about the real world yet, moving in with your best friend seems like the dream–a real-life Disney Channel Original Movie. Except, what most people don’t expect is the high probability of ending up hating that person they thought they loved so much by the end of their lease. And let me tell ya from experience, best friendships rarely last when you become roommates.

Hosts condescend to friend who declined their invitation to a ‘silent dinner party,’ call them close-minded and unsupportive: ‘They said it was supposed to make them mindful and improve their non-verbal connection’ #Fun

unitedyam January 9, 2025

It’s important to get out of your comfort zone every now and again. If you never did, you would never grow as a person. You certainly don’t have to go skydiving, but little things here and there can create the same effect. You might never discover your burgeoning poetic prowess if you never attended that poetry open mic you were apprehensive about. Sometimes we get nervous about things because we know they will matter to us, and we don’t want to mess it up. If you had never shown up to that pick-up pickleball game, even though you’re insecure about your swing, you would never have met your wife (who graciously gave you some tips). We would miss out on all kinds of life stuff if we only went places where we were 100% comfortable.

But it’s up to you where you draw the line on how far you will push yourself. For example, I would go to a silent dinner party if a friend invited me, but I wouldn’t go bungee jumping by myself.

‘She exploded and called me a bridezilla’: Woman who constantly plays humiliating pranks on her sister lashes out when she un-invites her to her wedding #Fun

unitedyam January 1, 2025

A little prank is good fun every now and again. Not enough people do them in my life. Things are usually so boring and monotonous, that sometimes we need pranks to throw us out of our rhythms and make us feel the zest of life again. The perfect pranks, though, are ultimately harmless. Like putting a Whoopi Cushion under your significant other as they sit down on the couch to watch Better Call Saul. Temporarily humiliating? Yes. Damaging in the long run? Absolutely not. If anything, it will strengthen your relationship, giving you a happy memory to look back on if you ever hit a rough patch.

On the other hand, some pranks can easily get out of hand. They go too far and end up damaging your relationships. Pranks should never cross the line of damaging someone’s physical property, their physical person, or their mental well-being. This shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Certain social media personalities challenge this notion, but as regular people, it’s important we keep strong and only do pranks in good faith. But that’s not what happened in this story when a woman’s sister took pranks a little too far and then suffered the consequences afterward.

One phrase from greedy boss makes worker quit their 10-year-long career: ‘It’s a good indicator of how out of touch c suits are’ #Fun

unitedyam December 31, 2024

Work is all about attitude. If the people you work with have a bad attitude, it can rub off on the whole operation. You might enjoy the work you do, find purpose in it, and find that it suits your lifestyle, but a business is only as good as its people. If its people aren’t your kind of people or worse- they’re not even the kind of people that you respect, then it’s hard to stay. For example, you might be an educator who finds incredible meaning in working with your students. They appreciate you, and you help improve their lives. Whenever you’re in the classroom, you feel like you’re in the right place. However, the assistant principal (who you directly report to) has no sense of work-life balance and expects you to drop everything for every work-related non-emergency. Even though you love your job, people like that can make it feel hostile.

That’s what happened in this situation, when a worker who had already invested a lot in their career, lost all hope when their boss uttered a single phrase.

‘This man doesn’t like you’: Helpless boyfriend neglects to give girlfriend a Christmas gift despite her begging for one #Fun

unitedyam December 30, 2024

Giving a gift is a super easy way to show you care about someone. This is why it’s one of the 5 love languages. It shows that you’re thinking about them, and that you know something about who they are and what they enjoy. It doesn’t come naturally to everyone, though. Some of us are better gift givers than others. For example, one of my friends gives the most thoughtful gifts every year that it could make you cry (and usually does). While another friend of mine manages to consistently pick out things I wouldn’t wear, or items I wouldn’t keep in my house.

However, as they say, it’s the thought that counts. All that matters is that they put a little effort into something– it doesn’t matter the result. That’s why this story struck such a nerve, when a boyfriend couldn’t even manage to try giving something to his beloved. Read on for the story.

Dad kicks 16-year-old son out after son claims doing household chores is a ‘woman’s job’, son turns to mom for help, only for her to take dad’s side: ‘She’ll teach him a lesson’ #Fun

unitedyam December 29, 2024

Since we are living in a world that still, unfortunately, treats women and men differently, people who become parents have an extra responsibility when raising their kids, especially when raising boys.

It is crucial that young men understand that boys and girls deserve to be treated the same way, that girls can do everything boys can, and vice versa. Educating these kids is the first step to ensure that adults will follow the same rules, and that cannot happen without a firm hand on the subject.

The parents, and specifically the dad, in this Reddit story, took this matter to heart, and I have a lot of respect for how it went down. When their son declares he doesn’t want to do any household chores because that, in his words, is ‘a woman’s job’, the dad immediately puts him in his place. He made his son start packing, and took him to stay at his mother’s home (divorced parents), where mom was ready to teach her son a lesson.

Keep scrolling to read what happened next. After you are done, check out this cool collection of funny Tumblr memes.

Mom criticizes aunt for taking her 11 and 14-year-old nieces to a Christmas theme park without their adopted 10-year-old brother who has behavioral and developmental issues: ‘Flo and Ivy have expressed that they really value Ryan-free time’ #Fun

unitedyam December 18, 2024

It’s challenging to be the sibling of a kid with issues. It’s easy to feel like you’re not prioritized, and all the decisions your family makes revolve around the high needs of one family member. Of course, it is much more challenging to be the person who has a laundry list of needs that the world does not cater to, but that doesn’t make the struggles of glass children any less important.

The aunt in this story is a great person to have in a family like this one. She makes sure to include her nieces, who like to go to the theater and museums, in her family outings with her husband and her 12-year-old daughter. If she didn’t do this, the girls wouldn’t get a chance to do so because those activities aren’t things their 10-year-old developmentally delayed brother would tolerate. This arrangement was all well and good until the aunt planned a girl’s trip to a place the brother wanted to go to.

38-year-old aunt allows her kids to steal dolls from her 11-year-old niece because she thinks she’s too old for them, mom takes the dolls back: ‘[Her aunt] said that her kids had a better right to the dolls’ #Fun

unitedyam December 17, 2024

Whether it makes sense or not, society has assigned toys that are developmentally appropriate for certain ages. I understand why an 8-year-old might get bored with blocks when they loved them when they were 4. Kids want toys that present some kind of challenge or inspiration, and dolls can be a great source of inspiration. You can set up their life, dress them, and put them into harrowing life situations that real people would never fully recover from. There’s a reason that all the American Girl Dolls had such tragic backstories. I loved those dolls so much, and I remember being 11 and getting my 2nd and last American Girl Doll, knowing it was the last one. Society decides you’re too old for one type of toy, and it’s a sad realization.

One mom fiercely defended her 11-year-old daughter’s decision to still play with baby dolls, but that didn’t stop her aunt from trying to stop her.

Entitled mother-in-law takes woman’s newborn son to sneakily visit Santa while out shopping, woman confronts her for stealing one of many ‘firsts’ with their miracle baby #Fun

unitedyam December 10, 2024

When you’ve tried for a long time to have a child, it feels like a miracle when your wishes finally come true.

For some, having a baby doesn’t require years and years of different methods to get the show on the road. For others, this is their reality. So, when they are given the gift of a tiny tot, they want to experience all of their baby’s firsts with them. After all, they waited for so long to bring their child to their first doctor’s appointment, or to visit Santa Claus during the holiday season. Some family members, in this case, a woman’s mother-in-law, try to hijack those special moments.

In the story you’re about to read, a woman clearly told her mother-in-law that she booked an appointment for her newborn baby to meet Santa in their local shopping district. When her mother-in-law takes the baby out shopping for the day, the woman sees a photo of her MIL and son with Santa. Angered, she confronts her MIL because it appears she stole her thunder on purpose, completely invalidating her feelings as a result. Let’s just say, her MIL sees nothing wrong with her own entitlement. Scroll to read.

26-year-old woman asks out her ‘never been kissed’ male friend after weeks of him complaining about being single, rejects her and makes fun of her with his male friends: ‘I have found him cute for months yet he thinks he’s ugly’ #Fun

unitedyam December 8, 2024

People discuss the “male loneliness epidemic” from so many different angles. It’s easy for some to blame the poor social skills and introverted tendencies of Generation Z men on them not being able to find a partner. Some might argue that framing this as a problem that harms men only downplays the difficulty all single people face in dating in the digital age. Some wholeheartedly believe in the tenets of incel ideology: that women are hypergamous and only want to date the hottest men in the world, while normies get cheated on and ugly guys stay alone forever. This conversation has a lot of nuance, and none of it gets solved by assuming the worst of any one gender.

A Gen-Z woman consciously tried to help solve the male loneliness epidemic by asking out her lonely male friend, whom she’d been eyeing for a while. When he rejected her, she took to Reddit to share her complex feelings.

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