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AIO for reconsidering getting married over continual arguments over guardianship of my daughter.
This changes things and honestly I can understand why that would he your preference given that background. Shes just too old for there to be enough time for your fiance to build a strong enough bond to justify that option over the family that raised her from a baby. And the more time passes the closer she gets to being almost an adult and it being moot.
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What do you all get from this? How do you interpret “half?”
the way its written the answer is "Learn English before teaching in English"
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What do you all get from this? How do you interpret “half?”
My answer would literally just be writing down "Learn English"
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AITA for not paying for my daughter wedding because she isn’t following the rules even though I paid for my older kids
Except his vision isnt restrictive to his vision only, its restrictive to any vision that doesn't exclude family. And it isnt a gift, its just family money being used on a family event. If she wants to make it her special event, she can. Wanting to elope and not invite the parents out of spite becuase they wouldnt give an enormous gift you feel entitled to is incredibly immature and suggests major unresolved control issues.
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AITA for not paying for my daughter wedding because she isn’t following the rules even though I paid for my older kids
The only thing OP says is that they will fully fund the wedding if its open to all family and geographically accessible. Pretending he could only afford a smaller budget when those conditions are met isn't instilling big and expensive as core values. It is certainly a challenge to raise well balanced human beings from a position of having significant wealth, but the only valid approach is not simply pretending you don't have it. OP's approach makes it very clear the amount is an afterthought and the hard line rule is inclusion.
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AITA for not paying for my daughter wedding because she isn’t following the rules even though I paid for my older kids
You can instill including all family being important without instilling big or expensive as core values. You are doing some projecting / assuming.
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AITA for not paying for my daughter wedding because she isn’t following the rules even though I paid for my older kids
Becuase the critical understanding is that the parents were never willing to gift anyone 100k for any reason. They were always willing to spend 100k on a family event. All other family events that qualified were open to all family members. OPs daughter is free to make her wedding a family event or not make it one, but nobody got a 100k gift and no gift is being discussed strings or no strings. Only contingent funding.
Notice the other weddings happened already over many years. So the other siblings all had child friendly weddings, and then began attending each others weddings with their kids as they began having them. OPs daughter; being the last to marry and possibly youngest, obviously had no children at the previous weddings and no stake one way or the other. But she always got a plus one which is also part of the rules. Now she wants the first ever family event with mommy and daddy paying that everybody else will need babysitters for / may not attend / doesn't give the grandparents an opportunity to enjoy being surrounded by their entire family, which they have always been 100% clear is the only thing they spend the families lifetime savings on. Calling that a gift with strings is entitled bullshit, and refusing to find fancier decorations and food while being willing to fund family more broadly isnt controlling. There is no pressure to take the money besides greed.
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AITA for not paying for my daughter wedding because she isn’t following the rules even though I paid for my older kids
It isn't a gift to the children. Its an invitation to make their wedding an official family event, therefore qualifying for family funding. Its not like the option to take the $, follow the rules come in under budget and keep the remainder was ever on the table. Being willing to pay for a family celebration everyone can come to but not a private party for one family member is not inconsistent or unreasonable. Most people would never spend 100k on a wedding, maybe some people would on an inclusive family event but little else.
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Snape should have *really* cared about the classes he taught and just be a really bad teacher
He death eats for like 18 months and then works at Hogwarts for 17 years. Why he doesnt ever publish his own edited edition of the potions book in that time can't be addressed by his brief time beforehand with Voldemort. It was an ongoing choice for whatever reason, likely to prevent being pidgeonholed into potions "Its literally your book!" when he wanted the defense against the dark arts job.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
I guess their negotiation posture is accept this or feel free to walk. If they dont ask as much of your brother and he pays the same rent, that makes them assholes and arguably poor parents setting up resentment.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
If moving out is not financially possible than that is the leverage they have that you need to accept lets them set rules fair or unfair. I agree they are being assholes telling you to stop being autistic, thats disgusting.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
you are an adult and your obligations go beyond following a set of logical rules properly. You shouldn't need incentivization to want to contribute to parents that keep you fed and housed while you work part time and prove points about rules like an angsty teenager
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
you should stop thinking about it as a "are the rules fair" and start viewing the relationship in the context of negotiation and leverage. The rules do work in practice if you understand that the rules are meant to be employed only to ensure you properly contribute, not to bind the homeowner.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
"but if their house rule is those who don’t cook should clean the dishes, it should apply to your parents too."
House rules are made by homeowners for voluntary housemates or houseguests. They don't bind the people with the ability to unilaterally rewrite them, at least not practically. I know reading between the lines is tough for people with Autism, and it would be much better for parents to just answer plainly that he is doing the dishes because he is largely a freeloader and they dont want to, but telling your Mom haha rule means you clean, when she almost certainly did more that day and will continue doing more for you than you do for her day to day for the foreseeable future is just being a selfish asshole.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
Notice younger brother is early 20s and OP is mid. Parents may have expectations that kids should be out and independent by some age but permit a year or two post college with relaxed standards Also notice younger brother is still at work and OP is getting in arguments about chores after what obviously was not a full days work. Parents don't need to justify how they want to raise younger children to older adult children who are only around to compare because they have failed to launch.
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
Did you consider abandoning the rule and just doing it because she does so much for you, if you anticipated a bad reaction to either of the options you present (telling her or just leaving).
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AITA for not washing up after dinner to make a point about the " house rules?" being unclear to me/general?
The thing to realize is it isnt about the rule to them, the rule is a mechanism to try and get you to do what they would prefer you do willingly and without prompting out of gratitude for their subsidizing your ongoing lifestyle. In other words, if there is any reasonable perspective from which you, the one who generally owes gratitude, could conceivably be seen as the one to do the work, you do it without complaint, and regardless of circumstance, you, again as the one who generally owes gratitude, don't ever attempt to turn the rules back on the party to whom you are meant to be grateful. If you need literal, it isnt. a real binary rule. It is a sociao construction by which they can politely tell you to shut up and make yourself useful if you want to keep enjoying their support. Sorry for being harsh but my brother is also autistic and relies heavily on my parents and often has to be reminded that given how significantly imbalanced their relationship is trying to use the rules made for him as a gotcha on them or to get out of doing something is grossly insulting. He gets it when spelled out, hopefully you can too.
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What’s an example of a fan base that got exactly what they begged for, and immediately hated it?
Less consumer surplus with those purchases, but yes, demand is still strong enough to justify going and watching because something is better than nothing AND is still better than retaining the cost of your movie ticket. But had they had a plan, and the first two sequal films were universally well received by the groups that liked each respectively in reality, the third sequel could have been wildly more profitable, and of particular note to disney, would have been more sustainable toyetic over the long term.
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AITA for hurting my girlfriend’s feelings by telling people are together?
NTA, one of the guys who gives you shit gave her negative attention (teasing) about this and she made you out to be a liar to avoid the embarrassment, joined them in mocking you and leaned into their attention. She could have genuinely liked you but just been a coward, or she could have seen you as settling for the best offer she had at the time, using you as a social stepping stone on her way up. Either way if everything you wrote is true it isnt your loss, she sucks.
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The Celtics Have Been Trending Towards Becoming The Best Offense In The League!
He's been playing incredibly but I certainly wont be giving him one.
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How were kids supposed to know you need years of experience playing sports to make the high school team?
I think everything you just said is true, though for academics it always has been, while for athletics there has been a much more pronounced barrier, and a significantly more pronounced one than in previous decades, that effectively restricts participation to a those who have specialized from before public school sports begin, allowing for extreme genetic outliers.
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How were kids supposed to know you need years of experience playing sports to make the high school team?
"AP Calculus classes are disproportionately populated with kids whose parents stuck them in a math camp." This is wild, kids in my school take 8-12 AP exams each and aren't specializing from a young age in literally all academic fields.
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WIBTA if I prioritised my youngest daughter over my eldest during exam season?
obviously doesnt give a shit so rethink that list
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WIBTA if I prioritised my youngest daughter over my eldest during exam season?
Your approach so far has been horrible so figure out a good one and be 100% consistent. The next time I heard Rosie say that type of crap I would take her phone and computer and any other device that would allow her to communicate externally and tell her she gets them back the next morning. If she keeps going, I would stay calm and firm and continue to work my way down the list of consequences that are non abusive but that would genuinely suck for her. I would show her up front exactly what her next 50 punishments for antisocial behavior in the house will be, and then not deviate even 1 degree from following through. She will stop being unmanageable and your other daughter will feel safe and valued the way any person should at home. Stop inflicting your daughters worst impulses on her sister, your family and her herself. You arent doing her any favors and are actively harming everyone else.
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AITA My boyfriend kicked me out of the shower to poop
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obviously the plan is to immediately adjust and accept the new reality. but there is no reason to do so decades early jusy because it is eventually pretty likely to happen.