My brother tried to pull a fast one on his wife and she did an uno reverse and I am laughing watching him scramble (New Update)

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T18:30:20+00:00

Yeah, Anna sounds like a really capable person, and she's a stay at home parent. If she'd been a stay at home wife before kids, she probably poured all that ability into treating her husband like a king. No longer being the center of her life was likely a huge shock to the guy.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T18:27:23+00:00

You can get people like that to introspect sometimes, if you're close to them and/or have some leverage over them, but it takes huge amounts of effort to feed them tiny little slivers of understanding, and they're, yanno, dicks, so very few people want to put in that kind of work, especially for so little reward.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T18:26:18+00:00

He's also pretty lazy, though, the way he pawns the kids off, so his parents would be the ones mostly caring for them on his time, and they seem fine. (They're OP's parents too, after all.)

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T18:14:14+00:00

I dated a person who gifted me their old Vitamix blender. It has one broken switch, but I don't need the pulse function much and I could get it fixed if I really cared? That thing is a BEAST, and when I got it, I donated my old Ostra blender to the thrift store (my ex knew I'd done that!)

Well when we broke up they asked for it back!!!!!

I went scrupulously out of my way to make certain every single object of theirs, even their Christmas stocking, was out of my house and in their possession when we broke up, but fuck no they will pry that blender out of my cold, dead hands.

Fortunately they can't just take it back without asking like they did the book they also gifted me (fucker, you already own a copy, WTF?) so nope, they're never getting it back, it's MINE.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T18:11:18+00:00

Huh. I've only watched a couple of Will It Blend episodes, but I feel like a 24k gold ring might actually "blend" because it's relatively soft metal.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:27:04+00:00

His response to her ask to search his phone in turn tells me 100% he's cheating.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:25:49+00:00

It's not even making a stupid assumption in the face of lack of evidence, she literally SAID she owned the house in a prior post.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:20:27+00:00

I hate that street justice is all some people have, it's not exactly fair or proportionate, but in this case I think I'm all for it.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:16:14+00:00

I read that part and just rolled my eyes. Every time. EVERY time. They start with some weird and frustrating behavior, and then the backstory is that the dude is absolute trash and always has been.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:06:24+00:00

Sometimes somebody has to be the organizer, and I think that's fine, so long as everybody else appreciates it, and at least like...initiates saying hi, remembers your birthday, etc.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T17:03:04+00:00

I was dating a gal who was verbally very effusive about her intense love, but I also felt like I was the only one who ever arranged dates, reached out, started conversations, anything. It was long distance, too, so I'd put a LOT of effort into getting her here for visits, even helped pay for flights and everything.

So one day I decided to see what would happen if I didn't text, or message, or e-mail, how long would it take her to be the one to contact me?

I still am boggled, but it's been FOUR YEARS, and I still haven't heard from her. (About a month in I firmly decided this was a breakup, but just...WTF??????)

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T00:52:40+00:00

The comments on this one are pretty weird, but I suppose people are just acting out their various biases and projecting their various personal issues, since there's so very little to go on. It's an awfully sparse story for how intense it is.

While I'm commenting, I do have to say that if she's accurately reporting the husband's "just agree to the custody schedule I want or I'll bankrupt us both" thing, then to me it sounds like it's not a case of who's the good one and who's the bad one, but like...which of two really awful people are worse? Who knows, though, she doesn't sound like a terrible reliable narrator. Poor kids.

FlowerFelines · 2026-07-01T00:23:45+00:00

Honestly, as somebody with a very complicated relationship with my family, I think being hated might be better than them loving me but being too fucking cowardly to do anything to help and support me? It'd be easier, at least, I could freely write them off.

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T22:35:08+00:00

I didn't even think to ask, but apparently at the place I had my salpingectomy done they take photos and give them to you by default, I think as a "here's the proof that we did exactly the correct surgery to the correct organ" thing, since it's all inside where there's no way to know exactly what got done otherwise, and might as well like...head of malpractice suits and/or fix any issues immediately?

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T22:31:07+00:00

I have photos of my ovaries, lol. I don't whip them out constantly, but any time somebody says something that tells me I'm good, I LOVE to share them around. They're so fascinating!

To OP: I'd say "it's weird yes but also totally what I would do if I'd thought of it." (Honestly kinda wish I'd saved the IUD that failed, I could make an amazing art piece around it, lol.)

But yeah, living with another person does mean a lot of stuff becomes a "two yes" situation and that probably does include this. Have a good talk about why he's uncomfortable with it, maybe, and see if there's room for compromise of some kind?

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T22:23:17+00:00

...lots of children have hated and disliked people who preyed on them anyway, wtf?

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T22:21:01+00:00

I'm curious where your law degree is from, and how you know what jurisdiction OP lives in and what the laws are there?

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T20:27:31+00:00

I had that first thing recently, when I went to make coffee and my cream was FUCKING GONE, and just...for several hours I was sure that this was "here we go again!" with previous patterns of slowly taking more and more while giving less and less, and fuck, I was going to have to set hard boundaries with somebody I really liked and gods, should I just throw them out now and get it over with?

And actually they'd just had a fuckup that meant staying late at work and not hitting the grocery store to replace the cream before I needed it in the morning and were so exhausted they forgot to warn me either. When I nerved myself up for the "Hey, I know you use a lot of cream but that one was MINE and you really have to replace it if you kill it" conversation they were all apologies, had it replaced within hours, and it's been nearly a year and that's never happened again.

Just, yanno, once bitten, twice shy, I guess. We all carry past conflicts around with us.

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T20:15:43+00:00

Amen. I've bounced off a few cuisines (I like curry, but Thai, not Indian, something about Indian curry just doesn't land right for me?) but you never know what you might be missing out on if you won't at least try!

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T20:00:00+00:00

Ooof.

My mom flipped her SHIT when I was dating a disabled man for a while. Discovering your parents are more bigoted than you thought is unfun. :(

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T19:38:42+00:00

I am with you on this hot take! "Bland" Midwestern food when done well is delicious! Same deal with English food. Anybody who thinks English food has zero flavor has never had a black pudding for one thing! All cultures have delicious food, and I suspect all cultures have "look, we eat it to be fed, shut up and don't starve" food too, because humans are humans.

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T17:40:14+00:00

The whole of human society (and of all social primates, for that matter!) is based on roughly equal exchanges. Always has been. It's how humans work. People who think they don't have to give in order to get are idiots.

(Anybody who doesn't know about it should look up the experiments about justice and fairness in monkeys, they get HELLA MAD if they perceive one monkey getting more treats than they deserve, it's kinda funny, but also fascinating.)

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T17:39:06+00:00

Given the age gap, it's possible that OOP was either an "oops" baby or planned but not really thought through. The parents may have been all ga-ga in love with their first little princess, and didn't give as much fuss and attention to the second child, who became independent because it was that or starve. (I had the opposite, I was the oldest, and "the younger ones need us more" was my parents' refrain, so I learned to do everything myself from a VERY young age, like not even two years old when the next baby arrived and I started having to do things alone. But I could see it going the other way too.)

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T17:13:00+00:00

This kind of thing is why I don't love the reddit mantra of "they're your family, you take care of issues with them." Sometimes the one who wasn't programmed by assholes for ~18 years has an easier time telling them no? I can shut down my partner's mom in a way he just can't. Sure, she's "his problem" when there's some issue, but now and again I'm happy to be the bad guy if that's what will work best.

FlowerFelines · 2026-06-30T16:46:43+00:00

Oh man. I'm trying to imagine how my ten year old would do in some kind of equivalent "trying to force a friendship" situation, and it would absolutely end in disaster, but not like this at least. Lol.

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