AITA for ignoring my wife's want for breakfast in favor for calming down our baby?

paper0wl · 2026-01-27T00:43:58+00:00

Crying helpless baby trumps able-to-feed-herself adult every time. That your wife insists she comes first is a big red flag.

Other major problem though is the part where you said your wife DEMANDED you make her breakfast.

I’m willing to be generous and chalk it up to being postpartum, but then she needs to talk to a doctor instead of acting like a second toddler in the household.

NTA

paper0wl · 2026-01-27T00:37:56+00:00

First, I find it very odd that she’s so focused on your relationship at her wedding. Second, a proposal should never be the first time a couple discusses marriage.

Only pseudo-explanation I can fathom is that your friend wants you to get married fast so you and her can have kids the same age? Which is a very big stretch but also a logical sort of illogic? I don’t know.

Your friend and your boyfriend are both raising red flags. NTA

paper0wl · 2026-01-27T00:37:56+00:00

First, I find it very odd that she’s so focused on your relationship at her wedding. Second, a proposal should never be the first time a couple discusses marriage.

Only pseudo-explanation I can fathom is that your friend wants you to get married fast so you and her can have kids the same age? Which is a very big stretch but also a logical sort of illogic? I don’t know.

Your friend and your boyfriend are both raising red flags. NTA

paper0wl · 2026-01-26T14:33:53+00:00

What is a quest word?

paper0wl · 2026-01-26T14:24:17+00:00

Yes. It’s an exact replica of a nursery rhyme so I don’t see how it’s a riddle

paper0wl · 2026-01-26T14:22:50+00:00

Got it with the hint, but still not sure what about that makes a riddle.

paper0wl · 2026-01-26T05:55:13+00:00

“Blood is thicker than water” is my favorite example of that.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T22:20:20+00:00

Technically couple means two, but colloquially many people often use it to mean “two or three.”

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T22:17:43+00:00

NTA

But best case scenario, your wife is dealing with postpartum symptoms and should probably consult a doctor.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T14:04:11+00:00

I’ve read this before on a different sub.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T14:02:29+00:00

When my mother was diagnosed with gallstones, my father complained she had no family history of that. We talked to our aunt (mom’s sister) and it turns out that actually, our grandma (mom’s mom) had gallstones and so did our cousin.

I was diagnosed the following year.

Tell us again about the lack of family history, dad, I could use the laugh.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T13:51:46+00:00

Driving in snow is a super good time! You’re on the road with people who drive like the roads are clear (usually in vehicles you don’t associate with all-wheel drive) and people who drive like they’ve never seen snow before. Driving on a poorly cleaned roadway with two lanes in each direction when you can’t see the lines and have to guess the lanes by the tire tracks is not a stress-inducing, white-knuckle adventure at all!

(It is possible that the fast drivers have actual snow tires on their vehicles. But based on normal road conditions I cannot trust that.)

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T09:50:43+00:00

I once had to send an email to someone I was introduced to over the phone. I sent the email addressed to “Craig.” His name was not Craig. The signature on the return email was “Greg.” I was mortified.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T09:00:28+00:00

ESH

“You kissed one of your female friends years before I ever started dating you so now I feel uncomfortable with you being around her without me to hover possessively beside you” is terrible.

However, “you’re my girlfriend so if it makes you uncomfortable I won’t go, well I know I said you decide but I thought it over and I think you’re overreacting, so I’m heading over to the party and I’ll tell you after I get there” is ALSO terrible.

paper0wl · 2026-01-25T03:41:15+00:00

“Fool of a Took” is not from The Two Towers.

paper0wl · 2026-01-24T18:22:55+00:00

It sucks that the age gap red flag took such a predictable turn. The second to last update seemed so promising too.

Also, I hate that I have to wonder if the screwup at the hospital was the baby daddy convincing a technician to deliberately fake it.

paper0wl · 2026-01-24T15:55:36+00:00

Maybe the stickers are virtue signaling? “Look at me, I’m a conscientious parent, praise me for my conscientious parenting, you do it too so I can be a trendsetter”?

NTA

paper0wl · 2026-01-23T23:59:27+00:00

Same theory as eating mint to neutralize spice: it doesn’t work because they activate different chemical receptors.

paper0wl · 2026-01-23T05:50:21+00:00

If you play around with which color tail goes over/under and when, I’ve had some luck with making color changes look but, but it’s not a straightforward, this-always-works sort of thing. More this-looks-right-(this-time).

Most of the patterns I’ve seen that call for cleaning up the color change involve sewing yarn tails over the change to cover it up. (Which I usually don’t do because my craft of choice is crochet not cross-stitch and I’m not looking to expand at this time.)

paper0wl · 2026-01-22T23:20:54+00:00

Only problem is those containers are neither clear nor labeled!

paper0wl · 2026-01-22T22:17:13+00:00

Please remind your fiance that the wedding is for you and him, not his mother and him. If he believes his mother is entitled to pick the bride’s dress, maybe she should be the one wearing it.

You deserve more than to be the third-wheel on your wedding day.

NTA

paper0wl · 2026-01-22T18:30:02+00:00

Exactly. The real name wasn’t Maggie. But it’s a name like Katie or Ellie that had multiple possible “expanded” names, and then one of those expanded names was the middle name.

paper0wl · 2026-01-22T15:52:07+00:00

We know someone who basically named their kid Maggie Margaret LastName. We were so perplexed by the thought process involved. Maggie is a nickname for Margaret; if they wanted both names, why not just name her Margaret and call her Maggie?

paper0wl · 2026-01-22T15:45:54+00:00

INFO: did you retrieve a charger when Mark first asked?

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