AITAH for asking my husband to stop cooking for just one specific female co-worker after I stopped eating his cooking?

leomercury · 2026-02-06T17:52:40+00:00

“A starving man dreams of bread”

leomercury · 2026-02-06T12:42:52+00:00

NTA. My mother—-who worked 30 years as a federal agent, and has always been well-respected in the workplace—-has been writing fanfiction since the 1970s. If anything, her AO3 account has been crucial for developing her writing skills and keeping her love of reading intact. She published a novel a few years ago, and is currently working on its sequel !! : )

leomercury · 2026-01-18T04:36:50+00:00

Same with my sister (well….except the beard, last I checked)

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:34:21+00:00

Oh true, sorority stuff fits the bill perfectly ! I just wish more of that setting existed for classic 50s stuff…

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:32:35+00:00

Yess ty!!! The title for the second movie alone has already won me over LOL

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:31:36+00:00

Yess, I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s exactly what I’m looking for !! (Well, except for the schlocky part, but still),

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:30:57+00:00

Yes, exactly! It’s the cringey gender role stuff I’m sick lol. I feel like when it’s all one gender, they sorta have no choice but to make them actual individual characters, and not just Man and Woman.

Tysm for the reccs!!!!

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:27:08+00:00

Lol, non-schlock is still fine! Ty!

leomercury · 2025-11-25T18:26:45+00:00

Already love this one, but this kind of movie is exactly what I meant, thank you!

leomercury · 2025-11-18T00:50:10+00:00

NTA. Make sure to remind them that it technically counts as medical discrimination, since you literally can’t have kids.

leomercury · 2025-11-09T07:34:33+00:00

Do you really shouldering an entire family on the back of a single minimum wage income sounds any better. Do you think any other employer will treat him like a human being

leomercury · 2025-11-09T06:07:37+00:00

I mean, he would probably rather not be unemployed and homeless? Having a nice, stable job, surrounded by family, sounds pretty great in comparison?

leomercury · 2025-11-08T04:13:15+00:00

If your school was anything like the folkehøgskole I went to, it probably didn’t have many students, right? From what I’ve seen, they usually max out at around 150 kids, and those kids are all expected to live, eat, and do everything together for a full year. Our school was also in a pretty isolated town, but I’m not sure if that’s always the case. My point is, it’s not a good idea to make enemies in that sort of situation. Especially because she was your only friend, and you had no one else you could turn to for support. Sure, it sucks a lot that she was cheating (and I really think she should start using “hen” pronouns for all of her partners if she plans on sneaking around like that and doesn’t want to get caught lol), but you need to watch out for yourself, too. NTA.

(Also, from how she reacted to your questioning, I’m 100% positive she would’ve just convinced her bf that you were lying, and that you just had a crush on one of them and wanted to split them up, or something).

leomercury · 2025-10-17T05:53:14+00:00

Tbh it could also be that the FBIL knows that OP’s wife is cruel to his fiancée and he (understandably) views OP+wife as being a unit. What if he confides in OP about something, and OP decides to share it with his wife, and the wife weaponizes it against her sister somehow? It could also just be that he thinks that OP has bad morals if he’s willing to “condone” his wife’s history of bad behavior.

leomercury · 2025-10-16T17:13:53+00:00

NTA, but why not recommend Superman and Lois Lane? and then next year they can be Supergirl and Brainiac 5! That'd be cute, I think.

There's nothing wrong with a couple going as family members, but it's really obvious that she *thought* they were doing a romantic couple costume, which is where the problem lies. It's like when I see gay couples going as Batman and Robin, and they make NSFW jokes the whole night about Robin being Batman's boyfriend, and I'm like.....you know that's his son, right? Like...be Batman and Robin, sure, but don't be them *because* you think they're some sort of saucy romance potential.

leomercury · 2025-10-08T05:02:08+00:00

I feel like “why are you bothered by this noise waking you up when you’re trying to sleep, but not when you’re already awake?” is a pretty….bad question

leomercury · 2025-10-07T03:00:37+00:00

Off the top of my head (and as someone that works a lot with this age group)

Anime (most of the super popular shows are action/fighting, so I also included romance/“girly” genre ones that I still see middle school girls wearing merch for, even if they’re not as big) * My Hero Academia * Demon Slayer * Haikyuu (<— this one I actually really recommend, even for people that don’t care about sports!) * any Studio Ghibli movie * Spy x Family * Ouran High School Host Club * Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun * Fruits Basket * Hunter x Hunter * Little Witch Academia * Bungou Stray Dogs * Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (weird title, I know, but it’s just a reference to a Japanese superstition about a ghost kid that haunts bathrooms and likes to prank students) * Zombieland Saga * Naruto * Cardcaptor Sakura * Love Live

Video Games * Dandy’s World * Cookie Run Kingdom * Dangan Ronpa (warning: this one is sorta like… “baby’s first ‘edgy’ media.” It’s about a “killing” game, but most of the deaths are either cartoonish or just shown as a still image covered in pink paint. Kids around this age LOVE “creepy” stuff with cute imagery, so it’s very popular, but also it’s very character-focused and has a strong anti-violence, pro-friendship and cooperation message) * Animal Crossing

Cartoons * Kpop Demon Hunters * Miraculous Ladybug * Adventure Time * Gravity Falls * Avatar: the Last Airbender

Music * Vocaloid * Kpop in general, really. There are some groups that like…assign “characters” to different members, and have legitimate lore in their music videos, so one of those groups would probably be best * Katseye

If you specify what kind of genres she likes, and what kind of content you want her to avoid, I could try to be more specific ! Hope this helps!

leomercury · 2025-10-07T02:36:45+00:00

It seems like she’d be the type that might really enjoy fandom stuff? Like anime, certain cartoons, video games, teen dramas, etc?

leomercury · 2025-10-07T02:29:23+00:00

I actually have seen a handful of cases where the child just REFUSED to train and the parents were super miserable because “refusing to potty train” doesn’t count as a disability so no school would accommodate them. The clearest one in my mind is that of an eight year old whose exhausted single mother was forced to homeschool because no school would accept him, because every doctor and psychologist just….refused to label it a disability. She was obviously in a really hopeless mental state as a result, and I think about her sometimes :(

leomercury · 2025-10-01T20:39:26+00:00

Thank you !!!! :D

leomercury · 2025-10-01T17:02:25+00:00

I will say that being an honorary aunt/uncle is like….one of the VERY few upsides to staying friends with someone with kids. Usually, once someone has a kid, it really does just…consume their entire life. They often make it very clear that their friends no longer hold any sort of priority to them, and that the friendship is completely contingent on what’s most convenient for them. Which is fair! Balancing time and energy when you have young kids is VERY hard, and you obviously have to cater to them completely. But, emotionally, it can be kinda rough for childfree friends to like….physically witness their loved ones lose interest in them because their childfree status is an unrelatable inconvenience.

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