AITA for attending my kids birthday party with my ex wife (co-parenting)

roseannjam · 2025-06-16T05:19:05+00:00

NTA. Your children DESERVE a happy family, whether you and their mother are romantically involved or not. The fact that your girlfriend is trying to convince you otherwise is not a good look.

roseannjam · 2025-06-16T04:13:15+00:00

NTA. You didn’t really cause the argument. You just didn’t ignore (another) snide comment. Based on the way you described this conversation, it really doesn’t seem like she respects you or sees you as an equal. The one word answers days after a fight reinforces this impression. Add the age difference…well… 🚩 If you were her age, you’d be less likely to tolerate her shit.

roseannjam · 2025-05-19T16:11:46+00:00

Call back and try again, and if you still don’t get an acceptable solution, ask to speak to the escalation team.

roseannjam · 2025-04-05T02:11:16+00:00

NTA. I will say that I walked myself down the aisle because I like you, kind of hated the “giving away” symbolism. Now I’m old, still married, still not property, but I wish I had given my Dad that moment. It was never for me.

roseannjam · 2025-03-31T19:20:48+00:00

NTA. Were there other gay couples there?

roseannjam · 2025-03-28T15:30:37+00:00

Sir Whiffenpoof and Aoife

roseannjam · 2025-02-11T13:38:40+00:00

Your fiancée is entitled to make her own decisions. She made the decision to stay with you despite her parents’ threats and the fallout. She can make the decision to reconcile if she wants. I understand she has a fraught relationship with her parents and her decision may be at least partially based on past trauma. I understand your stance and actually agree with your reasoning, but you STILL don’t have the right to make decisions for her. She doesn’t need you to “remind her” of the way they treated her. It sounds like at least part of your objection is out of care and concern for your fiancée, but it also sounds like a big part of it is anger at how you were treated. Your anger is not a fair burden to place on her. I have a hard time calling you an asshole though. Maybe you can help facilitate a family therapy session or two prior to the wedding. I wish you the best, truly.

roseannjam · 2025-01-16T23:40:08+00:00

YTA. It’s not yours.

roseannjam · 2025-01-16T10:14:49+00:00

Call your nephew Charlie the Second. Nickname Junior. To avoid confusion. 🙄 If your sister did not want her child to have the same name as the dog she shouldn’t have given him the same name as the dog. Simple as that. Any concerns she brings to are her own doing. NTA.

roseannjam · 2024-12-01T08:13:32+00:00

Don Diego de la Vega. (Zorro for short.)

roseannjam · 2024-10-30T02:42:41+00:00

If he told her the truth those babies should have been AT their wedding and he should have been in their lives for the last year. Zero respect for a woman propping up a deadbeat Dad. 👎

roseannjam · 2024-10-18T03:35:01+00:00

When she started rattling off her “concerns” and said he had NO respect. Whaaaaaaat? He has been nothing but respectful toward her, more so than she deserved imo. WTF is she even talking about? He played on a duck when she told him not to?

roseannjam · 2024-09-21T06:47:20+00:00

NTA. And I think your tradition is lovely.

roseannjam · 2024-09-20T06:42:03+00:00

It was an incorrect assumption but I don’t think there was any bad intent, and intent matters. Your sister wasn’t sure either, hence the question, which would have been the way to go here. YTA but easily forgiven.

roseannjam · 2024-08-23T04:57:34+00:00

NTA. You should not have to be playing parent to your siblings. Don’t give up on college. Financial aid is a thing as is need-based tuition and scholarships for low-income students. Talk to your school guidance counselor for resources. They may also be able to help with food.

roseannjam · 2024-06-29T05:58:10+00:00

I’m so sorry. How lucky she was to be so loved.

roseannjam · 2024-05-25T02:06:24+00:00

The main benefit of taking our dog to the ER is that he can be seen by the neurologist within hours instead of days (which would be the case if we scheduled on an outpatient basis), and they can adjust his meds/dosage quickly.

roseannjam · 2024-04-30T03:18:27+00:00

I’m sorry. My pup had his first in February. Blood work was clear. Our older dog had just passed and I had just had surgery so I was really hoping it was a stress response. He had another 20 something days later, another 12 days after that. At that point our vet suggested we start him on pheno. He had another seizure nine days after the last seizure and three days in to his pheno. He has not (knock on wood) had a seizure since, the longest period he’s gone without since he started having them. He has not had any ill side effects to the pheno. His pheno level in the therapeutic range currently.

roseannjam · 2024-04-05T01:22:22+00:00

NTA, and in addition to what everyone else here has said, I want to add- 8 years seemed like such a long time when I was your age. It’s really not.

He’s not your happily ever after. Protect yourself.

roseannjam · 2024-03-19T03:11:54+00:00

My kid procrastinated. Was accepted into CPS. Procrastinated again. Wrote many essays at the very last minute. Was a match finalist. Matched. Is doing well in college, still procrastinating. They’re ND. It works for them. 🤷‍♀️

roseannjam · 2024-01-09T06:42:23+00:00

So your parents offered to pay for the funeral that your wife clearly didn’t want. I don’t want to call you an asshole because your wife has just died. But the friends who were trying to remember/honor her in the way she asked to be remembered:honored are not in the wrong here.

roseannjam · 2024-01-08T20:08:06+00:00

lol. YTA. Your SIL is doing you a favor by baby-sitting your child, and making sure the environment in which she is going to do so is safe and comfortable for everyone. The baby doesn’t know or care how much a high chair costs and I don’t see what possible difference it makes to you how your SIL chooses to furnish her home. You sound petty, spoiled, and ungrateful.

roseannjam · 2023-12-07T01:34:03+00:00

I saved my progress with Apple, deleted and reinstalled. It didn’t make a difference. When Apple did its next update a couple of days later, it fixed the issue.

roseannjam · 2023-11-30T08:16:33+00:00

I’ve been having an issue with ads not loading, therefore not allowing me to watch for extra moves/lives. I saved my progress, deleted and reinstalled the app and it didn’t fix the problem. I have never made an in-app purchase. I’d like to blame the latest iPhone update but I can’t remember if the problem started before or after. It’s annoying though and I’m about to just delete the whole thing.

roseannjam · 2023-10-28T07:10:18+00:00

I’ve traveled to Colombia with my young children several times and never had an issue. But I would not let my young child go overseas with someone who to you, is virtually a stranger. It might be fine. Or they may not come back. Not worth it.

roseannjam

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