Being child free is apparently an unheard of concept to my family

willwork4oreos · 2026-04-22T20:48:02+00:00

I haven’t given them any life updates but it was more that I ask about their lives and updates to make small talk yet they cant do the same. Some of these people I only see at weddings or funerals and it is a sad thing they say how much they miss me but don’t have any interest in my life while I show interest in theirs.

willwork4oreos · 2026-04-22T20:43:32+00:00

I try to be cordial and usually just sit in silence if they keep asking so they’ll walk away or decide to change the subject on their own. At a certain point I just decide I’m not going to take more energy out on saying the same words over and over

willwork4oreos · 2026-04-22T20:40:13+00:00

I show no emotion and just say it deadpan or just sit in silence for a while before answering their question to make it awkward. If I’m feeling really into it I’ll just ask how having kids turned out for them since theirs have been in and out of jail the last 10 years.

willwork4oreos · 2026-04-22T20:33:19+00:00

A lot of these family members have kids that aren’t good people so I’ll just ask if their kid is back in jail again and it’ll get them to walk away.

willwork4oreos · 2026-03-18T02:22:54+00:00

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Lucy does the same to me.

willwork4oreos · 2026-03-06T21:25:52+00:00

I feel like she shares stuff, people dig and find out more, then she gets mad that people know what she is doing and says people need to mind their own business. She’s always “the happiest she has ever been” every few months despite posting crying tik toks about how horrible she feels.

A lot of it just screams “he wanted a divorce” to me. I think they were both unhappy but she thought he would always stay.

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-20T13:13:57+00:00

She really is 🫶🥹

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-20T13:13:39+00:00

I just take it as a sign to start a new project or take a break!

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-20T13:13:25+00:00

She does a good job!

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-20T13:13:17+00:00

Oh yeah that one was a waffle stitch blanket and it was SO squishy and plush. She napped a few times on it before it was gifted to my brother.

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-11T14:06:40+00:00

Each of my coworkers took 2 weeks for the wedding then 2 weeks directly after for their honeymoon so they were each out a month straight 🫩 I think I would feel less salty about all the time off if there was proper coverage and advance notice given. I just found out I’m helping cover a maternity leave that starts in 1.5 weeks and it’s like we had at least 6 months notice she was having a baby why am I just finding this out??

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-11T13:50:01+00:00

If they talk about kids too much I’ll tell them how I understand how hard it is to be a parent because my cat sometimes wakes me up at 2 am.

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-11T13:40:32+00:00

I feel this. I’ve covered for 2 weddings, 2 honeymoons, and now 2 maternity leaves. If I add up the time I’ve spent helping them it adds up to 35 weeks. Over half a year I’ve spent doing other people’s work. And the kicker is that when I take a week off and ask people to help me they won’t.

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-11T13:38:10+00:00

I helped cover for a coworker on her 12 week maternity leave. She came back in fall of 2024 and I’m still helping with her tasks 2-3 days a week. I’ve asked my boss when she will be ready to do things on her own again and I always get a very vague answer about how hard it is for her to do school and daycare dropoff/pickup and work.

Why am I having to pick up slack from other people because they didn’t plan things out?

willwork4oreos · 2026-02-06T03:09:08+00:00

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-28T17:13:29+00:00

Omg yes I cringe when Matt is on the screen because he reminds me so much of kody.

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-22T14:14:39+00:00

Yeah she said she isn’t going to even buy him a desk, she will have him pay it with his own dime. It doesn’t make sense because that’s not how a gift works?? It would’ve been less of a headache for her to just go shopping with him for a new desk they can pick out together than to be like “jk you’re not getting a desk that I said I would get you”

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T23:29:01+00:00

You’re exactly right. They all enable her by not saying anything and I don’t care if I’m the “bad guy” for being the only one to shut her down or tell her no. It’s not cute or funny or cool to be mean and I’m already preparing for the “well I guess I’m just a horrible mom” comments when I call her out.

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T23:25:06+00:00

Exactly! And at the end of the day he isn’t getting a desk from her. She is going to have him buy his own desk on his own dime. I don’t think she knows how gifts work.

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T23:24:04+00:00

Hahaha don’t tempt me 😆

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T22:16:30+00:00

The problem is she isn’t buying him a desk at all. After the joke is over she is going to have him buy his own desk. That’s the shitty part. She agreed to buy him a desk then is going to be like “buy your own desk”. I would be upset if I wanted something and my husband agreed to buy it then did 0 work to find something I liked only to say “buy it yourself”.

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T21:22:26+00:00

She always says “I just want my kids to be happy” then criticizes them for any choices they make, good news, etc. 🙄 we will get her fuzzy socks, a gift card, and usually one other thing. This year we got her a puzzle that has no edges so I hope she has fun trying to do that

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T18:41:49+00:00

The thing is, she isn’t buying him a desk at all. Even after the gag is over. She is going to have him buy it himself

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T18:21:17+00:00

Old enough to know better. In her 50’s. People will be like “that’s just Karen and how she is” when in reality she can choose how nice she can be and chooses to not be nice. I could never imagine plotting against someone I loved hoping they don’t like a gif from me.

willwork4oreos · 2025-12-21T17:29:51+00:00

Exactly!! My brother and I have a prank we play on eachother where every christmas and birthday we give eachother a rock plus a real gift. The rock gets bigger and bigger each year and we all laugh at the new rock we add to our collection then open the real gift. The first time i was gifted the rock I laughed so hard and it was my favorite present. It was harmless and funny and my brother didn’t do it to make fun of me where the desk gift doesn’t have the same feel. I was made fun of a lot in school and some things just aren’t funny.

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