33: Reddit’s Wildest Travel Fails and Family Tales

Pack your bags… and prepare to lose them. In this episode, we're diving into the funniest travel disasters Reddit has to offer — from missed flights and passport nightmares to awkward hostel encounters and airport meltdowns. If you’ve ever had a trip go horribly wrong, these stories will make you feel a whole lot better about it. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the schadenfreude!

Watch this episode on Youtube!------------------------------------------CHAPTERS:00:00 Intro 01:36 WIBTA if I take my kids to the airport to catch my cheating wife?14:57 Gato's Guardians15:59 AITA for paying for a lounge at an airport during a long layover?24:44 AITA Pushy line cutters at the airport27:25 AITA for not giving up my seat to a little boy at the airport?31:15 AITA for not letting someone cut in front of me at the airport?34:24 AITA for not picking up my dad from the airport at 1am on a Monday?37:30 AITA for being mad at my husband for stranding me at the airport for an hour so he could finish his baseball game?48:16 AITA for walking out of the airport when i saw my husband's mom standing there with her luggage?01:01:50 AITA for 'abandoning' my family at an airport?01:06:27 AITA for refusing to watch someone's luggage in an airport?01:08:53 AITA for telling my parents to get divorced in the middle of an airport?01:17:37 Quick Wrap Up!01:18:49 A message for you, Bestie!---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
How? How did you even get yourself in
this situation? Will I be the asshole if I take
my kids to the airport to catch my cheating wife?
What are you? What are you trying to get out
of this? OP, definitely show this post to
the family therapist. Traveling.

(00:35):
Oh, you mean that wild adventurewhere everything goes wrong and
you end up questioning your lifechoices?
Sounds like every other day for me.
First there's a missed flight because who doesn't love that
special moment when you realize you're the one running through
the airport like an extra and anaction movie?
Underpaid, probably didn't sleepwell, and you don't really know

(01:00):
why you chose that outfit anyways.
Then lost luggage because apparently your suitcase has its
own social life and doesn't wantto join you.
You think you're just getting a cute Instagram pic of your
breakfast and end up ordering something that looks like it
escaped from a horror movie or came from a nursing home.

(01:21):
It's the kind of chaos we all secretly expect, whether you're
16 trying to navigate your firstsolo trip or 30 something
wishing you could just get away for a weekend out.
Let's read it, bestie. Will I be the asshole if I take
my kids to the airport to catch my cheating wife?

(01:43):
My wife is away visiting a friend and I recently learned
she's with her manstress. That's a new one.
Some mistresses man stress who Icaught last month where there
was a bank account transaction that wasn't for the kids or
myself. OK.
The item was obviously for someone specifically outside of

(02:05):
the family and it was another man.
She said she'd cut things off and that it wasn't anything
special. She seems a little a little bit
too comfortable. OK, after reading an e-mail that
exposes that he's there with her, I'm contemplated parking
and picking her up inside with two kids to catch her coming

(02:26):
into the terminal with said manstress rather than picking
her up curbside. Yikes.
The kids would recognize him, but I want to show that I'm well
aware of her couple's retreats. No confrontation would occur,
especially given that it's an airport.
Homie said I don't want to get arrested.

(02:48):
We do have an update. Kids are 7 and four and can't
wait to pick up mom at the airport.
Wow we jumped really quick to this.
At first we were contemplating and now we're excited.
I don't know if I could convincethem to stay with our neighbor
which is their babysitter. They wouldn't recognize him
unless they kissed goodbye. He's a Co worker that hasn't

(03:10):
ever been seen by the kids. And another update, if I can
convince the kids to stay home they'll stay with our neighbor.
OK We're both U-Haul Utah transplants so no family is
around. Or I'll stay home with the kids
and have Herman stress bring herhome.
I don't need photo evidence since Utah is a no fault state

(03:30):
and I already have written proofand emails and text chains And a
final update. First to all this, who said
don't involve the kids and taking them would be traumatic?
The plan was to pick her up inside an airport simply to see
her and him exit the terminal together.
He travels often and parks at a nearby shuttle service, so

(03:51):
they'd go their separate ways anyway.
The hope was that she'd see who all is affected by her actions,
leave with us, put the kids to bed, and discuss our next steps.
Since everyone had a fit about taking the kids, I convinced
them to stay home with our neighbor.
I'll look with third Nana, if you will.
Yes, I had to convince them as they had discussed going to the

(04:12):
airport with me since Sunday. Considering there isn't any
family nearby, we do just have everything together.
I can't wait to see mommy. Is it Wednesday, today and so
forth. That's pretty sad dude.
That's pretty sad. I went solo with the small
bouquet and a sign saying I'm done.

(04:33):
Bro really wants like public humiliation.
Which I don't blame him he he iscompletely dedicated into this.
Kids are not right. Unfortunately or fortunately he
was not with her as he caught inearlier flights.
That was planned dog. She probably had her ears
ringing the entire like last dayof the adventure.

(04:56):
OK, she immediately knew I knew he had joined her and there was
guilt shown. No it's not guilt, it's just
shame of being caught. Don't give her the benefit of
the doubt. She only has if it is guilt.
Like I said, only because she got caught.
There was no confrontation or saying that almost everyone

(05:18):
expected or maybe wanted or whatyou wanted, Opie, But that's OK.
You're allowed to want things like that, especially with how
heartbreaking this is. We spoke on the way home and
we'll discuss things further therest of the week.
Unbeknownst to me, she already put in her resignation effective
Friday. I won't bother with future
plans, but divorce is an 80% possibility, brother.

(05:41):
It should be 100. For those saying take photos,
serve her papers at work, lock her out, take money out of our
joint accounts and other ridiculous suggestions.
It's not that simple. Yes, it is.
That's sorry, it is. That's what would be
traumatizing to our children. Brother, the children don't need
to know. The children would.
The children sit down and talk finances with you all at the end

(06:03):
of every month? No, it's not that hard.
Take it out. No, the only simple thing with
divorcing cheap, without an attorney and just forms filed
with the courts. I get this, you get that This is
our custody agreement blah blah blah it sounds like blah blah
blah OP until you realize that she does a complete 180.
I mean she already like doesn't want to be with you.

(06:24):
She's cheating on you dog. Like hello.
Thanks for those that understandmy situation and to others
thanks for showing me that Reddit is certainly not that
place to ask for advice. I'm going to stop you right
there Sir. Reddit is a place to ask for
advice, but just because it's not what you expected doesn't

(06:44):
mean it's a bad place for advice.
Come on man, let's use our last brain cell that's just going
around in circles clapping A clapping a bunch of what are
those called? Wow that didn't sound right.
close your eyes and rewind that.What are this called?

(07:06):
Symbols. I literally have a drum kit
behind this camera and I couldn't even think of the word
symbol. Let's go and take a look at the
comments. Top one.
I wouldn't bring the kids but bringing a witness might not be
a bad idea. Very very true.
And you will be the asshole for taking your kids with you.
I'm all for confronting her evenwith another witness, just not
the kids. Even if they don't know what is

(07:27):
going on, you will put them in the middle of an emotionally
charged situation that should just be between their parents.
A guy posts on Reddit asking will I be the asshole if I bring
my children to the airport to catch my cheating wife?
That alone tells you a lot. Let's be real here, he's not the
asshole. He's not even close to being the
asshole. This isn't just some guy being

(07:50):
petty for fun. This is a man whose heart got
ripped apart and he's standing in the wreckage trying to figure
out what to do with all that pain.
People love to throw around the word revenge, I get it.
But they forgot something crucially important.
Revenge is just love with nowhere to go.

(08:11):
You give someone your loyalty, your time, your future, and they
betray that. OK, and so what's left?
Like, what would you expect? Hurt, rage, confusion and
loneliness so deep that it messes with your judgement.
That's what this man is sitting in.
He has read it for advice, not because he's a mature, but

(08:34):
because he literally has no one else to ask.
He said in the post he has no family in the states, no support
network, probably no one to evenwatch the kids while he
processed this, as you can tell with the whole babysitter thing.
Because even with that, we don'teven know what happens behind
closed doors or what situation is with that one.

(08:54):
His wife was his person and he she chose to cheat.
That kind of betrayal changes you.
And yeah, he's considered bringing his seven and what, 4
year old kids to the airport to watch it all go down.
Not because he's cruel, not because he wants to hurt the
kiddos or like scar them, but because he's in pain.

(09:16):
He probably thought like they deserve to see the truth too.
It was a desperate idea that from a desperate place.
He didn't go through with it. He listened to advice from
strangers because that's all he had.
And when he showed up to the airport alone, holding a sign to
expose his wife, that wasn't just about revenge, either.

(09:39):
You get where I'm going with this?
This was about finally being seen, feeling seen, right?
OK, finally saying, you don't get to do this to me in the
dark. You don't get to pretend you're
the good guy anymore, Right? Like, OK, people love to act
like they'd handle betrayal withperfect grace, but most haven't

(10:02):
seen genuinely alone during the worst moment of their life,
right? Most haven't had to swallow the
fact that the only person they trusted just lit their whole
world on fire. So no, he's not the asshole, OK?
He's not the asshole. He's just a broken person
trained to stitch himself back together in public because he

(10:23):
doesn't have the luxury of doingit in private.
I know my the app session is over right now, but that's OK
because I'm still going to continue because I do want to
touch base on this. OK, so while we're on the topic
bestie, are you feeling lonely by chance?
That's OK if you are right now or not because everyone does OK.

(10:48):
Everyone has their moment, whether it be to this extreme or
just a weird pit in your stomach, right?
But just to be safe because I know you deserve to hear it.
Loneliness lies. It tells you no one cares,
nothing will change and you'll always feel this way.
That's not the truth, that's depression and a trench coat.

(11:12):
Call it out. Let's be real about it, not
everyone has a car, not everyonefeels safe going out.
Some people can't even afford toleave their house regularly.
And OK, so let's start exactly where you are.
In your room, in your house, maybe even just on your bed, who
knows? But here's 3 realistic things

(11:33):
you can do today that starts in your own space.
No car, no friends, no money needed.
OK, so one create a U space. This is like a single shelf, a
corner of your desk, your pillowsetup, a playlist, a little
light in your bedroom, folding your blanket, something.
When your space reflects care, your brain starts believing
you're worth caring for. Kind of like fake it till you

(11:55):
make it right. You name the spots like my
little recharge station. I said recharge, by the way,
Probably shouldn't have mumbled that word.
My peace corner, like whatever you want to call it.
Like my, my, my alone corner, mywhatever.
And two, you are what you scroll.

(12:16):
This is another thing. This is number 2 out of three.
Pick one account that reminds you you're not broken.
No comparison, no pressure. Just something kind.
Your favorite video game or a game you never get to play
because it's too expensive. Thanks, Nintendo $80.00 for a
game in this economy Or like a Cooking Channel, live streams,

(12:37):
storm recordings. I love watching like hurricane
like videos, obviously not of people getting hurt, but like
how the palm trees react to the wind, cats playing wood carving
me. Whatever makes you a freaking
like second in your brain. Like whatever gives you a second
bestie that that's all that matters, right?
And the last one, number three, talk to yourself here and there

(12:59):
but don't go schizo on me but just try it.
When you're lonely, silence getsdangerous.
Your brain fills it with the worst thoughts.
Say something out loud, even if it's just today sucked but I
made it. I don't feel OK but I'm trying.
Hey me, you're not invisible. See where I'm going with this?

(13:23):
Hearing your own voice grounds you in your body and reminds you
you're here, you're real, and you're not giving up.
And to wrap up the story, you don't need transportation.
You don't need a social life yet.
You don't need to drag your kidsinto it either like Opie did.
But you do have the power of free will.
Hell, don't even do what I say. I wouldn't even judge you

(13:46):
because I know it's scary to make changes.
You just need to build yourself right.
Build proof for yourself right where you live.
That's what matters, even just to yourself.
Once that foundation forms, it gets easier to reach beyond it.
OK, you have it. It's the idea of investing into

(14:09):
yourself. That's what people mean by that.
You have to incorporate things in your life that make you happy
because you're investing in yourself.
Following me. And it leads to more.
It's like a domino effect, OK, but you don't have to you be a
single domino, right? Just do one thing, man.

(14:32):
Like even if it's even if it's something because everybody has
it, something that you never tell anyone about because it's
just you're kind of shameful about it.
That's OK too. Like you don't have to tackle
that one yet. Honestly, you never even really
have to tackle that one. It's just you don't have to
rush. Just don't go quiet on yourself.

(14:54):
I love you, bestie. I mean that.
OK, before we board the chaos flight back into these travel
disasters, let's talk boarding passes.
You want to get first class access to all the exclusive
stuff around here over at Gatoland?
Well, for just 299 a month you can become a Gatos Guardian and

(15:17):
unlock badges, behind the scene updates, early access to videos,
and your name flying across the screen at the end of every
video. Maybe even AVIP shutout.
Depends on how generous I'm feeling after a couple of
layovers, you know? OK, and if you're cruising
through Spotify, you're in luck.You can upgrade your status just
at $2.99 a month and get access to content that will only ever

(15:42):
be available in the exclusive lounge.
Yes, that's the content no one else gets to see, not even you
guys over there on YouTube. Sorry.
Also, stay out of the bathroom, man.
You and I know you aren't constipated.
This ain't the Mile High Club, man.
OK, Am I the asshole for paying for a lounge at an airport

(16:04):
during a long layover? The hell are you like spending
too much money that somebody caught it?
And it was like I told you not to spend money on things that
don't. You don't need to be bought.
Let's see it, I'm travelling with five friends now and we are
travelling cheap. Bingo.
Sounds like exactly what I just predicted.

(16:26):
However, we have had one long layover in an airport with a
great VIP lounge. The thing about these lounges is
that they have free food and liquor and comfortable chairs
and shower facilities. I told my friends that it was
about what it was about and theyall said that they didn't want
to waste money. So I went to the lounge by
myself. I had some snacks, a few drinks,

(16:47):
a quick nap, a long hot shower, and then I caught up with my
friends at the gates. My phone was fully charged.
I was bright eyed and bushy tailed and a little drunk.
As you should king. When we started talking they
were bitching about the cost of everything at the airport.
They send why I look so pleased with myself.
I think there's like a translation issue with this one.

(17:09):
The it's worded a little weird so please bear with me.
I told them about my stay in thelounge.
Two of them got visibly angry. They said I was an asshole for
not telling everything there wasin the lounge.
They'd actually spent more on food and drinks than I had.
Plus I got to nap in a comfy chair and have a shower.
I said that lounges aren't a secret and that the Internet
exists. They could have looked up the

(17:31):
same information I did. OK, real quick, real quick,
there are amazing YouTube channels.
I actually like go to sleep watching them all the time of
like airport lounges or like thethe buses that are like mainly
in like Japan, right? Because they just have it so
well put together when it comes to their transportation.
And yeah, I know these lounges are real.

(17:52):
They're beautiful. I highly recommend you to like
Google some of these and there'samazing channels out there that
just they're non talking and they just go through the lounges
and the amenities and the the travel itself.
It's really cool. And real quick, let's break this
down. Let's break this down.
They he said I told my friends what I was about to do and they

(18:16):
said they didn't want to waste the money.
OK, sounds like you're not the asshole, but like I said, you're
the asshole to yourself for having friends that can't see
eye to eye with you. I don't know about you, but I
wouldn't treat my friend like shit if they had more money than
me because that means that they're doing something that's

(18:37):
bettering their lives, money or not.
Because yeah, money is, you know, whatever evil.
Money can't buy you happiness, but money can definitely buy
like amenities to help your health.
Wow isn't that crazy how that works?
Like don't get mad at him It's it's your your fucking fault

(18:59):
that y'all didn't listen. And I feel like that's a trend
when it comes to that. Just by the way that at the last
paragraph how I said that lounges aren't a secret and that
the Internet exists they could have looked up the same
information I did. Seems like their friends just
like shut him down a lot. He might just be seen as like
that rich friend. Which is just so funny to me

(19:22):
because how are you going to saybecause these are the same
people that go money doesn't mean anything money.
Then why do you treat people like shit that don't treat you
like shit but just because they have money you don't even want
to listen to the fucker? The hell?
And he went by himself. Like no one even like wanted to
associate with them with him at all.

(19:43):
And it's so funny. It's always the uneducated that
end up in a situation where theyget burned in the end.
Like it's OK for help, it's OK to listen to other people, it's
OK for different insights. Top comment, not the asshole.
You told them what you were going to do and at this point
everyone should have an idea of what lounges have in them.
Not your fault they didn't want to check it out.

(20:03):
They say they didn't want to waste money but they went and
bought food in the airport anyway.
You can lead a horse to water. All right, best if you don't
want that means it's you can lead a horse to water, but you
can't make it drink. Like you can tell somebody
everything. I know you've been in that
situation where you just like no, like don't do this or do

(20:24):
this or do it this way because holy crap, like it's the most
common knowledge. But don't get me wrong, not
everybody knows all the common knowledge and they just don't do
it and they just don't do it. That's basically what that
means. Another comment, you suck
because on everyone travels or knows all that information, a
good friend would at least inform their travel companions

(20:45):
of the benefits so they could all enjoy together.
Your friends suck because you are not responsible for their
choices and they could have asked you what the lounge fee
includes. I've travelled with friends
before and I've had this in dilemma of them not wanting to
spend the money but I took the 5minutes to explain what it was
included and when we all enjoyedthe lounge together.
OK that's fair, that's fair. Would like to break down this

(21:07):
comment as well. He said you suck because not
everyone travels or knows all that.
No, he doesn't suck because somebody didn't know
information. You're not there to be their
parent. Sorry.

(21:27):
Like at all. Like he offered it like a normal
friend would. He offered it.
He said that it would be a better idea and no one listened
to him or even cared to no more.They shut him down.
That's not his responsibility. That was a consensual
conversation. That's embracive and rude.

(21:49):
Honestly, if you kept pushing something that somebody already
said no to, hello and let's go. Let's go down.
Your friends suck because you'renot responsible for their
choices and they could have asked you.
Yeah, I agree with that more so they don't suck because they
didn't ask what all was there. They suck because they didn't

(22:10):
even care that he was leaving. They didn't even know what he
was going to go do. But he's traveling with these
friends. See where I'm going with us?
Those aren't friends. They were perfectly fine not
knowing what the fuck he was doing.
That's the issue, not about the lounge because at that point
they would be using him for honestly only educational

(22:33):
purposes. Another one further down on that
comment. I know we already read it but
I'm I'm breaking it down. I've travelled friends before
and have the same dilemma of them not wanting to spend the
money but it took 5 minutes to explain what all of us included
and OK fantastic. That wasn't the friend group
that he had. The way OP worded this story,
which of course we don't even know if it's AI or if it really

(22:56):
was like that or whatever, you know, eat the fucking rest.
From the way he wrote the story,the French just were like no
dismissive. I get a friend say no I I don't
really want to. And then that allows an open
door for you to be able to explain it.

(23:17):
But like I said in the original post, OP was literally like he
offered like, like, listen, I told my friends what I was
about. I told my friends what it was
about. Well, they wrote it as what I
was about. But like I said, I think there
was translation issues. I told my friends what it was
about and they all said they didn't want to waste money.

(23:38):
So he didn't just say I'm going to the lounge.
He said I told my friends what it was about.
They probably, he probably said it in a way of like, oh, it's an
area that's separated from like the public airport lobby and it
allowed. He probably was very vague about
it, but still offered insight toa solution of everyone being

(24:01):
tired and everybody just basically said fuck you Dave or
whoever the hell this Opie dude is.
What's his username? Fisherman?
Fuck you, fisherman. I'm not going.
That's too much money. Like dude, no it doesn't have to
do with it being too much money because they went ahead and
bought that $15 fucking slice ofpizza that you know damn well

(24:22):
they couldn't even eat the crustbecause it was sitting out too
long. This is more so an issue of
salty ass friends that will never appreciate you.
They're the ones that never better their lives.
Get mad at people that better their lives are just they're
jealous because God fucking knows.
OK Mr. Fisherman, not the asshole, am I the asshole?

(24:46):
Pushy line cutters at the airports.
I saw this title and man that this is what made this theme.
Let's read it. I was waiting to board a flight
back home from Rome and was in boarding group 2, about 5
passengers from the gates. I waited about 10 minutes for
boarding group wand board while my group line grew to about 50

(25:08):
to 60 guests. We were boarding a Boeing 777
when a large man and his wife tried to cut in front of me as
our group was allowed to board the plane.
As the man and his wife tried toget in front of me I said hey
what are you doing? The back of the line is behind
all these people. Why don't you wait your turn and
go to the back of the line. Good for you Opie, the wife

(25:29):
replied. Oh boy the wife.
The wife replied, let's see how this goes.
Well what is the difference? We are all going to board the
plane, why does it matter if I get in line?
I replied. Well if that is how you feel,
you should have gotten in line to board when everyone else did.

(25:50):
The large man then said something under his breath and
still tried to get in front of me.
I said. Excuse me, what did you say?
He tried to intimidate me by glaring down at me without
saying a word. I said it seems you have used
your large stature to scare other people but I am not scared
of you. Now please get out of line and

(26:11):
wait your turn. Did I overreact or should I have
just let them cut in front of me?
Hold on, let's see what Reddit has to say on this one because I
feel like Opie does know that he's there.
He or she is not the asshole, I just think they wanted to share
their story. I just think they wanted to
vent. I think they know the answer.

(26:32):
Top comment being let's see, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.
Not the asshole. I'm British and queuing is our
national sport. I'll raise my cup of tea to you
and thank you for standing up tothis horrendous offense against
the most glorious arts of queuing and not the asshole.
Love your response to the large gentleman and envy your
confidence in being able to stick up for yourself in this

(26:54):
situation. Everyone is getting on the same
plane at the end of it, but lines are made for a reason.
Yes Sir, yes Sir, that is a goodway.
Very short, simple, fun little story.
I love the person who wrote this, their username is Wine
lovers Unite. Beautiful.

(27:16):
Love it. I wish they would share more of
their stories. Let's go to their profile and
see if they even have any other ones.
Nope, that's it. It was a throwaway account I
guess. Let's move on to this next one
titled Am I the asshole for not giving up my seat to a little
boy at the airport? I already know the answer.
You're not their parents. No, let's read it.

(27:39):
So I was sitting with my friendsat the airport in front of our
gates waiting for a flight. I had admittedly had a bad day
so it was already not in a greatmood at the time.
My friend and I were sitting next to each other, had our bags
on the seats on the other side. After we've been sitting there
for around 30 minutes, a family of three, mother around 35

(27:59):
female, father 45 male and son 7male, sat down in the seat
across from us. There were only two open seats
there so we moved our bags from the seat next to us to make some
room. OK, perfect.
Like a normal person would do, the mother and father sat down
in the seats while their son wasrunning around as young kids do.
About 5 minutes later, I don't know where, the mother comes up

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to me, my friend, and starts berating me for not moving seats
or her son could sit closer to her as she was sitting directly
across from me. What the OK?
Mind you the seat we cleared up was literally 2 seats down for
mine and there were three seats next to it.
I was confused and told her we cleared the seats of someone of
the party could sit there as there were open seats on that

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side and the seats on my other side were occupied.
Plus her son was not even sitting down.
She keeps saying how selfish I am and I argue back at her that
she's helping read that she's being ridiculous until her
husband steps in and pulls her away.
You need to post this into entitled people.
That's an amazing community subreddit.

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After this interaction I was very annoyed and kept making eye
contact with her and rolling my eyes scoffing.
I thought she was completely unjustified to ask us to move
when there were plenty of other free seats in this area, but my
friend told me that we were two stressed out women and both of
us were in the wrong. Am I the asshole?
No way her friend just said it was just because y'all are

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women. What What what, what, what?
OK, OK, come on, come on top comment, top comment.
You have to look at these ads. These are like ridiculous.
Anyways, let's see this like real quick though for my visual
summers. You know, I'm talking about for
my audio summers over on YouTubeit you can come check it out,
but it's just a giant ad like they're just making the ads

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bigger so you can buy like the the ad free version and it says,
hey, redditors, are you tired ofwaiting two weeks to get your
money, get paid today with earning and it's just a mass
like it's ridiculous. It's like like a fraction of the
size of a post. Anyways, top comments.
Let's see, let's see, let's see.Not the asshole giving up your
seat is optional. And frankly, those parents were

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pretty shitty for taking the seats themselves instead of
letting their kid use one of them.
And like OB said, they weren't even sitting.
They weren't even sitting. And not the asshole.
Maybe a old lady or someone obviously struggling to stands.
Not a kid who can sit Indian style on the floor a lot more
comfortable than you or I elsewhere.
Nobody's talking about the womanpart, OK?
Not the asshole. Thought you could have had it.

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Let it go. What's up with your friend
though? And the two stressed out woman
nonsense? Yeah, what the fuck?
That's just so weird. It's as weird to me as people
who make female host tags on looking for group posts.
Like whether if you use Xbox or you know, Steam, PlayStation,

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that shit just so funny to me. Like why bring up gender when it
doesn't matter? Like we're talking about a chair
in an airport, not fucking gender.
And also if I want to join a game, I don't care if you got a
Dick or not. The fuck?
I'm just joining your group postbecause I'm trying to get out of
bronze. Here's the next one.

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Am I the asshole for not lettingsomeone cut in front of me at
the airport? This is another line cutting
story. Wow, what a shocker.
Have you ever like, had somebodyactually cut you in line?
Now that I'm like thinking aboutit, this is the second one.
Let me know. I actually kind of want to know.
I want to know what you did. Anyways, let's read it.

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My 50 female local airport, which also happens to be a major
International Airport, is usually pretty good with the
security line. Even high travel weekends, that
line doesn't take more than 30 or 40 minutes.
Cool. Sounds like sounds probably like
Chicago or New York until today.I ended up being ready 20
minutes early so I decided to goahead and leave so I had extra

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time. It was a fortuous decision
because the security line took 90 minutes.
I don't think it was that long for everyone, but my line kept
getting bounced around with other lines waved in front of us
multiple times. I started getting anxious about
missing my flight. Understandable.
So then this 20F. So like in their 20s F came

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pushing through the line saying I need to get through I'm going
to miss my flights. OK you and everyone else bitch.
Anyways the group of people around me and I all stopped her.
A couple of the others said we are going to miss our flights
and everyone is in the same situation.
Read the fucking room. My comment was we have all been

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waiting over an hour. Not in a mean way, but I was
firm so she stood behind us having already skipped a good 30
to 40 minutes already, and sobbed on the phone to someone
about how mean we were and we were such assholes for not
letting her skip ahead. Put that girl in a COD lobby.
Let's see if she cries anymore. I do feel bad.

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Missing a flight is really stressful and it is frustrating
to be helped held up by things you can't control.
At the same time, I feel like letting one person third would
lead to everyone else thinking they should get to skip too.
Plus, I do feel like a part of airport travel is making sure
you get there in time for contingencies.
So am I the asshole for not allowing a person to cut in

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front of us in the airport security line when we were all
in danger of missing our flights?
And yes, I know I am the assholefor not getting my TSA clear
check. I've been meaning to do this and
definitely will before I travel again.
As I Scroll down to the commentsof my take, fuck no you're not
the asshole. If anything, you're the asshole
to yourself for letting this bother you like you like you're

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wasting energy in your brain space to complain to.
Like complain about the fact that somebody couldn't be
emotionally regulated. Hello, tough comment.
Not the asshole whatsoever. She came barging through having
a hissy. Is she been nice and explain why
making your flight was importantor something.
Then you can feel bad for sayingno.

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This ma'am was just being brattyand entitled.
Don't give her any Morehead space.
Sounds like she needs a few boundaries in her life and to be
told no. Wow, this Reddit user couldn't
have said it any better. All righty.
Am I the asshole for not pickingup my dad from the airport at
1:00 AM on a Monday? Really specific details and a

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title. Let's figure out why My dad is
the type of person to schedule travel at the most inconvenient
times to save the couple extra bucks you get from flying early
or ungodly late. I appreciate his thriftiness and
apply some of it myself, but often he asked favors of others
to support him in meeting these crazy times.
That's why we have Uber. Last week, he asked his

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partner's father to bring him tothe airport for a 6:00 AM
flight. He knew he'd be back at 1:00 AM
the following week and asked if I'd pick him up.
He lives an hour away from the airport and his house is an hour
from mine so I'd be home around 3:00 AM if I obliged.
I told him on my work at 8:00 AMso to schedule himself an Uber
and just wait and you'd pay it back as a gift.

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There you go, that's it. This is where the story should
have ended. Why do we have more paragraphs?
Let's see. Well, he landed.
He had trouble with the Uber appand ended up having to book
himself a more expensive last minute ride.
Today he told me it was a nightmare when he landed and he
would have just asked a friend to pick him up and that he was
frustrated with me for not beingconventional by picking him up.

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Am I the asshole here brother? I have a feeling that the app
didn't work for him more so that's just what he told you.
For you to feel guilty. Isn't that crazy?
Isn't that crazy that people cando that?
People can manipulate things, especially with somebody that's
that like much of A cheapskate. Like damn, is Mr. Krabs your
father? Top comment.

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Actually. The conventional thing to do is
to plan your trips at times whenthe other person is available if
you're hoping for a favor. Part of the reason for cheap
flights at odd hours is that most people don't have
convenient transportation options at those times, and they
know their friends and family members aren't available.
So let me be clear, I am unavailable for middle of the
night trips and you should take your plans accordingly.

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Not the asshole. Your father is a grown man.
It was extremely kind of you to offer to give him a ride, but
you are obligated to make up fora favor you weren't obligated to
do for him in the 1st place. Frankly, given how far your
father lives from you, I would be disinclined to give him rides
even at more convenient times. If there is a convenient place

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for him to park his car near your place, I might be willing
to drive him there and leave it to him to get the rest of the
way home. Man these comments are so
beautifully written. Are we getting tricked?
Is this AI? Is this the AI bots?
They were warning about us. But you know everybody in the
comments is like not the assholebro.

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Maybe we can, like, move forward, Opie, and set clear
boundaries. Because it sounds like your
father is used to having you as a pushover.
Because it sounds like you will do anything you can to help him,
even when you're uncomfortable for it.
Yeah, don't do that. Am I the asshole for being mad

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at my husband for stranding me at the airport for an hour so he
can finish his baseball game? Interesting.
OK, let's see what they mean by that.
So my sister has a newborn and was really struggling with
sleeplessness and postpartum. We live in the next state but I
didn't hesitate to cancel all myweek's plans and appointments

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and books tickets to go help forthree nights.
Oh boy, I feel like this context.
I know I'm already freaking yapping before I can even get
more than a sentence in. I feel like this context is look
the I can drop everything for tohelp others.
You should do that for me. News flash, people don't all

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work the same. Your expectations are only for
you. You can't put those on other
people. I mean, you can, and look where
it gets you. You're writing to Reddit because
you're in a fight. Bold, bold assumption.
I know, I know, I haven't even read this, but it just reeks of

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I did it so you have to too. Let's continue.
While there I cooked and cleanedby day and fed the baby at night
and overnight. After three days I was pretty
spent and sleep deprived myself.I came home on an evening flight
that arrived at 8:00 PM. The flight was super bumpy and I

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am anxious so that added to my nerves being fried.
Well, my husband was supposed topick me up, but he had a
baseball game, casual beer league 2 miles from the airport
that evening. When I landed, there was 1
inning left in the game. I figured he'd duck out early to
come grab me, but no, he insisted on finishing the game

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and told me to sit tight. I looked into an Uber home but
it would cost $200. Yeah, reasonable, don't take
that. So I sat at the airport in tears
because I was so exhausted and hurt.
He showed up an hour later. Edited to add we booked these
tickets together, both not realizing he had his game when
he did. Once we realized we pre arranged

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for him to leave early and pick me home pick me up, he changed
his mind sometime between when Iwas away and when I landed.
He also told me not to spend themoney when I texted him about
Uber cost to home and to the game both were exorbitant
because of the late hour. When I laid into him he got
super defensive and told me thisgame was close and important to

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him and it should be no big dealfor me to sit and wait a while.
I told him I felt like I'd just been super supportive of someone
for three days and was tired andneeded some support myself and
was hurt that he'd choose one inning of baseball over my
comfort and needs. His response?
I wouldn't have cared if it wereme.
What? I wouldn't have cared if it were

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me. Wait, what does that even mean?
I told him I'd just been super supportive someone for three
days and was tired of needing some support myself and was hurt
that he'd choose one inning of baseball over my comfort and
needs. His response?
I wouldn't have cared if it wereme.
Oh like OK gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha.

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So basically if you're also confused like me, which you
probably aren't because I'm I'm a little special in the head
sometimes, he was saying if I was basically in your situation
I it wouldn't have bothered me right?
So who's the asshole here? Am I totally overreacting or am
I being gaslit? Oh my God I'm like fighting back
my yap. Like I have so much to say.
I just need to read this edit though because so many people

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are asking. The airport I was in is a tiny
airport with no services outsidethe gates.
It pretty much shuts down after 8:00 PM and it's the middle of
nowhere with town being 2 miles away.
Walking was not an option. Fair enough.
I don't think anyone told you towalk, and if they did they
probably don't even have a license themself.

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Not that that's bad, it's just that's normal for people that
don't drive and you're used to being in a car so that's not
normal for you. Update.
Not sure this is a thing here but I thought I'd update.
Husband came to me and said he realized he made a huge mistake
and put himself first. His apology was super sincere.
We also discussed how we could have planned better so that
nobody has to lose. In fact, the next game
interferes with dropping a childat sleep away camp, so we might

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have made a solid plan for that.In hindsight, I could have just
driven myself up there and left the car or arranged for a friend
to grab me. He acknowledges that he left me
in a bad spot by telling me not to Uber home or to the game, but
to just wait. Thanks for all the feedback,
even the ones that called me theasshole.
It gave me lots to consider hearing the other sides of it.
My husband and I have been happily married for 21 years.

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High school sweethearts. We have two kids, 19 and 12.
Being together this long means some bad habits set to end.
It's not bad habits, you're justhuman, girl.
We work hard at our marriage butsometimes things blow up.
This was my very first time using Reddit and attempting to
get a totally anonymous and neutral perspective.
Not sure if I'll do it again, but it's been entertaining.
Oh man, let me say what I want to say real quick.

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Let me say, Oh, my gosh, please let me say this.
OK. The husband said that it
wouldn't matter to him if he wasin your position because he
didn't know that you were exhausted or that it was that
hard because, like, you have twokids, so he knows how you
handled those two kids, and he'sseen you do that.

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So you probably just thought it was another day in the ballpark
for you. Ha, ha, ha.
But yeah, back to a simple. I am at my limits.
My body is at its limits. Let me not tell the one person
that's not understanding me about it.

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You. You can't expect people to be
mind readers. You can't expect people to
assume. Because if you put people in
that position to where they haveto assume that the trip was
really rough or assume that yourwork day was really rough
because, well, you know what I do for work or you know what I
went there for? No, because if you're going to
assume the worst, you can also assume the best.

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Assumptions are so open. Like there's so many different
ways things can go and it's not fair to somebody to have to
assume the worst, you know what I mean?
That's not fair to them. Just tell, tell your husband how
you feel, not wait until the endpart, like right up here where

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they were like, uh, where was it?
I was it, I was it, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, I'm
scrolling. I told him I feel like I've just
been super supportive of someonefor three days.
Like say that from the beginning.
Say that from the beginning. Because then it just puts
somebody in a mental mindset of not at all ever being able to

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understand you, right, because they already think of the
situation in a different light to him.
He's probably just like, dude, Idon't get it.
Like, I'll be there. What's it to you?
Like I, I absolutely understand like taking care of somebody and
it being actually exhausting. But that's your responsibility

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to take take care of yourself before you take care of others.
Because you see how it just burned her like you, you got to
set your own boundaries for yourself so you don't burnouts.
Because she she obviously couldn't think clearly because
of the exhaustion. I don't blame her for that
honestly. Like at all, not at all.

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I don't think she's the asshole.I think there was no assholes in
this. I I just think we have a tired,
burned out person trying to ask,trying to get help without
asking for help because they're not saying exactly the full
picture. She just asked for a ride.
Husband said hold on, I'll be there because he communicated to

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her how important this baseball game is to where they changed
the flights for him because why?He let her know how much it
meant to him. He communicated her.
The only thing that she communicated is pick me up at
this time, no context. Come on, man.

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If he just randomly went, oh, I had to change my flight and then
went to go change the flight, you see how there's an issue
there? Because there was no there,
there would have been no context.
So important, so important to state what you're feeling.
I promise you, man. And if you feel like, but if I

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do that, then I might get somebody mad at me or might be
backlash or whatever. Would you take somebody's word
that you wouldn't even take a vice from?
Come on, look in the mirror. We're going to take, we're going
to take a pause real quick. I got a little something.
We're going to do a. We're going to do a little Paddy

(46:39):
dance. Where to for my audio stummers,
We got Paddy right here. It's a little Paddy pause.
Anybody that know? If not Google, Paddy the
platypus, Beanie Baby, get with it.
And we're going to have a littlebreak because.
Yeah, reflect. Reflect on a time that you

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noticed, even if it's just rightnow you just noticed.
Or think about your last fight. Did you immediately, like, start
out the conversation by not justonly saying what you want, but
why you want it? Because your emotions matter and
you deserve to be hurt. Now.
Enjoy this Patty. Oh, sorry, sorry.

(47:31):
That was for my visual visual listeners.
If you didn't hear that, uh, Patty was shaking that ass like
the cool kids say at the bar. Here's some ASMR ass shaking
telling you, man, telling you man, you're missing out over
here on the visual side. Let's leave her right here.

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Let's leave her right here. Hopefully that gave you enough
time to think, bestie, because holy crap, why are you burning
yourself? Not only can you not talk to
yourself, how do you expect to talk to anyone else?
Come on, get it. Get it together.
Bestie. I believe in you.
I love you, but you worry me sometimes.

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But that's OK, we have a Am I the asshole for walking out of
the airport when I saw my husband's mom standing there
with her luggage? We do have an update on this
one, so get ready, buckle in, and let's blast.
Hello, I don't know where to begin.

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It's been an absolute nightmare recently and I feel like I was
losing my sanity. So for more details about my
situation, I have to admit that my husband's mom favors him over
all of his siblings. Wait, is this the immediate
update? Oh hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let's let's read. Let's read the original 1.
Let's read the original 1. Here we go.

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I, female, 30, don't have the best relationship with my
husband's mom since one day she tried to make remarks and
compare me to her. Question mark.
Question mark. Then she tried to get on my good
side and started overly praisingeverything I do and sometimes
even copying me. Like that one time when she
literally dyed her hair purple just like mine.

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And when everyone pointed out how ridiculous she looked, she
actually blamed me and accused me of trying to make a joke out
of her. I mean, flattery is the best
compliment right? But I get you.
So anyways, my husband and I took two weeks off work to go
visit some places out of the country.

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Tourism, in other words. Thing is, I was the one who
saved up for and arranged for the trip.
My husband was responsible for booking the tickets.
My husband's mom wanted to come along and threw temper tantrums
when I said no. She called, texted, sent people
to talk to me into letting her come, even threatened to call
the police and make some complaint up to get us to stay

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if she can't come. OK so already already I was
trying to hold this in too. OK already.
I had a red flag with the husband only being responsible
for paying for the for booking the tickets right?
I don't know if that means pay for whatever, but he was
responsible for booking the tickets if she was the one that

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arranged the entire trip. I had a feeling that he wasn't
he. He never puts his mom in his
place or anyone in his life in his place.
But makes sense. Imagine growing up with that.
That's normal to him. OK let's read it more.
My husband said we should just take her like I said but I told

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him he was wrong to tell her about the trip in the 1st place.
Holy shit bro, you are married to a mama's boy?
Literally. He gave me an ultimatum, said he
wouldn't go, she can't come, andI told him gladly call his
bluff, which made him take his words back and say fine, we'll
tell her to stop it because we won't take her.

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What? Ah, throw it all away.
Throw it all away. Things got quieter, suspiciously
quieter. The day of the trip came and we
got to the airport at 2:00 PM. My husband was walking ahead of
me and was looking left and right like he was looking for
someone. I have some but he didn't
respond. He led me to the waiting area
and first thing I saw was his mom standing there with her
luggage. Oh my gosh, are you married to

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him or is he married to his mom?I froze in my spot.
I felt a cold wave washing over me and I was fuming inside.
She and my husband were hugging.That's when I quietly turned
around and started walking towards the exit.
My husband followed me while shouting to me to stop.
He tried to stop me but I told him off the harshest way
possible. As you should.
He tried to say it was overreacting and that his mom

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was there anyway and it should let it go and not mess the trip
up for us. Wow, that's crazy gaslighting.
OK, I told him he and his mom could still go and that I was
going home. OK, I hope you stuck to it.
Good, I went home and stopped into my dog's fur for several
minutes. Good, get that emotion out.
Turned out he booked her a ticket without me knowing.

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An hour later he came home yelling and raging about how
pathetic and spiteful I was to walk out and go home and ruin
the trip last minute. Brother, you did this to
yourself. You ruined it.
You literally broke her trust. Again 'cause I know for a fact
this is not the first time. Come on.
I told him he caused this to happen.
He said that I was being so hardon his mom it's ridiculous.

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She doesn't need to go to your fucking vacation, dog.
Lord, I refuse to fight anymore.But he kept on berating me then
called my family to tell them that the trip was canceled and
that it was because of me. EW dude.
My family said that I shouldn't have ruined it for myself and
should have just sucked it up and done my best to enjoy.

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Did I really overreact? No you under reacted queen.
Come on come on come on stop being blind by dumb fuck.
Your your family like obviously only knows his side of the story
so of course they're going to think you ruined it.
Come on, get it together girl. The Dick ain't that good.

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He's probably he's probably fucking his mom at this point.
See what Reddit has to say on this one.
Let's see, let's see. Scrolling down.
I don't want to call the divorcecard, but divorce.
You told your boundaries, you said no, she crossed it.
Your husband told you he would tell her no.
He lied. He tried to pin you in 1/4 by
not saying anything and bringingher anyways and got upset and

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you refused to be part of his little trap and then to berate
you. He's not a good man, he needs to
go. Not the asshole.
Exactly. He gave you an ultimatum.
No loving partner whatever put you in that position and if they
do, if you if bestie. If you are in a situation where
your partner puts you in a ultimatum is it?
Think about it though, make sureit's not for your health.

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That's the only time I can say that that's not accurate.
OK, OK, got it pronto. Good, cool.
All right, he's a mommy's boy and she's manipulative and toxic
and obviously the apple does notfall far from the fucking tree,
so let's go ahead and see. Now the update to this one.

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OK, I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't pay him or is like a
massive financial support in hislife.
Come on. All right now, here's that
update. Hello.
I don't know where to begin. It's been an absolute nightmare
recently and I feel like I was losing my sanity.
I don't blame you though. So for more details about my
situation, I have to admit that my husband's mom favors him over

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all of his siblings. This affected his relationship
with them and me as well. OK.
He's never seen an issue with how differently his mom treats
him. It bothered me and made me feel
uncomfortable. The where are we going with
this? The whole dynamic made me feel
uncomfortable. Going load contact has never
been an option. I'm getting nervous.

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Are you getting nervous busty? Like he has to see her or call
her every day? Most of his siblings don't talk
to him and I 100% believe it's because of his mom's favoritism.
Like I said. Well we know he's not the middle
child. How about that He does bear some
blame for not saying how wrong this is till this day.
In many instances I found myselfmaking excuses for his behavior.

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Even in my post. I did it spontaneously and I
don't know why, but I guess it'sbecause of how much I love him
and because I really really wanted to be able to work things
out without letting them affect our marriage.
You don't have to overanalyze why you did it.
You did it out of normal human reaction of trying to understand
a unhealthy family dynamic. You're good OP, you're good.

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Regarding what happened with thetrip, he tried to have a talk
with me and most of what he saidcame from place of blame, blame
towards me. I just couldn't continue with
his argument. I told him I needed space and
that it would be going to stay with my sister for a while.
He didn't take it well. He literally got up from the
couch and opened the door telling me to go right then.
In that moment and seeing how hewas still not even anywhere near

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understanding what he has done to me just made things perfectly
clear to me. I had just pictured years and
years of my life being loved like that and I was like no, I
can't do it. Can't take this anymore of it.
Especially when he keeps focusing on being right every
time. His mom can do no wrong.
I'm always the aggressive, crazy, jealous, pathetic and

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overreactor. OK real quick I'm going to say
something else. He so you already have like a
massive trigger. You're upset about him and his
mom's relationship, which he hassaid in the past that his
family, his other siblings like don't talk to him or like do not

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like him because of this. So you have that factor.
So he's just used to having to immediately be in fight mode
when the word mother comes up ina negative connotation, right?
So we have that context, correct?
Very important foundation, right.
OK and so he knows literally hismom can do no wrong like quoted

(57:28):
from the post his mom can do no wrong and how Opie is always the
aggressive, crazy, jealous, pathetic or overreactor right?
This mom has never parented their their son which is Opie's
like husband never. So you were put in a position

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where you're going to be talkingto somebody that has never been
told no. And that's not just like saying
like, Oh, you've never been toldno.
And like I see on like X and allthat and like Instagram like oh,
entitled blah, blah, blah. No, think of it in an actual
literal way. Any of his holidays, school

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clothes shopping, grocery shopping, anything that a
parents and son or whatever parents and a child do, he's
always been able to do it. That's his mindset.

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So no wonder he's completely manipulating and doing all this
stuff, trying to turn it on OP because nobody's ever told him
that. It's not right in the ones, but
but the ones that have aren't his mom.
So of course a normal human brain is going to only want to
trust and believe somebody that always gives you what you want.

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Yeah, it's safe. He's trapped in a little safe
little cycle. That's what's going on.
Let's finish this. Let's finish reading it.
All these people's opinions, advice and concerns were like a
spark. Like the wake up call I really
needed. Though I wish that it didn't get
this far. But what's done is done.
Right now I'm staying with my sister.
I brought my dog with me as well.

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He sent me his last message telling I'm the one choosing to
end what we had together. But I believe it's the other way
around. Especially with how he keeps
making his mom the victim in thesituation.
Exactly. Cuz that's his safe space.
That's. Yeah, like, come on, it's become
clear now that we keep going in circles with no end and reach
and I'm just so exhausted and overwhelmed.

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I'm not mad at him and don't expect him to change, but at
least I've given him options to decide what's best for me in my
future, even if it's separation and divorce.
Yeah, back to People won't change unless they want to.
Homie can't even do that. Homie can't change.
Bro can't change because bro doesn't think there's anything
to be changed. He thinks it's everyone else.

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But you know. Common denominator here, a big
thank you for those who reached out and you know, blah blah
blah, blah, big old thank you. Let's go ahead and read top
common. I'm sorry you're going through
this, but it's also very, very, very, very proud of you.
You're standing up for yourself,putting yourself first, looking
at the future and making sure itwill be what you want it to be.

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I wish you the best of luck Givethe doggo the biggest of hugs
and lots of pets fantastic good.I always love a story where it's
a post from somebody that already did the action to make
sure that they're safe and they're protecting themselves.
Then checking in to see like, hey, I'm kind of like reflecting

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on my actions. Is this OK?
Rather than they're like locked away in a room and they're like,
oh, he's going to come home in like 2 hours.
What should I do? Those stressed me out, my Lord,
those stressed me out. So that's good.
That's really, really good. Let's check O PS account to see
if we have any updates. Any comments?

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Umm, let's see, let's see. Scrolling, Scrolling.
Nope, that's the only update. OK, so let's go ahead and make
everyone here comfortable in Reddit and you bestie, let's
just imagine, because we have the power of will to do such.
She got separated, everything's fine, and the mom now has to

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help him pay child support and that has him to where he
actually might have to be told no because of the financial
limitations. All the inner dreams, right?
Am I the asshole for abandoning my family at the airport?

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The hell? Let's read it bestie.
My college starts classes tomorrow.
I'm an incoming freshman and my parents and brother decided to
come to the campus with me to see me off.
I felt it was unnecessary since I've been on planes alone
before, already, have visited and know the campus, etcetera,
but I knew they were going to miss me and just wanted to see

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me a bit longer. Anyhow, I had two flights, 1 to
a city in between me and where the college is, and the second
one to the city where my colleges.
My second flight was for this morning, which would give me
some time to get to campus, set up my dorm, and get a good
night's sleep before classes starts.
For whatever reason, my mom and brother had issues with their

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boarding pass and couldn't boardthe plane, whereas my dad and I
could. OK, I can kind of see where the
drama is. My dad started getting off the
plane and clearly expected me toto, to.
I'm not even kidding. It says my dad started getting
off the plane and clearly expected me to, TO, to TOO comma

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to, to wait. Like what the hell?
That messed my brain up. So obviously let me read it with
common sense because everybody messes up.
Everybody has typos. My dad started getting off the
plane and clearly expected me towait as well for the next flight
with the two of them. I don't think that was a good

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idea. The people with the airline said
they had no idea where the next available flight was, so there
there's no assurance I'd make itthere in time for 9:00 AM class
tomorrow, so it's better to justtake the flight available.
My parents can go back home. My dad looked angry and walked
out of the flight. When I got off of it after it
reached the destination, I noticed I had lots of angry

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texts from my family saying I abandoned them in the airport.
I think they're being dramatic. I wanted to make it in time to
get some breathing room before class instead of waiting for
some unspecified flight. Is that so bad?
Am I the asshole? Did we both?
Did we, Did we read what OP wrote?

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Like did OP not like just go ahead and reread this and
realize, wow, how, how silly of me.
Of course I'm not the asshole, brother.
How are you going to have peoplein your life?
I don't care if they're family, OK?
I don't give a rat's ass people that are saying, oh, I want to
go there. I want to, you know, oh, your
college. Oh, we, we want to support you

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through this. And then be like, how dare you
not want to miss your first day of classes?
How dare you? You abandoned me, brother.
They weren't there to support you.
They were there probably to makethemselves look like the really

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supportive family. You know, like where it looks
all good on the outside, but under closed doors it's not.
Or they just wanted to like an excuse for a vacation because
they were not there for you dog and let this be an amazing
amazing served to you on a platter situation.

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They showed their true colors. They won't they they don't care
about you. They literally don't.
I'm so mind blown right now. How are you holding up 'cause
Holy crap. Top comment on this one because
I'm a bit speechless. Like I already said, not the

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asshole. You're being responsible,
ensuring that you can make it toclass on time.
It isn't your fault that they had issues with their boarding
pass. They should be able to get home
or out their destination on their own.
Sounds if you're going to schoolaway from your parents is a good
idea. They sound a bit like helicopter
parents. Yeah, that's another good take.
I didn't even consider that theyprobably are just extremely
nosy. Very common though when it comes

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to the empty nest feeling that parents go through when a child
moves out of the house. Another comment, Not the
asshole, that sucks for everyoneinvolved, but it's not your
fault. You didn't control the plane
schedule, you didn't set the class schedule, and you didn't
make your family come with you. You did the right thing and
taking care of yourself. Or as they say on a plane, put
on your air mask before assisting others as you needed

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to be there on time whereas theyonly wanted to.
Am I the asshole for refusing towatch someone's luggage in an
airport? No no, that that's it.
Like at this point I don't even think I want to read this one.
Like it's people put the weirdest expectations on
themselves dude. And it's always the people that

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like over do it for the public or for friends or for a family
member and wonder why they're not happy.
Like, bro, because you help so many people, but then they
usually like there's a trend where these people expect
somebody to understand them or they think that if they just
keep spilling who they are and just help so much because some

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people naturally like to help. I'm not talking about them,
about the ones that like help. And it kind of seems like they
just do it because they're so insecure with their inability to
help themselves and they think that someone will have to catch
on. Someone's going to save me.
Nah, bitch, save yourself. God damn let's read it.
This happened a few days ago in a large EU airport.

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I was sitting at the gate beforeboarding and the person sitting
next to me who I had never met before turned to me and asked
could you watch my suitcase while I go to the bathroom and
only take a few seconds. I told him I don't think we are
allowed to do that here, I'm sorry.
Usually I would have said yes and I felt a bit bad because he
was very polite. But it's an airport and I had
heard about 20 announcements during my layover saying not to
leave baggage unattended and to notify police of unattended

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baggage. There you go OP, you could have
just. Yeah, OK, anyways, to give me a
very dirty look. And some other passengers seated
nearby said of course we can watch it for you and also gave
me a dirty look. Am I the asshole?
No, because you would have been the asshole if that was a
terrorist thing. Come on bro.
Come on you little people pleasers.

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Come on, get it together. I get being nice, but God damn,
don't be a people pleaser. Let's see what Reddit has to say
about this one. This is this has to be Yeah,
this has to be rage bait, man, because I'm raging top comment,
not the asshole. Airport security is no joke and
you're just following the rules you've been explicitly told.
Yeah, he was polite, but that doesn't mean you should be roped
into potential sketchy situations.

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Be like, but mom, I had to buy the weed or I had to sneak out.
They asked so nicely. They told me they gave me a
discount. Oh, man.
This is why St. smarts need to be taught with book smarts.
Am I the asshole for telling my parents to get divorced in the

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middle of an airport? Shit off man we I gotta know
what happened OK? The past 48 hours were death by
1000 cuts in. Jesus Christ.
My family and I23 female went toItaly this past week for a
vacation. It was my parents, my 17 year
old sister, my aunt and 27 year old cousin.

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It was mostly a good time, pretty hot out, but the art was
cool and I was excited about that.
Have you ever been like real quick, I know we're reading
this, but have you ever been like to Italy?
Like I heard that there's like no public water and it's like
you don't really get served water and like nothing comes
with ice and they're like reallyweird when it comes to like free
water. I I don't know if if you've had

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that happen. I've seen it on TikTok.
I've heard it from other people,but I guess it depends on your
location. So, all right, our flight home
was three connecting flights, Venice to Montreal, Montreal to
Toronto and Toronto to my home city.
That's a lot. It was a 30 hour day.
My aunt and cousin got on a different flight out of Venice
since they both live further away.

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My parents have hated each othersince I was 11.
OK, that's a really strong sense.
They almost got divorced when I was 13, but changed their minds.
Yeah. Nobody wanted to pay child
support, OK? And will never let me forget
that quote. Staying together for the kids
meant that I'm the reason they're so miserable now.

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They sure do love to tell me that.
Like I said OP, it's not becauseof you, it's because of the
legal repercussions. Sorry, I might have, but I
should have probably like held your hand when I said that.
OK. Anyways, on our flight delays we
had to Sprint through Montreal. Custom takes forever.
My parents suck at technology. My dad snapped at my mom.

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My mom snapped back. My dad started flirting with the
flight attendant and some other lady in the airport.
My mom shut down and almost didn't get on the flight home
and they had been screaming loudly at each other for anyone
in the Toronto airport to hear. It was embarrassing not only
shaming your dad, shame on the other women for not like being
like I'll to him. Anyways, I've been in and out of

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therapy for over a decade now dealing with their bullshit
because they won't go and I end up being the collateral every
time they would fight in front of me so every day my entire
childhood. But while we were waiting to
board, my dad starts chatting upsome lady in front of my mom who
texts me this quote. If your boyfriend treats you
badly, you can break up. I have no option like that.

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Dad is now enjoying his second conversation with a second
single woman since we left Italyand hasn't had one polite
conversation with me, just demanding ones.
I have no options like you did. So I snapped and yelled at them
both. Stop acting like children.
This is not appropriate to do infront of me and my sister.
Either go to therapy or get fucking divorced.

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I'm tired of being your collateral every time you are at
each other's throats. Good.
There's more really shitty things that they said to each
other but I can detail my comments if y'all want.
But they both laid into me for embarrassing them as if they
weren't fully doing it to themselves.
I was on hour 30 of no sleep, I was hungry and I was about to

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get on my third fucking flight for the night.
I don't live with them, I have my own place, but for the past
year anytime they do this shit Ijust up and leave.
Unfortunately not possible in anairplane.
They've both been laying into mefor embarrassment disrespecting
them since the incident and I don't know, maybe they need to
get embarrassed in an airport. This shit can't be normal.

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But maybe I'm playing victim like my mom says.
I don't know. OP, you're not playing victim.
She's only saying that because Idon't know, she knows she has
power over you. I mean if this has been going on
since you were 11, I know it's going on even since you were
born. And I just think it escalated to
a different aspect when you turned 11.
Like the divorce part, that divorce aspect.
No, you just are being raised byreally shitty people that

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probably just had their birth control fail on them and they
had no other option. Or they're probably some like
religious aspects to them where you can't get divorced.
It's like sinning. I wouldn't be surprised if it's
that. We have an update.
Mom called. She very much expected me to
apologize for airing out her dirty laundry.
I told her I was just calling them out for embarrassing me and

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told her a lot of the things youguys said.
This isn't the 1950s and seeing them hurt each other hurts me.
It went nowhere, unfortunately. She went on and on about how I'm
a child and I should never speakto my parents in this way.
I reminded her I'm 2324 in a month and not a child.
I fully support myself. She doesn't care.
It's like in her mind, I'm fullysubject to all of her wants and
needs just because she gave birth to me.

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Yeah, you're dealing with the. These are the, these are the
families. You just adios.
Goodbye. No more, absolutely no more.
See what the the comments are saying about this?
Tell them in Oh yeah tell them it's not 1950s anymore.
So this is what they already referenced in that update.
But here's another comment. Not the asshole.

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You embarrassed them. That's rich.
You're correct that they should not be acting like this in front
of their children. Aren't public and generally it
is so inconsiderate. Also would feel so uncomfy.
And an obviously married man whowas in a flight with his wife
was trying to flirt with me at the airport with kids right
there too. But did Dick move?
Honestly, I feel bad for the woman your dad tried to drag
into that mess. Yeah, literally.

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Like, don't go on any trips withthem anymore.
Cut them off. They're not going to change.
If they would, they would changeany aspect of their life.
Like the definition of insanity,Like insanity, like craziness is
doing the same thing over and over again but expecting

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something to change, expecting adifferent outcome.
Like I'll no OP, sorry. I know you want your parents,
but I don't think you've ever had parents.
I only say that because you needto come to terms with the

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situation because that is denial.
If you don't get away from them,I feel like you are very scared
to not have them in your life atall.
Completely reasonable, completely valid, but it's one
of the situations of when you doit about a month later, you'll
start like realizing just the improvement in that short amount

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of time. It's like best you ever had a
piece of relationship or just a relationship in general that
just didn't serve you. Like it just wasn't aligning
with your goals and you just found a lot of problems and
trouble through it. And then you're like, I can
never see a life without them orthis is my normal.

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I'm just going to have to deal with it.
And then you, you, you go away from it and you're like, what?
This is great. Like it blows your mind with the
improvement that happens. It's like everything starts
falling into place. This is what Opie needs to do.
And unfortunately, I'm worried they're not going to go away

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because they're around somebody like their parents that just do
the the blame game and they yellat each other like how she just
did, which I'm not mad at her for doing it.
She it needed to happen. Any normal person would have
done that. But she could be easily sucked
into the same way that those parents communicate where you
call it out, you make a scene, and it just doesn't stop the

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insanity cycle. Let's see if Opie has any
comments. Username is please Let me nap.
And their name is your mom. Got him.
Let's see. Let's see.
Let's see if there's any comments.
They just. They quit their Starbucks job 21

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days ago. Let's see.
Let's see. Let's see.
Yeah, I don't blame you, Queen. It doesn't seem.
It doesn't seem we have any updates.
There's no, like, comments. There's no anything.
Just comments in other communities.
She posts in the Crohn's disease, cheating, exposed house

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plants, vintage. Yeah, we're good, We're good.
That's it. Hopefully she stays true to
herself because that sounds likea generational curse that needs
to be stopped. All righty, let's just land this
plane before we miss another connection.
We've had missed flights, luggage that clearly hates us,

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and food that looks like it's trying to kill us.
But hey, that's what travel's all about, right?
Those unforgettable moments of chaos that will probably be
blocked out by your therapist later.
What is up with airport bathrooms?
I they make so much money you would think it wouldn't be
single ply anyways. So next time your vacation turns

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into a horror movie, just remember you're collecting the
best material for stories that'll have your friends
laughing with you or at you. Either way, you win man.
You'll probably get quite a bit of karma on Reddit.
That's kind of a plus, right? Those are social points in these

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days. Yeah, I think they're social
points. Now it's your turn.
Got those? Drop your own travel disaster
stories in the comments, and let's see if you can top these.
I dare you. And if you need more laughs,
check out one of my other videosfor more chaotic adventures.
Trust me, I think it's worth it.Hit that button and let's make

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your travel nightmares feel likea vacation.
Thanks for spending time with metoday.
And you're not weird. You're just human.
OK, I'll be here next time. Same place.