Karen Won't Let Me See My Favorite Band Because She's Pregnant!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of our slash entitled People's Stories. Our first story we'll
be reading today. My Karen wife won't let me attend
my favorite band's concert. After that, free pumpkin pies for everyone?
And after that, am I the jerk for leaving my
date at a bar? Now for every thumbs up, this
video gits one. Karen does not get to stop anyone

(00:21):
from going to a concert. You're not going to see
slipknot Reddit boy, and that's final. So please smash that
like button and subscribe and turn on notifications for news
stories from Reddit every single day. My wife won't let
me attend my favorite band's concert. Context. My favorite band
is coming into town this week and we've been planning

(00:42):
on going to this concert for a long time. The
band my wife introduced me to and it's now my
favorite band. She takes pride in that and wants us
to experience the concert together. She also loves them a lot.
Here's the problem. My wife is thirty six weeks pregnant.
She doesn't and probably can't go to the concert because
of the loud music, the crowds, et cetera. When I

(01:03):
say that I still want to go. She's furious and
frequently cries about it. She is pregnant, so I understand
the crying. I can't help but feel as if she's
being selfish and just because she can't enjoy the concert
doesn't mean I can't as well. What do you guys think?
Am I the jerk at it? Okay? This blew up?
I just want to add further information. First of all,

(01:24):
I see everyone getting upset with me. I understand, but
please take into consideration. This is the reason I came
to this subreddit, not because I feel as if I'm
in the ride. I'm asking because I wanted to seek
the opinions of others. I tried to sell the tickets,
but no one has bought them. I put them up
for sale two weeks ago, and the ticket's totaled to
six hundred dollars. I asked all of our friends, and

(01:45):
they're all busy, so I didn't want them to go
to waste. I said, we planned it for a long time.
That is the case, since it's our first pregnancy. She
didn't know how she would feel, and now she isn't
comfortable going. I also want to add we plan this
with a group of friends, not just us. I didn't
feel the need to add this information because personally, I
didn't think it would blow up. For those of you

(02:06):
who are asking, this band is very niche and hasn't
toured in years, especially since Lockdown. She isn't worried about
pre term labor, just upset that I would go without her.
You're the jerk. Your wife is more important than a concert.
Put her first and sell the tickets to someone else
and buy her some flowers as an apology. You're the jerk.

(02:26):
Be serious. How do you think she feels knowing that
you're going to go to a concert that she would
enjoy but can't go to. Besides this laid in the pregnancy,
she definitely needs your support and assistance. What if something
goes wrong while you're at the concert. At this point,
I would be putting all activities that place you out
of reach on hiatus. She's sacrificing her entire body and

(02:48):
mental health to grow your child. She can't drink, eat
certain foods, or even sit comfortably. How have you contributed
to the growth of this baby. You haven't. How about
you make a small sacrifice stay home. You're the jerk.
You're the jerk. You can't be serious. If I were her,
I'd seriously be calling a devoce lawyer asap. What kind

(03:09):
of partner would leave his pregnant wife at home to
go to a concert that you knew she wanted to
go to but can't because she's pregnant. You sound like
a horrible spouse, and I guarantee you'll be an even
worse father than you are a husband if you're selfish
enough to even think about doing something like this. I
hope she sees this as the major red flag that
it is and dumps your sorry bud pronto. Why she

(03:32):
would have a kid with someone like you is beyond me.
Not the jerk. You and your wife both deserve to
do things every now and then that you enjoy, even
if the other one can't come along for whatever reason.
If I were pregnant, which I haven't been in a
long time, and my husband wanted to go to a
concert that I couldn't attend, I'd tell him to have
a good time and bring me back a souvenir. Edit.

(03:54):
You can insult me however you'd like, but why on
earth would you attack my husband over this? He was
the best man I ever knew, and he went home
to be with the Lord twelve years ago, he'd be
rolling over in his grave if he saw how ridiculous
some of you are. Well, who do you think is
the jerk OPI or his wife? Please let us know
If Redded boy tried to go to a concert without me,

(04:16):
I'd celebrate. Very rarely do I get a moment away
from this guy. Free pumpkin pies for everyone. This is
a story from many years ago when grocery stores were
closed on Christmas and Thanksgiving. I worked for a small
chain of grocery stores in the mid Atlantic and the
Delhi Santoni's shout out. A day before Thanksgiving, the bakery
manager asked if anybody from our department would be willing

(04:38):
to stay and work all night just baking pumpkin pies
for orders. We were open the day before Thanksgiving till
four then closed Thanksgiving. I volunteered as I was a
college student on Thanksgiving break. I came to work that
night and was left a note about tempts, timing and packaging,
but no numbers or quantities. This made me nervous, so

(04:58):
I called the manager at home and said, how many
pies do you want me to bake? She told me
to keep baking until she came in, and I questioned that,
asking how many pies exactly do you want me to make?
She obviously was irritated and told me that I didn't
need to worry about how many just keep cooking until
she came in at five. Okay, cute malicious compliance. I

(05:19):
loaded a six wheeler cart with frozen pies, put them
on trays, and started baking. As the pies were baking.
I prepped racks ahead of time and folded boxes while
pies cooled. I was a logistical savant. Everything went perfectly,
and I was a machine operating at optimal efficiency. By
the time she came in at five, I had cooked
every pumpkin pie in her freezer. She lost it. What

(05:42):
the heck is going on? What am I supposed to
do with all these pies? You cooked over four hundred
pies and I only have orders for one hundred. The
store manager, hearing the commotion, came over and asked what
was going on. She said, she cooked every pie we
have in the store, even the Christmas one. What am
I supposed to do with all these pies? He asked?

(06:04):
Why did you cook all the pies, and I told
him she told me to. He asked her if that
was true, and she said no. Well I told her
keep cooking until I got here. But nobody's ever cooked
that many before. I didn't even think it would be close.
Then this is on you, he replied, and walked away.
The best part was that since we were closed the

(06:25):
next day, the employees were allowed to take all the
leftover bakery items home with them. I took home ten
pumpkin pies and multiple bags of bread and rolls. Every
other employee in the store was very, very grateful. Am
I the jerk for leaving my date at a bar?
I went on a date with a girl Sunday. Let's
say her name is Mandy. I've met Mandy several times

(06:47):
through my friend's girlfriend, Sarah. Mandy always seemed nice and
fun to talk to, so I asked her to hang
out Sunday. I knew she liked football because she's been
by my friend's house for games several times, so I
asked her to to watch the game. We went to
a sports bar for dinner. The plan was to watch
the game, have some drinks, and maybe playpool. So I

(07:08):
picked her up Sunday. We got to the bar and
Mandy said that her friend was sitting over there at
a table with some other people. She went and said, Hi,
we sat at the bar in d Then she asked
if it was cool if we went and set by them.
I didn't really want to, but agreed. We went over
there and she introduced me. That was basically it. From
then on, I felt like a third wheel. I tried

(07:29):
to talk about football with some of the other people,
but they didn't watch sports. I tried starting a conversation
about other stuff with one of the guys, and it
didn't seem like it was going anywhere. So I sat
and watched the game while Mandy talked to her friends.
Time passed and the game was almost over, so I
told Mandy I was probably going to head out after
she said, oh, come on, one more drink and we'll go. Okay, fine,

(07:53):
Then her friends started buying rounds of shots for each other,
not me. Understandable, they don't know me. Besides, I was driving.
I finished my soda and told Mandy I was going
to go because I worked in the morning. She got
a confused look and looked at her beer, then the time,
and then her friends and said, oh, well, I didn't
finish my drink yet. I said, well, I'm leaving. I

(08:15):
can give you a ride home if you want. She said, okay,
let me finish my drink. I said okay and sat down.
Then she started messing around with her friends again, going
outside with them playing darts, not drinking her drink. I said, Mandy,
I'm leaving. She didn't acknowledge me or say bye. So
I left. Yesterday after work, Sarah called me and yelled

(08:37):
at me about leaving Mandy stranded. She said, when you
drive someone somewhere, you take them home too, But she
didn't know I was such a jerk to leave someone
alone at a bar like that. Mandy didn't even know
that I left until she saw my jacket was gone.
And apparently Mandy had to lift home and I should
reimburse her. I explained my side, and she said, so what,

(08:58):
she was having fun. You should have joined in instead
of sitting and moping. I feel like I really tried
to get into the conversation and join the group. It
just wasn't working. I didn't feel like sitting there bored forever.
Her friends were there. It's not like she was alone
Am I the jerk for leaving? Not the jerk? You
told her a couple times that you were leaving and
offered her a ride. If she wanted a ride, she

(09:21):
needed to wrap it up and head out with you
when you left. She did not do that. Not the jerk.
You gave Mandy several chances to get a ride home
with you. She made her choices and got the consequences
of those choices. I'm going to say you're the jerk,
but only to yourself. From your story, it seemed like
you were the designated driver for her to go have
a good time with her friends. The fact you still

(09:43):
hung around after all the bs she was putting you through. Dude,
you deserve better and shouldn't accept that behavior. Also, I
wouldn't date any of Sarah's friends if this is the
bunch she hangs out with. Wellho do you think is
the jerk? OPI or Mandy? Please let us know. I
always loved horrible first dates. Just shows you that you
don't need to waste any more time on this person.

(10:05):
Am I the jerk for including my stepdaughter's hobby expenses
and her allowance. My husband, Frank, who's fifty two, has
two daughters from his first marriage, Alice, who's eleven, and Brenda,
who's thirteen. My husband divorced his first wife, Candy, when
the kids were three and five. I thirty two, female,
met Frank after his divorce through a mutual friend A

(10:26):
few months after his divorce. We dated almost eight months
before I met the kids. They were four and six,
and I've been in their lives ever since. Frank and
Candy split custody fifty fifty, and she and I are
cordial and the three of us want what's best for
the kiddos, including individual and group therapy. We coordinate pickups
and drop off at school and extra curriculars, and sit

(10:46):
next to each other at the kid's events. Brenda has
a passion for baking. She likes to watch shows about
it and then tries to follow the recipes and even
create her own. She also will try to mix ingredients
without recipes just to see what will happen. Frank and
I have encouraged this hobby, as she finds the research
and process of baking to be relaxing and fun. She

(11:07):
is also responsible for cleaning up the kitchen after she bakes,
an expectation she believes is also fair. We have a
dishwasher that she knows how to load and use. We
also bought her her own mixing bowls and baking utensils,
but she has free use of all kitchen appliances obviously. However,
she doesn't eat or want to really share her creations.
She just likes the process and then we'll toss it.

(11:29):
She will go through more than a pound of flour
and eight sticks of butter in a week. Alice likes
to play online video games and will ask for money
to buy in game money, to play with her friends
with growing food costs, and to teach them the value
of a dollar. Frank told both kids he was increasing
their monthly allowance from twenty five a month to seventy five,
but with the stipulation that they both pay for their

(11:50):
own hobbies, meaning any baking Brenda wanted to do she
can buy her own supplies, and any in game money
Alice wanted to buy she can use her allowance for.
Since increasing their allowance, they are more hesitant to add
money to their hobbies, though Brenda is still baking several
times a month and Alice is still getting in gay money,
but significantly less. Brenda has brought up frequently that she

(12:13):
feels it's mean that she has to save her money
about twenty dollars worth to pay for flour and dairy
products when we should just buy it for her. We've
explained our reasoning several times. Candy recently approached Frank and
I demanding to know why we're not being supportive of
Brenda's hobby. We explain the reasoning behind it, and she
insists we should just pay for it to be supportive.

(12:34):
We've argued that this is supportive and also a teaching
tool to learn that things cost money and how to
save for the things you want, which both kids have
demonstrated by saving and minimizing their purchases. Candy also doesn't
allow Brenda to bake at her home because she doesn't
have time to deal with it, even though she is
capable of cleaning up with minor supervision. Am I the

(12:54):
jerk for including my step kid's hobbies and their allowance?
You're the jerk for allowing her to throw out that
much food? What a waste? If she doesn't want to
eat it, that's fine, but why do you allow her
to refuse to let the rest of the family eat it? Ope?
I appreciate your judgment, and I hate wasting the food.
I grew up poor and we are now comfortable middle

(13:14):
class and it hurts. But also her creations are mostly
experimental and she doesn't like to take advice on how
to improve things, so her baking is not very edible
or visually appealing. Lots of food die. To put it mildly,
if I gave them to the neighbors, it would frankly
be insulting. Here, throw this away in your trash, not mine.
This is one of the reasons we wanted to have

(13:36):
the allowance to limit the food waste and have her
be more careful with her ingredients. Not the jerk. I
disagree with Candy and your friends. Frank increased their allowance
while stipulating that they had to pay for their hobbies.
Great now Brenda understands how to be better with her money.
Baking is an expensive hobby, and the costs make even

(13:57):
less sense if you weren't going to even eat or
share the stuff you Baking also is an allowance, not
money that comes from the parents. Frank is still effectively
paying for Brenda's hobby while also teaching her how to
spend money wisely. Good for you. You're the jerk, as is
your husband for teaching a thirteen year old that it's
perfectly acceptable to flagrantly waste food as a hobby, no

(14:19):
matter who's pain for it. Well, what do you think
is OPI the jerk for how her and her husband
are doing this or not? Please let us know. Am
I the jerk for yelling at my mom about the
hair cut she gave me and going to my dad's
I seventeen, female, was recently told by my mom that
I should schedule a hair appointment because the ends of
my hair were getting really split. I called and they

(14:40):
told me they were basically all booked for the next
month due to someone needing a surgery and having to
move appointments around. I told my mom that, and she
said that she could do it, and I kind of
decided why not. I guess it's good to not have
a ton of split ends. So she set up a
chair and got the scissors and began doing her work.
I was scrolling through Instagram, but after the first two cuts,

(15:01):
I noticed there was a massive amount of hair on
the floor. I asked her why there was so much
hair on the floor, and she said, my hair was
really damaged. I got up and looked in the mirror,
and she had cut it at basically my shoulders. For context,
my hair is basically down to my waist. I asked
her what on earth she was thinking, and she just
repeated that it was damaged, like some sort of malfunctioning

(15:22):
spam call program. I looked at a few chunks of
undamaged hair in the mirror, and there was one, maybe
two at most inches of split ends. I asked her
why on earth she had basically cut off two feet
of hair for no reason, and she now said I
accidentally cut off a bit too much. I pretty much
had to let her finish because there was already too

(15:42):
much gone to do anything else about it. So she
kept cutting and then claimed she had made it uneven
by mistake, so she took even more off. In the end,
I was left with basically a bob cut at my chin.
I was upset, so I grabbed my school stuff and
a few clothes and drove over to my dad's house.
About an hour later, my mom came over to pick

(16:04):
me up and take her car. My parents split the
payments with me fifty to fifty, so she doesn't own it.
And told my dad it's her custody week and she's
just being a typical upset teenager. My dad told her
to go home or he was going to call the cops,
so she left, but I got a nasty text, which
summed up to I tried to do something nice for you,

(16:25):
and in return, you violated your custody agreement with the
car that I pay for. I told her I would
be more than happy to go back to her house
if she cut her hair like mine. She also has
really long hair, but she refused, so I'm just going
to stay at my dad's for the time being. Not
the jerk at all. I truly don't understand how someone

(16:45):
can accidentally turn a dead ends trim into cutting off
two feet of hair, and then she's just going to
stand by her actions while saying she wouldn't want the
same thing done to her hair. I hate to say it,
but this seems intentional. Your mom needs help. Furthermore, you
said you noticed the large amounts of hair on the
floor after two cuts, so when the first two cuts

(17:06):
she took it up to your shoulders. There's no way
this wasn't on purpose. I'm so angry for you, not
the jerk. Unfortunately, this seems like jealousy and some other
unresolved issues. Your hair is an extension of yourself, and
she took it upon herself to literally chop up your
trust in her by cutting off all your hair and worse,
being unapologetic about it and petty glad your dad is

(17:29):
there for you. And in the meantime, they make amazing
extensions for affordable prices. Now if you need some camouflage,
I had a bad haircut from a salon and had
to do this. Am I the jerk for not going
to Thanksgiving at my brother's new house. My brother and
his wife just bought a house earlier this year and
want to host Thanksgiving at their house this time. Typically

(17:49):
I host, and my mom and I do all of
the cooking and cleaning, but this year I received a
pretty upsetting medical diagnosis. Because of this, sister in law
said she would host and cook every year. My mother
and father in law spend Thanksgiving at our house, as
do my parents, brother, sister in law, and all of
the kids. I spoke with my brother about Thanksgiving yesterday

(18:10):
and mentioned that my in laws are excited to see
their new house. He said he was excited to have
everyone together, especially because he just decorated their house. We
made a plan for who was bringing what food. Late
last night, my sister in law sends me a text
saying no offense to me or my in laws, but
that they only want their families to attend. Basically, she

(18:30):
was saying, my mother in law and father in law
are not invited. I was under the impression that it
was the same Thanksgiving we have every year, but moving
it to a different house this year. There's no way
I can tell my in laws they aren't invited to Thanksgiving.
So now I feel like I have to host a
dinner at my house. Hosting, cooking, cleaning up the house,
and then attending the gathering at my brother's house will

(18:51):
wipe me out. There's no way I can physically do both,
so I'm not going to my brothers this year. I
know he will be upset since it's their new house,
for not attending Thanksgiving at my brother's update. My brother
called me earlier to say he and his wife talked
last night and she was absolutely against my in laws attending.
She didn't have a valid reason. My brother didn't agree

(19:13):
with her at all. Feels she's being unreasonable and told
her that she needed to be the one to tell
me that they aren't invited because he was not supporting
her decision. He then said he and the rest of
the family will be coming to my house and attending
Thanksgiving as if it were any other year. They, along
with my husband, will be taking over all of the hosting, cooking,
and cleaning responsibilities. It sounds like sister in law is

(19:35):
going to host her family at her home. I know
there were a lot of questions, and I'll try to
get to them individually, but no, sister in law and
my in laws are absolutely not strangers. We've spent holidays
together as one big family for years, so it's really
hard to not feel like she's purposely excluding them. Neither myself,
my husband, or my brother can think of any reason

(19:55):
she has for doing this other than to exercise some
kind of control over the situation. Thank you everyone for
the warm words and great suggestions. I'm actively looking into
ordering a Thanksgiving meal to take the work off of everyone.
I think we all deserve a break, not the jerk.
Don't bother going to your brother's house. It's too much
given your situation. You can see the house and that family.

(20:17):
Another time, it's their choice to limit attendants, and your
non attendance is the consequence of their choice. Don't cook,
have guests bring the food or most of it, order
what needs to be filled in, or just order the
entire meal. Many restaurants, groceries, and caterers have menus that
they sell. Spend your time relaxing and enjoying the company.

(20:38):
Am I the jerk for ignoring my coworker who has
a family emergency? I have this one coworker who gets
on my nerves. She still fairly new, but she does
things that really aggravate me. First of all, there hasn't
been one full week that she hasn't called off. She
will frantically text me and other coworkers to see if
we can cover, or she calls out right before her

(20:58):
shift and my manager scrambles to find coverage. She said
that she didn't get paid enough at this job, probably
because you don't work the hours you're given, So she
went and got another job that pays a dollar more.
After that, she changed her availability to Monday through Wednesday only.
At my job, she gets those three days if she's lucky,
but not always well. This week, she has three shifts

(21:19):
Monday through Wednesday, and on Sunday night she texts me
to ask if I work on Monday. I didn't, but
I didn't see anything because it was pretty late and
she could have assumed I was already asleep. Well, today,
just now before her shift in two hours, she texts
me to ask if I'm working again because she had
a family emergency pop up and her dad needs her.

(21:41):
I was asleep and didn't see the text, and then
she called me two times in a row. I didn't
answer either of them. I don't know if she's being
honest because she calls out at least once a week,
and I sure as heck don't want to go in
because I'm already the main person to cover days when
we're short staffed. I've been working through the weekends for
four months straight. Now today off because I have a

(22:01):
college class in the middle of the day, and while
I could skip it, I already spend too much time
at my job when I'm in school full time. I'm
praying that my manager doesn't ask me to work the
closing shift because she didn't show up, but that's usually
what happens, and then I have to push through my
anxiety to say no, there's a possibility she's truly having
a family emergency, but she cries wolf and calls out

(22:23):
so much that I don't know what to believe. Am
I the jerk for ignoring her? Update? Just got the
hey can you cover? Text from my manager that I
was dreading. He was nice enough to ask me to
come in after my class, which ends at six, so
I would only have to be there for a few hours.
But I don't know what to tell him. I feel
like if I give in that I'm just feeding into

(22:43):
her continuing to call out like this update. I told
my manager that she tried to contact me both Sunday
and this morning and that I was not going to
be coming in today because I need to focus on school.
He was super understanding about it, and I'm sure we
will talk more about it my next shift. I know
my manager is already well aware, but I'm going to
reiterate that she is unreliable and that resentment does build

(23:06):
among coworkers when you let things slide for one person
and the rest of the team has to pick up
the slack. I understand why he won't just fire her
right now, because we are seriously understaffed, but something's got
to give. Not the jerk sorry, but I'm not available
today is a valid and complete answer. You sound young,
and it might feel really off saying something like that,

(23:27):
but the more times you use it, the more comfortable
it'll get. Karen. Wife demands my son's college fund. I've
been married to my wife for three years. I have
a sixteen year old son from my previous marriage, and
his grandparents and I are on good terms. We've set
up a joint account to contribute towards his college fund.
The problem started when my wife requested that I pull

(23:49):
money from my son's college fund to pay for a
C section and a private hospital. I declined her request
and refused to even negotiate. She complained about how I
didn't seem to care about it her or our son's
well being, even though there was nothing to worry about
in terms of health. Yes, every medical procedure has its
own risks, but the local free hospitals we have are

(24:10):
decent and offer great care. All family members and friends
had their kids there. She disagreed and criticized the poor
service local hospitals have and insisted that this was a
big deal since it concerned both her and our son's health.
I tried assuring her, saying she will be fine, but
she argued that I have no idea what it's like
and told me if I refuse to put money towards

(24:32):
the CSSE, then I shouldn't be surprised when she puts
her maiden name on our son's birth certificate instead of
my family's name. I refused, as I saw no need
to waste money on private hospitals when we had free
service and care available. She stopped bringing up, and days
later she had a scheduled cs at the local hospital
and I wasn't allowed to be at the hospital, and

(24:53):
I respected her wish. I only saw my son when
she came home, and I was shocked to learn she
went ahead and put her her maiden name on the
birth certificate. I immediately went off on her, but she
said I caused this and claimed I was obviously favoring
my oldest over my youngest before he was even born.
I said she was dead wrong and called her petty

(25:13):
and vengeful for doing this purely to punish me, solely
for the fact that I was unable to afford a
private hospital. Her family watched, and she told me to
step out of the room, but I said we weren't
finished talking. She started crying, and her mom got involved
and told me to step out because I was stressing
her daughter out. I had an argument with her too,

(25:34):
and asked if she approves of any part of her
daughter's behavior, and she just shook her head, telling me
to calm down and give her some time to rest.
She said no. But I bear blame too for disregarding
my wife's needs after she made them clear and pointed
out that pulling some money for the private hospital wouldn't hurt.
But my parents disagreed and are upset and refusing to

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even visit. Calling my wife unhinged and toxic. Not the jerk.
Your wife sounds petty and exhausting. I get that pregnancy
is stressful, but that's no excuse for acting maliciously. She
has no right to dictate what to do with the
money you put aside for your teenage son. The baby
she had is yours too, so her decision to give
him only her name was nothing but spiteful. Not the jerk.

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If your wife wanted to give birth in a private hospital,
she should have made that clear from the start so
that you could both save up for it. Deciding last
minute that you need to steal from your kid's college
fund is absolutely ridiculous and entitled. Getting revenge by not
allowing you into the delivery room, not allowing you to
meet your kid until she came home, and giving him
her maiden name is absolutely shocking. There are so many

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red flags. She is incredibly toxic. Has she always been
like this? What's her relationship with a step son? Like?
You're the jerk? Wow, I guess I'm the only one here,
so bring on the down votes. Your wife is about
to give birth to her first kid. She's worried that
the quality of health care that she will receive in
this incredibly painful and vulnerable moment in her life is

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not good enough. Instead of taking her seriously, trying to
understand why she's concerned, and potentially brainstorming for other ways
to get the money to pay for the treatment, you
laugh in her face and tell her she should be
fine with the free stuff. Sure, easy for you to say,
as it's not your body that will potentially burst open,
and then get upset the kid doesn't get your last

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name like it's nineteen fifty. You're a huge jerk. And
I hope she divorces you. Well, who do you think
is the jerk, Opie or his wife? Please let us know.
Stealing the stepson's college fund is just sick. I'd kick
carring out, is what I'd do. Am I the jerk
for not letting my daughter go to her homecoming dance?
My daughter is fourteen and a freshman in high school.

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She came home one day after being at her mother's
for a week. We split custody and wrote homecoming on
our calendar, and starts talking about all the plans she's
made with her best friend to go to home coming together.
Homecoming week happened to fall on a week she was
with me. She starts raving to my wife and I
about the dress her mom took her to buy and
that she's matching with her friend. She had even bought

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a ticket already. I was furious with her entitlement to
just make up all these plans without asking me first.
I can admit it's not just her fault, but her
mother's as well, for not clearing it with me before
buying her the dress and ticket. In fact, I wouldn't
put it past her and her mother to have bought
the dress and ticket before asking in order to force

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me into letting her go. I want to teach her
a lesson about asking first and not assuming that I'm
just going to let her do whatever she wants, and
that she can't manipulate people in order to get her way.
So I told her that if she had asked first,
I'd be happy to let her go to her homecoming dance,
but since she decided to make plans and buy stuff

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before even asking if she could go, I wasn't going
to let her. She cried and told me that you
can only get one freshman home coming, and I told
her that maybe she should have thought about that. I
said all homecomings are the same anyway, that she has
three more opportunities to go and she's not missing much.
She sulked in her room for the rest of the

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day and didn't talk much. I tried to comfort her,
but my wife said not to because I'd be teaching
her that I'll give her my attention if she acts
upset and cries. I went to comfort her anyway, because
I didn't think she was acting, but she rejected me.
That infuriated me even more, so I left her in
her room to cry alone. Her mother was furious when

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she found out and demanded that I'd pay her back
the money she spent on the dress and homecoming ticket.
I said, absolutely not, because she didn't clear it with
me before buying those things, so it's her own fault. However,
she contacted her attorney, who contacted mine, and long story short,
I got to sit down with my wife and our
family therapist for a painstaking conversation about communication. It's now

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long after homecoming and my daughter is pretty much back
to normal, but she's still angry with me for not
letting her go to that dance. I stand firmly by
my decision not to let her go. But was I
the jerk? You're the jerk I stopped reading at teach
her a lesson. It's a school dance. She's not having
privileges restricted for poor behavior, So this is just about

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your ego and need for control, which is a stupid
thing to subject a kid to. You're really claiming your
kid and her mother are scheming to strong arm you
into a school event that most parents are excited to
take pictures for getting all dressed up for a first
formal high school dance. You're the jerk. It's standard high
school stuff, and your daughter will never forget this. It

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isn't some wild after party. It's literally her homecoming dance.
I cannot even imagine my father acting this way towards me.
She will always remember dad not letting her go to
her freshman homecoming for such a petty reason. Yes, it's
important to teach your kids to ask permission and not expect,
but she didn't even ask you to pay for anything
or expect anything from you at all. You blew this

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way out of proportion. You're the jerk. I'm a dad
of teenagers too, including daughters. You need to hear this.
Kids her age are starting to learn to be independent.
She's exercising her independence in a safe manner by going
to a school sanctioned event, and for some weird reason,
you don't want her to. Why on earth should she
have to ask you to go to homecoming. Please apologize

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to her for interfering with her plans. Please tell her
you realize you were wrong. There was no reason for
you to stop her from going. Tell her that, like
all parents, you're doing your best and sometimes you make mistakes,
and this was one of those times. Tell her you're
going to try to do better to let her make
her own decisions without having to run everything by you.
Not the jerk going against the grain here, but most

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of these people bashing on you are not slash will
not ever make good parents. They were not raised to
be respectful and ask permission before making plans, and they
will not teach their spawn to either. That's why they're
wasting their time here on Reddit instead of doing important
things in life. Well what are you doing? Gotta go,
got an important Zoom meeting soon. God bless you, and

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I hope you can save your daughter before it's too late.
Well what do you think? Is dad a jerk for
not letting her go to homecoming or not? Please let
us know. I'm still in aw about that guy talking
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You won't believe what Karen does in that one.