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28/05/2026

[UPDATE] AITAH 💁 for cutting off 😊 ✨ my family after my 📢 brother cheated on his wife and got his mistress pregnant?

AITA for announcing the reason why I didn't invite my brother to my wedding and exposing him to the entire family?I (M30...
28/05/2026

AITA for announcing the reason why I didn't invite my brother to my wedding and exposing him to the entire family?

I (M30) got married 2 weeks ago. I was married before but it ended after I found out that my older brother Thomas (M34) got involved with my first wife. It was devastating because we were close and had a great relationship. I also helped him so much while he was struggling and seeing how he repaid me hurts to this very day.
I stopped talking to him and Mom and dad forced me to keep it a secret and because I was too weak to argue with them, I just kept my owm distance.
Then I met my now wife. my family loved and embraced her as their own. mom and dad treat her like a queen which helped repaire and soldified my relationship with them. However, as the wedding was approaching they told me they expected me to invite Thomas. I of course refused but they kept guilting me about what the relatives and other guests would think and say when they don't see Thomas there. I fought with them about it til the day of the wedding. Turned out they'd invited him behind my back but I found out and stopped them in time.
They came to the wedding looking pi**ed asking what we were going to tell people when they ask about Thomas. I told them I'd take care of it. and what I did was take a moment while everyone was paying attention, grabbed the mic and flatout announced this and said "the reason I didn't invite Thomas to my wedding is because I was worried he'd steal my now wife just like he stole the first one" I said it playfully to not make it sound so tense but most of the guests looked shocked and started mumbling then it went awkwardly quiet for a moment. then we moved on but I saw Mom and Dad walk out while looking at me grudgingly.
Later they started lashing out about how I just exposed Thomas and caused him to be shunned by the family in the most hideos of ways. I told them that I already said I didn't want him there yet they tried to push him on me repeatedly saying "what are people going to say" so I told them the reason why he wasn't there in a playful way but they (the guests) still got the message. Mom started yelling about how everyone will now look down on and shun Thomas, she called me pathetic and cruel for still punishing him and gradually ruining his life despite him apologizing and trying to reconcile but in my opinion? somethings are just unforgivable.
We've been on horrible terms since then. AITA? My wife said at least now they're off my back about what people would say about not inviting him.

AIW for taking my daughter out to eat?So I (39M) have a (16F) daughter from a previous marriage. For context, I met my n...
28/05/2026

AIW for taking my daughter out to eat?

So I (39M) have a (16F) daughter from a previous marriage. For context, I met my now wife (37) when my daughter was 10, and she had a son (7M) when we met. Our relationship was great, and our connection was really present throughout our relationship.

5 months into our relationship, I introduced her to my ex (35F) and my daughter. my ex and wife were cordial, and my daughter warmed up to her quickly. From what I know, they had a good relationship.

My daughter grew up sort of a picky eater. For example She won't eat things like oatmeal, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms, barbecue ANYTHING salty, or sour, etc. She loves spicy food, sweets, and all that.

(And you could not trick her into eating anything she didn't like. When she was 13, i put 1 garlic clove in the melted butter i was using to make her grilled cheese. Idk how, but she could taste it, and i knew for a fact tbe taste wasn't that strong.

Her taste senses amazed me. Oh, she ignored me for a whole week and didn't eat anything i cooked for her. I never tried anything like that again).

I work a 5-8 shift, but yesterday I got off around 9 because my group and I wanted to hurry and finish our part of a work project we had. When I got home, my wife had already prepared dinner and left my plate in the oven. I heated my food and stood at the island and chatted with my wife, who was with our son in the living room.

As I was eating, I realized that my wife had cooked garlic stir-fried rice, barbecue chicken, and a vegetable salad consisting of corn, tomatoes, mushrooms, and spinach. I stopped chatting with my wife and just observed my plate for a good 5 minutes. My wife asked what was wrong and if I disliked the food.

Finally, after an eternity, I asked what my daughter had eaten because Everything she cooked were all foods my daughter disliked. She was quiet for a few moments before finally saying that my daughter had not eaten since lunch. Needless to say, I was upset.

I asked her why she didn't switch up the meal to accommodate my daughter's palette. She got really defensive and started saying my daughter was being dramatic and it was just food so she could still eat if she was hungry we argued and I reminded her that it wasn't that simple for a picky eater like my daughter. After a while of going back and fourth I decided to end the conversation by ignoring my wife, i felt that my daughter wishes were disregard.

I took my daughter out to eat, I also brought her some sweets and we bonded and talked a lot. I discovered my wife has been purposely cooking food my daughter doesn't like. My daughter has never been one to complain so she has been using money from her paycheck and she wasnt going to eat this particular night because she had no intentionof pulling money out of her account savings.

We got home around midnight and my wife was upset that I took my daughter out instead of convincing her to eat her cooking. Me and my wife are going to have a long chat when I'm off work.

28/05/2026

This is my first time posting anything and I’m on mobile so unsure if I’m doing it right.

I (F35) am gluten free (celiac) and have been for over half my life. My husband (M35) is not. We had two friends stopping by for dinner who are also not gluten free.

My husband suggested we get pizza and mentioned to me that one of the friends only eats chicken as far as meat goes, so I should factor that into my order. I said, “well that doesn’t really affect me since I wasn’t planning on sharing, but noted, I’ll see what options they have for her.” Husband freaks out at me, because apparently I’m being ungrateful? He asked why I didn’t want to share and I said, “the gluten free pizzas are basically personal pizzas, and I regularly eat the whole thing when we order it. I’m supposed to offer half of mine to other people when I can’t eat what they are eating?” He wouldn’t hear me at all and said if I didn’t want to share I could pay for my own pizza myself. I don’t really care about paying for it myself but the idea that I’m supposed to give away some of my dinner when I can’t eat what other people are eating is stupid to me. It’s not like we are ordering every pizza gluten free. It just doesn’t make sense! They eat my food, I can’t eat their food. I can understand the principle of offering but… one gf pizza from this place is only enough for one person. If we were getting multiple gf ones I’d absolutely share, but they got two larges for the three of them. He continued to go on about how ungrateful I was being and said some other stupid stuff before I told him to f__k off and went upstairs.

I ended up just going upstairs and not eating or seeing them at all. I came downstairs later and he had ordered me a gluten free pizza and said from across the room, “are you ready for your Grateful Free pizza? You need to have a better attitude about things that aren’t yours in the future.” I didn’t reply or eat the pizza (I was already heating something else up and hadn’t noticed the pizza, but I will eat it later because I’m pregnant and starving all the time.)

Just for the record, this has happened before several years ago where we ordered pizza and only one gf for me, and it arrived and everyone thought mine looked super good (I don’t order regular pepperoni/tomato sauce) so the four other people (husband included) took over half my pizza before I even got a bite. It pi**ed me off because I then didn’t have enough food and they still had plenty PLUS pieces of mine. So perhaps this is a sore subject for me. Again, I’m also pregnant, though this would still bother me if I weren’t.

AITA and being ungrateful?

28/05/2026

So my (31M) SO (29F) runs the dishwasher at the end of the day as we are headed to bed no matter how full or empty the dishwasher is. She says it's so we will always have fresh dishes for the next day, but it's just us in the house and we have plenty of spare dishes. I've literally seen her run it when there were only a couple plates and some forks and knives in the wash.

On top of that, she will also run the laundry machine at least once every single day. At times, this will only have a single item in the entire wash. She says that certain tops are delicate and shouldn't be in the regular wash.

Which I agree with, but IMO she should hold off until she has a full wash's worth of delicates before running a load. IDK, am I the one being ridiculous here? She gets quite upset every time I complain about this routine being wasteful.

**Edit to add some context:** Lots of the comments seem to think I'm not willing to do any housework, but I absolutely am, and I do. Anything that won't fit, or isn't dishwasher safe is my job to hand wash each day. Garbage/recycling, snow shovelling, vacuuming, etc.

I do contribute. And have offered to contribute to the laundry and dishes many times. But I'm not going to be the one starting each machine when there's only an item or 2 sitting in them.

Rainbow Tuxedo Controversy Leads Groom To Ban Brother From WeddingI (36M) am getting married to my soon to be Wife (34F)...
28/05/2026

Rainbow Tuxedo Controversy Leads Groom To Ban Brother From Wedding

I (36M) am getting married to my soon to be Wife (34F) every thing was going great and we were giving out invitations. When I gave one to my brother (Sam) he asked if he could bring his (22M) boyfriend to the wedding I was immediately super fond of the idea as jack (his BF) and I are both very fairly close. About a week after Sam sent a picture of what he was going to be wearing to the wedding in the wedding group chat, it was a rainbow tuxedo. Initially I thought he was joking so I said “lmao” he was very hurt and told me to go f__k myself. He has always been quite feminine in his clothing choices which I am completely ok with but me and my soon to be wife both thought that what he wanted to wear was inappropriate and would take the attention away from my wife and me. So I told him that him and his boyfriend were both uninvited from our wedding. He told me that the only reason that I didn’t want him there was because I was h__ophobic. I am very much not h__ophobic, i go to pride marches and have never had any problem with him being gay. Most of our family agrees with my desision. But some are refusing to come to the wedding now. So AITA?

EDIT: some things I forgot to include in the original post are: yes I did explain to him why this made us uncomfortable but he kept pulling the “well ur just being h__ophobic” card on my and me soon to be wife. Also on the invitation was a dress code saying black and white only.

UPDATE 1: I took some of your guises advice and I had a long conversation with my brother’s boyfriend. His boyfriend does not want to make a big thing of this and neither do I. It turns out my brother has been in a really bad place recently and got diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. That is why he flipped at me and made a big deal out of this. I feel like such an a__hole about this whole situation and so does my soon to be wife. My brother and his boyfriend are not coming to the wedding due to the state my brother is in now (this was his boyfriend who decided that they should not come to the wedding). After learning all of the stuff I know now about my brother I wish I would have let him wear the tux. I feel like complete s__t for causing him to go into a mental episode… and I have told his boyfriend that my brother can wear whatever he wants to the wedding but they do not want to come (not because of the situation but because my brother isn’t doing very well at the moment but things could change). That was my first update and I will update you all again soon…

AITA for telling my husband that I "can't do this anymore" after he quit his job to work with his mother?We are due to h...
28/05/2026

AITA for telling my husband that I "can't do this anymore" after he quit his job to work with his mother?

We are due to have our daughter in 2 weeks and planned ahead of time so I could stay home for a year with her (while I'm nursing). We saved around $26k, plus took in to consideration that at his job he was making $3k a month ($23 hourly). Our bills for the year come out to around $46k.

Since we got pregnant his mom has been super overbearing with the "boy mom" b__lsh*t. She's been trying to force her way in to our lives in ways that I'm not okay with. Like trying to convince us to buy a house with her so she can help raise "her babies baby" (my husband actually considered this and I shot it down immediately). Has been stopping in whenever she feels like it with stuff for him and him only. Like she literally brings him food (1 serving, only enough for him) around dinner time probably 2-3 days a week, saying "I just know you miss momma's cooking". Keeps buying him mom + son jewelry, knowing he won't wear jewelry and tells me "he will wear it. It's a mom and son thing, you wouldn't understand" when I tell her he's not going to wear it (he hasn't worn any of it). She is 100% treating him like he is her husband. Calling him to go do things for her all hours of the day/night and all around just trying to get him out of our house and over to hers. On the off chance that he does go over, she's all like "since you're here, I will let you treat me to a mom and son date at Denny's". Or when she's here, she will look at me and tell me how she takes her coffee and expect me to make it for her. I know I'm rambling but this woman is bat s__t f__king crazy and no, she was not like this prior to me getting pregnant. They barely spoke before I got pregnant. As soon as she found out we were having a baby, she sunk her claws in. With the whole "my baby isn't a baby anymore" b__lsh*t (we are literally in our 30s).

So if all else wasn't insane enough, she's been trying to convince my husband for at least 3 months to quit his job (search and rescue) and go work with her so they can spend more time together. She works at a medical rehab facility. I told him I won't tolerate that for one reason, it's $13 an hour. $10 less an hour than he makes now. I've talked reason with him. Like if he goes there, I will end up having to go back to work because $13/h cuts his monthly income in half (just about) and this is NOT what we agreed to or planned for. Not only that but her job is biweekly pay and doesn't have benefits for a year (he had full benefits at his job). He told me he didn't want to work with his mom and not to worry about it (about 2 months ago he said that). But I just found out last night that he did in fact quit his job and applied at the place his mom works and bypassed the interview process because mommy vouched for him. So now he has a job with her. I wasn't nice about it when he told me, admittedly. I asked him why the f__k he would do that and he goes "well my mom is getting older and she wanted me to work with her so we can hang out more before she passes" (she's literally 61 and healthy). I slept on it and decided I couldn't do this. I told him this morning that I couldn't do this. I'm not going to be overruled by a woman who refuses to stay in her lane. I'm not going to bow down to a mommies boy or a woman who grossly won't leave her son alone. He can do it on his own and we can do this separately. I told him I will take the money I saved ($23k of the $26k) and figure it out on my own and that he needs to leave and go back to sucking mommies tit at her house. He, for whatever reason, is shell shocked that I'm taking it "this far" and says I'm an AH for not understanding that his mother getting older and wanting to spend time with him should be important. I'm not budging though. He's allowing her to destroy our lives.

ETA: I want to touch base on finances real quick for the people commenting "being a single mom is going to be great". If he was to leave and we get divorced, my bills would reduce by at least 1/4, if not more. I've been helping him pay off his student loan debt for 5 years and the price keeps increasing so there's no end in sight. With the $23k that I saved, I could pay for my home and bills for a year and a half. When I add his bills and his debt to the equation, it wont even cover a year. I'm not afraid of single motherhood. He would be involved regardless if we separate as well.

ETA again: he signed a pre-nup. I owned the house long before we started dating. I withdrew MY $23k from the bank and put it in my personal. I already spoke to an attorney and I'm in the clear to do so because I have a paper trail on what was mine vs what was his. I'm an accountant. Numbers and money is kind of my specialty. I have it all handled, legality wise.

AITAH for embarrassing my stepmom at dinner after she tried to “teach me a lesson” about my real mom?I (18F) live with m...
28/05/2026

AITAH for embarrassing my stepmom at dinner after she tried to “teach me a lesson” about my real mom?

I (18F) live with my dad and my stepmom (43F). My mom passed away when I was 10, and it's still a sensitive subject for me. My stepmom came into the picture a couple of years later, and while we're civil, we're definitely not close.
She's always had this weird vibe like she's trying to compete with my mom even though my mom isn't here. She gets snippy when I talk about her or wear anything that belonged to her (like my mom's old necklace I wear basically every day). Anyway, a few nights ago, we were out for dinner with my dad, stepmom, and her parents.
Her mom asked about the necklace, and I said, 'It was my mom's. She gave it to me before she passed. I wear it every day.' Stepmom immediately cut in with, 'Well, technically I'm your mom now.
I've done more mothering in the last 8 years than she did in 10.' I swear the whole table went silent. I just laughed and said, 'If you think being a mom is about trying to erase the actual one, then yeah, you've been amazing.' She looked like she'd been slapped. Her mom gasped.
My dad told me to apologize, but I refused. I said I was tired of her acting like my mom never existed, and I wasn't going to play along anymore. Now my stepmom is barely speaking to me, and my dad says I 'need to be the bigger person' because 'she's just trying to connect.' But to me, that didn't feel like connection that felt like erasure. AITA for calling her out in front of everyone?

27/05/2026

So I ( 30f) run a small machine shop, I inherited it.
My dad left it to me because I couldn't get another job with my record, and I return the favor by recruiting from the local halfway house at times. I do look into their cases, these are people that served their time and are transitioning into the community.

So paperwork keeps piling up because I'm busy on the floor, so I hire an admin, 23 F. All is good for a few months, until she approaches me in th er smoking area one day and says she has something to tell me. So we go in my office.

She proceeds to tell me that one of the machinists has a check writing charge, she googled him because she was pretty sure he was a guy her aunt dated and went to prison. I basically said oh? Interesting. Mostly because I didn't want to confirm or deny.

She said that she figured that I would want to know so I could fire him. I said " I have 3 felonies myself, so I don't have a no felon policy because that would be a bit hypocritical, don't ya think?" She got all upset and said I should have told her, and I told her I had no obligation to. She says I should have warned her. She put in her 2 weeks .

My friends think I'm right, but her friends sure don't. She and her friends tried to blast me on a local FB page, but the admins took it down, so there is that. So reddit, AITA?

ETA : I'm a 30 year old woman. Just saying because lots of comments seem to assume I am a man.
2. Also no predators are hired

AITA for telling my grandparents they failed as parents and grandparents?My dad cheated on my mom when I was a toddler a...
27/05/2026

AITA for telling my grandparents they failed as parents and grandparents?

My dad cheated on my mom when I was a toddler and when my mom found out about it she filed for divorce. My dad's mistress was already pregnant by that point and it made things tense though I don't remember too much of them interacting. My dad and his second wife, the mistress, had two kids together.

When I was 6 my dad got arrested for assaulting the guy my mom was dating at the time. And I mean he brutally assaulted him. He was arrested on the scene and charged pretty fast. His wife dumped the kids on my grandparents and ran off. I guess they found out later she had died but I'm not totally sure on when they found that out.

I don't even know why they never kept my dad's other kids but I know CPS got involved and put the kids in foster care. And I know my grandparents looked for my mom to take them in and raise them with me. My mom refused and that was the end of it. They spent a lot of years in foster care.

My dad served time until I was 16 and then he was released. He got the other kids back after a year or two of working with CPS (or something). Don't ask me all those details I just know what my grandparents said. I haven't seen or had any contact with him since I was 6 and that's the way I plan to keep it. A couple of times he almost went back inside because he was harassing my mom and even threatened her one time.

I'm 19 now. I don't have much contact with my grandparents but the last two times I heard from them we fought. They were saying all this n**sty s**it about my mom and blaming her because dad's kids were abused by several foster families and were left with all kinds of trauma. They said mom was gross and disgusting for letting them go into care. And they said the fact I hadn't spent any time with the kids at all since my dad was arrested is further proof that she's a disgrace to motherhood and personhood. I think they expected me to hate my mom like they do, to agree with them. But I don't and it pi**ed me off that they were blaming my mom. So the second time they started that s**it I told them it was not my mom's responsibility to take in those kids and raise them and there were loads of other people to blame.

They told me I should not defend my mom and again said she was a failure as a mother. They said if she had loved me she would have wanted me to be raised with my siblings and the fact I don't even call them that is loudly showing her failures. They said if she loved me she would have loved them for me and raised them and kept them safe. I told them if they wanted to assign blame they should look at the people actually in those kids' family, starting with dad, their mom and them. I said all three of them had a duty to the kids my mom didn't. I said they were the failures. They were failures as parents to raise dad to be who he is, failures as grandparents for letting their grandkids go into care and failures as people for blaming others for what their son ultimately set in motion.

They got offended and scolded me over the phone. I ended up hanging up on them, but from what I got they said I lacked empathy and compassion. AITA?

27/05/2026

My parents didn't have much money growing up. We always had the bills covered and a bit for the occasional pizza night and a gift for each birthday and a family gift for Christmas. My parents said that they wanted us all to go to college and even encouraged us to join free college prep programs at our school for first generation college students.

My brother has bipolar. He used to cry and scream in the mornings when he had to get ready for school. EVERY. Day. Even when he was 18. He would sometimes skip class, and smoke pot after school, and didn't do well academically. After applying at all the state schools, he got into the worst one. No scholarships.

I worked hard in school. I was interested in medicine and I ended up getting some scholarships and got into great colleges. I talked to my parents about loans and FAFSA and they said I couldn't possibly afford to go to the good schools because the scholarship was non-renewable. I would have to pay all my dorm fees, tuition, books food. I couldn't cover it.

So I gave up my dream. I went to tech school and got an associates part time while working, worked and saved, then did 4 year college. ALL ON MY OWN! I even was asked to move out at 19 and I STILL DID IT!

The economy hit my parents hard. My older brother moved back home. After 3 years of college he failed out and is now working at a gas station and periodically moves home when he can't afford rent. My dad found out mom took out loans in secret to pay for my brothers college. He's so angry, but I'm angry at all of them, because if she offered him loans that she will need to pay back - WHY DIDN'T THEY HELP ME!? HE didn't even show up to his classes and was on probation! "HE FAILED 'APPRECIATING THE ARTS' FFS.

Dad doesn't understand why I'm upset with him but I really don't want to be speaking to any of them right now. I'm working a $35,000 teaching job and I'm drowning.

Edit: *insert wow I woke up and this blew up yadda I think my life turned out pretty well. Teaching is cool. I did work in the medical field for a while with my tech decree. Having to go through tech school and transfer into 4 year college gave me time to grow into the person I want to be. I worked hard and I can say I truly earned my diploma!

I think I'm mad at my dad for other reasons. My brother was mom's favorite and I my dad's. But I never got special treatment. Enjoy my post hx of things my mom has done to me.

Edit 2: You are are right. My parents didn't have the financial ability to help me and putting themselves in a worse financial situation doesn't help that. I'm jealous and angry. I'm mad I was asked to move out when I could have lived at home and now he's welcome to live at home when times get hard. I'm mad that life was miserable growing up and that my dad didn't stand up for me. I'm mad that my mom continues to hurt me as a an adult and my dad just stands there. I'm not the a__hole for being angry, but I am the a__hole for not looking at the situation as a whole.

Ya'll enjoy your Saturday. I'm going to kayak at the base of a mountain and find some peace. School starts next week.

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