Reddit Stories - DOUBLE the Drama_ A Duel of NARRATIVES UNVEILED in This Video!_

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

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I hope you enjoy this story. Before the video starts, a quick note, you will listen to two narratives in this video, and both come with fresh information. Let's dive into the initial tale. I extended an invitation to my troublesome cousin to stay with me, and as a result, I had to cancel family gatherings. Me, M30, and wife, F-27, own a sizable farm that is usually the nexus of family events, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, 300 acres and electrical hookups for four campers so the whole clan can

come stay for extended visits in the summer. We built it that way deliberately. My cousin Bill, M. Early 50s, has a daughter Alice F-18, from his first marriage. His first wife was an immigrant with no family in our country and no contact with any family in her home country. She passed away when Alice was two and Bill remarried Tanya, F. early 50s, six months later. They have since had three kids, M14, M12, F8 Alice is a brat. Everything in their house revolves around either the boys, their two oldest together, or their princess, their daughter together, and Alice is left behind, she doesn't get to go on family trips, they wouldn't pay for extracurricular stuff, she couldn't take elective classes that had extra fees, etc. I'm not a smart man. I'm not a smart

man, but I can recognize a kid that's hurting inside and being neglected. She's like Mr. Hyde with M and Drive, Jekyll elsewhere. For the last four summers she's been coming to work on my farm because her parents don't want her around over summer break. She turned 18 recently and leading up to her birthday her dad was very adamant that she was being kicked out of the house when she turned 18 because it will teach her responsibility. We, wife, Alice and I, discussed it and early on her birthday we pulled up with my truck and packed her stuff up, we only packed things she purchased herself or things that were given to her by another person. My boss got creative with our benefits provider so we can get Alice on my medical benefits until she

finishes university. She starts in a few weeks, so she's able to go to, therapy, he reads this subreddit a lot so even though this is a throwaway, I know you'll read this chief, thank you. And she's able to get back into sports while still saving her money. This is where it all comes apart. Bill and Tanya are pissed that we took her in and refused to come to family events, part of the family refused to attend as well because I'm undermining Bill and Tanya, I'll understand when I have kids, after they refused to attend events. A few others said that with gas being so expensive and not everyone attending they'd skip as well. My answer of ok-dokey come if you want and don't if you don't further upset people who thought

I should have tried harder to get people to come so now we're down to about one quarter of the family in attendance for events. My aunt suggested that we have Alice over on weekends and that she stays in a dorm during the week to smooth things over. I think that's dumb, but I'm dumb and stubborn. My wife thinks it's dumb and she's really smart but also very much attached to the situation. Alice said she'd rather stay with us but would try the dorms to help make peace. Am I the jerk for not going with the dorm suggestion to keep the peace? Edit for info, I called Alice a brat and my original post was way past the character limit but in some of the stuff that got pared down I explained it more, typical teenage acting out but cranked up, slamming doors,

screaming matches with her stepmom, swearing. Probably three or four big blowouts a week and sometimes over some pretty disproportionately small stuff, I've watched her grow and the acting out definitely came after the exclusion from family stuff. Edit 2. Thank you everyone, gonna keep on keeping on, bit of a mini update. I ripped the Band-Aid off with the old fam jam and told them that fewer mouths to feed isn't the punishment they thought it was. Anyone else who was coming is still welcome and I'd have the extra cash from not feeding so many people to help the folks. Concerned about gas prices make it out if they so chose, I'm in like, for different family group chats and they're all lighting up. I'm going to turn my phone on silent for a while and let the sparks fly.

I'll check in on the post in a while and if anything noteworthy comes up and it's interesting I'll give you all an update. in the future. Edit 3. All righty, here's the update on the situation and a little background info for some consistent topics in the comments. So, my family likes to gossip and they're damn efficient at it. If your truck breaks down with only you in it five miles from home word has reached every aunt and cousin before you're in your door. When I put the word out, it traveled fast. This morning I've been called all the names in the book and some new ones so there may be a revised and updated edition of said book coming out. I've been told I'm a good guy, a bad guy, I'm stupid, I'm smart, I'm short-sighted, I'm thinking ahead, it's been neat. Long story short,

I've got about a dozen relatives telling me, thanks and they'll buy me a pint next time they're out and an about triple that who never want to speak to me again so those are both significant victories. Now, nobody here really cares about me. We're all about Team Alice here. She's a redditor apparently and came across the post independently of me showing her. There were tears, born of stress and relief, I think, and she's going to be staying here with us until she's ready to start the next chapter of her life, whatever and whenever that might be. She's got classes picked, her college picks first-year classes for you for the most part so it was a couple electives, and is looking into the women's rec league for a hockey team when the season starts so she's all set on that front.

Regarding feeding everyone and paying for gas, without going into details, I was very fortunate as a young man to be working very, very hard at a job I was woefully underqualified for while a very wealthy person was on site, basically right place, right time, and the chief took me in and mentored me. We have made a lot of money on a business venture together in addition to me working for him and since then I haven't exactly had a few money, enough that I was able to buy the property I live on outright and build my home here with my wife who also makes good money. Family is important to both of us and neither of our sides of the family tree have much for money so we've done our best to make sure money isn't a barrier to getting together and seeing one another. Now, the big news, Tanya drove down to my house this morning.

Bill and I had some very loud, very angry words when he drove down last night after I chose the nuclear option in the family group chat so she actually waved a wife. flag from her car when she pulled up, I shooed the dogs and alpaca away and went out to talk to her, brought her out a muffin we had a bit of a chat, allegedly. Bill was threatening to kick Alice out to scare her straight and that they weren't actually going to kick her out and they were caught off guard when we showed up on the morning of her birthday. I told her that she was missing the point and that I'm not sure I could use small enough words or short enough sentences to explain it to her if she thought that was the only problem,

She cried, she peeled out of my driveway at Mach 7 and it's been radio silence since which I'm currently enjoying. Thanks everyone for the support. I'm not really a Reddit guy so I don't imagine I'll be back but for my brief stay here. You definitely don't live up to the negative reputation the rest of the internet has given your site. You're a good bunch. Keep your sticks on the ice. More info, in our conversations about the dorm, I told her that it was 100% her decision but that I really didn't care about cousins I only see when I'm feeding them show up and that I wanted her to make the call that made her happy. Consensus between her and my wife seems to be that maybe in a few years the dorm would be a good step between living at home and getting her own place but staying with us for now is what

she wants. At this point it's pure speculation but I've always sort of picked up that Bill is of the opinion that Tanya and their kids together are his family and she's this sort of Harry Potter's relation he stuck with. At first I thought it was a race thing. Her mom was from Guatemala and she has dark skin and pin straight dark hair rather than being pale curly hair like the rest of us. But as she aged, if you compare photos of her mom to her at the same ages, they could have been twins, I think it's a lot of jealousy from Tanya and Bill is just a dirtbag so I have no idea how his brain works. What I meant is that Alice acts out pretty severely and is like a completely different kid with her folks than anywhere else. If you ask her teachers, coaches,

other relatives who have her over will all tell you she's a great kid, smart and compassionate, You see her at home with her parents and it's a different story. I 100% recognize that she's acting out so badly because the only time she gets any attention at home is when she's being punished, but I cut the part explaining that out because I'm not such good with the wordsmithing sometimes. Alice doesn't cause harm from anything I've ever seen or been told, she stomps off and slams her bedroom door, gets into shouting matches with her stepmom and swears a lot.

Her dad and I have locked horns over this a few times. I was still a young gun myself when her mom passed so I haven't always been in a position to do anything more than lock horns but I've at least been here. Not to excuse the extended family but I think a fair few of them would be more sympathetic if they lived closer and didn't just get his spin on it over Facebook and saw what the branch of the family tree that lives here sees. They're not a big league of evil aunts and uncles, they're just kind of ignorant. and have been fed a very creative interpretation of the truth by Bill and Tanya for over a decade with no evidence of there being more to it. Plus my dislike for Bill and Tanya is quite well known in our family which also colors their perception of the situation a bit I'd wager.

That does sound ominous when it's put like that but as far as I know there's nothing untoward there. Alice's mom was hit by a random drunk driver and Bill's just a schmuck. Without putting the family dirty laundry out there, my understanding is that their marriage was born out of convenience and not necessarily love. That's its own story that doesn't really belong on Reddit. Update, am I the jerk for taking in my problem cousin and canceling family events? So, about a year ago my, 31M, cousin Alice, F-19, moved in with my wife, F-28, on her 18th birthday

after being told she needed to move out on said birthday from her parents, early slash mid-50s it can up to do the math, house by said parents. I'm here with an update at her suggestion. The good. A year later she's a year into an engineering degree, she's been playing lots of hockey, raised a couple of steers all on her own and at her therapist's recommendation she's down to monthly sessions after a brief stop at biweekly after starting with weekly. She's the same sweet kid but without the extra unneeded stress of being treated like and also ran alongside her younger siblings. The bad. Her dad showed up about a month after my original post and there was a confrontation of sorts that ended with a peace bond being issued with restrictions on how Bill and Tanya could contact Alice, myself, my missus or a couple other family members that got involved, after the six months required by the peace bond. Tanya started getting back up to her old tricks but Bill seems to have smartened up a bit.

The peace bond meant she is at limited contact with her siblings which has been tough, the oldest, 15M, started out pretty hostile but some of the other cousins filled him in on what was going on, I got blamed for his sudden shift in attitude. Because we've established that I am just the worst with jazz hands and everything this silly. Gossipy family mellowed out when they realized that the literal gravy train wasn't going to stop at the station for them. Thanksgiving last year was 26 people compared to the 60-plus that came the last year I threw it prior to COVID restrictions.

Easter this year was back up to an even 40 so we're probably going to plateau a little short of the old numbers. As for resolution to the problem, Bill has been texting Alice every couple of days to check in. They've gone for coffee a few times after the peace bond expired. I'd go to his funeral but not his birthday party where Alice's work. when I asked her about where they're at. I'm hoping time can heal that wound but she's been really good at setting boundaries. To quote one of the great warrior poets of our time,

John Cougar Mellencamp, life goes on. I'll answer questions if it's allowed, otherwise, here's some closure guys. Now on to the next story, story two. Boyfriend is hiding a secret on why he won't attend my family holidays. So, my family is kind of, lovably, Weird in that they plan family trips well ahead of time to ensure a good deal on a rental house. I am taking seven, eight months. When we booked this year's vacation, I let Sam know the dates. I told him it would be the last week of July. I didn't expect him to remember it forever then, but thought I would give him the idea so we could both keep it in mind.

I mention it casually, maybe once a month as a reminder. Like as in, oh my dad wants to go on this hike and several times. he would say, oh yeah, what are those dates again? And I would tell him, he even told my parents that he would go for the weekend of the week-long trip, they love him, and they were so excited. He said that he would be able to come up for the first part of the trip, for a weekend. I was completely fine with that. While I love my family, I recognize also may not want to spend a week with someone else's family. I should add, I didn't expect him to use any PTO, he was toying with using one day, which I was thrilled by, the trip would be paid for by my family, house,

food, alcohol, etc. It is a three-hour drive away, in a place he loves. I should add that last year, when my family was going to go to the beach for a week, I mentioned the trip a few times and he got annoyed. So I felt weird about it and stopped asking. I don't mean I was being obnoxious, I probably mentioned it once a month or so, because he got annoyed, I stopped mentioning at a month or two before the trip. About two, three weeks before the beach trip, I asked him what his plans were, he said he had spaced and completely forgotten, and that he would be on call, it's non-medical, it's people calling out of shifts so he has to be in town even though it requires no action, that week

and couldn't go. I was so disappointed, I really wanted to spend time at the beach with him, and was only asking for a weekend. I talked to him about it a couple of times, and I asked if he was nervous to spend time with my family, or didn't like something about them. He assured me that that was not the case, we got into a fight, and he said that he felt like he was a kid that missed an assignment and I was a teacher. It was really our first argument. This was almost one year into the relationship. He has hung out with my family maybe once a month, or every two months for a couple of hours,

we tend to do a meal and talk for a couple hours then go see his folks and do the same thing. His family doesn't take a yearly week long trip, so I understand if it feels strange to him, but I don't see him not wanting to spend two nights as a big huge ask. The kicker is that earlier this year, he complained that I had too many trips, I occasionally do girls trips with my friends, and have tried to plan an occasional trip for him and I that I think he and I would like, he loves camping, so a camping trip within a reasonable distance in a city we both want to see, for example. When he said this I said, I will make an effort to cut back on trips,

but I don't want you to feel like you have to come on all of the trips, I want you to feel comfortable, the only trip I care about you coming on this year is spending a weekend with me and my family in the mountains. Maybe he forgot I said this, but this really sticks out to me. Essentially I gave him a ton of notice, said it was really important to me, he told my parents, and my sweet grandma that loves him, that he would come for the weekend. Then last week, less than three weeks before the trip, I asked him what his schedule is like for July, he lets me know that unfortunately he is going to be on call that entire week and can't make it,

he can, however, make it to the other trip going on that month to go party at a friend's place, plans that were made several weeks ago. I was so disappointed, he told his work that the only week he couldn't be on call was the party house weekend, He didn't even attempt to ask me when my family trip was. I asked him why he didn't and he said, well, we did schedules at 4 p.m. That's kind of a weird time to text you. It's not. He offered to come up Thursday night which is the last night of the trip,

so he would arrive Thursday night, and we would leave Friday morning after cleaning the house that morning. That does not sound like fun to me. I said no worries on coming up for the last night. Honestly, I don't even want him to come at this point. He didn't offer any other alternative, so I can absolutely tell he isn't interested in coming. We were supposed to move in together but this plus a bunch of other stuff.

I sat him down a couple days ago and I said I can't move in. There are just too many concerns. He was upset but said he understood. The other concerns on my end include, him not being super verbal, him not wanting to talk on the phone, or text much. This has gotten slowly painfully better him not being incredibly motivated to switch jobs. He's been miserable for years and I have helped him edit his work. resume, sent links, tried not saying anything, tried being supportive. I have tried everything,

I know it is up to him, different drives as being much lower, different ideas of how often to go out, I like an occasional brewery and he would prefer to stay at home and watch Netflix, different ideas of diet, he doesn't really like fruits or veggies and eats out a ton, getting a little better. But I eat fairly healthily and I exercise 3-4x a week. Honestly, sometimes I want to wonder, is he even that into me? Then he will come over and be all cuddly and sweet and excited to see me, I have never experienced something this confusing before, the verbal stuff and texting and eating were getting better. So I naively thought he would come on this trip this time. He is sweet and kind and funny and very affectionate and loving and caring but I think I have

hit my limit, am I being unreasonable here about the vacation? Is it ridiculous to expect a so to come on part of a family trip two years in. Update, me, 27F, with my boyfriend, 29M, of two years, he keeps promising to go on family trips with me, then backs out at the last minute, he won't give any reason why. Well, it's been three weeks, and a lot has happened, first of all, thank you to everyone that took the time to read and respond, I sat him down the day after making that post, and I broke up with him, he was devastated, didn't see it coming at all, even though I had said we should wait to live together, and we'd had a discussion about me being unhappy. I didn't cry, I wasn't even that upset, I think tells me that I was getting over the

relationship slowly, and had known for a while that it wasn't meant to be, I mentioned the trip situation, as well as the different sex drives, and some other reasons, he asked if there was anything he could say or do and I said no, I was very nice to him. But very firm that it was over between us, I left that evening and we met up a week later to talk at his request, we have some friend overlap, so I thought it might be best. He told me he never thought I would leave, it never even crossed his mind that I would ever be frustrated enough to go, he said that several times, that he always thought there was always tomorrow to make things better, that was odd to me, I mean, we'd had like five to six conversations over the two years with me saying,

hey. I am not feeling loved and I am not feeling fulfilled here. Here is where it gets bizarre, he told me that the reason he hadn't wanted to hang two nights in a row and just did his own thing, and never wanted to grocery shop together or go do things was that he was preparing for moving in together, for a full year. By getting in as much bachelor time as he could, I asked if this was a conscious decision and he said yes, that just blows my mind, I asked him if he thought making the relationship weaker made sense for me to want to move in with him, he said, well, when you put it like that, no, I'm baffled. I don't know what. I don't know whether to believe that explanation or not, but it really doesn't matter. It just affirmed I made the

right decision, something I have not doubted for a second. Of course now he's all chatty Kathy and trying to show me he cares, but I told him we need to not talk anymore. There is literally nothing he could do that could change my mind. I told him that an effort after a breakup feels hollow to me, that I don't want a foundation like that for my relationship, that actions taken after a breakup or typically just to reduce pain, they aren't real change, that if he had wanted to hang more with me, or initiate sex with me, etc. He would have especially after many conversations, oh, and the low sex drive thing, turns out he is addicted to pornography, he was lying about it the entire time, I never knew because we didn't spend enough time together for me to understand,

and I of course never checked his stuff so I had no clue, usually I am intuitive. But I trusted him when he would turn me down after I was gone on a seven-day trip that it wasn't because he had done things a bunch, the fact that he was lying about it and chose to do it oversee me, it's so disappointing but I know I can do a lot better, he told me he would think about me and want me. But it was just easier to do things himself rather than call me up, I told him numerous times I would love to spontaneously come over, it's a 15-minute drive, and he never once took me up on that. I am not going to let it make me feel badly about myself, though. I know there have been people in the past that really enjoyed sex with me and

there will be someone in the future, I am over it. He told me that it wouldn't be an issue if we got back together, that is insulting because either he just wasn't interested in sex with me, but suddenly as if it means we can get back together. Or he was just lazy about it or something, I don't know which is worse, he said he feels like he made the biggest mistake of his life, I knew he didn't have a lot of relationship experience, but damn, 29 seems like a tough age to learn this particular life lesson, to value what you have and not take it for granted. Peace I am on the trip now with my family, and having an absolute blast, not one ounce of me has missed him or wished he were here.