r/AmItheasshole

35 posts · saved 27 August 2026

01 u/Apprehensive_Map525

AITA for telling my brother why our family did not attend his wife’s funeral?

This is a situation with a lot of layers. My (M38) brother’s (M41) wife (F43) passed after a heart attack a year and a half ago. She was relatively young, but truthfully, it wasn’t completely unexpected as she had many underlying issues caused by lifestyle decisions. I’m going to be honest and not sugarcoat anything. My late SIL was not the best person at all. She was not liked by many people, including her own mother, who stopped speaking to her 15 years ago. My family absolutely despised her, and cut contact off with my brother after he married her. She did not have any friends, as the community we live in also really hated her. The only person who enjoyed her presence was my brother. When my SIL passed, no one from my family except me attended the funeral. This is going to be hard to write out. My twin sister (F38) passed away four months ago. It was the hardest day of my life. My sister was and still is very loved by our family and the community as a whole. She passed in a car accident. The organizations that she volunteered for fundraised in her name and raised a large amount of money. Many people sent flowers, planted trees, and sent their prayers and condolences. Yesterday, I visited my brother after work, and thought we could grab a couple of drinks and chill. He drank more than normal, but I didn’t comment about it as I knew he was going through a lot of stress. As we were rambling and drunk, my brother randomly said that my twin sister “didn’t deserve” all the “worship” and that his wife deserved the same amount of attention and love. […]

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02 u/dassind20zeichen

AITA I keep my Bees desipte my new neighbor?

Hi, I have gotten a new neighbor at my families weekend home. They use their property all year around us mostly on weekends or during holidays. Last weekend the wife asked me what the second building on my property is with the colorful front. Its my bee house the collerfull things are the hives fronts. she got sour and told me they have to go as she is terrible allergic to bees. I have the hives in the 4th generation and invested a lot of cash in new equipment new electric honey extractor several new stainless honey buckets and rebuild most of the old units new insulation, new paint, and a lot of new frames as the old ones were about 60 years old. For us its a pure hobby farm as we have only 7 beehives and harvest about 300-400kg of honey yearly. Everything is permitted and zoned as a farm. we are exempt form noise regulations and pay way less tax too. they neighbor is raising hell for me to get rid of the bees or else. as i am not there all the time i cannot watch the property all the time and cameras are difficult as we do not have internet out there except of maybe star link which i am unwilling to pay for. The other property of the neighbor is not as nice as ours as they are in the bottom of the valley as we are on the south slope and have way more sun in the winter. therefore the neighbors change a lot the last 2 each stayed for 2 and 3 years. We own the place for the last 100 years and the bees have always been there. sorry for spelling as no AI tools are allowed here and i am not a native speaker. EDIT: […]

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03 u/Acceptable-Star-98

AITA for refusing to get my daughter the same internship as my stepson?

The main reason I'm asking this, is because I feel like I have no good options left. I'm in a position where I don't want to hurt my daughter, but I can't do something so against my morals. I've worked in finance for over 20 years. Not to get into details, but because of my career development, I have many connections to different firms. I also have two children, my daughter Hailey, and my stepson Hamza. Hailey has just finished college, and is now looking for an internship. Both of them have gotten internships through me, not in the 'title on paper' easy way, but nonetheless opportunities that a lot of other kids aren't fortunate enough to have. I can't just pull strings and get them hired, but I can suggest them as options to people who trust my word. Its important to note that I need to stake a substantial amount of my reputation on these internships, because I'm giving people my word that I'm not recommending these kids solely because they're mine, but because I actually trust in their ability. Hailey has been unsuccessful in the internships I've helped her with. I don't blame her for this, she's a very bright girl, but her talents may not lie strictly in the finance department, and that is ok. It does mean, that I can no longer recommend her to people, as I do have a reputation to manage, and looking like a tyrannical nepotist is pretty bad for business. My stepson on the other hand, has had the exact opposite experience. Despite being slightly less hardworking than his sister, he tends to be very good with people, and has a head for research. […]

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04 u/ReliefPretty5800

AITA for expecting my niece to pay a ticket she got with my car

So i 54M have a niece 17F, she REALLY wanted to go out to some concert and she asked if i could lend her my car. She’s used my stuff before and it’s not like she was a new driver. She came back later on and my car was fine. A week later i got a letter in the mail, apparently my niece was speeding and now i owe a $200 ticket as it’s my car. I confronted her and asked her to at least help pay but she refused, saying that it was my car and i should be responsible for it. I decided to go to my sister (her mom) and try to reason with her, but SHE sided with her as well. She started saying how she was a kid and it’s my responsibility as an adult. I’m split now, a part of me feels bad and wants to bail her out, while the other half feels angry as i trusted her to be responsible FYI: she didn’t get pulled over it was a speeding camera :) hope this clears anything up!

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05 u/HousingSpiritual3725

AITA for uninviting someone from a weekend cabin trip after multiple people said they would drop out if she came?

I (34F) organize an annual weekend getaway for a group of moms from our kids' school. There are usually seven or eight of us, and I handle reserving the house under my name. A few months ago when we started picking dates, everyone in our regular group chat was included, including "Kelly." Since then, Kelly has had major fallings out with two of the other women attending over some personal drama. Kelly is also known for being very confrontational when things get tense, so the dynamic in the wider group has been strained for weeks. Last week, as I was getting ready to collect everyone's share for the deposit, three different women reached out to me privately. Two said directly that they would not go if Kelly was sharing a house with them because of the hostility, and a third said she felt anxious about being stuck in an enclosed cabin given the bad blood. Nobody had sent money yet, so nothing was finalized. I felt stuck between losing half the group or having a miserable, volatile weekend. I decided to call Kelly directly. I tried to be gentle and explained that given the current tension with a couple of the attendees, sharing close quarters probably wasn't going to be enjoyable for anyone, and that it would be best if she sat this specific trip out. Kelly completely blew up. She called me a two-faced coward, accused me of picking sides in drama that had nothing to do with me, and said withdrawing an invite is petty middle-school bullying. […]

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