The catharsis of this series really just boils down to listening to NL explain common unspoken social norms explicitly. It's great.

Am I the asshole for setting up a marriage for my Daughter(30) so I don't have to deal with her venting about work?

re first post: i actually broke up with my last s/o over something similar so i really sympathized with him. i think op worded it extraordinarily bad in making it sound like it was her fault he had these anger issues and so on, but it can be extremely stressful when some one is constantly relying on you to support them through their stressful situation, even when there are clear ways to remove the stress from BOTH of you. it's like some one using you to alleviate their problems without actually giving you a way to clear that stress from yourself. when it gets to the point that the wife is having breakdowns and work anxiety because of all the work she takes on and expecting her husband to act as a therapist to her, it's a problem, it goes beyond a married dynamic, even when the husband tried to set down boundaries. there is a line between simple venting and expecting vast mental support from some one

On that first story, unless the op was upselling it, it seemed like way more than just complaining about becky using all the milk at work, it was causing breakdowns. His anger was a problem, but he acknowledged that and went to therapy

In the Gheesling household Kanye stays on for the entire duration of the ride.

AITA for bringing up that the Roman Empire’s best known city wasn’t constructed within a 24hr period?

The pillow story was the most fake thing i have ever heard.

My mental health has become increasingly fragile in recent years. I understand that people need and outlet to vent to, but it can't always be me every day.

northern “just don’t have anger issues” lion

Bad take on the first story imo. Yeah, you should listen to a SO/spouse when they're bitching, but he said it was getting to the point where she was getting breakdowns because of it. Now, I don't understand the anger over it, but them not taking steps to improve a situation that has gotten that bad would be a deal breaker for me. (The guy is still the AH for treating his daughter that way tho. He may not like it, but in my opinion, you have a duty to support your child through stuff like that)

"Then she texts the brother and says 'Bad marriage day'" fucking killed me

“Who am I to judge” says the man who is a literal Chibi Judge on the thumbnail. +2

"AITA for cracking eggs to make an omelette?"

That last one gets me really hard lmao; I've NEVER worked in a place that "charges" to remake food. Quite honestly every single place for nearly 2 decades working in Pizza, to fast food, to "5 star dining", to tourist trap etc. They all literally just remade anything, pretty much no questions asked. The cost of the food is typically way lower then the price, and remaking it to make someone happy builds good will etc so you just do it. That place highly deserves the 1 star rating for sure, if they are that close to the margins tbh they should just shut down (which to be fair, most restaurants end up failing early on so maybe that's just where it's headed)

Just how I like to relax after a long workday. By judging you judging others judging themselves. Very meta, very judgey

Angel: Plenty of fish in the sea...

I would say this is another golden age of NL content, but honestly it's always all been golden. Also, poggers

Last post - that kind of chicken salad sandwich almost always comes with tomatoes in the UK, don't know if it's different where they are.

Okay about the Kanye West one, I think the update gives good context in that he clarifies that Kanye did not say “she just bleached her asshole”

"I don't wanna have to go get the Dyson down here and vacuum the Bugatti all-weather floormats out just because you ate some hickory sticks" was beautiful