A woman shared how she is paranoid and worried because he boyfriend is always initiating to meet his female friend one on one.

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BF always initiates to meet his female friend 1 on 1, is this normal?

My bf has a close female friend. They’re friends years before I got together with him. He seems kinda protective over this relationship and tend to divulge very few details to me about her and their meetups.

Though they meet once every 3 months or so, bf will make an effort to rush over to meet her at their dinner place even though he usually has OT, then send her home after a 3-4 hrs dinner at a mid/high end restaurant.

While her house is somewhat along the way, he had to take the further route home, pay for ERP and drive in/upslope to the estate, spending additional 15-20 min on his journey which is rather inconvenient.

I came across his chat messages recently and found that he is always the one initiating to meet the female friend, offering to send/pick her home, asking how is her work going, celebrating her bday etc and she had never initiated once and never celebrated his bday.

She also frequently left his messages on double tick and he had to double/triple text her to ask her out for a meal again.

I don’t think the female friend has any intentions to stay near my bf given her lack of enthusiasm and often no replies in the text conversation but I’m feeing wary as to why my bf is willing to put in so much effort in meeting this friend of his.

He also shares with her about my salary, work and rants i shared with him but on the other hand I knew nothing about her.

FYI. he also didn’t entertain the idea of bringing me over for a meal with his female friend despite me asking. 

Am I being paranoid?

A netizen shared how she received a letter one day, presumably from someone’s wife, claiming that her neighbour is a homewrecker.

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I’m on talking terms with my neighbor next door. A single mother in her late 60s maybe and with her 2 single adults daughters in their 40s.

Recently I got a letter in the mailbox from an unknown source. The letter says one of the daughter is a homewreaker and some other embarrassing details.

Basically it described the daughter clinging onto another married man and being very brazen about it. I think the letter was mass produced and circulated.

I guess the letter was made by someone’s wife. Tbh I don’t know how should I react to such a letter because both our families actually have regular contact.

I told my husband to keep to ourselves for now but he has to reduce interaction with them for sure. Now I find it awkward should I bump into them.

I’m pretty disturbed. Am I over reacting?

My husband has helped them with some errands before during lockdown. Sometimes they need help with some tasks that require strength and I didn’t mind that my husband go over to help in the past.

But now I think I should just tell my husband don’t help them anymore. Am I being petty?

I know the letter could be fake. But there won’t be smoke without fire.

A woman working in the technical support department shared how a male customer kept coming back and asking for her, and it ended up with the man’s wife confronting her.

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I’m in the technical support department. Recently I was assigned to take this case and the customer was a guy. It’s just a routine job so I didn’t think much of it when I settled the case.

The thing is this guy kept coming back and asking for me.

I thought maybe I did a bad job and tried to find out if I needed to do any kind of service recovery. He asked a lot of various questions over the next few weeks so I did my best to answer his concerns. Things start to get weird when he started to ask me about my personal life.

I stopped answering and transferred the case to a male colleague and gave the reason that I’m ‘on leave’.

When I got back from ‘leave’, the customer’s wife called and asked for me. She wanted to confront me. Because I have to be professional, I told her everything I said to him was in the chat, I have nothing to hide, so I left it as that and kept quiet.

I’m so pissed. I’m just doing my job, I checked all the exchanges and also let my collegues check. My team agreed I didn’t say anything out of line.

She should be confronting her own itchy backside husband. Why is she coming to me?!

I have a friend who recently started a business selling her own handmade accessories online. She was having a really hard time health-wise and had to be hospitalised for a number of months and was making posts openly discussing her situation with her large following (7k followers) encouraging people to buy her stuff to help pay for her hospital bills.

I was keen to help her out so I spent about 150 on some of her stuff and after this she made posts saying there would be a delay on orders due to her hospitalisation by 1 month, which then got extended out to 2 months. I was fine with this as I understood it was a difficult time for her to adjust.

I received notification that my item had been sent, however, I didn’t receive it after a month of waiting and when I followed up with the private shipping company she used, they informed me that she never dropped the item off for delivery.

In the mean time she has been making posts with “high profile” customers, stylists and musicians who have received her stuff and loved it and shared posts by customers with a large following wearing her stuff. She even posted saying she isn’t taking any more orders, as she is full for months to come.

While she was making these posts, the shipping company had tried to contact her on my behalf but didn’t receive a response. I waited a couple of days and then emailed her directly to follow up, but I didn’t hear back. After about 3 days, I then went on to message her on Instagram on Wednesday, explaining the situation but telling her that I am quite short of cash right now and would like to be refunded if she can’t fulfil the order and I understand it’s a difficult time for her right now. In the meantime, she was posting regularly to her story and made a big post where she responded to a number of the people who commented.

I tried contacting my bank to get a refund, but because it was over 30 days they couldn’t issue it to me.

I was very angry about this and sent her a pretty blunt message telling her that I think she was being very selfish by ignoring me.

She finally responded and saying due to mental problems she cant return me my money.

Two netizens shared their experience online after they got scammed because they were greedy.

Scam victim 1:

I was contacted by this person on Telegram asking if i was interested in a job and asked if it was ok if her client contact me directly through WhatsApp.

This person called Shi Hui contacted me and told me about the job. She told me she was from Moni pte ltd” and they needed people to help her submit an order to boost the client website. At first i used her account and submit the order and when I faced a recharge “boost” item she would top up her account and at the end of 30 orders she would receive 5% commission. She also added me to this WhatsApp group where there was two new guy added in too, Ong and Bernard where they also successfully withdrew the amount. During recharge, I was asked to contact their Moni customer service and she gave me a number.

The first day I got my recharge amount and the commission back but on the 2nd day. The recharge amount got larger and eventually, I realised I got scammed.

Scam victim 2:

Saw this easy packing job such as fold boxes or pack buttons. Contacted the number in facebook. The person shared videos on how to pack the items and the varies payment when you accomplished a task. If u finish 2 task u get reward $340. The catch is, you need to pay deposit of $100 or $140 vip. $100 only allow you lower pay out jobs and no choosing task. $140 is higher paid and you can choose and have priority to the job. Kept asking if i am able to accept making payment for deposit before he continues. Deposit will be refunded upon completion of 2 tasks. The moment i said not comfortable, he rudely told me to continue finding free jobs and block my number.

The items that you pack are cheap- paper boxes, folding envelope, buttons, ziplock, beads. These are less than what you would have paid $100 minimum as deposit. They may probably deliver to you the goods and disappear without collecting your finished task. By then too late to realise you have been scammed. Which job requires one to make deposit first before starting?

My husband and I have been together for 4 years. We currently live together and we are expecting our first child in early April. I don’t have the best relationship with my parents due to traumatic drug-related things that happened in my childhood, so I’m SEVERELY in low contact with them. However, my husband has the absolute best relationship with his family. I always admired him for being so family-oriented.

I was talking with my husband last week about birth plans for the hospital. He mentioned how his mom & aunts invited themselves to be there. I told him I wasn’t comfortable with that, it was just him. He said he didn’t understand the big deal, so I told him once again, no, it’s just him, I don’t want to be too overwhelmed with his entire family there. He got upset, but I thought he understood.

Flash forward to yesterday. We were invited over for dinner at his mom’s place (we usually are every Friday) and things felt… Off. His aunts kept giving me the side-eye, his mom was unusually silent, and no one really seemed to acknowledge me. After dinner, I was pulled aside by his mother who called me a “rude and ungrateful person” because I’m a “druggie”.

They say they won’t acknowledge the grandchild cause the mother is a “druggie”. That was an unfortunate incident I had when I was a child and I have stayed clean for over 10 years. What do they want.

My husband can’t be bothered to defend me and I feel like going to give birth to the child alone without anyone of them by my side including my husband.

I have no idea what to do, BUt I want him in the room but I’m just really upset with this whole situation.

What should I do?

A girl shared how her dog is dying from cancer and nobody cares or has reached out to her, not even her parents, and she is heartbroken.

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My dog is literally on death’s door. He’s full of cancer and the appointment to put him down is already booked. I’m heartbroken.

He’s had a long 12 years of life, he’s been spoiled, and he will be dying with dignity and with no pain. So it’s been a success in terms of dog ownership goes…

I just love him so much and it’s been so incredibly hard.

Not a single one of my friends or family have reached out about it. Not one. Not even my parents. They know about it, it’s come across in many conversations and I’ve also made some posts on social media about it.

Not a single one of them has actively reached out and asked how I’m doing or to offer condolences.

I understand everyone is busy with their own lives (we’re in our 30s) but dammit man that just adds onto the hurt.

It’s wild how as you get older people genuinely don’t care. I’m at a loss.

Netizen’s comments

• People often care but are concerned with actively engaging in a hurtful topic with people experiencing pain. Just so you know. I care and I really hope you get through this transition with a sense of peace and love.

• Same thing happened to me, sometimes people just done care, and don’t know how much a pet means to pet owners. It will be tough at first but it will get easier to deal with the pain in the coming weeks. Sorry for your loss.

My friend and her son came over for a visit and we left her son inside when we went to see the new table my husband worked on from TaoBao. Her son sneaked into my fridge and took out a bunch of brownies that contains alcohol. I infuse them for myself from orange liqueur (I have chronic pain) and they were leftovers from the previous day.

He ate 2 but we didn’t notice until he started to act weird and admitted he ate the brownies from my fridge. My friend freaked out and thought he dying and when I told her it was alcohol but she refused to believe me and called the ambulance despite me offering to drive him to the hospital.

The paramedics checked him over and told her they could bring him to the hospital but he would recover by himself at home. She took him home rather than go to the hospital and it’s been a few weeks but has since sent me a bill for over $800 claiming I poisoned her son and I should at least pay for the ambulance.

I’ll admit the fridge was probably too tempting but her son is 10 and I’m surprised a 10-year-old would just eat stuff from people’s fridges without asking. I called her up and told her I couldn’t afford to pay it and also that so told her it was regular orange liqueur and we could have driven him to the hospital without an ambulance.

She said she can’t pay it either and because it’s my alcohol I should pay for it.

Here are what netizens think:

• 10 years old is definitely old enough to have a sense of guest etiquette and know you shouldn’t go rummaging in someone’s fridge like that. I’d respond with a $2,350 invoice for the brownies he stole.

• Your friend wants you to pay because she cannot afford it. She knows her son is in the wrong for going in your fridge and taking something without asking. She’s trying to guilt you. Is that a good friend? You decide and either let her and her son back or not.

• I’d write RETURN TO SENDER on that invoice and slip a little coco powder in the envelope for good measure. LOL. 10 is too dam old to go through peoples fridge w/o permission. Period.