AITA

It starts the same way

every single time,

more or less:

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a wall of text,

a cry for justice,

typed overnight,

or at lunch,

or in the morning,

or right after the drama.

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And it’s almost

never short.

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A birthday,

a wedding,

a roommate,

a boyfriend,

a fiancé,

a in-law,

cheating,

entitlement,

broken boundaries,

and so on,

and so forth.

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Sometimes,

context is missing,

and sometimes,

when its added,

things get worse.

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The players are set:

fake friends,

mean girls,

bitchy siblings,

homewreckers,

ex girlfriends/boyfriends/husbands/wives,

oh my.

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Sometimes,

there’s a line:

“they don’t usually act like this”.

Comments usually say:

“because they were hiding their true selves.”

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Usually,

an affair is exposed,

divorce happens,

abortions happen,

or miscarriages happen,

breakups happen,

misunderstandings are fixed,

but there’s a hopeful ending,

sort of.

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We read,

we judge,

we scroll

through other comments.

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YTA (you’re the asshole).

NTA (not the asshole).

ESH (everyone sucks here).

NAH (no assholes here).

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We just type furiously,

ready to console or condemn,

wondering who’s right,

who’s wrong,

who just has main character syndrome

and made it all up,

and who just used AI.

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Welcome

to the

chaos

that is life

and reddit.