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AITA for letting three kids die?

I was patrolling at the border with two coworkers earlier today when we saw three toddles fall into the water. One of my coworkers tried to go to their rescue, but I told them not to do it, because they were probably already dead. Then we saw them resurface and cry for help, and my coworker tried to go and help them again, but I ordered her to stay put because she couldn't put herself in danger for kids we didn't know.

Now I think what I did and said was perfectly reasonable, it's not like I killed them myself or anything, but their ghosts appeared to me in my dreams and told me I was an AH for that so AITA?

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AITA for saving my friend’s life by giving him poison?

So I, (young adult, M) am a doctor, and am friends with this guy P (young adult, M) who is also a doctor. His family does NOT like me, but because of our jobs, we have a sort of alliance. One day, he got very sick. Like, literally almost-dead sick. His family freaked out and I tried to save him by giving him a modified poison that I thought would help him.

P’s family really didn’t care want me to do this for the sake of his life, but I was certain he’d die if I didn’t. It did save him, and his family forgave me, but I think they’re still wary around me because of it. AITA?

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aita for using the death of my friend's child for political reasons?

I (60's F) am in charge of a very large group living as an independent nation. I share the power however with a cleric who is in charge of the whole religious aspect. But to get to where I am now, I sacrificed a lot of things (including my own children) and that's all the fault of the spirits we worship. Recently, the last straw broke the camel's back, and I declared that we were at war with the whole religious thing. My cleric is avoiding me, I'm avoiding her, it's all fine and dandy, but my people are very superstitious and don't want to anger the spirits so they keep worshipping them, and act (including my second in command!) like i'm crazy.

Anyway, my friend S has a disabled child who was kidnapped in broad daylight and killed under her very eyes this morning. When it happened, and we failed to stop the perp, I simply declared publicly that it was further proof the spirits were at war with us like we were with them. Everyone rushed to help out S and now I feel like maybe my timing wasn't the best.

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AITA for killing my husband?

So, basically.. we both live in two seperate places. There is a law that says you cannot have children with somebody that is not in your place. But, I disobeyed. The leader found out and exiled me and my children. I brought them over the river tp my husband's place, or... I tried to. They *drowned.* His leader declined me.. and he called our children creatures. He acted as if they were objects. After I got my revenge on my home place by killing their doctor and somebody who watched my children die, I decided to go after him. I targeted his apprentice first, luring him in, and than i killed him. I think I'm COMPLETELY in the right here, because my children were whispering in my thoughts to kill them, three eyes for three eyes, you know? But maybe I could've been the asshole, I dunno. So, social media, am I the asshole?

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Aita for attacking my pupil?

the other day during PE one-on-one training, I attacked my pupil. we were training to fight, but some people said after that that we were supposed to fight without real weapons so as to not endanger each other, and I was an AH for actually making the kid bleed. He's fine though.

I honestly think it wasn't that big a deal because the kid (L, 15?M) asked me to fight as best as i can in order to challenge him and push him to be the best. And no one was hurt. L's father was there and he was horrified, and I might have overplayed it a bit because I can't stand him ever since he married my old high school sweetheart (L is their son, i don't know if it's relevant?) but again, L got a bandaid and was fine, there was no grievous injury or anything of the sort.

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AITA for saving a girl but dooming her brother?

I (???M) have come back in time after I died, to when I was super young, in order to save people. My first time around, B (F, and a teen at the time of the accident) was attacked by wild dogs with a friend (M, slightly older). The friend died, and B was gravely wounded. Like... very gravely. She kept the scars all her life and was left partially disabled and all.

Now we've come around the time when the wild dogs start getting spotted outside of our city, and I've been keeping a close eye on B and her friend. I managed to undo the circumstances that led them to go outside that day (basically, a very steep disagreement with a figure of authority) and they weren't hurt and didn't die.

However, B's twin brother, let's call him T, went instead of her, for some bullshit reason (this twat is always looking for trouble i swear) and now he's gotten attacked by the wild dogs. His wounds look exactly like that of B in my last life, and I fear that the price for saving B's friend's life and B's body and mind, was to sacrifice her brother's, which I didn't know at first. But since I was sent back by a higher force in order to save people, that must mean this equivalent exchange isn't necessary, because otherwise my mission would be impossible to complete. So I probably could have saved T too, had I known he had left the house.

AITA?

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AITA for changing my name?

I (teen M) have lost my father basically the day I was born. My mom gave me a name which makes no sense etymologically (we're big on etymology and name meaning in my culture) because it was a name they'd chosen with my dad before he died, and she didn't want to change it just because it didn't match my physical appearance (basically, the name refers to like... fire, but i have black hair not red like my mom. also it's a vague callback to one of my ancestors, but he also had red hair!).

Every time someone called my name, I felt like they only had expectations for me to fulfill, like be like my dad or be like my mom, or like my grandparents who are war heroes, or like my ancestor who's even better, instead of just... being me.

So at some point, I asked to change my name to something that was more like me. I should probably precise I did it without telling anyone in my family, and interrupted a sacred ceremony to ask for the name change, in front of everyone, because my sister told me I had to precise it if I asked the internet their opinion. I don't think it changes anything to that. They weren't entitled to know how I felt about my name or that I'd change it, and the time and place are hardly relevant.

AITA?

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AITA for disliking my ex for her new partner?

Me and my ex (S) dated for a while, all while her ex (B) was being a massive dick to her. We both agreed, he sucked. Me and her were never officially an item (at least she'll say that) but we were off and on while he was bullying her.

Then, out of literally nowhere, she gets back together with him?? He's still awful, but he apologizes once and she gets back with him? What the hell!?

I should mention that B is the son of the guy who killed my mom and also looks just like him, so sorry if I'm a little upset that my girlfriend chooses him over me!

Anyway, I think I was rightfully pissed by this, but I still wanted to be the bigger person here, so when some guy asked me to help kill B's mentor of course I helped him. He's also S's father but semantics, y'know?

But that failed, so I gave up, until there was a very convenient fire, and S and her kids were in danger, and y'know accidents happen I thought, it sure would be bad if B's entire family dies- but then she tells me the kids aren't even hers!! What the hell!? So she just doesn't love them because they're not biological!?

Whatever, so I use this information and plan on breaking B's heart at the gathering by telling everyone in front of him, but then one of the kids killed me!! Rude much??

Anyway, I don't think I'm that out of line for being mad that my ex girlfriend left me for the son of the guy that killed my mom and also treated her like a dick and also was so much worse to her and girls never want nice guys, but others seem to think I was out of line for trying to kill her about it. AITA?

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AITA for faking a sign from the gods?

I (early 20's M) have a twin sister, M. She's always wanted to go into the only med school on our territory but her inscription was just.... hanging there because the doctor in charge is unsure about if she should be his pupil, for racist/classist reasons (our dad is from another country, our mom is basically homeless, we were abandoned at our current home and raised by the whole neighbourhood from when we were children).

When we were 11, she opened up about wanting to go to the med school and everything, that's when the whole situation is happening. Because her name basically means butterfly, i went and found a dead butterfly and put it on the doorstep of the doctor. When he came out of his house, he decided it was an omen from the gods to say she could become his pupil, which is what I had planned.

Now we're adults, she's taken over her mentor's business, and I needed a favor so I asked her for it. She didn't want to, so I told her she should because it would repay the favor of faking a sign for her. She didn't know before that I had faked it. Now her whole faith is shaken and she's a millimeter away from depression. She told me I was an AH for faking a sign in the first place, but she agreed to help me so I wouldn't reveal it to everyone and she wouldn't lose her job.

so AITA for faking that sign?

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AITA for not telling this guy i was pregnant from him?

C (young adult, M) and I (young adult, F) have run away from our homes together and spent a few days in a squat hoping no one would find us, but then we learned through a friend of C who met us by chance that my family was in danger, so I went back to help them. Because we'd run away in the first place, and because our families hate each other, there's zero chance we'll ever be able to run away again or to even live together.

I realized a few weeks after our failed elopement that I was pregnant from him. Since I don't have another boyfriend, and because of the dates matching and all, I knew if anyone realized I was pregnant, they'd connect the dots, which would only put C and I both to risk. So I didn't tell him anything, and asked my twin sister to fake a pregnancy so she could take my future child(ren? we have a tendency to multiple births in the family) and raise them as her own. At first, she didn't really want to, but then a doctor told her she couldn't have children of her own, so she agreed.

Now I'm in the middle of nowhere waiting to give birth, with my sister by my side, because obviously we can't go to a hospital or everyone would realize that she's not the one giving birth, and I'm wondering if i'm AITA for not telling C he's going to become a father.

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AITA for joining my dad's bootcamp?

My sister T and I (twins) and my half brother H have been contacted by our estranged father to join his bootcamp and become the best and the strongest and whatever, you know marketing for these stuff.

T advised me to stay out of it because our dad has a very bad reputation around those parts and being associated with him would only hurt me, but honestly I'm conflicted.

Dad left (was exiled) when I was a toddler, and when T and I were teens, he offered us to join him, now that his position in exile was actually powerful and strong instead of just some drifter in imminent danger of death. I refused, but T joined him. So in a way, she had more of a relationship with him than I did, until he was once again forced to leave her behind. Now that he's taken contact with us again, I want to get to know him too, and also to know H because we only learned we were related recently, and we live too far from each other to see each other regularly except at that bootcamp where we'd train together. So really, I want to go to be with my family.

I signed up, but my sister seems displeased with that, and since my girlfriend doesn't like H, I'm afraid she'll realize I spent a lot of time with him somehow, and leave me over it, which honestly would be such a stupid thing to do but she does tend to do stupid stuff.

AITA for joining my dad's bootcamp?

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AITA for refusing to join my dad's bootcamp?

I am adult, and F. When I was still a toddler, my dad (T) got thrown out of the house by the head of family (i don't actually think i'm related to the head of family? it's more like three or four large families living in the same place tbh) because he had killed a guy (intentionally) and disabled a girl for life (accidentally - well she wasn't the one he was targeting).

Anyway, I didn't know that when T came back at the head of his own group of families (he'd basically been chosen by another, already formed group, to take over their head of family who had died of sickness) and he asked that my twin brother (B, same age as me, at the time we were teens) and I join him because we were his children and it was only fair. Nothing was said about our mom being allowed to come too or anything? It was a bit fishy and people refused to let us go anyway.

But the thing is, ever since T had been banished, the whole group/family has been treating B and I like complete, utter garbage. The only person who treated us well was our mom. B even got an adult assigned to watching over him so he didn't because some psycho killer or something, just because he looks like our dad ig. Now, having an adult watching over each child as they are teens is a thing in the group i'm in, it's not shocking, but there's a relationship based on trust supposed to be born of this care, and here it was the contrary, so it sucked. PLUS! We didn't know why we were being treated like that, because no one told us what had happened to our dad! The adult who didn't trust B only took us aside when we were like 12 to explain to us that the guy was a monster. And he only did it because our dad had been trying to contact us and he wanted us to hear our family's side of the story before T's.

When I was around 15, I snuck away in the middle of the night to join my dad because i was sick of the bullying/harassment/mistrust. When it became public, B was put on the spot (he didn't know i'd left for that either) and refused to join me, which stung but you know. That's his choice and I respect him. It seems that everyone trusts him much more now that he's made a public display of loyalty.

When I came to live with T, I realized he was, actually, a complete POS and I shouldn't have come. But also, people in his group actually treated me well, so I didn't regret my choice. When T realized I didn't want to become a mini version of him, we became rather distant, until he left the group entirely (through no choice of his, may i add).

I learned later that, before I joined his group, he found a side chick with whom he had twins too, but she left before he knew she was pregnant. I learned that when she outed the boy twin (H, at the time a young adult, he's what... twleve years younger than us?) as T's son at a public gathering, like six months ago.

Since then, I've learned that T has been rekindling contact with B and H, when he took contact with me too. He basically tried to persuade all three of us (no sign of his other daughter, but she's in medschool so i suppose that's not the profile he was looking for) to join his bootcamp in which he'd teach us how to become "better versions of ourselves". Because he's an AH and because I've been learning all these years since he left that I shouldn't build my life around what others want me to be, I refused to join his bootcamp, and I advised B to refuse too (i'm not close enough from H to give him this kind of advice).

But now i'm thinking that, since he couldn't spend our childhoods with any of us, maybe he's just trying to keep in contact, you know, through teaching us and bonding with us, with sports and workout being the only things he knew how to do so that's what he focused on. Maybe I'm making a mistake, and seeing, as an adult, what he's like, would give me more perspective? What if i'm being as narrow minded as the bullies from my childhood? IDK what to do.

AITA for not joining my dad's bootcamp?

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WIBTA for pretending to forget what my girlfriend told me and leave it inthe past?

I (M, mid 20's) have a very difficult relationship with my late father. He's a bit infamous in the neighborhood because he killed several people (my mom left him just after I was born but I look like him and still have his last name because in my country we can't change last names soooo) and everyone is judging me after him, always thinking I'm going to start killing people or something.

I've been on a road trip with a bunch of people, including my sister, and my boss' daughter S (F, 16? at the beginning of the road trip but now she's an adult) who's now become my girlfriend. When we came back, my boss was glad to see his daughter (turns out she'd left without telling him?? i mean i knew that but I'd forgotten) but gave me the stink eye. Then, as we were preparing for a big project at work, my direct superior disappeared, got abducted or something, and since we had this big project incoming, everyone expected that a temporary (at least) replacement would be named. I honestly thought it would be me, because even if I don't have the management experience required blah blah blah at least i'd gone on this road trip and taht was more experience than I needed you know? Plus managing my girlfriend is like lol she's high maintenance.

But he didn't pick anyone to replace the guy and basically said team leaders would share the duties, as if they had nothing else to do! Meanwhile I'm here, with no "team leader" duties to fill my days, and I could have done it! But back to my problem.

At the very beginning of the work project, a drifter came around and told a guy (early 20's, H) from another company we're exceptionally working with that the work was too dangerous and she wanted him to go home with her (turns out she's his estranged mother??) and when the guy refused, she outed him in front of everyone as my stinky father's son! The guy had cheated on my mom??? And now I've got a half-brother! (he's got a sister too but honestly i don't know her much)

Anyway the group project went well, I bonded with my brother H (despite my girlfriend being so URGH annoying about it i'm sure she's only suspicious of him because he looks like my dad but then what does she think of me??? does she not realize how it makes me feel???) and when it stopped, we promised to stay in contact. We've been seeing each other for a while now.

Recently, there was an attempted murder on another company's boss, and my brother was one of the main suspects but he told me he was innocent, and i'm sure they only suspect him because, again, our dad. Which is so unfair. My girlfriend has been pushing for me to not trust him blindly but what does she know about being always judged after one's father????

There was a new team leader appointed recently, that's a guy who's been trying to get with my girlfriend as if my life hadn't been going bad enough lately, and like not only is this guy chosen as team leader instead of me, who's had all that road trip + big project experience, but he's trying to be with my girl yk.

Then, my girlfriend's twin sister told her dad (our boss) that she had had a vision of me protecting our company, and her dad appointed me at the post that i wanted!!!! So it was going well! She also told her sister that she totally saw us as a perfect couple and my girlfriend went back to me, which is also what i wanted!!!

But then our boss got assaulted and left for dead (he got better) by a guy who was identified and killed upon arrest and it was my brother, so it's a bit awkward with my girlfriend because now she's going to believe that she was right all along. So i'm going to pretend we're just a perfect couple (which we are!) that always got along and never quarreled, so she doesn't feel stupid or anything.

Would I be the AH if I put her stupid accusations to rest and never talked about it again? It feels like the best honestly

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AITA for feeling betrayed?

I (M,mid 40's) have a wonderful wife S (F, late 30's) whom i've been with since she was in high school. Her sister, L (same age) is a nun from one of those orders that manage hospitals and such? So like nun + doctor at once. I couldn't stand her when she was a teen but i don't really care anymore. S and I have three kids together (triplets, two M and one F, barely adult).

My daughter recently came forward to reveal that after investigation, her brothers and her had discovered they had been adopted. Their real mom? L, who, again, is a nun. (that's also the reason she gave away her children at birth and hid the truth from everyone). The father? this shithead I never could stand from back in high school (well he was my wife's generation not mine but we still evolved in the same social circles for a while)

But what really hurt me was the fact my wife didn't feel like she could trust me with the truth. Ever since it's been revealed, I've been avoiding my children (well, they're not my children are they? + i've been feeding them all this time and playing with them and stuff and they weren't even mine? biggest scam ever) and giving the cold shoulder on my wife. I've left the house to go sleep on a friend's couch. Since we work together, and i'm her boss, i've been giving her harder and more work because i don't want her to have the time to see me or chat with me, and when she does try to, i'm avoiding her.

Someone told me that i was an AH and that if i treated them all like that after realizing they weren't my kids then S was right not to tell me, but I think we wouldn't have had this problem if she hadn't hidden that from me in the first place. + her niece/daughter died just after revealing the truth, in a landslide, so everyone expects me to mourn her like she was my daughter but she literally... isn't???

So AITA for reacting like that?

Edit: stop saying my 25 yo self had beef with a pair of teens or that I'm disgusting for dating my future wife when she was still in high school! That's not part of the problem here!

Edit n°2: obviously some of y'all in the notes know my ex so you really can't be objective.

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AITA for not realizing my husband had been possessed by an evil ghost?

When I was a teen and first met my future husband (B), I had this kind of relationship which we honestly never defined and it didn't last more than a week with this older guy (A). When I got with my husband, A seemed hurt, but I figured he'd get better yk. I mean we were teens/young adults.

After a bunch of events I won't tell you, we're here, fifty years later, I'm starting to feel old but I'm still doing my job, my husband divorced me then remarried me, became mayor of our little city, and I adopted three children and had four of my own (two of which died very young), and also A got murdered pretty gruesomely, we discovered later it was our adopted daughter who had killed him which... yikes. Legitimate defence and all but still.

Recently, my husband and I got distant again, not as abruptly as when he divorced me without any kind of forewarning, but still. I got sick of how he treated me, he told me I was the one treating him wrong, etc. Then my twin sister died and while I can only acknowledge that he isn't entirely responsible, if he'd done as I suggested MULTIPLE TIMES she wouldn't have died so there's also that strain. A bit after my sister's death, my husband got sick, then in a coma. When he awoke, the only thing changed was that he was more clingy with me, preventing me from going to work in the morning and stuff like we'd never shared a bed before or something. At work though, he treated a lot of people super harshly, he didn't recognize some of our coworkers, he even fired our own daughter for some petty reason, started policing what everyone said and even thought. Complete bullshit, but after having been married to him for 40 years (with a five or seven years gap in the middle) I'm used to him being borderline obsessive with what people think of him or what I do with my days or who anyone sees outside of work etc.

Then this guy (distant relative and also training under a coworker of my late sister) came around and made some kind of... ritual exorcism??? and there's a lot of stuff like someone drowning in a pool and someone being killed in their sleep by angry ghosts and people being trapped inside and outside of Heaven and stuff but i'll spare you the details, and hop! My husband's back to pre-coma state and apparently what happened ever since was because he'd been possessed by A's ghost, which is super weird honestly i didn't even know ghosts could possess the living?

And now I'm wondering AITA for not realizing the difference?

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AITA for telling my girlfriend I care about her in a way that she didn't like?

I (60??M) am at the top of my field, and my second-in-command is also my girlfriend S (late 40's?F) with whom I've been since she was 20. So we're pretty much tight-knit: we sleep together, we eat together, we work together, have been for years. First I worked with her father, then when he died I took over his job and she took over mine.

The jobs we have are heavy with responsibilities: from what we decide, on different levels (basically, i take the big decisions and do diplomatic/PR work, and she manages the day-to-day stuff) can depend the lives of everyone under us but also about four times the people we are directly responsible for.

Once you've got that context, here comes:

Lately, I've been noticing some distance in my girlfriend and I's relationship: when she said she wanted to have more children (we have two wonderful, healthy kids and two other who died at birth or in their infancy), I said she totally could have more but I just wouldn't be present because I'm very busy, which I think is a totally reasonable response, but she just decided then unilaterally that she wouldn't have more children because I apparently didn't want any more children??? (girl i said I was fine with it!); at another point, she invited a friend over because the friend had been attacked and our place was closer than hers. I said the friend could stay but I wouldn't give them my first aid kit. She went behind my back to not only get her friend medical care but also to get her back home by getting another friend to pick her up! Despite me saying multiple times I didn't want her friends over! At some other point, while we were arguing, our pregnant daughter (~20) got afraid she was going to have a miscarriage and S got the absolute galls to say our daughter's anxiety was my fault for yelling in front of her, even when it was revealed she wasn't having a miscarriage, just cramps! A bit later, during a work meeting with her sister and two of her sister's colleagues (her sister, L, is head of her branch but still directly under us both) she decided to take the side of her sister over me, even when I'm the one who was right and also, like, her boyfriend and her boss!

Ever since her wounded friend left and we argued about her sister and all, she's been giving me the cold shoulder, always going outside for her work even if i know she doesn't have to be in every outing! It's like she doesn't even care that I know she's giving me the cold shoulder! Plus, there's recently been cases of some kind of flu variant inside our social circles, with our son-in-law taken ill recently, and S pretends that her friends I don't like know how to treat it, as if that wasn't some kind of trick to force me to let her spend time with them! Then our daughter went into early labour, our son-in-law died of his sickness while in the birthroom, and one of their children died at birth, too. Our daughter has PPD and my girlfriend is super worried.

Anyway, one of her friends is pregnant too, but they're squatting an uninhabited lot that belonged to no one until it was bought like two days ago by my nephew, who wants to put a family he knows in that place. To be clear, the friend is very heavily pregnant, and the family is not homeless or anything and there's no urgency, but my nephew's been asking me to intervene for a while so I ordered S to take a bunch of people and scare her friends away. She was cross about that so I told her she clearly cared for about those weird friends than about her real family and real friends.

She brought a freaking nurse to help the pregnant friend, as if i hadn't specifilcaly forbidden any contact with them except to scare them away, and then the guys my nephew and myself had sent arrived and there was kind of a riot inside the squatter's place. Part of a wall collapsed, S's sister L died, as well as the pregnant lady (she'd given birth like five minutes earlier and her child survived but honestly i want nothing to do with it) and S was put in a coma. When she woke up, I crashed into the room and told her I didn't hold her accountable for everything that had gone wrong, and all she found to say was that she was going to miss her sister? As if that was my fault she'd died??? Like, didn't she see I was being super nice?

Anyway, AITA for apparently picking the wrong moment or wrong way to tell my GF I liked her???