Dear Snarky, I think I could be in the middle of a Bridezilla situation. I’m one of four bridesmaids in a very good friend’s wedding. The friend getting married is in her mid 30s and […]
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Dear Snarky – My Daughter Asked Me to Spy on Her Husband and Now She’s Blaming Me For Her Bad Marriage
Dear Snarky I’m in the middle of a huge fight with my daughter and it’s making me so sad. A couple of months ago my daughter (she’s 28) suspected that her husband was cheating on […]
Dear Snarky – My Sister is Literally Making My Wedding All About Her
Dear Snarky, I feel like my sister is stealing my joy. I’m three months away from getting married and she has attempted to not only make herself the center of attention but to actually make […]
Dear Snarky – My Daughter’s Dorm Roommate’s Mother Has Moved in
Dear Snarky, I’m very confused and upset over a situation my daughter is going through. She’s a freshman in college and is living in the dorm with one roommate. Both my daughter and her roommate […]
Dear Snarky – Oops, a Former Sexting Relationship is Coming Back to Haunt Me
Dear Snarky, I think I might need to quit my job. I don’t want to because I love my job and the pay and benefits are really good but some stuff has happened that’s making […]
Dear Snarky – I Was Gaslighted On My Vacay
Dear Snarky, Families suck! I just got back from what I thought was a great and successful vacation with my brother and his family. We aren’t that close and recently out of the blue he […]
Dear Snarky – My Cousin Violated Our Family Privacy for TikTok Fame
Dear Snarky, I don’t think I’ve ever been so angry at a family member. My grandparents have a lake house that the entire extended family uses so in the summer we are all together a […]
Dear Snarky – My Friends Are Hating On My New Boyfriend
Dear Snarky, I’m very disappointed that my friends aren’t supporting my new relationship. I have been there for all my girlfriends during good times and bad and now when I’m so happy all I’ve been […]
Dear Snarky – My Sister Stole My Identity
Dear Snarky, I’m in shock over what my sister has done to my life. Six months ago I found out that someone had opened a bunch of credit cards (14 to be exact) in my […]
Dear Snarky – I’m Not a Crazy Cheer Mom!
Dear Snarky, I’m in a power struggle with my daughter’s high school. My seventeen-year-old is a gifted gymnast and cheerleader and she’s been on her high school cheer team since her freshman year. Since my […]
Dear Snarky – My Mother-In-Law Subjected Me to a “Fat Intervention”
Dear Snarky, I’ve just had the most disturbing experience with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. I was in town for my sister-in-law’s baby shower and after the shower the three of us went back to my […]
Dear Snarky – How Do I Get Out of a Family Vacation Tradition That Sucks
Dear Snarky, I’m ashamed to admit this but the pandemic had a serious upside for my husband and I and it was that we didn’t have to see his extended family. For some reason my […]
Dear Snarky – Our Toxic Mom Wants Us to Take Care of Her
Dear Snarky, I’m the youngest of three (I’m 40) and our mother has recently attempted to worm her way back into our lives. Since our dad divorced our mom when I was six all of […]
Dear Snarky – My DIL Wants My Husband & I To Pay For a Wedding “Do Over”
Dear Snarky, I need you to tell me I was within my rights as a mother-in-law about how I reacted when my daughter-in-law of almost a year reached out to my husband and I and […]
Dear Snarky – Why Duct Tape Shouldn’t Be Used for Estate Planning
Dear Snarky, My mother recently died and over the years she told us what pieces of furniture, silver etc that she would like for each of her three daughters to have. My mother was an […]
Dear Snarky – Post Wedding Bridesmaid Dress Drama
Dear Snarky, My greedy bridesmaids have really hurt my feelings. I had a beautiful wedding on February 12 and because I didn’t want to be a bridezilla I paid for each bridesmaid’s dress. It was […]
Dear Snarky – Is this Baby’s Name “Two” Much?
Dear Snarky, My sister just had a baby and when she told me what she wanted to name her brand-new son I offered some advice based on my years as an elementary school teacher. Their […]
Dear Snarky – Office Desk Drama
Dear Snarky, I think I have been the victim of wrongful disciplinary action at work. In fact, the person who was in the wrong didn’t get in trouble at all. This has left me very […]
Dear Snarky – My In-Laws Want to Live With Us
Dear Snarky, My husband has “tentatively” given his parents’ permission to move in with us. We don’t live in a large home. It’s just three bedrooms, two baths and we have two kids, two dogs, […]
Dear Snarky – I’m Scared About a Valentine’s Day Proposal
I’m scared to death that my boyfriend is going to propose on Valentine’s Day. I heard from a friend that he’s going to do it at halftime at a basketball game at our alma mater. […]
Dear Snarky – I Got a Fake Engagement Ring
Dear Snarky, I just found out my fiancée bought me a fake engagement ring. Technically it’s not a fake diamond but it’s definitely not a real mined diamond. After hearing Lala Kent from “Vanderpump Rules” […]
Dear Snarky – My Husband Wants to Give Our Daughter the Same Name as His Ex-Fiancée 🤯
Dear Snarky, I’m pregnant with my first baby and it’s going to be a girl. I’m very excited but I’m in the middle of a baby naming nightmare with my husband. He wants to name […]
Dear Snarky – My Sister is Blackmailing my Parents
Dear Snarky, There’s some major shit going down in our family. My sister is blackmailing my parents into giving her money for a down payment on a home. It started on New Year’s Eve where […]
Dear Snarky – Jerk Alert! An Almost Family Member is Planning on Using Supply Chain Issues as an Excuse to Not Buy Christmas Gifts
Dear Snarky, My brother-in-law’s fiancée “Taylor” is shady AF. We had a family dinner last week and she made a big deal of asking all her future nieces and nephews what they wanted for Christmas […]
Help Snarky – My Twin is Dating My Ex-Husband
Dear Snarky, I’ve got a big problem with my (not identical) twin sister. She’s dating my ex-husband and we’ve only been officially divorced for six months. My whole family is WTF about this but my […]
Dear Snarky – Should I Go to H.R. About my creepy boss?
Dear Snarky, I feel like I have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. My problem is that my married boss is fooling around with a very young co-worker (also one […]
Dear Snarky – A Friend used my Pre-Schooler to Boost her TIKTOK VIews
Dear Snarky, I’m really mad about something and when I told some friends what I was mad about they said I was overreacting and should take what happened as a compliment. I have a four-year-old […]
Dear Snarky – My MIL Stole a $500 Wedding Present From Me
Dear Snarky, I know my mother-in-law stole one of my wedding presents and I’m about to lose it. She volunteered to take the gifts people left at our wedding home with her for my husband […]
Dear Snarky – A Friend’s Prank Backfires
Dear Snarky, I live in a very small town and my family owns the only grocery store in the area. (You have to drive about 50 miles to get to a Walmart.) We work with […]
Dear Snarky – My Mom is trying to be the Center of Attention at my Wedding
Dear Snarky, I’m getting married over the Labor Day weekend and I hope I don’t dis-invite my mother to the wedding. She’s gone mother of the bride bridezillla. It started with her insisting that she […]
Dear Snarky I Just Found Out I’m Dating My Mom’s EX-Husband’s Son
I’m a junior in college and I’ve been dating a wonderful guy for about six months. Recently, I met my boyfriend’s mom and dad and they were super nice but the dad asked me a […]
Dear Snarky – I Told My Niece She Would Make a Horrible Teacher
Dear Snarky, My niece just graduated from college with an education degree. The good news is she already has a job with a school district. The bad news is that she told the family that […]
Dear Snarky – My Sister is Attempting to Become an Influencer By Lying About Her Life
Dear Snarky, I think my sister is hurting people and she is a f’ing liar. A couple of years ago her Instagram started taking off and now combined with TikTok she’s got what she calls […]
Dear Snarky – When I Stopped Drinking I Got Dumped By My Mom Friends
Dear Snarky, Over the pandemic my husband and I quit drinking. We did it because it was getting really bad. I’m talking about three to four bottles of wine every-single-night. To be honest we started […]
Dear Snarky – My Grad Party Was Hijacked
Dear Snarky, I’m so mad at a mom friend of mine for hijacking a high school graduation party that was held at my home. This past weekend I, along with three other mothers, had a […]
Dear Snarky – Counting Carats
Dear Snarky, My son and his girlfriend have been dating for several years. They have talked about getting married and he has told me that she is “the one”. My son was very close with […]
Dear Snarky – Save Me from a DIsney Family Vacation
Dear Snarky, My in-laws have put together a trip to Disney World in June to celebrate some family milestones like graduating from high school and big anniversaries. The problem is that I have relatives who […]
Dear Snarky – Ripped Off By a Phony Grad Party
Dear Snarky, I’m very pissed off right now. I found out that my niece who had a virtual college graduation party last May that included the extended family pooling our money to pay off some […]
Dear Snarky – Dance Team Deception
Dear Snarky, I’m writing this while shaking my head in disbelief. My sister is trying to scam a college dance team. Her child (my niece) is trying out via video (thanks COVID) for a college […]
Dear Snarky – My Daughter Ghosted Us Because We Didn’t Concede to her Wedding Demands
Dear Snarky, I live in Texas where all the COVID restrictions are being lifted. But based on the uncertainty of COVID my daughter last year decided to delay her wedding until April of 2022. We’ve […]
Dear Snarky – I Broke Up With My Boyfriend Because He Sucks at Giving Gifts
Dear Snarky, I’ve just broken up with my boyfriend and now I’m having second thoughts. We started dating a year ago just before the pandemic and we really thrived when some of my friends relationships […]
Dear Snarky – I Didn’t Make a Coronavirus Friend’s List
Dear Snarky, I’ve been played by someone I thought was a really good friend. This woman has compromised lungs so she has been careful, or so I thought, about following a really strict coronavirus quarantine. […]
Dear Snarky – I Want to Expose School Cheaters
Dear Snarky, I ‘m OUTRAGED! I’m friends with a mom who yesterday bragged to me over text that her son “aced all his AP exams.” Then she proceeded to tell me that he cheated – […]
Dear Snarky – The Most Cringe Worthy Letters of 2020
Oh, 2020 how we all long to see you go BUH-BYE. To celebrate the impending departure of this super icky year I’m going to count down the four most cringe worthy, oh no she didn’t, […]
Dear Snarky – My Cousin Went Real Life Grinch On My Family’s Christmas
Dear Snarky, I don’t know if I should be writing you or calling the police because I’m sure my cousin has stolen family Christmas gifts. It all started when my cousin who lives near most […]
Dear Snarky – My Mom Wants Me to Evict My Sister
Dear Snarky, I have a sister and brother-in-law who are taking extreme advantage of my mom and dad. Back in April they moved into my parent’s house “briefly” with their three kids. Their reasoning for […]
Dear Snarky – My Mother Won’t Share Thanksgiving Recipes With Me
Dear Snarky, What do you think about a mom who won’t share family recipes with her daughter? Due to the coronavirus our large family has decided to not celebrate Thanksgiving together. This means for the […]
Dear Snarky – A Greedy Daughter Is Out to Fleece Her Parents
Dear Snarky, I’m not sure you’re the right person to reach out to for advice because to be honest I only read your stuff for the laughs. It’s a little awkward to now be in […]
Dear Snarky – My Sister Pretended My Baby Was Hers
Dear Snarky, I’m so angry at my sister right I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. I recently had a beautiful baby girl. My sister had been devoted to my baby and that made […]
Dear Snarky – My Mother-In-Law is a Serial Liar
Dear Snarky, I’ve got a big gripe about my mother-in-law. She’s a huge liar about her adult children. But she’s sneaky about it. She doesn’t come right out and lie she hints and I’m about […]
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