If you get a dog, take care of your dog! You can just not have a dog if you don't feel like taking care of one, it's very easy to not have a dog.

Tenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible.

Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.