TASK DEFINITION: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
PROBLEM: TL;DR at bottom

This is a bit different from what I usually see here, and it takes a little bit insight into rats as pets to understand, but I'll try to explain as best I can.

Rats are social animals and live in mischiefs, usually large groups. So when owning them as pets, it's best to always get more than one, since with a humans usual schedule they can get lonely. 

Wells, I've owned rats for quite a few years now, and I have owned them in pairs for so far. 

Well, I had a pair of hairless males, and one died (Benis), leaving the other boy (Albert) alone. I wasn't about that, and after a week I adopted 2 more males (Noot and Noah) from a rescue to keep him company until he passed (old bastard man). 

Albert HATED them, and after trying and failing to introduce them together or even have have their cages relatively close over a period of time, I gave up because Albert was getting old and sadly, dying.  So I spent the rest of his mortal existence with him alone and alternating  spending time holding him or the other two. 

After he passed, I was back to two rats, and this was something I was familiar with, but it turns out Noot had cancer (horrible cancer according to vet), and he had to be put down. 

So that leaves Noah. He's been a single male for a couple of months now, and he seems happy enough. I'm home 5 days out of 7 and when I'm at school my grandma spends a lot of time holding him and stuff. 

He gets a lot of free roam time and interacts with our small dog under supervision. He even sleeps in bed with me because I feel so bad about having just one rat and I don't want him to feel alone lol.

I've been considering getting another male but my grandma is kind of afraid to since we went through a sequence of 3 pet rat deaths. Older males are also hard to introduce to eachother and I already failed once.

So I guess I just want to know if despite me being extra with him if I'm still kind of abusing him by not getting him a new boyfriend?

TLDR; A series of unfortunate events led to one adult male rat being the last standing. I don't think getting a partner is going to work do to history. AITA if I just continue to smother my one rodent in affection? 

SOLUTION: owning only one rat

PROBLEM: So sorry for the long post; I tried to cut down as much as I can!

After graduating from college, I took a break before applying to law school. For the past few months, I worked as a teacher in rural China (this becomes relevant later), and put my home address as that of my parents. 

My application cycle has been successful, and I am extremely grateful to be in my current situation. However, my parents have this irritating habit of announcing my law school acceptances before I have the opportunity to do so, and it has gotten to the point where family friends will sometimes find out that I've been accepted to a law school before I do. Law schools typically send out an acceptance email to applicants first, followed by a formal hard copy of the acceptance letter. Because I worked in an area without internet on top of the infamous Chinese firewall, I didn't receive the emails. However, my parents happily rip open any law school mail they receive, even if it is clearly addressed to me. They then proceed to call and brag to their friends that I got into X Law School.

It probably seems petty, but I have worked my entire life to get to this point, and I really looked forward to finding out for myself if I got into X Law School, and opening that envelope to see the hard copy of my acceptance letter. I worked and paid my own way through college, and also paid for all my law school applications. The fact that I have to find out about my own acceptances from congratulatory texts from family friends or posts by my parents on social media is infuriating. 

I have asked my parents in the past to not open my mail, and to allow me to decide what news to share with family and friends. They have pulled this kind of stunt in the past, especially with my college acceptances and scholarship award letters a few years back, but whenever I ask them not to, they act hurt and tell me that they only "want to share good news with everyone" and how it doesn't matter if whether they find out first or I find out first. When I told them that I thought it was inconsiderate that they would deliberately ignore my requests, they were extremely offended. My dad even sarcastically offered to send photos of any future acceptance letters if, as he put it, "reading those letters is SO important to you." 

AITA for telling off my parents for more or less stealing my thunder over my acceptances? I know that they're just excited, but it feels like they prioritize being able to brag to their friends over my personal preferences.

SOLUTION: telling off my parents over my law school acceptances

PROBLEM: I dated this guy for a couple years. Near the beginning of our relationship, he had some financial struggles. I wasn’t hurting for money (and he knew that but never asked) so I let him know that he can ask to borrow money from me if needed. He declined at first but ultimately ended up borrowing some money from me (a couple thousand). I understand and accept that I shouldn’t have lent such a large amount of money, but I loved him and knew it wasn’t in his character to just take the money and run. We had agreed to have him pay me back within a couple months (monthly payments). He was working part-time but wasn’t making much more than minimum wage.

Weeks later, he told me that he wouldn’t be able to pay me back per our payment plan and asked if we could push it back. I told him to take his time and that I didn’t expect him to pay it back any time soon. I wanted him to focus on school and work—I didn’t want him to stress about owing me money. I saw our relationship continuing far into the future so it didn’t bother me. We never rly spoke about the borrowed money again throughout the rest of our relationship. He maybe brought it up a total of 3 or 4 times saying that he felt bad he couldn’t pay me back right away.

A year later, he took a break from school and began working full time. I know he had made enough to pay me back but I knew he wasn’t planning on working when he went back to school so the money he was making during his gap year was to sustain him for the duration of his schooling once he returned. A year later, he went back to school and our relationship was rocky. It had now been about two years since I’ve lent him the money. I broke up with him because he wasn’t putting effort into our relationship. We ended on good terms but kinda awkward. We talked a lot at the beginning of our breakup but now we don't talk and he never brought up the money. About two months after we broke up, I asked him if he could pay me back. At the time I asked him, we were still talking every now and then. When I brought it up, he apologized, said he forgot and asked if I wanted the money in full now. Knowing his situation, I said that I didn't expect him to pay it all back now. He said he could maybe start paying me back in the summer but to let him know if I need some of it or all of it now. I told him I understood his current financial situation and didn't expect to take money away from him right now when he doesn't have an income. He said thanks for understanding, and we haven't really talked since then.

It's been a while since we last talked and it doesn't seem he's making an effort to maintain our friendship. The last message I sent him (unrelated to this) was left on read and it doesn't look like we'll be talking or hanging out any time soon. Since we aren't really friends now, WIBTA if I asked him to begin payments now? I'm not in dire need of the money but the extra money peace of mind would be nice.

SOLUTION:
asking my ex to start paying me back now

