My cousin put this on Facebook "So I'm just letting people know if you wanna send Kimmie a birthday present instead of sending a huge box cash works good too and it's cheaper to send but if you wanna send huge box go for it" What would you think about it? My first though is that she just wants the money for herself. Am I overthinking it?

I'm going to a FOB concert in March. I'll be sixteen, but my little brother is going to be eleven and my mother will be dropping us off. Will they let us in? Also, will I need an ID such as a driver's license or anything?

I am 19 years old. I got punched in the face by my mom. I got my schedule from school she asked me what time were my classes. I told her its ok im 19 i can drive myself i want to be independent. She never lets me be independent. Anyways she was driving and she got mad because i didnt want to tell her. She punched me in my face. I am planning on moving out really soon. So i plan on dropping out of school for right now and working full time at my job. Is it better for me to get a roommate? or am i just over doing this?

I have had it up to here with my sisters. They are selfish, they unreasonable, they are always talking about me and plotting against me behind my back. Their boyfriends are also mean to me! They are always yelling and screaming at me, calling me names, lying about me. They don't include me in anything, and they are only nice to me if they want money. Well, just today I refused to give her $100 cash, and she cussed me out and so did her boyfriend. Then I came home and my mom got on to me because my sister went to her saying I said things when they never escaped my mouth ever! I packed my duffle bag, and all they could say was "Bye! Good Riddance! We didn't need you here anyway fat***". My mom stopped me and told me I didn't have anywhere to go. I didn't care where I was going to go or what I was going to do, I was going to leave this place and never come back! But they stopped me anyway because 1.) I have a job 2.) I still am unable to drive 3.) I would probably get fired if they found out I was on the streets. Then my mom spouted some lies about a trailer she was going to get me, so that way I could just pay for the land. I sufficed, but I'm still going to leave here and NEVER come back. But which option is better - Wait a little while for me to save up a little for a house, or just get an apartment now.

I'm a 14 year old boy and I'm only 5'4. I'm really insecure about my size considering the fact that all my classmates and family tower over me (I'm a freshman). My dad is 5'11 and my mom is 5'4. All of my sisters are 2 or 3 inches taller and my brother is only a year older than me and is already 6 feet. All of the other men in my family are 6 feet and women are all about 5'4-5'8. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, I like to think of myself as a healthy eater and I get plenty of sleep. My family is by no means "short" so why am I? What should I do?

I'm a 23 year old woman who still lives at home but i live with my grandmother. I don't contribute financially but i have been looking for a job and have been on interviews but still no luck. I've also tried to enroll back in school but my grandma was against me staying on campus and since i have no car, i have no power. Anyway, i have a boyfriend and he calls the house but my grandma doesn't like him. For some reason she had it out for him from the first beginning. He showed her nothing but respect when they talked on the phone for the first time but after that she still gave him attitude when he would call me. Anyway, one morning when he and i got into an argument on the phone she eavesdropped on our conversation and told him to not call her house anymore.. then they got into an argument. Now, am i wrong for being mad at my grandma for listening in on our conversation? I just want to be respected here. I promise i do not ask my family for anything. I do not ask them for money but i only want respect. And we just got into a huge argument and even my aunt got into it telling me that i need to respect her mother (my grandma) but i do respect them. My grandma told me that she feels like i'm choosing my boyfriend over her but that's not the case. It just seems like my grandma doesn't want me to grow up, she doesn't want me to go off to school and she doesn't want me to have a boyfriend. I feel stuck.. Who's in the wrong here? I'm tired of everyone taking my grandma side!

They keep everything clean on the outside, but the closets, drawers attick garage are just stuffed with trash mixed in with a few valuable objects, without any type of organization, or category to put things in, if the house is dirty, just stuff everything in anything you can find. A couple of weeks ago, I was enthusiastic about cleaning, I said to them, hey this weekend lets start in the morning and lets throw out all of the useless things, and donate the stuff we dont want to salvation army, so we can have a fresh new house, and both of my parents were just diverting the subject, and tried to change the conversation. It kind of ended up with me having a tantrum and I said okay im just going to throw off everything that I think is trash, dont blame me if anything important gets thrown off. I literally had a huge rant on how stuffing things in drawers only creates the dillision of things being clean, and a messy house represents a messy mind. the next morning, my dad "surpises" me, saying he already cleaned up several drawers, i find out a week later he literally took the stuff/trash out of the drawer and stuffed it in the garage. A week later I was looking for my **** and i was so pissed that no not only do i have to go through a bunch of random drawers containing ****, i had to start emptying trash bags containing useless **** to find the very few important things that I have . Its just so ridiculous, and illogical, I kind of want to burst in rage

I'm 15 and ever since my younger sister, Delanie was born when I was 3, we have been sharing a bedroom. We originally shared the largest room in the house, but my mom got a new boyfriend who had two sons. His family moved into our three bedroom house, so my older brother, Dylan, took over the larger room with my mom's boyfriend's sons, forcing Delanie and I into the smaller room. It's been 7 years, but they broke up and my mom's boyfriend moved out along with his sons. Delanie and I kept the the smaller room while Dylan kept the larger one. I have friends over all the time, and I always bring them into Dylan's room. (He's 18 and never home) and I spend most of my time in there. I like it because the windows don't face the streets and it's in the back of the house. I'm extremely paranoid about everything and just feel safer in there. I've pretty much adopted the room as my own. Yes, my dresser is still in the small rooms, so I change in there, but that's all I use it for. I sleep in the larger room, I do my homework in there, I even eat in there (my family hasn't eaten together since my mom's bf moved out) But Dylan is moving out today and now Delanie wants his room. I've tried explaining to my mom that I should have it, but Delanie (known to everyone) is the favorite child (probably because Dylan is never home and I'm always locked in his room being anti social) How do I convince my mom to give me the room?

What do I do if my dad's never been around and my mom's an alcoholic drug addict who abuses me almost everyday and she can't keep a job long at all b4 getting fired and we can't pay the bills even though our rent is only 350 and our electric is only 100 and all we eat is ramen noodles? All my "friends" make fun of me for being broke all the time.

I am 13 years old and I was just pmsing a little but not too bad. He called me a ***** in public and he wants me to be sorry. Honestly I get called a ***** by 100 people at my school a day and I don't care because they don't know me. But when it became 101 coming from my dad I freaked out. Hes telling me to be the little girl he loves, but if he is talking to me like I am an adult, I will behave like an annoyed adult. I will also talk like an annoyed adult if I want to. I just dont know what to do

The other day I went with my family to a house showing. We all remove our shoes when we entered (not uncommon). Everyone else wore socks, but I had bare feet as I had worn sandals. The realtor was asking us questions in different rooms, and kept asking my how the floors / carpets feel. I later asked her why she kept asking me that, and she said it was because I was the only one who was barefoot when everyone else was wearing socks, and that it was easier to feel the floors/carpets on bare feet, so my opinion was especially important to her. Does anyone else find this odd?

My dad saw an article on my computer on how to quit porn today. After he saw it, he took me aside and asked me if I had a porn addiction. I told him that it was private matter and he replied that he was my father and he deserves to know(I'm 16). So I said that I used it as a way of relieving stress, but recently I have been getting a little "carried away w/ it." What I didn't tell him is why (tolerance and slight erectal disfunction). So he told me that he should never catch me watching that stuff not even once, or he would take my PC away. I agreed and explained why I was looking at the article. Now I feel kind of awkward around my dad now that he knows this and I am afraid he'll tell my mom and she'll explode out of rage. What should I do?

Hello friends...my name is yasir and i am 32 years old. When i was in school i wish to be a software or IT expert but due to no guidence i follow my friends what they do and finally i reached to university for MBA degree . I left my MBA degree after 1 year and joined my family cloth business shop where i spend 7 years mean while i got married and now i have one child school going but when time passes i noticed that i am not good in business ethics and cannot do such shop business. Actuaaly i have a mind of office style job where i work 9 to 5 . But now i am in very trouble whether to quit business and start education again or to continue business with some different angle . I feel myself week in doing business but am encourged to do job but problem is that my wife child and my expense is rs=40000 or 400 us dollars per month in pakistan and we have a luxury lifestyle in our families. How to change my situation?? What should i do now? I belong to a well settled family. Do give me some advise

I m really feeling weird he thought I was at church with my family but I was at home so I just wall by (he doesn t know I m home) and I see him grabbing his genital. Then I see him looking at porn. When the rest of the family comes home he stops and takes a shower.. Recently I found a bottle of alchahol and cigarettes some time ago. Our church is very against this and I know this is wrong! I m to awkward to tell my mom... And what should I do ( I m 14 )

Ok so me and my grandma argue over me cleaning and every time I ask to go somewhere she asks a million questions she told me she doesn t trust me but I could easily ask my mom and if she says yes then I don t have to answer any of her questions and on cleaning I can clean more ig and all of my friends are here and so is my boyfriend and I love him so much we are going to get married but then again my mom we don t really argue she somewhat trusts me and that s just my mom she told me she would buy me a puppy she lives 2 hours away and I can see her in summer and on breaks and weekends so who do I choose????

Years ago my aunt needed money and she asked my dad for help. At the time my dad couldn't really help because he had bills to pay and a family to maintain. He decided to help her by giving her the title to a piece of land so she can make a loan at the bank. He told her that he wanted the land back once she had what she needed. When my dad needed the money he asked her for his property back but she didn't give him anything…not one cent. I don't mean to push my luck but is there any possible way that we (I) can get it back from her?

Hi. I live in Puerto Rico & I'm in 11th grade. Both my parents don't have jobs and they want me to go to college in the US to study Biomedical engineering (it was my choice to peruse that). So I searched the internet and found that the best and cheapest school was Georgia Tech. I started to get very interested and intrigued so I kept searching. One time I saw the price per year, the cheaper one was if I lived in state. So my mom and dad have been talking and then dad thought that we should move to Georgia before I start the 12th grade so I can be there for a year and the have the opportunity to get the in state tuition and maybe they could find good jobs. Some may think it's a perfect idea but I'm not that faun of it. I have a boyfriend that is in1st year of university here in Puerto Rico that is very close to my house. I've known him for a very long time and he used to study with me in the same school which was how I met him in chorus. We love each other very much and he supports me on every way, of it weren't for him I wouldn't be talking to you now; he is willing to make a transfer to the US to keep studying Industrial Chemistry somewhere close to me and his parents are okay with it. But that was planned to be done in 2 years not in less than a year. I want to go because it helps me for my future in many ways but I'm scared that I would have to leave the things that mean the world to be behind. I have no idea what to do, what if I have to repeat the grade? Oh God help me.

i have literally wanted to stretch my ears for about three years now. The only thing holding me back is my parents. They think its disgusting and ugly and crazy and i have no idea how to prove to them it isnt. If youre wondering i would not go that big (2g) so they would close back up. Any advice on how to convince your parents? thanks (:

I have a stepbrother I can't stand. I've hated him ever since his stinky feet came into the world. I'm the oldest but I put up with his verbal gaslighting and abuse, and he ruins my life. I sometimes wish I was an only child like in the past. Just me and my mom and no one else. There is NOTHING good about my stebrother. He has some autism and I have to put up with his verbal abuse because he's "special" and can't help it. Deep down I long for a sister. Being a woman is so hard, and it means hormones, tears, cravings. If I had a sister she would love me so much and she would understand me and not judge me. If I'm premenstrual and indulge in a brownie, my stepbrother starts calling me "fat" and a "pig." I get judged by my retarded (I hate euphemisms) stepbrother and it makes my heart hurt because a girl would understand why I NEED chocolate. Being a woman is hard, we long for a boyfriend, get our heart broken, have to put up with pms and everything else. It's so lonely Mom says I would have been lonely if I was an only child, but I'm a million times lonelier with my stepbrother. As an only kid I at least had solitude. My stepbrother took my peace and solitude away and took attention away from my parents. So would a sister, but a sister would give something back. Every time I watch Frozen it reminds me how much sisters love each other and if I had a sister she would have loved me and been like princess Ana. Instead I have an abusive monster stepbrother. I am so lonely all the time. If I'd been an only kid I would have at least gotten my parents' attention, and I would get a dog. My stepdad believes women are subservient and that my role is to be like a waitress to them. In addition to all the biological and cultural hardships of being a girl, I have to pick up my retarded step brother's filthy messes while he loafs and shits on me, and if I'm not smiling and cheerful I get called a *****. Being the only daughter is the loneliest thing in the world. I have to put up with all this crap and then I get judged whenever I show signs of moodiness. I'd give anything for a sister to understand me and comfort me when I'm sad. I have become very depressed because I can't be happy. I don't see how I can have a biological sister and I can't stop wanting one. I can't handle not having a sister of my own. And having female friends won't help, becuase I wish for male friends.

So my friends parents found out we smoked weed and they flipped out on him, they told him that if they will tell our parents if we don't first. My parents are extremely strict and I would be dead if I told them but I think it's the best option. I would also tell my mother because she wouldn't flip out as much as my father, any info helps thank you so much

I'm a 19 year old girl, and I have a good and bad relationships with my mom. I love my mom but I always feel that I can't be myself around her. For example, I really love anything international like foreign languages, international music, international food, clothes,etc.. I even know a lot of languages. They are my passion. But my mom is proud of me about doing that but she'll always use it against me in a negative way. She thinks that I don't like being black and I'm trying to be white,etc. that's not true i like my race my race has nothing to do with my hobbies I'm just having a good time. And also I can't even dress however I want to, i love wearing casual, comfy and simple and sporty clothes, and I don't like makeup I like to keep it natural but she said I dress like a grandmom. I can't even express my own opinion. Every time I express my opinion to her she'll agree with me but she goes against me and say I have an attitude. And I always regret telling her what I like because one time she'll say oh cool and then say unlike what everybody else is liking, I feel that she wants to be her clone. She always compares me to my friends and my cousins about how they dress and how they have their hair did. I tried to tell her how I feel but she said "Oh grow up and get over your feelings" or " get your life right"

23 (female) no friends, or anything. I been depressed my whole life and has dealt with so much toxic from my family. Severe control and my dad is very psycho and the biggest control freak there is. They ruined my self esteem on all levels and sheltered me. I have to get out of this house... the emotional abuse and verbal abuse from my older siblings is getting out of hand. They are conning me out of my money and parents is threatening to put me out etc. My siblings live off my parents and have no jobs. Anyhow, I am in the process of getting myself together. I work a part time job, and will be picking up another job. I'm getting a new car in about 1 month, and once I get this new car, I will be moving about 40 mins away to another small town to live with my aunt and uncle which ... they have agreed to not tell my parents or my screwed up older siblings I live with them or they will come there and harass me. I am building my credit and been doing so for the last year. The plan is to move to NYC for college summer 2016 which is why I am getting a second job. I have no friends, and never had a social life.... probably too late to start my life. But atleast i get to get out . They are trying to hold me back and pull me down...

I dont know what its called but my sister has this obsession where she thinks shes all pretty and stuff. Im not talking about being egoistic, im saying like she goes on omegle and asks people if shes pretty!! And anytime im telling her about my life at school, anytime i bring up a boy shes like "oh will he date me cause im pretty" and its just creepy. Shes 11 and im 14. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO! She always acts like this, i dont know when it started. She also thinks every guy that looks at her likes her!! I feel so bad for her and i dont know how to deal with it. Help?

Hey so, my family is so complicated. My dad is an alcoholic, he left us years ago and then my mum (who was in love with him) brought him back. He was a mess. He hired us (we are 8 children) but mostly he was calling us names. My mum told him after 3 years THA he should leave again. She really didn t want him back this time. But he was angry so while we were sleeping he putted our car on fire and he left. It s been 3 months and after a series of threats we know nothing about him exept that at his work they hate him. His payment is so high and he gives NOTHING to us. Do you think he will believe me if I go to his work and ask him as much money as he can give because "I am in serious trouble"? Would you give me money? I am ready to get whatever he could but never gave me!

The problem is I just told my dad couple of months ago & he's answer was he doesn't know. Older men loves to mess around and play games. But it's your life I can't say nothing. So then I mention he's a real good guy compare to my ex who always use to treat me bad. Always bothering me for money, smoke weed likes to drink & had no motivation in life and always putting me down. He's main concern did I tell my older brother yet & I said no because one your my dad not him and two he's very hot headed person. If he finds out I'm dating an older man he would want to fight him. So I've been trying to figure out how to tell him without him blowing up. Mind you I wasn't really close to my brother or dad always more with my mom. Because my dad has always been about my older brother. My mom & other brother mentioned to me it's my life I'm not a baby. They need to jus let me be & mind there own business. If this helps my boyfriend is six years older than my older brother & he said he doesn't want no problems he's too old to be fighting and if my brother starts he would have to leave me. Which makes me mad because like I said my brother is hotheaded and I really love this guy.

Im afraid of being alone..) Marrying the wrong person .............

My grandfather died a few weeks ago and he left no will. My grandmother gave away his car and 80€ shaving kit to my brother and gave me nothing. My brother and I were both very close to both grandparents and I m upset that he got a brand new car and I got nothing.I don t want to put pressure on anyone to give me things but I feel disappointed about the situation and don t know what to do. anybody got any ideas on what I can do? my brother won t share anything with me so that s out of the question.

I have a big decision to make dealing with deciding whether I want to move back in with my grandma or stay with my mom. I moved back with my mom last year in December. A lot of mess have been going on lately ever since I moved in and I m tired of it. Right now me n my mom n my brother is living withy mom s gf and her kids( 3 of them are grown n one is my age 15.)and her sons baby mamas. There is barely any room in the house. Me n my little brother sleep in the hallway on an air mattress n thats makes me upset because I don t have a room. N my grandma doesn t like that. I didn t want to tell my grandama about us moving in with someone else but I had to tell her because she tried coming by our old house to drop off a package. Ever since she found out she wanted me to come back. My mom started crying when she found out. I don t want to leave my mom but too much have been going on n I miss having all of my things, I miss my bed, n I miss having my own room. I admit I miss living with my grandma n want to move back but I don t want to leave my mom.my grandma told me I can come back now or at the end of the school year n im not staying there any longer. So either way it goes my mom is going to be heart broken. :( What should I do? Am I being selfish for wanting to move back even though there s a lot of drama where I live now?

Alright, so I m 19. I ve lived on my own before and moved back in with my parents about a month ago. I ve been talking to one of my close friends and she isn t hesitant about letting me move in with her. I live in Florida, she lives in Jersey. Financially, I won t be paying rent just half of utilites and whatever I need to pay for myself. I have been looking at employment and actually applied to jobs over there. The thing with my parents is that they still treat me like I m 15 ( can t go out, they like to shelter me I guess you can say ), they look down on me and when I bring up moving they re not content because they think I won t be able to handle it. They also love to bring up the fact that they do everything for me. Also, they don t know who my close friend is since we (my parents & I) don t really have conversation. I m ready to get out into the world and be independent, I m not scared of the risks or consequences. I m ready to take it. One thing is, how can I tell my strict & over-protective parents that I m leaving the beginning of November?

It's kind of a (weird) joke in my family to receive a gift that is "from" the family cat. This year I'm going to be buying that gift and I dint know what to get. It's usually something cat themed, in the past we've gotten pajamas or jewelry or such. She has plenty of those so it needs to be something different. please help!

My mother warned me her siblings will feel like I am pushing myself onto their families by hosting them twice this year instead of just once and also I'd asked them to a baseball game in May and saw them at a funeral two weeks ago. Is she right to be worried about this or is this perfectly appropriate socially? I don't want to be inactive with family so I set stuff up now that my grandparents have died. Update: When I say since my grandparents have died I mean that when living my grandparents were living they had the parties so I didn't host anything since I saw everyone at the grandparents place.

Her mother and I really only had one night together, so no relationship. Just tried for being civil. I've bit my lip a lot, she has just always been an angry person to me, and pretty sure hate is a nice word for the way she treats me. I have been ignoring the arguments and have always just cared for my little girl. She is attached to me, has been since I can remember. To make a long story short, my daughters mom would always bring her after school and she stayed w me and my gf of 3 years(whom I now have a 1 year old son with) , everyday pretty much. Four weeks ago I text her mother after school, the one rare day she was keeping her that night, and asked to take her roller skating with her friends from my neighborhood. She replied that I needing to stick to a schedule and follow Arkansas visitation rights guidelines. Final. I have no idea where this suddenly came from, so two days later she never called or txt. She just dropped my daughter off, which I was happy about, but being an idiot, I made a smart *** joke about what she said. She grabbed my crying daughter, and drove off. I have not seen or talked to my daughter since. This is the longest I have gone not seeing her. I have established paternity, I am current on child support, have always paid. I always buy her clothes, toys, food. I miss her so much it is killing me inside. I apologized to her twice w no reply. What can I do? What rights do I have?

I'm even struggling to txt this down..and hoping my text keyboard will crrct everything nicely to at least make it readable. Was a male model, got in a car accident, have bruises and severe cuts.Accrdng to my manager,I'm done for. My larynx is destroyed so I cnt even speak anymr.Doctors here can't do sht. So far can't move my left leg...waiting fr results. My family doesn't want to deal Wth me anymore, cause I won't be providing them Wth money anymore. GrlfriND is cheating. And the fckng nurse didnt want to help me press submit on this qustion... wtf do I do before I just decide to end it here.

So I went to go usw my dad's restroom and I saw a used condom. My mom and dad are divorced and he is coming off as an asshole when he just has sex with someone and never contacts them again. So I was going to sabotage him by taking all his condoms because I know where they are and he confessed so I will take all the condoms and throw them away somewhere else. He won't be able to ask: Do you know where my condoms are? Because then he will confess that he is gonna have sex

I wear contacts and some of you know that those things are expensive. My older sister wears the same type as me and she's always stealing my contacts. I tried talking to my parents but they just say I keep losing them. And my sister does this for everything else to. She will steal shampoo, and other products then deny doing it. But whenever I try to use something of hers she gets mad and I get in trouble. What should I do

I recently turned 19 and when I was younger I never really got any 1 on 1 time with either of my parents. If I was with them it was always with everyone as well. He likes to play games, so he'll sit and play play station 4 games all day. Or he'll sleep all day and I am always up to go do something with him. But every time I ask he always says he's tired or he just doesn't want to. I don't ask to do anything that involves money, it's normally just going to look at stuff. Or even going to the grocery store (I'm that desperate) but he never wants to. Then if he does end up going anywhere he does it after he works and I never know so I don't have the chance to ask if I can tag along. I just feel like when I move out when I'm older (can't right now) I'm honestly not going to want to come back. So if I don't spend as much time as I can with him I won't really have a relationship with him. I already have to bother him (ex: push him, poke him) just for him to acknowledge me. I feel like a 5 year old who wants attention so they act out its actually really embarrassing. I tried talking to him and explaining thay I just want to spend more time with him. He has 2 jobs so I understand he's tired but he's said that for years when I was younger. I use to always say if he cared he'd make time for me but I guess not. Any thoughts?

Right now I'am a teenager and have no job and I live with my parents who refuse to let me be a vegetarian, and its not like I can just starve myself for a while I am already underweight so really I have to eat what they cook(which is meat) but I don't see how a grown up with a job would choose eating a dead creature over something that's not only better for you but also doesn't evolve killing something.

Im 14 and a female. I have 3 sisters, an older one and a younger one. We all live with my mom because my dad tried to crash us with his car so we got a restraining order on him. My whole life was okay up until as long as i can remember i have been irritated and anger and short temper. I know its wrong but if my little sister is being super annoying i lash out at her and call her mean names, i feel so bad and apologize to her but i keep doing it. I get angry and depressed for no reason, almost like i get like that just to be depressed and angry. My childhood consisted of physical abuse by my dad, he would take a belt and hit me and my older sister. He was always so angry and scary and it made me angry that i could never do anything to protect my mom and sisters from him. Does this have anything to do to why im so angry?

She's two years younger then me and she only told me she lost her v card to a girl when she was 14ish. And now she's always talking about drugs and drinking and she's only 16!! I'm super worried about her. What can I do??

My sister is a naughty child breaks things kicks my dog slaps me/mom/dad/brother and we tried everything.we are very close to putting her in another home...this is really serious

I'm 15, mixed, And a girl. My mom is fine with me getting my hair colored (I got it professionally done last year at a high end salon). The only problem was I wanted black hair REALLY BAD, but my mom said it was too expensive to keep up with since my hair is naturally blondish brown. I ended up just getting it dyed red brown. now I REALLYYYYY want black hair. Even my stylist said it would look good on me. My mom said it was still too expensive. She doesn't like the idea of box dye. My friends dye their own hair and it looks good. They know how to do it. I want the proffesionals to dye my hair black but I think I could touch it up myself so the price would be down. How can I convince my stubborn mom to let me use box dye??

Despite there being more girls in the house it's my dad and brother who receive most of the love and attention from my step mum. There's my dad, step mum, brother and my two sisters and I much preferred it when it was just the five of us. I lost my mum a few years ago and it has been tough. My step mum is normally really nice but I feel she cares about my brother more than us girls. The fact I share a room with my brother makes it difficult because she's always telling me to be extra nice and close to him. We're like good friends - same with my sisters but it's a little awkward at times. My step mum always wants me to dress and behave like a real lady. I've spoken to my dad about this but he's too much in love to truly understand.

He started pointing out chores and things he told me to do but I never did, making it seem horrible. I was never to bring food in my room again. I posted something and tagged him in it, it was " 4 tricks bad leaders use " and one of them he did (Telling someone to blindly follow you "because im the boss"). So then he said the post was inconsiderate, rude, and hurtful. 'calling him a bad father". Then he said I was an inconsiderate little brat (shouted this) I dont behave right, no morals, and I basically am stupid and cant do anything right, and if it werent for him teaching me, He said like your mom. And then he said I disgust him. If i wanted to be treated like an adult then i would have to pay rent and bills and get my own food and rides.He wasnt going ot pay my phone bill anymore, and I have to pay for my own school lunch, which I cant so dinner is now my only meal. And to never ask him anything ever again. If i didnt want to be there call heather. She is the dcf worker because am staying there temperarily. I am also a girl and only 15 years old

So recently I being going after school for theater because we had a show, I being going for 4 weeks everyday and came out at 11pm, my stepdad got so mad because everyday I come home at 11pm, he said that what am doing there is fine but its keeping me away from doing chores, because I broom the house,cut the grass, and saying that I don't do those things anymore, I do broom the house sometimes,he can do it but he is kinda lazy and I understand he comes from work (construction) so he must be tired, I used to tell him that I looked up to him (role model) and yes I did love him like a father but I guess he felt bothered when I told him, then I just loose my hope and I didn't looked up to him anymore he didn't show encourage or anything because most of the times he was depressed,so we barely talk now,and am not around him anymore, I feel like I want to let's this person go(let it go) but how if I see him all the times at the house,he's also calling me ungrateful person ,so am useless now, am 18 BTW, trying to get a drivers license ASAP, but how can I let go of this person, to be honest my theater teacher is my role model I want to be like him, at one point when I saw live theater at my school for the first time I was saying this is what I want to be when I grow up, I really love my teachers, and I want to part of it because never in my life I been part of something neither thru middle school or my freshman or sophomore years am in junior now... I build a bond between my teachers.

Ok here's the deal. My niece was born when My Sister was 16 going on 17. she recently had a son this year. she 19 now. her ex boyfriend is a deadbeat junkie and is no longer in our lives thank god. but my niece is making my life miserable. she yells alot(for no reason), she abuse my dog, she climbs over the gate into the kitchen(even though we tried to keep her out). I blame her ex boyfriend cause he got her pregnant with that brat. I love her(my Niece), but I can't stand her. I'm 22, born in 93.

I wanted to do Thanksgiving with the extended family but my parents don't want to travel and I am not in a position to ask if I can alone. So we are going to the one local family members (my mother's sisters) which would be fine but most the people there are not family. It will be all of the aunt's husband's family (he is one of five kids) plus various in-laws of those families. Last year we had to do it and it was 96 people. I feel sad because I like doing it with family and the rest of the family will be getting together but we'll be missing out. Come Christmas it will be little get together this year but we won't have to do the big mobscene of Thanksgiving. So any thoughts on how I can still enjoy the day? The aunt's in-laws are all nice people but it is a family day and the aunt's in-laws are no related. The aunt has no children that will be there either so no cousins to visit with.

My sister found out I'm hiding a few things of faygo soda that I bought under my bed... she's threatening to tell on me unless I share with her. Now normally I wouldn't mind but I gave her one and she just drank half the can before dumping it which is a waste of money. So what can I do to keep my soda safe?

My mother warned me her siblings will feel like I am pushing myself onto their families by hosting them twice this year instead of just once and also I'd asked them to a baseball game in May and saw them at a funeral two weeks ago. Is she right to be worried about this or is this perfectly appropriate socially? I don't want to be inactive with family so I set stuff up now that my grandparents have died. When I say since my grandparents have died I mean that when living my grandparents were living they had the parties so I didn't host anything since I saw everyone at the grandparents place.

I'm a sophomore in high school and my 16 year old boyfriend and I use protection while having sex. The condom must have broke and I found out today from a pregnancy test that I'm 4 weeks pregnant. I want to keep the baby because my boyfriend and I do love each other and he is ready to have this commitment. Even thought it was an accident we feel like this was fate. I also don't like abortions or the thought of Giving my baby to someone else. I should take responsibility for what happens and raise my own no matter how hard it is. I'm scared to tell my parents because most of my life they have mentally abused me. They call me fat and a disappointment. My dad has told me to kill myself a few times. And my mom sad she wished I was never born. They always make fun of my appearance and social life and it really hurts. I try to spend as much time away from Them as I can because I don't want to get hurt by them. I DO NOT want my baby to be around them when it is developing. My boyfriend wants me to marry him and go to court so I can live with his family because my dad has physically abused me a few times and he doesn't want the baby to be harmed also. I love my parents and its really hard to think about leaving them. The thought of telling them is also terrifying because I don't want them to have another excuse for why I'm a disappointment :(. I don't know how to tell them or what to do for the safety of my baby. Please any advice?

My mum is 49 years old and is menopausal she has had menopause since she was approximately 47 and every year it gets worse. I am in the term year of grade 11 so my work counts for my overall OP. I am one of the academics students at my school so a lot of pressure is constantly put on me by EVERYONE. My mum is extremely angry at me right now for things I never did. She says I don't clean enough but I do my own washing, ironing and fold everyone's clothes. I clean the kitchen, vacuum, etc. On the holidays I was the only person who cleaned the house because I wanted to be supportive of my family because my brother has uni and my parents work at the market. I also work with them at the market as well as cooking my own dinner. Sometimes I will try to make suggestions to make her menopause easier on her but she ends up screaming at me and calling slut, *****, f*** and c*** word. The thing is I don't talk back to her but when. I try hard to be supportive, by reading symptoms of menopause, treatment and what to expect but she won't listen. She won't try medication or natural way of dealing with menopause and whenever she's mad at me she says I'm not menopausal 'your a horrible child' 'I wish I never had you' etc. I know by no means that I am a great child and I know my mum can't control it and I've tried using the advice given to me but nothing works.

Okay so my parents are in the process of getting divorced and my Dad (who doesn't live with us anymore) has been going out with girls all the time but my Mom (who lives with me) went on her first date since their divorce started tonight. My dad does his laundry at my moms house since his apartment doesn't have a washer/dryer so he was washing his clothes (while my mom was out) and he seemed so angry at the fact she was out on a date. My mom texted me about 30 minutes after my dad left saying that he was saying all these terrible things about her and left suggestive threats that could injure her and she's freaking out because as of lately he seems to be losing his mind which makes me and her equally concerned he may snap and do something to her or me. We can't really call any authority since he hasn't done anything I'm pretty sure so any ideas on what we can do would be greatly appreciated because I'm honestly scared for my life right now. (He may just be over reacting but I really don't want to take chances you know)

So I'm a high school student doing a year abroad in Europe, and I'm staying with the same host family for nine months. Now they're really really sweet and generous and they come across as the "perfect" family. But it's been two months and I still feel the same way around them that I did when I first got here: tense, nervous, overly polite, awkward, formal, and uncomfortable. I don't know what to do! I've had a couple of host students before and I've always clicked with them so quickly. Help?! :( I'm really shy and reserved but you'd think that over the span of two months we'd have been able to "crack" each other a bit more. I'm never able to be myself around them. My host siblings aren't really interested in me and it makes me want to cry because I really really want to get to know them but I just can't click with them. I feel like I'm in a museum and it's all my fault, because they're really open and friendly and I feel like I'm disappointing them by not being more open. I don't belong Sorry, last update, but what should I do? I'm miserable. I'm lonely in a house full of people. I can't communicate with anyone. And all of this is basically my fault. My host family knows none of this because I always keep a mask of happiness and "everything is ok!" around them, but it's not at all how I'm feeling and I'm pretty sure they know it. What should I do? I really want to get close to them, like a real family, and let my guard down more, but I don't know where to begin. Thank you <3

Welp. Long story short, I stay up late most times. It's really hard for me to fall asleep before midnight, heard my parents having sex for the second time last night.. We live in an apartment. And there room is literally on the other side of mine. Like I could hear them through the wall. If they're happy, I'm glad. But it's really annoying that I have to hear when they know we live in an apartment with NO sound proof windows. When we previously lived in a house I never heard anything obviously which was perfect. Now we've downsized since my sister lives with her boyfriend now and I'm stuck hearing this. Any suggestions? I would think if you're gonna have sex in an apartment living with people it would be common courtesy to be quiet especially when your son lives in the room next to you. And I won't be going away to college for atleast another 8 months. Please don't lecture me on how natural it is. I'm well aware. And I could care less if they do it I know they do. I would just prefer to not hear or at all. I listen to music most of the time and it seems everytime I take off my headphones just for a few minutes I hear them. Like I can't win.

Whenever the topic about weed comes up my mum always goes on about how it kills brain cells and that it makes you ****** in the head. She said she knew people that smoked that were fuckwits and its really frustrating.

My Whole life up until 16 I was ignored. My parents focused on my older brother and wanted to know what he could do. So this lead me to Watch TV literally my whole. I grew use to it. Now finally when my brother got to the grove of things now it was time to focus on me. But it was almost to late. I was already very procrastinated from watching TV all the time. With this I did not learn social skills so no friends I did not well enough in school as a could of. My mom even told me that she was suppose to raise me and my dad was suppose to raise my older brother and my mom raised me. Just the problem was my mom never really got the chance to raise me because she was also focused on my older brother. Now im in college. Almost graduating and feel like my life could have been better if my parents raised me better. My dad never played catch with me. My dad was getting fired from job after job making my dad worry and my mom worry leaving no time for me. Now to make things worse my parents always Yell at me for watching to Much Tv. What do you expect the TV practically raised me my whole life. This is why I have always felt like I should have been born a girl. If I was born a girl My parents wouldn't have got bored with two boys they would have been forced to take better care of me just for being a girl. I would have been raised better having at least my mom in my life my whole life not just 16. Then I would of been happy dating boys and making friends a lot betterthenguylife. Im not mad Im not jealous of anything just a little disappointed on how my life could have been better if I had both parents in my life also if I have been born a girl my life would have been better. Even sometimes people who are poor both parents are in their lives because they want their child to be succesfulll and not like who they turned out. I had no family support until around 16.

When i was very young i remember being with my dad a certain amount of time then one day i got dropped off at this store and i was permanently with my mom and her side of the family every since.. I still had some what of connect with my bothers they would call we were very close, Then my mom got really upset when my dads side of his family made it obvious they did not want my mom in my brothers life.I guess you could pretty much say my dad abandoned me but my mom abandoned my brothers. She would even ignore their phone calls and got mad when i spoke of them..Now its been 13 years i'm 23 years old its pretty funny because when i was a teen i never once thought of my other sibling but now that i am older i do..we were very close and its sad that i was separated from them..now i would love to have older brothers..how to get in touch with my lost brothers? last since i heard of them was in 2013 when my mom for granted by a judge to pay child support which was later dropped..help? btw my mom hates my father