My mom's mom was sick ever since she was 6. My dad lied to my mom that he had a million dollar business in America (my mom from Lebanon), and she believed him and they got married and she found out he was lying. She didnt tell anyone becuz she was afraid that her mom would die from sadness when she found out that my dad lied to her, but for 18 years of marriage we have a computer, a house, and my mom has a college degree. My dad has a psychological problem becuz his dad was abusive and he has the emotional maturity of a child. My mom knew this and she stayed with him becuz she loved him (she married him for a reason..), and she didnt work. Im confused, why is it that my mom goes on vacation without my dad with me and my sis, goes shopping, but never tried to get marriage counseling since they argue almost every day? She complains about my dad's immaturity but she never tries to get help for him, and neither does she try to learn English super well.. Is my mom lazy??!! Or maybe she was brainwashed to feel like a worthless heap? My mom said she wanted to be a pharmacist, but changed her mind becuz she had to learn english and she became an accountant... She could have gone back to college to be a pharmacist, but why doesnt my mom have ambition?? I said should we get therapy for dad and she said "No.".

So my mom always calls me lazy but never helps and and kicks me out of the house just because she thinks I'm lazy I hate her so much I never hated someone so much in my life I cannot stand her and now she doesn't want me to have my phone and she's talking about how she's going sign me up for stuff because I'm lazy and I don't do anything I dispose her I hate her so much she's so controllive when I leave his house I will never come back ever again !

I know this is long but stick with me here. He acts like he is so much better than everyone else and like he is some sort of genius but he is the dumbest person I have ever met. He lacks any sense of logic and yells at me because I am "being lazy" even though he knows that I am sick and everything, even breathing, hurts. There's nothing I can do about it because if I say I'm not walking the dog, taking out the trash, cleaning the house, etc because I'm sick he will either slap me or yell at me for an hour which would make my headache much worse. It's not just that. He gets mad at me for getting asthma and panic attacks and has taken away my inhaler as a punishment for getting an asthma attack. He also yells at me for not sleeping even though I can't sleep no matter what I try. He has acted this way for as long as I can remember. When I was 8 I seriously considered killing him because being in jail for my entire life would be better than having to be with him for 10 more years. I'm 13 now and although I'm not going to murder him I still want him to die as soon as possible. My life would be so much better if he wasn't here. Despite everything he does, he still acts like he is a great parent and I'm lucky for being his daughter.

She passed two days ago and she was 100 years old. Everyone in my family was crying a lot, but it was just another day for me. I was never close my grandma and I only saw her a couple times a year at most. I've literally never had a conversation with her (mainly because she only speaks spanish and I don't) and I know nothing about her. Her passing doesn't really have any impact on my life and if no one told me she died, I probably wouldn't even notice she was gone. I just feel bad that everyone is having a hard time and I'm not. When my dog died I cried for weeks and I'm still sad about it to this day, but with my grandma, I feel nothing. Does this make me a bad person?

iI never met until now, my cousin added my mom, dad, and brother and never added me and her older deleted me off. I felt like they like me my cousin was impatient with me. my uncle on the other thinks I am mentally handicapped but i am really am have autism what should I do?

My aunt is 10 years older than my mom and she married H. She wanted J (H's bro and my dad) to marry her cousin. Instead my dad married my Mom. For some reason, my aunt hates my mom and she is jealous of her. Maybe becuz she thought my mom was prettier than her or I dont know. She is STINGY!!! One time her daughter asked for a 2nd juice box and my aunt is like no. She buys fast food because it is cheaper, and to make money and save money. She is evil (malicious), because she one time tried to go to a magician to do black magic on my mom and my dad to get a divorce and always argue... A person told my mom about that, and there has been other witnesses. Are stingy people insecure people?? I think she is, becuz one time i and my sis went with her and her daughter to a cinema and she said to take the elevator, but my younger sis said we usually take the stairs, and my aunt said with a frustrated smile "I guess were just lazy" And another time we went hitchhiking and I said "The trees are so beautiful im taking pics (I was 11-12 at that time), and she said "Arent me and ur mom beautiful?". She always takes things personally negatively, so I guess maybe she is insecure. When she found out her husband was cheating on her, she tried to convince my mom that my dad was cheating on her, and she caused a lot of problems and trust issues. I would have loved my aunt and wished her well, but why all this hatred? I want her to be beautiful, healthy, with a loyal husband and a great marriage. Is it her upbringing? Becuz one time my mom said that my aunt hits her daughter and locks her in the bathroom or closet whenever she did something wrong as a kid. That is aggressive. Is she selfish??!! Are malicious people or selfish people were just a product of child hood abuse?

MAJOR FAMILY ISSUE. either going to church helps ease family issues or it dont FAMILY ISSUES- families need way to unite and get together. they can believe religion or not. But they have ti be willing to give up 10% of their income for church, go on missions, and do all that holy stuff. not all family members want all that religious stuff going on or even believe in god. BUT FAMILY GATHERINGS DONT SEEM to be happening at the church. family members dont trust as pastors and clergy is living large and their conditions are not improving

I'm a mother with autism, I have a son who's 13 months old, I still live at home with my family but both my parents want to move to another state but I don't, I want to stay where I'm at. I've told my pca that I want to move out with my son, she gave me my case worker info and my financial worker, but they contact my mom about me wanting to move out so I don't have to leave state, she got mad. Do I have any rights to live independently even though I have a baby? Oh i forgot to mention that I live in Minnesota

I have always been close to my parents and I moved out about two years ago but I still see them and visit them about twice a week, we talk on the phone every day.. I even enjoy taking vacations with them (of course not every vacation) and going out with them often.. I don't keep many secrets from them, only really private things between my spouse and I, aside from that I tell them almost everything. However, my husband seems to think I am too attached to them, and he doesn't understand why I have to let them in on certain things or see them so often.. Is it wrong that I'm so attached to them?

So I pretty much lost my childhood at age 8 or 9. My parents lost their house and we had to move in with my grandparents. Living with them is hard. I had to start taking care of them everyday. Im also never aloud to have friends over because its not our house they said. I became extremely depressed because I completely got rid of my social life. Now im 17 and just lost my first girlfriend because of this. I was never able to hangout of doing anything with her. because Im taking care of my grandparents. Plus she was never aloud over here so, ****. I never get any alone time. And now my grandmother is going really down hill and walking around THE ******* HOUSE NAKED! What should I do? I'm on my tipping point

I can t wear a bikini, I can t sleep over at anyones house if my mom hasnt met their parents, I can t walk anywhere by myself, I can t date, and last year, at the beach, my mom told me that I couldn t get into the water past my knees without adult supervision. I was 15, there were lifeguards and a green flag. Why do they do this? I haven t ever done drugs or alcohol, never even held a guys hand, never gotten below a B on any anything. So what, to them, makes me so untrustworthy?

Okay, so my dad bought me an iPhone 6s for Christmas, and I hate it! I hate iPhones. I really wish I can switch to an android phone but my upgrade isn't until December 23rd, 2017. So long!! should I tell my dad that I hate this phone? What are your opinions? Thanks

Hi,I am 11 years old and almost 12 in two months.I know that I have to be 13 to be on the internet but I feel uncomfortable talking about this with my peers or older sibling. I think my parents are very overprotective,for example I sleep with my parents in one bed.Which I don t like to sleep with them most at the time.My dad always walks with me when we going to school and going back,which I live in a apt and the school is only like 1 mile or 2 mile. I m seriously the only kid who walks with their parents.My dad and my mum don t let me go walk by myself to school.Whatever time I m walking with my dad(going home from school) I see kids playing around and stuff,I wanted have fun like that. Everytime we cross the road,I always have to hold my dad hand.If I refuse to hold his hand,my dad starts arguing with me, saying "I m not big" to not hold his hand.Which I don t know what term does he mean by "big",like I m short(I m 4 2) or age??It s like I m not trusted.How could I fix this or deal with this?? Cause I m getting sick and tired of this.... Thanks for helping BTW....

Ich hatte einen kleinen Streit mit ihnen, weil ihr Fernseher viel zu laut war und durch das ganze Haus dröhnte, was mich stört. Ich habe mir die Fernbedienung geschnappt, leiser gemacht, aber mein kleiner Bruder kam auf mich zugerannt. Ich sah das noch als Spiel und bin mit der Fernbedienung weggerannt. Dabei habe ich hinter mir eine Türe geschlossen und mein kleiner Bruder ist dagegen gerannt. Glas splitterte heraus und jetzt blutet er. Es tut mir Leid, dass das passierte, ich wollte das nicht. Sie geben mir die alleinige Schuld daran und ich habe solche Angst vor ihnen, ich kenne sie und weiß, dass sie mich verprügeln werden. Mein Vater tat das schon öfters. Meine Zimmertür ist verbarrikadiert, aber ich habe trotzdem soclhe Angst. Die Polizei möchte ich nicht rufen. Es ist meine erste Frage. Ich komme mit den Kategorien nicht klar

I'm 15 years old, and all I want to do is leave my house. I live alone with my mom. My sister is in college and I only see my dad a few times a year because he lives in Brasil. My mom is constantly angry, and she always takes it out on me. I can never say anything without making her upset. She insults me all the time, and she hits me often too. I tried acting like she doesn't scare me; one time I tried not running when she came to hit me, but it just made her angrier and hit me harder. I think that she genuinely believes she is being a good parent that happens to be strict. She doesn't seem to see herself herself as abusive. I tried talking to my sister (who is like my best friend) but she said that I was just being a typical teenager who fights with their mom. I don't want to talk to my school counselor because I'm scared that she might think the same thing and not take me seriously, or she might call my mom. I'm really conflicted because I know things must be hard on my mom with my dad leaving and having college tuition for my sister, but it gets to the point where I lie about when I have dance practices and clubs for school just to get out of coming home to see her. I'm going to go to college in a few years so I figured I could just tough it out until then, but its getting way too hard. I just really need some advice or some support, so if anyone could comment, it would mean a lot to me!

He has never slept in it for over 2 weeks of his life.. an entire room for him with his own bed. My dad sleeps downstairs on the couch now. When my bro was born, my dad slept with my mom in the bed... but it got to an age where he couldn t because my little bro would rollover and knee him in the face or elbow him in his sleep. So he started sleeping downstairs. Many years later my mom developed a story saying "It s because dad snores..." when you don t ever heard him snore. They sleep with a noise maker for crYing out loud... so my mom convinced m bro it s normal.... but now it s like.... my bed who turns 13 this year.... has slept in my parents bed... replacing my dad for the majority of my life. I m 21. So my mom obviously favors him as the baby chI ll. Aka favoritism... he gets what he wants, and has my mom back him. Mom is increasingly rude and mean to my dad, and everytime I bring it up, (that this is NOT normal) I get yelled at by my mom and little bro for "bullying". This is not normal. The other day I asked him... "You re turning 13 this year... you may hit puberty this year.... it s time for you to sleep in your own bed." He replies "I ll live my life however I want." He s discovering what a ***** is and thats so weird and everyone I ve talked to thinks it s messed up. My 18 year old sis agrees with me as well, and when brought up, my dad remains silent. Someone... this isn t normal right..?

So my report card looks good but I have one class that I did bad in and my mom is going to take away my phone how did I convince her not to take away my phone now I m out of the class because a new semester has started and I can t change the grades in the class now I love my phone and I want to keep it and why every time my mom ask for progress reports she takes school way to serouis I cannot escape this madness HELP ME PLEASE !

A christian brother emailed e recently of course calling him brother and hi calling me sister will stop this is what he left me. Hey sister,how are you and family, as for myself I'm good and happy to run across your profile .Which is a good thing I foward to hearing back from you as this day come I pray that YAH,bless you.

So I've had my liscense for almost a year and am still not allowed to drive by myslef or do anything. They told me I drive perfectly and im not a bad kid. I always have awesome grades and do the right thing. But when it comes to extra curricular stuff they don't let me do anything. I am.nkt allowed to drive , go on dates, go to the mall or do anything that my parents aren't right beside me. They won't even let me work so I can pay for gas I have absolutely no freedom whatsoever but my sister who has horrible grades and slacks off gets to do.whatever. help

I live at home with both parents (18yrold guy) and all they ever care about is my siblings and I staying at home and getting chores done. If there is something my dad doesn't like he complains about it and waits for one of us to fix it instead of him doing it himself. When we forget to do a chore he says then what are you guys here for. It feels like I'm practically living alone. When I say I wanna move out my parents get all offended saying I don't love them anymore. I noticed that the older I'm getting the chores my dad used to do nowakes me do them and he just sits around all day. He then takes credit for everyone's hard work and says if he weren't here this house would be a pig sty.

i got on her good side, read my amazing grades to her, don't get in trouble at school, and I'm a good kid. she's just always taking my phone. we made a deal that id get it march 25, but i don't want to wait. how do i get my phone back?

Hi, I'm John. I'm 16 years old and when I was 10 my mom cut ties with her family. You see her great aunt raised her and we'll call her Mawmaw. Mawmaw had to go to a nursing home in 2012. Things were all fine until my mom's real mom (we'll call her April) apparently took money from a shared account that had my mothers, mawmaw, and her own money. This caused a firestorm and from then on out mom mostly cut ties with her family. She did allow the special exception of her brothers children, Lena and Jenny to visit. However, to she refused to communicate with her brother Jim. Sometime around 2011 Jenny (18) had a baby named Katie. Ive rarely seen Katie. Anyway I recently got my license so I went down to see Jim and his wife. I love them both dearly. When I walked in I saw Katie again and then I heard from Jim's wife, Anne, about their situation. Jenny and Katie live with their gpaw because Jenny's baby daddy won't divorce because he won't pay child support. So Katie doesn't have the best role models. Now before I make my point I'm going to jump back to April. I saw her too and asked what happened between my mom and her and didn't mention the money deal and she said she didn't know. So anyway back to Katie. I am convinced that I'm the best father figure that girl will have in her life. I dont cuss, drink, or smoke, and love her to death. My mom found out I visited Jim and has been upset. I don't want to make my mom upset but I cant leave Katie either. Am I wrong?

My older sibling are both in high school and they got suspended together. I'm not sure what they did because my parents said I don't need to know and that I'm too young to have a discussion about what they did. I'm in middle school and I think I'm old enough. My parents are just a little protective. My older siblings have to spend the day at the dining room table not talking and doing school stuff that our parents found online. My parents told me to be quiet and stay away from my siblings. I asked if I could go out with my friends and my parents told me that it isn't a good day. I asked if I could watch TV and they said no because the TV room and dining room connect and they don't want my siblings hearing or watching. What am I supposed to do? I already finished all my homework. I have a test to study for, but that seems like a boring way to spend Saturday.

We were arguing on how his son won't call me dad( he is 4 now) we were in a car accident the same day. Thank god my boyfriend nor our son was injured that badly just scrapes and bruises, but because the car hit my side of the car i qas badly injured. I was in a coma for a month. But when i woke up our son has become extremely clingy towards me. I don't mind so much. But i am worried for him, if I'm gone for more then 10 min he starts to cry. What should i do ?

before we start I wanna say yeah I m disrespectful. I Dont have much respect for my dad. my brother was being really annoying and I called him autistic or something and was being a dick and my dad told me to shut the f up and I said some **** like I hate my family. he grabbed my hair and slammed it on the table I got up so angry he basically had me in a head lock were both yelling **** you and stuff he backhanded me so hard my jaw still hurts I can t open my mouth all the way without feeling pain. ear still ringing. happened like an hour ago he always does this stuff. I told my mom how bad it was and he said I was bull shitting. he called me a cock sucker a prick a ***** a pussy lots more like little **** I can t do this anymore I don t wanna live with him

I'm 29 years old! I grew up in a home where my parents have very little respect for each other & constantly fought with each other. I moved 16 hours away because I could not deal with the fighting My mom is constantly talking trash to me about my dad & how he drinks too much.Then, my father will complain about how he wants to end their marriage! He's constantly talking down to my mother real bad! Today he called her a stupid f*ck & threatened to hit her. He curses constantly at my mother! I'm starting to get VERY fed up with how he's speaking to my mother. It DISGUSTS ME that she stays with him after how he treats her!!! I've spoken to her about getting a divorce & she tells me to mind my own business & that it's not my place she & my father do in fact love each other. I'm REALLY concerned & fear I may continue to distance myself from them due to all the fighting. I just worry about my children & them being around all this fighting. Any advice PLEASE

So I found a letter in my dads room that he wrote a few months ago addressed to my grandparents, brother, and I and it sounds like he s trying to say that he might die. His heart stops beating when he falls asleep and he s scared to sleep because of it. He thinks that he s not going to wake up one day. He s 44. Please help!

About 2 weeks ago my grandma told me she was going to get a gun and shoot me, because I told her to shut up.(Ik know it was wrong but im under psychologist and therapist care at the time being. Then a week after she told me she hate me. Its new for her to say it to me because she never did..but she would tell my sister she hates her too and told me last year she was going to get a gun and shoot my aunt..Anyways,now my other aunt have custody of me and my sister because my gma cant take care of us because of gma health. So few minutes ago my aunt told me she wish she left me back in New York because im ruining things and no one can have peace. And I was tryin to plug in my adapter into the socket behind me and she told me its unplug and i told her it isnt. And she told me she hope it shocks me. I mean before she got custody of me she knew about my behavior and then she decides to have custody of me then complains she wish she left me back in Ny? What

I m 16 year old girl. mom used to go to dance class with her 2 friends Dona & Elsa. I got really close with donas son, were still good friends, almost dated. I m very close with both of them, but I m closer with Dona. She s been there for me a lot, 16th birthday, homecoming crowning, supported me when I lost & gained my vision back, my breakdowns. she s a very reserved person, after losing her husband & daughter who was my age 4yrs ago. But she s always super loving & caring to me, always giving hugs & laughing together, always happy, says she's proud of me, we have a special bond. Last year she quit Zumba due to fight she had with Elsa, so we don t see her anymore but I miss her so much, so I text her "have a great day!" & that I miss her Every know and then.. My grandma died a couple weeks ago & surprisingly Dona had came to her funeral, I was crying very hard & shaking, She came down the line hugging family, we she got to me I bawled out crying even harder when I saw her, Life seemed at its worst & to see her after months without her, I missed her so much it was overwhelming. She gave me the biggest/longest hug. It was a special moment, very hard & overwhelming. Days letter she would text me checking on me. i felt so embarrassed for crying to her.. How do you think she felt seeing me like that? is it weird that we are close? FYI I'm very close with my mom, were bestfriends, she doesn't lack anything

My older brother is 25 at the time but when he was 17 years old he had sex with my aunt back when she was 31 years old. She got pregnant after that and gave birth to a baby girl. That little girl is now is 6 years old. I was 15 back then and too young. All this came about when my uncle discover the truth and file a to divorce my aunt. This is sick though because my aunt is my moms sister. But now that I look back I remember that my aunt used to come to our house all dolled up. She use to bring my little cousins so I can take care of them. I have not spoke to my brother about this. Right now he is in the Army and sta tioned in South Korea. I don't think my mom knows about this and when she does it would devastate her heart. The first one to find out about this was my brothers ex who he dated for 5 years. She kept this secret until she couldn't take it no more and me up telling my uncle.

I'm in 7th grade but I really feel bad. I've been doing lots of bad things and the police came over once (a long time ago) and questioned my dad about me over some situation. I'm turning out to be bad and now considered "savage". For the past years, my dad has been receiving phone calls from my school over some complaint and then sees my grades, which are bad. Sometimes he gets angry and hits me. My parents divorced and my mom left me, but he has a fiance who is coming here soon. I've been getting in trouble a lot and I just got back from saturday detention. I've been through a lot and he's been angry. What do I do honestly? Also he stopped punishing me. When I came back from detention, he was just tired and didn't ground me. He cooked me my favorite food for breakfast and let me watch TV. I don't feel like I deserve this.

I got a new phone for Christmas less than a month ago and right now I am in Florida on vacation and when I went to go swimming, my phone fell off the table and cracked. How do I tell my parents? My dad just spend $6000 on This vacation so he can t afford to fix it, and I know he ll be mad and this just ruined my vacation. Help!!!!!!!!!!!

I am the only woman in a office of 17 people. I really like the people I work with and they like me. My 10 year anniversary is coming up soon and my fellow employees are planning a small lunch to celebrate it. They plan for each employee to give a small speech about working with me and to present a small gift and to give me a kiss. Former employees I worked with are also invited. The human resources guy is worried that people will think what they plan to do is sexist because they employees would not do that for a man. I think it is a great idea. I am looking forward to it. Do you think it is a sexist idea? Your thoughts please.

So basically ages ago wen I was like 10, I m 13 right now but that time I went on my iPad that my dad uses and he had a porn site on. I told him and he started blaming it on me when I did nothing and nobody else goes on my iPad and my mum don t know how to use an iPad. Then the next day I went into my bedroom and he calls me so I go into his room and he shows me google search bar which says on it "I want to **** my dad" he s like what is this I was like I didn t do anything and he s always shouting at me when he knows it s him and he blames it on me. These days wen I come into the room hes just staring at my legs and smiling I just ignore him and I m on my phone and he s always staring at me. I don t feel comfortable and it s annoying. Normally I walk in and he stares then I turn my back towards him so he can t look at me and wen I look back he s staring. Once I was on my phone and it looked like he was moving his hands up and down on his ding dong but he wasn t looking at me. Yesterday I was in my room and he was looking through the door gap so I came out the room to ask him what he wanted and he just went down the stairs. I don t know what s going on he is just so annoying. I ve told my mum but my mums like he s not staring and she doesn t understand. I feel so uncomfortable I don t know what to do! If I tell him he s gonna blame me. He hasn t touched me or anything thank god so I don t feel sexually abused but I still feel very uncomfortable

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. She is 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.

My dad, mom, sister and I used to be closer together. In 2008, my dad and mom started having serious problems. I was only 7 so it never affected me. Then in May 2009, my dad brought my sister and I to meet this woman. I was 8 so I thought she was just a friend. But about 2 years later I realized what had happened. My dad, still married, was dating this woman. My mother passed actually a year ago today, and now my dad is seeing this woman even more. My dad and I used to be closer together, just two years ago we were going to baseball games during the summer, having catches in the backyard, and other father/son activities. He loses interest in all that stuff now. Whenever I ask to do something he's "too tired", unless his girlfriend calls, then a burst of energy hits him. I'm tempted to hide his car keys so he can't leave and see her anymore because it's seriously pissing me off that my mom is dead and I have to watch my dad date another woman through all of it.

Why is it that every time someone does something, they always blame it on me? Like last night, I was walking up the stairs and then my sister kicked the door at the bottom, she then blamed it on me and I got grounded for it.

I'm having a debate with my friend. My cousin on my MOM'S side of the family dated my cousin on my DAD'S side of the family. I think it's fine because they are not related to each other, only me. He thinks its wrong because they are "cousins down the line" (which is ridiculous to me). What do you think? Is it wrong for them to date each other?

I'm a male person who's identity was always more on the metrosexual side since I was very little. But my reputation has since been tarnished since late 2014 when I missed out from attending a feminizafion/metrosexual program that makes males metro when parents.took my teen siblings and violent 27 year-old-old macho brother to such thing. My macho brother has now made a number of attempts to blacklist me by saying lies about me that are consistent with what he does and me "copying" him when I have had those preferences well before he got it. Here's some things he has done to my rep to blacklist me: He has defamed me online as a person being the violent one who also wanted to have sex with my mum (that's him), has told them I have never worked and are very immature ( he's the man-child who never worked and is very immature). Parents also blacklisted me since they wanted to 'force' hyper masculinity in me through negative enforcement. My name is Jan Harmond Dacion, and I believe this was an unfair move. I'm not even a violent, condescending and rebellious person.

I go over my boyfriends house like twice aweek and my sister sometimes drops me off and she gets so mad bc she can't go inside. She said she should be aloud in. She curse me out and say I'm disrespectful to her and so is my boyfriend bc we don't invite her in. What should I do bc I can't deal with this much more it's every weeks.

Basically I treated my dad's wounds, but this fight has been going on for a while. I don't think they are going to get divorced because from the outside, they seem like a happy couple.

Let me just start this off by saying, I do not need rude or sarcastic comments!!! I've made some not so smart decisions in my life. But the best thing I ever did was have my daughter. I'm 32 years old and a single mom. Over the last 9 years, I've on and off lived with my parents, due to financial situations. My mom slowly got addicted to prescription medications and over the last year and a half, she's been an alcoholic basically. (My parents divorced when I was 5 and are both remarried.) Let me say, my parents had a bad divorce and my father got custody of me and throughout the time I was growing up, I didn't always see my mom. She went with my stepfather for a year and a half to Egypt and then came back and went back to Egypt for another year, so I didn't always see her. Anyways, last year she began drinking tequila and not a small amount. She's been to rehab I don't know how many times, and she starts off good right after she comes back, but then eventually, the hiding and lying start back up. I can tell when she's drinking also, I guess I've become attuned to the changes, it starts as a gut feeling..... I'm learning to trust my gut more and more. Last month, I found out that she made a really STUPID decision with my daughter and I can't forgive her for that.

I'm 24 and I haven't spoken to or seen my parents in 7 years. This is a result of toxic child abusive and I think I both sides are happy about ending the relationship. They're both over 60 and I really don't plan on being apart of their lives and what's left of it. However when conversations with friends or other family happenS the subject of family comes up, I try to quickly change it but I know people are catching on. Do I be honest with people? Or do I continue to lie and change the subject?

My dad came into my life when I was 8, 3 yrs after my mom passed away I was forced to have supervised visits with him until my gma won custody of me, a few yeas ago I tried to have a realtionship with him he made me feel bad that my other sibling are close to him. Then I realized it was to just show off everything he does for them got my sister a new car boght her a apartment same with my brother. I decided he wasnt the father figuare I wanted 3 years ago I stopped all communication. He hasnt once bothered to speak to me he knows I have fb never once tried and message me happy birthday or I how are you? Guess I really didnt mean much. Im at the point now where im cutting my losses with my sister and niece the only reason she com around is to rag about what more my dads done. Has anyone cut off thee family for good? How did it make you feel? Have they tried to contact you?

So I m doing a family tree for French class, we re supposed to use fake family members, they have to be celebrities, and I don t know who to do for like grandparents, uncles, dad, cousins. And I also have to present this so it has to be someone that s legit, or makes sense. Can someone help me? Oh and they don t have to be real, they can be someone animated.

Ok I live with family I pay my rent I pay for my half of electricity also pay for my cell phone I pay for the cable thats in the house I buy my own food clean up behind myself and others so would it be OK for me to stay up all night and sleep all day if I wanted to even though keep in mind I'm living with family which tries to tell me when to get up when to go to bed when to be at home at night and even gets upset when I'm on my phone a lot what do I do I don't want to be ugly but what would be the best solution trust me I'm already trying to move out but I've lived here my whole life I have bad seizures and I am disabled so what would be my best course of action

I am 21 years old and a senior in college. My mom has put me thru hell throughout my life with physical and mental abuse. I am a young adult now and not allowed to have a job. My mom makes ALOT OF MONEY so she says that I can t work. She pays for my tuition and gives me payments every week. SHE calls me while I m in school and just says the most awful things. I ve been thru a lot with her and her abuse and I m tired. I don t want to die but I don t want to be alive. Everyday I look at the ceiling and imagine myself hanging from it. Whenever I drive I want to just crash my car. I m not allowed to talk to anyone about my problems because she says people should know our business. I am being controlled by the devil. My father is only with us for the money and doesn t play a big part in my life. My mom knows Something is wrong with me, she has told me, but she doesn t care. I m tired of life at this point with no one to talk to. My sister left my family because she couldn t deal with the abuse anymore. I want to finish school before I go off by myself but I don t know how much I can take. I look up things about suicide daily. I just want all this pain to go away

i am 23 years old i live with my mom and dad i was a doctor.He gave me referral to specialist i asked mom be quiet let's keep it a secret from dad.I have chosen a hospital near my home with long waiting time so that i could go to specialist without telling my dad .And she told him about my referral.If i would know that she will tell him i would sign in to different hospital (were waiting lines are shorter)l and dad could drive me there.Is it ok to be angry at mom i fell like that i cant trust here anymore

I need some advice somebody out there reading this. I'm a 14 year old girl and my brother is almost 16 and he bullies me everyday unless I avoid him everywhere. Ever since I was a kid, he tried to control me in anything I did, for example: I really liked playing games with him and so he would only play if he could tell me exactly what I can or couldn't do in the game and controlled me, cheating so that he would always win, and if I did something that he didn't control then he would yell at me and tell me I'm "ugly, fatty, useless, cheater" you get the point. Around age 11 I stopped playing with him because it always ended with me physically hurt and I had enough of it. That is only one story by the way there's many. For the past 3-4 years I've resigned myself to avoiding him at all costs because if I speak to him, usually he yells at me to shut up or calls me a name. With him calling me fatty/ugly all the time, I'm really self conscious of how I look, after all he's a teen guy and if one teen guy thinks I'm ugly and fat so will the next. I'm not even fat ugh. I also don't initiate conversation with him or stay home alone with him because I'm scared of him that if I say or do the wrong thing then I should be prepared to come out with bruises. Last year I got annoyed at him for eating my gluten free food (I'm the only one gluten intolerant and if he eats my food in left with nothing). And he pushed me into the stairs where I hit my head on the tiles... I face his bullying everyday and my parents think that it's just sibling rivalry, but no it's not! They said well he got bullied at school so give him a break, but you don't think I got bullied at school too? At least I have the decency to respect him and not say hurtful things to him! Just a min ago, I was watching him play Star Wars with some guys online and he had to be Princess Leia and I giggled and he told me "b**ch f*** off and get out of here" and so I did get out of there. He does this thing sometimes where he'll grab my wrist and twist my arm behind my back until I say what he wants and then he'll let go. God I hurts a lot and I get red marks on my wrist. A few months ago he did it in the shopping mall, and my dad saw and gave him the death look because people were starting when he had my arm twisted like that and I said to dad "oh don't worry I'm used to it" and dad just said to him "don't do things like that in public". So he's allowed to at home? MY PARENTS DONT SEE WHATS GOING ON EVEN THOUGH I TOLD MY MUM COUNTLESS TIMES AND NOW I GIVE UP TELLING HER AND I JUST LET HIM DO WHATEVER HE WANTS ughhhhh Yesterday my mum even asked me "why do you look at us with such disdain" and I'm like to myself....OF COURSE I LOOK ST YOU LIKE THAT BECAUSE YOUR SON BULLIES ME AND YOU. DONT. CARE!!!

four days ago me and my dad got in an argument. he tried to tell me that I did something wrong and I told him it was nothing and it s silly.. My dad got really upset. he doesn t like it when we argue and talk back..I went to my room then my dad called my mom and talked to her. I didn t try to listen becasue I didn t want to know what he is telling her..My mom doesn t talk to me since that day. she is ignoring me. I tried talking to her but she didn t want to talk.... it hurts me so bad because I love her so much :(

My daughter has a step father (the only father shes known) and to her he is "my dad" their bond is strong. Strong to the point you would never know that he not her biological dad. He has other children from a pervious relationship and she loves and enjoys her siblings. Everything and everone was happy, together as one big happy blended family. Yet things changed and she/we have not seen our kids (her siblings) in 2 months due to the mother not accepting that my husband has moved on and the kids return back to her saying how much they enjoy themselves with us. Well to sum it up my daughter asked her father to take her out to eat after school and said yes of course. Taking a chance to see if our other kids could join he was taken back hearing a yes. So all was a go... Until he realized my daughter had an appt right after school and would not be able to attend dinner until after. When we spoke he said well she is going to have to miss out on this one due to there siblings having to return home at a certain time. I asked or advised to reschedule dinner and just spend some quality time with them since its been a while.. He said he didnt want to hurt their feelings since they were already told of dinner. I was extremely upset. Our daughter was the one who initially asked for dinner and if she couldn t go i believe the "dinner" not the time spent should have been reschedule. U can hurt ones feelings but not the others? I never want anyone to feel different or left out.

when your family is being manipulative how can i open a family man's eye, what words to say to make him realize? he's 23 and still living with his sister and her family because he is comfortable. how can i wake him up?

Most of what I remember from my childhood is yelling and hitting. I remember clearly one time I came home and my mom was in my room. My room back then was messy. She was standing there.. angry. She started to beat me with wrapping paper roll. I told her to stop, I begged her. She kept hitting me. After a couple minutes, my dad came home and saved me from this monster. She has gotten better over the years but today.. It was absolutely sickening. My younger brother had taken a dump in the bathroom. My parents came home and realised he clogged it. It wasn't just any clog though. They kept trying to plung it but it wouldn't work. My younger brother denied it and blamed it on me. My mother forced me to stick my hand in the toilet (there was poop in it and it was brown and murky). I started bawling because it was sick. She told me if I didn't she would stick my head in the toilet. I stuck my hand in the toilet and she told me to dig around. After I discovered nothing, I finally got to take my hand out. They told me to stop crying but I couldn't stop. I was absolutely disgusted with myself for doing the behaviour and with them for acting this way. She only punished me! Not my younger brother. I didn't even do anything yet she blamed it on me. This isn't really a surprise because my whole life I felt as if she only cared about my younger brother and my older brother. I thought my dad and mom cared about me but, apparently not. When she beat me with wrapping paper before I was covered with bruises. I'm sick of being treated this way. I've always contemplated suicide but I can't bring myself to do it.

He slept curled up next to me every night. I spent the last two days in the hospital and just got home. I'm still feeling exhausted. I got into bed early, and like always, he hopped up beside me, purring, and fell aslee next to me. I was so tired and he is so comforting that I fell asleep too. I woke up at 2am and he was gone. My parents had woken me up since they were fighting, and my mom came in to apologize. I asked where he was and she said: "Oh, he's sleeping with your sister." So sure, I was slightly hurt but I understand that cats can be fickle and you can't force them to love you. Maybe I was restless in sleep since I'm under the weather? Or maybe he associates me with my fighting parents? I'm not sure, but now it's almost 5am and I still can't sleep since he's not here and my head is pounding and I feel nauseous.