My mom is a single mom currently doing daycare and she has four kids. she doesn't want to do daycare anymore and is barely making enough to stay in the house we're in. I have to little brothers that she wants to be at home when they're at home. She's planning on working as a teacher so she'll be home around when they get home from school, but she also wants to work at home. She has a bachelors degree in Psychology and she's really good with kids but she doesn't really want to work with them for much longer because she has been like forever. What should she do for work that makes enough money? My sisters friend is living with us just to help us pay rent, and some other people are even helping us, so it would be nice for her to get a job that can sustain us.

I feel like dying cos i feel stupid,retard and useless and like nobody wants me except my dog and mom. I dont want to die cos i have a wonderful dog to live for. I have a little bit of autism but not Aspergers and i have adhd. What should i do???? My dad doesn't have much to do with me. Im 23 and my mom is my legal guardian. I also live on my own. My dad is 64. Everytime i cry he says crying isn't gonna do me any good no matter what i cry about.. When i told him that i want to spend more time with him like my mom and i do. Every time before its spring he tells me that we will go camping and we never do. Like he has done this to me about camping for the 5th year now. I haven't gone camping for like over 10 years now. He has also told me that we would go ride go karts and never done that yet. Also he said he would take me to roaring springs water park after he got 2 new knees and he says no now.

Alright, please listen. I'm 17. I have had to stay with my mom when I was 13. Ever since the first day I lived with her, she's always accused me of molesting my little brother. She has mental problems I swear she does, and she never admits it. When I was 15, I got kicked out by her in December of 2014 and I had to live in a motel with my dad for over a year, with roaches and all. I came back to live with my mom 2 months ago around this time, because my dad lost his job. Keep in mind, ever since I was 13, I had to deal with her mouth! Everybody in the house that comes over gets into arguments with her because of how she is. Today, I was in my brothers room, just coming home from my girlfriends. My brother is 9 btw. At first she told me stay out his room because he's sick, but I kept going in, and I started realizing that she was "suspicious" of what I'm doing to him. She yells and screams to come here, and asks why am I in his room with the door closed. When I was younger, I wouldn't talk back, but now that I'm 17, I tell her that he's my little brother and I can be in my little brothers room if I want to. I recently lost my job in April, and all she talks about everytime she goes off about something stupid she talks about kicking me out the house, go find a job, then calls my dad, tells him he's getting out too, we don't do enough. Living in a motel because of her for so long has had a very big effect on me. I lived my entire teenage years living in misery because of my mom!!

Hello, my dad has been having problems with his mom lately, and I wanted to talk about it. My grandma has this thing where if someone does something she doesn't like (even if they didn't do something wrong) she gets so mad to the point where she is fuming with rage, and will degrade or say very mean things to them. Well, a couple of nights ago her two dogs wanted to go outside at 11 p.m. , and she was trying to bring them back inside but they got really dirty so she had to give them a bath. When my dad was at her house yesterday she told him she was so mad that she yelled at one of them and said she was the worst dog in the world, and the other one was hunkering down in fear. The thing that me and my dad thinks is really weird about her is that she says stuff like that as if it's perfectly normal, and isn't wrong at all. Judging from her behavior is she an abusive person or does she just not have self control ?

BEFORE YOU READ DO NOT JUDGE ME ! PLEASE AND THANK YOU im 21 with a 4 year old son and i live with my father ....i do not have no job , barley have clothes , and no money for me or my son ....i have no food stamps cause i live with my father and he makes too much money but the money my father have he spends it on his friends drinking and not put food in the house ....im not getting no money from NO ONE AND NOT EVEN MY FAMILY ..;.my son's father is never to be found ...so i have no money at all and i was thinking about going to a strip club and dance but ...I weight 241 ..i have a flat stomach and big thighs, i do know how to dance ...but my sister said if i wanna go make sure i have heels or wedges and i don't have any!! ...will some clubs still accept you FOR YOU if i don't have heels or outfits to wear ?????? please help i feel like this the only way for now

We wen't to get her dressers from someone when she was talking to the seller she said I'm quiet in a nice way not that I'm shy or anything I just hate my voice. But she asked about me to my mom she told her her name but then she bought up my brother who wasn't even there told her what my brother does for a job she always does that makes me feel like she likes him better I am so sick of it it is not just her either it's other people I wrote it fine hahaha you probably didn't read it right

To put it into perspective, my half sister was born to my dad and his girlfriend when they were young. They seperated and my half-sisters sister was born to two parents of which I have no relation to. Would it be considered incest to have romantic incest in my half-sister's sister? We share no blood and do not know eachother through my sister.

I never loved anyone romantically. I had crushes when I was young and I was like "omg I love him!" But it was just a childish crush. The one that most worries me is I feel nothing for my family. I care about them and I need my parents cause I need a house to stay in but honestly if my house was on fire and I had to save someone I would just choose my dog. I just don't have that "I would love my family and protect my loved ones". I'm not selfish I do stuff for them but deep down I don't care for them (I also have family problems) but trust me if you were in my shoes you would feel the same, i come from such a asshole family that i just feel nothing any more. I wouldn't die for them, wouldn't protect them, would be okay if I never seen them again. But I know they love me so that makes me feel like ****. And even tho friends don't last forever I like them more but don't loveeeee them. But I care about my really close friends more. Is this normal? I'm not a empty psycho path I do have emotions just not for Certain people. I never got up in the morning wanting to see someone so bad and protect them cause of love. I'm just logical and know I need my family for getting things. Thx :)

So I'm 28 years old but look like I'm 18. I've always had a pretty youthful look, people even joke around saying I'm a vampire and stuff. Well I went to the liquor store with my parents and siblings since we were on vacation. I don't drink but my dad bought some beer. Well the clerk was saying to me how when I hit my twenties I'll feel I don't need them anymore but should always appreciate them. So I go "twenties? I'm well past that part, I'm closing in one 30 now." So shes like "what?!? how old are you?" So I say 28 and shes like but you look so young. I felt insulted by that, I mean I'd like to look my age at least. My parents were saying it was such a compliment though.

The other day, she said her stepmom told her to do something. She said she immediately jumped up and did it although she didn't agree with it. She added on that "I have learned to never ever argue with my stepmom, just do what she says". Yet, at my house I tell her to shower (just now) and she says "why do I havvvvve toooo?" I have raised her since birth. Why does she respect her more?

I live in California recently graduated with Environmental Science. People always seem to tell me that I m lucky for living here and that they wish they could move here but I honestly feel hopeless here. It s so crowded, so expensive, traffic is ridiculous, everybody is so rude. I have many goals and dreams I wish to accomplish however, I just don t think that I can accomplish them here. This place just doesn t seem to be for me. I might just be rambling at this point but I d like to move out.. I just don t know how. I don t have much money to my name and I don t exactly have a plan which I know is essential. Oregon and Washington have always seemed nicer to me. Canada is another place that I would love to visit and if I like it there potentially try to move. But now let s let reality sink in. It seems too hard. It feels like I m stuck here no matter what I do. But I also don t feel like I belong here. Well this ended up just me being rambling but..I don t exactly know what I can do. Just wanted to add this too. My problem is..I'm just trying to rush. Like I'm tired of this place and I want to get out now. Although I do realize that it is unrealistic

So ever since yesterday my parents have been fighting. I'm the youngest of the family and my two older siblings are busy with college and work. I always try to prevent things from happening. Lately Ive been afraid because I hate when people yell, and my anxiety is rising the more and more they fight Also my breathing has been uneasy because Im afraid something might happen between them

When my mom leaves for work in the morning my sister watches my brother and I. And my mom always wants the house clean before she gets home so we reserve the last 2 hours of the day before my mom gets home to cleaning. I have OCD, as diagnosed by my doctor and I obsess about having a clean house, because I don't want to disapoint my mom. So I clean and clean, and most of the time my older sister tells me to stop or else I'll get in trouble. If I argue with her and keep cleaning then I get in trouble too, but it really bothers me when the house isn't clean. What do I do? Im really frustrated but I don't want to argue with her. Please help..

I m In junior high and my mom won t let me post. it may seem like I m young but everyone has Instagram and YouTube and musically, and posts in it. yes I have all of those and I post even though I m not supposed to. my mom won t let me post anything anywhere. it s embarrassing at my age. when all my friends parents let them. I think my dad is ok with me posting stuff it s just when one parent says somehting, the other agrees to it. what should I do?? I don t want to wait till I m 18 to be able to post stuff. plz help me!!!

I recently turned 21. I have never been able to spend the night at a friend's house and I've been sheltered my whole life. I have curfews and can't stay out with my boyfriend of 5 months later than 11 p.m. I told my parents I was going to celebrate my birthday at some bars in downtown and have a grand time. They insisted that I didn't drink at all. My mom told me that she wanted me home by three a.m. and of course I got incredibly drunk so I decided to stay at a hotel with my friends because we didn't want to drive home. This has been the first time ever that I didn't sleep at home. I let my mom know I was okay and told her that I would be staying at a hotel before knocking out. I got home at around 12 pm the next day and although I had so much fun, my mom told me I had no heart and that I didn't care about her and that I lied to her. She told me to shut up when I tried talking to her and I understand she's disappointed but it's gotten ridiculous that I can't do much of what I want to do. I feel so trapped and locked up all the time and I feel that I did the responsible thing for staying at a hotel overnight. She is thinking about a punishment for me and I really don't consider myself a baby anymore. I'm not sure who is in the wrong here. Any advice before I have a "talk" with her tomorrow?

Every time I want to go to a friends or do something for myself only, they tell me maybe next time. Even when they there id no next time. I had to fight them to go over to my friends the first five times and they only let me go now because they have no excuse not to. Still, she lives two minutes away and I only go over once every three months. They've tried, more recently, to not let me do that. Both of my older siblings can do whatever they want. Go to town and to friends. They don't even have to ask. They're only a year older. My younger brother, two years younger than I, literally has to mention his friends house once and they practically already have him loaded in the car. Is it just me or do they keep me practically locked every chance they get?

Hi. I m 19 yrs old. Me and my mom argue a lot. She never agrees to my opinions. She wants to keep me in the cage for the rest of my life until i get married. My mom is a veryjudge mental kind of woman. She judges my friends a lot! If my friend is going alone in the cab or outside alone, she always says that "she is not a nice girl. How is she roaming around this way, how does such mothers allow their daughters out all by them selves." Even i like to go out with my friends and have some fun, spend sometime with them. But I m not allowed to go out, not even to the grocery store that is under ny building. I have to think a thousand times to ask my mom to let me go out, knowing that the answer would be a big NO! But still i try to convince her, but then she just hears, she doesn t pay attention to what I m saying, she ignores everything I m saying and at the end i get the ans "You know what my ans is, so stop talking about this! All she wants is that i complete my studies and get married to a rich guy and live the rest of my life after my marriage. She doesn t even want me to apply for my drivers id, she says that "you can get your license and everything after you get married, after. You can do whatever you want after you re married!" Is this what my life is all about? I don t want to get married fast! My dad doesn t even have the authority to allow me to go anywhere.

I'm 15 years old & I feel so unwanted Idk what to do because I used to live with my mom but me and her got into a physical altercation at my school ( we were fighting) and my mom got probation for 15 months for child abuse. now I live with my dad which hasn't been going well at all I don't get along with his wife or my stepbrother they lie on me and they are so mean to me but when i'm mean back i'm the "bad person" I feel like he puts his wife before me. He doesn't even want me there but yet i'm staying there. And I feel so uncomfortable being somewhere where no one wants me there. There's times Iv'e wanted to kill myself and my dad told me to "go ahead" Iv'e been in the hospital twice for help. I used to be such a happy and nice little girl now i'm depressed and sad all the time. For about 3 years now.

Okay, I don't have a lot of time and I need answers quick because I'm being shipped off to tennis camp. T_T So I'm an okay child; I have never gotten a B, so all As, I'm in every advanced class in 8th, I have lots of friends, I try my best with everything I do, one of the top people at my tennis camp, and I always go out of my way to help my mom and dad (and sisters occasionally lol), I read whenever I can, classics mostly. Now the bad parts about me (that apparently make me the worst child ever): I don't really like hanging out with my friends, I make an effort to be social, but being alone feels so much better, I like to listen to music that's a bit on the darker side (metal, hard rock, some classic rock too), but at least I don't listen to pop music whereas all the songs are centered around sex, I get panic attacks whenever I have to go to faraway places, I often can't stop crying, so my family can't go to events, I get really nervous so I have to go on the Internet or watch T.V. for a long time to calm myself down, occasionally I sneak a book like Catcher in the Rye, but I have the best reading test scores in my school, and I understand everything I come across, I HATE sports, but not exercise. If I refuse to do something they want, they hit me enough to hurt but not leave scars. I literally cry everyday because I can't do anything. Whenever I try to talk about it with my mom, she won't listen and yells. I just want to live my life and explore my interests. TY HELP!!!!

She claims she just wants us to take longer to plan it so it can be bigger and more elaborate but truthfully I think its a stalling tactic on her part. She doesn't want to "lose" her son. Our wedding is in 4 days. How can I get her on board? I tried inviting her to the nail salon with me yesterday but she declined, through her son, not by returning my call. She knows his to manipulate him and it's unfair. I'm worried she may succeed in sabatoging our wedding...

Long story short, she s in an emotionally abusive relationship and in a different state and thinks it is going to take super long to move home because of money. Me and some close family saved up money to put towards that cost. She will probably be upset but how can i tell her we have it covered and to just worry about moving.

So I'm 15, and my brother is 16. And whenever I go to sleep my brother comes into my room. He would wait until around 2:00am or 3 real late when he knows I'm sleeping, and he would come in my room real quite where I can't hear a thing, not to mention my door doesn't have a lock on it. And he would just stand there and watch me sleep. And whenever I felt like someone was watching me I would open my eyes and the door would be closing and he would slam it. But one night I left my eyes slightly opened, and I noticed whenever he comes in my room it's like he's looking for me to do something. I don't know something sexual or not, but it's like he's trying too catch me doing something I think like masturbation or something. But I don't do anything like that. Anyways, maybe y'all can help

I have an addition to cereal and so you guessed it she has one to. But I have proof why she doesn t like cereal nearly as much as I do. She doesn t ever finish the bowl! And a few months ago this new movie Zootopia came out and I love it. So surely she "likes" to watch it all the time to. She follows me around and always looks at what I m doing on my phone. I usually just stop what I m doing on the phone and pretend to get distracted by something else. Please help. I want to know how to make her stop.

Hi I am 31 years old and I have schizoaffective disorder, learning disability and arthritis in my lower back my two older brothers have has a learning disability and one of them is mentally handicapped. My oldest brother is 48 years old and has no job he recently was fired. Our mom is 70 yes old and has been doing a lot for the family. My oldest brother is lazy and don't clean up the house and always giving orders like he pays the bills which he doesn't. I am trying to get on disability and my mom and 2 brothers on disability. My oldest brother wait until our mom goes some where and he talks about her like a dog, and she fed and took care of him and gives hik money. I live out of my backpack and i am thinking about living on the streets so i can get away from him he even talks about myself and 2 brothers to his girlfriend and friends like we are trash to him! I told my mom everything he being saying about her and she does nothing about it. I am fed up what should I do? Thanks.

My son is 23 years old and hes out of college. He is staying home with us while he works to make it a little easier to pay back his student loans. When I watch the news, I constantly see reports of crazy shootings, gender confusion, and robberies. I believe all of those things are directly attributed to dysfunctional family situations. Granted, my son does stay home most of the time while he is not working, but sometimes he goes out with a girl we don't approve of, or go out to restaurants with his "friends". It is not that those things are inherently bad, but he needs to save his money to pay back his loans. Plus it is good to have him around the house to help out. I am afraid he doesn't feel the same way about family as I do and do not want to lose him.

My parents recently got divorced about a year ago. I didn t really understand why, but yesterday, Father s Day my dad revealed to my sister and i that he has a second family. He s been hiding it from us for two years. My dad used to have a job where he would go away for a couple nights at a time and apparently he was sleeping with a 19 year old and he got her pregnant. He divorced my mom around the time the child was born and he never told her of his affair until the day before he told us. His girlfriend is now 21, I am 16 so that s only a 5 year difference. His child is 14 months. I can never look at my dad the same way. We used to be close and I could trust him but now I just feel betrayed and disgusted by what he has done. If anyone please has any advice that would be great. I have no idea how to cope or talk to anyone about this. I know this situation isn t one that many encounter but if you have please let me know how you got through it. Thank you.

So I am going to a funeral tomorrow for my grandfather's cousin. This is on my mother's side of the family and my mother and her sister are at odds. When I see my aunt at the funeral I plan to walk over and say hi. My mother will accuse me of "immediately HAVING to go over and talk to aunt". She talks as though I am obsessed or something. I just like everyone who is family automatically and stay out of my mother's argument with her. Also if my aunt says "want to sit with us" I will say "sure". This will anger my mother. So how do I handle this? My mother is a little narcissistic this way. She is a good mother but holds grudges. My mother was mad that I went at sat with the aunt and her family for a while at a wedding reception back in April and not with my mother. I see Mom once a week and the aunts and cousins once every other month or so.

So I have been separated from my daughter since she was 5 years old due to a horrible break up her mother and I went thru back in the day and they moved to another country , but almost a year ago I reconnected with my daughter and we have begin slowly hanging out once a month since then , I ve told her that I love her so much and try to be in her life as much as as possible but she is now 25 years old and all grown up. So I was kinda hurt that she didn t reach out to me yesterday for Father s Day I guess it s a matter of more time before she opens up to me or should I just let it be and move on which doesn t fell right but the pain I feel is also crippling me inside , I m so confused.

He went and sat on top of my face and started licking me. Is he trying to kill me?

My mom is always making me feel like I'm fat, I don't really think i am though. I have two brothers and my mum is always telling me that i can't eat as much as they can... one of them is 6 and the other is 12. A lot of the time I'm not allowed to eat some of the things my 6 year old brother is. My mom makes me feel insecure and she says i don't move around enough and i will become chubby. Its really not what i like to hear.. what do i do. I'm 13.

Any ideas, how should I tell them, or, how do I start off? My hubby says, they will know about it anyway in school so should we just leave it.

So my husband and I have a two month old baby girl. Both of our families are so excited and have offered to babysit. I was considering letting our parents watch her until I saw how my mil was acting around my daughter. The first thing she did was we had told her no ciggarette smoke around our daughter and when we took her to visit her she lit up a ciggarette and said it was fine because she was in the other room. Then another time we took her over she carried our daughter into the kitchen, put her on the table and walked out of the room to get her phone. I was furious. The last straw was last weekend she asked us to come over and when we got there she was drunk. She asked to hold the baby and immediately started taking pictures to post online. After she took pictures she propped our daughter on the couch after I told her not to and she flipped over on her face! Then after that she laid her down to take more pictures and dropped her phone right on her face. My daughter immediately started to cry and mil said it was no big deal. The next morning I told her I didn't think any of the parents should watch our baby until she is a year old because she is so young and vulnerable right now and she flipped out me saying I was being ridiculous. To be fair I am not going to let my parents watch her either. Now my husband and mil our both mad at me. But how can I trust her to watch my daughter if she can't even handle watching her with us there. BTW mil is also in alcoholic

Like my grandmother is constantly saying how she doesn't know something and blah blah blah when she has a computer literally right next to her. And I say something like "why don't you look it up?" And she looks at me in a stupid way like she has no idea what I just said. And she knows how to use a computer, yet she doesn't look it up. Ever. She chooses to be ignorant. Who do old people like being ignorant so much I don't get it. And every adult I know does this.

I feel like I'm broken to pain.when I was at my grandpas death I didn't cry at all and didn't ever show emotion sometimes I act happy when I'm not and I always hear my parents arguing and I want it to end and at school I act totally different but the worst part is my mom saw my dad kiss another woman and she said they were getting a divorce so when we got home I slammed the car door and my bedroom door and left the lights off then hid in my closet and I had issues since then I wanted to kill myself I actual tried choking myself and I kicked the wall I never told anyone not even my parents but when they argue I tell them to shut up or stop.Plz help me and don't be rude or hate

When my parents broke up he put a chip on my moms phone he literally knew everything she was doing saying sending taking pictures of and also what she did on third party apps. Although she was very angry she didnt take him to court because that is illegal without anyones consent. I recently found out my own sister has a chip on her phone too because he put it there although he doesnt know we know. We do know . My sister feels down right violated because he saw EVERYTHING. all of her private life he literally went through everything! really invasive. Hes always saying he trust us but how is that trusting us when youre literally snooping through our own private life in a few months we'll be 18 and im just shocked at what i had found out. Im a little scared that he mightve done the same to me although hes has never had contact with my phone like that i feel like when im sleeping over his house he mightve tried putting the chip on my phone. I went to apple and asked them if they can detct anything. The guy said if my find my iphone is off and theres no sus apps then im good but i still feel unsafe. Is there like a special person i go to who can really check my phone out or do i have to wipe out my own phone just to make sure. In my honest opinions parents shouldnt go that far to know everything your child is doing. Just knowing their location is fine but if you are recieveing every text every picture everything they do that is crossing the line.