My mom and dad split up 3 years ago. I live with my mom and only see my dad at most 4 times a year. I love them both to death, but my mom and I and the rest of my family is in texas and my dad and his new wife are in maryland. He always asks me if I want to move up there. Over Christmas break I got to visit him, just me him and his wife and I've never been so happy for a long long time. I've begged and pleaded to my mom to move us back up to Maryland so I don't have to choose between the two but she just says "I'll do what I can do." I don't know who to choose. I hate that I have to do this and I feel so helpless, like an ant stuck in peanut butter. I don't know what to do. My mom says if that's what I want she will let me because she wants me to be happy, but I know that if I move with my dad it will be the same way it is now. I'd only see my mom 4 times a year and I'd miss her. How could I possibly choose between the two.

I was watching youtube at 3am and not doing school work. Obviously they are mad because they expect me to do well in school, being Asian parents :P but I just wanted to have fun. I know it's my fault not doing what I'm supposed to, I shouldn't be staying up late not sleeping. I just slip sometimes and do stupid things and fail to meet expectations and go easy on myself. My dad gets really angry and makes things awkward between us and I hate talking to him. What should I do?

Hi I currently live with my grandparents. My grandma makes all the decisions and grandpa only sits back and watching. She s completely controlling and goes from 1 to 100 in like a second. I can t talk to her about anything , because all the does it put her two sense worth. Her opinion matters and no one else s matters. The same old excuse is " I m the adult, you listen to me!! " How are you supposed to move on from something when only one person is allowed to talk. Im freaking sick of it, I listen to her all the time, and then when I try explaining something to her or talk to her about something, she thinks im being disrespectful. She even blames all her health problems on me, which makes me feel like absolute ****. Whenever im driving the car somewhere because currently I have my permit, she s so bossy and controlling and doesnt let me just drive. Im always so tense when im driving with her because all she does is yell at me when I make a little mistake. I tell her , " grandma can you just please be quiet and let me drive, im going to get into an accident!! " And she she usually says " You never listen to me! Just shut up!! My kids always listened to me, they never did this !" Always comparing me to what her kids did and didn t do. It posses me off. What my question is, what should I do? Any advice how to deal with my grandma?

It's not about me but my mom and uncle. My mom asked him if he could watch my mom's house by passing by a few times one night while she was at a wedding. He said only for money (not just gas money). My mom ended up asking a neighbor to check on her place during that one evening and the neighbor did it for free. Mom was disappointed, not for the first time. I think it's unheard of, isn't it? Uncle lives 3-5 mins away and has time in the evenings so it shouldn't have been a burden.

When I drive, my mom always yells at me and tells me what to do. This is fine because I'm a beginner. But here's the catch, if she thinks I'm about to do something wrong she yells in my ear and scares the crap out of me and makes me hit the brakes. Then she continues to yell at me for hitting the brakes. What do I do? I've tried to ask her to call down when I drive and she seems totally fine and she's super understanding but she continues.

I'm a cheerleader and you just need someone 18 or older to sign for you and there's older girls on my squad and two of them and me went. I asked before and he said no but it's not that big of a deal. He said he's going to make me take it out but can he do that?

This has been happening for the last year or so. My dad came into my room at night and started rubbing my back and saying "does that feel good?" He put his hand over my crotch for a second. He has caressed my breast twice. I took his hand off. He stares at my breasts. I was on my parents bed and they were lying down. I was next to their feet. My dad put his foot next to my butt and I moved. Once he was staring at my breast and moved closer so his arm touched it. Im 16, I live with my mom and dad.

She is considering a divorce. Her account is feeding her negative things about my Dad and his loved ones. I hate her account so much. I don't want my parents to divorce. My Dad lied cause he knew it would upset my Mom and he didn't want to upset who he loved. He admits he made a mistake and was just overwhelmed and it came year after year. He also said it is a bad thing to do but that it happens all the time. My Mom has an evil person as her account helping her fix it but the account lies about my Dad and other loved ones of mine. So does my Mom have grounds for divorce after this or should she only divorce in cases of violence and adultery?

I'm really stuck with this abusive mother who starts abusing me and getting angry at me when I refused drinking milk . I've not eaten anything so I wanted to eat food before milk but when I told this to her , she started abusing and yelling . Why does she do this always

I'm 20 years old, in college, and I'm employed. They treat as if I'm incapable of completing anything, for example, if I'm asked to wash the dishes, my aunt will then ask "you know-how to do that Right? You put the soap on the sponge...". She will always ask me that, as if, she never saw me do it before. What annoys me even more is that I'm am not the youngest in the house, but he isnt treated as if he is slow. My aunt(she is not his mother) treats him, who is 16, like he's older than me. I'm not sure if it's because I obtained my associates and driving for my bachelor's, which she hasn't done. It could also be because my mom is mentally ill and I understand that it's in me somewhere. I haven't shown an ill behaviour. Perhaps, that's not the case. I'm not sure.

It is largely my aunt's doing as she hates people easily and we don't know her kids as a result except the one who broke free from her.

I lived with my mom my whole life. Her and my dad split up when I was about 7 and he moved to Florida. I have always spent summers and Christmas with him. My mom is married to a crazy and controlling guy who doesn't even want me seeing my dad or any of that side of my family. I moved in with my dad about a month ago, but I'm afraid my mom could just tell me to come back home and I would have to obey. My mom kicked me out and told me I was not welcome back whenever I told her I wanted to move into my dads house. The only thing that is gonna change her mind is whenever my dad has child support switched and I'm scared when she sees that she'll try to make me come back home. Can she? I'm also already enrolled in school in Florida.

I've grown up as the shy girl in my family I never talk like NEVER ever even say a word, all these year if I'm in any aunt or uncle's house I never talk with anyone everrrrr, it been years and now I'm 16 and I really want to hangout with my cousins but it's kinda awkward like I'm not awkward now but I really want to hangout with them because I see alot of ppl with their cousins and they are close I'm so sick of not knowing them at all, what should I do?

She has only been in the picture for 3.5 years, maybe 4. Up until a few months before she got engaged I was always really happy when she was around. But then it was like the real her came out. The thing that makes it hard is that nobody notices this but me, and my family all loves her. Which is fine but it seems she's got a problem with me. She says little snippy comments to me all the time. She is always being contrary to things I say. She even said my husband and I looked like we hated each other when we were posing and SMILING the same as usual for some pictures at Christmas- THIS I CANT BELIEVE. When she said that it made me realize she has a jealousy issue, which happens. Not the first girl with a jealousy issue I've come across and certainly not the last. I'll even be talking to my family and if she disagrees with me she will say it in a snotty way, when she is not even a part of the conversation. Always contrary. But it bugs me that I feel I can't really say anything, because she is a sister in law. More than anything I'm more worried of it escalating. It really is bothersome. In the past month I've tried being extra friendly, but there's only been 2 occasions I've had the chance to do so since I don't see her much. I hate conflict if you haven't figured it out. What would you do? Snippy little comments, chiming in when they're not part of the conversation and always disagreeing with you, being contrary, and even insulting you and your relationship (in a way)

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So my mother would always blame stuff on me, complain, basically make me feel as if everything is my fault and is it worth living. its like every mistake i make she will nail it in my head until i die basically. i cant do anything, she says because my "grades arent good" she treats me unlike my other siblings, by like her tone, the way she handles things with them. its like i really have no one to talk to and i feel so left out and sad. i really wanted 2018 to be my year but its really hard for me. like today, i asked her if i can do my hair and she starts yelling bringing up the past and how i always do stuff to make her mad etc (its more i can go on all day) i feel like i fell ina hole and cant get out. i dont know what to do can someone please help me..

So my mom lives overseas due to her business and she visits us every 5 months (Shes lived overseas since I was 15). Whereas my dad and I live together in the states. I usually go and visit her and my family there overseas once a year. Well I just got back from my visit and now I feel like wanting to stay there with her. It got me thinking that I'm 18 going on to be 19 this year and i'm not getting any younger. Me and my mom are so close and I hate having to be so far away from her. But at the same time I feel bad that my dad has to stay in the states until he retires. Which will probably be 4-5 years from now. I also have two dogs here which I would have to find a way to transport them overseas. Idk how to feel right now.

I'm 30 years old and I have a 6yo old niece, Ally. Her 2yo sister is fighting cancer. Her parents are with her at the hospital wich is 4 hours away from home and ally is not allowed to see her sister because of age restrictions at the hospital, so I'm taking care of ally. At the moment she lives with in me and my boyfriend in our house. Ally is actually a very joyful child, full of energy and full of life, but she got much more introverted since her sister started treatmen. Ally told me she was sad about not spending Christmas with her mum and dad and I would like to talk to her about her fears but I just don't want to make her even more sad. Do you have any advice for me on how to help her? Also, she started bedwetting two weeks ago. She is potty trained sinve she's two years old and normally doesn't wet the bed. At first I thought it was just an accident but then it happened almost every night. I took her to the pediatrician and he said that there's nothing wrong with her bladder and that she would grow out of it. I see that she is embarrassed about it and I don't get angry with her because I know it's not her fault. My friend suggested me to put her in pull ups but I just don't know if that's a good idea. I don't want to stress her on top of what she's already going trough. But also, I slowly get tired of washing her sheets all the time and getting up in the middle of the night to change her, and I think ally doesn't like that as well. What do you think should I do?

As a kid I was brought up different to most kids and had to do things that were quite bad, how to I stop thinking about my past mistakes.

She does it cause she says I need to know the truth but I don't like it.

My brother has been married twice and has had some nightmare experiences, e.g., false accusations, police called, bank accounts cleared out, recipient of verbal and physical abuse, etc. He told me that he has just given up on dating and relationships as he doesn't want to put up with it. That I found shocking enough but then he revealed that because he does business in Nevada regularly, he visits the legal brothels about twice a month. I was shocked. I thought he cared about women and now I see that he contributes to their exploitation and trafficking. No woman chooses to be a prostitute. This is just sick.

I'm 14. My mom was asleep and so was my sister so I busted out my makeshift dildo and was in my bedroom doing my thing. I wasn't being loud but I was moaning but I thought my mom was asleep so I thought I was in the clear. She happened to walk past my room and probably went to check on me and opened my door, stood there for a few seconds and let out a shocked grunt of disgust slammed my door and walked away. I just sat on my bed just thinking "what the hell just happened". I fell asleep after about two hours of thinking oh my god I'm going to be screwed and it's now been two days and she's just not talking to me. She gives me these looks of disgust, I've tried talking to her and saying that she can't ignore me forever but she just walks away. My sister is confused to what's going on and I really do need advice. This hurts me that my mom can't just talk to me.

I'm a Muslim, and when I was little I wanted to please my mum and grandmother, so I decided to wear the scarf. I put on the clothes they asked and limited my thoughts and choices. It wasn't a problem then, but now I'm fourteen and I feel like I wore the scarf for all the wrong reasons. I want to be myself and make my own decisions, but my family are all old-fashioned and won't understand so I just don't know what to do.

Anytime I hang out with friends, I feel like I should be spending time w/ my mom bc my brother only wants to visit her at her house 1 time a week, which isn't enough for me, but he doesn't care. When I'm happy, it's short-term happiness before my mind snaps back to reality. I also worry about my future job. I want to be a dermatologist but that means going to 4 years of college + 12 more years for dermatology. That's 16 in all, so how will I take care of my parents? I could live with them, but how would I start a family while in school? I'll be 33 after school + I wanted to start a family early to be closer to my kids. I've lived so long without my mother and all I want is to be able to sleep over and wake up to her singing around the house. I don't want to watch my parents grow old and pass away bc they're the most important people in my life. I would rather pass away before they do, so I wouldn't have to watch that, but I can't bc my oldest brother doesn't communicate w/ my mom, so he would only take care of my dad. My other brother barely responds to my mom's texts, so I don't know how thorough his care would be. Any advice or help.? It would be much appreciated and beneficial to my happiness this would've been a photo but I typed it out because it wouldn't let me put the picture

This is my Mom's side of the family. My Mom was never close to her family as she held grudges. I was close to my grandparents but they have died. After my Mom died I hoped for a closer relationship with the rest of her family. They reached out while my grandparents were still living but now they decline my outreach. I offered to take a Christmas gift by and they all had vague excuses as to why they were busy and then I saw on Facebook they had a get together Christmas Eve. Since they weren't close to my Mom I think I am a painful reminder. However, it makes the void of the grandparents deaths (and my Mom's) worse. Plus I feel rejected. They are civil when they see me at a reunion each July but never see me outside of that unless there is a funeral. I was not invited to my cousin's wedding last October but saw other cousins in the Facebook photos. So how do I accept that they are not interested in getting close and move on? I was depressed over Christmas about this after I saw the Facebook photos of a Christmas Eve I missed when they declined my outreach saying they were busy with stuff for the kids. My parents were divorced so I assume they despise my Dad and that might be part of why they don't want to get to know me. In there family if there is a divorce then the ex is despised, my Mom was the same way,

She seldom ever contributes to the family other then occasional cooking. She is college age but too lazy to go to college though she did for a time.

I hear that there's certain cultures that don't educate their children about sex. There's some belief about no sex before marriage, etc. but also that children under 18 are often not educated about the basics. If they attend school, they'll learn about it at school. But the main resources don't come from their families.

I'm 14 and i was just talking with my parents in their room and like my mom's like "okay you can go to bed now." and i'm like wth. and she's like "me and dad need alone time, grownup time. so go upstairs and shut your door." and i'm like "ew. y'all are disgusting" not because they're doing it, bc they're doing it WHILE WERE HOME and letting ME know... And they said "Don't say that, say you love us and leave" I'm actually like disgusted rn, idk if you think i'm being immature but really while i'm home??? Don't you think this was a bit rude?

My mom never like yells at me and my brother who's 28 is staying with us for a few weeks. And like my mom and I got in an argument Bc she's stupid and thinks that I'm going to do homework on a Saturday. And my brother comes in defending her and I said you weren't apart of this conversation will you just shut up. Then he flipped out and instead of being a normal human being and saying go to your room. He literally god friecken made me sit on a stupid chair and called it time out. Like wtf he's so weird. He called if TIME OUT in front of my friend. What should I do?

I'm 19 years old and I've just started to realize that almost everyone I know talks bad about eachother behind their backs and ever since I've gotten pregnant people have tried to be my friend just so they can be nosy and my baby's fathers friends have talked bad about me always but yet try to find out every detail of my pregnancy and it's just so annoying.

My son has always been a normal boy, I can't believe I am asking this question. He is 11-years-old and it all started 4 months ago when his 2-year-old cousin moved in with us, his cousin wears diapers and he told me that he wanted to wear diapers too. For a while he would refuse to use the toilet and he would wet his pants and mess his pants. He would cry and tell me he wants diapers. Last week I finally decided to buy him diapers and he wants me to change his diapers. But we made an agreement that he has to change himself. I also caught him playing with baby toys and he tries to talk like a baby with a lisp. I feel embarrassed just asking this question. What should I do? Should I send him to a therapist or should I just let him continue wearing diapers? I am afraid that something is mentally wrong with him. But if I send him to a therapist he might think that I don't accept him for who he is. I'm a couple of weeks he is going to visit his mom in Nevada and he told me that he wants to bring his diapers with him so that he can "use the bathroom". I am really worried about this, he is starting to act like a baby and he walks around in a diaper. I don't want his mom to think that I'm a bad father because me and her have always been in competition. What should I do?

My dads been overcome with unessisary stress for the past10 years from a stay at home job, where most of the day he's wandering around, sleeping or on his phone waiting for the phone to ring for a job to come in. I feel horrible for him because he never gets out and sits at home 24/7, not making any money that we desparately need. Outside of that, his personality has changed horribly. He snaps at everything and you never know what he could take offense to. For example. We were having soup for dinner last week and he mixed vegetables into everyone's soup saying "you can't even taste it" and proceeded to ask if it was good and if you could taste it. Historically, my brother hates vegetables so this was an obvious way to try and mask the flavor. My dad asked my mom if she could taste it and she said "I can taste both flavors, it's very good!" and instantly he snapped, saying "why would you resist my authority and try to make my son rebellious by siding with him?! He doesn't eat his fricking vegetables and you're over here making it hard on me for feeding him healthy food!" He ranted on like this for about 7 minutes, and after dinner talked to me for over an hour on why I should have stood up for him and how "next time she (my mom) does that you need to step in and tell her I'm right". Things like this happen every day and there's nothing anyone can do to stop him. There's nothing you can say to ever convince him he's in the wrong, I just dont understand why he takes such offense To make things worse, ever since I was a kid he's told me that if ever he's wrong about anything, to tell him because he's "understanding and humble." Any time I've tried to step in he's mauled me. Last time damning me and swearing at me and mocking me for trying to defend my mom. After this most recent incident he said "please tell me if I'm wrong, I make mistakes too." But then 5 minutes later said "go ahead, tell me I'm wrong. Just try, you won't be able to." its like hes 2 different people

Over the Summer, I discovered a CD that contains all of my phone history including where ive went, called, whom I called or texted. I freaked out and went to my phone carrier to argue them. They told me that my mother is in charge of the plan and have rights to have collections of my phone history. I went to my mother and argued for a very long time how this is invading my privacy. I couldn't look at her the same way. Then when I left to college for my 4th year, I couldn't find my iPad. During the semester, I tried texting my gf of 5 years from home and it didn't end up well. We realized there are some of the texts that has not been sent and all we received was our unpleasant messages from each other. It brought our relationship down. I wasn't as bright as I usually would be. I then returned home for break. After watching the newest season of Black Mirror, one episode relates to me so much, Arkangel. About a mom that sees everything her daughter sees through a tablet. It got me thinking, "What if my mom is still on my ****?" I checked her room and found my iPad! When I check in iMessage, nothing has to be downloaded, all my recent messages were there! Theoretically, she deleted all the sweet stuff my gf and I sent to each other. I tested it out by having my gf to text me to have sex and do cocaine in a hotel nearby. I spied on my mom and she was looking at my iPad! My gf and I drove to the hotel and saw her walking in! I went up to my mom and grabbed the iPad. I ran away.

She makes me lie to my parents for her to cover up. I like to be an honest person and can not stand to lie to people, especially those iin which trust me. I would tell the truth but I hate when she screams and swears at me. It is probably the scariest thing in my life is when she gets mad at me. I usually try to avoid her. It is lie after lie. I can not stand it I must tell the truth! Please help, it makes me cry that I either have to lie to my family or get screamed at. I appreciate it, thanks.

i'm 14 years old and i live in florida. my parents got divorced when i was 3 and agreed on equal custody meaning i see both of them half the time. i'm getting older now and visiting my dad where i have no friends, no family besides him and just a boring time has been draining and feeling more like a chore. i want to live with my mom but don't i want to bring it up without knowing the laws and if it's even a possibility. i've tried searching for laws but i can't seem to find any that relate to me.

hi 😊 I'm getting ready to get my own apartment really soon and I am nervous about it this is my first time being on my own yes I do have a job I work at Walmart $875 full time and I get Section 8 and I have a learning disability I really don't want to explain myself because people will make fun of me the reason why I'm living on my own because my mother and I we don't really get along that well she always make fun of me about my learning disability and she I do give her money for rent and her boyfriend moved in with us they have been dating for 2 months he doesn't pay the rent and we argue about that all the time and me and him we don't get along very well either but the only thing I'm worried about loving on my own is that I have a learning disability and I don't know how to read that well and I can't count money that well so I always use my credit card or debit card I just wanted to know if someone can give me some advice about budget and other stuff about apartment lease or living on my own I don't have a car right now I take the bus to get to work I asked my mother to help me and she told me that you are grown you do this on your own can someone give me some advice and please don't be rude oh and one more thing I'm not going to get the cable I'm just going to get the internet service I have a T-Mobile cell phone I do not have an iPhone I have an Android phone and this is my first time living on my own please don't be mean

Im SO sick of this. Ever since my brother started playing sports, my weekends have been wrecked. I get dragged along to these dumb *** tournaments all the time. CONSTANTLY. Its not like a hoop-dee-doo you have to spend a couple hours there, NO. Its the ENTIRE DAY. Early in the morning, late at night. I get it, this stuff happens, sure. But ALL THE TIME? Honestly, i think its pretty messed up to say "Hey sorry kid, you're going to have to waste your weekend here while your brother gets to have fun the entire day! Oh, and have fun doing this like every week! :)" Like, really? No hotel, nothing. I'm just stuck in a car for hours while my brother sits there trying to get on my nerves. I HATE being around people as i have very bad social anxiety, but you don't see my parents busting their asses for me. They won't even buy me a service dog despite how bad my health is. I don't just want a service dog, i NEED one. I cant go to school without one, so I'm stuck doing online school, which by the way, SUCKS. You learn nothing. Honestly, this pisses me off. Not just the tournaments i bust my *** for 24/7, but the fact that they pay so much attention to what my brother WANTS and ignores what i NEED. I don't even know what to do. What CAN i do? They won't let me stay home. They know I'm terrified of long car drives, but they don't give a ****. My friends are all busy so i cant stay with them. What do i do? Im so mad and pissed of right now. Lol why is the tournament important to your answer? You just sound creepy, why am i going to tell some random person the name of a (very specific) tournament? Seriously..? Uh what? Listen, this is a serious thing. Pushing me WAY out of my comfort zone the ENTIRE DAY just so both of my parents can go to this tournament, makes me pissed. Not because I'm a teenager (although it probably makes me a bit angrier about it), but because its a shitty thing for your parents to do. I have no therapy, no medication, no service dog. NOTHING to help my anxiety. Instead, they spend all their ******* money on my brother's hockey. Im pissed, and i should be. Im sorry, but do you know me? No, you do not. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety, which later turned to severe social anxiety. I had to be taken out if school. It got so bad that i actually had to be put on probiotics because my anxiety caused my immune system to go whack, leading to back-to-back sicknesses. You, sir, are not a doctor. Stop trying to act like one and consider going to one instead, it seems like you may have a growing case of moron.

the other day i was worried about my health and i told her. she got annoyed at this and said its no big deal that happens sometimes don't worry. I said okay but im going to go get something to make me feel better and she got even more annoyed because she thought i didnt need it. I was talking camly and just expressing my concern to her in a regular conversation. she was talking as though she was not interested and irritated even saying a sentence to me about it. she goes off and starts yelling about everything not even related to the topic. just completely loses it. all this time i was thinking what is going on. i wasnt saying a word. i was letting her yell and hurl insults. It seemed like she was stressed and needed to yell at someone. I said to her why are you yelling we were having a conversation. So i walked away from her. The next day she doesn't say anything. just continues regular talk like nothing happened. im the type of person if i ever hurt anyone, i cant sleep until i apologize because it eats at me. so i went to her later on in the day and said you know i was hurt by the things you said yesterday and i dont understand why you got mad. Shes like ugh i didnt say anything that insulting im your mother and somtimes moms will yell at their kids. an apology isnt necessary. get over it... She never apologizes. ive never heard her apologize to me when shes hurt me. she likes to pretend nothing happened, take space and move on. how do i deal with someone like this??

We have K-7 grade schools in this school district. She and her friend started hanging out with some 12 year old girls at recess who are a bad influence. It sounds like their "new friends" are saying words that are inappropriate and are doing things that she shouldn't be exposed to. I try to get her to play with other children her age but she will just be with these girls during school hours. The school policy has nothing against different age groups being together. I've spoken to the teacher and they accepted all my concerns, but that is what they told me. I was informed that an adult will deal with any kids who don't behave themselves but they can't really tell a child who to hang out with and who to not, etc.

I'm 16 & we have 4 dogs. 1 has her own food/water bowl in my room, 2 of them have a food/water bowl in my sister's room, the last one has his own in the living room. They all know where they can get their own food from & they only go outside to play & to go potty. A food/water dish is out there for them all when they decide to play out there though. For the past few weeks he has been forcing them all outside to eat. When I say they have their own food, he gets pissed & says "No, this is better. But when they don't go out on there for the food he puts out there he gets mad. Tonight he literally got pissed at me because I was refilling the food bowl in my room for the one the dogs. He said I had attitude over it & I said I did nothing to him so I don't know why he's mad, and he was yelled "That's attitude, you want a f*cking video of it?" Then he forced my baby to go outside. Idk what his issue is or how to make him understand that they don't need to be forced outside to eat when they have food indoors. Sorry for all the grammatical errors, this all just happened and I'm stressed out because of it.

My daughter thinks she should have the same privileges as her stepsister. They don't live together, but I can see signs of jealousy and frustration. This has been ongoing behaviour for the past few weeks now. I don't know what's gotten into my daughter lately! Usually she's pretty quiet and respectful. She suddenly became a handful and started having moody outbursts for little reasons. There's always her room where she is required to be sent to when she has these meltdowns. I also have no clue where this idea that she must have the same freedom as most 18 year olds do. There's no reason for 12 year olds to be out at midnight, one-on-one dating, attending parties unsupervised. I keep her busy with sports, extracurricular stuff, keeping up her grades and going out as a family. This nonsense hasn't stopped yet even if she knows that she will be disciplined.

I moved to a new state and left some stuff at my parents house. The move was a bit sudden as I wasn't planning on getting back together with my ex husband but one thing led to another. Anyway my mom told me she was going to actually be moving out her old house so she can pack my things and send them to me when I said I'd have to save money to come retrieve my things. Both my husband and I said it wasn't a problem to come get it but she insisted that she and my step dad can send it. It's been 6 months now and she hasn't sent me anything. I text every other week to check in but now she's not returning any of my text messages. I don't know what to do at this point. I had a lot of memorable things like my child's photos which I can't replace.. I don't want to take anyone to civil court. I just want to get my stuff. I'm worried if I buy a ticket and fly to get it that she won't answer my calls or messages to get it out of storage. Any tips?

She has gone on to have kids and mistreat two of them while favoring the 3rd. We are now estranged from her.

He talks to his wife like she is a dog.

When I was growing up as a child I always wanted to become a nurse but if that didn't work I would have a back up plan which I did. I'm 22 and unemployed. I'm trying so hard to find a job and get this I haven't passed my driving test. My mom always telling me to find a job and I always try my best. It's so hard finding a job where you have many things running through your mind. My mom always telling me how **** I am and how I wasted my life. She is always telling me out of all my siblings I have wasted my life and constantly reminding daily that I'm a ***** and ****. That I will never succeed anything in life and that no one will want me or know me. I can tell you that I'm the only human being that gets treated like this compared to others.

My mom has turned all my cousins and friends against me saying I'm a bad influence. She doesn't allow me to socialise with anyone. My auntie once told my mom to look me in my bedroom because I'm a "dog". She says I will have no one when I'll grow older let alone get married. Sometimes my mom doesn't let me go with her to any special occasions or my cousin house. All she goes on about is how bad I am and how she wished she never had me. I hardly talk to anyone in the family because everyone ignores me. I cry day and night to make this all go away, I hide upset in my room because I have no one to talk to.

My older brother is the thorn in my life. Since we were little he's always was an asshole. He just got out of rehab for the 4th time after stealing my parents pills and they still treat him better than me...everytime i look at him I just wanna drive a fork in his throat. Do u have a sibling that no matter wat yall hate each other?

Everyone in my family are such asses. My parents argue every nite about everything! They literally spent 2 hours arguing over the remote control last nite lol my uppity sisters married rich and live in cali. My other sister got 7 mixed black kids by 5 differnt guys. My brother just got through rehab again and the family still treats him better than me. I wanna leave but i dont have the skills or education too

My boyfriend now has custody of his 7 yr old daughter her mother needless to stay does not like this arrangement. She has issues with me and with my friend. long story short why she has these issues a few summers ago she called my best friends boyfriends phone to talk to her daughter when my friend answered his phone the mother was instantly irate she says "put my f****** daughter on the phone" my friend says in return "that's not nice or polite use your manners and ask nicely" the mother gets even more irate and starts cussing and calling names. my question now is when the mother comes over for her supervised visits she bad mouths my friend to her daughter and my friends daughter to her. my boyfriends daughter now physically abuses my friends daughter and the 2 girls are constantly fighting and arguing. she repeats the things her mother says about her

With binoculars...hes also alot older and got money. My parents dont know he did that and i gotta force myself to be nice to them. Should i tell my parents? She acts like shes better than everyone in our family too but she married a creeper just for his $$

I'm 20 and currently in university and will be there for a couple more years at least. In my country (and my city) it is extremely uncommon for people to move out of their parents' house for university and in my culture, it is also almost a customary obligation for children to stay at their parents' house (and look after them) until they have a full time job and can buy property and have a family... That being said, my family was extremely dysfunctional growing up and to some extent still is. My parents were abusive physically and emotionally towards each other and to me and this has affected me negatively all throughout my teen years. As much as I'm aware of the fact that "they love me", they were extremely controlling and raised me in a way that shot down my self-confidence and esteem. I had no freedom of choice in the subjects and extra-curricular activities I took in school and was discouraged from socialising with friends since it was a "waste of time"... I feel a lot of anger and hatred inside me all the time for the way my parents raised me to the point where I cry whenever I think about my childhood and overall just have a hard time forgiving them. I want to move out but I feel guilty for being selfish, especially because of my culture and the fact that nobody I know does it so moving out will raise a lot of eyebrows. Rent in my city (Sydney) is extremely expensive to the point where even when I have a part time job, my pay is still barely enough to pay rent. TL;DR: Nobody in my city tends to move out during college/university, my culture doesn't encourage kids moving out (also values frugality), parents want me to stay home and spend time with them/look after them but I want to move out because I had an abusive upbringing and feel extremely guilty for wanting to move out. I also fear that I'll receive a lot of negative judgment from peers for being selfish and moving out of my house while everybody else stays home.