I'm turning 21 years old this year and I have decided to change my name. This morning I was at the local authorities because my brother needed his ID documents. I thought about dropping my first name and placing my second name as my first name. I have thought about it for a long time already. But what is stopping me is how people would react to it. My parents would be fine with it. But I'm worried about how my partner, my friends and other family members would react to this. Ps, I think my second name is much more attractive than my current first name. Anyways would changing my name be a bad idea?

I'm 17 ans I accidentally said the f word in front of my younger brother who is 3 years younger than me. I'm just afraid he will tell or treat me differently cause of this I know I'm probably overreacting but what should I do?

So basically I have the opportunity to move in with my grandparents. They live near the college I plan on attending this fall. They also need help around the house with such things as cooking, cleaning, driving them to appointments, making sure they take their medicine. My grandfather is blind and my grandmother has Parkinson's. My parents think its a great idea, not just because I'd be moving out, but that I can help out. They also say it's a great small step to take on my way to becoming independent. But this is my first time moving away from home. Yes, it's only 15 minutes away but I've been really attached and connected to my family. Moving into my grandparent's, as loving as they are, might be lonely. At my home, I see my parents every day, eat dinner, watch T.V. We get each other more than my grandparents would get me. Is there any way to make this possible transition, however small, more comfortable for me? I know this might seem silly to be worried when I don't have to pay rent, they pay for school, and I don't have to get a job. But I really want to be independent and I have to start somewhere. So how can I emotionally prepare for this?

Im an 18 year old female and i'm stuck under my mothers control. I can't go to college, i can't work because i'm stuck at home. I have no friends because i can't go outside. My sister likes to pick arguments with me all the time and it makes me feel worse because i have no one else to talk to. I just had an argument with her now, which is why i'm writing this because again, i have no one else to tell. I feel as if i'm going mad, every single day is the same, wake up,slave around and sleep. Ever since i left school everythings gone down hill. I have no idea what i'm supposed to do, i have no money to move out, nothing.

I took the decision to contact my biological dad just after Xmas, we have met a few times, my mum and the family keep telling not to tell him anything about the family, which I have done he doesn't know anything. My brother and his wife have just had a baby boy, this morning I messaged my brother to ask if I could put a pic of me holding the baby on my Facebook, he said yes provide its friends only and I am not friends with my dad or his family (which I'm not), so I put a pic up. Today went out to Southport with my dad and my half sister to meet his partner for the first time, sat down in Pizza Hut his partner came out so your a Aunty now, I asked how she knew turns out my dads sister is friends with a lady who is friends with all my family and my brothers friends (I don't know her) she has told his sister and then she told my dad and his partner. So it has nothing to do with me how they found out, I did tell my dad that I was told not to tell him anything about the family or the baby. I don't know weather to tell my brother and my mum that he know, but they are just going to blame me. I don't know what to do? Many thanks in advance x ☆ Sent from iOS Dr. Know! 1.1.04

When I was little I was smothered with love which i am guessing is what caused this. They used to wake me up and hug me and kiss me and the whole deal, but now whenever they try to hug me or want me to hang out with them I just get super uncomfortable. Now that I think about it, it isn't just them. It is with my grandparents too (on both sides), aunts, uncles... I don't care if it is literally anyone else outside of my family, in fact, I love being hugged if it is someone else like a boyfriend of just a friend in general. Something about my family in particular (specifically my parents) showing affection just makes me wanna run back to my room.

This week is spring break and my friends made plans, inviting me as well. The thing is, a boy was going to be there, but no adults. So I asked my mom if I could go, but she refused, because she doesn't trust me around boys. She thinks I could get pregnant at this age, I'm almost 14, but she has no reason to think that. I haven't had my first kiss, I've never dated, I follow her rules, I get good grades, but she still won't trust me with my guy friends. She claims that anything can happen, my grandma got pregnant when she was 15. But I'm not my grandma. I just want to understand why she doesn't trust me.

I'm 20 years old, and I'm living with my parents. I suffer from a few mental illnesses that make it hard for me to do things the way everyone else does, so I'm not sure if I will ever be able to live on my own. Still, I want to try. I understand that the new responsibilities I will have once I move out are practically infinite, in number and complexity. I want to know beforehand if I'm able to handle that before making commitments that would cost a lot of money and effort to back out of. Is there a way I could stay somewhere out of my parents' house but close by so that I can get a taste for living alone while I still have a net to fall in? Preferably without a lot of long term commitments, like a hotel but not quite as expensive?

My children's father is the most complaining person I've ever met in my entire life! So he is mad at me today because I have to go enroll our daughter into the PreK lottery I told him like a week ago. So i was suppose to do this yesterday but he said just do it tomorrow I wasted a whole day preparing for this and I was ready and he is angry at me because today I'm bothering him about this. I'm at a point where I just don't care! He has 2 other baby's mothers as well and everyone nags him! I can understand that he is tired but this school thing is important so what do I do??

She always acts flirty around me, and I first thought it was her personality. Noticed she always acted that way when my mom wasn't around or her dad, then she knew I was dating and I invited my date over, she started acting different and mean towards my date. After that she came up to me arguing like crazy about my date, telling me how she was a slut, asking me why I was dating her. She pissed me off, so we kept arguing. The next day she comes to me crying telling me she has a crush on me. I don't share the same feelings as her. How can I stop this non-stop war between us since I told her I don't see her that way. Our parents are getting tired of our constant fights, can't be in the same room for more than three seconds without arguing. I am really tired, she won't leave me alone. Help...please.

He lives at home and this month he worked 8 days at his job that pays just over minimum wage. 8 six hour shifts this month and next month he works 3 days. This has been going on for the past year and she's told him he needs to find a more stable income. He started college for accounting but stopped going years ago but he still has quite a bit of experience with it and could probably get an entry level accounting position but he won't try to find another job. What else can be done to make him work more?

So my dad is 57, my mom is 52, my oldest brother is 25, my other brother turned 17 on March 28 (yesterday), and I'm 15. I remember one time I went downstairs and my dad was sitting next to some paperwork and I asked him if it was for work and he said no, he was writing his will. Just yesterday, on my brother's birthday, he said that in a year, he'd be off to college. And in 3 years that would be me. He said that he understood it wasn't his world anymore, it was ours, and he was just a bystander. My dad also told me that when I graduate high school in three years, we'd be selling the house, which is my childhood home. My oldest brother, the 25 one, said that he might move out soon, which is sad because if he moves out, and the 17-year-old goes to college, it'll only be my dad and me. Today, my mom told my brother, the 17 one that she understood that it seemed it as friends over family these days (as a teenager). I've just been left wondering why my dad says such saddening things, and why life seems to pass me by? My dad said it's fun to see us grow up, but I find it sad because my parents get older as well as everybody else. I try to go to school, stress-free and its worked for a while, until now. Suggestions?

I'm VERY mature and responsible. I know the risks but my mother refuses to consent. She says that children are not brides, and there's a reason why people are fighting to stop child marriages worldwide. I'm not a child, I'm nearly an adult and I've been talking about this for a year now. She refuses to even compromise

I am 15 he has done it since I was a little kid it's just now it makes me uncomfortable. It's only fun I did not care before it's cute but I'm too old now. It would probably be awkward to ask I don't want him to feel as if he has done wrong.

I live with my mom and her boyfriend, let's call him Aaron Aaron, my mom, and I have lived together for three years now. He is typically drunk and abusive. He doesn't physically abuse me, that isn't the case for my mom. Glasses have been thrown, she's been pushed down the stairs. Whenever they're both home, some sort of name-calling, screaming, or fighting occurs. Whenever I try to step in and vend, he calls me something along the lines of "a worthless *****", (Anything you could imagine a drunk guy saying to a 15 year old girl). I've tried to talk to my mom about this. When I tell her how I feel, she says, "He isn't that bad" or "Just be nice." She looks past what he's done, she doesn't think it's a big deal. I'm afraid to go home. I lock myself in my room everyday. Recently, he threw a glass at my mom (about a month ago), I called the police and a restraining order was placed. Today that restraining order was uplifted, I come home to see him back. I can't live here anymore. I don't feel safe for myself or my mother. Nobody takes me seriously when I open up, my mom just ignores it (because of financial issues, we aren't exactly "stable"). It's so serious that I've highly considered moving in with a relative. The nearest relatives are my grandparents, who are old and couldn't take care of me and my father lives an hour away and I couldn't go to the same school, my friends are one of the few factors keeping me going. Does anyone have any advice to give me? Thank you so much.

If you ask anyone to describe my mother in law Jill, they most probably would say "beautiful". If someone ask me to describe Jill, I would say she is the best mother in law any guy can have. She is always there if my wife and I need help with anything and she is the nicest person you will ever meet. On day at work, she came by to ride home with me. I introduced her to some of my co workers. The next day these co workers asked me if she was married. I told then no. They ask me if I would fix them up with a date with Jill. I told them someone as beautiful as Jill did not need her son in laws help getting dates. She can get all the dates she wants without anyone's help. My co workers then ask me if I would bring her to the bonus day party they were having after work next week so they could get to know her better. I don't know if I should do that. They would enjoy the party more if she was there as she is really a fun person to be around. Do you think a woman would be interested in guys that are a least 10 years younger than she is? Should I stay out or her love life and ignore their request even if there are some real great guys that want to get to know her better? What should I do?

I have been uncomfortable and my friends asked me to cover them and when I do my mom will yank them back out. What should I do? My sister is pregnant too but my mom lets her keep her boobs covered what should I do? I can't afford to move

I had NO IDEA that my daughter found out what sex is in 5th grade. She was only 10 - how would such a small child find out? I found out when she borrowed a Judy Blume novel called Forever. Nobody in our family ever discusses love and sex. All our kids are still 9, 12 and 15. They only know the basic concept of marriage, "I love you", bad touch from good touch, that minors shouldn't date, etc. I always thought all my kids assumed the reason people who did "bad touches" is because it's wrong. There's always people who will do whatever is wrong/illegal. We never ever had further discussion.

My cousin and I always play wrestle and I'm extremely ticklish so that how he usually ends up winning. Yesterday we were wrestling as usual and he tackled me to the floor and was tickling me, again as usual but I felt his hand on my inner thigh. I though it was by mistake but then he tucked his hand completely in my shorts. I had on boxers underneath so he didn't actually touch my privates but was really weirded out and didnt really move I just told him to stop and he did. After that I just went home and it didnt all register until I got home. Neither of us is gay and I've tried running a bunch of scenarios through my head that could equate to it being by mistake but none of them add up. I just feel really uncomfortable and don't know what to do or who to talk to about it. I almost called him but started panicking and didn't. I'm really confused though bc none of it makes sense and I'm kinda tripping out about it. Please dont be rude or make gay or inappropriate jokes bc I'm already anxious as it is. I just want to make sense of it and I don't know what to do from here.

Offer 1- Driving a garbage truck, starting at 20.00 an hour, 2 dollar raise every year, etc, but the guy who runs the company is a jerk. All the google reviews about him are bad customer and employee related. I just have a feeling he will get rid of me for any reason. He just seems shady, doesn't want me to give 2 weeks notice to my current employer, his social skills suck, doesn't even say hello or good morning, only had me fill out federal tax form and not state tax form saying oh it's the same information needed, then doesn't even have me fill out info to get paid like direct deposit or anything. He's basically a daddy's boy running his parents company into the ground. Offer 2- driving semi truck over night 3rd shift hours, 20.50 an hour to start then .75 cent raises each year, willing to let me give proper 2 weeks notice to current employer, it's just that I hate the hours and dont want to drive class A semis because they are a pain to drive and back up and the raises dont even compare to the garbage job but they have been more professional. Overall, my main goal is to drive a garbage truck but with a better company but in the meantime I need more experience to be considered elsewhere. The only reason I'm considering the garbage job is for experience and the money is really good

my mom and i have always had an alright relationship, nothing too special but still, we've never had any major fights or anything. my problem is that for the past year or so, she's been getting more and more cold towards me. its gotten to the point that every single time i try to talk to her she goes out of her way to show how little she wants to have a conversation with me, let alone tell me how her day was. she'll sigh, give super brief responses, walk away from me while I'm talking, tell me to go away, insult me till i leave, or just flat out ignore me. she refuses to do anything i need her to do for me (Im too young to drive so i need her to take me shopping for clothes, school items, etc) and yet she will jump through hoops to make my older brother happy. if i ever do give up and stop trying to talk to her, she acts like i've abandoned her and completely victimizes herself. i don't know what to do, i don't think i've done anything to make her act like this, if anyone has had a parent act like this before it would be really nice to get some advice on how to deal with it, and also ways to try and fix the relationship.

I sometimes have incestuous thoughts about my older brother. I can't help them! I'm 18 and he is 26. Is this weird?

My aunt is going to allow me to live with her rent free for 6 months until I move to another state with my sister. That's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me and I need to know what I can do to pay her back.

We broke up and when I tried going back(6 months ago) he said he wouldn't forgive me for saying something about his mom when he said something to mine first(idiotic).I didn't chase him. We ran into eachother one day i expected him to ignore but he smiled and said hi.Now he keeps looking at me, making eye contact and i caught him looking at me sneakily through the door crack. He's started coming out about the same time as I do and he said hi hesitantly and smiling. Today I was going down the stairs and he was behind me. He was "on the phone" saying he was leaving church and would call back which wasn't necessary since church was already over. I feel like he did it so I'd know he was behind me. We walked next to eachother he smiled and said how are you. We had a few exchanges and I asked him about his sick brother. He kept constantly staring at me in church today we crosses eyes but no smiling. He's so weird. What does all this mean?

So my parents are getting a divorce I love both of them buy I ve formed more of a relationship with my mom so is it wrong that I want to stay with her instead

My parents had a really bad falling out months ago and are still going through a divorce so my dad already left but my mom stayed in the area but long story short I just got on my own for the first time and don't even really know anybody in the town I'm in so I'm always to myself and since my dad was in the wrong my mom and I stopped all communication with him and now I just found out my mom needs major support through this and just told me she's leaving and selling the house I grew up in to live across the country for now on. What should I do? I feel so alone..