I am a guy 30. Feel i have always been treated as if i was stupid. I use to be quiet/ shy, as an adult i am more talkative, but that depends. I do defend myself, which i use to not do. But family hate when i defend myself. They tend to love blaming me for everything. They love to say it's my fault. My dad just care about my sister. He doesn't have an relationship with me. Other than saying hey, or he wants me to do something, he doesn't speak to me. We have been able to talk, but there seems to just be tension. My sister and my dad always talk. He has always cared about my sister. They have always talked. When i was in boys scout, it was my mom that went to scout meeting with me, and went camping with me. I try and be confident, i get my hair cut, keep my beard trimmed, i am tall, slim, light skinned, workout. But feel that people think i look dumb, and feel that i am stupid. I can be intellectual, though i have made bad decisions. I am generally a nice person.

She says that nobody likes fat women and she is a housewife. She is almost 50 and tries to make herself super young. She send selfies to dad trying to look sexy and tells me if i dont take care of myself my husband will look at other women. When i gained weight she started screaming atme to lose weight. Honestly i dont care as much, i want to look good but this is life ill age no matter what.

Yesterday my mom texted me and said put all the clothes in the dryer that are clean in a basket and then put the clothes in the washer in the dryer. So I texted her saying all the baskets filled which one should I put it in and she said can't talk in a show right now. Well I didn't want to put the clothes that were already in the basket on the floor so I put the clothes in the dryer in the basket with the other clothes. And when my mom got home she literally yelled like I've never seen her yelled before saying why did I put clean clothes in the basket with the dirty clothes even though she told me too. She said I never use my head and I need to use my head. After she said that I went outside to go sit in my car. Who's the wrong one? Btw she's on her period and before I walked outside I turned the oven off cause it was cooking salmon I turned it off because I knew she'd forget about it. So she comes outside yelling why I turned it off and told me to go stay at my dads house tonight.

There's this party this weekend but I'm grounded and my mom didn't even say for how long! It was because I got caught shoplifting these expensive shoes at the mall and she had to go to the store to get me and convince them not to press charges which they were going to do because of how much they cost. She hasn't even really talked to me since. However this is really important to me since it's the end of the school year party which is a really big deal around here and I don't want to miss it. The only other solution is to sneak out and I really don't want to do that. If I can convince her to let me go out just for this weekend I'll be fine with it. What should I do?

he lost his business and now he has to work for someone else, making crappy money. he screamed at me that i've never gone hungry or naked or cold. hes missed the point completely. we dont have nice things anymore. all the money goes on the house, bills and food so my allowance is pathetic and i got one gift (a video game) for my birthday

Everyone was looking at me the teacher laughed and my face was red and I ate a goldfish.

So I took my own car without permission. My mom took it away in the first place cause I got caught having sex in my car with my girlfriend and along with that some blunts. In this argument two days ago cause I took the car to go to the grocery store to get some snacks. She yelled at me saying that she wishes to go back and got an abortion. I know I did wrong in taking the car, but is she over reacting? Or did she really meant that?

she won't let me right now, cause of course it can be dangerous. I understand that and i would be extremely careful with them if she were to let me. But what should i say to convince her? i'm 17, by the way.

I am 21 and my dad hates taking pills and we have no insurance so pills are expensive. so i grow a few plants and make pot brownies for him to help ease the pain.

Currently, it feels like I'm living in hell at my home with my father. He has become petty & downright evil. To make things clear, my mother left me this home when she died 9 yrs ago, so my house is mines but in her will and testament the home doesnt go into my name until 25. I am a 22 year old female who is feeling controlled by my father in my own home. Who knows what is wrong with my dad, but I'm guessing he was in a relationship where he was living with his gf and apparently they broke up. When he came back he has done everything in his power to have control and scare me. So far he has put a restraining order on my boyfriend to stop him from staying to my home with me (he pushed my bf to the edge honestly, not violence though), he has turned off my service on my phone and refuses to release me from the contract that I have been asking of him for years, he has taken my pets and brought them to the shelter, he records me and my friends smoking weed (legal in California), he has put up a huge wood slab up so I can only pass through one part of the house. He makes it so hard to live at my own home. I want to move out so bad, but it's pointless to leave my home that was left to me. I was told to evict him but idk what to do. He is trying to have some sort of control and I'm literally scared at home cause whatever I do will trigger him to do something to hurt me. It's like I'm his punching bag for all his problems. He has always been controlling but now I'm grown. Any advice?

So my younger sister is really freaking out because she saw a thumbnail of a video that make you think the walls are melting. Please help she's crying and screaming and worried she will never see the same again.!

My dad s fiancee constantly brings up the topic of me and my boyfriend having sex. She always says that she knows we re having sex in my room, and that she d better not catch us. We aren t having sex ftr, but she s brought it up at least a dozen times in the past month and a half. She s gotten into detail about the sexual acts she thinks my boyfriend and I are having, and has recently started sexualizing me wearing shorts and dresses, and has actually forbade me from wearing them around my boyfriend to "make it harder to get fingers and other things in places". I ve brought it up with her and my father that it makes me uncomfortable but I am always told it doesn t matter because I m a kid and she s the adult. The fact that she constantly brings it up and thinks about how we re (my boyfriend and I) are supposedly sexual active is extremely weird and makes me really uncomfortable. I m 16, and I really need advice on what to do, since voicing my opinions about it are useless. Side Note: My dad s fiancee also has a tendency to be emotionally and mentally abusive by constantly screaming at me and my little brother for small things (i.e. leaving dishes on a towel to dry and taking up counter spaces) and constantly telling me that she is my only woman figure, and excluding and **** talking my mother and grandmother. She s also known to literally scream at my brother, dad, and myself for literally being happy and "laughing too loud"

My adoptive mom has progressively gotten more and more mentally unstable. She wanted me to apologize for her spreading lies about my husband and I on social media and then when she heard that my in laws said "she was crazy and was starting stuff again", she went ballistic and said that because they said that she wont watch them. 1- How is it our fault that my in laws said that (expressed their opinion and she could not handle it). 2- how am I supposed to get any work done or go to any appointments when she is taking her anger at my in laws out on the kids and us?

I'm 22 in college, a new mother(this post is NOT about me and the father) I live with sister who talks down to me. I'm a nice person, I've been told I'm too nice. I smile a lot and compliment ppl because I'm a positive person(been told a lot) over all. The problem is that ppl, especially those close to me, takes advantage of that niceness. I am currently in therapy for my daily stresses,it's not really working. My EX best friend f***ed me over lied and pretended to be sorry, played with my mind while acting innocent(I slapped the b*tch...I had too), my family members are bullies to each other and I'm the youngest. I take OUR mother where she needs to go and ALL of her appointments(which is far) with the wrong address time date THEY provide and I'm expected to report back to them. They don't even ask, they assume IM doing it or come and tell me I'm doing it and expect me to know all the information because some are illiterate. I find out about appointments the day or night before and I'm supposed to drop everything. NO ONE wants to do anything for her cause their afraid of being the ONLY ONE. This is really messing with my confidence because I'm being stepped on and stressed out and when I say no they ring off my phone and gang up on me cursing me and OUR mother cries. They know I don't want to be around them. Any SERIOUS suggestions on how to be more assertive with people in general, especially your superiors who like to talk down to you and make you feel shitty. ??

I feel guilty and ashamed for my Dad's toxic behavior. He is an alcoholic and has been since I was in junior high. I feel ashamed and guilty for my Dad's behavior yesterday. Why is this?

I am having a really hard time with the idea of my Christian parents getting a divorce. Divorce was never an option or a subject of conversation in my family... Up until very recently when my mom abruptly announced that she had moved out and was never coming back. Have always been closest to my mom, but now we basically never see each other. Just talking to her on the phone makes me break down crying. I am feeling completely devastated... What can i do? Although I live at college most of the year, I do go home for breaks and parts of summer. It feels so empty without my mom there.

so how do i get a new phone and make her think i still got my old one

So im 19 years old and my parents still track my phone with the share my location thing on iPhones, she tracks my every movement, and I'm home for the summer and can't do anything without her tracking me 24/7. And when I turn it off she flips the f*** out and I don't know what to do. my friends want to hang out but I can barely out past 8 o'clock without her getting an attitude and I'm a male. Also, girls would want to chill to and I like older women . im on her phone line but I pay my own bill. I cant tell the girls that 22+ " my mom said I cant leave the house". I don't know what to do.. any suggestions? Over protective mom keeps tracking my phone ( im 19 years old male)? im home for the summer for college

So there's this banquet at my school for my eighth grade graduation on Tuesday and my mom is coming with me is it required for her to come because every time she sees me with my friends she pulls me and says what are u doing and she follows me around u know normal mom stuff but I got a girlfriend now and i don't want her interrupting while I'm there I thought only I would be able to come I did not know she comes too Is it required for her to come

A little over 9 years ago, there was a "disagreement" between our families on Christmas. My cousin and I were not involved in the dispute and were very close, but we haven't spoken since as a result. In my opinion, the whole thing was really stupid and petty (it was over inviting another relative that is disliked by my uncle to our Christmas party). In the weeks immediately after the argument, I actually tried to talk to my cousin and make sure things were alright between us regardless of our parents' fight. I was promptly blocked and I haven't heard from or seen her since. Now, almost a decade later, I found out that I will be seeing her at a family party in a couple months. I also heard that she has been made aware that I am also attending and that she is alright with it. After so long, I really don't know how to feel about this. I'm not sure if I should try to reach out to her again before the party at all (to make things less awkward before the party) or if I should just avoid her. I honestly don't know if I want her back in my life at all or if she wants me back in hers at all. I did recently discover that she unblocked me, but she has not tried to message me at all. She had a lot of time to try to reach out to me if she wanted to and never did; so I am wary of reaching out to her again. What should I do?...

Like she is 46 year old and she used to say to me nobody like fat on a woman. She is thin, uses cream, works out, and puts dye on her hair. She thinks beauty is very important and does a lot f things to make herself young

because I lost my brother when he was 47 and my parents never got over it, basically their life ended that day. and that was 1999 still today they dont celebrate xmas, thanksgiving, or any other holiday they still talk about it. if I go ahead with it they will never get over it. being that their now 87 and 86 im sure it wont be much longer for me to wait . I been on meds for years and seeing the best doctors and im ready and looking forward to that day coming. I have no other family other than my two sons in their 30's who dont give a hoot about me anyway and they'll collect my life insurance which I've taking out 20 years ago so they will have to make it good.

I'm 17. I don't live with my parents, I live with my sister and I don't pay rent. I don't have a job. But I'm working on it. And I'm on my third semester of college. Since my parents still pay my bills they instead force me to work at the daycare they own. I don't want to work there, I hardly get payed and yet they still force me. Is this even legal?