I'm 16, almost 17 and my 15 year old brother beat me up in a parking lot. It was literally because I sat in the front seat of the car. He pulled my hair and punched my head continuously. He then grabbed my already torn ear (he tore it) and pulls on it. His hand was by my mouth so to make him stop beating me up I bit down hard on his hand. I guess t wasn't a good choice because he full on punched me in the face so many times. My grandma (legal guardian) literally did nothing. She was there the whole time, but didn't do anything. And I just kept getting hit and hit. I started crying. My face is incredibly swollen and I have a very noticeable black eye. He now keeps pretending like he's going to hit me and just laughs at me. He also is calling me "fat" "ugly *****" "slut" and laughs. I am so angry. I want him to literally spend a night and day in jail or spend a week in the psychiatric ward. I am so ******* tired of him.

Reason I'm asking is I had someone I'm close to come to me in fear because they were told by the foster family that they were going to throw a baby shower and stuff for her biological child and having their grandparents meet her baby.

I never met my blood folks, I grew up homeless. So I did things i'm not proud of to survive. I join a group of people who aren't the best people becasue I wanted to feel like I was apart of something and I wanted a family so bad. Most of them now are either dead or locked up. When I was 14 a nice family took me in I love them with all my hearty.My mom was a british literature teacher she taught me how to read and write to prepared me to go to school. When I turned 18 most of it got expunged off my record. And when I was 18 my folks died in the muslim car bombing in time square new york in 2010. I was so full of rage I joined the military to kill every musilm in existence. For a while I wondered why the world keeps taking away what is important to me. I later realized that I am doing the same thing to others .Not all were bad. Some were living normal lives and we had bad information killed entire families. We had a term "drop weapons" so if this happens we put guns and ammunition on their body and claim they were terrorist. I kept telling myself those in my company are my family now. So I need to protect them. But the guilt is eating me up so bad, that i'm killing innocents and inflicting the same pain that the world has done to me. How do I make the guilt go away but at the same time not sell out my brothers and the closet thing I have to a family?

Accept he is Black. He claim he doesn't like trump, but he acts like him. If i disagree with him and speak up for myself he yells. And tell me to not to talk to him. He is has to be right about everything, and only care about himself.

My partner is 25 and we've just moved in together. His Mam has booked his dentist appointment for next week so he, his mam and his 20 year old brother can go all together. Am I rediculous for thinking this REDICULOUS? I've not said anything... yet... but I just wanted to rant... this isn't normal is it?

She died from the drink. It was Saturday. I cannot think straight. I failed to protect her from her alcoholism, I am her care giver after Dad and my brothers left and I failed her. She was alcoholic but that was okay. I took care of her so no one knew. Now she is gone. I came home from the store and was getting food and her drinks like she asked me to and she had collapsed. She'd been drinking heavy. I am so upset, I am the only daughter, I was responsible for her. My selfish father and brothers left her because of it 12 years ago and it was just she and I. I have no one now. I am in despair. My father found out last night and called today and offered to come see me but I don't even know if I want to. He did not keep her drinking private and so it was made worse by him sharing it and then he left. He gave an ultimatum but she couldn't help it, her mother had it to. I was her guardian and special friend, I failed her. What do I do? What do I say if my father comes to see me? He failed her but I can't get mad, I don't let myself do that. If my brothers who I haven't seen in 12 years come to the funeral what do I do? Do I even have them or should I ban them? They failed her. She couldn't help drinking as her mother made her that way. How do I go on, please help me. I am feeling like drinking myself, I cannot take it. I failed my mother.

I know they likely don't know better so I want to still be good to them, they are family. However, when they make offensive racial comments like at least we don't have that (N word) in the white house anymore (regarding Trump over Obama). They love Obama bashing and love Trump. Or when they laugh about the relative who married an (N word). I hate the racism and don't want to start a fight at the same time. How do I respond to keep the peace and still enjoy Thanksgiving? It is my Mom's father and his family. Usually we are with her mother as we will be for Christmas and she is much better as well as my Dad's family which we also will do Christmas with and they are wonderful. This branch is my Mom's father and his 2nd wife. They are nice and all but very redneck.

Growing up I felt like my dad wanted me to become a Doctor or Lawyer or large business person and he also wanted me to date someone white. Instead of focusing on me being happy. Do your parents do this?

Well we don't have the exact same birthdays but we were all born in November and all of our birth years end in a 3, for example my mom was born on November 3, 1963 my dad was born on November 12, 1963, my sister was born on November 1, 1983, and I was born on November 22, 1993 and my daughter was born on November 9, 2013 and my sisters son was born on November 14, 2003. I never noticed this until recently and I think it's a cool idea to get money for this because it's very uncommon. Is there a place I can call for this? For uncommon things?

ok when I get mad at my mom I take a picture hanging on the wall or from the family album and scan it, photoshop Donald Trump into it, then get it printed out at Walmart and replace the original with it. this pisses her off because she hates Donald Trump. doing this takes a lot of time and effort and I'm getting bored of it. how can I get back at her a different way?

I feel like I missed out on a good part of the developmental years of growing up. I had friends, I had experiences, but I didn't hit it to the max. I wasn't adventurous, I wasn't courageous, I wasn't as expansive as I should have been. I look back on the past 5 years and how I just didn't take the chances and the windows of opportunity to really hit those key milestones in my early 20s. You know, the partying, learning from mistakes, the traveling with friends, dating women, moving to a different city and being fully independent... I just didn't go to the fullest. My travel experience is limited, I've never kissed a girl (had trouble with women), and I'm just now starting to hit a stride in my life and career. In terms of my confidence and money. I'm moving out to go live in Northern Virginia for a job opportunity. I wanted to move out earlier and I also wanted to move to a different region, but life didn't work out that way. Many of my hopes and dreams were dashed and I feel like my youthful idealism is gone. It wasn't supposed to be like this. I was supposed to be further ahead by now. I'm expected to be responsible now, so I can't do any partying, long-term traveling, goofing off or any of that stuff. I'm expected to have made all of my mistakes as a teen and young adult. How can I get over this trauma of not truly growing up?

I'm an 18 year old woman now but i feel like im still 13 years old. I was babied by my mom my entire life and i have a co -dependency issue with her. She does everything for me and i go everywhere with her cause i have like , no friends :/ I feel uncomfortable without my mom . When shes gone i feel sad and alone. I am scared of growing up , what will i do without her!? but i realize its time for me to do so. How can i start?

It is getting depressing because all the time I see my co workers talk to each other for minutes even hours, they like being together and everything. But when they talk to me it is only 5 to 10 seconds.. and they leave me alone, I am the least popular, and it is the same at home with my family my mom ignores me and my sister hates me...

I moved out of my step dad's home when he and my mom separated. My sister and brother still lived there. I had no room for my winter clothes so my sister allowed me to put it in her closet. Once my disabled step dad needed a caretaker, my uncle (who hates me and is basically the devil), who is my step dad's POA asked my sister, his own niece, who is barely an adult, to leave and give her room to the caretaker. I was told (by my sister, not him) to get my two totes out of the room by Sunday. I came Saturday to find that he BURNED all of my clothing and nicely placed everyone else's things in the garage. I wouldn't be upset if it was clothes I didn't wear or care about, but every last coat I owned was in that box. My boots, pants, jackets, etc. ALL OF MY WINTER CLOTHING WAS IN THOSE TWO TOTES. All of that stuff calculates to about $500 MINIMUM. I can't just let him get away with this because he doesn't like me and wants to be a jerk. What can I do? I need some time of reimbursement.

I am from Florida. In 2017, I moved to North Carolina for a while. I worked with a man named "Mason". "Mason" & I hooked up a few times, but he seemed too interested too quickly so I cut off that relationship. He was recently divorced with 2 small boys. Bc of his persistence, a few months later we hooked up again & I did agree to try to be in a relationship with him. After 2-3 weeks I realized I did not have feelings for him & did not want the intense relationship he seemed to want & ended the relationship right around the time I found out im pregnant. I moved home to Florida to be with my family. He has not been happy about the break up. we are both pretty nice to each other, but its SO awkward trying to figure out how to coparent because we don't know each other well & he is angry with me. we will not be living in the same state. Ive done my best to include him & keep him informed. we recently found out the baby is a boy & I asked him for the names he likes. He never sent them so I sent a list of my favorites. I cannot tell if he likes them or not, but he did immediately ask if the baby will take his last name. I said no. I only dated him for 3 weeks, he has 2 sons already, and the child will be living with me. I don't think I should be obligated to give the baby his last name. I told him to choose the middle name on his own, whatever he wants, & we should both agree on a first name. Am I being fair? Legally do I have the right to choose?

Yesterday I stayed home from school because I was running a fever, and I guess I did something to tick my mom off so she took me to a drug screening place (I'm not sure what it's called) to get a hair drug test. I smoked for the first time with my good friend around 2 weeks ago and the hair test goes back 3 months. I smoked because I heard that it helped with anxiety, and I have really bad anxiety. She asked me if I smoked weed and I lied and said no, and she went to get me tested anyways. She has no idea that I've ever experimented with weed. The results come back in a few days and I'm really nervous because I know she'll be super mad at me even though it was one time. I also don't want to lose my friend if I tell her that I smoked with my friend. Advice?

I graduated high school in may 2017 and worked a minimum wage job under my moms roof for a while cause I didn't know what I wanted to do at all and I got tired of feeling like a burden almost.. so 8 months ago I left so I could train to be able to do my job and I wasn't able to see my family hardly at all while I was training. I Just finished my training earlier this month and now I've moved 5 and a half hours away and I share a little apartment with 3 others. I don't know anyone in this town and I'm a young girl and I don't feel safe to really go anywhere by myself. I'm very new to being on my own and everyone here kind of keeps to themselves and doesn't venture out often and for that reason I'm not sure that I'll make very many friends. This job is hard too. I don't know how to adjust to this cause it feels like I'm just all alone.

I'm an adult guy, and dad hates it if i disagree, and speak up for myself. He hate me, though he doesn't say he does. He hold grudges, he is emotionally controlling. He hates it when i'm happy, if i'm not i am blamed. He act as if he is perfect, and no matter what i do i am blamed. He tries to get a reaction out of me,so he can have something to blame me for. I have faults and flaws, but i try and be helpful. If he ask me to do something, i don't say i can't. What to do?