I just turned 18 and my girlfriend's been 16 for a while now. She's the age of consent. When she comes to visit, how do I get my family (especially my mother) to understand that it's not cool to cockblock an 18 year old? We're gonna do it regardless but it'd be nice if we could just do it in my room with the door locked rather than leaving and doing it in my mom's car in a vacant lot. I just want privacy and nobody understands that. Any advice would be appreciated, how can I approach my family about this without being crude?

She keeps bullying me into turning down real jobs (I am a biologist) in exchange for dead end jobs. I feel like this is because she is unsuccessful herself. When I try and move so that I can take these jobs she has a tantrum crying and saying nasty things about how I am not mentally capable of living more than an hour from her and how I will make everyone in the family homeless if I am not around to take care of her and my adult sister. If I do anything for myself she treats me like **** and sabotages me anyway possible. Then she gets so happy and sweet acting insisting I am glad I chose to stay under her tyrant rule when really she is just borrowing so much money from me I can't move. I don't live with her but she is always in my business visiting several times per week and sometimes even checking my internet history. I want to keep her happy because she will trash my reputation with everyone I know locally.

She is a very sick and psychotic person in the head and I don't mean that in a mental illness sense but I just mean in the dangerous sense. She has a complete meltdown in public in her 20s like three-year-old child would. She was developmentally normal aside from some mild learning disabilities.

I am 23 was living on my own until I got pressured to move in with my college aged sister as her roommate. 5 months before my lease ended I told the family I plan to move for a better job. I got accepted for my dream job that had even planned to pay my way to move out of state. Fast forward I had to turn down my dream job because my mom told my sister to lie to me about looking for roommates (mom told her I was just being mean) then when it was time for me to go I was met with tears and screaming from mom saying I was going to make the family homeless. I had to turn down my dream Job that I had been planning on starting just three weeks before I was supposed to start. Now, three months later, I am substitute teaching for minimum wage (I am a biologist). If I do anything for myself I am told I am ripping the family apart. They just use me. My sister is brainwashed thinking mom knows everything. How do I escape without them outcasting me?

Growing up when I did something wrong my dad used to beat me by slapping me or hitting me. Now I'm 17 and 5'10, 150 when he's 5'8 and 130. Without a doubt I'm bigger and stronger than him, and a couple days ago he tried to beat me for using the computer late at night so I stood up to him and took it and then he got pissed that I wasn't backing away like I was "supposed to." What am I supposed to do in my situation? Well its pretty late for me to call CPS and stuff, im going to college soon anyways I dont give a sh** if I'm at their mercy lol, I know I'm not an adult. That's just not what I asked. I asked if I can stand up to any beatings rightly and potentially push him off me. A man shouldn't pick a fight with anyone who's stronger and bigger than him no matter their age lmao Got a smacking like i needed and deserved - LOL. He hit me in the stomach and it kinda tickled. I walked up to him and looked him down and laughed and then he got all red and told me to back away and stop standing up. I don't give a **** about what your dumbass says, youre probably also old and weak like him

My cousin is overweight and she travels and post selfies with her friends, but when I was chubby my parents and my relatives insult me and tease me until I lost weight. Im thin now but I feel somewhat resentful from my cousin since she overweight and she is living life, while my mom says to me if i dont look good it harder for me to find a partner. Doesnt my cousin face same pressure but she doesn't show it?

It's nothing personal as they're just having my mom's generation since there be too many people if they asked all the grandchildren of the other two families as well including the adult grandchildren. However I'm really disappointed as it would be so much fun to see all of her kids and grandkids that I knew growing up. Now I have to wait till the funeral and that may or may not work out to go to. How do I get over my disappointment?

Okay so after I got home from college today I received a text message from my mother. And I was excited to hear from her so I texted her back. I mean we haven't talked since June or July because I was hurt about her revealing the real reason why she left us. I'm still angry at her for that but I forgave her. So she was asking me if I wanted to come see her for the holidays in December because she is unable to come visit. I wasn't so sure what to think because one, she seemed irritated when I'm around her and number two she stuck me up for dinner while I was visiting her in England. England's where she lives. So anyways I told my mama I'll have to see what happens. I didn't tell my dad about this because he would go ballistic if I told him. If I tell him that my mom wants me to visit her I'm pretty sure he's going to say no because she's hurt me long enough. I mean I really want to see my mother again I mean I really need her but I don't know. I mean she stood me up for dinner and I waited for her for 3 hours then she seemed irritated at me when I'm around her. No apology from her. I know she's been living alone for about 10 years and she loves it and she prefers it that way. I mean I'm not there to live with her I mean I wish I could but it's not going to work. My brothers were not like that. I want to see if my brother would want to come see your but I don't think they want to do that especially my youngest older brother (let's call him Drew). Drew absolutely hates Mom after what she did to us. Whenever I mention her heat quickly changes the subject and cuts me off. He just doesn't give a damn about her and deep down inside I don't blame him. My other brother (let's call him Sam) he misses the idea of mom and this is her but he's angry at her too for what she did also but not as angry as Drew is. I mean I'm 18 years old I can make my own decisions but do you think I should go see her? Be honest and don't sugarcoat it. I told my best friend and she said to me my mom is going to hurt me again and it isn't worth it. Sorry this is so long. I'm 18 by the way and just graduated high school. My mom missed my high school graduation.

I did. I realized that I was wrongfully abused both mentally and physically during my childhood, in my thirtees. So I cut all ties with my parents after that realization. I am married now and my husband is all that matters to me.

My dad is 57 years old. I'm 27. My dad has never been able to sustain himself. My parents have been married for 34 years and recently my mom chose to separate from him. Now, my dad hops from place to place for a place to stay and live. My younger brother (25) is just like him. I love my dad but he always like to ask for money, if I can get him food, if I can buy him that, if he can wash his clothes at my home where I stay with my partner. It's always something. Last night, he contacted my boyfriend to lend him help because his car died(my old car) due to the battery. He's currently at our home. He texted me for money for the battery and said he can pay me $20 every week to pay it off. I have the money, but it's always something with my dad. It's like he's more of a son than a father. He always ask other people. He's never been stable. He's always lived with my mom and she always pay for everything.

Like when we had to share bathrooms in a family vacation she went into a full blown temper tantrum. Or she talks back to our mother like she is six years old. What could be the cause of this?

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I live with my parents and Im 17 and I usually don t sleep with a shirt or bra on because it gets hot in my room really fast and I had to use the bathroom at 5 AM, i go in and do my thing and I come out thinkin no one is awake and there he is, my dad is walkin towards the hallway to the bathroom and he saw my topless body. We both didnt say anything to eachother but this is so weird?? Please make me feel better

My husband and I just moved in with my father in law. Father in law s sister (I ll call her Ch) currently lives a good 30 miles away but drops off her kids at our house every morning for school. When they get off the bus they stay here a couple hours until she picks them up. However Ch is often inconsiderate and leaves them at the house for hours longer than expected (sometimes overnight) without telling it asking us first. We ve talked to her about it but she doesn t seem willing to respect our boundaries or communicate with us when they have extracurricular activities. I m thinking about just reporting her to the school so she can t bring them here anymore (there s no way they re zoned for this school, they live a town away). I d feel bad for the kids having to change schools but it s not worth the stress of dealing with Ch who thinks she can just leave them here whenever she wants without asking.

Lately I've been thinking about reporting my own uncle to ICE. I know how terrible this sounds, but bear with me, he's broken into my dad's house when he's not around. (Both Of those times he's stolen a large amount of money from my dad. We don't report anything because we don't have any substantial proof.) He is constantly disrespecting our family, and dragging us all into his mess of a life. He's also a junkie. For many years now, we've tried to get him into rehab, but he constantly refuses. Him being a junkie has led him to accumulate debts with pretty much everyone we know in our town. He's been incarcerated twice, one for domestic abuse (he was let out) and recently for failure to pay child support. He's such a disappointment to our family. I do realize that reporting him to ICE won't solve anything, but at this point, I don't think we have it in us to do anything else. We've tried distancing ourselves from him, but he always manages to come back. This is basically a thread for me to try and think things through before I do something stupid.

I grew up in a family of 5 where my 4 siblings never went to college. I went to college finished got a decent job. I am dating someone with a masters degree she is a sweetheart we been together for 10 beautiful years. Yet, my parents stay away from us I almost feel like they don't like me. What have I done wrong? Maybe they don't like my partner but my partner has given me unconditional love.

I notice sometimes men follow homeless women or try to pick them up with their vehicles.

Four years ago, my grandmother died. She lived with her mentally challenged sister, who then had to move in with us. In those years it's been h e l l. For all of us, including her. None of us have been happy with the situation. We've tried to send her to live with her family out of state, but they've ended up disappointing her many times. Now my parents are splitting up, and if we have to move to a smaller house, she has to go somewhere. We already drive each other crazy in our decent sized house. She is my father's aunt, but he can't take her because he's always away for work. Long story short, she can't stay. I need ideas on somewhere a 70 year old woman with little money can go. She also has a dog she would want to go with her if possible.

So basically my ex betrayed me, abused me and neglected me. And she kicked me out her house because of something that's not even serious. She treated me like garbage and to make matters worst she's pregnant with my child. Now you may be asking why did she treat me like that and the answer is because I took all of that for my son and because I still loved her deep down inside. I want to have my child, she's an abuser in both ways, she put her hands on me and she would always put me down and scream at me. My son is not going to go through that. I never have done anything like that to her, I didn't deserve to be treated like that. Now I'm sitting here at my parents house trying to get my life together and I'm not sure what I'm going to do. If I take her to court I need proof of all the things she has done to me but I don't have any and I'm basically screwed now. She has hurt me in every way you could think and I feel like I'm dead inside. I know a lot of guys are going to say that I should be the supporter but I'm only twenty and she was in her thirties, so she had everything she needed because she was more older and independent than me

I work as staff for residents who are special needs there one who like a so skilled on safety that knows every thing and when some in car that ask for direction she dose not get close she stays a arm length away because she learned that in her safety class her father had her do with The Rad program and her Marshall arts but there one i worry about all the time she so trusting and she get close to people asking directions she crave with male attention and she talks and sits with people she Dosent know and will take rides from people she just met and strangers the other resident dose not do that it Upsetting because there one safety officer that good he baby the trusting one and treats the good like she idiot he fallowed her In un mark cruiser at 11 am when she walking home from appointment she got the police attention but the officer who handle it was great I know tries to do good job but why dose he baby one and treat the other that way every tine we try to talk her about safety she cries and so sensitive what do how do I deal with this

My 7 year old says she gets less presents & less birthday celebration because it's on Christmas. She notices that her brother, born in March, gets more. The holidays are expensive so friends and extended family members might be unable to give her 2 gifts. Plenty of people are either on vacation or staying at grandma's for Christmas... that means they can't come to her birthday. My daughter has another reason to dislike her birthday too. Our school district does not hold kids back a year. Basically, any child born from January to December 2012 in the same grade. Whenever I say she isn't old enough to do something (while her peers are allowed), she complains it's because she's 11 months younger than her best friend. Most of the time, that's not the reason why I restrict something, but she seems to think so.

Or am I behind ?? I guess girls are married by this age