I have borderline personality disorder and I can't handle it when my mom gets mad at me. I usually end up hurting myself. what happened this time was that my aunt and mother aren't very close, and I want them to have the same relationship my sister and me do. so I invited my aunt to my birthday party that will be soon and my mom flipped out, is not speaking to me and called me her enemy. I went into overdraft buying my mom a mothers day gift and give her all my money from my paychecks. I understand why she's mad and this time I'm not going to attempt suicide or hurt myself, I am living my life for my self, I'm tired of pleasing others. so this time I don't care if she forgives me or not, I have to live my life for myself. is that selfish?

Okay so I'm nearly 16 years old and two little sisters are five and two. And before anyone starts accusing me, I am not actually jealous of them personally, I just have some mild insecurities that I want some advice with. Basically I suffer from severe anxiety and mild depression. I am not in school, I'm homeschooled due to bullies and I have no friends :( I have big plans for a career in the future and I'm smart, I've got an interview at college in a few days. When I'm older I'm hoping to get married, have children, get my career etc. but I'm scared none of this will happen but that's just my anxiety. As you can see, there is a large age gap between me and my sisters and I'm scared that when I'm in my thirties they will still be young and happy and if my life doesn't go to plan, what then? This is a really weird question :/ be nice!

My mother fell in love with what many would refer to as a (sorry for my french) good for nothing *******. They ended up having sex, and she never saw him again. That made me. My mother is dead now, and my father wants to meet me apparently. What do I do, I've never met him before?

I have had my kids for the last three years. 2 of those years the mother has been incarcerated and was released 4 months ago. She came out had no place to live, no job and went right back committing crime. I have had protection orders on myself and the kids when she went berserk and tried running us off the road. I have been in battle to terminate her completely because she has been a unfit mother with 2 child endangerments for why she was incarcerated and doing drugs which I have proof of. Now she's claiming I'm parental alienating and I have been told by several people this will hurt my case. I do read about it but what about the fact she has been incarcerated and hasn't seen her twins since two who have no idea who she is, now 5. She's a slippery fish and lies without batting an eye. My kids don't know but what they experienced when the child endangerment happened and this last month when she tried to hurt me and they were there. They have a step mom and we are very careful what we tell them. Mostly they never say or ask anything they are very happy kids. If they do I deflect it and tell them Daddy loves you and were going to be ok. And if they push I tell them I don't know why mom does what she does but deep down I know she loves them. I leave it at that. I know I will win the termination with the hundreds of things she has done but how could she think I'm parental alienating them, when I'm protecting them? How can I make sure this doesn't influence my termination?

Whenever me and my dad are out in public, he talks to people in a "news reporter" voice. Very professional and with big words and very official. It embarrasses me because he doesn't talk like that at home. Today we both went to my college campus to get something straightened out and he started talking like that to one of the campus advisers. It's so obvious that he's showing off as a black man that he can speak well. I understand that it's something to be proud of but he draws the attention away from the ISSUE at HAND and on to HIM....and after we left, I said that he came across as a Narcissistic person by using those big words and it made me feel uncomfortable and maybe if I was brought up a different way I would be confident and not have so many social anxiety issues. I basically called him a bad father but that was out of nervousness and fear of being in a social setting with him acting so "high and mighty"...I understand I was rude to him but can you see why I would be uncomfortable? I'm proud of my dad for being well-spoken but sometimes he can take it to an overdone level.

should I buy a ps4, it somewhat ruin my studying before but sometimes Im really bored and nothing to do. Whats your opinion?

My daughter is abousulty horrible this past week and i have done everything in my power but to spank her. She is 9 and i've only spanked a few times and i hate to do it but she gotten out of hand. I have took her tv friends and everything else she loves away. I have a wooden spoon that im gonna use on her. But how hard do i do it Where the sting will last a hour. She smashed a kids face in a brick wall today so yes she deserves this. 1) how should i go about this? 2). Do i do it bare? 3). How many smacks should i do? Please don't tell me not to this is my last option thanks for the help

mind you, he doesn't poop in his own pants, but when we get invited to dinner, after we eat he pretends to go to the bathroom but runs into one of the bedrooms and finds a pair of pants to poop in, and laughs like it's all fun and games. then when the hosts get angry and kick us out, he thinks they are just playing along with the joke. how can i teach my son that this is a no no and get him to stop doing it?

My 15 year old brother is frequently nude around the house, my parents allow it as long as he doesn't sit on the furniture. When we're alone together getting ready for school, he often has an erection. He never has one when my whole family is around, but when he comes downstairs for breakfast, it's sticking straight up in the air.

So , as we all know mother's day was yesterday. Well, I'm 37 weeks pregnant and felt as if i should have been congratulated as well, or at least treated as a mother already. My husband left home for work, OK i understood he had to leave because of work. After about an hour he came back and well i guess no work today....He got home changed and said he was going out.....in my mind I wanted him to spend time with me because it was indeed mother's day....he left for about 5-6 hours and then came back. I was shedding tears, i was completely destroyed inside. I was heart-broken....i felt as if he didn't remember about what day it was....Was I wrong to feel this way ?

The other day I asked my dad if he could choose something else to give me in his will because me and my brother are suppose to share a house in it. The reason I asked was because my brother is manipulative and would try to take advantage of me without any regrets so I really want nothing to do with him in my future aside from at family reunions. He's a negative person that I need to love from a distance. I told my dad this and he said that I let him outsmart me and it's my fault for letting him take advantage of me. As much as I hate to admit it, it is kind of true. Sometimes I do trust him too much, sometimes I do let him out smart me. I think I do that is because he's my brother, is it wrong to want to trust that my older brother won't take advantage of me? I guess that's not the reality I live in. Maybe it's just me because I like to try and see the best in people. I'm not a judgmental person and that's just the person who I am and I want to be, but I want to be that person without getting taken advantage of by others. Any thoughts or advice?

With his mom? Gross!

My son is 7 and autistic, his father wasn't there when he was born and as far as consistently being there I think it was a total of MAYBE 9 months...He wasn't there for his birth he wasn't there for the 4 weeks spent in the NICU or any of the surgeries he had. He has seen him a weekend here and there since 2009, never consistent, never regular, never month to month, my son doesn't call him daddy, he calls him by his first name. My son says that he knows his dad is his dad but that he doesn't want to call him that. Currently he hasn't talked to me about him since Feb, hasn't seen him since then either....my son and I live in Georgia, what rights does this "dad" have when there isn't a custody order in place and he hasn't seen in all this time....he wants him for 2 weeks this summer, my son is autistic doesn't know his dad really, and 2 weeks seems like a long time...

I.. Have been very depressed.. And recently my parents were fighting over a stupid reason.. But when they were arguing.. They included me in it. My father is very protected about me.. My mother started to actually get mad at me.. Saying F***, you are a horrible son.. Which is painful for me... Then she started to hit me.. My father was getting angry.. And right there they stopped fighting.. My dad and mother don't even talk to me anymore.. My father hates me.. I'm sure.. At school I get bullied... A lot.. No matter what, teachers don't even help.. I always just go upstairs... And just think about things... I want help... I want to end this all.. Sometimes I want to start cutting... I don't like my life.. And I never did.. I wish to be happy.. But never can be! I don't have much friends.. Most of my friends are mean to me.. I wanna smile... I want a friend.. I want happiness.. Nobody helps me.. I'm scared of everything... What do I do...? End it...? Please help...

tomorrow my elder sons birthday. my husband buy n gave all the things for a small party for 10 kids only because my son wish. bu when we giving the invitation my son was sleeping its my mistake i only wake him n told to go with dad and give the invitation. but when they going he has cried he got angry and cancel the party. because of me my son today cried and sleep. all because of me. i live for my kids only.for me i dont need anything. i want my kids to be happy.how rode mother i am.because of me my kids happiness ruined.

My mother confuses me :/

i know this sound stupid that i'm 21 year old man and i should be independent and i am. but it seems like everyone has a dad it feels kinda nostalgic when you see someone has a dad saying jokes and stuff..i dont know... is it weird or should i just move on?

My mom, sister and brother left me out. I just got home from school and i called my brother wondering what he was doing and if he wanted to hang out. Only to find out my mom, sister and him were all going together to Golden Corral which is a resturant, and go to the movies. I got mad and hung up the phone and started to cry. They left me out, and didn't even think about me or my feelings. I overheard my sister say that she'll bring me a doggy bag back! But i don't want a no doggy bag i wanted to go as well. Now Btw im the last child therefore I'm the baby of my immediate family. I feel unimportant how could they leave me out, they could have picked me up from school or waited until i got out if school but no they go without me because they don't care or even choose to think about me. I Wanna feel important too. Why would they do this?

I got accepted to a university and I want to go. I do plan on going. But my mom is nagging about it. Like I can tell by her reaction and the way she's speaking she doesn't want me to go. Now she's giving me the lecture on how she stayed here for me and all that stuff and it's makin me feel guilty. 😔😔😔 I don't understand... She would literally bully me everyday telling me to get out the house( move out), she'll kick me out, go to my father and all that stuff, but now that I can go she's making me feel guilt and sh*t and I don't like it. I don't know what to do... She didn't even congratulate me... Like... Parents are suppose to be happy when their kids get into a good college, she's not. And I don't want to go away just to " go away". I'm tired of getting bullied by her and my sister. They always bully me. Living here makes me feel bad about myself. You won't understand. I don't know what to do. Right now, she's quiet. But soon enough she's going to raise hell and call everyone telling them how I'm a bad kid. Literally just now she tried telling me stories on the bad things that happens in dorms.

Even though she's my mother, when our opinions differ, she won't even listen to my point of view and starts to call me a bunch of names, telling me I'm too young to understand and complain to her friends. For example, I have a piano performance coming up and my piano teacher told me I wasn't allowed to wear sneakers. i have a pair of silver sneakers that aren't exactly the athletic type, but they're still sneakers. After hearing from my teacher herself, my mom then says that my TEACHER doesn't understand and that there were different types of sneakers and that these could match with my dress. I tried to tell her that yes they could match but I still wasn't allowed to wear them. She still doesn't get it. Another example was when I was in a car with her I told her that it was still too hot and if she could turn the AC on higher, she proceeded to yell at me and tell me that it was high enough already. I know it wastes a lot of energy and stuff but I don't see the harm in turning it up a little bit higher since we weren't in any financial problems. Another example was when I told her that I got a high grade on my test in the hopes of her being a bit happy with me instead of angry all the time. She then proceeded to tell me that who cares if you're smart if your room is messy and you don't know how to do the most basic stuff? (I do know how to do it just, I'm a lazy person. Plus it's not that messy (in my and my friends who have been over's opinions). Also she usually doesn't say anything about my room that often so I thought it was fine). I know that this is only my side of the story so it might be a bit biased, I am sort of lazy and depend on her a lot (like my basic needs and sometimes occasionally asking for something extra) but that's sort of normal teenage behavior right? I could be a bit unreasonable (one time I got so frustrated that I asked her why she was so stubborn but that just got her even more mad at me) so I understand her angst. But am I being too spoiled and selfish for her to be angry at me this often? I can't understand (in the eyes of a teenager) but maybe it's because I'm not mature enough? A few of my friends suggested that I talk to her about this but I'm not really good at communicating with feelings... I feel a bit awkward...... so is there any way I could improve my relationship with her?

So she is a year older than me. People always think she is little miss perfect. She is very thin and a good height, maybe a centimeter shorter than me. This is getting quite annoying, basically I showed her an app where you can photoshop and she has been using it all the time and her mom especially has been saying, "Oh she is so good at photoshopping! Just look at what she made!!" Then later I sent them both in a group a photoshop I made and guess what? No response from my aunt but my cousin did she said, "okay, you didn't make that." Another thing, she can sing, I can't. People spend so long saying how great a singer she is in front of me. She can draw, I can't draw. Same thing. She can act, I can't act. Exact same thing!!!! The only thing I was ever better at than her was sports but I'm not allowed to play sports because of my extremely severe athsma I basically have to have in inhaler in my face 24/7. Sometimes I get a little messy or gross and she makes a super disgusted face and yells, "GROSS!!" I feel like I'm nothing compared to her. At least I'm treated that way. On Facebook her mom always brags about how perfect she is and pretty and says how she took her darling daughter to a parade yesterday! NO! My mom took me her and my baby sister. Geez people!! I am sick of being left out and being the dumb one. I forgot to say she is honors roll. I feel like I'm not good at anything, I love writing and want to be an author but she's better so I should just "stop".

I try to be good. I don't hold grudges and I don't hate people. I try to treat people like I wanted to be treated, but my mother is just... She always tries to make herself out to be the victim. We got in a little argument. She was asking questions about her iPod and I didn't know anything and she called me a bad person because I said I didn't know. She spoiled me as a child and blames me for behaving childish. Once she labels a child spoiled, she doesn't do anything about it. She always comes to me for technology answers even for something like uploading pictures to Facebook. She always asks and doesn't try to learn. When I was dealing with depression, she said, (she knew depression ran in our family) that I was being dramatic. The school principal told her of my suicide attempt and she said that she was old and asked me not to stress her out. I get her point, she's old, but she doesn't try to comfort me. She calls me ugly and berates me. Whenever I confront her about it, she says she's looking out for me. She blames me for everything and doesn't say sorry when she's wrong. She wants to appear as the good person, but from what me and my siblings have experienced, she's not. My oldest sister invited her to her wedding and she didn't come. I do things for her like massaging her, etc... I don't think i could hate her who gave me life (gonorrhea and chlamydia), but she might push me too far and I already have many mental diseases like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, etc...

So my sister in law in in her mid 20's and has two kids. She got duped because she is gullible and got pregnant twice by this hippie loser. They were broke so moved to get money and aid from their parents however the kids are now living with her parents in an environment that's mediocre to poor at best. Kids ages I think are 4 and 2. She occasionally stays over there with her kids but when she's not there she's hoping around from job to job and hanging around with younger men getting high, drunk and having sex. The parents can't just give her the kids because she has no comprehension how to live a normal life. The parents have had enough with her however can't refuse her to see her kids because they are afraid she will take them and sell them if necessary or something crazy like that. They refused to call CPS and have a real family take care of them. So basically she holds the parents hostage and gets whatever she needs out of them and doesn't care about her kids. The father is a total loser and doesn't want to see the kids however she is so stupid she won't go to court to get child support. What would you do?

My mother had a daughter 2 years before me that was a still born I want to get her something to include my sister and I both I had seen a link on fb that u send in pictures of ur children n they carve the face into a charm for a necklace I would like to do that for her but can't find the link again. Also would like a cute saying charm that says mother to an angel to beautiful for earth n something nice to say about me as well. Any ideas. Yes I know I'm late on the gift but times are hard n I would like to save up for something nice like this for her.

I'm 15, he's 16. We've been together for almost 2 months, and this wednesday he's sleeping over because he's going out and I live near the party. I don't want him to have to go home by bike in the middle of the night. My mom says it's okay as long as he sleeps on our couch, but I really just want him to sleep in my bed with me. My brother told my mom that she's raising me wrong because she's even letting him sleep over, so he's influencing her! When my brother was my age he did the same things. My mom thinks we're gonna have sex if he sleeps in my bed. We probably will but how do I convince her that him sleeping in my bed is an innocent thing to do? Please help me on how to convince my mom! She asked my dad and he also said no. Please help?

My sister was dumped my her husband of 10 years for a woman much younger than she was. The house sold and she had to move but her apartment would not be ready for 2 weeks so she is temporally staying with my husband and me. As expected she is depressed and has a very low self esteem. Trying to help her I asked my husband to tell her she is still beautiful and appealing to men. He did not want to do it but I insisted and that was what he told her. BIG MISTAKE. She thought he was flirting with her and she has been flirting with him ever since. He has been trying to avoid her but it is hard when she is living here. He wants me to tell her to back off. His is not interested in her in any way. I think he should tell her so I will remain good friends with her. Please give me your opinion. Who should tell her? My husband says the faster she leaves our house the better.

My daughters dad and I split when my daughter was born . She was a year old when he stopped coming around. Is there anyway I can get him for abandonment.

Its kind of stupid because he's 7 and I'm 13. I find school really difficult and I've been told I have learning difficulties. I study as much as I can even on weekends so I kind of have no social life. My brother usually randomly comes up to me and says something like "Why are you so dumb" even when I did nothing to him. My parents usually ignore him. Today I was helping my mom in the kitchen and he said "are you training to become a cleaner since you won't get a real job" and my mom yelled at me when I told him to stop. I try not to pay attention but it really makes me feel sh*tty. I'm as nice to him as I can and I do love him but he still insults me. I've asked my parents about it and they just told me to study harder and he'll stop, even though I study as much as I can. I've tried talking to him so he understands that I can't help it, but he just laughed at me and told me I was stupid. I already know I'm stupid so it hurts to rub it in. Is there a way to get him to stop? Or to ignore him? Or even just to get smarter?

I constantly need a fag I'm 17 but just can't tell my mum and dad I don't think they would be bothered that much probably just disappointed but I dunno how to tell them. I think they know that I do because they always joke about me smoking and j laugh but yeah any. Ideas ? I need a fagggg

So I ve been in a relationship for most of college, and now this semester I haven t & I ve gone to parties, and danced with and kissed some guys (almost all of which I knew already, and was at least somewhat friends with) but, none of them have tried to go much further. I guess I always pictured drunk college parties being people trying to go home with whoever. Was I just wrong? One of them was a blind date thing, were after we went to a party together. He was really nice, he got me drinks, we split up and talked to other people, we danced together, we kissed, he walked me home and had a makeout by my front door. He never tried anything The next day he invited me to hang out with him and some of his friends (very casually), and he didn t even try to kiss me or anything, at all. I've been told I'm attractive & I know I have a good body

im wondering if I'm related to my friend. I'm cousins with her uncle but it's her uncle by marriage so am I related to her? Even if it was just her uncle would I still be related to her? Thanks!

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i am a girl and me and my brother are both 16. he keeps hitting and cursing at my parents whenever he feels frustrated or he wants something from them which is everyday. my parents and him have been recieving a lot of therapy but nothing seems to help. they refuse to call the police they say they can not do it to their son. it makes me soooooo sad to witness their fights and whenever i interfere i get hit too. i just dont know what to do and i hate my brother to death!

Alright so my mom is making us all drive to my grandma's house that's about 2 hours away and have lunch for Mother's Day. We've done this before and it takes all day from like 10-4. The thing is for like three weeks now I just wanted to sit down and learn to code for a day or two on the weekends. Every weekend bough someone in my family interrupts me. First it was that we had to put together the couch. I wouldn't have even been mad about that except for that my dad told me we were doing it when I was just about to sit down and start learning to code. And last weekend I studied for literally the whole day from 11-6 for my ap biology exam. What do you think is the best way to get out of this? BTW I'm not even close with my grandma at all.

She got mad because i didn't get the stuff i needed together before she as ready to leave but once shes ready she just left . i told her that i need 2 bills and she walks out of the house. i go to tell her i need them and she get them yourself and goes to the car. i look around and cant find anything so she comes in about 5 minutes later and hits me. she tells me how all i think about is myself and that i should have been getting thing ready before and she yells and hits me again i did something really nice for her on mothers day i wrote thoughts about her and nice little things on paper and made a chain that went around the bathroom it toook 4 hours and i was still working on it at 2 am

she hit me today and took my phone basically because I rushed her to leave and didn't tell her what i needed before. about an hour ago i asked when will the laundry be done. and then before we left she asked what do i need to take and then she just walked out. we are no longer going because of this

Im 17 and id likr mancipated but would things thay ive done keep me from being emancipated. i had sexted and talk with and to people i dont know on my ipod and bow my mom has my ipod and she has the password so she could show proof and i was wonderibg if that could keep me from emancipation but i only sext and stuff when im horny which is natural and i dont share personal informationo r continue after ive releived myself but to get emancipation you must have 1a reliable job 2 living arrangments 3 school or deploma and 4 mature enough. Could my parebts use my sexting and stuff as proof that im not mature enough?

Ok I wake up in the morning get ready for school. I get to school go through my day whishing I was at home but then when I get home I just want to lay down all day and watch tv .. Not wanting to talk to my brothers or mom. My dad is a pill head and in as he calls it "The Brother Hood" so I never see him

My sister lives in Wyoming, my mom is in Oklahoma, and im in Texas - My sister was supposed to come down and stay for 9 days in a rental house. I found out that my mom is the one who paid the dep. Today, my sister calls and says she's not coming due to the weather, and so my mom is out the deposit. Not only did my sister not offer to pay the dep back to my mom, my mom told her "not to worry about it" This irritates the cap out of me - I feel like my sister has had everything handed to her, always! growing up, her dad gave her money , hand over fist and then she met and married a guy whose family gives them money left and right - they got a virtually free brand new house from habitat - and she doesn't even work! Why am I so upset about this, I feel like I have to struggle while she is just handed everything and everyone seems to think its completely normal! I cant even get 20 bucks in my birthday card from my mom, but she's fine with being out 150.00 from a dep!! And my sister doesn't even bat an eyelash - like she's somehow entitled to other peoples money. Then my mom says she's going to drive up there in a couple months and asked me to go with her, and im like " I doubt it" because a couple years ago my sister went to San Antonio and drove through DFW, (im in Ft worth) - she came down through Dallas, and didn't make any attempt to stop to see me - even though she was within an hours drive from me!! I told my mom I I wasn't interested in crossing oceans for someone whop wont cross a puddle for me. Of course, refuses to take sides and I don't blame her. we are all adults, but I feel upset at both of them ; mostly my sister though for being a leach!

So my mom and dad live in Austria,I live in another country with my grandmother. Now I'm in the 11th grade and they want me to move with them in Austria but I don't want to plus I don't speak german. Anything I tell my mom she says that she wants the beste for me and that she wants me to be happy but I can't be happy there,in a place that I don't want to be. I don't want to leave my boyfriend here and my grandmother and all my friends and family. If I move there my life will be ruined. What my mother doesn't understand is that if I move there,this moving process will destroy me physically. Like I'm at this point where I better choose to die instead of moving there. I don't know what else to tell her. I told her that if she wants me to be happy,then she should let me live my life here not there. Plus if I move there I'll be alone all the time. Herself and my dad are never home,they're busy with work. So what should I do? Please help

And all hell broke loose....my sister and I were making a guest list for her 50th Birthday party. We agreed to invite those that she loves/likes has a good rapor with. Needless to say her and Phil, brother in law,have never gotten along and he has said horrifically things about her and banned his children from spending time with her. Claims he did not want her influencing them. He also banned her from staying in their home. My sister knows all this and decided not to invite him. He was deeply angered and sent our whole family slews of hate e mails. There has been a visible fracture in the family especially because our sister read the e mails before Phil sent them. She told him to remove her name. And then they were sent.... Question is: Do you think she was justified in not inviting him or should she have invited him?

My younger brother is 12 now and he keeps yelling at me other video games, his tablet, how much pizza he eats, stupid things like that. Now, he always kicks me, punches me, and slaps me over those same things. When our moms not home, he'll cuss at me and beat me up, and I let him because I don't want him to get in trouble. Is he abusing me and what should I do???!!!

I apologize in advanced for how long this is, but I didn't know where else to get advice. So I'm a 20 year old female, almost . I just moved to attend welding school. My mother offered for me to stay with her until I finished, which I gladly accepted. Long story short I started working with her at the store right in front of the house for convenience, she told me it would help her. The job is very stressful. My motorcycle AND car broke down, the transmission in the car and I'm not sure about the bike. I make $500 a month, take away my bills and that's $400 if I'm lucky. My grandmother wouldn't let me use my savings account to fix either one of my vehicles, I missed my slot for school. Now I'm stuck here for at least another 6 months. I have tried various ways to approach my mother, but she always becomes angry when I try to speak to her. She is always complaining at work, wanting me to trade her hours, and generally treating me poorly. Our boss will not allow me to work her long days on the weekend, so my mother insists I work her long days on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday is fine but Monday is the only day I can see my boyfriend. These are not the only things she throws fits about. I'm not sure how to talk to her. I know I owe her for letting me stay, but I don't wish to be her servant. I AM grateful and I tell her often but she is always unhappy about something. I myself am extremely stressed about the situation, am I selfish? How can I approach a closed minded mother?

My brother is 18 years old, and he is very disrespectful to our parents, especially my mom. He lies and swears at my mom. We have a 2 year old sister and my mother is pregnant and is due at any time. He lies to my dad, and He has been kicked out and sent to stay with my grandparents. My mother refused to let him take the car, it is my parents car but they let him use it, but it made him mad and my grandpa said he would drive him, but he said no because he's not a little kid. He says that he will skip school if he doesn't get the car, and said that he won't leave without the car, so I ran out and hid the keys until he left. He was mad because he couldn't have his phone back, as he has been disrespectful and violent, which is clearly stated on the house rules. My mom said he needs to get a job and that made him even more angry, and he started swearing at her. This morning, he was angry at my grandparents because they woke him up 15 minutes late and he had another one of his "episodes" so my dad had to go pick him up. Then, my dad caught him in another lie. He has been kicked out 5-10 times, to give them all a break. the use of data on his phone has been blocked, and his TV, play station and phone have all been taken away until he applies for more jobs. He is getting worse with time, refuses to take any of his medicines, and it is ruining our lives. We can't really send him with other relatives because they either have bad habits or give him what ever he wants. What can we do?

What do you think is the most important element to having a happy family? I have to write an essay in which I choose one element that I think is most important to having a happy family, and explain my reasons for believing as I do. I AM NOT asking anyone to do my work for me I am just asking you opinion (or resources) to help give me some ideas to get started. I think love for one another would be the most important element what do you think?

I'm 15 have three siblings and when my dad died my mom got social security to spend on us kids, but she spends it on beer and cigarettes and barely pays the bills.

I am 21 years old and Do not do a whole lot of driving. My parents have chauffeured me around my whole life. I do not have much experience on the highways and I have trouble getting to basic places by myself because im so used to being driven. My mom still likes to drop me off at work and pick me up. I'm an only child so my parents have always been very protective of me. I do drive to the grocery store, mall, my boyfriend's house, college, and to really close places in my general vicinity. I wish I knew more though and my gps sucks. Also I have a fear of getting in an accident, getting lost, and merging on highways. How can I improve my driving skills and does anyone have a good gps they would recomend? I just wish I knew the roads better!

Is it normal to not say this to each other. I know that my dad (not my mum) cares about me but I feel like sometimes neither of my parents care for me or want me around. I'm 18 and a half and I don't think my parents have ever told me they loved me, and I cannot remember the last time I said it to them. Is this normal?

Hi, everybody. I'm going to be 25 next month, and I'm Egyptian. In my culture, marriage is the root of every woman's existence. My aunts and uncles at the mosque are always up my butt about getting married, and it hurts my feelings so much because I was set to marry my first love, but he broke my heart. He was a store manager, and I'm an aspiring professor of medicine, so that would always bother him. Anyway, my sister is 3 months pregnant. She got married last year to her boyfriend of 10 years. I'm feeling a bit nervous about the new baby. I'm starting to feel rushed because when my sister has the baby, everyone will start asking me when I'm going to have kids, but I want to get my PhD first. I wouldn't mind getting married to the love of my life, but I'm not ready for children. My community can be really stressful. What can I do? Is this normal?

me and my boyfriend are not married yet, but we have been together 4 years now. i am just projecting into the future what it would be like to be married into his family. (i think that's only natural) So my boyfriend's brother, Tim, has a somewhat-new girlfriend named Lisa... they just reached a year together in April. The boys' mother and Lisa have become super close and created this bond that is hard to find, ever since Tim was deployed in January. He will be gone for 8 months. Lisa and my boyfriend's mom talk on the phone once a week, his mother drove across 3 US states to visit her, and Lisa sent her this beautiful bouquet of flowers and a super long card for mother's day. I am finding it hard to compete with this girl. (and honestly my boyfriend's mother loves me) but this is just an incredible bond they have. i am sure there are "favorite" daughter-in-laws and i won't be that one. how should i handle this?

Ok so basically, my mum went snooping around my room and found tobacco which isn't even mine + it's about 3-4 months old. She's accusing me of being a smoker and has grounded me for 3 weeks! I don't want to snitch on my friend (whose tobacco it is) but I really need to go to this fair on Wednesday as my friends are counting on me for lifts/money and I pretty much planned it. I'd be letting a lot of people down if I didn't go! How do I convince my parents to unground me? :(

I have a big problem. I hear my parents having sex all the time. I hear the squeaking and them talking very dirty to each other, and that's especially true for my mom. I know it's with my dad, but I hate hearing my mom say such dirty things. I can hear her squeal and tell my dad to do things no daughter should ever hear her mom say. Last night I couldn't sleep and the only thing I had to listen to was my parents doing it. It's really disgusting and I hate it. I'm glad my parents still want each other sexually, but I do not want to think about it, know about it, or anything like that. I've tried to tell them to stop being so loud, but either they've ignored what I've said or they didn't get the hints I sent their way. I guess I feel really awkward telling them directly. How can I stop hear them doing it/not know when they do it. I want to be completely ignorant concerning that aspect of their relationship.

My mom gets mad at me for everything, just recently yesterday (mothers day) I was sleeping and she called me yelling at me because i didnt wish her happy mothers day. It was 10 o clock and I had been sleeping. Then When i tell her I dont have work she starts yelling at me saying I dont have a job cause I havent worked all week. Then later I get home and she finds out im sick and starts yelling at me about that. Now go on to today, and I am staying home from school cause It hurts to talk and shes screaming at me saying maybe my bf can help me get a job (even though I have one) and that I need to call my dad so he can call me in sick from school cause she wont deal with me anymore. Does anyone know what her deal is? I honestly don't know what I did and she does this with everything. 2 weeks ago she screamed at me and my boyfriend because he was laying on the couch and I was watching my tv show and she was screaming saying it was her couch and she wanted to watch her show, she continued to stomp upstairs and slam the door like a little kid. Help!! how do I deal with this?

I'm 17 almost 18 and there's this guy I've been talking to for almost 5 years and he's 18 almost 19 and I used to go to school with him but we haven't hung out in person. I really want to. We made plans to meet up and have sex but my mom found out and stopped me. Now she doesn't want me hanging out with him and I can't just drive over to him cause I don't have my license. I really want to have sex with him. I told him I couldn't because my mom found out and he got mad but he got over it. I don't know what to do I can't stop thinking about him. I can't get mad at him no matter what he says to me. I'm aware it would just be about sex and that's what I want so I'm fine with that. He's never had a girlfriend and I don't think he's ever had sex. I've had sex with only 2 guys but it's been 2 years since I've had sex and I'm constantly worried he's having sex with other girls. I want to be his first. I don't know what to do. He's asking me to hang out with him and I can't pass it up this time, I just can't. This is something I really want to do. I'm not on birth control but we would use condoms. How can I convince her to let him pick me up? I can't tell her I'm gonna hang out with a friends that's a girl cause I don't have any friends that are girls. I know I still live at home but I'm almost 18. I'm planning on getting my license soon. What should I do??? I'm stuck! I'm miserable and I need to see him. I can't sleep at night. She was gonna let me hang out with him before she knew.