I'm 11 and he's 7. So my mother told me to go take a shower, I wanted to hurry up and finish it really fast because my mom was going to give me my iPad. So I jumped in the shower with my brother. Then he made up a game called Mr.Doctor. So my brother was the doctor and he started looking in my butt and vjj. I was really surprised, but I thought that this was an ok thing because my brother said he wanted to become a doctor when he grows up. And doctors should know about the human body. After that, my brother told me to stand up. So I did and he told me to sit down. And when I did, my brother slid underneath me and put his HARD 'thing' inside of my butt. I was surprised. How does he know about this stuff?! I broke the game by telling him I didn't want to play. I also told my mom but she didn't seem to believe me, I also told my dad and all he did was ask my brother why he did. That's all.... I thought my dad would have taken him to a doctor or something!!!! Plz help!

I was out of the house when my landlords brother confronted my brother who was at my house at the time about why my brother was "creeping around" in the middle of the night. My brother was on my porch along with my father In law and my mother and wife, whom weRe in the house. He came at my brother with a large stick and said I ll do whatever it takes to protect my weed and how he can drive down the canal with his lights off whenever he wants. They had a large plant next to my house that they have since dug up and moved to the brothers property. They have cctv and motion censor lights that light up the path way between the barn and his house. I see multiple cars that come and go during the night and I don t wanna get caught up in this garbage. What can I do to solve this problem? Without having to move.

She has been telling me to get out and stay out til she says to come home Bc the "plumber " is doing her bathroom. She said this for 3 months. Then 10 or more times she kicked me and my sister out and there is a white beat up car from the 70s in front . She said she doesn't know who it is but it is the man she cheated on my dad with and he's married! My dad lives in the city and I want to live with him when I'm 18 in decemeber. I have mental issues and my mom also keeps yelling at me telling her I'm bossing her around and harassing her. Help?

My parents have basically attended some event with my teen siblings and violent 27-year-old macho brother (has assaulted both parents) that makes males more femenine/metrosexual, and now parents have this idea where they can force me to being my brother's old masculine/macho self where my dad would try to find ways of me taking in more protein and him being more inclined at bossing, scolding and blaming me for everything around the home while my mum would at times pretend to not be my mum in public where she would look at me for wearing skinny-fit pants before moving her head side to side. I have always been a self-conscious, non-violent person who closely matched being femenine/metrosexual before and after this event I missed out on. I was also nurtured as a child by mum.

IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP! I am 24 years old and i live with my brother and disabled mom and dad. My mom does not work, and my brother works at pizza hut. I am the only one (between my mom and brother and I) who has a stable job at a hospital. My dad is a meth and gambling addict. He gave up on his family (us) 2 years ago. He still works at his job (he is the main provider), but most of his money goes to drugs and the casino. Since my mom can't work because of her disability, I am the only one who has some sort of income (but I still cannot afford to support us three) My brother works part time at pizza hut but does not make much. He is studying to get into the navy so he can help support us, but that will take time. Yesterday, I woke up to a for sale sign in front of my house. I guess my dad has not been paying the house bill to the landlord, so the landlord is deciding to sell the house. We have to move out by December. My dad has also announced that we are on our own after December. Because of my situation, I am in desperate need of help. Can anyone help me with any type of information? I do not make enough to support my mom, brother, and myself and I would hate to see us homeless.. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I don't know what to do and frankly it's keeping me awake at night, eating me up inside. My parents divorced when I was 19. The reason has always been they just grew apart. For the first 4 years they were separated, dad joined us at all our holidays and was still around all the time. All that changed when he started to date Kathy. At first I was mad, but I can see how much my dad loves her so I do my best to treat her with respect. I am now 27 years old and over the last 3-4 years my parents relationship has dive bombed. When my parents split, my father had been the sole provider for our family while my mom stayed home to raise us. Because she stayed home and cared for us, he was able to further his education and now makes a nearly $200,000 a year salary. When the split happened, my father promised my mother he would always care for her/take care of her, but now all that has changed. In the last few years, he has taken my mom to court 4 or 5 times to challenge her right to alimony always leaving her absolutely heartbroken. Being a stay at home mom for 23 years, her teaching degree is expired so she isn't even qualified to do what her degree is for because she thought dad would always take care of her. My heart aches for her and it seems obvious that Kathy, who is very "high school mentality", is behind my dad's sudden change of heart and it's killing me to see my mom go through this. I wanna talk to my dad about it but I don't know how. What do I do???

Monday through Friday 8-5 and weekends off, some travel to conventions and shows out of state every now and then. Or work overnights only 3 nights a week Tuesday Friday and Sunday from 6pm until 7am.

I am in my 20s. I started not feeling well a couple days ago. Then I started having weird symptoms. I ended up having a mild stroke. Very scary because I have a 2/year old and another on the way. Well....I was released from the hospital today and my family is putting pressure on me to still be back to my old normal self. For example asking questions like what is making for dinner, if I can go to the store, complaining that the house isn t spotless, not wanting to change the babys diaper. Yes, my house is always spotless so its shocking. But I m still in recovery! I can t think straight sometimes, my arm and hand isn t working like it should. I m upset because I feel that true feelings are coming out. They love me for what I do for them. Am I being unreasonable to think this?

On Sunday, I went to my church's youth group and I felt really good. I had just gotten my license, and it was one of the first times I had driven on my own. On Thursday, I got lost heading to an appointment, and my phone died so I couldn't contact anyone. When I got home, my dad asked me how my appointment went, but I was scared because he has anger issues and I got really bad anxiety so I told him it went fine. Thirty minutes later, he lied that there was a glitch on his phone, which is why he somehow needed mine to check something on it. Funny enough, he confiscated it and started yelling at me. I had three panic attacks that night, and when my mom came home from work, she started yelling at me too. I messed up a muscle from crying, and I honestly wished I was dead in that moment. They said they didn't care about my feelings and said some really hurtful things. Today, my mom took away my keys and yelled at me for a while about trust, which really hurt because I just had the crappiest week and I wasn't trying to lie. I feel they don't understand my anxiety disorder which I've been diagnosed with as well as my diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome. Then, my mom told me she checked my text messages, and she knows I made out with my friend (a girl). She got really mad, but it's not like I had sex or anything because I have boundaries. She doesn't want me to have a relationship, but I don't either. She says I can always talk to her, but I clearly can't And, my brother is treating me like I'm a sl#$ because I kissed a girl. I don't like being treated like scum by my own family. I've really felt crappy, and I've had to deal with sexual harrassment and a lot of other crap in the last few weeks. Of course, now I have to deal with this bs. WHY can't I enjoy my life? My parents know I was molested and everything yet they yell at me for kissing a girl. My brother repeatedly had sex with his ex everywhere, but they didn't get on him about it It's homecoming week, and I'm honestly tired of living with my family. Tonight is the big game, and tomorrow is the dance. I can't confide in anyone without being yelled at. I feel like the real life Bad Luck Brian. They treat me like this and always assume I do something wrong, yet they want me to share stuff. I wouldn't try again, but it seemed like they only gave a crap about me after I tried killing myself

Hi, I seem to be in a situation where my dad is now forcing me to be my brother's old self where he was that macho/masculine man who had assaulted parents and siblings and having anger issues before he became femenine after some event. My dad is forcing this masculine / macho crap on me by finding ways to make me consume more protein while being very inclined at bossing, scolding and blaming me for everything. I feel very conflicted. I'm actually a self-conscious, non-violent introverted male who aligns more.closely to being femenine.

So I'm 16 and my 19 year old brother got married back in January. His wife is 23, and also they are having a baby ( in like 2 months) I don't think its right to have a baby after only knowing a person 2 years but I'm interested what other people think, if you agree with me or not. Also he is getting christened with the baby but I have known him all my life and he has even told me that he doesn't believe in God or Christianity. I don't either neither of us have been too church, he didn't even get married in a church.

I'll be 18 in two months. My parents have always been really rude and strict and were never good to me. They've always been unfair and grounds me for two months for taking Tylenol. I want to do something two days before my birthday to piss them off so bad that that they'd want to ground me for months, but can't. But also not something bad enough to call the police or harm anyone. Any ideas?

Pardon my speaking in six degrees of separation rather than simply using the word "stepsister," but this situation is in regards to two people who live in separate countries and are not emotionally attached: One country is where the woman, her [deceased] boyfriend], and her mother and stepdad reside. The other country is where her stepdad's daughter resides.

She insults me a lot. Her usual comments are that I am very stupid and an idiot. She believes I will end up a failure and she criticizes my behavior and attributes. She doesn't even like my posture or clothes. The only positive statement she makes about me is that she thinks I am pretty. Fortunately, I have had the character-building experience of being bullied and sometimes physically abused throughout my entire childhood, so insults don't affect me. I do like my mother when she is happy, but that rarely occurs. She yells a lot and her anger issues are a bit irritating. She has been like this for a long time. Sometimes I can't study or eat in peace, and I have to go outside to get away from the yelling. I try to be a good person. I do have some mental disorders that bother her. She thinks she is wasting money on the trips to the doctor from that. What can I do that will make her happy? I am 15, if that makes any difference. I don't have any money. I have a hard time figuring people out. I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to social situations. At least, part of me isn't. My other personality is.

So one day she texts me saying that we arent family and that she desnt like me as a person and doesnt care to get to know me and doesnt consider me family and she thinks that she apparently deserves better friends than me, and i never hither up and shes done with me. So upon reading this i was completely baffled almost as if she was like disowning me, I dont know if she realizes that its not possible to stop being related to someone but it was pretty bizzare, she was basically telling me that she doesnt know much about me and for that reason will never talk to me again....which obvously makes no sense, because your family will always be your family you cant just get up one day and declare things based on assumptions. well anyways so about two months after this whole fight i bumped into her on the street and she kept insisting that im no good that im mean to her because i dont hit her up. and she was just being really ignorant and rude and not making any sense really. so i snapped and slammed her aginst the wall, and now shes filing a police report because shes too much of a baby to confront fight her own battles. so, my question is, what exactly is going to happen to me? am i going to jail?

Like I said in another question, my family didn't come because my sister in law's/cousin birthday had already been planned and I tried to bribe everyone including the in laws to come but they didn't. Not many people came and it was boring I had to feed everyone and still take care of the baby. All my husband did was drink and he had fun with his homeboys and I didn't. I told him he should help me because I couldn't do everything alone. His mom hadtold me that I was the one that had to take the plates to guests and the drinks. Why couldn't they just get them themselves? Now I was to make another party but my husband doesn't let me. How should I convince him? Besides, this party sucked because everybody came for only 2 hours and my cousin's they stayed until 3 in the morning. They danced, she had fun. Her brother had fun, the other bday boy. They had cake and all we had was pork. My family didn't come after I told them mine was going to be better. Was it because of that? How can I make a better birthday party than her kids birthday parties? Which they are coming up on Halloween and having a costume party with games.

It sounds easier said than done in some cases. My family was never United with love, and I'm sure this affected me a lot to understand what love really is. My father was an hypocritical alcoholic and smoker. He was aggressive and abused my mother, sometimes literally breaking aluminum brooms on her. Bruised and down, she always cared after us. Is that love enough? My siblings and I would occasionally receive a beating too, but this was not a light spanking and explanation of what was going on. It was fist to face, boot to back, ears ringing for many hours after a slapping. I grew up with hate, so I ask you. What is love?

my aunt and uncle have been married for 19 years, and i just found out that they're now getting divorced. they don't have any kids, and i don't really understand why they're splitting up. my dad said they're still good friends they just "want to move their lives in different directions." But anyways i'm very upset about this because we live in pennsylvania and they live in oregon so we dont see them much, and since my aunt is my dads sister, shes the one were biologically connected to, and im worried ill never see my uncle anymore :( if this happens i will be heatbroken, ive known him since birth and i dont want anything to change :(

I'm a young man who's been donating sperm for extra money. My mother discovered some papers i had regarding semen analysis and donor papers from the clinic and she asked what it was about. I panicked and lied but I should not have done that. I feel like talking to her about it. We are close and I want to be able to tell her.

I've spoken to both my parents and they say that they're alright with me smoking weed as long as I do it in moderation and focus on my grades. However, when I am high and my mum sees me she freaks out. She clearly gets really stressed and uncomfortable, but pretends that everything is alright. How should I handle this?

I stay with my room mate and our bills together is around 1,200$ minthly. I recently lost my job and im currently in college and working a part time job where im only getting paid not even half of my half of the bills. My sister is older than me , she has 3 kids and lives off government assistance and shes a single mom so she doesnt have much money . She asks me every 2 weeks to come over and do laundry..which I dont mind but on another level it bothers me because I would feel more comfortable telling her yes if I was paying my full amount of bills. I get annoyed everytime she asks because she totally doesnt realize that I cant be her laundromat every two weeks. I dnt want to hurt her feelings but I would dodge her basically but what do I do? She understands that its not just my apartment and that I dnt pay all of my part of the bill so me explaining that to her is common sense

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My grandmother (Mom's side) and I dont get along very well. Shes had a problems in the past with any guys Ive dated. She has said terrible things to them. she wrote mean things about me on facebook then blocked me on facebook.She has not met my husband to be as she has a history of this behavior. She is childish she curently doesnt talk to her other granddaughter due to her hateful ways. I deal with her as little as I can out of respect for my mom. I invited my mom wedding dress shopping and she went on a rant about taking my grandmother. (as she use to work in retial and knows fashion) I dont want her to come. I dont really have a relationship with her and I wanted it to be me and my mom and my MIL . I am inviting my gram to my wedding outta respect for my mom but thats it!! She didnt even attend my mothers wedding beacuse she didnt like my dad at the time!! How can I tell my mom in a nice way I dont want her to come!! She doesnt even know my style.. PLZ Help!!

Ok, first I'm not going to tell you what kind of truth I'm speaking about. I'm suspicious about a situation and I want to know the truth. I just don't know how not to sound insane. Me and this person are very, very close to each other. I've tried to gave them hints, but didn't help. Again, how to ask them about it, but not sounding insane? Sorry for bad English I'm not sure if that person know. Maybe it is just my imagination. But many things make me belive something is hidding from me. I sound crazy, right???

She met a guy about 9 years ago. She has graduated college with honors and works very hard and has a lot to show for it. He doesn't. He got his GED and stopped there. He's ghetto and sags his pants....at 35. He speaks fluent thug and has sold drugs in the past. In fact, they were broken into and my daughter had to have several staples in her head when the rival drug dealers hit her on the head with their gun. He has hit her and cheated on her. He currently works as a lunch lady and a school bus monitor. She assured me for 2+ years that she was done with him. 2 days ago she informed me she is pregnant by him. She is currently between jobs and has three dogs that she hasn't gotten neutered or their shots. I have picked up the pieces too many times when he ditches her and destroys her things. Am I wrong in saying I want nothing to do with this?

My family tends to be verbally abusive towards me and rarely listens to me. I am 23 now and have been called really horrible things since age 11. I just cannot take it anymore and have started to defend myself! what makes me angry is that i am the one who is being told to forgive when no one is taking responsibility and apologizing to me. It's only making my anger greater. I don't want to cut them off of my life I just want to be respected.

So my daughter says she wants tattoos, we refused. She says, "It's my money, you wouldn't have to pay a penny"! She says many parents would more than likely just let their kids as long as they paid. I also know she smokes. I saw an e-cig that looked like my moms & I threw it away & Vape across the yard & now she's mad & said, "The least you could've done was pay me back"! She also wants belly button pierced, but we refuse. Obviously she is pissy & says I hate you. She believes many people would be like, "Common, it's her body, you don't have to pay 4 the stuff, just let it go & be done". But we believe it's the opposite, "Their house their rules". Now she's furious because I won't let her drive to another city due to her forgetting how to come back from dropping off her boyfriend to his house (we had to pick her up). She says it happened in the summer, let it go & to teach her more. That it was a mistake. She also says she's hurt by me asking her boyfriend to let me see how he drives & that maybe he can drive her there. She smokes to relieve the stress of us. I guess what I'm asking is, Are we doing okay as parents or are we screwing up some where? I told her lastnight she was wearing me out. I don't know if I shouldve said it now that I think of it, but she was talking about getting more tattoos. She has thought of living with this man that's younger than me, but old enough to be her father.

For a few years now, my dad has being trying to prove me wrong in EVERYTHING. It feels like he thinks I'm unintelligent. Here are a couple of examples where he's attempted to prove me wrong: When mum asked me what day this show called Educating Cardiff is on during the weekend, I said it's Tuesday. My dad came into the conversation and said "no it's Thursday". I then said "no it's Tuesday". He then replied, "No it's Thursday you idiot. Read the TV Times". Mum then looked on the TV and said it's Tuesday. After she said that, dad looked at me angrily and stormed off. Last week, a friend asked me what Guam is. I said it's "an island/country owned by the USA". Then dad interrupted AGAIN and said "no it's not it's a state, not a country". I then said it's a country, and then said it was a state. We then had an argument that lasted like 5 minutes until my friend confirmed it was a country. After confirming it, my dad walked away in a strop. There are many more examples where some asks a question, I say the right answer, dad says the wrong answer, we have an argument about it, someone confirms it and dad walks away in a bad mood. Why does he always try to prove me wrong. Does he think I'm dumb or something?

About a 6 months ago my mom and ex-stepdaughter got a divorce. I was super relieved. I used to like him, we would play baseball outside. But about a year and a half ago, he just got super bitter and negative and a drunk. I thought my mom divorced him because of this, until I found out my mom cheated on him. She's had an on-off relationship with this guy since the divorce, and I just don't like him. He never moved in but when he would come over, he would either be drunk or asleep. I dislike him, my brother dislikes him, even my dogs dislike him, and they love anything that moves usually. The worst part is my mom won't tell me what's going on. How should I confront her about this?

Hello I am a single mother of a son that just turned 18. He used to be the sweetest angel child, always go with the flow, relaxed, hated partying, drug and drinking, and had straight A's. He had one cute smart girlfriend his freshmen to junior year that broke his heart and cheated on him. He has become such a different person, very aggressive. He has no morals or values, he brings home a different girl every weekend(I don't condone this but I work late and come home to find different girls in his bed. He parties every weekend and doesn't care about school at all and is currently failing 2 classes his enior year yet he doesn't care. I caught him smoking weed and threatened to take away his car if he failed any random drug test I gave him. The first one I gave him once he turned 18 he just threw it in the trash and said thats what I think of your test. So I took away his car, didnt faze him as he went out the same day and bought a motorcycle and pays for it himself(he has a job)I'm just so worried he is throwing his future away all he cares about are girls, partying, and surfing, I have no control over him what do I do? I don't want to kick him out before he is done with high school

I'm 16,my parents are divorced.My dad has had full custody since I was 7 because he's more financially stable, lives near a reputable school, lives in a better neighborhood, etc. My mom can be very irresponsible and has put me through hell. I had a rough childhood. I really dislike her very much but I do I respect her and she's changed some things and with that we could possibly compromise at this point. My dad is secretive.I just recently decided that I want to move in my mom's apartment because I've been going through lots of crap with my dad and it gradually escalated to the point that it became too emotionally draining and I just could not handle living there anymore for the sake of my own health. We constantly argue, he blames me for his and my own problems,I found out other things that he's hidden from me and some other stuff. I feel like he's a stranger bc of all of the things I've found out about him. Anyways we had a terrible argument that I'm not going to go into detail bc I know some fxcker is going to judge me and say something out of their a s s. The point is, I'm not used to being this angry at him. I haven't spoken to him since that night. My mom had to pick me up and it was that night I told her that I just want to move in with her because I feel like I can't handle it. I'm just going to say that I can get violent if I'm angry enough and I just don't trust myself living in that environment. It's a lot harder for my mom to provide for me bc she is kinda poor and my dad's upper middle class.

I don't know what to do and frankly it's keeping me awake at night, eating me up inside. My parents divorced when I was 19. The reason, according to them has always been they just grew apart. In fact, for the first 4 years they were separated, dad joined us at all our holidays and was still around all the time. However, all that changed when he started to date Kathy. Kathy is, to say the least, the antithesis of my mother. I say that in an observational way rather than in judgement. At first I was mad, but I can see how much my dad loves her so I do my best to treat her with respect. I am now 27 years old and over the last 3-4 years my parents cordial relationship has dive bombed. When my parents split, my father had been the soul provider for our family while my mom stayed home to raise us. Because she was able to stay home and care for us, he was able to further his education and now makes a nearly $200,000 a year salary. When the split happens, my father promised my mother he would always care for her/take care of her, but now all that has changed. In the last few years, he has taken my mom to court 4 or 5 times to challenge her right to alimony always leaving her absolutely heartbroken. He only gives her 30,000 a year anyway which is barely enough to maintain the lifestyle she deserves, and she is almost 60, with an expired teaching certificate. So she isn't even qualified to do what her degree is for because she thought dad would always take care of her.

I hate this place with a passion. I live on W. Commerce, and I hate this city like my mother in-law. I cant wait to get the hell out of here. Its hell's half creation is what it is. Anyone else hate it?

My mom is an idiot, Iknow that may seem rude of me to say but whatever she just is.I've noticed that I'm beginning to sound like her and it's really worrying me. The things I say are things that she would say. The way I say it and the words I use and it's freaking me ouT. iREALLY DO NOT LIKE IT AT ALL but I can't avoid her I live with her and she talks to me so god damn much.

When i was 11 i gave my brother aged 7 a bj while 3 - 4 year old sister was watching. (I didn't do anything to her). All i remember from this event is locking the doors in case someone would be looking for us and catch us, and me giving a short bj to my brother. No one caught us, and it was over in 5 minutes. Here is the deal. I didn't know that what i was doing was very wrong. Nobody had explained to me what kind of contact was appropriate and what wasn't. At that time i was living in a place where sexual education and information were and are almost taboo. I didn't realize that this would have negative consequences. i didn't gain any satisfaction from what i did to my brother (i'm glad i didn't). I feel really gulity (i really am guilty). In fact i don't think i knew what i was doing at all. One more thing. This was the first and last time i've done this, i've never done this before or since. I hope that this hasn't affected him. I would say our relationship today is very great (I'm today 18, he is 13 and my sister is 10 years old), in fact him and i almost never fight or argue. Only we three know what happend, weird enough we never agreed to keep it secret. In relation to this, i want to say i didn't force him to do, i never bribed him to keep it secret or to let me do what i did to him. No matter what, I know that i'm a monster that deserves to be harshly punished. I've decided to apologize to him if he brings it up someday. But i can never undo the damage.

ok, my family wake up way too easily... every time I go to the bathroom or you know, walk in general, they all wake up! and of course I get grounded for doing so... what can I do??? Im has I can tell the only heavy sleeper in my family... do im also an night owl when I can so thats were the trouble starts... I am stuck in my room for a long time... and even then if I get out of my bed there is some chance I wake up someone... is there a way I could talk to them to make them take melatonine or something? has I can tell it would help them alot but yeah in my family lets say that im not the most respected one...

All my life my mother has been an addict & it's always taken a toll on me & how I was growing up. Well now that I'm not under her roof & have my own child and see how she goes about my siblings is horrible. She watches my son 3 days out of the week while I work & all I ask her is not to get high & drink when she has him. I've dealt with that all my life & don't want my son Around it or seeing her high and the change in her behavior. It's not that he isn't being taken care of or isn't happy there it's the principle & respect but she goes again my rules even if she isn't high when I drop him off as soon as I leave she is in the room gettin high. It's really taking a toll on me & hurting my feelings & I can't take it anymore it's as if she just doesn't care about how I feel & when I confront her and try to get her to understand it doesn't make a difference & I just don't know what to do. How can I get through to her so she can get her life together & clean herself up? It's been 25 years, she has everyone around her who enables her & it's sickening. She's irresponsible & never takes care or her busy it when it comes to getting high she will find a way. Am I wrong for how I feel about having my son around her this way?

Hello my friends sister just passed away a day ago very tragically suddenly. I would just like to send a message with my condolences and I m trying to get some input on wether or not this sounds ok. Your time and answers are very appreciated thank you! (Names have been changed) "Hi Tom, I m so very sorry to hear about your sister. From what I ve seen she seemed like a really amazing individual, and I wish I could have had the pleasure of knowing her. I know there is nothing to be said to make this better but I just wanted you to know that you and your family are in my thoughts...and Sarah is in my thoughts, and the life she so deserved to have. Please don t feel it necessary to respond. I hope you and your family will be able to find some peace in the days and weeks to come. -B

Ive been physically abused from my mother since i was about five or so... And it persisted until i was up to maybe 9th grade? Then it subsided a bit. But i had occassional beatings. A few examples were bamboo sticks on my bottom, for many many repititions, hard. Sticks, slaps, pinches on the ear, one time she threw scissors at me and it hit my foot and i bled. I also witnessed her threatening my older brother with scissors when i was five i think. It looked like she was gonna cut his finger off. Like he was crying and everything. My brother is the oldest my school sister is the middle child and im the youngest.. They both already left.. So im alone, with my mom, her young bf, and my stroke-ridden dad. Just this evening she told me to do some chores that i would have eventually done... She got so pissed that she got a machete (no joke) and threatened me... And she threatened that she could kill me. Because i was "getting smart with her" telling her that she could go to jail and stuff...btw shes illiterate and very traditional. She doesn t understand that the things i do are all for my future, sorry i left juice boxes on the couch. I needed to focus finishing all of my chapter notes for APUSH. Something she ll never understand. Shes very hypocritical and expects a lot from me, yet she restricts me...i also have no power, my dad has no power, he was in a car accident and he got a stroke. I have more info.. I just kind of passed the character limit so...

Recently joined a sorority and today I learned I will be receiving a big brother! Can you tell me what this means, how it works, and how they choose the big brother? My sister told me not everyone gets one.

I sometimes talk to myself and my grandma came into my room today and asked me if I hear voices inside of my head. This was completely unprovoked; she just came in and asked me a stream of questions about talking to myself. I feel like she is questioning my sanity. She has heard me talking to myself on previous occasions and I just want to know if this was a weird question to be asked. My grandmother probably knows me considering that I have been over at her house a lot and she seems to know me and actually care. We have bonded a little bit over the years and she probably knows all she wants to know.

Please read I know it's long I have hard time explaining stuff using less words and doesn't have periods and all that but if u have a comment about just keep it to your self I know

Okay so my mom When it comes to her buying her stuff she will buy it right away. If it's for me, she'll like put it off for 6 weeks and say she doesn't have any money in he card which is a lie. Cuz she's constantly getting new packages every week. Idk why she only cares about buying her things, but when it comes to me she'll make excuses and eventually never gets it for me. I told her about and she said "the more you keep asking the more I'll say no". I have to tell her or else she'll forget or ignore me. Stupid excuses. That's honestly f*cked up. Btw I can't get a job I'm 14. Help ????

I have no idea why she lies so much but she litterally lies about everything! She keeps stating that she has a phone, but i have never seen it, and she has no idea what kind of phone she "has.." She said she had a smart phone but like 2 days later she said that she went on thos website and got a really cute i phone case.. When i told her that she had told me she had a smart phone that wasnt an iphone she proceeded to tell me that the cases were for her little brother. ( her brother is 3.) she also told me last year that her baby sister was born on halloween and that is why she missed our band concert, but then she told me this year that her little sister was born on November 11.. When i asked her about that she said that her mom went into false labor.. Yet last year around november 1st she legit was so excited and talking about her baby sister.. Then yesterday she. Told me about how she kissed this boy on the bus, and when I was talking to him, we have geometry together.. I asked him if he really kissed her, and he said he had football practice and that he never kissed anyone.. I keep catching her in a lie but i wish she would stop! I dont lie to her but i feel that maybe she thinks that she has to lie to maybe fit in.. I dont want her to feel this way, but she keeps on lying:/

My dad wasn't there. Infact, he was almost never there. My mom had to call HIM when I was little to ask if he wanted to see me. He often didn't see me for months at a time. I always hated going over to his house. He never failed to make me cry by telling me I was a baby, a fragile piece of glass, and several more I can't think of. I know people have had it way worse than me but I hate this. The longest he's gone without seeing me was a little over a year when he moved down to Florida. The ONE day he came back my mom called him and asked if he wanted to see me and he said "oh yeah sure bring her over" he called my school pictures ugly. He's sines changed ever sense my two sisters were born from one of his exes and she did what he did to me to him. Does that make sense? He's still a dead beat. Understand he's struggling with money but that's his fault. He owes over $15k in child support and might be going to jail and I can't help but feel bad for him. Nowadays he tries to justify how he acted as a dad. He says I never try to see him but he never tries to see me. He's planning on moving back to Florida again and I just can't cope. It's not like I see him anyway but I love my sisters and want to see them. I have never said any of this to him and I most likely never will. I just can't. What on earth do I do

I feel left out everyone i know has was phone and not me my mom keeps saying in time i can get one but I really want one now how can I convince her? When did you get a phone? I am almost a freshman in highschool

So it's impossible to discribe it all, but I will try (: So, I'm 16. In way different from my family at home. We have different opinions and personalities, we love each other but I'm such an odd ball. I don't feel happy. I've been off ADD meds for a while, which is hard being an AP and Honors student. I've dealt with some depression in the past, I thought it was over but here I am again. I want to maybe go live with my aunt and uncle. I really bond with them and my cousins. It feels right. I stayed with them for 3 weeks this summer and loved it all, I wasn't home for 1 hour before I started to cry. I'm sure a living situation could be worked out, but if I left I feel like my parents wound feel mad or guilty and my mom feels guilty enough. However this is really hard for me. And life goes by fast...... I don't know what to do. I'm hurting. What do you guys think? Btw my aunt lives quite a while away.... (700 ish miles)

My dad is with the wrong woman. It all happened too fast and for the wrong reasons. I wish this woman the best; better than my dad. Soo i had the same stepmom for 15 years, from when i was 5 until 20, when she died of overdose/ suicide. (all that time was extremely strenuous and chaotic and abusive, so that was a relief to me). After this, though, within 2 years, my dad met another woman (on okcupid) & we have moved in with her. !!!!!!! No! My unfortunate conclusion is that he 1.)wants to replace my previous stepmom (she looks like her and almost has the same bday as her). 2.) she is too self-sacrificing and honestly busy to have said "no" to him about moving in. 3.) it happened way too fast and now there's no way she can go back and say "no".. My dad can't unsell the house. I feel like she feels responsible to house us. They're so awkward together. She's always stressed and falls back on talking about the pets. And my dad makes snide, assholish comments at times. (has called her overweight wishing she wasnt) ...etc. Should i say anything? Should i run away? This is weighing on me.

My mom got a call home from school about me being of task and i asked her what my teacher said she told me that she said "i was doing nothing and would check on my group back in 30 minutes to see what we had done" instantly i realized that that is not possible because we were doing a thing where erery 2 mins we wright a solution to a problem and wrote all the solutions but for one question it was completely off topic and my group argued that it had nothing to do with the project and my teacher got mad and walked away but never said anything about checking progress or being off task when i tried to tell this to my mom she said no excuses i haf to raise my voice to get a word in and i explained what happend and then she said i dont care to hear your make believe story all you do is lie why cant you just admit it. I was just done at that point so i said im done **** you, if a teacher told you i brought a ******* nuke to school you would belive them. I had a track record of lying when i was 10 , my dad is open to reason and belives me saying he had some shitty teachers to but my mom just wont ever see reason. She acts like just because im 16 i am incapable of telling the truth or doing anything really. what is her problem and why does she think im lying all the time?

He's overprotective, and doesn't listen to anyone unless it's something he thinks is right.

I don t know what to do. I live with my mom and my step-dad and my step-dad is a mean person he sits here and called my mom really bad names. He sits and does nothing all day he hasn t worked in the past 3 weeks. My mom and I always had the option if we needed to leave we could always move to Ohio with my aunt we just need to leave my step-dad because he is mean to my entire family. One my step-dad punch and hurt my mom really bad and my grandmother came to pick me up and she said that we should move to Ohio with my aunt. I couple days have past and I asked my mom about it and she said she talked to my grandmother about only having me move to Ohio. I asked her why she didn t want to go to Ohio she said"it was harder for her to leave." I don t know what to do I want to get out of the house but I don t want to leave my mom. (Btw I live in Iowa.) does anyone know what to do?

I have a 3 year old daughter who has always been with me. In the past few years, her dad has had some mental health issues (he's been Baker-Acted twice, and has made threats of suicide.) He was also abusing prescription pills, but I really don't know to what extent. I know that he went to a rehab (didn't complete program) and has been to NA meetings. We haven't been together for a few years, and I supervised any time he saw our daughter. He blew up at me in early April, and he told me to never contact him again. My daughter and I kept going about our lives. His mom recently contacted me, wanting to see her granddaughter. I don't have a problem with being around my daughter's grandmother, but she told me my ex misses our daughter and is "so depressed" that he doesn't see her. She supports him no matter what. We have never gone to court and he isn't paying child support. I don't want to have contact with him, and I don't think it's an unreasonable request. He is angry and controlling towards me. Should I set up a weekly full-day visit in which his mother supervises and picks up/ drops off? I thought every Sunday would be reasonable.

I'm 15 years old, I'm gay and I'm not out of the "closet" yet. Me and my 14 year old cousin are very close, we always were best friends as kids, went to each others house, and we both love anime and other things and have lots of thing alike. So we were talking about the hurricane coming to the east coast, and he said "Let's hold hands and take pictures as this might be our last moment together haha" , so I held his hands, he took pictures. But after he was done... he never removed his hand. We helded hands until it was my turn to get off the bus. I didn't wanna say anything or let go because I would of felt bad... I like him it's just we've been friends for so long and were cousins it'd just feel so weird..yeah i dont know life is ******* crazy.

Ive read about who are in far scarier situations than mine, and because of that ive always shrugged this off as nothing. But I am soo tired of this constant battle. every single night he calls me in for a hug good night. (reluctantly and uncomfortably) I give him a hug. but that isn't all that happens, he then proceeds to slap me on the *** and nibble on my ear. (which is slobbery and just all around gross) then he tries to kiss me on the mouth and I turn away and suddenly I'm being mean. So then I feel like I'm being forced to kiss him on the cheek and if I even mention how uncomfortable he makes me he will start threating to ground me and keeps telling me that he can do whatever he wants because he is an adult (which in no way makes him superior) Also he will start calling me rude and selfish. I don't have anyone to go to with this, I don't have any friends I feel comfortable with telling this to and my mom always takes my dads side and I think its because she feels like she has to. I am not sure though. what do I do? are their any lawa that can protect me? If there are I don't want to turn him in he pays all of our bills and I don't want to go to an orphanage. Waiting till I'm 18 is not going to work because I'm only 13 and I'm afraid things will go downhill from here. any advice would be great guys, thanks in advance. I also don't have any school consolers I'm comfortable with, I go to a really small charter school and I just don't trust them.

I'm short. Just under 5 feet and very thin. 93lbs. Yea I know tiny. I am 41.18 year old son who just went to college. I'm divorced so I'm raising my daughter myself. She is 16. She takes after her dad. She plays basketball and she has her dads size. She's prob 5'10 and she is built very strong. I would say 160-170 lbs. 16 year old girls are hard to parent these days with the dad around. She just acts like she knows she can get away with a lot of stuff. I've gotten very stern about diff things and she just opens a mouth right back. It's just feels so weird because I'm the mom and my daughter is just so much bigger than me and so much stronger. When I was 16 and I didn't listen my mom would beat the crqp out of me. If I ever tried to do that to my daughter I would have to hope she loves me enough to not throw me across the room. It's just very intimidating when one of her stature is acting out of place and I have to do something about it.