Im 14 and I have a ski house at a small ski mountain. It s a very close knit community and I know basically every family. We have a condo in like a condo club. you need to be a member to have a condo there. I know all of the families in the building and am family friends with all the neighbors. I also have other friends around the mountain. My family friends are driving me up and I was gonna stay at their house, how do I convince my parents to let me stay alone in mine?

Okay so my sister found out she was pregnant today & she is 3 weeks! We grew up without our father & my mom did EVERYTHING on her own & me & my sister are spoiled. My mom, my sister & her fiancé lives together and I moved away to get married & start college.... Long story short they are NOT struggling but my mom has did everything on her own like forever and I just want to send a pair of clothes, can of milk, baby lotion, etc. every 2 weeks to help out so my mom doesn't do everything on her own... So by the time she's 8 months I'll have purchased everything but the diapers, stroller, & car seat... But my question is, we don't know what she having but I want to go mail her something but I don't know what I can make because we don't know what the gender is.... I want to mail something mystery, like 2 balloons in a box(pink & blue) just to celebrate but I don't want it to be that plain! Any ideas? Maybe a can of milk with a blue and pink ribbon wrapped around it?

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Hi guys, I'm a 13 year old girl and I have a younger sister and she seems to hate me. She is always mad at me and mean to me. She is 8 years old. I really want to be a good big sister. I always ask her to hang out with me and she just yells at me. She is always nice to my older brother who is 15. I really want to get along with her. What should I do

I'm a freshman in high school in Texas. I'm like NEVER in trouble at school at all (I'm actually an honors student) but Friday I let my friends peer pressure me into joining them in bullying a girl in the locker room during PE class, and we totally got caught. I felt bad about it as soon as I did it and I HAVE apologized. The saddest, worst part is that this is a girl that I usually go out of my way to be nice to because of how others treat her. I know it was horribly wrong and I make no excuses for my behavior I also realize I DESERVE to be in trouble. But the school isn't cutting me ANY slack even though I have a great track record. I got sent home with a form informing my mom what I did (totally fair) and that I will be getting swats Monday. I just think this is a gross overreaction. I've never even had detention but once! I haven't given my mom the letter yet, though I know I need to when she gets off work today. I just don't know why I can't get a little slack? I deserve to be in trouble but swats just seem soooo extreme, and I'm a total wimp about pain. Any other penalty would be fair and deserved, but they won't compromise at all!

I'm writing this question because i'm tired of my everyday life full of stresful situtions in my family which should be shelter for me but clearly it is not. I'm 20 years old male,i don't drink much and i don't smoke anything,i don't have relationship with bad people,i'm not a lazy person,i'm studying at college and i'm working and fully supporting my family with anything i can,i don't do anything that would let my family down... but there is one really annoying thing in my life,every single time i do something little bit disapointing for my mother (for exaple spilling coffee on the floor,not eating food in kitchen,not turning off lights when i go out from room and etc..) she starts yelling at me with really loud voice,even the neighbours can hear shouting my mother at me and telling some relly nasty words to me... today i just coudn't withstand and yelled at her that it is not fair that she is treating like that to me and she got really mad and i just don't want to explain how this ended.. i am really tired of this happening ever day,i'm not a little boy any more and even if i was it wouldn't be fair yelling at me about every little "mistake" i make.. sometmes i just wish i die because this has no end..

So listen, I'm 15 years old and i just recently moved to my dads house just for one year, Years almost coming to an end and i'm so glad. Besides that i have a sister shes 19 she lives in the same household. My sister was touched by a man called "Carlos" Carlos was my moms ex husband when i was in kindergarten through 2nd grade my sister lived with me and my mom my sister told my dad when she was 17 and carlos was put to 4 years under bars. My dad simply doesn't understand that i don't like talking to him as much as everything i say and do annoys him "Want to go to the store" and if i say no he saids "No you are going" He thinks just because i talk to my sister more and not to him i was touched also i dont like people patting my shoulder and he always does that. He always asks me if this carlos guy has ever touched me and that has never happened i actually liked the guy because he was nice to me and my mother. This has made me love my mother and sister more then my dad. What do i do now if i rarley like speaking to him because everything he saids is "right"

I feel like I have no life.. all i do is school work. I'm almost done graduate school and have a job lined up, but honestly could care less. I have a couple friends, but most are not near me so I dont see them as much. Get sad too cause my parents have been through hell and back with medical problems. I also hate being single. I know they say blah blah blah be happy with your self first or no one can love you... dont really give a rats a$$ Also had my first relationship like 1.5 years ago, but ever since I feel like im a different person. I remember what it was like to be happy.. and it ended with that relationship. Not really sure how to explain it. I had my first relationship last year, and it really changed me. I feel like a different person. She basically used me and didn't like me as much as I thought she did, as well as put forth little effort towards the relationship. It only lasted a month, but sometimes I just regret breaking up. I can't seem to meet any girls or even approach them. And ever since I broke up with my ex-gf, I feel like my confidence and self-esteem is non-existent. It's just mentally exhausting to even think about going through the whole thing of meeting someone and going on dates again, but I really want to.

So my brother is 14 and I'm 11. We are the only two siblings in my family. We are a one parent family with our mom working weekdays. We both go to a homeschool for only a hour for two days. My brother and me are changing and he's revealed he thinks I'm sexy. We've madeout but it's mostly him coming on to me. He touches my buttocks the whole time we make out and he now wants more. He wants to have anal sex. His willy is 6 inches. I mean I'm willing to have anal but I don't want my brother to be my future husband and father of my kids. It's more he wants me than I want him. I'll be laying down and he'll be next to me putting his hand on my buttocks, squeezing and touching them. Should we have anal or should I tell him we need to stop?

my mom always yells at me for not having perfect grades and that everything i do is for college. my three lowest grades are 89 and 92's. I think its great but the second my attention wavers, she freaks out at me. How do I explain to her that i'm doing my best, because she never seems to listen?

Ok so he only picks me up like once a week. So last week he told me he was coming and to leave the school and go to the stop sign (where I get picked up, about a block from the school). I went there and ended up waiting like 10 minutes. it turns out he was late because he wanted to experiment a different route. So I'm standing there freezing in 10 degree weather, and he's just experimenting, even though he could do that at any other time. today he ticked me off. He told me he was on his way, and I Told him "don't take long because I don't wanna stand outside in the cold like last time" and he said okay, and I told him that I was leaving the school. So I go to the stop sign, and end up waiting 10 minutes again (it's only 4 minutes from our house WITH icy roads). I called him after like 5 minutes when my neighbor's (who was also at the stopsign) mom came and offered me a ride. I told her it was fine bc my brother was coming, and she told me he was too late though. He started telling me he's not late or whatever, and I told him he was. He finally comes back after 10 minutes of waiting, and when I get in the car HE is the one who starts complaining and yelling. So it turns out he told me he was leaving before he even LEFT the house, let alone get in the car and start it. I told him he can't tell me to leave the school if he didn't even leave the house, and that my mom never tells me to leave the school until she starts driving. When we went home, my mom sides with HIM.

They're twins and they inherited this house after their mom passed a year ago. There's so much problems between them two but they both don't want to spend the money to move out. His bro doesn't want me to live there and hopes we divorce, we have a baby due soon. We usually talk before we sleep but we're whispering and his bros room is downstairs, his bro was throwing a fit and was making a bunch of noise what sounded like throwing stuff around, then he came up and stood by our door and slammed it, my hb opened the door and asked why he did that then he started yelling like an insane person saying we're too loud, but he always exaggerates and is like a walking time bomb, and no we're seriously not loud, he complains and says its too loud if the floor creaks when we get up off the bed and we're always tippy toeing around upstairs because of that. I don't want to live like this for the rest of my life. i'm afraid whats going to happen when our son is born.

Little less than a year ago I lost the closet person to me, my grandma. I was devastated. A couple days ago, my grandpa died (her husband) I just getting adapting to live life without her. I never had a good relationship with my dad because he sexually harassed me when I was younger. My mom didn't listen or believe me and don't like me talking about him negative

Ok so, I finish college this may, but I received a job offer today actually, so by the time I graduate, I'll have 2 months work experience already. Okk.. So obviously I'm going to help pay the bills going forward but when should I tell my parents I'm ready to move out? I was thinking by the end of summer. do you guys think that's too early or a bit late? what do you guys recommend

On 29 of February my mum called my dad because she said I was miss behaving she kept calling me abusive names I didn't like and I tried to ignore it later that day she hit me for answering back she broke my glasses and hit me with a wooden spoon on the head repeatedly then she called my dad.When he came he brought hand cuffs and cuffed me to the door handle it was really tight I don't know where he got them from because he works in a grocery store anyways he hit me everywhere with a belt and I couldn't do anything I was crying and no one would help me I felt really helpless I want to get revenge on him now I want to do what he done to me bus Should I I'm 13 by the way if that helps

Hello. So, I am 17, I have a brother that is 23, and he has a boyfriend who is 21. They have been together for a little over five years now and are already moved in together, planning a life together, ect. His boyfriends a sweet guy. Really positive and extremely beautiful. Anyways, a little over a year ago his boyfriend stopped by our house to drop something off to our mom and she wasn't there; so he sat down for awhile and we started talking. Things led into one another and basically, we ended up having sex. It's been over a year now and he keeps making excuses to come to our house when my mother is at work and my brother is at work and he basically begs for sex each time. Apparently my brother isn't giving him what he wants and their relationship is starting to go downhill. Like my brother has started pushing him away a lot and not having sex with him, and they can't talk without being in some form of argument. He said he doesn't feel wanted by my brother anymore and I make him feel like I am a place he can go where he is wanted. Here is the catch. Just an hour or two ago, he came to me and we started having sex in the living room because no one would be home until four and well, my brother barged in and caught us. He sent his boyfriend home and is upstairs now calling a few people, but he wants to talk with me about what's been going on. He is livid furious. How do I talk to him without him getting too mad? I love HIS boyfriend now and I don't really want to let him go.

My younger sister is 23 and has two kids with two different guys. She has been dating the father of her 2 year old son for just under 3 years. Her whole life has consisted of lying and cheating to get her way. As she got older, her attitude got worse and worse towards everyone. She even threw a fit at my wedding, at the head table, because her beer of choice wasn't on tap or free. Lately, the boyfriend who has been belittled to extremes and watches both kids all day everyday because my sister told him not to work, has been feeling like giving up. He would have a hard time leaving knowing how my sister would react, and I agree that he is right in how she would react. She spends her day asking for over time at work so she can make sure he can't leave. And whenever she feels like it, she will say she's staying at a friends house and that he has to watch the kids all night. His mom reached out to me because my sister has forbidden her boyfriend to contact her. And she is genuinely concerned for her son. Even there is much more to this than what is written above, I want to confront my sister. In the past, from me, she usually breaks down and cries or starts screaming and nothing is ever resolved. Of course she believes she entitled to treating people this way. How does someone confront a verbally abusive person? The kids shouldn't have to listen to this fighting and her boyfriend shouldn't be on the verge of jumping off a bridge (as he told his mom). Any tips help!

A business associate is asking me to take him on a 3 hour, full day, trip to an out of town hospital just to have his stomach checked. He is offering to pay me. He has a car, but because he's so far behind on child support he has a restricted license. He's low income so that's why he's going to this hospital. I wouldn't mind taking him but I've been so stressed out with work and everything going on with my life but I'm trying to take care of myself because if I don't I'll end up with my own health issues. This guy has been a good business associate, but if it weren't for business we probably wouldn't be friends because he has lied to me in the past, and also disrespected me, but when it comes down to business business is business. I kind of feel bad for the guy because of the way he is he probably has no friends, then again I know he's capable of getting himself to the doctor, however he knows I'm gullible too

sometimes im suicidal because my parents hit me and insult me im a adult 18 years old with no job and no car full time college student and my a father of my two year old son. since i have no job i have to stay living there. my mother who beats me say anything you own is mine and since you live here i can beat you how i want don t like it move out. what can i do because she threatens that she will lie to the police by saying i hit her and have me arrested making me lose my kid. My son mother died in a car accident a drunk driver hit her car and it spiraled into a tree. Please help me

My dad, his girlfriend, my sister, me and my fiance all are going to my family's mountain house.. But my mom is going wild because she doesn't want my FIANCE to go. I'm 19 and he's 23. We are getting married this year. She is so scared that we are going to have sex that she doesn't want him to go. She is acting like if he goes with me she will act different towards him and hate both of us and shun me. How do I approach this without making her mad? How do I stand up to her and tell her he's going? Also, she is currently having to help me out financially because I just lost my job. I feel like I'm having to lean on her until I can get back on my feet. THAT is why I can't make her mad.

I planned a trip to Thailand and to stay here for 6months working. Now that I'm here I don't really want to go back. I'm enjoying my time in this country. I have a wonderful girlfriend, the money I'm making is better than if I were back home (that's with currency exchange). My thinking is if I head back to my home country now I'll end up working in the restaurant business again, and living with my dad. As of here I'm teaching kids, and living on my own and saving small amounts while traveling. I love my family though...extremely. And it hurts them even think about me staying here. They worry about me not coming back.

my boyfriend's mother driving me crazy. I've been living with my boyfriend in his mother's house since september. I got pregnant and now my due date is in July. When I first met him I questioned him why him and his sister talk to their mother is a disrespectful way, but now I understand. She's a selfish lying hypocrite. She complains if there is one dish in the sink and calls anyone a slob and disgusting yet she leaves her used panties on the bathroom sink. The reason why I despise her is because she has talked about my mother, called me a thief (3x)for no apparent reason, and used my unborn baby as an arguing tool (such as if her and my bf argue she says I won't be in that baby's life). She has wished her son dead,said I hate you to him,etc. Since I am pregnant I need my sleep. I also don't have to go to work until the afternoon but her and my bf's sister work in the morning. So when his mother wakes up she bitches about anything and bangs on the door waking me up. I just received news that I have a high risk pregnancy and she knows this yet she does this still. Plus she didn't even care when she found out. So I regret giving her 2 things that put serious time and money in like a keurig and painting of marilyn monroe that she both adores. IDC if I get it back. I just don't want her to have it. Even if it means destroying and breaking

We were maybe still soulmates. He wants nothing to do with me anymore. He has tried & I kept turning him down from fear. I don't know why I was so scared. Maybe the pregnancy was making me that way. We were living together then after a big fight he hurt me & I got a restringing order. I didn't want to my mom made me. He was staying at him moms to cool off for a few days and while he was gone I wish I didn't get the Oder. I found out I was pregnant and told him. He came home after we got off the phone. We made love and talked about plans to have a family together. Both of us wanted to be forever & always. the police was there to ask him to leave later that day and I try for my boyfriend to stay but the police wouldn't let him. He didn't have car insurance anymore because my mom told me to take him off. I'm stupid I listen to her. He got in really bad car accident when he was leaving our house and has to pay crazy money out of pocket. He blamed and hates me and my mom, his family hates me but he got over it and he wanted to still be with me. To still have a family. But every time he got a bill or felt pain in his broken foot he blamed me again and try to ruin my life. Told me to get and abortion or he would take my child. I got scared. I told him I aborted but I didn't. I'm going to have a baby soon and I feel so guilty and I really want him there with me. I want us to still be together I still love him. He does too but He's moved on blocked my number and start dating again.

Let's say you're out of college, and have your college degree, and you have a good job, and you have a good salary, all of that in your twenties, then wouldn't you be capable of getting married and having children? Also, according to a research that I've read, younger parents (between 14 and 25, something like that) can interact with their children better the older parents. Is it true?

So as the title says, i told my dad recently that i have a tension headache everyday, mostly to school and he just straight up told me now "We re gonna change things and you should stop playing so much and only play half the time you do. And get off computer 2 hours before bed." But he don t realize that just the thought of that makes me sad because to me it s really important as it s the only thing of the day that makes me feel good and forgets my head mostly. What should i do? i m stressed because of school and i m so tired everyday even tho sleeping doesn t help that much. I don t want to spend time of the computer just because he thinks it might help, even tho i do barely play games but mostly watch anime and listen to music.

My niece is 21 with two kids. She stays with her mom and dad and her 6 siblings in one house all of whom are older than her. She recently had a fight with her dad who was drunk at the time and now sought refuge in my house, her aunt. She has been staying in my house for about 2 weeks. She works as a bartender at night. Her boyfriend comes over to pick up her kids. I work night shift so during the day I can t sleep because I can hear her kids. What do I do? How long must I put up with this? Am I right for kicking someone out? Am I being taken advantage of when I put up with this? I need to sleep. I want my privacy back.

After a lot of study and research I plan to be frozen on my death. EVERYONE I have told about this says I am crazy. They keep telling me that once you die and are in heaven or hell in my case you can not get out. You can NEVER come back to life. I try to explain my reasoning for being frozen with this story. Say it is 1916 and a doctor says that someday when you have a heart problem, a doctor will go to the morgue and cut the heart out of a dead person, then cut your heart out, replace it with the heart from the dead person and you will continue to live. In 1916 that doctor would have been labeled as totally crazy and probably lose his/her license to practice medicine. 100 years later, this is a common medical practice. My point is that medicine makes rapid advances and no one can predict what can be done in the future. They might find a way cure what killed you and revive you if your body is still in the same condition as when you died. Does what I plan to do sound crazy to you? Your opinion please.

My dad used to be happy, when I was around 4 or 5. After we moved he started showing signs of depression. He got fired a little before we moved, and he hasn t gotten a job since. I m 18 now. He doesn t do anything except sleep and yell. I ve always been afraid of him. He always puts my mom and me down. He calls us lazy, and will blame us for any little thing happening, even if it isn t our fault. If something falls he ll yell at us or make a comment. He judges what I wear and like. He hates going outside and when he does he is extremely rude to people. I can t talk to him without feeling scared that he s going to yell back. If I try to talk about my day he tries to yell at me for something. When we had cats he used to kick them. I never have friends over because of him. I don t know what to do anymore. I feel as if I call a hotline, they won t take me seriously because our house looks safe and relatively clean. I m hopefully leaving for college at the end of the school year, but I m failing school because of all the stress I m going through because of him. I m trying to avoid him as much as possible but he always needs to know where I am 24/7 and with who. Please help

Ok so I'm 14 & my dads friend who's like 50 found me in the bathroom and started jerking off I front of me and telling me to touch it and i tried to leave and he pulled me back closer and started to kiss my neck I a scared and disgusted & my dad hangs out with him a lot and every time I go with my dad he's there and gives me looks and I'm just so disturbed

She also won't let us see him even though my grandparents offered to supervise us. He is not violent and he is not really mean even though he does get grumpy when drunk. Whenever I try to talk about it my mother just emphasizes that he doesn't love us or anyone but the alcohol and that he chose to be like this. Everything I see on TV though says alcoholism is an illness like any mental illness. I feel really bad not to be able to see him when even his older son from his first marriage sees him and takes his kids (the grandkids) even though they just go once a month. I am aged 14, almost 15.

For example when she and her sister fight I am not allowed to see my aunt or cousins. Now that I am an adult I go see them anyway but when my mother founds out, via my grandmother, my mother flips out on me or gives the guilt trip. My mother gets angry that I stop by this aunts on Christmas but doesn't mind when I stop by my uncle's (my mother's brothers) so I know she is using me. As a kid (when I was a kid) she did this even more. How do I get her to see this without lecturing her? She doesn't like her kids, even grown, telling her anything that isn't positive. I'm starting to see the stuff she used to say about my late father was not true either (she was using me to get him back after they divorced). So it is a habit of hers.

My family fights and screams EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. It always starts with my two sisters fighting about clothes which is RIDICULOUS. If my sister asks me if she can borrow my shoes, I tell her no, I need them she gets mad and starts screaming and we start arguing, then she tells my mom and my mom gets involved and the screaming continues. I'm TIRED of it. This is why I've lost all my motivation and especially for school. They scream ALL the time!!! I can't remember the last time I brought a friend into my house, it must've been like 3-4 years ago? And they won't stop screaming even when I'm trying to study they scream. They don't care if I tell them I'm studying . That's why I'm failing school, I have really big dreams and I'm trying to fulfill them, but I see NO bright future for me because of this. I barely want to go to school because of this. What can I do to gain motivation again and make my family stop fighting? The fights are mostly about money/clothes..

I am a 25 year old single guy with a 15 year old niece Jill, my sister's daughter. Jill often comes to my house for help with her homework. If we finish her homework late she spends the night a my house and I take her to school the next morning. She told me she was a nervous wreck from her mom and dad fighting all the time and they were getting a divorce. She wanted to stay with me until the divorce was final. I told her that was OK with me but she needed her parents OK which I thought would never happen. However her parents thought it was best for her not to see them fighting all the time and agreed she could stay with me until there divorce was final. I was very surprised by their decision but I think they were thinking of what their fighting was doing to Jill. Jill moved in with me and has been living with me for 3 months. She is a very nice person and is no longer depressed. We have had a lot of fun time together going to school events and sporting events. Jill ask me if I would adopt her so she could stay with me permanently. I told her that I doubt if her parents would let that happen. I don't know if you can adopt someone that has living parents. Does anyone know if that can be done? Is there a better solution than adopting her? Could she just live with me if her parents are OK with it?

LONG READ AHEAD! Hello guys, I seriously need your help because I actually feel like smashing a bottle of glass on the wall and punching it after. I'm a 14 year old boy and my family have been really annoying me and disturbing my leisure activities because of the most obnoxious reasons one could possibly think of. Let me give you guys quite a few examples: I return home from a long, tiring, annoying and depressing day of school. I limp back home, hoping I can enjoy some free time after doing my homework in my room. The moment I come home: "I'm shutting off the internet router in 2 hours". They also say this in the most annoying way possible. Just imagine somebody telling you something really mean in a sassy, annoying tone. That way. Most of you will think that I'm over-exaggerating, or you will say 'their house, their rules'; but it's really just them trying to isolate me from social life. If they confiscated my laptop or phone, I wouldn't be complaining. They block the internet either by MAC Filtering or by just taking the router! Many of my friends get punished by just getting one of their devices confiscated. I completely get isolated from any sort of communication (i cannot text or phone either). I just feel like a useless ****. I am fit, I do quite a lot of sports (I'm 168cm and 57.5kg) but I cannot go outside because there is actually nothing to do. No football, no basketball, no tennis, no place to even run. Nothing. (update for rest) And this annoys me also because there is no problem with my grades! In fact, my grades started to drop after they started to try to control my internet usage. I was a straight A student until they came in and now I'm at a stable A-B grade student. It completely diminishes any interest I have for absolutely anything! I'm interested in engineering... nope, no internet. I want to see a chemical reaction! No internet. See what I mean? I'm using the last bit of my data plan to even ask this. My parents tell me that I have 1 hour of internet during the weekends - bad enough as it is, I don't even get to use this! My parents deliberately wake up at 10 A.M. when I don't have any internet access, however, when I have internet access, they wake up at about 7 and make me prepare breakfast (preparing breakfast is NOT a problem for me). This isn't a coincidence, this has happened at least six times. Then, they force me to go outside with them; 'family activities'. 1 day wasted. Next day goes to parents wanting to do whatever they want. Mom lying on couch all day, dad MAC Blocking me and enjoying 1080p youtube and facebook videos. If I bypass the MAC blocking, my dad instantly notices and asks for all my electronical devices. Hence, no internet during the weekends as well. Why? I'm 14, I may be rebellious to my parents and disagree with them on nearly everything. But my parents really over-exaggerate on nearly everything.

I am 16 and my boyfriend who lives in a nearby city is 18. My parents knew that we were dating but Im from a sort of religious country so when my parents saw the pictures of us naked and read our conversations, they learned we had sex, they took my phone and forbid me to talk to him until I get to college. But ours is a serious relationship where we both are some of the best students of the country, and I dont want to break up so we text each other from my friends' mobile phones. But my parents say they will make me quit school and send me to another city if they find out i ever lie again. I dont think they ever will find out but... cant we just wait 3,5 years without seeing each other, just talking? Do you think it is worth the risk because i dont feel like i can get through how my parents treat me without him by my side?

Long story short...she isn't really my stepchild, but my adopted daughter. I married her father 2 years ago and he had already adopted her on his own when she was 3. She was adopted out of the foster care system. I knew she had major behavioral issues and we go to therapy and psychotherapy weekly. But ever since we go married she has become very defiant, rude, impulsive, and just a bit scary. She is 12 now. I am a grown woman, but I almost feel like I am being abused by her. It is really hard to explain but it is constant. I am with her in the mornings, she goes to school with me, and I am with her in the evenings until her dad gets home. When her dad gets home she pulls a 180 and is super sweet, kind, and almost "baby like". I have disciplined, used positive incentives, and pretty much tried everything in the books, but nothing works. By the time my husband comes home he is upset that he has to deal with her and told me to just stop getting in a pissing match with her. So do I let her be disrespectful and treat me like ****? We have had countless talks with her, but they don't work. She does what she wants to do and when she wants to do it. I feel like the only advice I can relate to is that of a stepchild and new mom. I know that she is jealous of my relationship with her dad and I am trying to help her and encourage them to spend time alone, but she is either going to kill me or try and get rid of me. I'm honestly afraid. I must also state that I do NOT feel supported by her father in that he doesn't follow through with consequences even when they are warranted. He feels bad and the consequences never happen. Her therapist suggested that we have ice cream nights for the kids who finish their chores and homework. She never gets done on purpose, but then my husband thinks its mean to eat ice cream without her. So the other kids feel like they have to do all the work and never get rewarded because of her.

I am 21, about to graduate college in a few months. The time where I really go out on my own and learn not to be so reliant, but I still need a close relationship with my family. However, that seems to be fading. My mother suffers from depression and anxiety, plus she s going throw menopause... So it s pretty mad. Her mind isn t there all the time. She cries a lot. She s locked in her room. And it s just hard for her and I to communicate, it kind of has been like that my whole life - since her minds always going a million miles a minute and always thinks the worse, so on. As for my dad, he s gotten back into drinking. He s hardly ever home. Nor does he really talk to me or my mother. He s gotten close with this girl he works with, I don t suspect cheating or anything, she s a lot younger. But I feel like he treats her like his best friend or daughter, when that used to be me... I saw texts from him asking what she was doing and when she said class he s like "study hard and do good", then he asked her to meet up for a drink. He s been staying out until 1 or 2am, drinking. It s like, when can I have a family back who cares and talks with me? I feel like I m approaching one of the most exciting, scaring, and biggest achievements of my life (graduating college) and no one really cares. What do I do? How do I deal? Idk how to talk to them about this. And I get to the point where I just want to move away with my boyfriend and wipe my hands of this crap.

My parents have always taken things that i like away from me because i like them, but this time they went to far I'm a 17 year old boy and yesterday my parents told me that I'm never going to my favorite youth group again, and it absolutely drove my mad, i said up all night last night crying my eyes out and was feeling sick to my stomach all day yesterday, the thought of never seeing my friends again and never going to that group again is killing me. I'm espesally mad because yeah i could drive there but whenever i want to get out on the road and practice it's always "i don't feel good" or "its to late" or " i'm to tired" in the last 3 months I've only been driving twice and thats because i begged. but back to the youth group thing, my dad promised to take me today after 4 weeks of his usual "i don't feel good" or "i don't have the money" crap, so basically he lied and I'm gonna put both of them through hell for it. If they think i have a bad attitude now they havent seen nothing yet Excuse my kinda childish attitude when i typed this, It's just that I've been going to this youth group for years and im a bit devastated

Maybe I should be embarrassed, I don't know. Last night, my GF came over, very recent start to the relationship. We're 25 and I have a 5 year old daughter. So last night, after she'd been put to bed, my GF comes over. About 15 minutes later my daughter comes out of the room and walks passed us towards the kitchen. Me: Squirt where ya headed? Daughter: Cookies Me: Nope, uh uh, no cookies after bedtime. Her: Just 1 Me: None, bed, you, now Her: Please Me: No, and if keep it up you'll be in timeout, now, bed. Her: I hate you. * Goes to bed* GF didn't say a thing. Do I address it next time I see her?

So listen, I'm 15 years old and i just recently moved to my dads house just for one year, Years almost coming to an end and i'm so glad. Besides that i have a sister shes 19 she lives in the same household. My sister was touched by a man called "Carlos" Carlos was my moms ex husband when i was in kindergarten through 2nd grade my sister lived with me and my mom my sister told my dad when she was 17 and carlos was put to 4 years under bars. My dad simply doesn't understand that i don't like talking to him as much as everything i say and do annoys him "Want to go to the store" and if i say no he saids "No you are going" He thinks just because i talk to my sister more and not to him i was touched also i dont like people patting my shoulder and he always does that. He always asks me if this carlos guy has ever touched me and that has never happened i actually liked the guy because he was nice to me and my mother. This has made me love my mother and sister more then my dad. What do i do now if i rarley like speaking to him because everything he saids is "right"

But I'm sixteen years old. Don't tell me to wait because I just can't stand my ******* family. Don't tell me to get used to it or that I should learn to love them. I'm not telling my life story. I already got my job layed down but my mother has custody.

Hi. I've been through a lot in the past year. I went to college for the first time, but only for a semester. Had to drop out second semester because I couldn't aford it. I was so happy because I was going to pursue my dream job a and the fact that I had to stop, kinda brought me down. Now I find out that my mom and her boyfriend are getting married (I'm soooo happy for her), but they are moving to California. They said I could go with them, but I want to stay here where my home is in Chicago. So that means I have to get a new apartment and everything. It's just all a mess. I'm so stuck as to what to do now and it's frustrating. I never thought that life would go this way for me. But I'm still trying to stay positive. This is my time to finally be independent and show myself and my mom that I can be as strong willed as she is. I just don't know where and how to start...

I m 16 year old girl. mom used to dance everyday Zumba with her 2 friends Dona & Elsa. I got really close with do as son, were still good friends, almost dated. I m very close with both of them, but I m closer with Dona. She s been there for me a lot, 16th birthday, homecoming crowning, supported me when I lost & gained my vision back etc. she s a very reserved person, after losing her husband & daughter 4yrs ago. But she s always super loving, caring to me, always giving hugs & laughing together, always happy, we have a special bond. Last year she quit Zumba due to fight she had with Elsa, Dona then blocked us all on FB but we didn't do anything.. so we don t see her anymore but I miss her so much, so I text her "have a great day!" Every know and then.. My grandma died a couple weeks ago & surprisingly Dona had came to her funeral, I was crying very hard & shaking, She came down the line hugging family, we she got to me I bawled out crying even harder when I saw her, Life seemed at its worst & to see her after months without her, I missed her so much.cit was overwhelming. She gave me the biggest/longest hug. She kept telling me that it s okay, it s okay to cry. It was a special moment, very hard & overwhelming. Days letter she would text me checking on me. How do you think she felt seeing me like that? is it weird that we are close? (Me & my mom are very close, there s nothing my mom lacks) I just want your opinion)

She is going to be 11 this month and absolutely refuses to sleep in her own room. She has a nice, big room, bigger than mine and I'm almost 14, a comfortable bed, etc. Is that normal? When I was 5 my mom would yell at me for around 10 min straight for climbing into bed with her when I was scared, but with my sister, she literally got a bigger bed, one of those that can move up and down so she and my sister can share. I don't think it's healthy, for she's going into middle school and still sleeping in my mom's bed.

I'm a bit confused. My mum is British/Welsh born in Wales. My dad is Iraqi. Born in Iraq. I'm the first born I was born in England as my parents moved to London. Then when I was younger my parents both moved to California America. Had another child (my brother) so that makes him American right? And I'm English? Even though mums Welsh and dads Iraqi?

Hi! My name is Wendy and we got a new teacher this year. Ever since she joined my boyfriend's attraction for me waned, now he likes her more. I screamed at her to stay away from my man but she STILL didn't stop being beautiful! Ugh. Please help I need to hire Iraq to kill her!!!!!!

I'm a single dad,I have a 13 year old girl She is misbehaving a lot, she snuck out of the house, she doesn't listen to me at all! So I always pick her up from school,and go back to work. So when I came home at around 5 o'clock, I came into her room it was a mass! We have a cleaning lady(because I can't keep up with an entire house cleaning, and she doesn't do anything) so I ask her: "did you do anything today?" "Yes, my homework" "Homework&school are kinda like your job" And then she started yelling at me! NO 13 year old will yell at me! I immediately told her to give me her IPhone because she's now grounded She didn't agree to give it I tried telling her that her grounding will be longer, "Just get out of my room" I told her to come to the living room in 20 minutes. she came and set right next to me while she was on her phone. I tried getting it out of her head because I was going to take it anyway. She started yelling at me, and not letting go of her phone! I took it, stood up and put it in my pocket, she tried grabbing it, it got to the point where she literally started hitting me! I literally left the room because I was speechless that she hit me!(like a 4 year old how can't control himself) She ran after me and tried kicking me again! It got to the point where I didn't have any option,I took her in my arms exactly like I did when she was 4! And took her to her room! Asking this for the 2nd time, because I didn't get any answers

Just recently my grandfather passed away and his death was caused by a car accident. i'm not feeling well for the past two days and i tried getting a day off from work but my boss just keeps on giving excuses that he can't and even the CEO. Honestly i need a break for just a day to clear up my mind and now while i'm at work, i just feel sick being here. what should i do? and just yesterday my boss told me that he forgot to tell me that 1st of march was suppose to be my day off and he told me this at around 11:55pm at night and i honestly was shocked and disgusted by the way he told me this like as if it doesn't matter at all that i have lost someone dear to me

I am 12 almost 13 and my mom does not sleep with my dad because he snores. She sleeps in MY bed In MY room. I cant take it anymore!! Than in the mornings when i get up for school (i set my own alarm) my mom will go down stairs and i will stay in my room. Like 10 minutes after that she is up here screaming at me for NO reason. Than i get a headache and start to cry!! Than when i ask her nicely to go because i want to be alone she says "well if you want me to leave so bad you are probably watching porn behind my back!" LIKE WTF!! I am not and never will!! I just been sad lately and i want no drama. I just want to be alone and she does not get that! I explained this to her but she still does not! I just want my own room!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a half sister (I hate calling her that) who bullied me for as long as I can remember. Long story short, a year ago, she and I had a major argument where she rationalized or denied ever bullying me and we stopped talking. I was so angry afterwards I was having anger outbursts all the time and had to go to therapy. Therapy helped my outbursts, but not the root of the problem. I know I have to find some way to forgive her, but I don't know how...

If we have a Doctor in our family should we consult with him/her about our peronal medical issues. Iike my elder sister is doctor but i feel embarassing to discuss about private area problem. Should we don't hesitate ? Can we show our body to them? Please reply

My moms schedule and my school schedule are completely different. Just when she's getting off of work I'm getting on the bus. By the time I get home she's already at work so I'm basically alone mostly the whole week until Saturday when my dad takes me out on one of our "dates"