I want to be away from my laptop and phone a lot more, but since those have become a part of my daily routine, it's really hard to step away from devices. I'm on my phone all the time and my mother has threatened to turn my phone off permanently. Can you give me some ways I can step away from the internet? (I'm a teenaged girl in a long distance relationship with a girl who lives in the UK. < Idk if y'all need that info or not.)

My parents usually have to tell me to do chores because I'm lazy. Now I figured it's time for me to become more mature and start doing things on my own, I want to be more responsible. I've done chores without them asking several times and they always ask if something's wrong with me. Because I want to start being mature, how can I make them stop saying stuff like this? ~(I'm really sorry if I couldn't explain this well enough. It's hard to put this into words. And please no rude comments.)

So my Family is pretty poor but its only because my mom spends her money on stupid stuff. We have food in the fridge but its either old or hers (she gets mad if I eat her food since shes on a diet and i don't want to get in trouble) I dont really yell at her for not having food but she knows it upsets me. I will ask my mom if we have anything to eat just in case i didnt notice anything and she will yell "I dont know! maybe you should get a job and pay for something to eat instead of expecting me to pay for everything and take care of you and pat" (pats her boyfriend and im 13 so i cant get a job) I'm just really stuck on what to do right now since my dad is deployed i cant go live with him and she values new shoes and her boyfriends than my nutrition. It has impacted my school work since i dont eat breakfast or lunch and dinner is normally at 9 or 10 pm. (normally mac n' cheese or take out) then i will get kept up by her boyfriend and her arguing. is it all in my head or is she legit a bad mom?

Ok so my daughter is 8 months and In that time I have only been away from her a total or maybe 2 hours. I live away from all my family & friends n it's just me her dad n her n he won't watch her unless I am in the room and then he just yells at her to be quiet so he can play his game I go weeks at time without seeing another person besides them don't get me wrong I love her but I just get overwhelmed do all the cooking all the cleaning haven't showered in days do what to do anymore

i have a friend who is in collage and living with her mother at the present time and her mother is very strict with her she checks her grades and all the time and her mother pays for her to go to collage and she is 21 but one day her mother was checking her grades and saw that she had a couple of D on her report card so her mother made her strip down till she was naked and made her face the wall and put her hands on the wall and spanked her with a wooden hair brush after that they live in the country no neighbors for miles she made her daughter go outside and do yard work still naked might i add does this sort of thing happen to anyone else

I'm a 17 year old girl, almost 18. My sister is 21, and she is SO annoying and immature. All she does is talk about her ex boyfriend who hates her and talk to her cat. My 14 year old brother doesn't do anything and he ignores me every time I try to talk to him. My mom is okay, but she stresses out the rest of the family because of HER stress. But she's a single mother, so I understand where her stress comes from. I feel like I'm nothing like my family. I'm positive, I never complain, I'm very mature for my age, and I'm very ambitious. Every time my sister talks, I literally feel my heart beat faster because of the anxiety. My family (especially my sister) gives off bad vibes. How can I deal with this?

People are always so uptight about names around here, so I was wondering if you guys have any guilty pleasure names? Here are mine: Boy - Misha, Sasha, Ezra, Lucius, Micah Girl - Ezra, Kaplan, Jensen, Idys, Connie, Carson

My older sister has just decided to get married. And she did not even informed me about this till my younger sister accidently splitted it out. I then went to my sister and asked why she kept this secret from me as if I am being treated some sort of a stranger or a foreigner to the family and being informed a the very last. She replied me with one of the most silly answers for which has been ever given to a question: ''I must have forgetten''. This was the clearest sign that she does not care or love me as a sister. After that we started to get distant from each other slowly. We had a couple of small harsh talks, discussions and ugly fights I must say. And a few days later, I caught my sister and my younger sister talking, whispering and having a real heated conversation going on. I opened the door room where they were speaking to each other. But by the time I entered the room they shut their mouth. They stopped talking. I looked directly at their faces giving the impression that 'Why guys suddenly stopped, is it because of me?'' and then they changed the subject. It then turned out that my sister was actually showing the wedding ring that her fiancee bought for her to my younger sister. And it's been more than 2 weeks since she got that ring already. And If I did not sneak in, I was ever not going to find out about this ring. My sister and the younger one now seem to be united against me. They publicly outcast me from conversations, gathering, meeting ups and everything.

The guy I've been texting sent me a tongue out winky face ;P But we both didn't say anything funny or dirty so his face didn't make sense. Was he flirting?

I'm a male, 20 years old. When I was younger, from 12 to 17, my father abused me so much. He has beaten me, he slapped me on the face multiple times, he spat on me, he insulted me with all words and made me cry, he humiliated me in front of neighbors, he ignored me, he never made apologies, he never laughed with me, he never told me stories, I've never had any affection from him. Now I'm 20, I have no friends at all. I always fear rejection and I don't try to enter in no group at all. I'm always angry and I sometimes speak to myself and tell stories to myself also. I think I'm becoming crazy. I have a low self esteem, I always deny it but it's sadly the truth. I'm afraid of socializing because I feel like I'm not good enough. I've got a lot of grudges and my heart aches every single day and no one know about this. Now being 20, I'm still living with my parents, but I NEVER talk to my father. I never say hi to him or anything else. You have no idea how much I hate him. I cannot even stand seeing his face. Mother says that I should talk to him because he has always brought food since we were all young, but is this a reason to forget everything and to act like nothing happened? I feel nothing towards my father, he could die, I would't really feel a thing. I'm so broken right now and no one doubts it. I'm going to the university this year and I've got no friends at all. I'm living hell, please could you help go ahead? Just a little bit of help might be precious what should I do?

So I went for a trim today.. And this dumb jealous step mother of mine kept telling the hairdresser to cut it short even though I kept telling them No! My hair used to nearly reach my bum but now just passes my shoulder blades. It doesnt help telling my dad how I feel as he always takes her side no matter what and he will most prob punnish me by taking away my horse.. So please give me some Ideas on how to get back at her and help my hair grow. Thanks

It's summer, I'm 17, senior he is 21 in college. He usually tells me I'm useless which doesn't bother me at all but today he pointed out my flaws and what is wrong with me. I usually stay upstairs in my room all day playing league (or other games) or watching anime. He kept asking me when the last time I went out and I hate going out alone. I can hang out with my friends whenever I just usually choose not to because they might be busy or not want to hang out with me. He keeps asking why I don't have a job and thats it, I just probably have social anxiety or something because I cried before my interview last time. I usually don't talk a lot around my family but my friends I like to talk a lot. My cousins nicknamed me mute and I hate it but I can't really talk against it. I'm very small (80 lbs) and my brother keeps saying I will get fat or that he hopes I will. I plan to sell art for a job during the summer because I don't want a real part time job and overall I'm just not a typical blonde girl blue eyes sports girl that can start conversations, always have a smile and go outside alone to meet new people. I just feel as though my family esp my brother is disappointed in me and I don't know how to change but I try my best and I'm very emotional for some reason. Idk what do you think.? I plan to join a tennis club after high school and I'm way to scared for college people, any tips for handling with people in college?

My familly are not my bioligical familly and i was switched when i was 1 year old, i dont even remember my real familly, anyways they are giving me medications now which makes you gain weight called zyprexa and risperdal, for 5 years, then when they wanted to kick me out the house they stopped it and now they tell me to leave them, they come to my room to fight and i have a fight everyday even i try to ignore them(never talk to them) i always say ok ok ok, but when i wasnt fat everyone liked me(im a guy) all the girls liked me before (but when a girl talked to me i was shy), now i am fat and i hardly see any girl looking at me, and all the guys are staring with angry look if i look at them for a second(even im just thinking about my life not actually looking at them) lol even if i walk next to a car it would panic alert lol WTF!!!! these bitches ruined my life i have gained 40 KG of weight on these meds!! and you cant lose 1 kg of these only if you stop the med, and it take ages!! i heard about cabergoline but how long it takes to lose weight on it? ^ i meant how long it takes to lose weight on cabergoline caused by the antipsychotic medications?

This is about my sister's ch i of who's parents are not together. The father hasn't tried to see the child or contact the kid and he won't answer our contact either. Now he has a new baby. My sister has a boyfriend who has three kids. They all live in the basement of his moms house, his adult sister lives in the second story. And his mom in the middle. This is a small house with all these kids sleeping in the same room. The boyfriends mom cussed out my niece when she was 3 because she didn't want the other kids to go through some clothes she got for Christmas. My sister let is keep my niece for over 3 weeks until they got a different house...but now they're right back in that basement. Other have said and I quote "your sister wants to mother any kid but her own". And she does. We have my niece for weeks and my sister ignores her phone calls. But then my niece won't go home with her cause she hates living in a basement and the people there are mean to her. There's also been incidents where those other children have literally French kissed each other and other weird things like that. And some stuff was going on with my niece too. And they've done drugs around the kids too. Can my nieces father, if he chooses too, sign his custody rights away to someone in my family that is NOT my sister? Not to try and gain full custody but incase my sister and her boyfriend one day try and gain full custody by saying "her father hasn't seen her in this long". Or If something ever happens.

I really like my step sisters cousin and my mom and her dad broke up so they never married and I can t make a decision to go for it or not cause I am scared of what others would say?

I want to run from my grandmother's house. I am threatened a lot. But today really made me want to. My mom pushed me when I was fighting with my sister. It was arguing, not physical though. I called my grandfather, he is someone who doesn't threaten me. I would love to know if these are practical reasons to run away

So I'm 14 and I don't currently have a job but I babysit often and I'm applying to work at McDonald's which will land me $350 a month if I get the job. My dad gives me $50 dollars a month at the end of the month and babysitting almost every weekend and getting around 300 bucks a month from that since I do it with my best friend and we spilt it. Well now that my dad knows I make some money, he makes me pay for EVERYTHNG. If I want food, need new clothes, things from school, basic needs etc. I have to pay for it. If he doesn't want to pay for stuff for my sister he will guilt me into buying it for her. He makes over a million dollars a year so it's not like he can't afford anything. Hey pays for my phone, tv and bought my laptop (which I already had before all of this) and that's it. Is this normal? My mom doesn't think so and she says that a parent shouldn't do that to their kids. (Parents are divorced)

My mom she has 2 jobs one in the morning and one at night so she is always busy the only day that she don't work is Tuesday so when she don't work she go out with her boyfriend and she have a little girl she is 3 years old of course she is my sister😂 so she is always busy she doesn't have time for her little daughter so I have to take care of her and I'm tired of that so I don't know how to talk with my mom about that cuz she will be mad or sad, I don't know how to tell her that I don't want to do this anymore cuz I don't wanna offend her, it doesn't mean that I hate my sister I love her but she is her mom and my sister needs her to spend more time with her.

So my sister is 6 and im 11. She has about 200 articles of clothing, and i constantly must give her my old clothes. I have to buy my own clothes, and i dont even get an allowance and i litterally cook, clean, wash clothes and dishes, and tend to my sister. She refuses to clean her messy room. My dad is always off at my stepmoms house (my sisters mom), and i never see him! Also i fight arthritis and he often doesnt get my prescriptions because Sami ( my sister) doesn't want to leave the house!!! When i go shopping ( which is like 1 time a year) i can only afford 1 outfit while my dad will buy sami 5 outfits. Every morning my dad gives her 1 dollar to buy useless things such as 15 erasers from our schools book store. My dad often gets mad at me when ijust say like sami has enough clothes. Sami is woefully behind in school and i am the smartest person in my school, and when i give my dad my report card, he wont sat anything, just sign it. Yet they call sami a genius! I am so upset and this isnt helping my depression, and i am afraid now to ask my dad anything. Please help me.

Oh, well, as you pretty much read I am a spoiled brat. Since I was a kid my mother has always been there, not really buying me EVERYTHING I wanted, but did not generally understand I was constantly manipulating her to get my way and so I always ended up getting it my own way- I would not wash the dishes, because I would say I have a cold or not go to a meeting because I am sick or sth. I am also the younger child, my sis did a lot of things for me, my dad and mother kind of always protected me, telling her to do it all, like clean the house or do my tasks basically, so I think that may be the reason why I grew up as a lazy, manipulative, unmotivated, stupid child who has a lot of problems (and will have a lot of problems in the near future) because is a spoiled brat who doesn't care much about others. I am not very happy to admit that as a result I don't have much respect for my parents or anyone in general, tho I am not agressive..at least in society, at home I am a little of a dick in usual. Now you get the picture, I am sorry to admit it, but this is how things happened. I try to be better to my parents now (since my mom even started saying she'll not let me live in the house anymore and stuff like that) and generally try to do more house work, tho I still have a lot of problems with procrastinating.I also have extremely poor motivation and self-control..Any suggestions out there?

My mother called me a prositiute, yup. This isn't the first time she has used that disgusting vulgar language on me though. It started all by asking my father for freaking contacts. He said no, he says I'm always trying to be someone I'm not and that I'm trying to grow up too fast and that i should just be original. But I AM ORIGINAL, I just want to try out contacts, is that a lot to ask for?? So my dad ended up telling my mom what happened. After telling her what happened she did call my phone. When she called my phone I was in my room, in the dark crying on my bed. She called me, and she too yelled at me. These were some of her hurtful words, "stop trying to grow up fast, ACT YOUR AGE. People like you are the ones to grow up stealing and going into prositiution for money" when she said that, I was shocked and heartbroken. How can my own mother call me that? And she's such a moronic idiot because she steals all the time! I've only stolen once, and I was freaking 9 and I just stole a candy bar. I didn't know any better and now I know stealing wrong. I am 14 now! But she is 40 and has been stealing for YEARS. Anyways what can I do about this issue?

I'm 20 years old and I'm staring college soon and planning to start a life with someone. My mother treats me like absolute trash all because I have a disorder and because of things I did in middle school that she never got over, she's ashamed of me because I'm 5 ft 4 and everyone else in my family is tall and she's sheltered me up my entire life that I spent the majority of my childhood sneaking out and lying just to socialize with other people because I couldn't go anywhere besides school and home. I've finally given up fighting her, I just go throughout the day pretending she's not even there and ignoring everything she tries to do that's infuriates me because she's not even worth it, she talks to me like I'm a small child and I just take it because I'm done! Anyway I know this sounds rude but I don't know if I want her involved with my future children or life in general, it's not even for revenge I just don't want my kids to put up with what I deal with now

What does happiness mean to you?

My dad is always mad he doesn't stand me he yells at me for everything I'm not allowed to do anything im not allowsed to wear shorts or tank tops he's ALWAYS concerned about what people think of him and he thinks if they see me in shorts they'll think low of him and they'll think that I'm a hoe (????) he's so worried about his reputation it's not even about protecting me anymore and he's just AWAYS angry I don't even want to talk to him anymore cause I know he'll get angry at some point and he takes himself so seriously that he's my dad and he has to force me to do stuff and I can NEVER argue or ask why or not listen to him if I don't hell yell at me and he once called me a whore and I'm just 14 and it was bc I asked if I can wear a tank top he's also angry with my mother and he's just always yelling and I can't stand him I can't help i always have to talk back and tell but once I do he goes CRAZY I don't know what to do anymore :( PS: DO NOT tell me to move out or run away it's not an option

Some background. Me and my wife used to be heroin addicts. I caught a felony went to jail and rehab from about march through December of 13. Got out on probation was feeling great clean and sober. Also had a baby in february. I didnt even know she was pregnant til september because she jumped out the car on me when i got locked up. Wasnt even planning on getting together but if we could both stay clean i would do it for the well being of my son. but started dibble dabbling in lesser opiates ie Vic s and percs. Eventually started using again regularly. After a few weeks of that my mom tells me that right before I got out my dads friend Ben was hitting on her trying to impress her and said that the 3 of us should move down to naples Florida. So after a week or two of falling off the wagon I decide enough is enough, book a one way ticket and call my dad whom at that time I have not talked to in 6 or 7 years (there were many gaps like this while growing up) and tell him okay I m taking Ben up on his offer. What were they going to say no? I knew it was a hollow offer but had to do to leave. Flint Michigan is where I m from BTW. So I move down here to find out my dad has been living with Ben for like 6 years. It was Bens sisters house free and clear so she let him live there, even paid the bills. So neither of them had any financial responsibilities. In retrospect maybe bens offer wasn t hollow, I m starting to think he just wanted us to take my dad with us when we left.

He yells and grounds me for no reason he also just kicked out my sister for no reason and I m scared. He s always saying that I m probably not going to college, he said I m not going to make it in life. Which makes me wanna not try no more. Everytime he yells at me for no reason my anger and depression gets to me. I can t control it. I hit my head as hard as I can and I didn t feel go for a while. And I punched my legs tell I can t feel them. I m scared of this gets to far. Please give me advice

So I ve been secretly dating this guy for a while and I ve been able to do that because my moms been out of the country. She recently came back and found a bday card I wrote him but didn t give him. On top of that, I guess my little sister a while back went thru my phone and saw a pic of us hiking. She held on to it till my mother found the card and added that bit. I came home to the whole family waiting for me. Ofcourse I denied everything because I was terrified of what would happen but I secretly wanted her to kick me out that day. The thing is, my whole life is restricted by my mother. What she says goes and her word is the final word. I have to be home no later than 8, I can t work late jobs. On top of all that, she is verbally and emotionally abusive. When she found out about my bf, she started to pray to God that I die now so as to not commit any more sin. I sat there while they all mourned me. If I leave I ll get disowned and if tell them I have an American be ill get disowned. I ve been having anxiety issues and feeling guilty because I feel like I m tarnishing the family name. I am the black sheep of the family and the only one who wants to move out.I just want to live my life according to me. I have a job, found a place I can rent for $500, saved $6000 and am 3 quarters away from getting my BA degree. How should I tell her I m moving out? I was thinking of writing her a letter and leaving it before I go to school on Friday and not returning.

Ok so my Uncle who is blood related to me (brother of my dad) married my Aunt (Not blood related). They have 3 kids who are my cousins. My Aunts sister has 1 daughter. Is her daughter considered my second cousin?

Hi, I have problem concerning my employment. I have a summer job at Lagoon Amusement Park. When my dad heard they were hiring 14 - 16 year olds (I'm 15) he asked me if i wanted a job i said yes but i wanted to say no but i was afraid to say no. I'am done working at a job i don't need to be working at. I told them i was going to quit, my dad said it was okay being the nice person he is. However my mom will get extremely mad if i quit. The reason why i think she will get mad is because my sister who is 18 is not working nor is my dad. So basically she is forcing me to stay and every day i just wanna quit i cry on the way there. What can i do? Thanks everyone and im sorry this is so long. I felt like i needed advice.

So my sister came into my room with just her swim suit on. It's practically the same thing as just bra and panties. I just randomly got a b0ner. I felt so awful. I could barely even talk to her cuz I was so distracted and felt so weird. Then she even lied on my bed next to me and it got even harder. When she left my room, I felt so awful but I could not control my penis. I can never look at my sister the same. I feel very awkward around her now.

I don't really being around my mom because her new boyfriend has caused her to change. The atmosphere seems so fake and she tries to live in this world where she has this cliche tv family bullshit. My younger brothers and sister are in this world with her. Ever time I try to ask for something like $6,000 she pushes it to the side. Like II'm not doing **** wrongbeith the 6 grand I just want to take up a trade at a community college.But yeah her new boyfriend Jesus **** is sje defensive over this ******* clown. It's over the simplest **** too. You can't say certain **** over she'll get ******* pissy over it. She claims to "care" about me but II've been crashing with my grandparents because she wants to act like shes in ******* highschool and smoke pot with hew ******* boyfriend. She got drunk and bit my uncle. And I'm 18 O can't even leave the house without her getting pissy.

I can't stop crying. I started dating this guy and he treats me like a queen and I really like him a lot. Well my stupid dad found out and is talking a bunch of sh*t to my mom saying that he's ugly (which he's not) and that hes going to try to get custody of me. Which is stupid because my little sister is doing drugs and trying to commit suicide and getting into fist fights but they never gave her any problems :( now He can't even deal with me having a boyfriend at 17? I never even had a relationship with my dad he NEVER talked to me growing up and he would always hit me with belts and stuff and him and my mom are divorced and live far away from eachother and now he's trying to get custody so I can't have a boyfriend? How do I even deal with this I can't stop crying :'( Not to mention that my sister got expelled from school and none of my parents care but I passed all my classes with good grades and I'm even going to graduate next year and icant be f*cking allowed to date!?

I think that there is something seriously wrong with my brother, Connor. The past few years, he has been very aggressive towards my brother and my dad. He punches walls, attacks my brother and leaves him with cuts and a broken arm, breaks my brothers stuff, and he even tried tackling my dad. I m terrified of him. We are on a cruise right now and my brother Jack (16) came in this morning with a few bad cuts on his neck and we asked him what it was. He said that he got in a fight with Connor that night and that he grabbed his neck (God, it looked horrible) and that he stepped on his laptop and the screen broke. When my mom said she wanted to talk to Connor, Jack refused to let her and said he would handle it himself. It was obvious that Jack was scared he was going to get hurt again. I am very worried that my brother or my parents are going to get hurt again and that he is going to do something worse. I am also worried he may hurt his girlfriend. The thing is, Connor is 19 and absolutely REFUSES to listen to my parents. He has almost been killed because of how irresponsible he is and he was kicked out of college. He doesn t think anything is wrong with him. Please help me, my family is falling apart.

I've noticed it for a while now, when we drop my best friend off he insists on seeing her and is often shifty around us. He claims nothing is going on but I feel something wrong... He always sticks up for her instead of my mum when they get into a argument. My best friends mum has a not so nice husband and my dad is reasonably nice... But my dad is taken. My mum and dad just had a argument after my best friends mum came round and he said to her "why don't you like me and her?" Which sounds like something may be going on? My dad is out s lot too. Please help

So me and my mom got in a bit of an argument about me going to spend the night with my bf (I m 17, will be 18 in sept) & she took my phone. Well, before she took it I had messaged my sister about the argument and said some pretty not so nice things about my mom which I absolutely did not mean. I have anger issues arguments sometimes I just let it get the best of me. Which is something I should work on. But I really hurt her feelings and I feel terrible about it. What should I do?

can she do that since cps knows about this case

My friends are intent on travelling across several different continents and they are keen for me to go with them. I'm 25, live on my own, single and I work for a family business, meaning time off isn't an issue. But I do have a daughter and don't want to abandon her. She means the world to me. I just need to figure how long I should travel.

When one year old sees her grandma/in law, she always cries. I just say to her, it s ok, you re ok. Just trying to calm my daughter and telling her that it s her grandma. My daughter starts to play with her grandparents. Later, Her grandma says "see, now you re smiling. Why earlier did you have to do all that crying?" to my daughter who can t say any words yet. Why would she say that?. I don t make the situation worse by bringing up negative situation like that. Why would the grandma even say that to a child? She knows my husband and me will heard it. Also, we bring my daughter to an amusement park. Her grandparents suggest the zoo. We just heard news about animals attacking children. I would not want to go to a zoo now. they only suggested the zoo because they are members and it's free to go anytime. I know my daughter loves the characters at the amusement park so we went there. Her grandparents keep telling us the park ticket is expensive. ended up, it's was worth it because my daughter had a wonderful time. Always smiling. After the trip, her grandparents still insist the amusement was over priced. They see my daughter playing with a toy and say it's a great toy. My husband says we got it at the amusement park and then her grandma says you know they increase the price of toys at amusement park. Her grandparent says why go and wait in line and waste your time. Their granddaughter was happy. Why can't they be happy too?. What do you think?

My niece is 6 years old about to enter 1st grade. Her and her parents still live with my parents and I even though they should move out and find a place since they're about to have their third child. Anyways so she's always here and she's pretty rebellious and the way she speaks is just horrible I don't know what to do. I try to tell her parents but sometimes they just tell me "ok so what's the problem?". Let me show you an example. So I sleep in the living room therefore everyone comes through here all the time. Now that it's summer I wake up like at 10 am since I sleep like at 1am. She wakes up at 8am so she runs around in the living room with her tablet watching a video and volume on blast. I tell her please turn it down I'm trying to sleep. She responds "I don't care I don't have to listen to you." I tell her to just go in her room or somewhere else and she just shows me her tongue or tells me she doesn't love me (that doesn't bother me tbh). Her parents are too just to deal with this situation. Also when she makes messes in that kitchen or living room I tell her to please clean after yourself and she ignores and goes outside. Btw I also tell my parents but my parents get really mad and tell me to mind my own business while she almost sets the place on fire I'm just trying to do the right thing. There's no way she listens to me.

My parents have been divorced since I was a baby and she doesn't really do anything with me and my brother. She only cares about my siblings from other parents. She does not pay child support for me and my brother and we are both going to be 18 soon. She has not called me once this summer and I'm starting to get bummed out. She says that I'm suppose to be the one who calls her and I know that the parent is suppose to be the one who calls. When ever I ask her to pick me up she always has an excuse. She completely leaves me and my brother out of things and has our whole life. She hasn't even tried to call my brother for a solid year. Why doesn't she care about us?

My stepdad's been around since I was 7 or 8. I never noticed anything when I was younger.I am now 22 and I can't rmr exactly the yr or day this staring problem began but I know it's been going on for a couple years now. When I was in high school Ik I was in the living room watching tv with my older sister and looked up and saw him peeping through the crack of his and my moms room but my mom obviously wasn't in there with him. I thought I was just being crazy so I never said anything. The house we lived in was one story and small so it was harder for him to do this as the house was very open.Obviously during college this wasn't a problem because I wasn't home. But I recently graduated and am back home for a few months. However my family moved into a bigger house so I have noticed he's been staring a lot in the time I've been home because he can now stare and hear if someone is coming up or down the stairs in time to walk off.This makes me feel paranoid bc sometimes I look up and see him and have no idea how long he's been standing there. I'm thinking he's a weed smoker who gets paranoid but I'm not sure that would make him act this way, I haven't done anything, I'm hesitant to say anything bc my mom went throw a lot of pain and hurt with my dad and my stepdad has kept her happy for the last 12yrs and he's my younger sisters biological father. He doesn't touch me but it's very awkward for him to be around everyone and I have to act like idk he watches me. What should I do?

My dad is selfish with his and left us poor yet my mom won't stop talking about money like money is that serious. She's saying we need money to live but we are living just barely but she's acting like money is like her life and it's weird? She goes into a deep depression over money and it's disturbing my parents like money that much because money is evil.

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My dad's first cousin has 3 children. What is my relation to them? And what is my relation to my dad's cousins (and my mum's)?

My dad constantly calls me every hour while he's at work. He always wants to know what my mom and I are up to. Then he'll talk to either my mom or me for literally 15 to an hour and a half. He only has an 8-hour job, so what is he doing if he's constantly calling. We just kind of say "Mhm and Uhuh" when he's talking unless he has a purpose for calling which is rare. It gets really annoying when you're trying to do something important, and someone calls you just to talk about how he is bored of work, and how he constantly talks about politics. I do like politics, but I know other people don't want to hear about that all the damn time. If I don't pick up, he calls my mother to ask why I didn't pick up. If my mom doesn't pick up, he calls the house phone. Once I return the call, I get yelled at how I didn't pick up, and how I'm being disrespectful. LIKE WHAT? He even comes home sometimes if I don't pick up. Sometimes I put my phone on silent because I don't want to get notifications, and I want to focus. I'm literally been driven insane. My brother doesn't have to deal with this. He's in college, and calls my dad on occasian, while he calls my mom at least twice a week. He's transitioning into a new job where he can't just call us whenever he feels like it. Which I am relieved about, but also scared that he isn't going to get used to it, and get fired or just quit. Please help. All help is appreciated Just realized the title lol I meant: What do when your father constantly calls you and your mother?

well i thought she had a sister because i think i saw her sister while watching her show on TLC during the first season and i thought wow i wonder if Jazz's sister is single but anyway i know she got two brothers so help me out here.

My 15 year old daughter does not know that everybody dies. She thinks that she is going to live forever. I need to tell her that everybody dies.

Its usually just when she copies me. For example, i recently started this sport and then she started the same sport! I was so angry i kept threatening her and being cruel to her until she quit. I just cant stand it when she copies me because i take pride in individuality and she is better than me at everything and its like she wont even let me have one thing! I dont understand why im like this because i see other siblings doing the same activities and getting along just fine and even encouraging eachother but i cant seem to do that

I had a brief meeting with my cousin and brother before my mother passed away in April. We talked if I am going to keep the house and I said I doubt it. My brother said what if I help out financially. I am left in house with my other brother that has mental illness. My brother that lives 5 hours away comes on holidays. I needed a water heater a few days before my brother came for $800. When my mom was living he would pay this but not for me. I don't have enough income to keep house. My brother that is away will give the brother with me $200 to eat out. I am left close to 9 weeks with the house all on me. My brother that is away lived in apartment for 20 years. I think my brother that is away is just hoping to collect on mom's estate even though he is not in will. He never contacted us until 2 years ago. Why does my brother say he wants to help financially to keep house and doesn't? Doesn't it sound like if I want to sell house I should do it?

My family destroyed me, they ruined me, they were jealous of me, especially my younger sister, they want me to fail in life. I am 24 and i chose to live at home, but my younger sister and brother made me feel guilty for living at home and my whole early twenties i felt guilty for enjoying myself, i should have moved out at 22 and i regret not, im also boyfriendless, never had one and that makes me feel even more insecure. I dont have friends and i wish i did leave as that would have helped me. Now im 24 and i feel like its too late to live life well, im still a virgin and i feel ashamed of that, i mean who is going to want a girl who is 24 and still a virgin? my younger sister is extremely jealous of me....and because of thought i felt more guilty and stopped enjoying life....am i weird? an social outcast?

My mom left me and my little brother home for a few hours, because she had a doctors appointment to go to. And I can not deal with him, I was in my room the whole time, minding my own business when he decides to start bothering me. He starts yelling he's stuck, so I run into the living room just in time to see him climbing into a spot in between the tv and the couch. I tell him that I saw him pretending to be stuck and to stop wasting my time and the he starts fake crying and calls my mom and starts saying that I said all these bad things about him that I never did. So she comes home and starts yelling at me and I tell her what really happened and that he's evil and is always doing crap like that and of course. She doesn't believe me and calls me a paranoid *****. I am so done right now. I would rather not exist. I can't stand my life anymore, I have to do all the chores in the house, I've never been able to keep friends, because my parents keep switching my schools and I've never gotten to stay in contact with my friends, my family hates me for no reason, and I am so lonely right now. I have no one to talk to about my problems, because I don't trust anyone in my family to keep a secret.

My mum passed away of cancer almost a year ago when I was 17. I don't have any other family members. Ever since then, I graduated from high school and I've been living barely paycheque to paycheque just to put a roof over my head and food on the table. I've been pretending like it's okay and it's going to be fine but it's not okay and I don't know whether it's going to be fine or not. I'm just really tired of trying to go through everyday and just survive and all I wanna do is to see my mum. I'm ready to die right now, right here if I could just see her. I don't know what to do.

Ever since he could, he has been as much of a jerk to me as possible. He attacks me. This is through stabbing, hitting, clawing, punching, kicking, pushing, and throwing objects at me. I m much stronger than him, so I will pin him down and ask him to stop, but he never does. Sometimes I even have to lock myself in my dad s room, (I don t have a locking door), because he is trying to kill me. He doesn t seem to have a reason to freak out so much. I don t do anything to anger him, or at least I try not to. When I ignore him it just gets worse, and if I retaliate he fake cries and I get in trouble. I ve tried telling my parents as well, and my mom seems to listen, but she doesn t do anything about it, and if I try and tell gus, he believes my little brother over me. How do I get him to stop?

My dad was a state champion track star in high school and college at the division 1 level. That's what he had going for him. His senior year of high school, his oldest brother killed himself. From there, his mom became a diagnosed codependent We lived with my grandparents my entire life. He is currently in his 50's and still living in that house. Both of my grandparents are deceased. He refuses to work or clean the house. He is living in his own garbage, literally. He also gets upset when his siblings come over to prepare the house to get it ready to sell.  

So my mom doesn't let me have freedom. She forces me to do piano, violin, and ballet. I don't really enjoy violin and ballet so i asked her if i could do other things to replace them. I have being dance and violin for about 8-9 years and i want to change. I asked my mom if i could do tennis, art classes, hangout with friends and stuff. She said its for college but i did this for 8 years why can't i just say that?? She took my phone away since i refused to do summer camp for ballet when yesterday she literally said i didn't have to do it. She is selfish and she is living her dream in mine. She says i just lay in bed all day. I've been depressed and very lonely this past year and she doesn't understand how negatively it affects me. I also have an eating disorder... I'm always sad or crying. i tried telling her but she's like its a phase or thats life and you have to deal with it. Should i run away? Also, i know she works hard for me. I'm not being ungrateful but she isn't respecting my decisions and she doesn't understand my depression. Ive gotten a puppy a couple months ago and since i refused to do ballet camp she threatened me on who will pay for him to get fixed. i can't have a job, I'm too young but i can't wait another 5 years to get to college...

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My grandmother lives in a nursing home and I realize that's not a happy place. But I used to have a strong relationship with her, always spending time with her since I was little. Then growing up, I used to visit her every day at her house. Now... she's completely spoiled! Now she wants me to come over and spend the day with her at the nursing home. She has always been so emotionally attached to me and there are many reasons why I don't want go spend the day with her at a nursing home: not the healthiest or happiest place there, she complains about everything and she's already spoiled because I used to go visit her every day and spending the day with her will spoil her again and it won't be enough. She'll then say, "come spend the day with me again" every week then she'll want me over twice a week, three times a week as if she can't get enough of me! There are plenty of activities to do there but she refuses to do them and she refuses to leave the home for an outing they have every week. All she wants is me with her all day long every day as if I have no life at all. Truthfully, I graduated from college and I don't have a job at the moment but that doesn't mean I want go over and spoil her over again. If I stop going there for some reason for a time like when I go on vacation or if I got sick for a while, she'll get all upset. I already visit her about every 10 days! Nothing makes her happy at all. Don't get me wrong, I love her and that's why I used to visit her all the time but that doesn't mean I want to keep visiting her in a depressing place and listening to her complaining all day long. My whole family has a hard time dealing with her, especially my dad so it's not just me. My dad continues to play her games like bringing her clothes whenever she wants new ones or get tired of a blouse or pair of pants (which is very fast, she quickly gets tired of them or complains they're too long when they're not or too dirty when they're not) or buying her new earrings every time she loses a pair. Helen, good point. She has someone who is always following her around and she complains about that and she had another good friend but he got moved to another nursing home. Hellogoodbye, I did not say she is spoiled because she lives in a nursing home. I said she is spoiled because I used to visit her all the time when she was living at home. Please learn how to read or read more slowly. We have literally tried EVERYTHING before putting her in a nursing home. She did have a nice home. Do you think we actually put her in a nursing home for no reason at all? We cannot afford a 24/7 help for her or even a live-in nurse for her? Nursing home was the last resort. Hellogoodbye, Do you know how much it cost to hire someone to live with her 24/7? I'm guessing you don't have a clue. We had no one in the family who was willing to live with her 24/7 as we all have our own lives and families and it is expensive to send someone from an agency to be with her 24/7 and insurance would only cover for a few hours, not all day and all week long. We used to get someone to be with her but she complained about every single aide hired by agencies. Hellogoodbye, she cannot live on her own because it is not safe for her and she has proven that too many times (falling too many times and forgetting to take her meds). We tried everything to not put her in a nursing home for at least 2 years but we had no choice. Just because she had a "nice" home doesn't mean it's safe for her to be left alone for more than a few minutes in an empty house. Her husband is deceased now. Torchbug, I just told hellogoodbye that I did not say she is spoiled because I visit her in a nursing home. I said she is spoiled because I used to visit her every day BEFORE she went in the nursing home in the first place over 2 years ago. LEARN HOW TO READ, PEOPLE, IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!!! I'm well-aware that a nursing home is not a happy or healthy place. I've visited nursing homes before. My grandmother is not a person who likes to deal with technology so she won't deal with computers or facebook or anything like that. She's very old-fashioned. I never said I don't visit her. I said I visit her every 10 days but she still wants me over 24/7. She knows I come over to see her but she doesn't care, she wants more. In the past, I've done more and that didn't help at all. All of us have tried to encourage her to do more things, engage in activities, go to outings etc for more than 2 years as long as she has been in the nursing home... but she doesn't want to do any of that. She'd go, "no, I wanna do that stuff". We have tried EVERYTHING! Instead of trying to make me the bad guy, why don't you try looking at it from my perspective as well? Obviously you haven't dealt with an elderly person who is incapable of being satisfied. She has always been unhappy and unsatisfied with everyone all her life, not just when she's in a nursing home. Always bought a new car or house because she got tired of it, always wanted new clothes because she got tired of them after just a few weeks, too much gravy in her potatoes, ham is too greasy, too tired to go out, blouse is always dirty even after she just bought it and cleaned it once, the list goes on and on and on. Even her own husband couldn't satisfy her and no one in her family could. She has dementia but before that, she always had emotional and mental problems. She's not your everyday ordinary older lady who is unhappy because she's in a nursing home. She wasn't even happy living at home with anyone either and nothing made her happy ever since she was young.