I know I'm not that poor because i have a roof over my head and food but I'm curious because I can get free lunch because my parents annual outcome from their jobs are lower than it's supposed to be for a family of 5. My family can afford stuff like Pink, Nike , adidas, aeropostale and stuff like that but we go to the thrift store once in a while. My dad has 2 main jobs and 1 weekend jobs. He rents a mechcanical bull and rents it to others as his weekend job. My mom has a job too but it doesnt pay well. I live in a townhouse with 3 bedrooms and I share one with my sister . I have a dog and my parents have 2 cars. It embarrass me that I get free lunch because I'm in middle school and people make fun of you if you're poor. Everyone in my family has a cell phone even though it's not like an iPhone or anything like that. My little sister doesn't have a phone though she has an ipad. I know I'm not poor as kids elsewhere but I'm just wondering because it's hurts being made fun. ( I have been before because of the way I dressed ) I used to buy clothes from Wal-Mart too when I we younger and didn't care. But now I don't . (Sorry if this was so long ) and no my parents aren't committing fraud or anything like that so please don't say something like that because parents wouldn't do that and I watch them do it because i don't like breaking laws or anything like that.

im 15 years old and i got a call while at my friends house to come home immediately. i kind of had a gut feeling that something was wrong. once i made it home i saw my brother and my dad sitting on the couch with an emotional look on their face like they were going to cry (my brother kept rubbing his eyes and looking down) and then my dad said that my mom died in the hospital due to heart failure. i dropped on the ground crying for hours and i still am at this second, i dont know what to do and ive been very negative with myself and my dad says im being selfish becauss kf that (suicidal thoughts) my mom was my best friend and it hurts, someone please help me cope with feelings.

Like in a family, let's say you have a great bonding with your siblings when you're all still young. When you need money they lend you and you don't have to pay them, when you fight you're all gonna be alright after. I mean everything you do when you're still young are not really that serious it's like everything is just all playful and you don't think of your siblings as different persons but when you grow older that's when everything gets serious. If you borrow money from one of your siblings and you don't pay him/her, he/she is gonna sue you, or if you're arguing with your sibling and things are heating up and it turns into a physical fight, you will not be talking with your sibling for months or for years and you think of that sibling as a completely different person. I'm asking this because of my parents siblings especially my dad. My dad grew up from a poor family. He has eleven siblings and the eldest died from a disease when she was 20. They had great bonding despite being poor but they decided to separate from each other at a very young age to find their own lives and survive. My dad worked really hard to raise himself from poverty. He stayed with his aunt and helped her manage her store and he had never heard of his siblings during that time. When they grew older, they got in touch but everything is different now. They all have beef with each other. They never became close since they met for the first time again. Seven of them became successful including my dad and the remaining three are very poor. His two poor brothers are very arrogant. One graduated in Information Technology and he's really good at computers and he's really smart and the other one dropped out in high school and he doesn't have a stable job. They hate each other like they're not siblings and I hate it! I love all my uncles and my aunties no matter what they're lives are and I'm sure a lot of people are also experiencing this kind of problem in their lives. I have two siblings and we really have a great bonding with each other and I love them so much but I can't really be too complacent that we will stay like this in the future because everything can change. Now you love each other but when you grow older your relationship towards them can change. Can someone give their thoughts about this? That would be much appreciated.

My dad tells me to not to go back to his house. And then 3 weeks later he wanted to me to go back. Also he told me to hang my self twice he also has called me many names he also physically and verbally abuses my brother. What should I do? How?

He is a druggy, has an attitude problem, and sees the worst in our parents

My parents are strict realigious Muslim and don't let me do anything. I am 16 and I feel so lonely because when my friends are out in the middle of the night I have to be home I wanna run away and please help me and don't say oh just wait to years. Also sometimes wish for their death

Obviously, if you're planning to start a family, you're choosing monogamy and more family-friendly activities. However, when people are young it still seems like sex is a big deal. Is sex really a big deal? Is building a family and building relationships better than sex? What is the balance between sexuality and having a fulfilling life?

I'm 19 year old female who wants to move out because I feel like I don't have enough space. I spend all day everyday with my mom and sister. If I'm not with both of them, I'm with one. My mom and I usually gets mad at each other a lot. There are little things that they do that bug me so much and if I tell them to stop, they will get mad at me. I'm independent and I want to feel free. I'm just scared though to move out. I wouldn't even know how to tell my mom. If I were to move out, I would save up money before and move into apartments right by my college. I know they are good apartments because my dad use to live in them. I need to learn how to do things on my own. I want to decorate my own place and be able to do things that I want to do. I literally can't even watch the shows I want on T.V. because it's whatever my mom wants to watch and I have to get permission to play Call of Duty to make sure that they aren't in the middle of watching a show. I want to have my own rules and do my own things. They are so messy and unorganized. It's hard for me to be clean because I picked up their bad habits. Also, I'm sick and tired of my food being eaten even though I would tell them that it's mine. I would move by myself with no roommate. I LOVE them but I get tired of being with them all day. What should I do?

So my mom has been punching and hitting my arm all day. I don't know why, but anywho 😂 She hit me across the arm full force and I turned around and hit her back. Now it wasn't full force. I could of, but i didnt. She hit me multiple times and said not to hit because she's my mother. My dad stepped in and told my mom that to not hit me. She punches my dad full force in the arm and he yelled at her and they got in a big fight. I ran up to my room and cried because my arm is turning black and blue. So now I'm writing this. What should I do?

My dad is always super rude to me. He orders me around, makes me do things I hate, and doesn't give a **** about my feelings. My mom doesn't do this, but she doesn't stand up to him either. Yesterday he told me to text my cousin, who lives pretty far, so I did. He asked me what I said to her and I said "hi". He then proceeded to yell at me because I should've tried harder to start a conversation, and said if I didn't talk to her, he'd take my phone. I haven't seen this cousin in years, and I have no idea what to say. This morning, we were all eating breakfast and I happened to finish first, and when I got up to put my plate away, he practically COMMANDED me to get him some water. He said it in a very rude tone too. Sarcastically, I replied "is that an order?" And he got angry and started yelling and said that everything he says should be taken as an order and yelled that if I make him ask one more time, he'd take away my phone and my wifi. Like literally all I ask is for some respect??? Is it okay for fathers to be rude and controlling? Like, he's literally John Winchester irl... I have more examples but I think this is already pretty long, so I'll end this here. Please help. I'm a 15 year old girl btw.

So I m asking this because I can qualify for free lunch yet I have a phone and I can afford Nike and Pink. I live in townhouse with 4 other people and there is 3 bedrooms, I share one with my sister. I have a dog and 2 cars. My parents in total have 4 jobs. My dad has 2 but he rents a mechanical bull and rents it to others so I guess that counts as 3. My mom s job doesn t pay her much. I m embarrassed that I get free lunch because popular people who are rich just started talking to me and i think they won t like me if they find out I have free lunch because they ll think I m poor even though I think I might be. I also live in a pretty safe neighborhood and was able to afford karate classes when I was younger and i was in a soccer team. I m in middle school and people judge a lot.

I'm 20 years old and I finally saved enough money to move out. I'm now living in my new apartment, 9 hours from my parents and I couldn't be more relieved. It took me a long time to realize it but I experienced both emotional and physical abuse between the ages of 18 - 20. My dad actually hit me at least twice in this period, and they constantly bashed me with hurtful words that seemed to affect my mental health immensely. In this time, I always tried to help. I did housework, took care of my younger brother, and offered to pay rent. Now that i'm finally free of them I no longer want a relationship with them. I will tolerate them at the big family holidays but I will no longer have an actual relationship with them. Whats your opinion?

Also, is there a chance for me to love him?. I just found out about him, its a long story. He is over 80, we have never met. ( He knows I exist, there were no conflicts in my family, just some premature deaths) I plan to visit him next Sunday. Are we related strong enough? The genes are not so strong as they are with grandparents so I am scared he will not see me as a close relativ, therefore he will not accept me.. I am really nervous.

We used to be 18. We dated for a year. She didn't want sex because she said she wanted to wait also she claimed she be a virgin. We'd still touch, send sexy pics, talk dirty. Well we graduated and she left to college. We'd still talk but that was it. She left for a whole year and i'd see pics of her partying/drinking/danciing with dudes you know college life. Well a year later she moves back home and asked me to grab food with her. I was confused because why would she want to meet up with me a year later we stopped talking/seeing each other why now all over again? well we had lunch and we kissed etc. We started to talk about a relationship and she said she didn't know what she wanted and wanted to stay friends. We started to talk about what have we done since we stopped talking. I then asked if she dated? she said yes but nothing serious. I tried asking low key how far she got in the dates as in if she's still a virgin and she wouldn't answer it. She kept walking and singing songs (avoiding the question). She then asked me and I told her I had slept with a girl she hates and said "SO WOW ONLY ONE GIRL HUH THAT'S IT". She got mad but she still wouldn't answer the questions I asked her earlier. We'll we're no longer together anymore but what do you think could she still be a virgin after so long? She could of just been shy too admit she's still a virgin but I don't know and the fact that she still didn't admit to anything after i admit i'd say she's still a virgin and was shy

We have been doing it since we were kids. Now every time we wrestle he gets a *****. I think he was trying to grind on me last night because he came. He's a virgin. Should I be chill about it? Should I stop? Trying to be a good sister...

Okay so my mothers relationship with my fathers family was not that good and we all used to live together 3 uncle and 2 aunts all if them were in married since they were 22-30 years old. My mom left with us to another city so we could go to another country in Europe maybe I was around 7 so I don't remember well. 2 years we spent there without our dad. I have a younger brother and sister. Then my mom sent us with our dad to the city we used to live before .. She said she'll be back again I don't remember that much cause by that time I was 9 and now I'm 17. Then from there she moved to Yemen. She used to call and text us. But it was not that often because it used to be expensive. She left us around 9-8 years now I've lair track of time. We don't talk about our mother at all. I don't know it's awkward . Nobody talks about her but this past few months she's not texting nor calling. She's like completely bailed on us(that's what I feel) she left Yemen. But I did some search in Facebook and asked people who knew her they said she's somewhere in Somalia now. But it's been more than 6 or so months and not a single text or call. I can't find her. We're not rich enough to go to Somalia. So there's this women she said she found the girl who knows my mother and told my mother to talk to her kids but she said she will but still hasn't .. I'm 17 the oldest daughter and I'm worried sick my brother is 13 and sister is 16 we haven't seen her for 10 years almost now

I know this person who doesn't like the female romantic interests of the male characters. In books, tv series, anime and movies. Especially if they really like the male character. I've tried to point out that if they really liked the person they would agree that the two characters are good together. I would also have understood if the person hated the female character because of a more logical reason(like if she's using him etc.) but all it seems like to me is that the person just doesn't like the female character because she's with the male character out of jealousy. I've tried to point out the good things of the characters being together. Like how the characters are happy together or make each other stronger. I'm just wondering how do you deal with a person like this. Like how do you at least get them to stop disliking the character just because they are with someone who they would rather be with them than their romantic . At the ending i meant to say romantic interest. My bad.

I am a 23 year old korean woman, and my boyfriend is a 21 year old white dude. Weve been together for 2 years, and lives with me my single mom(58) and my 2 older sisters (26 and 27) for 6 months. My mom and sisters get along with my boyfriend. In the last month or so, as my mom and sisters started to become more comfortable around my boyfriend, they are revealing their aggressive and very harsh sense of humor. I am 5'7 weighing 150 pounds, but my sisters are 6'1 weighing 190 and my mom is 6'3 weighing 250. My boyfriend is a small guy standing 5'3 weighing 110 but he is fit handsome and ripped. My mom always cracks jokes about how small my boyfriend is compared to her and my sisters will laugh along with her. My sisters call him the baby of the family since he is the smallest and the youngest, and call him "little man". One instance my mom showed him her dresses and told him "my dresses are longer and wider than your whole body, you can use them as a sleeping bag" My mom is just being teasing and means it in a loving way. She needs to understand that this type of humor is not acceptable and might come across the wrong way. I think its also a cultural thing since koreans love to make rude and harsh jokes about others. My sisters I feel also need to speak out. My mom and sisters love him and see him as part of the family. I just dont want any misunderstandings to happen

My sister hasn't been feeling too well. Her throat has been sore she's been coughing a lot she didn't sleep well last night. She's been laying in bed all day. I have her her medicine she went to lay down a while. She wants me to lay down with her and she wants me to sleep with her tonight. How can I help her feel better ? Is it ok to sleep with her ?

I gotta say I'm an only child. I live with my mother, uncle and grandparents. I've always been a well mannered and polite girl, I never went agaisnt them and I was very compliant at all times. I'm not into drugs neither fought with anyone. I got good grades, I always spoke well and never raised my voice. I graduated from both normal & english school (I come from a latin family). I'm in college right now, almost finishing my thesis but there's a problem... I have a boyfriend, I have been with him for three years now and they still don't completely accept them to my perspective. I mean they get mad whevener I just chill out in my room with just watching videos on youtube (I even let the door WIDE OPEN so that they don't suspect us doing "inapropiate things"). I'm 25 (and still not pregnant nor planning to be either) years old and I have a boyfriend who's in a delicate financial situation with college so he's in depression and I'm helping him to the best of my hability but my parents keep getting me axious about stupid things like the "a man in my room".. I mean he's not some random man, he's MY MAN the one I will marry. I don't think it's fair for them to put so much pressure on me. I've always been good, always done what they say... what else do they want? for once I need to LIVE MY LIFE. I want to be happy. I know I need to finish college and get a job but damn give me a brake.. I'm having very HARD TIME right now. I need them to support me.

He's only 5 but whenever I'm at a friends or when I stay the night at my grandmothers I tell him to stay out of there, but he doesn't! He goes in there and gets into my stuff, and trashes everything. Then I have to clean up HIS mess! Any tips on how to keep him out?

I feel as I'm growing older I don't get more responsibility I get less. After I turned 11 I wasent allowed to go to camp because I had started puberty. School trips? Iv only stayed out of the house 2 times in my life. And even then it took months of begging. My parents are completly overprotective. So much that I constantly cry and I am jealous of other girls. I feel so sad and constantly feel like I want to rip my skin off or feel like I want some kind of physical pain to get my mind of the emotional one. They are emotionally abusive. They call me names. Iv tried talking to them but apparently I'm "ungrateful". I feel so sad. I can't count how many times Iv cried in the bathroom. I have depression. Please help I just want to end my life.

It breaks my heart just thinking how my parents would react to the things I believe in. They believe you only date to find a mate, that you HAVE to get married one day, and that sex before marriage is a sin. My mom even talks badly about those who have done it. Little does she know, I lost my virginity 2 years ago when I was 18. I don't want marriage, and I find it unfair that by their standards I'm a "slut" and "straying from God" because I don't want to go without having sex my whole life. I have sex with only the guys I truly have fallen in love with, and I was in a realtionship with them at the time. I use protection. I see nothing wrong with it, other than the Bible says it's a sin. I honestly feel like the Bible isn't with the times anyways, though. I'm developing my OWN belief system, but to tell my parents that would break their hearts. They would be disappointed in me for the rest of their lives. They would feel like they did something wrong. I love my parents so much, but it's so hard to be myself around them. I know they will judge me and view me as a "sinner." Advice? I don't know what to do.

Example hello I am ____, daughter/son of (father) and (mother)

My name is Lia Lueschen, and married the love of my life Karl in 2013, but my Mom always thought I could do better than him. She never understood how I could love someone like Karl, who wasn't from the rich, lavish world I grew up in. He was raised by a poor, single Mom I never saw that though when I looked into his blue eyes. I saw my best friend, the man I wanted to grow old with. However this year he was ripped away from me on March 21st in a car accident. My Mom was not sympathetic, but let's just say she made the funeral her own little pity party. Shortly after his death I learned I was pregnant by some miracle, but my Mom has made that hell too. Praying that I had an affair, telling me to change my last name back to my maiden name so her grandson could be a Bridges not a Lueschen. I just want to scream at her, and when my amazing Mother-in-law visits I feel like she should be my Mom instead. She is so loving, caring, and she is going to move into our house when the baby comes to help me with him, because this child is the last connection to her only child.. She accuses me of drifting away from her because of "those" people meaning Karl and MIL. Honestly I just want my son to grow up surrounded by love, and my Mom does not know how to love anyone but herself. I just want her to stop bad mouthing my dead husband who loved her little girl with his whole heart, his amazing mother, and the innocent child that will grow up without the most amazing man I have ever known.

Ok. I m the oldest between my sister and I. I am 15 and my sister is 11. My mom let s my sister get everything she wants.. I asked to take violin classes, but that was no. My sister asks to take martial arts classes and my mom found one in less than a week. I get good grades, I am in Early college, I ve never failed a grade. I have always kept my grades up too. My sister gets Cs, she failed a grade, she doesn t do her hw/ put effort into her hw. Yet she gets what she wants and I have to work hard in school to get what I want. I m tired of working so hard and not even getting appreciated for it. I try so hard and get nothing almost every time. I try to tell my mom what she s doing between me and my sister, but she yells and me and says I m being disrespectful.. She will bring up scripture from the bible and life lessons like "respect your elders and parents". It is so frustrating because I can t get her to see my side of things. I cry about it. I m not upset with my sister and I love my freedom, but I would like just a little treatment too. Plz help me. I don t know how much longer I can take.

I'm 21 years old and my mom still treats me like I'm 15. I recently just switched doctors because I needed someone closer to me. So she called the doctor and set up an appointment for me to get a physical. I didn't plan on doing that and when I canceled the appointment she called and scheduled it again. The problem I have is I don't have a car, I do need to go to the doctor but I don't want her involved. I don't want her in my business but she calls the doctor and asks questions. It's just annoying and it makes me feel so violated and uncomfortable. What can I say to her? I've tried telling her I deserve privacy but she still does it. I've tried ignoring her but she'll show up at my house (I live with my dad still).

My dad and I both have iOS 10 on our iPhones but my phone was in the other room. With iOS 10 you can look at the top stories in the news on the lock screen by swiping right. My dad told me to plug his phone in so I took a quick peak at the top stories. Well now I m in trouble for "looking at his phone." Should I be in trouble?

He has called me every bad word at least three times. AND HE TOLD ME TO HANG MYSELF!!!!!! He is a really bad dad he has very baldly hurt brother it s not cool what should I do

For the last 4 years my entire family has been at crossroads. Me and my brother were involved in an unfortunate sexualized incident. Ever since I had been treated like the evil man and not the victim. Everybody felt sympathy for my brother. I made mistakes but I too was struggling. I was forced into residential placements and most recently I have almost been sent to a youth detention center. So how does my father come into this? Well, he has had the worst reaction of my entire family. He has accused me of spitting in his food, Talking with terrorists (wtf?), and other illegal acts that were simply not committed. On top of that, he treats my mother terribly and instead frames me and tells me that it is I who is inconsiderate and vicious. I don't really give a **** what he thinks. I just know that my mom always takes his side and she lets my father abuse her and tells me that I put too much stress on my dad and he takes it out on her. First he tells me that he wishes I'd run in front of a car. And then recently I jumped into a river and almost died and suddenly he acts worried. He doesn't care about me, my mom, my brother, or my older sisters. I may only be 16 but I damn well understand that he is the reason why we have all had it so terrible over the years. He makes everything that happened 4 years ago to be the sole cause of the problem. No the problem is that my dad just doesn't try to help any of us anymore. There are more details but this is just in a nutshell.

My mom has two sides to her. MY MOM is a WONDERFUL mother in doing things for me. My mom will always take me places with her, do things with her, and make me lunch and stuff, but when it comes to my feelings and actually talking she never wants to hear it. My Dad Hes just an alcholic Image concerned Asshat, who wont do anything for his own familly but will do everything for anyone else.

He always tells me, women are the worst thing about today's world. He hates how they're "trying to be like men" in the fact that there are more women in the workplace instead of at home taking care of children. He hates how the more traditional role women used to have in society is disappearing. I'm 16, and I live alone with him. He won't tell me about my mom, he just says that she was a whore. There are girls that I talk to at school and some of them want to hang out with them, but I can't because my dad won't let me associate with girls at all. What should I do?

Not a fetish but pictures like these are so calming and pleasing to me. Look up 'Hands Tumblr' or 'Hand Art Photofraphy'. Why do i feel this way?

Ok so I'm 12 and 6 years ago my parents split since he cheated multiple times and my mum finally gave in when he was with one of his mistresses on my 6th birthday and missed it . but anyway 3 years ago he met a new person and she has 3 kids he prefers them way more than me he bought the 10 year old a PS4 (ie never been aloud a console) and a new alienware desktop he bought the 15 year old a new tv the same computer as the 10 year old and bought him all new bedroom furniture and he bought the oldest whos 18 a bmw m3! hes never bought em anything of the sort and when I ask he always says he has no money even though I only want small things like poster or maybe a game. my mum on the other hand has been perfect and has work 3 jobs to get me in private school when I was bullied and has been the perfect role model and also when I passed my 11+ really well she bought me a computer. I don't know what to do pls help !!

Well she keeps bringing WE up like when I was a kid i wanted to ride horses she would say we can I'd love to, sometimes she will bring up about next time we move. I even told her I am going to move by myself next time since i am 21 just trying to get my life together first since i am 21 I really don't need her doing everything with me why i want to move alone she drives me nuts can't stand living with her I have my reasons.

i want my own house cuz my little sisters are very noisy. like i need to study about electronic configuration and s,p,d and f orbitals and all i can hear in the backgound is crying, laughing, singing, banging, yelling. like they never stay in their playroom which is far from my bedroom. instead they move all around the house, especially the 6 yr old. she takes her toys and plays on top of the stairs cuz apparantly the baseboard there looks like skyscrapers. i tell her to fck off but she wont. so anyways i asked my dad for a house in the backyard. like just a small one and he said no. which is just stupid. i mean i could even try and make it myself, like i could get some bricks and cement. he just wouldnt even talk about it. just said im not building a bunker in the yard. he doesnt even plan to help me some other way. he just said go to the library or learn to live with it cuz classes are loud and people can still do schoolwork. its not the point. i even drew up plans here: http://imgur.com/a/0QOCA but hes not interested at all. he want me to do good at school but wont help. his idea of help is looking at my work, when i require a house. can i get him arrested none of my friends have sisters who are still babies. my parents are disgusting. old people shouldnt even have babies. like my dad is 37 and my mom is like 34 or 35, i forget which and she should of finished babies but she wants more. its unfair to me. even when i leave the house i cant escape them. like i decided to go outside and walk around looking for pokemon. so i took my dogs too and one of them barks when he sees the leash, so that alerted my 6 yr old sister and then she harrass me to come on the walk. i toad her to get lost but she start saying if i dont let her come shes gonna tell on me for breaking the toaster

My mother gets mad at her siblings often and won't let go of stuff. Sometimes she has the right to be mad for a few days but then she holds onto stuff for years. It is little things. My uncles and the aunt dont do this but my mother does. When I reach out they seem awkward seeing me because of my mother. So I sometimes (not always) miss out. So I worry I am 2nd rate because of my mother and there for have a stigma on me. So while my mother is not bad, she is bitter. How do I handle this stigma. I know I can't change my mother but how do I survive the stigma? I especially feel it at times of year that family matters (weddings, funerals and especially the holiday season).

This being two cousins and uncles and their wives (more likely Thanksgiving this year). I would call first

i'm 16 and i have a little cousin who i pretty much knew ever since she was really really little, but i actually never really got to connect with her until she was 4 years old when i went over to my grandma's house and saw her one afternoon a while back. despite the fact that we didn't know too much about each other at the time we almost instantly took a liking to one another and became good pals in a very short time even though we were the opposite gender ( i'm a guy) in the time following that day she still really enjoyed my company and i was still really good connecting with her probably because i really like children ( but not in a sexual way of course) but in the past year or so however, i've actually been having a somewhat difficult time bonding with her for some reason and i think it's because were the opposite sex so i've kind of been doubting that we could form a tight bond because we may not have too much in common, and also because she hasn't really been talking to me as much as she used to so i don't think there's any need to do something with her unless she wants me to. when i do get to spend quality time with her though, i always make the absolute most of it and whenever i see her we always give each other big hugs. she seems to be growing up really fast however and she's not going to be a sweet smart and funny little girl forever and i need some advice on how i can maybe strengthen my relationship with her because i think i could be bonding with her more.

I just got my first job, and my mom says that my entire first paycheck has to be given to the rest of my family so that they can "pray" for me. I'm not religious, but that doesn't seem right. I don't mind helping out in the house, or contributing but my entire first paycheck? Does anyone else do this? Is this even necessary and does it even make sense?

Hello other parents (or childcare people who know their stuff.) I am having a big problem with my five year old daughter who refuses to listen to anything I say or ask, completely ignores me, does not answer back with an answer or anything. It's like talking to a brick wall all the time and getting things done during the day like a normal bedtime routine takes 40 minutes more than it should simply because I have to keep repeating - She procrastinates over EVERYTHING. Is this behavior normal? Is it a phase? Is she trying to test my limits? I have tried being soft and nice and talking to her about why it's important to listen and talk and do as told... I have repeating over and over till almost yelling her name after 7 times and she might look at me for a second, I have tried punishments such as no TV or story at night, I have tried giving praise and giving stars and gifts when she does but that didn't work. I really need any suggestions on what I should do/react/etc. Thank you very much!!

So I've been trying to convince my mother to let me get a phone, and she still won't let me. All my other siblings got one in grade 10 so I have to wait. I can buy a phone and pay for the plan because I have a job but she still won't let me! I even started babysitting so I'm at other people's houses without a phone and I walk 25 minutes alone to and from school everyday and she STILL won't let me get one. How do I convince her to let me have one when I need one?!

I went of to kill a slug with salt in the garden and I did and then I went back to the garden moments later and my dad accuses me for eating salt when I was just in the garden when I didn't eat any salt ! Sometimes I think he sees me as a idiot because I am the youngest child and he does other numerous stuff aswell. I am in the 9th grade or year 10 as it's called here and could I have some advice because it's bugging me

I'm 13 and an only child, or so I thought up until last week. I found out I have a 30 year old half brother from my dads side. My mom told me the whole story about how Daniel, my brother, wanted nothing to do with our dad. That was 15 years ago before I was born, not to mention he was only 15 and was heavily influenced my his mother since she raised him. He doesn't know I exist, but I would like to get to know him. I'm afraid he wouldn't want to get to know me because I'm half his age and we didn't grow up together. I did some research and found his facebook, but I could never find the courage to message him. Should I even message him? Or just leave it as it is?

I'm so embarrassed right now I want to kill myself. I'm 13 but I have a boyfriend and we've been sending each other dirty pictures every once in a while. I made him a video and sent it to him through Google Drive and I must have forgotten to sign out (it's the family computer) and my dad saw it. I know he saw it because in the video I say stuff to my boyfriend in the beginning and it's kind of loud so I actually heard the video playing from my bedroom and my dad was the only one home other than me. I don't know what to do I can't leave my room. The video is really really dirty. Like in the video I say some stuff and then take my shirt and bra off so I know my dad saw my bare boobs. And then after playing with my boobs I stand up and show him my butt so my dad also saw my bare butt. Fortunately I don't like how my vagina looks so I didnt show it in the video, but at the end of the video I move the camera so that just my boobs and face were showing and I played with myself until I had an orgasm. How am I supposed to live in this house now knowing that my dad saw all that. It makes me feel sick every time I think about it. Honestly I'd rather him see my vagina. I look so stupid when I orgasm like my eyes get real wide open and after I finished it was really sensitive down there so i kept rubbing for a few seconds after and my body was like twitching. Anyone else been in this type of situation? I don't think there's anyone because this is literally the absolute worst thing ever.

I've been curious to meet him but dont want to be let down. He has been in jail for past 35 years on second (or third) degree murder charges. She raised me as my mother was also in jail and my mother didnt want to know me when she got out. It is my Dad's sister so I knew more about my Dad anyway and saw his pictures when my grandmother died. I knew the rest of his family (grandparents, uncles, the aunt who raised me, etc.... whereas my mother I only know her mother and a cousin her Mom raised. @Anonymous----The aunt is still alive, my bio mother is not

I dont know how to act as I still feel sad but I will need to go back to things as normal. I am 15 and dont know how to act around everyone. Do I act like everything is fine when it will be on my mind? My mother died when I was 5 so both my parents have died now. When my mother died I was little so it didn't hit as much (I just kind of assumed all Moms die since I was little and didnt understand it). Also my Mom had drug problems so she was not as close even though I saw her twice a week (she died from drugs), my Dad was real close though (he raised me). My maternal grandfather is living with me now. So how do I act at school and elsewhere? The class knows as some of them attended the funeral

He is 13 and I am 16. He lies everyfking time and makes me look bad and when I complain to my parents I look like a worst big brother. The works in the houses, I have to do almost all because he keeps lying,my parents believe him.well I have talked with him and he doesn't give a fk . He makes all the fking messes so I have to clean them up. Just now he splashed me water all over my new clothes but I can't do anything.beat him?out of the question.tell parents? They ain't gonna do anything but even if they scold him,he will continue to do it tommorow. Its come a point that I need to be careful with what he does because he is willing to hurt me.

So I am 13 years old and my dad won t get a job. I have 2 sisters and a mom. We are all suffering from him and we only have 500$ per month and we can t buy anything except food. And that 500$ is just the school income. And I want to get a job but I am too young in my town and there is no chores to do. My friends dad has a job and he is 45 years old, he gets like 7200$ and he doesn t have a degree. And my mom is ok with him not getting a job. I recently asked for a tv because in the living room my dad shouts and gets angry at everything. He is like ok I will buy one, AND He bought one and got it back, I asked why and then he said I don t have money left, then I said get a job then! And then he got so angry, like he gets angry at the smallest thing it is so annoying

So I have a mother I have an older sister. I'm 21 almost 22. I feel like they try to control me every step. I went out last night, mom kept calling me over and over... they wanted to know who I was with.. but i was alone. And then I get home and they mad, telling me all this stuff, i defend myself and they snap start screaming, I stay quiet... but now they won't speak to me. And this just happens everytime i don't do what they want. They want or feel like they should control me every damn step. They ignore me and act like I don't exist the moment i disagree with them. I always thought its been 2 against 1 with them trying manipulate me to be, do, act like them.. So how do I deal with being ignored, overlooked, neglected everytime i don't agree with them? You know it hurts to see that.. they only care when i'm doing what they want and when I don't, I don't fcking exist..

my grandma sent my cousin robbie to the convienence store to get cigarrettes and milk and it's been three hours and he still hasn't returned do you think he is dead

I am a teenager and my little brother wanted to sleep in my room because he is scared. Last night I allowed him and he took up so much space in the bed I pulled a muscle in both of my thighs and was in pain all day. When I said he couldn t tonight he went to his room and cried... should I feel guilty? Did I do anything wrong?

When i was a kid, my mom got angry of me one time because I did not want to be seen on tv trying her placebo necklace she was selling. Knowing my mom, I am always scared of her and her punishment so I followed her. This necklace came from her networking/pyramid scheme business afterwards and the product was said to have the same effect like those power ballers. To test its strength, one person will pull one of my arms down like right arm for instance. If I stay put, it means the necklace does its powers and if I leaned to the right side because of the force of the other person pulling my arm, it means that the necklace is ineffective. After the time my classmates saw me on tv, they tried pulling my right arm down to test the strength of this necklace. I was still sturdy after they have pulled me until someone from my school who's buff looking. What he did was he forcefully pulled my right arm which led to me leaning down to my right side quickly and my spine made a crackling noise. He did this second time and he and his best friend told me that the necklace is face after all (duh). Years later, I noticed that my spine was curved and it was curved according to how I was pulled by that buffed school mate back then. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for what he did to me because he did not intentionally want me to develop scoliosis. I told him what happened about my case but he did not acknowledge me well. After a checkup to the doctor, it was said that I developed a 56 degrees spine curve. And now all of this would not have happened if my mom did not force me to show to this tv show because of this sham necklace she was selling. I don't even know why she was chosen to be seen on tv and why she has to drag me along. I told her about this and she only told me not to think about this. It makes her not to be responsible for her actions and even today, I am struggling with my scoliosis. *the necklace is fake after all (duh)

I really want to kill myself now. I'm not even joking or saying this for attention. I'm being REALLY serious!!! I really need to commit suicide....I don't even know who to turn to about how I feel..