I will be leaving soon to ride with my mom to go pick up my dad. I am at home now in my bare feet and since I am not getting out of the car I am going for the ride in my bare feet and I am not going to bring shoes with me.

If he loves me he sure has a funny way of showing it. He abandoned me when I was 4 years old for another woman, lied to mine and my mothers faces, and then told me that it was all my mum's fault, she brought me up and raised me to be the perfect lady, while my dad raised me to be a warrior, someone who never shows fear or sadness because they were weaknesses. All I ever wanted was for my dad to be proud of e, but all he's ever done was hurt me. A couple weeks ago was the last straw. He tried to turn My OWN FAMILY against me by telling my mum that I'd said some awful things (Which I hadn't). I haven't talked to him since, because, my mum had always taught me to be the better person an apologise, but I didn't start it and I certainly didn't deserve it, and I'm very stubborn, so I'm not apologising.

Ok, so I'm screwed. Here it goes: This morning I had a form I needed to get signed in order to be in a school dodgeball tournament with my friends.(it's really fun and everyone does it!) So, my dad signed it and gave me the $5 I needed. I brought the $5 but I left the form at home. So.. my friends convinced me to fill out a new one and forge my dad's signature, and I did because it was due that day and I wouldn't of been able to play. So when I get home from school my dad texts me and says "you forgot your dodgeball form so I sent a copy of it to the lady that runs it" and I said "ok!." So what if she gets the copy of it and looks and sees that I already turned it in!!!? Any advice to not get in trouble or ANY excuses please help!

I apologize for the wall of text! I needed to write out the details in order for my question to make the most sense. I'm eighteen years old, nineteen next month, and I live at home right now while I'm attending community college for two years. Up until this point, my parents have had a lot of control over me and what I do. I still feel like I have to get permission to do everything. If I wanna hang out with a friend, I feel like I have to ask to do so instead of just doing it. I know I still live under their roof, so they do have some say in what I do. And I know I'm only barely nineteen, but I'm just getting really tired of asking for permission all the time. I also face so much criticism over my political views all the time. My parents are very Christian and conservative and voted Trump, and I'm not like that at all. I feel like they view me as naive and foolish because I don't agree with all of their opinions. So it just leaves me at such a crossroads. I don't have the means to move out right now. I actually did attempt to move out a few months ago when I had a pretty realistic option, but my family guilted me into staying at home. So I don't know what to do :-/ Additionally, I met a guy recently that I'd like to go on a date with. He's a few years older than me and very liberal, which I know my parents would hate. So I'm not sure how to deal with that, either.

We're all 32 of them arrested or just some? Who? Bonus: what happened to the 7 children?

I m going to be eighteen in a two months and I live in Connecticut. I want to go to book signing in New York City, but my parents are still reluctant to let a friend and I go by ourselves. It is at night and we wouldn t be back until 10/11 pm. I need tips to convince my parents into letting me go.

I feel shame for it because I am the only cousin not able to participate in family activities because I am a teen and have to have my Moms permission. She hates them and wont let me go.

My cousin is my grandmother's sister's grandchild. I know this might sound stupid, but what "degree" is my cousin to me?

My friend has been going through a hellll of a lot lately. I just got out of a procedure and she's about to go into one. She's been under stress and enduring so very much. I'm always sending encouraging words and checking in on her, sending her picture quotes and reminding her that she is strong and all will be okay. I even sent her flowers the other day to show I'm here for her. She shows he same support to me but I know she needs it more. Seeing her struggle is worrying me, I just want her to be well and have good health. I pray for her constantly. What more should I do? It upsets me seeing her go through so much. I want to call her before her procedure to check in on her. I'm definitely going to but am Will it make me look weird? It's stressing me seeing her like this, help? I am 18, she is in her 50s. She's a lot older than me but she has been through a lot with me, we've witnessed a lot together and have made it through the toughest time together. She's been a real role model to me but mostly a great friend I needed

Everyone in my family is white to get that out of the way. I have aunt who posted a picture today of a black and white mixed girl that captioned "my great niece" So what would that make her to me? My aunt is related to me because she is my grandmothers sister. Also does that make her my great aunt?

Todays the end of the week, so Im supposed to go to my dads this weekend (my parents are divorced). However, I really dont want to. Not only because of the fact that its my moms birthday this weekend, but also because my dad just broke up with his girlfriend, and I dont want to hear his complaining. How could I tell him to let this one slide?

She is from here, Malasia actually. I am half, my mom is half Chinese. It is so harsh here. They hang people for weed, but a lot. I am near 14 but my dad is different here and I hate my step-mom. She's my friend one minute then she really freaks when I do the smallest things. To me they aren't unusual. A 14 is smoking pot, I never heard crap until here. They think I'll get caned orhave to go to the terrible jail here. I could but I only got caught by her. She actually caned me on the butt and legs which is freakin normal here! And my dad told me to not complain to him. Plus grounded. It hurt and I have to say yes mam to her. So embarassed, my sister will tell EVERYONE! I'm a pretty good girl, maybe I'll ask to go home. Though my da and mom have said no! I have cried for half a day.

Hey there! So I'm 16 years old, and my brother is 22 years old. Due to our age difference, we never really had a good relationship from day one. It was always him teasing me and me tattletaleing on him. However, we have an older sister too, she's 24. My sis and bro were always best buds until my sister got into drugs. She got my bro into drugs too because everything she did, he did as well. My sis still isn't really clean totally, but my bro is, and it still seems as if she wants to get him addicted again. Now, in the past few years, my brother and bonded over video games (specifically Skyrim and Oblivion). Recently we had played Overwatch a ton and I love it to death and play it almost 24/7, and he used to too! And then... he slowly started to change. Somebody getting angry in our family isn't unusual because it happens all the time. We're all a little bit over-aggressive. But over the past year, my brother has gone from slightly rude/mean at times, to straight up hostile. Like he literally wants to start arguments whenever he's home. He opposes everyone's opinions and insults us all left and right. He says he hates Skyrim, Overwatch, and video games in general now. Our only common interest, gone. And I don't know how or why this change! It's all so illogical and it seems really childish for a grown man to act like this. My mom says it's because he's still mad at my sister, but why is he mad at me (and the rest of the family) then too? And how can I fix our relationship?

My brother is 47 years old and has a very high sex drive. He has to have it 3 or 4 times a week and he's willing to pay for it. He's constantly telling me and sending me links to girls he's contacted on Backpage and Mocospace about hooking up and paying them for sex. When I ask him why he needs so much sex he tells me that I'm not him. I am happy with once a week maybe twice. No, that's not enough for him. He has to have it at least 4 times and yes, he's paying these girls. Oh, and did I mention that he's married? The biggest problem is this. He's not having protected sex. He's paying these girls to have sex with him without a condom then he'll go home and have sex with his wife. If they say they won't do it without a condom then he moves on to someone else till he finds someone. I could see it if he was going back to the same girl but he's seeing multiples in a week. When I tell him he needs to cool it he jumps down my throat. His wife knows about his cheating and he tells me they are working through it. Yeah, your spouse knows you're out having sex with random people and (A) they are willing to stay with you and work through it and (B) they still are having sex with you too? Come on. What can I do, if anything? He says that since they started dating and eventually got married their sex life has declined. They aren't doing it as much as they were in the beginning. He literally sent me a text a little while ago to say that his wife was going to be out of the house for a few hours Sat and she wanted him to watch her autistic son while she was gone. He asked me if it would be cool to bring one of his Backpage girls by the house while she's gone? He's already told me that he's been with 2 other girls already this week and both of them he had unprotected sex with. I sit back and think of the amount of money he's spending on these girls for 10 or 15 minutes of pleasure and it's unreal. 47 isn't old but he's not some rutting teenager either. His wife has caught him before and has evidence on him and has threatened to go to his church and tell his pastor. My brother is a deacon there and my mom also attends. He is not thinking about his or my mom's reputation if she does spill the beans on him. He's be removed from office and my mom would be a disgrace to the congregation. He actually went into her phone and deleted what she had and I told him she's probably got a back up copy somewhere and he still doesn't care.

Okay so i'm 18 and my parents are still forcing me to watch the history channel which sometimes I don't mind watching it , but on some days I like to have my own me time to myself , but omg they keep on calling me to come watch it. Even when I try my hardest to give them the hint that I don't feel to , they want to talk or they feel that I just want to hide away in my room , but I don't instead I'm making jewelry or working on my homework, what should I do to get them off my back and let me decide what I do or don't want to do.

Hello, I am almost 15, and I still have a flip phone. My mother promised me that if I got a scholarship for private school, that she would get me a smartphone, but my father objected. I did the scholarship, but no phone, so I am disappointed. Now its getting to the point where I need it for my education, and it is used at school, but my father is so anti technology. How can I convince them to get my a smartphone? Thanks.

One of my younger siblings is living with me due to her mother sending her to our father, and then our father sending her to live with me. I LOVE my sister, but I m a 22 year old, broke college student in the tiniest studio apartment. I can t afford to take care of a child right now or anytime soon, for that matter. Also, as mean as this may sound, I want my freedom back. I don t know how to go about this without making my sister feel unwanted yet again. Our dad and her mom are deadbeats who are simply avoiding responsibility. Thanks

Even though i hear some people say that marriage is not a guarantee for free sex 24/7. Now i've two women that want to marry me. One is good looking and loves sex. The second is not that great but she's such a sweetheart.. i can talk with her for hours and dont get annoyed by her. And she is smart n funny. Which one should i choose ?

He and my grandma took a trip to Vegas two weeks ago and told me they'd be back on the 4th, but neither of them came back until yesterday, when my grandma showed up at my house in a bus at 3 in the morning. It is now the 11th and there is still no sign of my dad and my grandma won't tell me what happened to him. Should I call the police? What do I do?

I've already asked this question, but I didn't mention that my parents were upper-middle class. I'm 22 years old and I'll be graduating from college with my B.A. in a few months. In my field, there aren't really any jobs I can get right away that pay a ton. I'll have to start with a lower-paying job and work my way up towards a higher-paying job. The thing is, the jobs I'll start out with won't pay enough for me to support myself. Therefore, I'll probably be living with my parents for at-least a year after I've graduated and they'll be financially supporting me during that time as well. Is it normal for someone from an upper middle class family to still be financially dependent on their parents even after graduating from college? What if I lived with roommates and my parents helped with my apartment expenses? Would that be normal considering my parents are upper middle class?

I'm 23 and he is 65. He says driving 6-9 miles is too far for him to drive. Also he tells me he doesn't like to do stuff with me a lot cos it cost too much money. I don't know what to do and I'm so lonely with no friends. My mom used to come see me twice a week and she can only come over once a week cos she can't afford the gas right now. But my dad will only sometimes come over once a month and sometimes not at all. What should I do?? He also tells me these things that we will do and it never happens. He makes promises and always breaks them. I feel like he doesn't love and he never really tells me that anyways. He is in actual great shape. Is is always exercising and hanging with his friends.

My sister is trying to get into Harvard, and my mom thinks she won't. I'm trying to explain to her that my sister's mastery of the viola(Grade 9 as a 10 grader!) is wonderful being 3rd chair in a great youth symphony is GREAT, along with stellar grades and got into nats in FBLA as well as an officer. I couldn't be more proud as a brother and I think she'll get into a good college(Harvard or not idc, I opted for duke and personally duke has a nicer campus and I thought I'd do better). My mom thinks she won't get in because she can't make the basketball team and it's really pissing me off. I got into Harvard(opted for Duke) so my mom thinks my sister has to do the same **** as me. It's really pissing me off and no matter how many examples I pull from my connections at Harvard to explain how they got in with NO SPORTS yet she keeps putting my sister down and making her train for something she doesn't like. Can someone tell me how to explain it to her? I know my mom wants the best life for us as an immigrant but it's getting annoying as ****.

I was just wanting advice on the best way to go about talking to my brother about how his girlfriend makes feel and treat's me she is obsessive and is a pathological liar and doesn't care to have anything to do with me and gives me that cold shoulder .I would really appreciate some advice thank you

She's so spineless. Like, if she gets a wrong plate when we go out for dinner, she just says "No, it's fine. I like this too." She lets people walk all over her and I hate it. She's so nice and everyone just takes advantage of her. I can see her going in deep debt trying to help someone out. How do I approach this? I know this is her life, but I don'r feel right just letting this happen to her

About a year ago I moved down to Florida from Iowa to attend college at the Florida state college of Jacksonville and to be closer to my family. Plans sort of fell apart and I'm really starting to dislike Florida in general and I would like to move back to Iowa but my parents down here are trying to guilt trip me into staying by saying that I'm not giving the state a chance, that I'll break my siblings hearts, I'm just being negative, etc. I would like to know if some other people have had experiences like this, what you did, and how it turned out for you. Things that are making me want to move back Cost of rent and utilities I don't know anyone down here besides family I actually kind of miss the cold I can't go on a leisurely drive without hitting traffic I don't really like some of the people I know there are rude people everywhere but this is the first time I've had my car keyed and it looks like someone tried to rip off my pella football bumper sticker.

She keeps touching my vagina and it's nasty. And whenever I tell her to stop she just gets all defensive. It's really gross and I feel uncomfortable.

First of all, the pen is easily washable. I could literally wash it off right now. It's my body, and it's the weekend so I don't go outside or anything. I even wear long sleeves so it's not like anybody would see it. My brother let some girl draw on him hand a week ago and he got mad. When he saw what I did he said that I copied my brother and got mad at my brother too. I didn't copy my brother, there is no reason that I would want to. I was looking for something to do.

How can I tell my dad I want to stay with him for a short while or at least through the winter? I'm 31 a lot of stress has been happening here. Last year my mom passed away I'm visiting my uncle. I'm trying to get on Medicaid that's taking a while I'm trying to get a place closer to my part time job my health insurance will be a lot more expensive next year. My aunt and uncle sometimes make decisions for me. I can try to ask my dad if I can stay with him for a short while or visit him often.

Last year all my Mom's siblings came so it felt like good old times. The previous year was first year after my grandmother's death and was so sad (nobody came). This year we won't be seeing anyone and it will once again make me miss my grandparents significantly. Understandably everyone has their own families to do stuff with now that the elders have died but it still feels so sad. So how do I get over the sadness I will feel? The family we do see on my Dad's side (his sister and her in-laws who are close family friends) is fun to be with but I see them weekly so it is not the joy of seeing out of town family like we had last year. So how do I get over feeling sad by this? Same question if it happens at Christmas one year (this year my mom's sister will come to Christmas and my Dad's out of town brother and his son).

Hey so I'm babysitting two kids and they are under 10 and I just need some ideas with how to keep them both happy for a good period of time so that they have fun but are safe... thanks!!

I am a 23 year old woman with autism, and I have it between mild and moderate level. I always need to be looked after and I can not be on my own for long periods of time. I look at my sister and see how well she is doing in life, she's very successful and travelling the world and I want to be just like her. I attend an autism centre that helps me to grow in confidence and learn communication skills that will benefit me in the future. But lately, I have been very down. I want to explore, I want to marry, I want to start dancing classes. And I even want to travel with my sister but venture round on my own, keeping in mind, I can not even leave my house without someone. I'm very dependent on people and it makes me feel down. I want to be my own person and just get out there and live a life, instead of hiding in fear. I want to be able to travel like my sister, have a job, a husband and everything she is aiming for. Can I do it or am I asking too much? I forgot to add, my dad thinks that I am asking for too much and that I should take life "one step at a time" but I really want to be successful now.

Hey guys, right now i am freaking frustrated, but like really. So the little story is that i am french, 17, and my mother asks me to join her at a dinner in paris. There were like 70 persons overaull on the restaurant, and in front of me two pretty nice girls about my age who joined their mother as well (the mother was nice too), from Chicago. But i wasn't in the mood and I (kinda) loose my **** i must admit that, and he point is i didn't talk to them (them neither, even if i should have started the chat). Anyway my mother needed to leave early and i had to leave as well since we had a train to catch. But in my frustration i did some homework and i found them on facebook, but in my opinion it's too late to start anything, it feels like kind a looser moove. Thoughts?

My mom just told me that her and my dad are sibling. I was in shock for a month. Now I'm in severe depression. I'm thinking about killing myself. I just don't know how to go on. What should I do?

It is not that I have any issue with him, he actually is very nice. It is just he is older and as a kid he was known to have some issues (he is fine now). So he and his new wife know my other cousins more then me and so I feel bad. My mother was overly protective and didn't let me around him as a kid whereas my cousins knew him. So I feel really bad my other cousins know him more then I do but I don't want to impose. Should I feel bad (sad) and how hard should I try to get to know him without imposing or seeming strange?

I'd only met him a few times but didn't know him well (shook his hand maybe 3 times). My mother said not to worry about going so I'll be at school (funeral is Tuesday). Do I need to feel guilty or is this okay since we are not close to him or his family (his father, our great-uncle, has already died).

Is she sick and addicted to her bitterness the way her Dad was to alcohol? My Mom is the one whose behavior has hurt me, not the grandfather.

I'm 30 years old and live with my parents. My dad still opens my mail sometimes. I don't know if it's by accident or whatever, but it's annoying me because I am an adult and I have a right to privacy. Anyway, I just learned that I need to start getting my birth control by mail if I want it to stay free. My parents don't know I take birth control, and I really don't want them to. They have nothing against birth control, but they'd be freaked out if they thought I was having sex or even thinking about it. I'm not having sex yet but want to stay protected in case I decide to soon. I'm worried my dad will open the mail and find the pills. He's retired and home all the time, while I don't get home until late because I work all the day. I can't intercept my mail or anything. And I don't want to get a post office box because that's one more expense to add to my list. Moving out is not an option at the moment. What should I do?

Is this something that I should let eat me up inside or put it in the pass? Did I sexually abuse my sister if I touch her private part like twice I believe when I was like 10 or 11/12 and maybe 13 or just 11 I can't remember, its all a blur, I remember when I was like 9/10 I were make like I was breastfeed my sister, it wasn't sexual, it was only to pretend like I was a mommy, I was curious.That stop but when I was like 10/11 & MAYBE 13 I touch/rub over her diaper. I believe twice and not for long, it was curious and more then sexual.I can't remember but mostly it was to see like I touch myself and it feels good how about others. I am 18 years old girl close to 19 I would never do something like that ever and I feel really bad about it, I did it without thinking like experimenting/sexually, I was sexually abuses by a family member also. I just feel really bad, I had her once on my leg and we're playing but at the same time I wonder was she feeling that good feeling, she doesn't remember and no one knows about it, I don't know if I should tell my parent or just forget about it? As I said I would never do anything like that now I feel bad like really badly bad, I started watching porn at a young age, and stuff, I was crazy as a kid, I use to dry hump everything and even my mothers leg once when I was like 13,I feel like since I can't remember what happen with my sister that something is trying to make it worst then what it was I believe all I did was touch her very fast

My husband and I met 4 years ago. He had been broken up with his daughters mother for over a year. They were briefly engaged for four months, but together for three years. She is a mean, hateful person. She absolutely HATES me. She wasn't ready to let him go when him and I began a relationship. I didnt want no part in the drama, but he insisted he loved me, and wanted nothing to do with her. And it was true, BC here we are 4 years later, married & have a daughter together ourselves. But, is it appropriate that my mother in law has such a strong bond with her? Note, I think she had a lot to do with mine and his ex's problems, and I honestly believe she was trying to help win him back for her. I love my MIL, and since we've over came our problems, I'm really close to her. But, why so close to the ex? If she isn't apart of the family (per se) anymore? I know she'll always be "apart" of the family because she's the mother of one of her grandchildren. so, don't think I'm being petty. I just want other opinions. They talk all the time & are close. But, his ex absolutely HATES me & wishes I wasn't with my husband. The ex talks to my other husbands ex's and is actually really close to one, who showed up at my stepdaughters party. So, imagine the awkwardness when I was around two exes instead of one, and my MIL was being her best friend. I just think it's weird. Point of views?

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So me and my mom bum heads and my sister that is 7 was sitting watching tv and my mom call her name and told her, and she said "I thought you said you bum your head and you got a baby in your stomach" twice she said it and point to her stomach, my mom just look at her and didn't say anything, later when I ask my sister why she said that she then said "ASHLEY" yelling and then she said "stop, I don't want to talk about it" then she told me it's because of her imagination. When I ask her is because you think mommy will I have a baby she said no and when I ask her did mommy saying anything to you she said no but when she look at me she smile.....I ask her later "you said that because of your imagination and she said yes, she said "sometimes I think mommy says meatballs, it's my imagination" Is she lying and hiding something from me or she's telling me the truth? My mom always say "I can't wait until you all get married" she complains about not getting any sleep, she said one day to me when she was showing me a pair of shoes on the web for my youngest sister "Isn't these cute? I like these things because once they get older that's it, Skyla comes up to me and calls me mama" also something like "since Skyla is the last baby" or "she's the last baby". My sick grandfather lives with us, we have 3 dogs, and me and my two other sisters 7 and 5 besides my dad and mom. I help her so much and have no time to enjoy my teens years or act like a normal teen so I get worry.

This has been killing me all day. I had the worst fight with my father over something that's so stupid but he will not understand. Anyway i got so mad, i called him a word that i don't want to use again. It was an accident, i was trying to get him to listen and it slipped out. I feel so bad, even if he forgives me i still feel bad. I've always been afraid and shy of my parents, and never ever tried disrespecting them in anyway so this is all new to me. This was our ugliest fight, he knows hes wrong but it doesn't matter because what i said was so disrespectful. I've never done this with all our fights but this time what he did to me really crossed the line so i got extremely mad. Hes called me worse, hes called me names and cussed at me, called me worthless and , an animal and told me he doesn't love me when hes mad but it never gets to me or hurts me because he's my father and i love him, but when I did it, it hurt me so much. He didn't say anything back, he just stared at me when i said it and then left. To me its huge and this regret is eating me alive. What can i do or even forget? Oh my goodness, I can't thank you guys enough! Your wonderful answers made me feel a lot better! All answers honestly are best answers so this will be hard.

She hurts herself just so we would take care of her

It doesn.t help too take her phone because she has other phones not as good. She also is not supposed to talk or hang out with another girl because of the other girl's extrfeme actions. At least until the other girl shows change and mine is older and able to make better decisions. So they sneak and talk. But the actual situation she is being punished for is sneaking out on a week night and coming back at over 3 am! I can ground her to the yard, ground her from having company. Idk, a total of weeks for each seoperate type of grounding or whatever. She can be made to work all weekend or one day with her mother. belioeve me she would hate 5 or 6 hours of that! She's too old for spanking, we quit when she turned 11. Just neede to decide how and how long to give her for this severe offense.