So had this saying to me by my parent even though I am applying to get a job. Feels like a paradox you refuse to work. What I am applying to get work. I am literally saying hey I would like to work. Not I refuse to work.

My mother died

I failed my Spanish final this semester, but I still passed the class with a B. If my parents ever found out my grade on my final they would KILL ME (not literally). I usually don't mention bad grades to my parents if I still end up with a good grade at the end of the semester, but since this is a final is there any way they would find out? Final grades do not show up on my report card and my parents do not have the password to my online grades.

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I don't have a solution to this. I can't run away, because it's winter... and I'm only 14. I can't get anything I want anymore. My little sister is a b**** that just acts and exists to torment me. My family believes everything she says about me, and she's no different from a trained, exceptionally skilled liar. I'm getting A+'s in High School and my sister can't even spell (she's 7). I'm a sophomore (A year younger than my grade) and she's in second grade. My sister pretends shes cute and innocent but she knows exactly how to get me in trouble and ruin everything. My parents tell me I'm only alive to make their lives terrible. I'm small and skinny but they call me stupid lazy fat and dumb. I try my best to do what I can, yet when I see all my friends with pretty things I can't even ask if i can get something once in a while without them flipping out on me and chasing me to hit me. It doesn't make me greedy to ask for one thing in like two years... does it? And no, Christmas and Birthdays don't count, I can never get what I want. Or nothing at all. I feel like I'm existing for no reason now. Should I just... end this? I don't see another option.

My brother has emotional problems but is an adult. He also has drug problems at times. When he disappears my parents, mainly my mother who conditioned me to worry, become fearful. Everytime he turns up and he was either being ignorant and not sharing where he was headed or having drug problems but still alive. He is an adult and lives on his own but if a week goes by and my parents don't hear from him then they get worried since drugs are a risk with him as well as suicide. So what do I say or do when he disappears to relax my parents? He did this a few days after Christmas and turned up New Years Eve.

I m 14 years old, and I m done with life. I don t know what happened with my family, it s like they re all mental or something. They used to be really nice, willing to even get expensive stuff for me, a grand piano and a nice cello. I used to just despise my fat little sister. She s a brat, bullies me, messes up my room and cleans up her own. And she s really stupid, always making trouble and pretending to care about me when grown ups are around, basically a perfect definition of spoiled b****. I have A+ s at school and im taking 3 APs. I m kind of an excessive perfectionist and my sis knows how to tick me off. Today, she messed up all my homework papers and I told her not too nicely (I don t get mad often, even if I am I usually keep it to myself) and she started to cry and my mom told me I couldn t eat tonight because I was being a bully. She calls me fat, even though I m like 90 lbs. Also stupid, a pig, a dog. And she hits me if I do the slightest thing wrong. My dad yells at me and threatens me a lot. They say the household is fair, but my sister broke this 100 vase. No punishment. I tell her she did something wrong and I get like no food. Wtf... So my sis loves to get me in trouble. Sadist. And my family believes her. What should I do? Run away? How do you even get a foster home?

I'm questioning wether or not I'm being abused by my parents. They always go back on what they say, like they pretended to support me being asexual biromantic but then they got me alone in the car and manipulated me into saying I was just confused. Now my mom talks about it behind my back to her friends, saying, "it's a sin if she acts on it," not knowing that I've fallen in love with a girl before and have a crush on one. They also argue a lot in front of me and my brother, yelling at each other and I feel like it's not a good environment for me and my brother. I tried telling my mom how bad I thought it was, but she made it seem like a joke and I laughed accidentally so now she says, "it could be worse, you're lucky we don't hit you", but they have spanked us before, and they also say that I use my mental illnesses as exscuses and that I'm just "addicted to the phone" (I use it to calm down and to talk to friends and get support for my struggles), and they've asked me for my password before to look through my phone.

I was told the other day.. "you are special, with a kindred spirit.." what does that mean?

My 6 yr old stepchild has really long hair past shoulder. He asked 4 a haircut but bio mom says not until he is 18. She refuse to do his hair. She does his hair maybe twice a yr (we have been together 5 years). His hair is often dirty, smelly and tangled. We split custody but she has him the majority of the time and often cuts into our time as well. The child cries when he gets his hair braided or combed bc its really course and curly (we are black btw). I am a licensed cosmetologist and i am trained to spot illnesses of the scalp and disorders of the hair. I can tell he is suffering. I used to do his hair every 2 weeks when he would come over, but she complained and got jealous so I stopped. Recently she asked me to start doing his hair again. I love him want him to look good and feel good so I do his hair. HOWEVER #1 he wants a haircut. #2 he cries understandably bc he is tender headed. #3 his hair takes 4+ hours to do (I have to take his hair down, wash and then do it again, bc mom won't at least take it down so that I can braid it before he comes over). #4 I just don't want to do it to avoid drama. On top of that, he only comes on the weekends we should be enjoying the little time we have together. I also have other children but this takes up so much of my time on the weekends. Also, when I was in hair school the bio mom enrolled in the same school I was in. I was there first. She actually is good at doing hair and simply refuses to groom her son. Advice please!!!

My parents are taking my phone away until I have all A's and B's. I have one C and they say because school comes so easy to me I should put in effort and study to get a B. I need to keep my phone what should I do.

I'm an 18 year old girl. My mother thinks it's still okay to spank me. They have so many skeletons in their closet, I'm surprised there wasn't a zombie apocalypse in our house yet. They divorced recently and my mom constantly compares me to my dad even though she knows I hate it (she told me I'm just like my dad the day after we found out they are getting a divorce). They constantly tell me my 16 year old sister is so much better than me and should have been the oldest, even though I've told them a thousand times I hate it when they say things like that. They never punish my sister. Like ever. I, on the other hand, get punished a lot, sometimes with no good reason (and no, I'm not exaggerating). Luckily I'm moving out soon, but they will still expect me to visit them regularly. What do I do?

Me an y dad hate each other, he hated me and i hate him. He always tells me he doesnt care about me and that when i turn 16 hes gonna send me away to a youth challenge program. And i do all the chores in the house, while my older brother whos a drop out from highschool stays at home and plays with his expensive pc laptop, and a ps4. All i have is a **** laptop thats slow as ****, i lost my phone, and my dad is too broke to buy a new one, cause he spends so much money on my brother who has everything. When my dad was talking about me to my principal he asked when is your sons birthday, and he said the wrong date, and i had to correct him. I just wannna leave already

She isn't my biological mom, foster mom is probably what makes the most sense. I've been living with her for going on two years and I am currently 17 years old (I'm a girl). Her birthday is tomorrow and I was looking for ideas for what to make for her but a majority of the things I've found are too childish for me to do in my opinion. If anyone has any ideas please give them :) I'm looking for something that isn't too childish, but also doesn't make me feel uncomfortable to give her (I don't call her mom or anything like that for example.) If anyone has questions about it I'll add updates to this so you can check back for that if you want. Thanks in advance!

I heard my mother tell my brother. If she doesn't eat she will die and then i heard him laugh. He literally laughed right after she said that.

I recently got my braces off about more than a week ago. She was supposed to take me to the appointment, but she didn't wanted to wakeup that morning to take me because of her lazy a$$. She didn't even go to work that day. I kept on asking her when she will be able to take me but she keeps giving me her f*cking stupid a$$ responses. I was supposed to get my retainers and now my teeth are begging to shift because the f*cking b*tch doesn't want to take me. @storm she is supposed to take me. I am still a minor so I can't drive there or else I would have. @j your response is f*cking retarded. Why even answer, b*tch. @Merlin c*nt

My husband and I try to keep an eye on my parents, the older they get, but lately my dads behavior is horrible when we're around. He was shooting at a neighbor's dog with a BB gun and the neighbor caught him and called the cops. When the cops showed up, he lied to them and said he was trying to scare rabbits out of the garden. He shot his BB gun at a daycare they were building behind his house, because he didn't want it there. He regretted it later and got up at 3 am in the morning, took down the fence panel between the properties and was looking for the bb's in the middle of the night. Yesterday, when my husband brought my parents dinner, my dad was outside throwing rocks at the dog's fence and almost seemed so angry that he was possessed or something. (see the crazy **** he says in the attached text). He hates my grandma (his mother in law) because she can't hear well and says "Huh?" a lot. I could go on and on and on about all the mean, selfish, crazy things he does. And to top it all off, he claims to be a Christian and is quoting the bible all the time. WTF!?!? He's mentally ill, right? Can I do anything legally? I would LOVE to cut ties with him, but I would still like to be around my mom. Plus, he's my dad. I don't know what to do. I'd love to talk to him about it, but he can't have a rational conversation.

Hi there. It's just curiosity, I just want to know. It's been in my head since I heard of this word and its meaning. Well, my father and my mother never got married. And they had me. So am I considered a bastard? This is a fragment of wikipedia about legitimacy in the Western law: Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, illegitimacy (or bastardy) is the status of a child born outside marriage. And this is the definition from dictionary: a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. I just want to know. Once on high school a guy called me bastard because my parents aren't married. Please don't write things like: All babies are equals or something like that. I want it just as it is. And thanks in advance.

My daughter's 5 and I think she feels like my new GF is going to " take her place". For her entire life, she's always been the only girl in my life( her mom left when she was 6 months because parenting wasn't the cakewalk she was hoping for). Anyway, I've only started dating this girl like a month ago( we're both 21) and my daughter hates it. It'll be passed her bedtime, my GF will be over and then my daughter will begin acting up. Only on nights my GF is over will she misbehave and get out of bed, demand cookies, demand to stay up, demand that I play with her. I've asked my daughter, when it's just the two of us if something about Nicole(GF) bothers her, she says no. I reiterate to her that she will always be the #1 person in my life

She is 22 and I am 29. Our mother enables it and refuses to discipline her.

For example at Christmas she flips out that I leave early to go see my Dad also. She also when I was a kid scheduled Christmas to conflict with my Dad's schedule so I wouldn't be able to see him until the week after. She told me as a kid that my Dad had chosen to divorce "us" and then I learned while my Dad made mistakes it was my mother who filed for a divorce and that they had divorced each other, not me. She gives me grief at any holiday if I associate with my Dad and yet I would get hell from my grandmother on my Mom's side if I don't see my Mom so I can't skip over her completely. Talking to her just leads to her bashing my Dad and I get very anxious around conflict. She even puts the divorce on me by saying she left my Dad to protect me from their fighting. Some of that might be true but it means I am at fault in the divorce as well as my siblings. Lastly, she tells me gossip someone gave her that my Dad might have cheated on my step-mother and it turned out there was no credibility to that (trust me my step-mother is not one who would stay married to a cheater). The person who told my mother that had my Dad mixed up with a friend of his.

My mother may have issues anger wise..... If me or my siblings do anything wrong she goes into a fit of rage and screams and call us many names and hits us....for etc one time I was chatting to a boy and when she found out she was absolutely furious and demanded my phone password and I was too scared to give it so she cut a piece off a garden hose and whipped my thighs until they were embalmed with purple and blue contusions...... She's completely destroyed my confidence

I am going through the hardest time of my life right now. I got engaged about a year ago and moved to Seattle, WA from Portland, OR. I really didn t want to move but he got a job in Seattle and I thought I was doing my wife to be duty by moving with him. He no longer has that job and now he s looking for jobs in NY, Utah, basically any other state than the state we live in. I m tired of this. It s causing me insane anxiety. I've told him how I feel about the situation. I don't want to move again. It took a lot for me to transfer to Seattle and right now I'm the bread winner. Since I've known him he's been in and out of jobs. He works hard at the beginning and then he gets bored. It's the same with where he's living. He gets bored VERY quickly. I tell him that nothing will ever be good enough for him. He thinks the next job, the next city, the next state will be better but it's never enough. He never lives in the moment. He thinks we have more money than we do. He wants to take a job in San Francisco and tells me I can live in Portland while he gives this job a chance. I don't want to live apart! We can't afford two apartments! I swear this anxiety of mine will eat me alive. Sometimes I don't know if I should stick it out because I love him (and I really, really do) or if we just want completely opposite things and I should walk.

I have no one to talk to about this. My grandmother (well, step-grandmother) is in very poor health. She's very old, has beaten cancer twice in the past, has smoked for over 40 years, and continues to drink. She's survived so much, but sadly, I think she's on her last leg. I saw her recently and I highly doubt she has much longer to live. She can barely walk, her legs are swollen and discolored, her voice is very raspy, she has to wear oxygen, etc. I don't know why I'm typing this here. I'm just very upset that she will probably be dead in the coming months, if that. I've known her since I was 4, I'm 19 now. I don't know how I'm going to handle her death.

This one girl I used to be good friends with kept on starring at me today. I pretend she doesn't exist so I don't acknowledged her presence. However we ran into each other around the corner several time and she kept staring at me. I started back then looked away and ignored her and she kept on looking at me for the entire class. Why was she doing this?

Hello, My son is going to be 12 and in the state of Texas that is the age the Judge will CONSIDER his wants. I am the child's father and he has been telling me for about a year now his desire to want to live with me. I currently establish residence as in he goes to school where I live and we have a split 50/50 possession. My son is mortified and starts crying with the idea of him telling his mom that he wants to live with me. He does not have an open communication line with her. He tells me all his gripes and concerns and I do feel most of them are legitimate. He asked me if I can talk to her together with him and only when he is going to be with me that day. He knows it is going to break her heart and he fears that she will hate him which I assured him that yes she will be mad and upset but she will never hate you. I feel if I go with him to sit down to talk to her she will feel that I have manipulated him into saying he wants to live with me. I am a great father who has the 9-5 job and weekends off where the mom has retail crazy hours and chooses her time with him to be about herself or her boyfriend. What options would any of you recommend. I thought about my son seeing a Psychologist/Therapist to talk to for 3rd party purposes and maybe he calls her to tell her how he feels. I do provide more stability emotionally and financially. I feel I show more interest in what he likes and wants that she does (or that is what I have heard). Any advice would be helpful

I dont understand.What???

My grandma wants to start smoking weed, but she's a registered Republican. Can we give some to her anyway? It would certainly calm her the f*ck down.

My mother in-law would like to invite her daughter's (my sister in law) husband's parents to my wedding. We do not know the proper equiette in inviting his parents. Is technically he my brother in law?

Hey guys, Ever since I was little I grew up in a toxic environment and it forced me to grow up really quickly. My parents ALWAYS involved me in their marriage problems and always made me the middle person ever since I was 6. I am now 21 and getting married in 5 months. Anyway, 6 months ago I cut my parents away from my life due to them continuing to involve me in their marriage problems (my mum would stay at my house for weeks and tell me how bad my dad was and that she was going to divorce him. It's also not the first time I've removed them from my life). Even when I tried to talk to my mum about my wedding, shed always say "I wish I did that for my wedding but your father wasn't good enough to do that for me". Literally every time I spoke about the wedding, that's what I'd get. My dad used me and showed my mum some of my text messages to him (I was venting my frustration to him about mum being at my house) and of course she blew up at me even thou she used my house for a place to crash and had free food and what not. So given I've put up with this my WHOLE life and given I have nothing to do with them, is it ok to not send them an invite to the wedding? Sorry for the novel but opinions would really be appreciated.

My FDIL got her graduate degree last week. The first my husband and I heard about it was last night. I immediately called my son and expressed my puzzlement that I and my husband were not invited. We had assumed we would be. My son said that FDIL only wanted her family there. I asked him what she thought we were and he said that her family is not like that-they don't include in-laws and that she is having a hard time seeing us family. To FDIL, her family was there. I am upset by this and don't understand FDIL's attitude. Am I wrong to think I should have been invited. I would have invited my in-laws. I don't like that she only considers her blood relatives as family and us as outcasts. To me, this sets the stage for her excluding my son's family from all of the speciall occasions that will come. My son has been engaged for 6 months, dated, FDIL for 3 years and she has been to our family functions. We are not strangers, so I am upset. Do I keep my mouth shut?

She left him because he wouldn't lose weight but he is skinny now and he even stopped smoking.

I have never had a fantastic relationship with my mother. She and my dad are still married, and I lived with them until August 2012 when I could afford to move out (I had been in college/starting my career until then. I work professionally, full time as an engineer now so I can afford independence). I couldn't wait for that day; I felt like I was getting out of prison. I got engaged in November 2012 after a year and a half of dating the love of my life, and now we're trying to plan a wedding for December 2014 (we're trying to buy a house and get married in the same year- lots of saving to do!). He is amazing, always makes me happy/laugh, always there for me, and has a wonderful family. The problem is, I'm trying to decide whether or not to invite my mother. She's always been like a black cloud over my life. My mother would always tell me lies about what other people supposedly said about me behind my back. She threatened suicide if I moved out of their house (which I did anyway- it wasn't the first threat). She would try to fill my head with nasty thoughts about everyone in my life that would tear down my trust of others. She makes up lies about me to tell to other family members, so they won't talk to me now. She told me that she wanted to abort me. When I got engaged, my mother told me that she wished that my fiance and I would have "retarded, deformed kids." When I confronted her about it, she brushed it off. "I was angry," she said "people say things when they're angry. Get over it." No apology or anything. I didn't trust her for several months after that. I'm trying to rebuild the relationship with her for the sake of being close to my dad. The final straw came when I was feeling violently ill after restaurant food (1st sick day in a year- I threw up 4 times last night). She called my work number and couldn't get through, so she called my cell. She asked me why I was "slacking off work." I told her the restaurant story, and she screamed over the phone that she knew I would get "knocked up" and how she wasn't going to let HER taxpayer dollars "support a bastard like yours". First of all, I'm on my period, I'm not pregnant. Second, if I was... I make more than triple what she does, and my fiance and I together make 6 figures. We can handle ourselves. But... she just screamed it down the phone and she works in an office so I'm sure everyone there heard. It was embarrassing. I was sobbing for about half an hour after I hung up, not only because of this, but because I know that's what her reaction will be when my husband and I do start a family someday. :-( I do want a nice, traditional wedding (although eloping sounds amazing sometimes, I know I'll regret it later). I want my dad to give me away, but I don't think that will happen if I don't invite my mom. She makes everything about her, and my dad always goes with it because of his religious beliefs (divorce is a sin, so just easier to nod your head and agree). So... no mom, no dad. I feel like either way, she has ruined my wedding already and it's not even for another 22 months! Gahhh!! Help me please! Should I invite her or not?

Long story short, I wanted to live with my dad. My mom is an alcoholic. Now there is a court date where my dad will want to have placement for me. The thing is, my mom got the paperwork yesterday. She is upset because she doesn't want me to go. I want to go live with my dad so that I won't have to deal with her "issue" but I don't want to go because then I know she will be sad and angry that I left. She said that if I go live with my dad that she will give up all her rights for me. She said that means that I will never be able to see her ever again. She literally said she doesn't want anything to do with me. I want to live with my dad but I want to be able to see my mom. I don't know what to do, and I can't talk to anyone about this. I know that you can cancel the court date (my dad would have to do that), but I don't know what will happen after that. Basically, I want to know what I should do. I want to see both my mom and my dad but I don't know what to do to make that possible. Please help!

im forced to share a room with my mum and sister, she never shuts up - she just doesnt stop speaking and everytime she speaks its so loud, its gotten to the point that i wake up to her talking. she just talks and literally no one replies to her properly yet she continues. shes 20, im 15, i cant say anything to her because shes violent and already threatened to beat both me and my mum. i guess this is a rant - i hate my family so much

OK WELL...I play football. I love playing football. Its the best sport in the world in my opinion. I have a scholership to play D-1 football and i am very thankful, appreciative, and humbled. I love my family, make pretty good grade (B average), and have many caring and loving friends. But there is a little "snag" apparently society looks down on. I smoke pot with my friends at least 5 times a week. I just dont understand why its so bad! I lift 5 times a week. I train almost everyday. Smoking does not hinder me in any way. I do also have another very caring groups of friends who try to persuade me to stop but I rarely listen because i have the same relationship w/ my fam, grades, and training regime as i do if i had never started to smoke. So i just ignore them. And im no pothead btw. So someone please tell me whats so wrong with marijuana if its not ruining my life like so many people expect it to.

My teenage step son likes to have his friends over to hang out with him. The first time he did this I overheard him tell his friends "I will introduce you to my beautiful, hot, sexy mom". "I am very proud of her". I am not sure that is something he should be saying about his mom. Should I talk to him about that not being something appropriate to say about his mom or just take it as a compliment and forget about it?

My fiance told me I have a big brother complex, I'm 24 and my older brother is 32. When I was growing up he literally saved my life 3 times, ever since he saved me the first time I've admired him and aspired to be like him. I used to get really jealous when he would spend time with his friends instead of me, and I used to do anything for him even though he didn't want me to, things like laundry/cook for him/etc. I've changed and matured though, so I no longer do that stuff, however I'll still do anything for him, all he has to do is ask. However my fiance sees this as me having some sort of big brother complex? I'm pretty sure it's a slang term, which is why I'm asking here. Any help appreciated, thanks.

So my niece who is 17 told me her mother,brings this guy from work that she works with an old man and her mom and him have sex on the couch .. my niece hides in her room . She HAS told her mom that she doesn't like it,but she doesn't care. Even had a blow up fight my niece screamed at her ... is this even right ??? I kinda want to take my niece in because it makes me angry. Her mom just saids nothing that it's "her life" . Do I have a right to be angry ?? My niece hides in her room for hours till he leaves. She told me the other day when she was done with her shower her mother let him in and they are having sex on the couch again

My little sister feels really tired this morning. She didn't sleep well last night. One she saw something scary on tv last night two she was sick again she was coughing and sneezing all night. She's been sick since Christmas she thought she was getting better but last night she started it again. I took her to the doctor about a week ago they tested her for flu they said it was negative. She has asthma when she has a cold it takes her a while to get over it especially in the winter time or when the weather changes. She thinks she's never gonna get over it. She's been taking her mess they're not helping. How can I help her feel better ?

So, I'm suppose to be going to the inauguration with this organization called 4-H. Well, I got behind in my school work (online shool) due to me going to Arizona to help my pregnant cousin out with her move. Plus the Internet would cut off so I would only.have an hour to work each day.. Well due to this, my mom thought it would be a great punishment to not let me go. The trip costed over $900 which I paid for with my own money I worked for. The organization won't send that money back, so I'm trying to convince my mom to let me go because of that.. Do you think this was a fair punishment? If not what should I do? Also, I'm still maintaining a 4.0 GPA

I am one of four kids. My older sister has already moved out leaving me with my younger brother and sister. My brother is the only boy, and my little sister is the baby. But I am just me. And I can't help but feel left out. My mother has gone to every single one of my brothers sports games. He plays both basketball and football in our high school, so it is pretty much year round. Yet she makes it to every game, sometimes multiple a week. She hasn't gone to any of my orchestra concerts since I was in elementary school, and there are only 4 a year. I was 5 minutes past curfew and I got grounded for a week. I'm fine with this. It was the rule and I broke it. But the other night my brother just didn't come home and didn't tell anyone where he was. When he finally did come home at 3 in the morning, he was simply told that if he did it again he would lose all electronic privileges. ? These are only a couple of examples of what I see as a double standard. My little sister is 13, yet my mom still calls her the baby. She is always buying her things and gifts for no reason. And she she isn't responsible for any chores besides cleaning her room. But I'm obviously blinded by my situation. I'm only a 17 year old and I'm not a parent. Maybe it is all in my head. In which case I am just an annoying whining teenager. But I have to wonder if it isn't true that my mother has favorites. It seems it would only be natural for a parent to have a favorite child, just like people have a favorite food or color. So do parents have favorites?

I'm in architrcture school right now. But i don't feel passionate. I have no problem with the curiculum. But just doesn't feel right. Is it really wrong to quit? I made a mistake. I have no older brothers or sisters, even older cousins. Is it really wrong that i don't know architecture is not suited for me? There are no student loan or anything (university in my country is not as expensive as US uni). But my parents act like i make an unforgetful sin, so bad they verbally abuse me in any possible way they can. And my mom threatens me to pay them back (about 10.000USD). I know i make a mistake..

My parents came into some money recently, and they started interacting with a lot of old-money preps. I guess they wanted to fit in, so they decided to pretend to be preps. They renovated the house, bought a bunch of decor, bought a new car and are now buying tons of expensive, impractical clothes. It honestly isn't fooling anyone. While the preps are polite, they are obviously laughing behind our backs. At this pace, our parents will bankrupt us. How do I convince them to stop pretending?

I went for a walk this morning and it triggered childhood memories. I thought about the things that made up my childhood, and memories of and with each of my family members. I thought it would be fun to share, and to hear about yours!! Mine- Tulips by the back porch, daffodils along the driveway, flock and rock gardens out front, horses in the field, fish in the pond, frogs in the basement windowsill. Swinging on vines, playing in the creek. Favorite memories of-- My Mom- She was always gardening My Dad- Always mowing the lawn My brother (11 years older)- Playing guitar My big sis (14 months older)- Always reading a book My little sis (11 years younger)- Eating watermelon Favorite memory with- My dad- We put a cat carrier in the garage once, and left it open. At some point that winter someone closed it. When spring came my dad was cleaning out the garage and hear a noise coming from it. He got me, assuming I was secretly keeping an animal (I did that kind of stuff). We were both in the garage, and neither of us had any idea what was in there. My dad put his face right up to the wire front to look in. A HUGE rat jumped out at him. We both ran like heck out of the garage. After collecting ourselves, we had to figure out where to go from here, as the rat was still locked in the cage. He looked at me and said "go get Abigail" (Abigail was my cat). We took the cage and cat to the yard, my dad opened the cage and kicked it a few times, the rat came running out, I dropped Abigail and they went over a hill where we heard Evidence that Abigail has successfully 'taken care' of our problem. My Mom- This was hard, because she died three years ago and i've suppressed all the memories because it hurts too much. But I remember one Sunday her and I were reading the pet section of the newspaper and saw a puppy that I really wanted, she said "go ask your Dad" I ran outside and down the drive way and through the fields to where my dad was doing some yardwork. I asked and he said "No way". I came back up to the house and told my mom what he had said. She smiled at me, and one week later that very same puppy was bouncin around in our yard. I had him for 8 years, hes still alive today, living with good people with a nice fenced in yard. My big Bro- He was always a goof. The whole family was trapped inside during that BIG blizzard (I think it was in 98) We were all sitting in the family room, miserable. Out of nowhere my brother jumps up on the GLASS table and yells "I have the sensation of skiing off a mountain slope!!!" It brightened up all our moods because it was so random and funny. My big sis- We're really close in age, and are best friends, its hard to pick just one good memory with her. We fought like crazy when we were kids, so this ones funny, but not really 'good'. I busted open my chin when I fell off my bike and I got stitches. The day after I got them off, Emily and I were fighting about something. I was laying on the floor on my stomach, and must have said something that really pissed her off, because she came up to me and kicked me HARD in my chin. It busted open and was gushing blood. I don't remember what we told our parents, but I covered for her. My little sis. When my little sis was 3, she came running out of the bathroom yelling "EVERYBODY COME LOOK!! I JUST POOPED A TEDDYBEAR!!" Not knowing what exactly was going on, we all went to look. Sure enough, her poop was shaped JUST LIKE a teddybear. LOL, she's 13 now, she'd kill me for posting this!!

I saw a great-uncle over Thanksgiving and asked how his son is. Long story short three years ago his son and grandson (son's son) were estranged after the son had an affair and got divorced. The divorce had been 5 or 6 years ago. The grandparents managed to force a reconciliation between son and father (son and grandson of this great-uncle). Now the two are talking again though maybe not close. The great-uncle is very diplomatic and kind to both sides in a feud so he is good at this. However, I wondered if in families reconciliations should be forced or does that cause more problems later on? Like in this case the grandson was obviously hurt his Dad had slept around on his Mom with another woman.

He lives near San Francisco and I live in Houston. He came home for Christmas but took off for two days. I suspected a drug binge but he had a story (a friend was in town whose brother had died). Him using is his business but if he does it becomes my business as our parents fall apart. I have no idea if he is using or if his story was true. Dv8s----Where did i say anything about my parents not being together? They are married and have been for 31 years.

They are her two kids so naturally they take her side. We haven't seen the kids in 3 years. The belief is they fear their mother and so have to do as she says. We see this aunt from time to time at funerals and she is perfectly nice to me. Her son and daughter (both adults) have not seen us since August of 2013. They live about 5 hours away. I still think of this aunts children as part of the extended family but not as being in the family clan anymore. So they are like 2nd tier relatives (distant relatives). However, they are not bad and the son is autistic and so doesn't have the adult abilities to decide for himself who to see (his mother controls him). The aunt is nice to be but a narcissist and so her siblings have a hard time getting along with her and her husband left her because of it which is when she really lost it. So my question is how do I reach out to her adult children especially the son who is autistic and therefore lives near his mother and doesn't use social media?

I have to go somewhere with my mom, but I don't want to go at all. How do I convince her to not take me.

I need to go to a movie premiere in los angeles at 5 pm. My dad said he will not take me. It is midnight right now. This is a life changing event and I cannot miss this (I'll explain later). Should I mope around? Should I be all angry and slam things around? Should I do the opposite of what I'm supposed to do or should I do everything right? I have been doing things like my homework and the dishes but that didn't work. What should I do to convince him by 4 so I can get there by 5. Thank you and goodnight.

mu mom wont let me do any out of school activities except tutoring in maths when im already getting a's in maths and i suck at humanities but she refuses to offer me any help in that area at all. i only asked for guitar lessons and tennis coaching for my 14th birthday(i do 2 other instruments in school and tennis for interschool sports but i want to do stuff outside of school as well) and she refused!! she said it was a waste of money and i didnt need to learn any new skills in life when i already knew maths its so annoying bc shes constantly wasting her money on weird gadgets that were on sale but she never uses them and she cant spend money on anything that would actually benefit me when im her daughter!!! its even more annoying when my friends complain about their parents making them do heaps of sports and stuff when im not even allowed to. does anyone know how im supposed to work things out with my mom bc i rlly need the extra tennis coaching to keep up in school competitions

He apparently visits them twice a year including when he tells me he's on a business trip. I never knew he was married before my mom either but apparently he was married to their mother. I am 14 and they are in their early 20s one of them just got married. My mom knows about them but apparently has never met them. They live near my grandparents and visit my grandpa parents on a monthly basis including a Christmas. This might be why we never got to go see the grandparents at Christmas. Also while should this be a secret? My dad was married to their mother and he sees them so it's not like if you had abandoned them.

I actually feel sick like I'm gonna throw up and my head is spinning, how do I ask???