I just got to my parents house for my Easter break from college. I had a 5 hour drive to my parents house so to be more comfortable I drove the whole trip in my bare feet and kept my sandals on the front passengers seat out of the way,

Okay so recently I was being attacking by some crazy man. I found out that he lives in the build and I'm scared for my life! He started by saying what do you think your doing, then calling me a ***_er and I ignored him twice when he that and then he said "I'm going to beat the sh_t out of you" then he started chasing me! I somehow blasted off with my adrenaline and made it home. I ran in my house cursing and scared. My sister and Mom came outside with me to figure who the guy was and my mom asked why he attacked me and he didn't have any reason. He just came walking on my mom violently and I swear I want to beat him up. First he threatens me, now he is threatens my mom and sister saying "you gonna wish you never met me" Everytime we tried to walk away he said "let's find out where you live" he would follow us. We called the police and they never found up, matter a fact they never gave us a follow up or anything. They just left. Now every day I go to school I see him, but he doesn't see me and IMs cared that he might do something since I had my mom and sister pull up on him. I'm no violent person, but I'm a kid and I know I can't beat up a full grown man. Now I just bought a little blade to carry around, I would prefer pepper spray since I don't want to kill anyone, but I don't have enough for pepper spray and I need some kind of weapon because he's dangerous and I can't miss school because of him. So can I have a blade in my backpack? I need to while I go to school & go home

We've been having an affair for 3 months now when she is at work.. I'm just not sure how to tell her and to be honest I'm not sure I need to (I don't feel bad about it), but she may find out anyways.

I know so many women who would rather go out with their friends to a bar than be at home with their child. So many men who would rather play online video games than play with their son or daughter.

I am beginning to notice a pattern with her and It seems as if she wants to make sure she is doing better than me (or she likes to think that she is or will be). She's always curious about what I am doing with my life such as what I want to do or where I am going. She knows I want to become a nurse practitioner and right when I mention that to her she suddenly wants to become a chief nurse officer LOL. I think she just pulled that out of her a** because I said she would have to go to nursing school first to do that but apparently she wasn't aware since she disagreed with me. I just sense that she isn't happy for me and she wants to "one-up" me to feel better about herself. Why is she like this ??? I can't stand being around her.

My dad was taking our entire family on vacation, well we get to Miami and he dumps me out on the side of the road bc he was ill as a hornet and everybody was fed up with him and he got mad at me when I said something about it would be miserable if he was like that the entire time I said he needed to change his mood. So I walked the streets for an hour not knowing where I was going, what to do anything. I was 16 hours away from home and I had no idea what to do. He told me he hated me at least 10 or 15 times and he kept saying he didn't want me in his life. Well we are finally back home. I have an idea that I should stay to myself locked up in my room from now on and if I come out I should go to my grandma's house or my best friends house. Should I stay away from him and not have nothing to do with him? He claims he is a new person now, but I don't believe it because he has been like this for so long and I am fed up with it.

My friend who is 22year old ask for advice,she wanna leave her mom & dad because both of them harshly beat her publicaly for silly reasons {like for being late an hour, they beat her and shout she may went to meet some boy (without any proof) in front of all relatives they hit her for 5-10minutes with hand &leg}. Her parent humiliate her daily for no major reasons. So she hate both of them now. She wanna leave the state and go somewhere else like maharashtra or any other state in india and wanna do a job related to beautician or anything for living,just she dont wanna live with them. Now what should i advice her..? If she leave her home then how can she find job,room and all other daily routine things..? Should i help her in that or what!! And her brother drop out her from school when she was in 10th and he beated her in front of whole school and her parent appreciated to his brother deed,they let her younger sister study in college and refused to let my friend study 12th even they dont give her permission to do any job. They are allowing her to leave the home.

We never go anywhere, not even the sea. I'm 17 years old and I didn't see in my life the sea or the mountains or just a beautiful city because my parents don't wanna go anywhere. They just work, work and work. When it's summer my friends go with their families to the sea or to other places but I have to stay at home all day long doing nothing and it just kills me. We have money, we can afford but I just don't understand why they don't wanna go anywhere. Actually my father always says that we will go but the next day he tries to find reasons to not go anymore. He always says that we will travel in the summer but when the summer comes he just changes his mind. What should i do, this is really annoying

I have been pressing shirts all day, have been getting the children clothing together and greving my grand mother passing. My children father do not consider the fact that I have to do this for my family. he thinking about himself. he smokes weed and need to leave the house to get what he needs for his weed. However he no that I am leaving to prepare with my family for my grandmother funeral. out of respect he should be willing to understand me and what im going through. he stay with me and but do not pay not one bill in this house. he leave this house knowing im not home and leave my house door unlocked, How I no this is because he came to my family house asking for money. I let him leave then my job is to get to my house because he dont got a key and now my house in unlocked and my main purpose is to get to that house to lock the door. I live on a street that steal and shoot all the time. so yes im going to get to my house. I get in after giving him a head start to get back to the house but when I get here he is not here. so I asked him how many time since you moved in that you left my door unlock he told me 5 times.I then said out of the 5 times how many times have I complained about the door being unlock he said every time.question im going through a passing and he no this but is thinking about himself to the point he will leave my door unlock again making it 6 times.my question is he said im wrong for reacting so am I? next what do I do about this? is he showing he care?

So its kind of a long and messy story but lmao today my Mom told me that my father's wife said my dad wants to make contact with me after seven + years of not even speaking/writing/calling or making any attempts to contact me whatsoever. The last time we were in the same room was a couple years ago and that was because he took me and my Mom to court because he refused to pay for my child insurance ( and I NEEDED it, it was what paid my therapy ) , he would rather fly all the way from Flordia to where we live to fight against it than just pay lmao. And he didn't even LOOK at me the whole time either. I can't remember how old I was the last time the two of us had a conversation, and pretty sure it was over the phone. Not to mention, I just found out that the reason my parents divorced was because he cheated on my Mom and got another girl pregnant ( so I have ANOTHER half sister ), and he kept stalking my Mom too. Now the pressure is on me because he suddenly wants to make contact with me after all these years of not being in my life, and even wants to visit me this summer. Part of me wants to scream at him and part of me never wants to see him again, I don't know what to do???

My daughter lied to me about her grade on a math test. Math is not her best subject & I kept telling her to study. She 'd go to her room where she was supposed to be studying, but wasn't. She told me that the test went well & that her grade was "good". Well, she had the test stuffed in her backpack, it was slightly above a failing grade. Me: Care to explain this? Her: That was a different test Me: Here's what really happened. You didn't study like I said to, you bombed this, and then you lied about. Is that about right? Her: yes sir Me: Why lie though? Her: You would get mad & I guess I thought you'd forget Me: Well I didn't and I'm pissed Her: I'm sorry Me: You couldn't just study? Her: It was hard, I didn't want to do it Me: You're grounded, no friends, no parties, no shopping, no phone. No discussion, go do homework My sister feels I was harsh, was I ?

My cousin (with whom I've been close) recently told me that something "bad" happened to him a year ago in his dorm. He had a fever and his friend gave him something that made him feel "high", and then the (now former) friend did things to him. My cousin remembered clearly saying no, but the other guy was very persistent, and after some time my cousin just gave in and let him do what he wanted so he would go away. What my cousin remembered of the incident was a combination of pain but also of slight pleasure (which has made him feel disgusted of himself up to this day), and extreme tiredness which mainly responsible in his giving in. Even though it's been a few months (almost a year) he's finding himself really depressed all the time, but he doesn't feel capable of telling anyone but me, as he's pretty certain everyone would say he actually wanted that going on. I told him to forget this, as sh*t happens in college. I also told him to keep this for himself and tell no one else except me, as people would not believe him that he didn't want it to happen (my uncle and cousins - his dad and brothers - for one wouldn't be that understanding). Am I correct in this? I'm a woman and don't really know what to say/ do, as men may feel differently and people do tend to treat men differently too in a case like this. In some ways I also feel burdened with this knowledge and afraid my advice was wrong. Thoughts?

It really hurts that he is excluding me because he does not speak to my mom and considers me aligned with her. She has alcoholism and I check on her once a week as I'm the only daughter where as my brother and another closer brother do not speak to her and in high school lived with our dad and stepmom. This hurts me but it was against my conscience to disown my mother even if I am a little overly nice sometimes even though I do not lie for her. So the weekend of the 22nd how do I handle the pain that I'm going to feel?

I wrote about this last night as my dad was an evil man as he left my mother for someone else. I am so grateful for his death and his entry into hell. I'll be seeing his family for the first time in years at the funeral and I want to be nice to them and so I'm thinking I should ask and see year and not joyful about his death but how do I hide my joy? Also what kind a topics should I bring up at the funeral since it's people I've not seen in eight years. His family is pretty nice it's unfortunate they got stuck with him. I'll see them occasionally… Not real close as they live in different parts of the country and I have a hard time hiding my joy that my dad's dad but I do I have to at the funeral if I want them to act nice to me. Also since my name is stuck in the obituary what do I say of random people call for their condolences to me when I had my dad and I'm grateful of his death. For those that say forgive him you're not to forgive an evil man like this that would leave his wife for someone else. Apologies for any grammar errors I'm talking into an iPhone.

Hi ! (sorry for bad engl) I am 15 years old,and i am playing guitar for the past 4 years. I am an really really good player,all of the guitar teachers said that i am talented,that i could be a musician. My familly doesnt believe that. All of them consider me not capable to do anything. When i started playing guitar everyone said i cant do it. I learned to play it by myself,watching yt videos. This year i tried going at some classes,but im preety much same as the teachers in my town. My dream is to be a musician. I wanted to make covers on youtube,but only guitar covers wouldnt pass. Everyone does that. So recently i got interested in the violin,and now i want to learn it so bad. I would play guitar instead of the vocals,and the violin would be the backing track. Im really good with editing,so that would not be a problem. Again,no one supports me. My parents wouldnt bought me my guitar if there werent my brother.Now my brother moved to Germany and im completely alone. I have saved enough money to buy a violin,but they wont let me do it. Now not only my parents,but even my friends dont support me in playing violin,saying that violin sucks etc... If i tell them to listen to David Garret or Lindsey Stirling, no one wants to. Things like this are happening for the past year and a half. No one supports me,my parents keep saying that i should focus on school (i get straight A all the time, i dont see whats the problem) I am completely alone....

I sometimes wish I could die, but I don't want to kill myself because I know I have **** to do and people need me to do stuff. I just feel useless and unimportant and people are only using me. What should I d? I can"t talk to my mom about this she is really sick with stuff that could kill her and I don't want to put all this on her. She is single mom. My dad left when I was 3 and have not heard from him... I just am fed up with life and people.

Hi Laurie! I hope all is well for you! I have a question. I'm applying for many scholarships right now, 9 going on 10! I'm applying for my last big one, it is a VERY important scholarship. It requires 1 letter of recommendation from a close friend/mentor and I thought you would be perfect for it! If you are not too busy of course, would you be able to do this letter for me? It is due in 3 weeks, all you would have to do is type it up and email it in to me, I will print it out and handle it from there. It would mean absolutely so much to me if you were able to do this, If you are unable to I completely understand!

please help idk what to do here: OMG my mom yelled at me telling me that I am not allowed to go to urgent care or the ER ever again that I need to go t o the my doctors once and that is it and listen to him and do nothing and do not kep going back as if I do my insurance will stop paying for it, she said she would never take me to the docs again and I said then I wil figure something out and she said what now and I said I have to see the allergist again soon and she said why go there and I said because my doc told me to, she was like make the appointment nad I will see if I will take u to it, she was like u need to stop going to the docs when ur chest is clear and I said it was not today the doc heard something and she said no he told u just what u wanted to hear, and I said no she said he gave me new meds right? and I said no me put me on one I was already, and I said iwent to the ER as I had trouble breathing and she said well i did not see u have trouble breathing and I said it hurt to take a deep breath, I give up. idk what to do I mean I only go to the R when I did all could do from doc and I am still coughing bad or having trouble breathing, but my mom says she does not notice that I have trouble breathing so therefore I must be faking and I said well it hurts to breathe and she said oh really? she thought going to my docs yesterday was not needed and I said I was still sick and needed to go, she said yeah u went because he told u what u wanted to hear and gave u what u wanted, and I said no he heard me wheezing and yes he changed my meds on me but told me to take one I already have at home. she does not see why I need to see my doc so much and why I need the ER and all my specialists. she does not get it at all. what can I do about my mom? she said yeah u went because he told u what u wanted to hear and gave u what u wanted, and I said no he heard me wheezing and yes he changed my meds on me but told me to take one I already have at home. she does not see why I need to see my doc so much and why I need the ER and all my specialists. she does not get it at all. what can I do about my mom? she said yeah u went because he told u what u wanted to hear and gave u what u wanted, and I said no he heard me wheezing and yes he changed my meds on me but told me to take one I already have at home. she does not see why I need to see my doc so much and why I need the ER and all my specialists. she does not get it at all. what can I do about my mom? P.S. most of my doc visits and ER visits are free with my insurance and if it costs to go to one then I pay for it myself as well as pay for all the meds I need.

So I have a problem and dont know what to do and dont have anyone to go to about this so i am asking a bunch of strangers. I am with my fiancee of 4 years and we have a child together, i also have an older son that is not my fiancees but he lives with his dad so i get him on the weekends. my problem is that my fiancee isn't happy living here and wants to go back to chicago(we are in a different state atm) because his mom would help us with child care so we could both work because i am currently a stay at home mom. he constantly throws it in my face that he is unhealthy and is dying because he has high blood pressure and he believes he has diabetes. he constantly tells me he wants to go back with or without me he dont care but he will take the kid with him. now i am stuck between leaving my oldest so i dont lose my youngest and if i stay here with my oldest i will miss out on many things from my 2 year old.....idk what to do....

I have no idea where my 11 year old daughter got this idea from. Frat parties aren't even very common here in Canada. I don't know why she thinks a 6th grader should be attending alcoholic events with college students. She says that "everyone" at school likes them when in fact I know it's not true because I know many other parents with kids her age. They're more interested in hobbies, schoolwork, friends, and maybe regular age-appropriate parties. Once she actually begged me to let her go to one, and I explained to her that she is underaged and those parties are inappropriate for her age because they drink alcohol. Also that college students may experiment with sex and she is too young to be exposed to those things. This is something I'm very concerned about because she might even try to go to certain places behind our backs. Any ideas?

I'm on vacation and my mom wants me to see my piece of sh*t dad who I stopped talking to a while back because he is an alcoholic, abusive, selfish person. My mother wants me to go out to dinner with him and her and my sister because she said to forgive and forget and to do it for her and my little sister because my sister hasn't seen him in years as well and wants to. My parents aren't together anymore. I don't want to talk to him at all and I told her if I go to not expect me to say anything and she told me to not be rude. So should I go

My 5 year old son, up until last night, had a massive crush on his babysitter, she played along, it was cute. The reason he liked her was because she letting him have free reign, eating cookies for dinner, drinking soda, letting him stay up late. Since she's only 14( and my only option) I didn't fire her, I just told her to tighten up the ship, which she did last night, and he hated it. He refused to eat his carrots at dinner, she put him in time out. He wanted cookies, she said no, he stuck his tongue out at her, she put him in timeout. Getting him to bed during his usual bedtime was supposedly a struggle too, he said he hated her & said she wasn't fun anymore. I'm thinking that he needs to apologize in person? Is there another way?

I'm 19 years old took a year off school too work 3 jobs, earn a car, and learn what I want with life. As of last month I have been trying to train myself to be more confident in myself and self positive. When I was you my mom and dad where always fighting and yelling growing up me and my 4 little brothers saw this. My dad was a abusive drunk smoker and my mom always played victim and she is bi-polar. They are divorced my mother decided to take care of us 5 by herself 5 years ago? I love my my mom I'm grateful for her I dislike my father but as of lately I'm seeing my mother for the negative person she is. She is always angry at me and it feels like the anger she has towards my dad. My dad was always a I could've should've done this person and always angry. My mom always the victim and could never stand for what she wanted. Growing up I feel like I took both my parents most negative traits. At home my brothers are always arguing and fighting and use personal jokes as comebacks it's so negative. It's my fault I'm supposed to be the leader but I taught them wrong. How do I become a positive person and still live at home when all I've ever been my life was negative

So the older brother is 21 and the younger sister and brother are 20. They all have Snapchat and he uploaded a video of him getting head from his girlfriend and it makes me wonder if they saw the video. I'm assuming they have each other on Snapchat since they are siblings. Is this normal for siblings to see

I'm in high school getting ready to graduate so I'm applying for tons of scholarships and needing letters of recommendation. Of course I'm choosing special people to write them and I have an important friend/mentor that I want to write me one. I asked her in November but she said she was too sick to write one. Which is totally understandable!! Although it is now April and I'm applying for 1 more big scholarship, the scholarship requires a letter from a close friend/mentor and I feel she'd be perfect. Should I try asking just 1 more time? Or would I sound dumb? If I should, how do I ask?

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About last year, my bro & I had an argument in the car. It was something petty but he got so mad & started verbally abusing me by calling me names, insulting me, telling me to die and insulting my friend (she wasn't there). I just burst out crying, my mum was in the car but she ignored and told him to shut up. He didn t listen obviously. I already felt depressed and crap about myself, and having someone say all this things to me makes me feel worse. He didn t even apologise and pretended as if nothing happened. It really hurt me. Anyway, a few days ago my sister mentioned my brother & I said I don t want anything to do with him. She kept asking me why & then said I am overreacting, and I just burst out crying over what happened. My sister told me to move on and forgive him... but I really can t do it. What he did really hit me and was so hurtful to me. I don t even like him or know who he is anymore because what he did was super disgusting and it still affects me till this very day. My mum called me today, & I wanted to talk to her about what happened. She got annoyed & told me to move on and stop acting as if he "raped me". Idk what to do... am I overreacting? Why does this hurt so much?

she seems to only give a crap when it affects her. She doesnt do anything for me at all. I do my own laundry and if she wants to do it at that moment she opens it up and throws everything into the hallway and does her laundry. I cook myself. she only cooks what she wants not caring if the rest of the family likes it, thats why i cook. I clean the house not her. she sits and relaxes all day and does nothing while making my brother and me clean the entire house paying us $3. im 17 and he is 12. I take care of myself when im sick and she acts like she eants me to go through that hell. for example, This week Ive had a horrible cough, runny nose, 101.4 fever, and headaches. she is making me go to school even if I have all those symptoms even though its against the school policy. I called my manager with these symptoms and he said I couldnt come in till the fever breaks for 24 hours. She expects me to pay for everything because I have a job. So I cant save up for a car because I need to buy my own food and other necesities. How can I tell if she actually cares about anyone other than herself. the only time she acts nice is when we are around family or friends.

How do I make sure she doesn't get others to dislike me in the family? I no longer do the manic stuff I used to do but she is an anxious person so doesn't forgive much. Her kids are nice to me except one so I don't want her getting them to dislike me or other family members.

I just came home from school about an hour ago, and afterwards, once my mom got off the phone, she was talking about something that came off the intercom. You see here, my mom told me I was supposed to have told my substitute teacher that I shouldn't have been counted absent. After that, I tried to say to her that I already did what she said to me about earlier this week, but then I thought she didn't believe me on what I had done earlier and then, we just ended up stirring a verbal argument with each other. It's over now, however. But the only thing is, how could I possibly prevent any more verbal fights from occurring between me and my mother, as well as my father? And, besides just having arguments with one another, just to be safe, how could I make this easier on myself without having to start up any more arguments?

I come from a dysfunctional family and I can't turn to them and I'm alone. I'm 18 but I'm emotionally just a kid. I haven't been to school in two years and now I'm homeless. I was in foster care ever since my mom moved a sex offender in and I was molested myself as a kid and I don't even know who my dad is. I have no family now as my mom hasn't spoken to Mayo since I was taken away. She says I brought painon her by getting her first boyfriend he must've me arrested. She never believed me that I was molested. I'm all alone and there's not a single person I know I'm afraid. I don't like being in a homeless shelter with other people because I don't trust people as my own family rejected me and molested me so I'm living under a bridge and I got this phone from a charity. Help me what do I do I live in North Carolina.

I'm 17 and live with my mum and stepdad, but my stepdads 24 year old gay son (who I've never even met) got thrown out of his mum and stepdads house and when they were gathering up his stuff they found pics of underage boys and he was arrested, but now he's been released on bail and my mum and stepdad are gonna let him move in with us because he has no where to go. But I don't want this sack of sh't in my house because I'm scared! He also has a record for gbh.

Hello my name is David I'm 21 years old but I grew up in a family where being naked is normal, my parents and my little sister have already been naked in front of me since my childhood, could it have been eroticized? Family nudity usually leads to incest.