Everything I say just goes in one ear and out the other then they twist it into something I NEVER said because, guess what? They ignored me. They don't give a **** about me, my feelings, or my opinions. My mother basically told me my opinion doesn't matter because she doesn't care. Maybe I shouldn't talk anymore. Obviously, nothing I say matters.

Lately as school has been going on I haven t felt like myself entirely. Right now I m kind of having some minor home problems but they add up.. My step dad has been accusing me of somethings and his kids are not making my life any better; as they cause nothing but trouble to my mom. It pains me to know about what my mom has done so much for them and they don t seem to appreciate anything. I just hope that my half brother doesn t become anything like them. Besides this, my grades have been falling ever since my step siblings have moved in two years ago and I just need some type of consolation and advice... moments like these I feel like my voice isn t heard and if you don t mind, please pray for me. Even a little prayer, I ll appreciate it. I have no guidance whatsoever and I WANT TO DO SO MUCH BETTER IN SCHOOL but I feel hopeless.. please help

I'm becoming increasingly concerned about how my in-laws are acting towards/treating my daughter. Ever since my step-sons mother came forward to inform my husband that he had a son his family has gone out of their way to do things for him and to see him, not that they have to try very hard, the mother pawns him off on them every weekend. My step-son was only 4 months old when she came forward about it so it's not like they are making up for years of lost time or anything and they've had him every single weekend, sometimes more, since he was 4 months old (he's now 2 years). Well anyway, we found out we were pregnant right before all of this happened and we didn't tell anyone due to some early problems and a previous loss and no one was in the least bit excited when we broke the news (even though our daughter was planned). Well after the shock wore off when I was pregnant my MIL was always talking about how excited she was and how she would be seeing her all the time blah blah blah and had some fantasy that she would be taking my daughter every weekend too, which didn't happen and isn't happening ever. Well anyway, since our daughter has been born, it's as if she doesn't even exist. No one calls about her, no one invites us over, no one comes over when invited, no one does anything for her or gets anything for her, nothing. We do go there most weekends at least one day so my husband can see his son (big custody battle going on, mother won't allow visitation) but if we don't go they don't even call to see how she is or anything or even call to see if we'll be there the next weekend. Even my husbands sisters are like this. They all would do all these things for my step-son that they don't do for my daughter - They buy him things all the time, took him to get pictures done on multiple occasions, one time everyone in the family went to have pictures done with him, they are in constant contact with my step-sons mother helping her out with this that and the other (since she's having a 3rd baby with a 3rd man), sending clothes home for him (even though my husband pays child support) and they don't ever do anything for our daughter. When he was my daughters age, everyone was doing everything for him and with him and someone was always holding him, but it's not like that with my daughter. It's not that I expect them to do anything or even want/need them to, I just feel like they don't even care about her and it's driving me crazy. She is their flesh and blood just as much as my step-son is, so why would they treat her so differently? I recently spoke with my Mom about it after breaking down about it and she said maybe it's because they are resentful that we don't allow them to take our daughter every weekend but I can't just hand her over, she is my life, my world and my everything, plus I breastfeed so I literally can't let them have her every single freaking weekend like my MIL claimed she wanted. I don't know I've just reached my limit with what I can take from them and I'm at the point that I'm about to cut all contact with them because I feel like they are treating my daughter completely unfairly and it's not right. I've tried my best since she was born to initiate a good relationship between all of us, but nothing is working, my FIL doesn't even say hi to me when we go there. Why would they act like this? Do you personally feel I am over reacting or do you think I'm right to feel this way? How would you handle this if you were in this situation?

My biological sister is an adult and lives with our mother. I haven't met either of them. But the mother is denying me contact with my sister. This has been ongoing for 2 years. To my knowledge the sister does not know she has any siblings and mother will not tell her. I want to write a letter to the sister, but how do I go about it? If our mother goes through her mail and finds out I tried to spill the beans, I'm screwed. She has absolutely no social media

So my dad really wants to see his mom but she lives in Mexico and my mom doesn't wanna go cause she says its to dangerous... So my dad brought up the idea of what if she came over here to visit ... Cause there's people who come from England and Asian to visit the US... So my question is how can my grandmas visit? We live in California ... Like where do you go and even start? I wanna help my dad!

My Mom owes me $3k and I'm tired of her holding back paying me back. She was suppose to pay me back in jan but hasn't given me a dime and would rather spend money on take out food and electronics that we don't need than pay me back anything. The longer she holds back on my money, the more she tries to tell me I'm using up her "equipment", which I do not. I've been buying my own food, don't take showers often (nasty ik), and keep my lights off just, so she can't say I've been using up her stuff. I just got out of highschool last year and she expects me to have my life together. She is so irresponsible and so is her boyfriend who is jobless drunk and lives with her. I'm tired of this stuff and we even have a contract that says she was suppose to pay me back (which she signed) but haven't. I'm just ready to rent a hotel for about a week (until I find someone to stay with) so I can get everything settled and get my money. I currently make a bit of money online, so I have expenses covered for a couple months. But I dont think I need a lawyer since we literally have a contract that she signed and I can just show the court system the contract and that she hadn't paid me back a dime. But I don't know where to start? Any help?

OK so long story short my friend doesn t go to same school as Me, but her sister does. She always stares at me doesn t say anything just stares each time she sees me in the hallways at school we don t have any classes together thank God, but both of our last hour classrooms are next to each other upstairs at school, when I go upstairs she ll just eyeball me down the whole time for some odd reason then today when I was walking to my class which is upstairs she was walking with her friend and she was talking about me I can tell because her & her friend turned and looked at me, I already know that she doesn t like me she just never told me the reason for it. But should I tell her parents about this?

Me and my brother have never been close. My relationship with him is walking into his room to say hi and his response being "Get away from me *****!" We're a year apart (I'm a 23 year old girl and he's 22) since we were kids he consistently insults me. he calls me Whale, loser, fat, failure, idiot, dumbass etc. There was a point in my life in high school where he would hit me all the time, I've gotten into physical fights with my brother before. My parents never cared and to this day tell me I'm too sensitive and that its my fault and how I react to him that he keeps being mean to me. They also say that thats how he shows love and that he's jealous of me because I graduated from college but I dont see it. he just moved back in after being in an apartment for a year.I felt like we finally had a normal brother sister relationship with him being away. I woke up this morning after working late into the night to speakers blasting music and him asking "Dont you think these are great?" I told him to please turn them off because I was tired and my family standing behind him rolled their eyes at me and told me I was being lazy. My brother in turn blasts the speakers even louder. I couldnt take it anymore and screamed at him to turn it off. When I did this he slapped me and told me I was an ugly idiot. My two brothers who witnessed the whole thing laughed at me and told me I was a psychopath. I cant take it anymore. Everyone finds him charming and loves him what do I do?

She is 15 years old and I've raised her on my own. She wants to meet her dad. Must I go with? Is it appropriate to invite him to our home. He is married with a 7year old girl

I will try to explain this situation the best I can. My parents divorced when I was nine. I had two brothers at the time, one was 11 and the other was 5. My mom left my Dad for a horrible, abusive man, taking us kids with her. My eldest brother was kicked out of the family home by my mother and her boyfriend within a couple of weeks and he went back to live with my Dad. Over the next year or so, life was really hard. My mother won custody of my younger brother and I, whilst my older brother stayed with my Dad. My Dad was in pieces, and I comfort him at weekends when he felt suicidal. Often, my Mom would deny my dad access to us just out of spite, and we were lead to believe he didn't want us. Mom would leave us for long periods of time alone, so I would take care of my five year old brother when I was only ten. We had changed area and changed schools. My mother was being abused by her boyfriend, and he would abuse us too. She'd promise to leave him over and over, always going back to him. Eventually, she began another affair, which I was pleased about as she left her boyfriend for this new man. He moved in with us, and turned out to be a violent alcoholic. They abused eachother, and both abused my brother and I, verbally and physically. They had a child together, who they did not abuse. We were constantly passed from one parent to another. I began self harming when i was ten and my mom would call me a psychopath and send me away. Both parents would poison us against the other one, meaning we were always in the middle, not sure who to believe. The abuse was bad for years. Social services were involved but never helped. My other brother was sent to our dad's permanently, but I stayed with my mother out of loyalty. Nothing ever got better until I moved out and I now have my own place with a gorgeous boyfriend, but am left with mental health problems and still self harm. I've tried confronting my mom, but she'll hardly admit she has done anything wrong. Currently, she is living in her own world. She is pretending my half brother has a severe illness, to get money from the government and for sympathy. It's all she talks about, literally. The thing is though, I wonder if she has some sort of mental illness. I don't know why, but I find it hard to cut her off. I did before christmas, but went round to see them on xmas day out of guilt. Then a month later, she text me asking if my half brother could come to see my kittens, and she ended up staying too. Yesterday was her birthday, so I popped in for five minutes to drop off a present and now she has pulled me into having a coffee with her on thursday... The other thing is, my Dad has turned out to be just as bad. He is a compulsive liar. The only things he talks about are his imaginary illnesses, going as far as to suggest he has cancer, M.S etc and his benefits (he brags about getting things for free) Also, my younger brother has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My father claimed disability for this and recieved £2000 in back pay, NONE of which he is actually spending on my brother. This is exactly what my mother is doing. Basically, my parents are lying, wastes of scaes, but they're my parents. What would you do? It's so hard to cut them out yet they never acknowledge what they do wrong.

I'm 20 years old male, I am on my third year in college and I live with my parents. Every time I go out my father asks me with who I am going out, until when I will be out, when am I going etc., and when I come back in home he waits for me only to complain about how late I am and he says that I must stop these "night-outs" (I only go out once in six months or so because of my low budget), while he goes out every night and he has a good social life (he drinks alcohol every day but somehow I don't think that he is addicted to it), so this behavior of him seems nonsense to me. Also for those warm-hearted people out there who are reading this and want to give me an answer, here is some more information about me. I have good manners and I always talk kindly with my parents and my loved ones, I live in a developing country and my only source of income is from my father who gives me a very small amount of money ($50 a month), I don't have a work because the unemployment is too high, so it is very hard to get a job. May he have this type of behavior because of alcohol, his narcissistic personality or maybe he "inherited" from his parents? I'm only trying to "solve the problem", so every answer is highly appreciated. Thank you very much for taking your time to read this.

My 24yr old son lied about going to this semester college,he also did this 2 semesters ago . Well my husband thinks do nothing he's working at his part time job. I so disagree,we put out money to help him in college and help him out during the semester and to find out he wasn't even going!! So until he pays us back the $1000 for books,interest on student loan,train,eating out,,,,,his car sits,,,which we bought him instead of using it for college.no insurance,no computer no video games,,,until he starts paying $400 a month for those things.My husband disagrees,,,,,,I guess it's easier for his dad to do nothing let his son off the hook so in 2yrs here we sit same thing again......any advice appreciated

and what is my daughter's relationship to my uncle? My daughter is having a baby next year, and I was wondering what the relationship is between my daughter and my uncle, and her child and my uncle?

They say a 3 mile round trip to the gas station once every 2 weeks is enough. I'm 19 and I want to get out so bad. I don't have any other adults that will help me. Advice plz.

What is my brother's wife's brother relation to me? This would be my brother's brother-in-law. In other words, what would have been the relationship between Jackie Kennedy's brother's (James Lee Auchincloss) and Bobby Kennedy? Or is there no relation at all?

I don't like doing anything for my kids. I don't understand why you legally have to up to a certain age. My kids are home schooled. I don't want to get either of them driving lessons, and I couldn't careless to teach them how to drive. I have never bought or taught them how to bike ride either, when they are through with school, I have told them they are not allowed to go to college until they are 25. Why? Because colleges go by our income(parents) until they are(my kids) are 24. And I will not be going into debt because of them. Do you think I'm being reasonable?

Like one dermatologist he was looking at my mom's chest while me and my sister were in the same room. When I was a child when my pediatrician touched my skin to feel my acne (especially my chest), his face and skin turned red. One doctor I knew married a female doctor but he tried to divorce her for another woman. Doctors are human, but men will be men.

So I'll start at the beginning. I've been swimming for 9 years now, and at the beginning, I enjoyed it, but now I detest it! I used to have a passion for it, but now I just want it all the end! I'm 17, and my mom thinks that I can get a scholarship for it, but I don't want one. My dad would be more than willing to pay for school (My parents are divorced) and he knows I do not want to swim! He wants me to quit if I don't like it! But she won't let me! I hate having to get up at 4am 4 times a week, and I have night practices 3 times a week! It is legitimately killing me! I have no social life, my mom verbally abuses me, and I have no time for school! My dad wants me to move with him (I do too) but the only reason I am not is because of how my mother would react. Any advice on what I should do would be great! Thanks

I am 14 and I have always slept in the same room as my twin brother. It was our birthday recently and our mom decided to suprise us that she will be doing up one of the 2 spare rooms into a bedroom so that we each have our own room. I don't want this however. I have never spent a night apart from him in 14 years and am scared to sleep without him. Am I being childish? What do I do? Should I tell my mom? What should I say to my brother? Pleased help.

There are parents who don't want their teenagers to go steady . There are also parents who don't want their children to date while they have schoolwork and other academic responsibilities to keep up with . My friend Carl says that a teenager's romantic life is none of their parents' business . I say if a teenage girl wants to specialize in men who are in their late twenties, Mom and Dad have to "help" her stick with her fellow teenagers . When my sister and I lived with my parents, they were in their sixties and they could hardly keep up with us . I knew they did NOT need an unplanned grandchild waking them up at 2:00 AM . I say parents have to get involved in their teenagers' romantic life . Teenagers have the whole rest of their lives to go steady or get involved with a much older romantic partner . Who's right ? Is it wrong to get involved in your teenagers' romantic lives . Isn't that part of a parents' responsibility ? Thank you in advance for your answers .

I graduated college last year, Ive been doing a few temps and I worked a full time job for two months back in the fall but had to quit. My family knows why because my boss was harrasing me. Now I just started another job and it requires cold calling all day and its based on comission with a very low base salary.. I truly hate it and I might stick around a few more weeks to get paid but I really want to quit and use that time to job hunt. The hrs are really long so I dont have alot of time to look around. I am still living at home so I can survive a few weeks wthout a paycheck. I want to quit and not tell my family ..yet, ill still follow the same routine of leaving early everyday bc I plan to go to a cafe with my laptop and job search and do that for a while then tell them I quit. My family is Asian and think im lazy but Im not, just having a hard time finding something thats good for me. If I let them know I quit they will be mad which is why I want to delay telling them. Im 22 yrs old.

I'm currently my daughter's representative payee. I wish to God that I had gotten adult guardianship, but with years of her talking about how she wanted to stay with us, etc., I never suspected she'd up and run off with this guy she barely knew. He claims it's so she doesn't waste the money. I do not want this. I'd rather send her money every month. If she wants to direct some of it towards rent, utilities, ec., that's fine. BUT I want her to be able to save, as well, for emergencies. For instance, what if they break up, and he's spent it all? Problem is, I believe that she has the right to change rep. payees. Can I do *anything* to protect her from being taken advantage of from a financial point of view? How should I handle this? If it's the only way to deal with this, how do I convince him it's in both their best interest for me to maintain r.p. status? I deleted too much. What I mean to say is that he wants us to turn her money over to him - make Him representative payee!

What the FOCK!

My sister has lived with me on and off for years. For those on and off years there have been issues with her paying her share, taking/using my things without permission or knowledge, bringing people into my home after being told not to (she hasn't done in many years) and just being difficult in general (like never apologizing for poor decisions that affect me ie lacking accountability for her actions) and having a bad attitude. She and my mother sometimes butt heads too, because she lies and does selfish things (to everyone). She is kinda out for herself. Thing is my 4 year old adores her. She can be fun. She is very helpful at times but also stressful. She is a good aunt but at times I wonder if less stress by not having her around would make things more peaceful at home. There really is no way to talk to her about it because she gets defensive and argumentative. She doesn't really have income to live on her own. Do I let her move with me?

Life is really hard to live right now I ve been dealing with a lot of stress most of it have to do with family. You see to them it s either perfect or imperfect I belong in the imperfect category my sister is in the perfect. Every day when im home they smile at my sister and then they look at me like I ruined the moment. When my sister gets good grades they praise her and tell her that she has done well. When I get good grades they just say that I could do better or that s not good enough. I tried talking to them about how they are treating me like trash and they blew up they said I was unthankfu and then they ground me for a week. Now my parents said that if I don t improve I ll be grounded forever and that s something I m terrible at. I m not good at anything and they ground me because of it. They called me unless and a disgrace sometimes. I m sick of living I cry in my sleep everyday and no one ever helps it s either I do it their way or I get grounded.

(Please dont judge me cause you dont know what has happened in my life)My name is Kayla and I'm 16...my uncle just about an hour ago caught me smoking meth and i don't know how to cope with moving in with him is there anything that can help me cause I already know I am way to young when I started smoking I was 14 and I have my mom and brothers and my puppy and kitty and I don't know what to do or how to cope...anything is helpful

every small things that comes out of her mouth is bull **** She's also very aggressive too. My family is fed up with her being very aggressive n lying to us about every little things. How do you deal with such a family member?? She's also very selfish and narcissistic too. My parents told her she needs to see a shrink cause she used to have drinking problem also she steals our money from our wallet. She doesn't want to see a psychologist. Please help! I'm locking my door all the time n I blocked her number from my cell phone cause she's very crazy but I can't avoid her cause we live together by the way we r all in 30s.. How do u handle such a person??

If a child's parents showers them with money and material items 24/7 and they lack discipline, are the parents abusing that child? I mean, if that child becomes so greedy and self-centered that they start developing behavioral issues (manipulating people in order to get their ways, bullying, throwing tantrums, etc). Does the CPS or a social worker have the rights to address the situation?

So my dad is in fact an alcoholic, but he isn't an abusive kinda guy. He just drinks and yells at us until we cry, but tonight was a different story. Now, I'm a pretty big 15 year old girl. I'm 5'11 and weigh about 160 pounds, plus I'm in an MMA program at my school which has taught me how to handle myself very well. Back to the story...My dad comes home with a couple of drinks and after he gulps them down, he goes to my brothers room and yells at him. I rush in to see whats happening, and he actually hits him, then throws him onto the floor and kicks his back. I go into some protective mode and grab my dad from behind then shove him to the floor. He slaps me when I try to keep him down by being on top, and that's when I punch him about 4 times in the nose with everything I can. My brother pulls me off and we go into the kitchen to call my older brother as well as my mom. My brother rushes home and actually thanks me for protecting Will (my brother) since my dad would beat my older brother as well. My mom tells us to call the cops, but I fear that I would be the one in trouble for hitting him. I feel as if he got what he deserved, especially when he pushed me down the stairs and I kept my head down. His nose is purple and bloody, but I don't feel as if I did that mucn damage. What do I do guys? Call the cops or apologize and beg for him to forgive me?

I am a smart person with great talents in most categories. I am good with math, physics, computer science and etc. I play 3 sports and I am varsity in all of them. Soccer, Tennis and swimming. I created apps and computer programs with java code. I create videos that look extremely professional and awesome. I am almost a pro at computer graphics. My ACT score is 22. The reason is that my math was 34 and science was 30. But my English and reading was below 20. I speak 2 languages fluently and know how to read and write in both. I have a wifi. A gaming computer that was built in 2012. And now struggles to live. I live in a house with my parents. We own 2 cars both 2016 and 2017. But we don'the have much money. I feel like my future is ruined.

Trust me I know I sound like a selfish brat, but the truth is I don't have a phone and I'm 13. I can't afford it and neither can my parents. I'm not trolling or anything and when I say my parents can't everyones gonna be like lol how do you have a computer then, well we aren't that poor, but this laptop I'm on is from my school. Anyways phones now a days are super expensive...

I'm frustrated because I'm a mother of three with two sweet step children. I work night shift as a charge nurse who comes how each week with 60 hours and swamp ***. He has a sit down paper work job and watch tv shift. Yet he expects me to do all of the chores. He will complain if I refuse to do them, saying I'm a slob and he can't live in a messy house. I am going to lose my mind. Please any advice

my grandmother hits me and calls me crazy and makes me feel absolutely worthless, my mom doesn t care about me and my brother, just our two younger half brothers, and my brother hits me. im scared to walk out my room in the morning because their going to start making comments about my weight and my grades (which aren t bad), and i have nobody. i mean, i have my best friend and other friends but i cant tell them any of this. the only person i really have is my uncle, because my grandmother treated him the same growing up, and i still feel like i cant even tell him. everything she tells me, i believe it. and it kills me. i just want my life back. i want to feel like a person who actually has worth and not feel like a burden to anyone.

so i need moving advice on whether i should move out of state or not since not even my parents can figure it out. me and my mom have wanted to move out of new jersey for the LONGEST time and we were finally going to this summer, but my older sister just committed to northeastern university in boston. we were planning to move somewhere out on the west coast but my mom doesnt feel right moving so far away! from my sister like that now. another option we considered is moving somewhere else in new jersey and just moving to at least a new house and a better area but i dont wanna have to go through the whole process of going to a new school if it's just gonna be a minor change from the lifestyle i have now. i guess staying here and not moving at all wouldnt be the WORST thing in the world but it's definitely our last option if we find a better one. please help, im very confused and dont know what to do.. thx!

I am a 16 year old girl and I share a room with my sister, which means she has constant access to all of my belongings. She constantly touches my makeup, expensive perfumes that my boyfriend bought me, my clothes, shoes, lotions and anything she can get her hands on. Anytime I try to tell my mom she yells at me instead saying I can share, but if I ever touch anything that belongs to someone else I get grounded. One example of this happening literally just happened. It's my birthday in two weeks and my friend bought me a $15 lipstick that I've been wanting for years and I realized it was missing. I walk into the bathroom and my sister is sitting on the counter with it on, bottle next to her. I've had this lipstick since 2 today. Not even 24 hours and she's already wasting it and taking it without my permission. How can I keep my stuff from her and avoid getting in trouble? I'm thinking of buying a lockbox, as I plan on purchasing a huge haul of makeup with my birthday money and will actually get so pissed off if she touches it. Makeup is my main hobby and I can't stand when people interfere with it, especially because it's so expensive and I don't have a job yet to replace it. Any advice?

She is no longer married to my Dad and hasn't been for 20 years. My Dad drinks too much and so my Mom tells the whole world. My uncle (my Mom's brother) drinks too much and just entered rehab and my mother keeps it a secret even from me (a cousin told me). I have always wished she'd keep my Dad's issues private but she won't and says I am an enabler when I keep stuff private. Why might this be? There are many other examples.

She is my enemy

they don't mistreat me but their actions piss me off. i can never be in a good mood while i'm around them. you don't have to read the rest, i'm basically ranting. i'm just going to list things off and not get into them because then this question would become too long. 1. they make a big deal out of EVERYTHING. 2. they pressure me into doing things i don't want to do. 3. they are extremely over protective. 4. they do not respect that i have my own life. 5. they remember silly things i say but not important ones. 6. they jump to conclusions way too fast. 7. my dad will get angry at me for no reason. (example, one time i was just chilling in my bedroom and watching a funny video, my dad storms down and is pissed at me.) 8. they talk yo my cat like he can understand what they are saying. 9. they do not mind their own business. 10. my mother lies a lot. 11. they blame everything on sleep when my dad literally stays up until 1am sitting on the couch drinking beerand watching tv. 12. my father will judge my sisters looks, weight, and boobs. there is so much more but honestly i'm too angry to write more. i've been wanting to move out since age 12.

Right now, my family, a family or four, is living in an small apartment. My older sister and I share a room together. I have no where to study. The only place I have is our living room, where people are constantly talking. I can t use my room because my sister has her stuff everywhere and gets mad when I move things. Studying on a couch is not fun. Before someone asks, I cannot go to the library as no one is able to take me. Apologies that this is poorly typed, this whole situation is bothering me. :/

I m 29 yrs old. 3 kids. We live next to each other. I m always there when she needs someone to talk to and listen to her problems. But if I even bring up a problem in my life she doesn t want to hear it. She says she doesn t want to hear it or I m making her miserable. If I joke around with my kids like telling my son he could turn into a zombie she tells me that I m cruel. Everything I do is wrong. She makes me feel like the worst mother in the world. She sees my kids but doesn t have a real relationship with them. She does with my sister and her kids though . My mother has never even watched one of my kids but did 3days a week for yrs for my sister. When I mention anything about my life or problems she tells me that she s not happy anymore because of me. I am so sweet to her and wish she would be there for me and love me like she loves my sister and her kids. I feel not wanted. My sister is moving down here this week and I feel like she s trying to get rid of me before my sister gets here. It hurts alot. I don t know if I should just walk away. I don t want to but It seems like I m in there way

I don't like doing anything for my kids. I don't understand why you legally have to up to a certain age. My kids are home schooled. I don't want to get either of them driving lessons, and I couldn't careless to teach them how to drive. I have never bought or taught them how to bike ride either, when they are through with school, I have told them they are not allowed to go to college until they are 25. Why? Because colleges go by our income(parents) until they are(my kids) are 24. And I will not be going into debt because of them. Do you think I'm being reasonable?

so my older sister came from abroad where she lived for years, and it's been about three months since she arrived - but my opinion on her is really puzzling, she has changed alot!! like one second she's sweet to me, and the next she's extremly rude (like very very rude) to me or to my mom or one of my other siblings and generally picking fights with anybody.... and today she's just been bugging me like crazy again and i have been enduring her alot, although we went out and we had alot of fun, but at the dinner table she started bugging me again and blaming my mom for stuff (and my mom has diabetes and i hate to see her upset) so today i decided i was going to respond to her and i'm no longer going to be careful with my mouth and i'm going to give her a taste of her own medicine... so i said some really harsh things that she herself would say, and it really bothered her alot, my mom asked me to go to my room to ease the situation and i did -- one hour later my mom said that my sister is crying and is upset... i know how it feels to be talked down to like that (by her) but then again i didn't say anything that she wouldn't say and i know i could have been even harsher with the things i say but i didn't want to and still made her cry and i do feel like **** and want to apologize to her but i know if i did she will go back to acting like a hothead again by the morning so am i in the wrong for giving her a taste of her medicine? should i apologize or not? @steve - i understand but i have tried telling her many times that she is being rude and she responds with "i'm just being honest and you don't accept honesty" or responds with being even louder and ruder

Okay, so I'm a college dropout living with my parents and trying to figure out what to do when it comes to jobs and whether or not I should go back to school. I also live in the middle of nowhere, you actually need a car. There is no Uber or Busses around. So anyway my dad's workplace is so shorthanded that they're willing to hire family members so he asked me if I want to do it. He says I'll get probably paid $260+ a week and possibly more if I work overtime, which I admit sounds really, really great. However the catch is I'll have to pull the same exact hours as him since he's my ride...and he's half-dead from the hours he has to pull. More so now than before when they weren't shorthanded. Even then I could probably live with it but it's also focused heavily on manual labor, and I have a epilepsy and a few old sports injuries that never fully healed and do not like being irritated. Both my wrists are weak and feel like they're going to break when I stress them too much, both my thumbs are messed up too, and my hip acts up on occasion and makes it hard to walk without pain. And if you know anything about epilepsy then you'd know that stress + pain + fatigue isn't advised. ...and my dad works around 10+ hours every single day. I don't know what to do. My logic is pointing towards not risking my health but it's also a job and I'd be helping my dad who needs help. I feel like an ungrateful child for not immediately saying yes but I'm also worried about pushing my luck.

So I go to this public activity. And my friend isn t into that, but we re still friends. Her sister goes to it though. And her sister gossips and says nasty stuff about me behind my back. The only way I know this is because my friend tells me so her sister can t play the same trick she did on her last friend (yes, her sister is like freaking evil) The old, "I was talking behind your back and my sister did nothing" trick. So today her sister crossed the line. She said I had autism, and I don t. She s a highschooler who has no degree or class in phycology. She has no right to say that. The only problem is I was misdiagnosed with autism before, and ive been insecure about it ever since. What s even worse is that I have an autistic brother, and I m nothing like him! So I know I m not, but 1 I m ticked off that girl thinks that and 2 I always have been afraid I was autistic, not socially awkward or acting randomness(like loudness or not caring what people think) (because I m in theater) (also I made the word up, phcologist called it extroversion. Also I know what extroversion is, but I felt like adding that in) what the phycologist concluded. What do I do?????

We get off if a family member dies so do I have the right to here? Does this count as a family member? I only met the person then a kid (now 27 year old) twice back in the 1990s and have not seen the person since. I feel like I lost my own child as she was the whole world to me. I can barely go on

My mother has shown that love just means visit them if their gravely ill and pray that they go to heaven. Also go to the funeral if they were to die.

She remains mad at her mother's father for not being good to her mother. He died in November 1986. She also has the bitterness towards three of his five kids and resents those three kids for backing their father and not their sister ( my mom's mother). So is bitterness OK? Does it serve a human well when they have been wrong?

My dad made a new rule about using a coaster on the coffee table and like any new rule it takes time to remember. My mom doesn't even use a coaster half the time because she would forget. But my dad just came home from work and he was all happy and saying hi and stuff but then he sees my water bottle on the coffee table with no coaster and goes ballistic and starts screaming and sends me to my room and I was just like what?! This isn't fair, it's a new rule... And he was like where is your phone?! and I said I don't know and he started screaming for my phone and sent me to my room. I texted my mom the situation and when she came home i called her up to my room and she interrupted me and said no I think you should be in your room. I said for not using a coaster?! And she said yes. So later I went downstairs and my parents were like having a little meeting about me and how I was like being terrible or something so I thought maybe i was being disrespectful. But no my dad goes on a rampage about the coasters. So I said I'm leaving and going to grandmas I can't be here anymore. And my mom said fine go! But my dad said no and I said well mom just gave me permission so I'm gonna go. So my mom starts yelling and saying this will be brought up in therapy but personally my therapist will probably laugh in her face. Am I missing something here or are they being ridiculous???

This will be in about 5 months what can I do? And she's very serious and crazy I've always had problems with her she's a very hard person to deal with.

I'm a 13 year old boy and my cousin is a 6 year old girl. I was babysitting her and her 8 year old brother yesterday after school. Right before her mom got home with dinner, my cousin was supposed to take a bath. While she was in the bathtub, I played with her brother. When she came out of the bathroom, she walked in the room completely naked and she jumped on me. My hands were in my lap and when she landed on me her vagina was right on top of my hand. I moved my hand immediately, but I feel like I violated her. Was this my fault? Should I tell someone? Please help

I would like some help, but i dont know, I feel like a failure since they said it was kind of a mess ( not dirty, but just alot of stuff) I am a stay at home mom, so it's not like I leave it messy on purpose...for parents who stay at home you understand lol...I just feel like , oh great now they think i am just a mess and a slob...I have a very active toddler, so it's hard to keep up with both..I am very stressed out, cus I do it all , I know , who wouldnt want help lol , but I just feel like a bad parent, cus my house isnt fully cleaned compared to other people or families : ( I know, I shouldnt be offended and I am just being a b*itch right? I just wished I could be able to do it