https://www.bustle.com/p/11-signs-you-had-emotionally-abusive-parent-it-still-affects-you-now-63129 https://nobullying.com/abusive-parents/ Emotional abuse can be the most difficult to identify because there are usually no outward signs of the abuse. Emotional abuse happens when yelling and anger go too far or when parents constantly criticize, threaten, or dismiss kids or teens until their self-esteem and feelings of self-worth are damaged. Emotional abuse can hurt and cause damage just as physical abuse does. I found those online, everything about emotional abuse sounds like my dad. i get ignored by him, he calls me hurtful names. hes always telling me how im not good enough, and he expects me to do things for him all the time. if you think i sound whiny or annoying please just skip this question because ive cried everyday since i was 12 and i cried a lot before that too (im 14, 15 in February) i dont know what to do anymore and i think my moms starting to be that way as well. please help me and tell me what i should do, i dont wanna call someone, i just want to be able to deal with it.

my brother is running a high fever, i already missed 2/3 classes for a doctors appointment, and neither of my parents can stay home with him. is it acceprable to skip the last class of the day? (I heard from a friend all we do is two worksheets) and I'd have parental consent.

I went to the doc today to c why i have been cramping so badly after being told I was in fact prego. When i went in, they checked for hours, sent me to the ER and determined I wasn't prego, I had a miscarry a few days b4 and didn't kno! I was so heart broken that after they cleaned everything out, I came home.. cried my eyes out and fell asleep. I told my bf when I woke up. He said it didn't make since and he needs to think. he thinks i'm using him when he wanted the baby a lot more than me as i'm a student but i don't believe in abortions. I got upset at the fact he was accusing me of having an abortion or lying behind his back!! my heart hurts and he just broke up with me and said he knows how bitches like me are. we have been dating for 4mons. I can't stop crying. i'm 24 and he is 32.

my brother's running a high fever, i already missed 2/3 classes for a doc appointment, is it acceptable to just skip the rest (with parental consent) of the school day?

divorced 2 years ago, 2 kids 11 yr old daughter. 9 yr old son My fiance and I have a baby. My daughter loves them. My son did to at first. They started telling me their mom told them I had a baby because I don t love them and I m replacing them. she told my son that I don t think he s mine. I ve never said he wasn t. I ve told him this and he says mom wouldn t lie to me My ex wouldn t let me see them for a year. she denies visitation when she feels like it.She tells the kids that I don t see them cause I don t care. The kids have been there when I ve been at her house to get them and she won t let them come. He told me mom s boyfriend hits him. I confronted her, she denied it. he s telling his mom my fiance hits him, that I make him sit in his room all day, he isn t allowed to play and isn t allowed to participate in game night. All lies.If I do anything with anyone, he throws a tantrum, says I don t love him and I m ignoring him. if I speak to my oldest daughter he asks me to do something and when I tell him he needs to wait because his sister is speaking to me he pouts then refuses to speak to me until the next day. my fiance wouldn t hit any child Plus she is never around him alone so I know that it s lies. He s causing stress between my fiance and I. She told me maybe we shouldn t be together because she doesn t want to lose our baby over false allegations my son is making. he refuses to talk to me. All he says is yeah I told mom that so what

I like attention like anyone but sometimes my husband goes overboard to where it is a turn off. Constantly wanting attention and its not like he doesnt get any. If anything I likely enable it at times. I dont know how to approach this with him with out hurting his feelings

My step sister is almost 21 and super weird but apparently not "special" in the educational sense anyway. She's been living with us for almost a year because she dropped out of college. Recently she decided that the storage space under our stairs needs to be a Harry Potter room and she's driving everyone crazy trying to get stuff out of there. My parents have both said "someday but not yet" because we just moved in here a week before school started and there's some stuff that we still have stored in that space. I think everyday she asks each of us at least once about some item or box in there wanting to sell it, throw it out or put it in one of our rooms. Last night I heard her tell my mom she wants to make a playroom for me and my sister in there. Ok, we're 11 and 14 and its a freaking storage closet...we aren't going to play in there. She's such a knucklehead. How do I make her just stop?

So for the past couple of weeks my 13 year old brother has been going to school late every week, probably twice a week or more. My parents have literally done everything and I mean everything, including taking away his PlayStation etc but he's still carrying on no matter how much he's getting told off by my parents, detentions and letters threatening to take my parents to court. I feel like there's something more to this, because before this my brother used to hate being late, he was always early. But now it's the opposite. Bearing he mind he still wakes up early, but for some reason leaves late all the time. I'm starting to think all sorts of things like is he getting bullied? Should I raise this concern with my parents? I know if I ask my brother he would completely shut me off. I'm not the closest to my brother (7 year age gap) but I still do care about him and I don't want my parents to go to court. What should we do?

Hey y'all. So tbh i don't understand why some people (typically parents in teenage years) are so strict when it comes to weed lol. My dad did it when he was younger, my mom is a pot head (she literally smokes with my other grown siblings) but yet they punish me when i got caught. My dad flipped when he caught me the first time and my mom was pissed too, but i feel like sometimes parents don't listen to us. i have always been and still am an A , B student. I️ do sports and i have a job (I'm 16). Without weed i can't sleep for **** and I've always been a pretty good kid. And tbh when I️ have my down time I️ don't see anything wrong w simply smoking a bowl and enjoying my time. What's your opinion on weed as a whole ?

He makes about $100 to $300 an hour, depending on the workload. However, my parents still donate $40 to $50 to the church once per week. Also, I'm a freshman in college, getting ready for college, and I want an iPhone X as well.

When I was 7, my mom took me halfway across the country without even asking me if I was okay with moving away from my dad and the rest of my family. I'm 15 now and still missing my home and family. I only get to see them once a year, and I don't even look forward to holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas anymore because I have no family to spend it with. I have nothing here, no friends or family except my mom, and I just feel so depressed. I asked her if we could possibly move back, but she just told me not to talk about it anymore. Everytime she meets a guy online, who she's only known for 1 month at the most, she talks about moving there, but when it comes to me, she just says she can't pick up everything and move even though she was willing to do it for someone she just met online. I don't understand why she won't even discuss it with me, but I feel so trapped and unhappy here, I don't know what to do?

Last night me and my sister were watching a show about the 1985 Los Angels Night Stalker she was really scared to sleep last night. We're in Ohio we're not anywhere near L.A. . She knows that but people can still do that stuff today if they grow up to be like him. She's really afraid to sleep alone she also said it was really sad and stupid she said there was a part she didn't like where the guy broke into this girls how and raped her right in front of her baby. She has a daughter from her previous marriage she wouldn't want her to ever have to see anything like that. She's not allowed to have a dog. We live way out in the country we live down a long drive way so it's hard to hear sometimes who's coming down the road at night. She said an alarm won't help either. She watches too many real scary movies. I can't tell her it was just a movie. She said this guy is even scarier than Manson. She loves Manson I don't know how he doesn't scare her but this other guy did and he did the same thing. How can I help her feel better ?

My sister who's 3 is extremely stubborn and my mother spoils her by giving in every time. I don't know where she found my guitar, because I had hidden it under the bed with 5 sheets covering it and always ensure it's kept safe from her. We live in an apartment so there aren't many places where I'm going to hide it. When I take it away from her she starts crying so loudly and my mother SHOUTS at me and says you should have kept it better you ungrateful child. and now she's letting her break it and do what she wants while she's on Facebook. Tomorrow I'm going to tell my counsellor, but I'm too scared

I'm 14. My mom has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and more. She's being treated right now, but before that she was terrible. She'd starve us, hit us, hit herself, threaten us with knives, threaten to kill herself, beat herself with a stick until her head bled. This really traumatized me and my little brother (he's 11 now but all of this began when he was barely 4.) My dad, who tried really hard, would leave work early to pick us up and buy us food, etc. It was so hard to get my mom to go to a doctor, but she finally did last year. She's not ok yet, but she's better. She isn't violent, but she hasnt apologized for past violence and still thinks what she did was right. I know it is selfish of me, but seeing her only reminds me of all the abuse I went through. Even CPS came. I was so underweight and sick and she'd hit me so much. That'a why I don't want her to come with us everywhere. She refuses to let my dad be alone with me and my brother now that she's less sick. She's still very restrictive, food wise, and my dad never has any opportunity to get us any. It's bad for her health to isolate herself, I know. But this isn't isolating, for example: She works @ the same company as my dad. My dad starts work at 6, she starts at 10. At 11, he got permission to leave early so he could pick me and my brother up and get us something to eat, but she saw him leave and came. Idk what to do. I'm so hungry. I know I should report it but it would destroy my family and she is being medicated :/ My mom has been diagnosed with all of these, she has been hearing voices and she's had a very traumatic past which caused PTSD, and she has severe mood swings. We are not starving but we are not getting enough food or nutrients to sustain us. And until you become a psychiatrist or at least get the bravery not to be anonymous, maybe don't comment on questions you can't answer.

Every, let's say 2 days, she will say I'm dumb, I'm stupid, "my tongue only works in the house" and god knows what other things she says. She mutters the b word in our language so much and calls me a cow with no brains. She doesn't do anything for me: she doesn't drop me to school, she doesn't cook for me, she doesn't take me for extracurricular clubs. She has done a lot for me when I was younger but why does she keep verbally abusing me. I've almost given up.

7 years ago, I moved across the country and away from most of my family. I was homesick at first, but figured it would go away after awhile. However, after my most recent visit, I've found myself wanting to go back to Georgia even more. I miss seeing my family, and we rarely see each other on the holidays because everyone's either working or can't afford a plane ticket. I miss being able to spend time with them more and not just once during the year. I don't have anything keeping me here, but I'm also not sure if moving back would be a mistake. What should I do? The reason I'm not sure if I'd be making a mistake is because I'd be starting over completely. I'm nervous that I won't be able to find a decent job or apartment if I move back.

I will soon be an adult (according to the law) and I want to study abroad. First, because I've always wanted to travel and studying in another country would be a dream come true. And secondly, because I want to live my own life, and make my own decisions (even if it means making a mistake, at least it will be a mistake because of me and not anyone else.) My parents separated when I was very young and made me live a nightmare by fighting over my custody. I love them. And I know they love me. But I always told myself that at 18, I'll do my own life and make my own decisions. They want me to stay close to them, but I just want to go far away from them, at least for one year. I'm tired of people making decisions about how my life should be. Am I selfish for wanting to live away from them ?

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Long Version: About a week ago I put a lanyard on my keys for the first time ever. The very next day I was backing out of a restaurant when I can only assume the lanyard got caught on something, snapping the key off in the ignition. I was still able to jam the key nub in the ignition to start it, until my older brother stole my Jeep last night, did a bunch of drugs, and lost the key nub. I may be homeless by this time next week, so buying a new one is not an option. I need to get to college, my little brother needs to get to school, and my mom needs to get to her doctors appointments. My leg amputee dad is stranded 20 miles up a remote mountain alone. He and his 20 dogs will starve if I can't get to them. Short version: My key is snapped off in the ignition and the key chip is nowhere to be found. I can't afford a new one. What are my options?

I can't see him at Christmas cause he and my step-Mom are taking a cruise with her family. She is always jealous of me but my Dad denies that when I bring it up to him. I will see them next in spring. My Mom died so I feel rejected though I have an aunt who has me over for holidays. An aunt is not the same as a Mom and Dad or siblings. I am 31 but hurt like a child. He and my step-Mom have three grade school kids. Her daughter who is my age also gets to go but she doesn't want me. She apparently just wants "family" for the holiday and includes me when friends are there or in-laws. She considers me an in-law. I really hurt, how do I cope with this through New Years?

I have a great friend (shes like an aunt) that i talk to almost everyday. Today i called her as i needed her advice, something was bothering me extremely bad, In order for her to help me i had to let it out to her a secret that i was embarrassed about that I've never told anyone about.. ( it was that i had never gotten with a guy/had sex with a guy) I cried and let out my secret to her on the phone. She helped me through it, talked to me and showed all her love to me. It was a huge secret to me, i never even told my mom or sisters or anyone but her. I feel entirely embarrassed and i told her, she said "dont be, its okay. If i made you feel like that i am sorry"she continued to talk to me for a long time saying all good stuff.. it was a sentimental call and she explained how much she still love and cares for me... i just feel embarrassed still that i told her a big part of me. Shes my best friend, is it bad that i feel embarrassed? I truested her a lot to hell her but i feel so embarrassed... help I guess i feel upset is because when she was my age she was the cool kid who had already had sex by then.. im afraid i look like a boring loser to her.. she said to let all of those thoughts go because of how greatly she wishes she was like me when she was young but still Im 18 and my friend is much older, shes like an aunt). 50s

I m a week away from being 19 and my mother and stepfather control basically EVERYTHING I do. All Im allowed to do is chores around the house. I m not allowed to go out past 5pm without my younger sister and my stepdad thinks I shouldnt have a boyfriend until i finish college, no one is allowed over, and he even installed cameras around the house to make sure he knows what time everyone goes out, what time we come back and who we go out with. My boyfriend has been kept a secret from him because my mom says if he d know I m dating him, he d automatically think of me as a slut, a whore and all of that, which is something I don t understand. It s pretty normal for a 19 year old to be dating. My brother was allowed to do anything he wanted, he even took everything and left and they were somewhat ok with it, but as soon as I say something about moving out at atleast 20 yrs old, I m gonna be a bum in the street and I ll only be opening my legs to whoever. My mom says as soon as I get a job or move out, Id be on my own. But my brother is 20, and in the army and she still helps him financially, meanwhile, if i get a part time job, im supposed to work some magic and support myself. What kind of **** is that? This stresses me out because Im just locked up 24/7. Its also making me hate my family and I dont want that cause my mom means alot to me. She just follows everything my stepdad says. All I want is a little freedom or to move out with my boyfriend and not argue.

My 14 yr old son had his female classmate come in for a group project .. I had to run some errands so I left home .. when I came back I caught them having sex . I called the parents of the girl . Her mom came and started accusing me that I purposely left them unattended to help my son have sex with her . She said she will complain of rape . Although both are minors . I don't want my son to face any legal trouble . They had a thing for each other and did with consent How to face this issue in case she did complain to police ?

Hi, so I'm getting kicked out of my house. I have my plan sorted out i think. But the thing is my elder sister wants to come with me. She's getting annoying and I understand I may sound like a ***** rn but she treats me like **** when nothing bad happens, she humiliates me in front of people. she compares me all the time with other things and says bad things about me all the time. When something bad happens then, she tries act like she's on my side and all that but honestly it only feels like she only likes to do all these things to prove that shes special and nice. I've seen it before i would make her laugh and joke one time and when my dad comes home she acts all quiet and depressed. She says she has social anxiety and makes me buy groceries because she says she's scared to go outside and when im getting kicked out she all of a sudden can go out. I've tried to get closer to her but she didn't want to. Why should I want now

My dad is against weed but he's not hardcore anti-drugs. We sometimes debate/argue about it but at the end of the day nobody's mind is going to change

when my grandpa was died, i was there when he left with my entire family and i wanted to laugh.

So, today me and my brother went out to play soccer, we were playing near a small tree that was close to our house, what we didn't know was that a beehive was near the tree as well. When I kicked the soccer ball, my brother missed it and it hit the tree near us which made it shake. It disrupted the bee's nest and made them come out. Problem was the fact that my brother was closer to it and the bees thought that he was the one that disrupted them, so they stung him multiple times until he ran into the house. I asked him if he was ok which he said yeah he was but just in a little pain and feeling itchy. I feel really bad now about that :( what should I do to help?

Our whole family loves country music I like the old country a lot more. Mine and my sister's favorite band Is the Dixie Chicks we loved them since we were kids. My sister had all their CDS but she said one is missing she thinks I took it I keep telling her over and over I didn't touch it. I wouldn't take something from her without asking it's been going on for 5 years it's driving me nuts. It's their live CD has all our favorite songs on it our favorite song is Goodbye Earl we always danced to that when we were younger. That's the CD that's missing she's looked everywhere for it she keeps saying I took it. I don't know why she would think that. I would buy her a new one but stuff from.them especially CDS are hard to find anymore. She has them all on her ipod it's not like she's going to see them in concert and needs the CD that bad. Will she ever get over it ? How can I help her ?

Im 23 and live with my parents. I am a single mom and got pregnant at 18 (yes, I know I was dumb). Anyway my parents weren't mad more like disappointed. After my daughter was born I dropped out of college and started working in retail. 2 years into my jobs I decided to go back to school and just graduated with my associates. I started pursuing other job options and have recently been offered a full time position in a preschool. Well my parents are happy but everyday regardless of how hard I try I cannot seem to please my mom at ALL. Whatever I do does not seem to be up to her standards. I could have spent the whole day cleaning the entire house and she will still find something to ***** about. She constantly reminds me I need to lose weight and pointing out my flaws (acne here and there, body fat). But when it comes to my sister she praises her. She brags about how she has her life together, which she does. She is married and has her **** together and she is 30. I feel dumb asking this question but I do not have anyone else to talk to. Am I doing something wrong? Should I just suck it up until I can afford to move out on my own with my daughter?

My 5 yr old sister recently got a shoulder length haircut and loves it, my 15 year old sister (who s pessimistic & bad mannered) has been calling her "Dora" this whole day every time she talks to her which I always reply to my 5 yr old sibling that her hair is beautiful. I m worried my 5 yr old sibling who already has a classmate who hates her and might tease her new hair and the teasing she gets at home with my 15 yr old sibling might get depressed over her new hair and start to regret it :( What can I say to make her stop teasing her? (We haven t talked in years bc of how different her personality traits are to mine) I m 17

When I was about 7, my mom decided to move across the country. In my old home, I was near my family and got to see them a lot, and had some close friends. Now, I have no friends and I've lost contact with my old ones. I also miss my family a lot, since I only get to see them for a week in December and during summer break. The family I have here I don't get along with well, and would rather not see them. I'm 15 now, and still want to go back, but I doubt my mom would want to move back there. I just miss the way things used to be and my family. What should I do?

Long story short: my daughter and I have had a very.. bad.. relationship. There was a time when we were good, even awesome! But that's like 10 years ago. She's now 20 and lives at home doing nothing (quit school + no job), anyway when she was a child my wife (her mom) and I fought a LOT, we're still married but our relationship is very estranged but anyway, and yes I did hit my wife but NEVER my daughter EVER even to this day. Anyway it got to the point where my daughter had to call police, and yeah this was when she was like 12~ so I know how traumatizing it could have been. As she got older in high school, we fought more and more and while I admit I have anger issues, so does she. She didn't make it into any good schools so whenever we argued I always brought up the fact (even if it's totally irrelevant to the argument) that she was too stupid to get into any good college and won't go anywhere in life. And now that she QUIT college I still tell her the same, and she has no social life, does nothing etc. but this is ONLY when we argue and let me tell you - she IS NOT INNOCENT!! She yells at me and constantly mentions me cheating, gambling despite that not being a reality for YEARS!! (Yes I've had problems before). Now she completely acts like I dont EXIST! No talking, no LOOKING?! Refers to me by my first name. I tried talking to her but she just says 'she lost all respect for me'..?! What can I do? i tried asking her why she hates me and just talking even about random topics to lighten the mood but she ignores me or tells me "i have no respect for you" "i hate you" etc. how am i supposed to fix this myself when she's HALF THE PROBLEM?! before our last argument she would at least have a conversation with me about topics like the news, my work, trending topics but nothing deep. NOW AFTER the latest argument, she acts like i just dont exist! treats her mom and sibling the total opposite. @ Peri-Ingles, yes of COURSE i would, every person deserves a chance. and while i may have upset her with my word choices, it is HER choice she is where she is now and if she can't handle the truth then maybe she should do something. and the domestic violence, cheating, and gambling have STOPPED for YEARS! the only thing i had a problem with was maybe cheating (if you even consider it that, complicated) the past year, and gambling a couple years ago. but its been DONE WITH

He went home during fall break and got outed to his parents. They literally BEAT him, like, bruises and everything, but since he's an adult he says he can't do anything. I don't know if that's true or if he just doesn't wamt to get them in trouble, but he's been miserable and crying every since, so I think they should get in some sort of trouble. Regardless of age, no one should get beaten by their parents.

Lately my Mom has been telling me pretty much what to do with my kids etc telling me when to potty train my kid (she's almost 2) kinda pushing it down my throat. Also been nagging at me to come get a dresser before Winter which we aren't storing in our garage (we are moving at some point around January) also the dresser I never asked her to get as we don't have the room for it right now. I just feel every time I try to talk to her I feel she doesn't listen to me and pretty much tells me how to raise MY KIDS and what to do. I'm 5 months pregnant and don't need her added stressfull life upon me. Even my Husband is getting tried of it. What do I do?? She's been very opinionated when we got our cat too. Telling us not to get her. (We love on our own) so I don't know what her deal is. My Sister who's 16 acts just like her towards me as well. Not as Bossy, but close enough.

My life has always been difficult and I always thought the older I get the easier things will be but it just gets more stressful. My father commited suicide a year ago after being an alcoholic my whole life. My mom is also a drinker and makes very poor decisions. A week ago she called me in the middle of the night and said some guy tried to murder her. My sister and I spent the whole next day trying to find her and we finally did she was fine. She showed up at home a few days later (we live together) drunk and started yelling at me for everything. The next day she went and picked up my niece at 8am my sister was sleeping but my mom woke her up and told her she was taking her. 8 hours later 3pm my sister woke up and realized her daughter was gone and freaked out becasue she didn't know where she was. She came over once she found out my mom had her and beat her up and somehow I got dragged into it to. My mom was depressed after and started talking about suicide which she does at least once a week. This stuff happens all the time and I feel drained and exhausted. I also have a very high strong four year old boy, full time school, and work to worry about. I keep trying to stay upbeat and on track but I'm having trouble keeping myself centered. I even keep flipping out on my boyfriend who does nothing wrong, I don't want to loose.him over all this. The only family I have is my mom and sister so cutting them off would leave me pretty alone..

My daughter (she is soon to be 18 years old) has been rapidly gaining weight for a while now, but I didn't really notice until recently when my husband pointed it out. She had a physical the other day and was shocked to hear from her doctor that she gained nearly 100 lbs with in a year. She went from 128 lbs to 220 lbs. She was always thin, so this is odd to me. She's barely ever home and when she is home she's sneaking junk food into her room. Mainly chips, cupcakes, and doughnuts. One day when I was bringing her laundry to her room while she was out of the house, I saw her laptop was opened and unlocked still. I see a video left open, so naturally I pressed play on it and the video is of her and a mystery boy feeding her junk food (like I had mentioned earlier chips, cupcakes, doughnuts, but also having her drinking a milkshake of some sort) and shaking/rubbing her bloated belly. I clicked next on her laptop and there was another video I saw of her on top of said mystery boy and he was again shaking her belly and rubbing lotion on it. She has a fold in her stomach so he is lifting up the top part of her belly to rub lotion around her belly. That was when I got way more concerned. What in the world is my daughter doing? How do I approach her about this?

My nephews dad is not in the picture and my sister asked if I could be an example for him, like take him with me to the urinal when out and a few times at home. Is this an appropriate and normal practice?

She crushed my dreams about going to college far away and for what I want to study, and now she's angry and blaming me because I'm upset with her. Why can't she ever except that it's not only me that causes problems and things are her fault too sometimes?

I've always known I was adopted. It never bothered me. My parents chose me specifically. That's awesome. Now, I have a younger sister. She was a 'miracle birth' as our mom loves to say. She and I have always been close, but lately she's been more flirtatious. Over the years she's.... developed very well. She presses her breasts into me, she likes to sit on my lap and 'grind' when no one's looking. I live only a few blocks away from out parents' place so she visits a lot and we she does she somehow always finds an excuse to show more skin than one might find appropriate(shower, yoga, swimming in my pool, 'accidentally' spilled something on herself, etc.) It's gotten painfully obvious she's into me and I wont deny I'm attracted to her as well. I'm 24 and she's almost 18 (just three months short). I'm not looking for an excuse or a reason to 'go for it' while she's still considered underage. I'm just not sure on the morals of it. It's technically legal for us to date since we're not blood related (in this state once a adopted child turns 18 they aren't considered blood-relatives). Since my moral compass is freaking the hell out, I need to borrow someone else's. Help?

So my left ear is getting worse I think it's caused by an ear infection because it hurts and itches and tomorrow I have swim practice and I'm only 12 but I know my mom won't take me because she thinks it's not big of a deal how should I convince her?

I have a great friend (shes like an aunt) that i talk to almost everyday. Today i called her as i needed her advice, something was bothering me extremely bad, In order for her to help me i had to let it out to her a secret that i was embarrassed about that I've never told anyone about.. ( it was that i had never gotten with a guy/had sex with a guy) I cried and let out my secret to her on the phone. She helped me through it, talked to me and showed all her love to me. It was a huge secret to me, i never even told my mom or sisters or anyone but her. I feel entirely embarrassed and i told her, she said "dont be, its okay. If i made you feel like that i am sorry"she continued to talk to me for a long time saying all good stuff.. it was a sentimental call and she explained how much she still love and cares for me... i just feel embarrassed still that i told her a big part of me. Shes my best friend, is it bad that i feel embarrassed? I truested her a lot to hell her but i feel so embarrassed... help I guess i feel upset is because when she was my age she was the cool kid who had already had sex by then.. im afraid i look like a boring loser to her.. she said to let all of those thoughts go because of how greatly she wishes she was like me when she was young but still

I can only maintain eye contact with my grandma, my siblings and sometimes my close friend. My aunt and uncle (who I live with) get mad at me because of it. And teachers would get mad too. Now I do online school so there's pretty much only associate with my family. How can I learn to make eye contact with my family and new people? Thanks.

I can't see him at Christmas cause he and my step-Mom are taking a cruise with her family. She is always jealous of me but my Dad denies that when I bring it up to him. I will see them next in spring. My Mom died so I feel rejected though I have an aunt who has me over for holidays. An aunt is not the same as a Mom and Dad or siblings. I am 31 but hurt like a child. He and my step-Mom have three grade school kids. Her daughter who is my age also gets to go but she doesn't want me. She apparently just wants "family" for the holiday and includes me when friends are there or in-laws. She considers me an in-law. I really hurt, how do I cope with this through New Years?

I always suck at explaining things so I'm going to try my best. The other day I told my mom I was non-binary.(I also don't know if my dad knows because my mom was going to show him the message I sent her but he hasn't said anything about it.) I personally thought that she was going to be very accepting and just go with it. She said that's fine and wants me to be me. She also said that she still doesn't want me to cut my hair. I need help explaining to her that looking at myself and not looking right makes me feel awful. I've tried showing her different hair cuts and I don't know what else to do. Any help?

I am left out cause of a conflict they had with my Mom 10 years ago that did not involve me.

Yesterday my dad told me he didn't feel like living anymore so I did what any kid would do, I told my mom (she was at work) and my mom didn't get my message until 4 hours later so she called the cops. Today my dad came to me and asked me "why don't you like me?, I told you that In confidence" if I didn't like my dad I wouldn't have called the suicide hotline, asked what I should do on yahoo answers and quora, and I wouldn't have told my mom! he's also claiming that my mother doesn't like him, If my mom didn't like my dad she wouldn't have called the police! So how could he say that we don't care?! I went out of my way to contact help for my dad and this is how he feels! I'm pretty sure any normal kid who had just been told that their dad is suicidal would definitely tell their mother yet he was yelling at me for trying to get help! I've been the same "suicidal" thing and when my friends called the cops on me (a couple times) I never got mad at them because I know they were just trying to help me!!) what did I do wrong???

my mom is set on the fact that my dad is cheating on her. I mean it's possible but i don't like getting involved in that stuff because it's not my place. But there fighting super bad and now they aren't talking and now i'm a mess in my room. Any advice to help me get through this? thank you

These young girls aren't in any extracurriculars with her, not related to her, and not from our neighborhood. They seem like nice kids, but her relationships with her schoolmates seem distant. She was a little secretive about it, and I worry that she might be bullied or feel the need to look elsewhere for friends. That is often a sign of bullied children (or seeming isolated). It might just be her age: most kids at 13 want some privacy. Another thing is about her safety. I don't know where most of these girls come from. My daughter told me about one girl's family and that's it. Most middle school girls don't have the resources to take another middle schooler their own age to dangerous areas. But it has happened in the past, and those parents didn't know about it. We try not to be overly protective and we didn't go through this with her older brother.

My half-brother and I have a huge age difference. He's in his 30s, married, and basically has his own life. He's been in my life for around 2/3 years, due to some family issues in the past not allowing him to really visit me. I always feel insanely awkward when I'm with him and his wife. I want to impress him so bad. He cusses really bad as well, and I try to pretend it doesn't bother me when it does? He says things that a normal brother would say to their sister, but in actuality it just kind of hurts my feelings since I'm not used to the "sibling banter". And I don't know if I can retort without being odd or say something that might make him walk out of my life again? If anyone has experience with this sort of thing I would really appreciate some advice It's also really hard to talk to him, because he's not really...That deep of a person? He's loud, very rude, and doesn't seem to care much about what others think.

Firstly, he is in a fraternity at our university. I think Greek life generally is pointless and ridiculous, but he obviously disagrees. I know that he joined for more than just the social aspect, but he has spent over six hours (so far) today participating in some dumb event where all of the brothers play drinking games all day. He even skipped out on the dinner I made for him. I know he did not anticipate that it would last so long, and I am sure it is fun and all, but I just find it so immature and such a waste of time to spend 6+ hours on a Sunday chugging beer in a drinking game tournament. Secondly, he studies business, and I could not care less about business if I tried. I find math, science, literature, foreign languages, history, pretty much ANYTHING else interesting, but I find business so horribly boring and not worthwhile to study. I understand that there are many different paths to happiness and success, and I do not think i am better or smarter than him for choosing a different one than I did, but I cannot even stand to hear about his classes because I so seriously lack any interest in what he studies. I feel like a pretentious b**ch sometimes. I know he would at least pretend to care aboit something that I cared about even if he did not, but I (on the other hand) am caught visibly rolling my eyes sometimes when he talks about those things. Should I try to change my way of thinking? Feign interest to make him happy? Am I a terrible, selfish person?