I'm afraid to do the right thing, I'm afraid of what people think if I do one thing wrong, I'm just so tired of caring about what they think. Me and my mom got in a arguement, and we didn't speak for few days, she ignored me and I left her be, I was ill like really ill I had belly pains, headache, coughing, and sore throat and I didn't tell them I just stay in my bed and try to get rid of this sickness by my self but instead it got worst, and no one knew I was sick, I didn't want them to know because any other time no one believes I'm ill, when I say I am. So why tell them. Anyway let's get back to what I was saying. Tonight I went in my moms room looking to see if anyone was because the tv was on, but she was there in her bed. Then I went upstairs why should I be around people who don't wanna talk to me right? Then my mom send me a picture of me and her and I felt like crying, because I felt a bad daughter for putting my mom and everyone though hell because of my stubbornness. And I wanted to go downstairs and go say sorry to her but I couldn't the idiot I was I let my self think then actually do something. I'm just shame that I might not be my moms perfect daughter I once were, I'm afraid she will stop loving me someday. I don't even love me.

My dad lives a couple of hours away from me so when he comes over he normally stays for a couple of days. My husband and I had a baby a couple of months ago so my family comes over for visits more often. This isn't an issue, I love them coming over but normally when one of them comes they tell me weeks in advance. My dad on the other hand literally tells me the day before. He barely gives me a warning. I have a baby, things are chaotic, the house is a mess, I have laundry to do... I've told him in the past to give me warning and now he gives me even less. How would you handle this?

I'm 14 by the way.

The gifts I give are never expensive enough. I'm always doing something wrong. My older brother has never been to my house once since we are adults and I have struggled to have a relationship with my nieces and nephews unless I drive over an hour to his house to see them. I have a daughter he doesn't care to get to know and he never ever calls to ask how I'm doing. Even then when I make the effort to see him and my nieces and nephews I'm treated like a stranger and can never do anything right. What should I do?

I just wanna know what do you call a family that always argues and fights? My siblings always fight with each other, my parents fight with each other...and sometimes the fights happnes between my brothers and my parents! I'm the only girl in the family and the youngest as well, I'm 18. Since I was a kid I witnessed my family fighting with each other..literally every 2 days a new fight would happen. I can't remember the last time when we were all happy and never argued. I remember when i was in middle school, i saw my brother choking my dad, so i had to step in amd I punched my big brother unitl he let go off my dad. I also punched my other brother twice when i was like 15 because he said something to me or to my parents that really pissed me off. My parents don't even sleep together in the same bed anymore. I know this might sound weird but i really hope that my parents will divorce cuz i can't take this anymore. They always fight and argue. I can't even remember the last time i was happy in this family. Anyways, when I graduated from high school, I decided to study abroad because i wanna get out of my house and just live on my own. I just came to my country..it's been 3 days now because my mom wants to see me..she says she misses me..today another fight happened and now i wish that i didn't come back and stayed in Leeds. Leeds is the city where i study abroad:( i'm also very depressed and sad..and i cry a lot lately tho i'm not that kind of person who cries very easily

I lost my son in Iraq 13 years ago this month in Fallujah. He was 19 and had graduated high school in may 2003. He was motivated to join the Marines following 9/11. He just told me that he needed to go. I tried to stop him,my wife encouraged him. After he died I divorced her because there were many problems,I blamed her for his death because I was angry. But the truth is that it's not my wife's fault he's gone. Yes he was old enough to decide himself but he was influenced by George Bush. If I'll ever see Bush. maybe tomorrow,maybe in 10 years I'll tell him that he's the one I do blame for my son's death. My wife just says our son died for the country but I don't believe that. I don't care if he's a hero,he's gone. I've been to group therapy and yes I feel a little better but it doesn't make my day easier you know. I watch friends of my son having kids,who now are like 5,6.I'll always wonder who my son might have been.thank you Bush for taking my child. My wife says I should forgive Bush but I just can't. He isn't out of a son,I am. Mickey: Because Bush lied about WMD and said invading Iraq was the best thing to do at the time and my son trused the president. I also trused him,instead it wasn't worth it. Thousands of lives lost,thousands of dollars wasted. electricpole: Semper Fidelis

To make a long story short, ever since suffering a stroke(I did) my Mother has been overbearing and overprotective. As of late I have been lying about still having internet on my phone. Since my parents put spyware on it in the past,took it away for a couple months,and tried to put parental locks on it. I don't feel bad about it because my Mother made my life a living hell when I had "freedom," on my phone. She still jokingly gets nosey and asks what I'm doing on my phone. However, God forbid I overstep HER boundaries. I suspect She's also a narcissistic Christian... At any rate, I will never tell on myself out of guilt, because I don't want to be treated awful again.

She's collapsed on the couch and there are empty beer bottles all around her, so she might just be drunk. I can't find a pulse, but then again, I can't find my own either.

A child whose father is not known will often take the last name of the mother. But what if the father is known, yet only the mother takes care of the child? Whose last name will the child typically take?

Hi everyone I am 17 and I unfortunately have to live with her in the same household. She is so annoying! Whenever I try to go out or if I'm working late nights, she constantly calls me and bothers me asking when I'm coming home. She tries to put across that she's "worried" about my "safety" but I know it's cause she is jealous since she is pretty much disabled and unable to go out so she is jealous I go out a lot. I can see the jealousy in her when I tell her about what I do and how much fun I have. She's just a miserable old bag and always in the way. I turn 18 in less than 6 months and I can't wait! But in the meantime, I gotta put up with her BS. I'm afraid that one night I'll be working late after hours and she will call my workplace and start trouble causing me to get fired cause she's threatened this before. She makes me so mad in so many ways and I don't know what to do. In her eyes, everything she's doing is "out of love" but I know it's not. She is just jealous and miserable cause she's stuck at home while I'm young and able to enjoy my life which she doesn't want. I'm so sick of her nonsense. Please help as I am really up to here with her crap. Thanks for answering!!

I want to live w my dad in Pennsylvania cause my mom is always letting her anger out on me. She's bipolar and her moods changes so much that I can't keep up with it. She threatens to murder me or beat me. And when she does beat me , she punches me, slaps me, grabs my hair and kicks me while I'm on the ground . But I never hit her back, I just block myself. And she always claiming that everything is my fault and I'm always doing something and it really has a toll on me when I hear that all the time. But she thinks if I move in w my dad he will "do me far worse"

First and far most let me give you guys a bit of extra info and back information. Last week my kid(s) father messaged me on FB messenger after disappearing for 3 years and told me he would buy my kids Christmas presents.... He didn t apologize for ignoring me for 3 years or explain what was going on, he just contacted me as if he never left. I asked him 3 times over this past week if he was going to see this kids in person, instead of video chatting them and making millions of promises. Last night I got upset after he made me kids another promise and I asked him WHEN HE WAS GOING TO COME AND SEE THEM! He said tomorrow (which is today) BUT instead of traveling A WHOLE 30 MINUTES to come by my house he wants me to drive to him! Not only that, but when he demanded that I video turn on video chat, I told him the kids where not with me and he continued with "Let me see you in the mean time in between time", essentially saying he wants to have sex with me. I am furious with him, but I want to do the right thing by my children. In all of 3 years he has paid child support for a whopping 2 months. Right now I M NOT EVEN ASKING FOR MONEY, I am asking that he show his face ans stop lying to my kids who hardly know him (5yrs and 3yrs). I met him when I was 18 and he was 36. Back than I was immature and just wanted to rebel and have fun, I AM NOT THAT GIRL ANYMORE.SO should I drive to him or should he come to me AFTER 3 YEARS!

My mother has very blurred lines when it comes to my children and tends to overstep especially when it comes to what she shares on facebook concerning me and my kids. We have told her numerous times to not post our things all over Facebook and check with us first, but she always seems to "overlook" or tries to find ways around it. For instance my 14 year old broke his hand and needed pins after telling her not to post it she managed to post that she was with us at the surgery center leading to people asking why and her of corse having her opportunity to tell her story. we recently had my oldest sons senior pictures made and the photographer shared with me and unfortunately my mother a preview of some of his pictures and my mother took it upon herself to share them with everyone in our and his fathers family and this was the last straw. She never once asked she just did it including sharing with his other grandmother who I wanted to share with myself so now not only am I angry with her over this I also feel as though his fathers family may be upset with me thinking I wasn t keeping them involved myself. I m just trying to see if anyone may have a more tactful approach in dealing with this, My kids have told her and I have told her we don t like her doing this and it s like she can t hear us

The bathroom is disgusting and they will never help clean it. They say it's so gross that they can't even take showers in it, and would rather go for weeks without a bath. I am 39 and my kids are 12, 14, and 17. What can I add to the bathroom to make it more convenient, pleasant, fun, and comfortable for us all to use? We don't have much money so I am looking for ideas on a budget.

What should I go? I love my fiancee, but she got her own place, and I don't like how shw does certain things. She like to "save" her money. She literally has $500 stashed away in her place, and money in a savings account that we can't touch. Its "emergency" money only. She wouldn't go into the 500$ for groceries, so we had to have chicken tenenders, with instant mashed potatoes for dinner lunch. No ordering with the $500 She also bought a truck, but thats okay to waste money on. Her excuses are she's been wanting one just to want one, two they come in handy, if she sees Some thing on the side of the road she could use she can just throw it the back. She also wants to "try" to redo Furniture people throw out, and try to resell it. I don't get that. She said she takes her daughter to the beach if things are all sandy she can put in the back, and again she said she's been wanting a truck for a while now, and she still is going to keep her "car" because its better on gas. She doesn't need two vehicles for herself. She just got PO at me. Because apparently I throw my money away on "fast food" and "vaping" she also trys to all this "DIY" resaver things on pintrest. Literally she has a candle that's sitting in her bathroom that now has q-tips in it. Its just more junk... Idk, now shes mad at me, because I am mad at her for buying a truck. She said its a truck She wanted, not a diamond necklace. Wtf?

By the time I almost had anybody even remotely fitting into the then void position of a stepmom, I was 29 years old. And I convinced my dad to get away from her. She's fat, she has a horrible diet of processed junk, she has diabetes, her son is in prison for as long into the future as the Vietnam war is in the past... She's stupid with a degree in Arkansas... Her job description is to have people sign away their rights to compensation while they see the looney tunes standing in front of them, in a recovery room, high under anesthesia... She has been married and divorced 3 times, and her father was abusive to her. Come on, let's go. What do you think about what I did?

I have very limited contact with my mother. I know she hates it, but the alternative is me being a stressed out wreck after every contact. She's always refused to agree to disagree and refuses to drop a subject, often ambushing me in conversation over the same old issues. If I refuse to engage her on the subject she becomes angry and accuses me of not caring about her. The trouble is now she's going to other family members, telling them that she has no idea why I'm being so distant and she just wants to work things out, and won't they talk to me? And now I feel like I'm ending up being the bad guy who's just being mean for no reason. She will say she just wants to know that I'm listening to her and not rejecting her. In my experience, her idea of working things out is essentially me giving in to her. She has been told, clearly and multiple times, what the issue is, but refuses to accept it. And she seems to think that either I listen, accept, and agree with what she's saying, or I'm refusing to even consider her point and rejecting her. I don't want to be in the middle of this mess. I hate what I'm having to do to her but I can't be treated like a disobedient child for the rest of my life. I have attempted to change the subject and to limit what information I give her, but that just gives her something else to start in on ("Why won't you tell me anything anymore? Don't you love me?"). How do I head off well-meaning relatives who want to get us back together? I should be clear: if I believed that she genuinely wanted to reconcile, I would in a heartbeat. But my experience is that "reconciling" really means that I agree to stop having any form of personal boundaries with her, and she graciously agrees to forgive me for having them in the first place. I'm not ok with that - I'm a self-sufficient adult and I don't want to be berated for refusing to obey my mother. Part of the problem is there's no such thing as "listening and making a different choice" according to her - either I do 100% of what she tells me to do, or she says I'm not listening to her at all. Honestly even when I was in contact with her we didn't have a real relationship, just her lecturing me all the time. She was apparently happy with that so long as I didn't stop her lectures, but I hardly got much out of visits that were basically just a recitation of how I was ruining my life. A lot of the problem I'm having with family is it seems like my mother is seen as more credible than me because she's older. And her perspective makes everything look awful - I could calmly say "Mom, I don't want to go over that again, it never ends well" on a subject we've been over many times and I've asked her to not talk about, and she would report that she was just trying to talk to me and I got mad at her for no reason and refused to hear anything she said. I love my mother, but she's choosing to reject any sort of safe relationship with me. In order to have a functional, good relationship with her, I would have to dress and do my hair and makeup how she likes, date only men she approves of, take the jobs she wants me to take, go to a church she approves of... And I am not the one bringing things up - she will bring topics up and then become angry if I don't want to talk to her about them, or if I don't answer her questions about my life.

Me and my mom got in a HUGE fight last night. I told her that I wasn't happy and how I felt about everything. She was pissed. She started blaming EVERYTHING on me and told me I was lazy and som other petty insult. I'm NOT sorry for what I said, but i still miss her. Or rather, what we could of been. She started emotionally neglecting me many years ago, i bottled up all my feelings inside. Many people told me to let go of my pain and tell her, i tried and it ended up like this. Just how I thought. She screamed at me "FINE, YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF THEN!" and that was that. Basically, I won't be fed or anything. Fine. She does these petty games with me, I'm SICK of it. She just wants me to come crawling back to her. Not this time. How can I be successful? I'm sick of her ****. I want to fire back for once. Basically, how can I fire back at her? What do I do? THAT'S my question. Its not that she refuses to feed me either, i can make my own food if she wants to be bitchy. She refuses to talk to me, acknowledge me, help me, EVERYTHING. What mother does that when her kid tells her how depressed she's been? Like wtf? The last few days, she has seriously made me want to just kill myself. Im not even kidding. My self esteem crashed the past week, I've gotten into my suicidal/depression phase. I haven't had that since 5th GRADE. She keeps criticizing me, blaming me for EVERYTHING, being an absolute JERK to me, and making me feel like I'm worthless. She's been emotionally abusing me. It ******* sucks. If my own mother doesn't love me, nobody ever will. I wish I was never born.

I don't really know his interests. We don't talk much. He used to be into rap music, he's married, has a kid, used to be in the army, doesn't drink much. He likes to gamble from what I hear. I do t like getting people gift cards, I always do that, I want to get actual gifts this year for people. Any ideas? Something not so typical, like shaving kids or cologne or some generic gift bullcrap.

They never really said it growing up sometimes they will say it and I'll feel weird stuff it back I do but sometimes don't want to I wish it was easy but I didn't really hear it at all

My parents are always gone and never at home because they are always working. when I aks them for help on a problem they make me feel like its my fault and to suck it up and let it go. They take out anger on me a lot and yell at me for no reason which makes me feel awful. They laugh and call me sick when I have an opinion different from theres. They often make me feel awful and I dont know what to do.

I've been married for a year now and her college age daughter moved into my basement. She has her own bathroom, but sometimes I have to use it. When I go down to the basement she always have very sexy dirty panties on the floor. I accidentally picked a pair up and they have a very sweet stench to them.

She tells me I'm disrespectful when I nag on her 24/7 about doing something.. All I want to do is help my sister. She's never had a first job or anything. I'm always bugging my mother to do something about the situation but she never does anything about it... I know my sister has anxiety issues but I know people who have worse problems than her and they still make a living so what's her excuse...? I'm 24 I'm working and she always asks me to give her 150 dollars out of my paycheck. How is that fair?! How is she going to be able to deal with the real world if she doesn't start now?! My mother isnt going to be alive forever... PLEASE HELP! /:

Hi there, today I found out who my birth father was. After not knowin for years I was surprised. I was adopted at 10 months old. I never knew much about my birth dad. I have a brother who is 3 years older then me. We have the same M⃟o⃟m⃟ but different dads. Apparently my father is my brothers grandfather. So basically my father raped my mom. So I'm basically my brothers aunt. I have lived with him since I was 3 calling him big brother, after finding out I in fact am his aunt I was shocked. I couldn't believe it, & I still don't believe it. Or what would you consider it im so confused. I was a unwanted pregnancy I wasn't planned I was a mistake. I always knew there was something off about me but I never knew what till now.

The past year has been one of the hardest of my life. I lost my little sister to a long battle with heart disease, and soon after that I was hospitalized for organ failure and was diagnosed with lupus. Still, I worked my *** off this semester to bring a little light into my parent's lives and wound up with the first semester 4.0 transcript I have ever received! The holidays will be hard since it is the first season we're spending without my sister, but can anyone think of a creative way to tell my parents about my GPA? Thank you :)

My mom has always done everything for my sister. She helps pay her rent so that she can live in a nice place in New York. She helps make sure that she can still go on vacations even though she can't even afford rent. She literally always answers the phone when my sister calls, even when my sister is screaming and demanding at her. My parents got divorced (my father was a miserable man who was nasty to us all) and my mom is now very happy with her new boyfriend. My sisters both refuse to acknowledge him when he is around and I can see how it breaks my mother's heart. She only sees him once or twice a week and they are out of the house, but they make fun of her and call her needy. She was miserable for so long with my father, and to see them attacking her when she's finally happy tears at my heart. I haven't spoken with my sisters in years (we live far apart and were never close) but they are still holding grudges against me saying how awful I was. (We got in fights as normal kids do - they weren't nice either, but I'm figuring we moved on). Since I've seen them I've been super friendly but they've always been nasty and rude. They hinted at being rude to my boyfriend when he comes. It made my mom very upset and she begged her to be nice. If it was me, I'd cut my sister off and stop doing so many nice things, but it's not. How do I get her to stop attacking my mom?

I'm sick of sharing a bedroom with him. I've been sleeping in the basement where there's mold because I can't stand him. He's up on his computer chatting with people and torrenting things all day long.

Hi there! I'm 25 and my half sister is 50. We live in the same house and with our half-brother. I was living here with our brother way before her and he favors me over her. I'm his favorite sister (those are his exact words, not mine). Anyway, our sister moved in with us a year ago, and she literally spends all of her time in her bedroom getting high off weed, and if she's not getting high, then she's getting drunk. The only time I ever see her is when she comes out to get something to eat, so we never talk to each other... I don't know why she thinks I hate her... A while back, she began trying to get money from me to buy alcohol and whatnot. I gave her 10$ three different times, but the forth time she asked I finally just told her that I'm not a bank and I ended up not giving her any money that last time. Maybe this is why she thinks I hate her...?? Or maybe she's jealous of me because our brother favors me over her? I really do think she's jealous of me because of this. How do I get her to know that I really don't hate her? I've told her that I don't, but she doesn't believe me. Thanks!

My parents took 240$ of my 800$ I had in my safe(I'm 14). They used it for my sister's dance lessons. This was 7 months ago. I used the rest of the money to buy parts to build a computer. 6 months of asking them monthly when they will pay me back, i still do not have it, and I cannot finish my computer. My computer is just rotting away while they don't pay me back. This really frustrates me because they spend HUNDREDS on my sister for stuff she doesn't need, and I get 20$ a month for school lunch if I'm lucky. I don't know what to do anymore, every attempt ends in "ok I'll pay you back on the 1st", but every time I come to collect they say sorry not today, and proceed to buy things.(my dad bought a 1500$ guitar last week) This is putting a strain on our relationship and I need some advice, thanks

I'm a 20 woman and my cousin is only 8. I'm the youngest in the house besides himself, so he likes to play with me. I don't mind because I love children. My aunt (who is not his mother) always checks up on us, as if she expects me to be doing something to him? She'll quietly creep up on us, while we're watching tv or playing video games. She'll stick head out through the door to the living room. There are times when she'll stay in the kitchen to listen to our convo. I know this because I'll get up and then she'll pretend like she's getting something to eat or she's cleaning. She does this every 5-10 mins, coming back into the living room as if she's looking for something. She'll never do that if I'm in the same room as him. Even when I'm alone she'll go into the room I am in and pretend that she's looking for something. I don't know if she thinks I'm stealing? She'll stop until my grandma gets up.

I really don't know what to do. I try breathing in and out, but my mom gets even more mad when I do that. I do one little thing wrong, she will get super mad. Once, I forgot to eat the peaches she left me and she threw a boot at my back and I couldn't breathe for 40 secs. Now, they just insult me, they don't even trust me to tell the truth anymore because I lie. They just keep insulting me and I start crying and then they say "Shut up or I will hit you so you actually cry with purpose". They don't hit me most of the time. They don't abuse me, just so you know. They do mentally though. I don't know what to do half the time. I am a great student at school. Straight A's. Lately, after everything that has been going on, there has been a decline in my grades. I get so emotional when I get a bad grade on a quiz or test. They get really mad when I get an 85. I am stressed on a daily. I don't know how to relieve it or if there is even a way too. Whenever I get a massage, my back hurts sooooo much. Well, this is what happens. :) :/ :( ;( How do I get my parents to understand how I feel about them calling me garbage

I will be telling her on Sunday. She hates my Dad (they are divorced) and expects me to hate him for her. She puts up roadblocks (figuratively speaking) to make it difficult for me to see him. Growing up she used me as a weapon against him and ruined my childhood because of it. She wouldn't give me Christmas gifts he left one year and I found them years later. She also would tell me he didn't love me. So I am an adult now and can do what I want. The reason I have to tell my Mom I am seeing him is cause it is the only reason I am missing one of her 3 family parties for Christmas (I will be at the other two). I always get caught when I lie and she looks on my aunt (Dad's sister's) Facebook page and sees when I am with his family. So I'd rather tell her then lie and get discovered a month from now or have skip the family picture. So how do I stay calm when I tell my Mom what I am doing? I often see people ask these things about Mom's keeping them from their Dad or other family so I figure it is a common problem at the holidays. Any advise?

I am 13 in the 8th Grade My mother is constantly ridiculing me and critiquing me. In the last month it's gotten worse. She'll rant at me in the car when driving, I feel trapped. It'll bring me to point of tears. Every time she makes a noise I jump and feel like she's coming to hit me. Some quotes, "Are you stupid?" "No wonder they call you a bum." "All you do Is put make up on your face! I'll take it away." She threatens me with taking away my makeup which covers my blemishes knowing how insecure I am about my acne which makes me think about my insecurities and what I feel is wrong with myself which makes me cry even more. In the last month anxiety has arisen within me. I never knew what a panic attack felt like, and thought people who talked about them were exaggerating but now I know they weren't. My acne has also gotten worse due to rising stress (assumption). More quotes "You're disgusting." "Get out of my sight." "I think something is wrong with you, something mental." She also makes me wear clothes she knows my friends tease me about. She wants me to have no friends, she wants me to be unhappy. She's so hostile constantly calling me to do things around the house knowing I have homework to do. (It's not like I keep the house filthy, I clean up a lot more than most kids) I don't know where to go and my dad isn't in the household but he's visiting this Christmas. Please help me. I want to die.

I want to stay neutral in the fight. My brother is sensitive. Our aunt is a narcissist and our uncle a sick codependent to his wife. My brother made an accidental social goof up and may have been a little too nice. He is ADHD. The aunt started snapping at him which our Mom has warned us for years she does. My brother is much older then me and his wife became furious with this aunt. My brother's wife may have over-reacted but was defending sticking up for her husband who was being mistreated. Then my uncle, aunt's husband, called my brother and laid in to his wife (brother's wife) for his wife (uncle's wife). So I don't want to take sides in the feud but my brother is definitely the victim of the four people. I generally avoid this aunt as I find her a bully. My brother has a need for approval so she is more important to him. He sees her two or three times a year whereas I have only seen her once in 3 years. So how do I reach out to my brother and show sympathy without taking sides? For our grandmother who is still living I avoid bashing the bully aunt and her codependent husband. Her husband is weird and didn't even attend his own father's funeral cause of issues in his family so he is no saint. The aunt is our Mom's sister. MISPRINT---Meant to say in the question at top "our aunt" and not out aunt.

I have a feeling that there will be a bunch of fairies posting about how I'm a bad cousin seeing how most of the users in this section are all about the loving family motion, but I wanted to post anyway so I can get some helpful answers. My cousin is a little weird which I recently discovered when I started hanging out with him again. For example when we go to the movies, he laughs at strange moments when nobody else is laughing, and when we go to bars to watch the UFC he cheers ridiculously loud even though he doesn't really know what's going on but just likes that particular fighter. He has asked me to go to the bar wit him again next time the UFC is on but I really don't want to so what should I say?

Hi, I live near the bay of California and I heard that my uncle was gonna live in California with us. My uncle's family had migrated from Vietnam and lived in Colorado with a big house for a few months. Even though it's exciting to have more family memebers near me, living here in California is expensive and they already built a life in Colorado. But the good thing is they have more relatives near them so they can help them a little bit. Is it good or bad, why?

I found out recently that my baby's father is on meth. It never crossed my mind beforehand because I could never tell if he's high. But I did notice that he becomes very moody like one hour he'll get upset and start complaining about his life and accusing me of things I've never said or done then later on he'll be fine. I told him that he better quit drugs or he won't be around the baby after he's born so I'm hoping he'll rely on his word. But How do I watch for signs of drug use?

I always knew our son would end up in prison, its a mother intuition. Husband says that I need to put all my ill will beside and stand by our son. I never told husband the in depth problems I had with our son as a kid. The times I would wake up in my bed with my son standing over me , numerous times seeing him masturbate on dolls. Mangle dolls, hurt our dog. So why should I support my son when I feel he's a monster?

Hi, I'm taking child care at my high school. I'm a mandated reporter and am legally required to report any abuse cases. Today a 3 year old (who clings to me a lot) told me his mom (and dad, but mostly mom) hits him "whenever I'm bad" and "it makes me cry." I always thought something was up because he doesn't talk or play much with the other kids, and he just follows me everywhere I go. When I encourage him to play with others he refuses. Even when he's playing with me, it's harder to make him laugh compared to other kids. He's boring, he's not fun, he doesn't know how to socialize. I want to report it but at the same time I don't want to make things worse for him. If CPS investigates and can't find any hard evidence (which is exactly what happened with my cousins when i was little - they'd get beaten up and my cousin snitched but CPS couldn't find any hard evidence so they let the case go) then his parents will simply beat him up more for snitching and telling me his parents beat him (really it's not even snitching, he was just confiding in me). I really don't know what to do. I need advice. Please help.

I hate my family. I wish i was an only child. My mom and dad had way too many kids. We are all a year a part. My oldest brother was born in 2002, my sister was born in 2003, i was born in 2004, my other sister was born in 2005, my younger brother was born in 2006, my other sister was born in 2007, and then years later my mom just had my new brother who was born in October 2016. They are obsessed with having kids and it is ruining my life. They are cheap because of this. I can't get a nice phone or anything and all of them are annoying. Especially the younger ones. I hate them. Is there any way i can put myself up for adoption? this is not fair.

My sister told me that my crush was drinking from the water fountain for the entire passing time which is 5 min. She said she was walking up the stairs and he was already drinking. So she walked up behind him and waited her turn. But he didn't stop drinking. So she just sighed and waited her turn. Pretty soon, 3 other people were waiting their turn too. They were telling him to hurry up but he just kept drinking. My sister checked the time and saw it had been 4 min already and he was still drinking. He finally stopped drinking and started to walk away and my sister called him a " Big Camel *****" and by the time my sister stepped up to get a drink the bell rang and she was late to class. I don't know why but this just makes me laugh everytime

My mother always makes false accusations against me boyfriend that he beats me and that he doesn't actually love me, even though she's only met him twice. She says this to me every night. She says "oh you hung out with your boyfriend tonight, I bet he doesn't really love you, you're too ugly to be loved" or "oh you got a bug bite? I bet it's not a bug bite, I bet your boyfriend beats you all the time! hahahah liar!!!" Where does she get this stuff from? My boyfriend has never beat me, my boyfriend tells me he loves me all the time. My boyfriend is a great guy, but my mom makes up all of this stuff almost to shame me, it makes no sense to me

Seriously I left an unopened box on top of the fridge and it's gone. For Christ sakes that was the only thing I looked forward to after work. Now who ate them?

finals week is coming, I have been unbelievably stressed. (getting little sleep, unable to focus). I really needed to study tonight because i have my first final in just 2 days. my mom decided to drag me to the store with her (when she knew I needed to study) and proceeded to get mad at me for being on my phone. When i told her it was because i was studying, she got pissed at me and told me to stop being "snippy". later at dinner i was almost falling asleep on my hand and she asked me what i was doing and i didn t reply at first because i was so tired. she yelled at me for this too. then afterwards she sent my dad up to my room to yell at me for being snippy and "acting like a teenager"? to her. i explained what actually happened to my dad and then broke down crying. i am now too upset to focus on studying. i just wish she d see things from my pov and not assume i wa "just being snippy because I m a teenager." shshould I confront her about how I feel (to set things straight) or just keep the feelings inside me?