I could be over exaggerating but my parents act like they own me. I'm turning 18 in June but my parents still give me me childish punishments like standing in the corner. Today I was getting ready for school and my mom repeatedly kept yelling at me to hurry up. I looked at the alarm clock and realized I still had 15 minutes so I still took my time putting on make-up. Few minutes later my mom came marching into the room talking loudly about how I take so long and should listen when I'm called. I calmly said I still had a little more time. That's it and I didn't give her any attitude. This woman grabs my make-up that I bought myself and throws it into the hallway, it hits the wall and breaks. So, I'm confused and she says real nastily. "Do you want to disrespect your month some more?!?" Did I do something wrong??

My mom came from an abusive family, she was controlled more than her other siblings and being the oldest, she was forced to enslave herself everyday. Me being the oldest, she has done the same thing with me. She makes me tell her where I am and what I'm doing at every moment. She wants me to go to college with my sister so she can keep an eye on me. I was never given the freedom I wanted and I know I can manage myself just fine, but she doesn't think so. She makes me wash the dishes when i'm half asleep and she makes me scrub the bathroom, meanwhile my sister sits in her room doing whatever she wants. My dad doesn't have a say in what she does with me. He, of course, has an opinion, but he never has the balls to tell her to stop. I feel my head compressing from all the stress and my memory is fluctuating because I can't stop thinking anout how stressed I am. Please help me, I'm turning 18 in a couple months and I want to know how to deal with her.

well i grew up in a big family. my brothers and sisters were allowed to cry were allowed to show feelings were taking seriously on the emotional level. however when i cried as a kid or felt hurt people and family just mocked my emotions and didnt take me seriously or showed me a look of disapproval. im the youngest too. growing up at school college work people always expect so much from me and when i get upset they just laugh and mock it. even my closet siblings they cry in front of me and i take their feelings seriously but when i express my feelings or cry they just mock me and tell me to get my shiit together. i dont get why everybody i meet expect me to be this tough person all the time 24/7.

I feel like I need a fresh new start. I just want to be a 'fresh' person and I feel like my current name is something that reminds me of the horrible memories with my depression/struggles.I believe changing my last name would be a good start.( Would Trotsky be a good last name? should I consider another last name?) I have no hard feelings towards my family, I simply want to change my last name. How would I tell my parents about it? Or Should I do it behind their back?

I'm 25 and living at my parents house right now because I'm still in college and can't afford to move out at the moment. I'm trying to make the most of it but everyday I become and more depressed. I've been suffering from anxiety and depression all my life. I've neber been to therapy because I felt ashamed but my first therapy session is Monday. There are time where I will break down crying out the blue. My dad is amazing, he's always been there for me. MG mom however is emotionally and physically. She has beat me before and constantly tears me down and makes me feel as though I'm worthless. I go to work 5 days out the week I go to school 4 days out the week and still when I get home I manage to be able to cook and clean and do laundry. My mom is very unappreciative of my efforts. If the house isn't immaculately spotless she starts complaining about how I neber do anything and she can't wait until I move out. I told her I'm trying my best I spend hours cleaning. What else do you want from me. She went off on me because I washed one Load of clothes instead of washing 5 loads. I was like " please I'm tired I can't stay up all night washing 5 loads I have to be up early" and she was like " no you will get every piece of clothing and wash it. We are washing everything in one day". My dad even said " you and me both know what she's doing isn't right but we just have to deal with it". She complains a lot about me cooking and any normal parent would Be happy.

Statistically, people are more likely to abuse a child who is NOT blood-related to them. I notice that I hear more about abusive stepparents than biological parents. Most people wouldn't do this, but in cases where they hurt children, why is it more likely to be a stepchild?

I'm 23 and very responsible. My mom is not responsible at all. She slacks in a lot of areas and asks my siblings and I for help. In her perfect world she would NEVER lift a finger but have everyone else doing everything for her. It's not fair. She hasn't paid her car note and wants to switch cars with me in order to hide from the repo man until she pays it. She claims it will be one week even though she doesn't have a job/income. (She quits her jobs after 1 month) I told her no but she never takes no as an answer & it ends up turning into a big deal. I have a 2017 car that I worked hard for and properly maintained for 2 years until she started touching it. Her car is 2014 and was in great condition before she got it. She's a messy person and doesn't take care of anything the way I do. I don't want her touching my car and she's just not understanding. She has 2 cars but the second one is old but runs very well. What should I do? I really want to avoid the fighting.

I'm 17 and my parents are gonna kill me with how controlling they are. I'm currently in college and they force me to leave them on a phone call to make sure I'm not "doing anything" with my boyfriend. They tell me to turn on my location and if my phone dies, I get grounded. I get straight A's and not once have they applauded me and made me feel good for it. They've constantly made me feel worse about myself compared to my younger sister, telling me I will never amount to her success as a gifted student. They want me to go to the same university as her and also move in with her and not only that, my mom wants to move in with us too! The only one who understands me is my boyfriend and I wish Incould move in with him, but I'm unfortunately not of age (I turn 18 in 7 months). I can't talk with them either, they turn to yelling and not hearing me. It makes me want to die.

I have no luck with women really. It might have atemmed from my childhood. When I was growing up, whenever I did something mom didn't like she would tell me things such as "stupid azz", "ugly" ,"you're a hateful person". My mom would hit me in the mouth whenever I wpuld plead with ger to stop. She would laugh and say that she doesnt have to do nothing. Then she would say I'm a good person and speak highly about me to friends and other family members. My brother used to tease me about my appearances. Whenever I tired to come and tell someone about what's going on they would blow me off and say well that's family. My brother is 10 years my senior and got away with beating me when he was angry. I was told by mom and brother that its my fault indirectly. I felt so useless. Didbt have much friends growing up and never was able to ask a girl put because I felt weird. I never shot up the schools or lit stink bombs. Yet my family treated me like a monster at times. Its like my family loved my suffering. It made them feel better about themselves. Yet they love me. I'm 36 now and feel like I'm living a death. Just womdering when it will end. When it comes to women I missed my chance at life to enjoy being a young man in my 20s being with a girl in her 20s. My mom also lived to make fun of my thoughts and would.entice me into argument and then at the victim role. My mom scared me from ever finding anyone to date. There's a lot of people like that in our society

My sister is 13 and I am 16. She literally gets everything, and has to do nothing! She acts like shes perfect, and never does anything wrong, and I always get blamed. I am literally so sick of her. Whenever I try to reason with her she says "stop talking to me NOW. thank you" Whenever mom asks her to take the dog out she goes " ow, no. can lois do it?" Then my mom makes me do it. Just yesterday, she was being annoying, and hurt her thumb. like the drama queen she is, she made my mom go right to the store and get a splint and brace, and he only looks hurt when my moms around. Today, we are supposed to clean, and my mom said my sister still has to clean, but she threw a tantrum and I said "why do you have to be such a drama queen" my mom said I was being rude and MY punishment was HER not having to clean. I literally can't take her anymore Now shes sitting like a little brat smiling on the couch. I am SO sick of her. WHAT DO I DO?

I see her parents and three brothers a lot but seldom see her, Her parents just had us all over last weekend when their two sons were in town so I fear being intrusive by reaching out one week later. Only one of their kids lives in town.

I have a brother who has 2 young girls. I have a girl and 3 boys. My mother helps him to look after his kids sleep overs and lobs days when he needs and wants. She has never been as helpful for me. It always seems a chore. She always told me when I got married to make time for ourselves but when I have asked her to look after 3 of my kids she said she wouldn't. She now wants my daughter to have a sleep over in her house with my brothers 2 girls. My brother yet again gets another night out and she is looking after 3 kids. She said to look after 3 of mine would be too difficult. I'm quite angry because yet again she is helping my brother. My daughter would love the sleep over and so would my older son but he's not invited. What should I do? ☆ Sent from iOS Dr. Know! 1.1.04 Baby sitters are all fine and not an issue. It's my mother showing favoritism to my brother, being able to help him and not me that's the issue. I regularly contact my family to meet up but they never contact me.

So recently I've realized my parents a ******* horrible at being parents. They can do no wrong like seriously. They'd create an atmosphere in a household so that to us they were gods that can't lie or do any sort of wrong. My dad has never felt like a father to me at all and he has never taught me how to be a real man. My mother manipulated us into thinking if anything went wrong it was our dad's fault even though thats far from the truth. They are both manipulative pieces of trash who should burn in hell. Then they call themselves "christians". They don't believe what they teach us. They get extremely pissed off if you dont want to attend church with them. They call my 20+ year old friend when I'm out asking when I'll be home. They ask questions like who is this friend? Where do you know them from? We don't know them so we dont want you around them. I'm ******* 18 years old. They gaslight and when they lied to us they made us think we were insane when the whole time they ******* played games with our minds. Just today me and my grown brother making plans to move out were talking outside shoveling snow about how shitty our parents were and that we are going to rise above and make a new life for ourselves somewhere else. Our "mother" was watching us out the window trying to make sure we didnt say anything she didnt like. We always pretend to start talking basketball or something but she's a psycho *****. And no im not an off the wall kid who just is in a rebellious stage. There is way to much to type. I can't type it all. There are things i have never told anyone ever that i don't tell my parents about because they don't care. My dad still works a shitty job he hates and always took it and still takes it out on us till this day. He is always purposely trying to demean us. He won't let my sisters wear making when its rough enough being a damn teenager in the world. My sister constantly looks in the mirror wondering if she's beautiful or not. Its to long to type I don't want to create a hostile environment and leave my sisters with the repercussions. They always made us feel like we werent good enough. My father constantly implies how stupid we are and how the world wants to tear us apart and that all we have is them. They want us to feel connected to them but me and my brother have no emotional feelings to them. We only love eachother and our other brother. They messed up the way a family is suppose to be. I feel like **** because i dont love my sis

when i was little i didn't really get what she said (i wasn't a smart kid) now i know that it's really bad and i notice that she did it in a passive agressive way what she does and it makes me angry that she is doing the same thing with my little cousins, i'm no longer live with her

Growing up, my mom worked full hours in the summer but was around during other times. I noticed that we got away with a lot more during those 2 months. My mom was less likely to notice my sister's bad behaviour during those periods. The rest of us were behaved, but still had no time with us. It could be that school's out and kids are stuck home all day. Our parents never noticed the little things until they started having more time with us again.

was renting the basement from my parents and my mom would continuously harass me. It got to the point where I would just ignore her, then we got in a big fight, in which she lashed out at me for ignoring her. Instead of having a family meeting and sitting down and talking about this like I've seen many other families do in this situation, she called my dad and they kick me out into the street with nowhere to go. I ended up renting from a friend. I then moved in with the woman I met and it turned out to be a nightmare because she was Psycho. I didn't know she was Psycho but she played me and manipulated me. I was under so much stress I got into a life-threatening accident. I needed major surgery and I had nobody to help me. I had a place to crash but I had nowhere to go for 2 days and I ask my parents if I could stay with them just for two days while I was recovering. They told me no, yeah I have watch them bend over backwards for their pets, for my sister-in-law, and for my other siblings. We have reconnected and I go to all the birthdays and major holidays, but I still don't feel any connection and I don't feel as if my family has any regard to the struggles I face. I know their human and I try to come to an understanding. However they are constantly asking me for favors and to do work however they are constantly asking me for favors and to do work around their house. How could they expect me to still help them out when they never help me out? Aside from Raising Me...

my niece is close to me and she is a sensitive person. i always try to be nice with her since my sister is not nice with her. anyway i have a twitter account. and she gave me hers to add her if i want. my account is really about wrestling and my niece has my family in her account and i dont get along with my family. i dont want them to see what i care about my other side. so i told her that my account is about wrestling and i dont think people at her account would like it but i will start a new account soon personal one and i will add her. she responded "whatever you want :)" i think she is upset i dont want her to feel rejected. but on the same time i dont want my family to be in twitter i mean i dont mind her at all but she has all the family members in her account and they will see me having fun watching wrestling and they will start gossiping about me. i didnt tell her the real reason because i dont want her to hate them. what should i do now is she upset?

I'm struggling financially since work isn't busy and a car repair has come up that's just a hair out of budget. I still paid my rent and even helped her son out with a larger amount of cash that stretched my already thin budget. Now she's mad because my father-in-law helped me about with just a bit to buy the part, mind you I'm fixing it myself not taking it to be fixed on top of working what hours I can. Why would she get mad over that?

Meaning the kids are giving out their personal phone numbers and addresses as well - not just on a selling site, but on random sites where it's possible to post anything. This mother is making the oldest, 15, arrange meetings with people. Sometimes the 12 year old boy as well, but less often as his sister has more knowledge in it.

She's so selfish every mom wants to be a grandma and my mom doesn't I dislike her I'm almost 16 and to have children now what can I do

Me and my sister haven't always been close but for awhile now we have been practically best friends. I'm two years older than her and long story short my grandpa promised me his truck when I got my license. So I did only he couldn't give it to me right away and I went and bought my own car and my sister asked for the truck. I have been driving a few months now and I drive my sister EVERYWHERE! School, work, stores, friends houses, and ask for nothing in return. Well I'm very tall and my car is very little to the point my legs cramp up bc they are all scrunched up so I asked her if when our grandpa was ready to give the truck if I could have it and she could have my car. AND SHE SAID NO! They are the same year, I just had new tires put on the car, new brakes, and it has less miles, and is way less costly in gas BUT NO! All bc she thinks the truck is cool she's keeping it. She is still 4 2hr behind the wheel lessons and 30hrs begins the wheel w a parent and a driving test away from getting her license. I never ask her for anything and I know this isn't just anything but I bend over backwards to help her everyday and she can't help me out one time!? So now she's either getting a ride or ubering everywhere even tho we attend th same school and go to the same job(the one I get her hired at) she won't be driving for at least another 6 months and still she wants to be like this PETTY MODE ACTIVATE SIS

Nowadays, society expects parents to treat them as if gender makes no difference. Truth is, girls are more likely to be sexually abuse. More pedophiles and murderers are men, so they're more likely to be attracted to females than males. Back then, most parents understood why it's more of a danger to girls. Since the "digital age", we've come to this point.

I'm currently 15 and my parents are divorced. I live with my mom and sister. My mom is unstable and can't seem to stop moving in with different boyfriends who are sometimes abusive. My dad has a house about 30 minutes away from where I currently live but he does not live in that house. He works in the oil fields of North Dakota so he has an apartment there where he stays for most of his time. He comes back to that house for a week with a month in between. I don't want to have the struggle of going with him and moving back and forth from his house. I would rather just stay at the house that is close by and live independently. He is alright with me coming but my mom would never let that happen. I know that to be emancipated I will have to wait until I can get a decent paying job and prove that I have the ability to live on my own to a judge. I'm afraid to tell my mom that I want to leave because every time I have ever done that she just treats me like I'm less than my sister and starts more fights than usual with my dad. Is emancipation my only option to getting out of this situation? Do I have any other options as to leaving? I'm willing to wait until I'm 16 to leave so I can drive my car to where I need to go. I'm homeschooled so being alone won't is a problem. I currently live in Utah.

I can't show my parents my report card, I failed a class in the first marking period and I never fail a class before.

It's not my life, or my problem, yet I'm angry at her. She's a grown woman and is allowed to make adult decisions without consulting me, but I feel like she's needlessly ending her marriage of 8 years. It makes me disrespect her. Her husband wants to try to make it work and they have two kids. She's not seeing anyone else. Naturally I should support her, but I feel terrible for her husband, and am inclined to take his side. My question is: can anyone explain why I might feel this way? Have you ever felt this way yourself? Thank you

So my sister in law has and 8 year old girl that can't do anything with anymore anytime that she does something and we know that she did it she blames someone else for it. She wants to lie about stuff all the time and she doesn't want to do anything that anyone tells her to do. We are at our ends with her and need some help is there anywhere we can send her in Texas that helps with defiant behavior? She is starting to tell the school lies that aren't even true and if it keeps up cos is going to get involved. Please help.

I have a few questions. 1. If a guy I'm interested in starts talking sexual and dirty to me, how do I shut that down without being rude. But also let him know that I'm not the type of girl that's into sexting or phone sex. 2. I'm a virgin and I'm waiting for marriage. How long should I be talking to a guy before revealing that? Thank you!

They have an on again and off again marriage and have been divorced 4 times. They are now engaged to marry in April after a 6 year divorce.

I'm a pretty average decent 16 year old kid. I try to be as honest as possible and to be myself. Both my parents have a habit of yelling at me all the time which doesn't help because I can extremely angry and stay insanely angry for hours so to avoid this I stay calm and try to ignore them when they yell at me. Most of the time it's over mistakes that were not morally wrong, but just a brain lapse. Just yesterday my mom yelled in my face and I tried to ignore her and then she said something about a thing that has cause me a lot of pain so I took a bowl I was holding and through it on the ground and it cut my legs and I was going to clean it before she saw it but my sibling got her to come see it. Anyway she calls me a sociopath and says I make her life miserable and that she hates me and that she is a failure as a parent because I'm not a Christian and she is. Also it should be noted she is not a single mom and I live in a decent suburb near sf and between both my parents working out family is probably lower upper class and I barely see my parents except for at night and they don't trust me or allow me to leave the house and I've never done anything wrong. Anyway enough rambling I guess the question is, is this abnormal or strange parenting?(I'm pretty sure it is)