On most summer days, my sister would come in my room asking me how she looks in her bikinis when she goes swimming or to the beach with her friends. I tell her that she looks great and she accepts my opinions. However, when her friends post pictures on Facebook of their summer fun, I noticed that my sister is the only one in the pictures who has a tank top and shorts on while the other girls had on their bikinis. I would see comments on the pictures from my sister's friends asking my sister why she was covered and she tells them that she is scared to reveal her body. Her friends keep convincing her that she looks fine, but she still remains skeptical about it. I saw that most of the comments were about my sister and I feel so bad for her. I want to help her so she can wear a bikini without fear. How can I help my sister be more confident when she wears bikinis?

I am ready to start a family and I need your help.

For the past few weeks I've noticed my brother doing a lot of things to hurt himself. He's stabbed his let with a nail, stuck sewing needles in his arm and has cut himself quite a bit with kitchen knives. but his main thing is burns. He's burn his wrist, foot and fingers with a lighter. He also melts candle wax and burns himself with that. Whenever I ask him why or tell him to stop he says he's bored and it's fun. Aren't really doing anything about it and just saying things like he's just clumsy and careless. My dad has said he's a man and can take a few scrapes and scars but he's only 15. They're making it seem like I'm over reacting and shouldn't be worried but I can't help it. Am I over reacting? Everybody else is making it seem like it's normal.

This is going to be long but I really need help and I don't have anyone else to turn to. I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 3 years. We started dating at age 16. We are both 19 now. He goes to school in NYC and I am in CA. I currently live at home and do not go to school. I am with a theatrical agency that sends me out on auditions and I book work. I am very serious about my craft and chose the path of working straight away after High School instead of a conservatory. Not everyone gets an agent handed to them. And I would have had to give that agent up if I went to college. I however still live at home. We've been in long distance for 8 months now. He's visited 3 times already due to holiday breaks which was convenient. However I have not visited him at all yet. This is something I have wanted to do for a while and he wishes for me to come out too. But what stops me every time is my parents. They are extremely overprotective and come up with every possible excuse to have me not go visit. I am their youngest child. They say I need to focus on my career and not spend my money on a boy that's probably not "the one". My friends say I should just buy a ticket and go but there's got to be a better way than disrespecting my parents like that. So instead I presented a sheet with all the money and plans involved and I'd pay my way and they STILL said no. Should I just wait to move out by this point until I can buy a plane ticket in peace?

I am 25 years old living in the UK. I am south Asian so my culture is very different. How different? well cousins marrying one another is wide spread even in England where its legal (Hey, i don't make the rules). I have never left the country and was never eager until lately where I thought to myself.. This is the right time. I have been fired from work for almost a year but I saved a lot of money so that isn't an issue. I still live with parents. I told my brother, let's go and you can book a week off work. he agreed. I told my mother to inform my dad of this because I'm not comfortable talkin to him (we were never close and he always criticises me).. She did. He told me "I will book the holiday".. Few days later he said I have booked it for the summer and I am coming as well to show you the ropes as you have never been.. I told him not to but he insisted.. Should I listen or no?

She always criticizes me

I have enough money to get me a ticket out to America and pay my mortgage for six months. I will be leaving my children with their father. I've got this all planned. I want to go now. Should I go?

So, I forgot to bring my science journal and some missing assignments from my class because in math I had a test and all that and in class I am focusing on current assignment than the past hut I forgot to bring my science journal because we we're reviewing the test and looking at our answers and trying to answer on what we forgot and now my dad was upset that oh I checked your grades you have a D+ in science and a D in English I was like ok and then he started talking about more negative things during the argument that oh you play 5 hours on your laptop blah blah blah and then oh you use almost all the data in lunch which I don't anymore and I said I sit by my friends he said oh you don't have friends you are lying blah blah blah but I have friends and then he says all this negative stuff what a jerk he is and he saying oh you didn't got the science book oh go to school tomorrow the teachers are open for 1 to 2 days of break because they are grading oh how will my dad know he is not a teacher he doesn't work at the school district what a joke and my mom says we will call the school first but my dad says no go to the school if we go to the school and we go without calling and if their is no one we are going to school like fools then and he says study ok but I have 1 week spring break vacation and I want to relax even one minute when I play on the phone he says oh you are playing on your you don't care about your studies it's my break dad gosh what can I do?

Did you still us the service? Did you tip her? Qwas she any good?

Without my permission....it's really frustrating I feel bad that he has money issues sometimes, but it gets annoying when he calls only when he needs a ride or food or something I paid for. Am I a selfish person for hiding my food and cigarettes when he comes by? I feel like at 25 his financial life should be more stable than mine but it's getting to the point where I just go back and forth between I want to tell him to screw off and get his own food and cigarettes but I still feel bad since he's blood related... What would y'all do in this situation?

I feel less connected to my baby after I have stoped grieving over her, and I don't want to move on even though it has been two years since her death. How Can I grieve more? I can't forget her. I have stopped thinking about her a lot and that hurts so much.

If I have school the next day my mother takes my phone away. I mean I'm 15 but back when I was like 13, I would often use my phone on school nights and since two years, she's been taking my phone away. Like she doesn't trust me at all. I do so well in school, I manage my time, and I'm respectful to all my teachers, I do my homework and get really good grades but I don't get why she doesn't trust me over something that happened like two years ago. I mean it's been so long and I keep telling her how I've learned to sleep on time and not use my phone after 11 (which is my bedtime) on school nights but she still just doesn't seem to trust me. I would like to use my phone for alarm because I could put like 5 alarms for me to get up for school on time. But no she doesn't let me. She wakes me up every morning and if I'm like can u wake me up a while earlier she's like I'm busy I don't have time. Like let me have my phone.

i notice my parents were older than most people\friends the same age as me at schools parents when i was 16 my parents were in their late 40s\early 50s they had me at 32 and 33 my father younger than my mother while my friends parents were in the 30s i felt bad sometimes cuz i had slightly older parents but now i know it's common in just want to know is that old?? just in general sometimes i wish my mom was playful and young and in her 30s like my friends moms but she is very strict and older sometimes it's hard to relate to her when i was 5 they were already in their early 40s not complaining just wondering have anyone else with older parents felt like that my mom born in 1965 ny dad in 1967 i was born in 1999

reason why i say this is because usually guys that were the oldest one of their sisters or brothers are the ones that watch over and take care of their younger siblings. and being a leader requires masculinity if you are the youngest boy in the family with a older sister, your sister doesn't see you as a protector, so you end up being the feminine one in the family. if you are a guy with older brothers you are still masculine, but you don't retain leadership skills like oldest brother does, but at least they are not as feminine as guys with older sisters

When I was 8, my half brother was about 15 and my parents would leave us alone with him. ( He is the oldest, I am the youngest) He would force us to play strange games. He made me and my siblings play "Jail" with him and force us to get naked even though I told him I didn't want to he made me. He would use handcuffs on us. Then we had to bend over take turns looking at each others butthole and point and laugh and each other. He never touched, only looked. He was physically abusive. For example, He stapled my sisters finger and punched us in the arm and thigh hard enough to make a bruise and laugh about it. He was very manipulative of us and my parents so to this day none of my siblings or me talked about what happened with my parents. He grew to do much more evil stuff. I honestly think he is a psychopath but he is in prison for life now for something unrelated, so I'm not worried about him. However, when I think of that memory I'm still confused. I don't have nightmares about it or anything, I'm not traumatized. Is that sexual abuse or something else? Pavel - My post is not a lie. And I have no need to involve police. I post here because I want to be anonymous while hearing the opinions of others.

My dad and my step-mom fight a lot, but it recently got really bad for some reason and I don't really get it. My dad had a shitty childhood growing up so now he finds it hard to keep relationships and has anger issues. He never gets physical but he cusses us out a lot. My step-mom tries really hard and has for a while but i didn't get that because I missed my deceased mother, but we talked it out and she told me that shed never replace my Mom but she's been trying to be a good step-mom. Our relationship has started improving but now my Dad is going on about how he wants a divorce and how he's going to move out but I don't want to because I want to keep my new maternal figure i've found in my step-mom that I haven't had for a while. The other problem is that my Dad doesn't have a lot of money and my step-mom does and I'm kind of weird so I get bullied frequently. I've been going to a private school since they got together and it has mostly stopped but if my Dad divorces her then I'll have to go back to getting bullied. Thank You For Reading

It would involve her leaving her children and all she will tell you is that something terrible happened to her at home and she needs to be away from there for a little while? Would you take her in?

I'm 17 and I've felt this way since I was 12. He hasn't told me he loved me for years. He tells the other two kids that he loves them and he laughs and jokes with them. If I try to talk to him I get short, one worded answers. Or he yells at me. So most of the time I stay in my room and organize it or just rearrange and clean. My mom loves me. I mean I can tell she favors my other two siblings but at least she still loves me. But my dad... no love at all. I cant remember the last decent conversation we had. The past few months I've been... weird I guess. There's this feeling in my chest that makes me want to cry, my head is numb. Especially when my dad insults me or yells, my head feels really numb then. I try not to think about it, but I fail and it only makes me even more down.. does anyone have any tips? I'm just tired and at this point, I dont have hope that he will love me anymore.

So last night my parents started arguing. They were drunk and all and I could hear them although i tend to ignore them because it happens almost every weekend. They drink a lot on the weekend and argue. They argue and scream and it'll get a little physical but stops right after. I just sort of gave up trying to stop it. Anyways, last night my mom did something to my dad which resulted in him in the hospital. Im not dwelling on what happened. Today, she told us we needed to listen out. It was our fault for not stepping in and helping. I wanted to tell her I didnt intervene because it was just a common occurence, and i didn't know it would get that bad. Is it really my fault for not intervening?

I live in Louisiana and just had a baby boy, my first, in November. To make matters worse, my MIL is living with us. Note, she lives with us because she set fire to her house and we're the only ones within an hour's radius from her that was willing to take her in. (Her heater blew a fuse in the house while she was out at the bar having her fair share of tequila.) She doesn't pay rent and she's only helped pay for groceries a handful of times. She doesn't really contribute at all. And another thing...she thinks it's fine that she sits on OUR couch with a 6pk of beer and watch her shows. On top of that, we've made the mistake (just once though) of letting her babysit and then come home to find her passed out on the couch with the stove on the baby crying bloody murder. It was then that I told her that she needs to get out of my house and find some other place to live. But she then goes and tells her friends that were being a bully to her and taking advantage of her. I really want her out of my house asap, but don't know how soon it can be. The laws are a bit unclear and confusing since I don't know what to classify her as tenant-wise. I've told her she needs to be out by this Friday two weeks ago. Do I adhere to my verbal notice or can I have her removed sooner?

My parents are both racist and homophobic and I'm sick of it. They always gossip about others and stick their noses in other people's business. It's so annoying and I just wish they were better people. But, because I have to live with them at least 4 more years, how can I deal with them?

I need your help. My parents and i got into an argument. It was a normal thing and they said my behavior was bad but actually I didn't really do much. So i started yelling at them and my dad stood up took my phone and he wanted to break it so i pushed him and went upstairst with my phone and slammed the door. He then came running and grabbed my by the neck and started to strangle me until I couldn't breathe. I then immediately wanted to leave the house but he took all the keys and wouldnt let my. I had a key in me so after 3 hours when I finally got the courage to run away my mom hit me and i started screaming. And so my dad pulled me by my hajr from the front door to the living room. He then sat on me and held my hands and hit me on my head with his head. He started hitting me and next thing I knew my nose was bleeding and i was spitting out blood and he still wouldn't let me go. They they started saying i was on drugs and insane and said they would call and take me to a psychiatric hospital because I was mentally insane. Then I went upstairs, I got off my bloody clothes and took a bath. It's been 3 days and they dont make me food, they dont give me money for school, i am on house arrest and they turned off my mobile service which means I cant call nor text the only person I need, my boyfriend. I don't know what to do, but I'm scared to death. I'm terrified of being in my own home. The only place i look forward to is school because i can be with my boyfriend. Help me

Long story short, senior high is grades 11-12 in our country/province. My daughter has Asperger's. I worry about sexual exploitation and drugs, particularly. We have a high number of unfortunate incidence here. She's 15, takes the public transit alone at the moment. We have to give her more freedom at some point, can't coddle our children forever. When the teens are in middle school (grades 8-10), there is more adult guidance and the school is more involved. Students are not surrounded by older teens yet. But in senior high, it's different... my daughter will be expected to be very independent, responsible, and taking care of herself at all times during school. The purpose of senior high is to prepare kids for college (the system functions like pre/mini college).

We have been together three years. We have one child so I don't want to leave the situation. But I might have to because she accuses our baby of trying to spite her because the baby didn't like the stuffed animal she bought for easter. She gets mad at me if my daughter walks to anyone but her.Yesterday she threw a giant two hour tantrum in front of my entire family because she didn't want to be at my mothers so we had to leave. I am estranged from most of my friends and my older kids because she gets jealous if we have a good time because I should only have a good time with her.I told her I never have a good time anymore with her because her paranoia and jealousy are ruining everything. I am not allowed to pick out my own food own clothes or have an opinion different than her or she punishes me for days on end.This toddler behavior is getting old. She wants to phone tap her coworkers and my sisters to see what they say about her when she is not around.She suspect's everyone of being a child molester too. She hired a private eye with money we didn't have to tail my ex wife and several other people.

My son is 22 and has never worked a day in his life. He decided he did not want to go to college so my husband and I bought him a nice reliable car and rent him an apartment, so he wouldn't be concerned about where he would stay and how he would get around. We thought that would make him focus more on getting a job. He put in no effort to try to find a job so my husband pulled some strings and got him a nice job close to his work. He refused to go and then started asking us for money. We couldn't say no to him and as of now we give him enough money to buy food, clothes, and other useless items he doesn't really need. The problem is he isn't grateful for the things we do for him. He comes to us a few weeks after we've already given him money asking for more. He gets mad when we say no and throws tantrums. On top of that, him and his girlfriend came to tell us she's pregnant. They want to stay in our guest home since my son's apartment only has 2 rooms. They also asked for us to pay for things for the baby such as diapers, clothes, toys, etc. I feel as a mother and a future grandmother I am obligated to help support them. My husband on the other hand disagrees and thinks we should cut him off completely so he can learn to support him and his family on his own. I believe that is too cruel. I don't know what to do.

They wont add me on any social media ,i never hear from them via text message . Is this normal ? I never talk to them so idk why they have a problem with me . They are friends with my husband ,i do hear from his parents ,just not his siblings . It has always been this way so i leave them be ,is that what i should do ,ive tried to talk and i get blocked or no answer .