So me and my older sis are close in age but my younger sister is 8 years younger than me. Anyway, she is really spoilt. Ever since she was 3, she's been getting the same amount of pocket money as me and my sister, and then when me and my sister went to uni it stopped, but then she got even double what we had when she was only 10! It wouldn't be bad but she never uses it, my mom and dad buy all her toys, she goes to clubs every night that cost so much money, she has two tutors that my mom pays for. I never see my mom anymore because she's always around her. Also, what really tipped me off the edge was that our trust funds came through the mail, and not only can my little sister access hers at 18 whilst we can only access at 21, she literally has DOUBLE what me and my sister have.. which is only going to increase over 8 years right? I mean how is it fair that me and my sister have quarter of what our younger sister has? I tried explaining this to my parents but they just say they have more money now, but does that mean they have to spoil it on the youngest?

My daughter is 21 and i didn't think she'd look like this as an adult. She has really long jet black hair that I NEVER had as a girl. Her makeup is perfect even though its heavy. She's gotten into modelling last year. I started being cold to her ever since. Someone already said to her that "your mother acts like she hates you". I never confessed this out loud. I thought she'd be average looking or even below that! She began showing signs of being above average during her senior year in high school. I didn't even want to see her in a prom dress.

Long story short, our mother is dealing with some very serious health issues. My brother and i are both adults and live kinda far apart. Unfortunately, I need him right now to work out some very important things regarding something that just happened that is very important about our mother. My brother DOES KNOW about it. Last night, i asked to call him via a FB message in the evening regarding this issue so we could work out the details together, and at the time he said that it was ok if i called him at 5pm EST. I rearranged my schedule for this phone call. When i called him, he didn't pick up. Then i get a text from him saying that his phone was about to die. I waited and waited all night for him to call me back or a message or something....and nothing. He knew how important this phone calls was, but apparently he had to blow me off because he doesn't want to deal with this right now. Should i call him out on his behavior or should i just let it go and try calling him again later in the week. Btw, this is a time sensitive matter and i do need him ASAP. I would expect that as an adult, if you can't talk to me about the issue then just send me a message saying that you can't talk right now...right?

My 18 yo son had a one night stand with a 25 year old. Now she is pregnant. Her parents have told me that they have been to the doctor with her and the timeline doesn t add up to be my son s child but she assures everyone it s his. This would be our first grandchild. If it is my grandchild I want to make sure our grandchild has everything he needs to enter this world. Both my son and his gf are not financially stable so they would need as much help as possible. I am torn because I don t want to go broke making sure my grandchild has everything he needs if it s not my grandchild. Am I wrong for this? How should I handle this situation?

I am 38, I lived with my aunt and uncle for 15 yrs during those years. I saw how they treated both of my cousins(male and female cousin). My 2 cousins are both 19. 15 yrs ago my uncle started hitting them(cousins) everytime they would show an emotion(not just crying) it would anger my uncle and he would hit them and yell but that would only make them get upset. This went on until 2014, my cousins are 19 now and practially emotionless neither smile, or laugh. At family get togethers(I do not live with them anymore) so when I see my cousins neither talk much and they both keep to themselves(they both only sit by each other). My aunt and uncle had both of them homeschooled since they were in 3rd grade up to their last year of high school a few years ago. Do my cousins seem autistic because they do not show emotions? I also think maybe they are just messed up and not autistic because both of them hate video games; sci fi, electronics, math, and everything else autistic people typically like.

By clan I mean those who we are social with, know will, include in family events, like seeing, add on Facebook, etc....... Non-clan family I think of as those we only have to reunions and greet at funerals and tolerate or even like but don't know very well.

I'm really worried that our three kids will be pushed to grow up faster and having to apply life lessons much earlier on. It could effect them emotionally. I'll be the only adult around. There will be less vacations, dining out, less treats, the middle and oldest will have to learn riding the public bus alone. Their dad will communicate with us through video chat and phone. We might go on vacation to this foreign country during school breaks. This is such an excellent job offering. I've spoken to parents who had a family member work overseas for a couple of years. They said that their children weren't used to it at first, but eventually adapted. By the time that parent comes back, it was very noticeable that some of them are "different". They've gotten used to the environment being harder on them sometimes, etc.

I'm a 15 year old girl, turning 16 in two weeks. I'm also in 10th grade. My mom is a single parent raising three of us. Compared to two years ago, she is a LOT less protective and treats me more like an adult. That might just be because at 13 you are still growing. But it slows down once you're older.

Well, I am 18 so it doesn't count as running away but my parents won't allow me to do anything. I'm not allowed to drive, or have a job and I'm 18 years old. So, I wanted to work as a nursing assistants and applied with them. My mom said no and I turned down the offer. She made me turn down a interview for a new job and a few other jobs I had to withdrawn from because I'm not allowed to work there. I'm also not allowed to donate plasma for money. My parents say that's for drug addicts and I'd be raped and kidnapped if I do. They don't give me any money to do anything. I wanted to get my permit but my mom said no. I have no money. Even if I sell plasma behind their back I won't have money to drive because I'm not allowed to use their car. So my dad won't help either. Mom says that I'm not allowed to try a staffing agency to find a position. I'm not allowed to wear my natural hair. I planned on getting a job in California and taking the bus there. There's a program that offers housing and work experience. I'm thinking of just going ahead and leaving. I'm never going to be independent staying at home with my parents. I am crossed eyed with poor coronation skills yet my mom told me I'm not allowed to go to therapy and my dad won't take me.

Im an 18 year old guy and I just wanna hang out with this girl but she is younger than me. She is a cool person doe but I dont wanna catch a case

I know this may screwed up but my step mom has a lot of stuff in our garage that takes up a lot of space. I have lived with her for over 6 years and the garage is my man cave. About 4 big huge boxes is full of her kids preschool papers & work. In the years that ive been here the boxes have never moved. Now if i ask her if she wants the stuff of course she will say yes. But im not even sure she knows its even there. I cant wrap my head around why the papers have any sentimental value. It is basically just stick figure drawings and bean or noodle art type of stuff. I understand keeping a bag of it but what is she going to do with it? Just say omg how cute look at your stick figure, you were such a good artist? Balogna. I want to at least throw some of it away since she would never know. Can someone maybe talk me out of it or encourage me to do it? lol I think things like pictures & baby stuff is more worth keeping than preschool math papers. She has a lot of that stuff too.

I have been in placement for one year at a juvenile delinquent center due to a cps case with my parents. One year. I lived with eight girls in my unit and went to school with 50 boys and girls. I am so used to it, now I am back with my family and my emotions are a mess. Everyone says "why aren't you happy? You finally got discharged!" Well I have been there for much longer than most people and those dramatic girls became my family and those staff there become like my parents. Now I'm home with my actual father and I'm depressed as hell. I can't contact any of the people from the placement obviously because they're locked up there. I'm from the suburbs and all the people from the placement were from the inner city- so nobody will ever understand what I have gone through. I freaked out on my parents because I miss it there I told them to just send me back. I don't know anything else anymore than juvi. I don't know what to do now

My mother has a severe drinking problem (and mixes some pills with her alcohol). My entire family drinks (except for me and my brother). Also, it just so happens that my brother and I do not live near the family as well, which in my opinion is a good thing (he lives in Atlanta and I live in Dallas). My grandmother is the ringleader of the family and also drinks heavily. My grandmother refuses to believe my brother and I that her drinking has gotten out of control (because that would mean confronting her own drinking issues). The entire family kinda turns a blind eye to other people in the family when it comes to drinking issues. What i am about to say next is even more shocking but it is the truth....my mother is a nurse practitioner....and her husband is a doctor. Both of them practice medicine and both of the them treat and prescribe medicine to treat sick and elderly patients. My moms husband also turns a blind eye to my mothers drinking and does not want to discuss it either (he will literally walk out of the room if you start talking with him about it). So, just a couple days ago, my mother broke her leg. I believe she fell from her drinking. I tried talking to my sister and brother but neither of them want to talk to me about it and they will not return my phone calls or messages on social media because i believe they are fed up and busy with their own lives. (See update for rest of story below) So, here is my only recourse at the moment in my opinion but I believe it could come at a great cost. I am interested in giving my mother an ultimatum that if she does not seek professional treatment for her alcoholism from a rehab facility then I will contact her employer and give them a warning about her drinking and how she could be potentially be putting the lives of her patients at risk. If you are not aware a nurse practitioner is similar to a doctor in that they have a higher degree than a nurse and have the ability to see patients individually and treat them with medications. My mother takes care of sick elderly patients in hospice. If I do this, it could sever the relationship I have with mother and also with my family (they will take her side and say that I am over-exaggerating because they are all alcoholics as well and stick together like glue).

Me and my sister just started working together and this is my first job. She had some experience and she lies to everyone about me at work and she acts all nice to my face at work but when we get home she rolls her eyes at everything I say to her and she ignores my questions. Or she will yell at me because she claims she told me already but she never did. She is becoming my boss in a month so she can fire me and she told me she will fire me for absolutely no reason. She always tells me I suck at my job and that everyone is better than me at my own job. She also tells my mema on The phone that I am always being a dick and rant about how I never help clean the house but she never ask me too. Making me look bad 24/7. She is perfectly nice to everyone she meets except me and my brother! She treats us like pure suit and yells at us for doing the same thing she has done before. She calls us stupid and I'm not getting butthurt because I got called stupid I just want to know why she is such a ***** for absolutely no reason. I go out of my way to be nice to her and she abuses my kindness and continues to be a *****. She acts nice in front of my dad and continues to be a **** after he leaves also when I try to tell my dad she is being a ***** all the time he talks to her about it and she bullshit cries just to get away with it. She has a baby so when she came to move in I was nice enough to give her and her boyfriend and baby my room so they'd have enough space.

I don't plan on talking to my 3 kids - ages 10, 13 and almost 16 in two weeks - about the inappropriate stuff until they're 18 and in college. Lately, I've been wondering if my oldest child already figured out sex and condoms. We taught them about private parts, criminals, drugs and never talk to strangers before. They always did as told, but never pushed for further info (at one point, they did when they were much smaller but we told them that they'll find out in college). At around 10 or 11, my daughter and sons somehow made up that couples probably get pregnant by taking a medicine pill and mixing their blood together to "create" a baby. I just played along with it and never said anything.

Hey guys, i'm a Freshman--15 years old. I started playing and going to drum lessons about 2 years ago, yes I know that's a pretty long *** time, and why would I quit now. This might surprise you, but in all those two years, i've only learned like 10 songs, and those songs were pretty easy to learn since they follow the same beat for basically the whole song. I have asked my parents if I can quit drum lessons but they just get mad at me, and say "no." I really want to quit, this is the last marking period of the semester, and I want to focus due to the excess amount of incoming exams coming my way. I also want to start practicing soccer since I plan to join the team next year. I also want to focus my time on learning how to learn coding because it is the class i've anticipated for since I got to high school. I really want to quit drums. I have two ideas on how: 1. Tell my parents about the issue, of how I really am tired of drums, and want to focus on schoolwork, soccer, and coding. 2. I can talk to my drum instructor that I really want to quit, and I know that he'll respect my decision of quitting, but if I do so, and I tell my parents that I told my instructor that I quit, i'll receive a huge punishment. Can anyone please suggest any ideas on how I should quit? My next drum lessons will be in a couple days, it'll probably be my last.

The whole family is making a huge deal out of it. Especially, my sister who's been crying day and night. They blame me for not taking this seriously enough. Let me ask you a question. How many people are getting divorced everyday? Thousands, right? Should I cry for all of them? It's a normal thing. People get married, they grow sick of each other then go their separate ways. My only question is what took them so long. That whole marriage has been screwed since the very beginning.

It is not a great-uncle I am very close to. I see him at reunions and funerals. We live in Ohio but he was married in Virginia State. The wedding certificate says "previous marriages one" and a check by divorced. My Mom, his niece, is not familiar with him having a previous marriage. Do I include this marriage certificate even though someone might notice the divorce marked? Do I leave it out and just say I couldn't find it? Do I ask him? He doesn't know me well but knows me a little. We all live in Cleveland but he is in Virginia State or Maryland (not sure which now). I could find an email though through his sister (my grandmother). I dont want to ask my grandmother about his marriage as she might not know since divorce was a scandal in the old days.

I am an adult so this is not child issues or an issue of rules. This is an adult who is given lies about loved ones in the course of gossip. I hate my Dad for his ignorance and allowing it and I hate my Mom for doing it. I don't want to hate them. They have so much good but this blocks me from seeing it and I avoid them when I can. How do I overcome this hate?

She says she is religious but she insults, belittles, and bullies people. She has a son she hates while showering praise on her two daughters, one in particular. She teaches her two daughters to hate their brother. She wrote a 15 page email last Christmas to her nephews and nieces explaining her animosity towards her son and all the bad things he has done (normal teen stuff). She throws out insults at her son and includes that he is like his father (his father was an alcoholic and abandoned them and later died). Meanwhile she has falsely accused my mother of adultery. She brags on Facebook when she does a good deed. She called my sister's friend fat and ugly when she perceived the woman had lied to her (she hadn't). She likes me cause I feed her ego but I have begun to pull away from her as well. So with this behavior is my aunt denied entry into heaven if she died like this? She is Christian (United Methodist) but does not live Christ-Like at all. She is a loyal friend to her friends but abusive to her family, especially her immediate family. Her husband has no balls so he doesn't stand up to her.

I grew up a daddy's girl, always been close to my dad, even during my parents divorce, my dad got full custody of me and basically grew up with him. My dad eventually got married because he wanted help with me, when she was only his girlfriend I mean she was great in the beginning we got along and even called her mom but afterwards she started being against me.)Igot married last year and me and my husband moved away ( i was happy to get away from the problems and felt like my dad would feel better as well because we would all fight everyday because of her and me) for some time and came back. She was telling me how this past year they were the most happiest couple and I was just telling them I was happy for them and want someone for my dad to live the rest his life with. My husband got deployed and my dad invited me to stay with them if I ever felt lonely. He took me out for dinner just once and spent the whole day together, it was fun and missed these moments with my dad. Once she found out she got angry. I told her that you guys go out everyday and are always together and I haven't seen him in a while, it was just one day. She just didn't speak to us. My dad does realize this and have talked to him but he loves her sooo much that he can't leave her. (I understand they've been together for a very long time) She was telling how I should go live my mother, she would help me with my kids (baby on the way) she was trying to say it as it was not offensive) I kept explaining to her that my mother did not want me and rather be close to my father and that I didn't need any help. Should I just move away and just call my dad instead . i mean he doesn't want to do anything and don't want him to be alone again but I feel like its better for me to stay away. Any advice? I realized it.at a young age when I would talk or joke around she'd get mad but when someone else does it (like her nieces that even swear at her) she doesn't care. There were times where she'd lie or talk about me. My dad is too deep in love to understand but doesn't want me to move away but its causing problems for all of us. She doesn't even like my husband. Im a step mother as well but would never ever treat my husband's daughter any different than my own. My dad loves me he really does and I love him too with all my heart but its her thats coming between us that ruined our relationship. She made him be so distant with me even though he loves me but loves her. Im happy for him, I still am but I just can't get that relationship with my dad back if he doesn't do anything about it and she makes a problem of things

Everyday, after school when I get home there's always something. My moms an alcoholic, and well when I get home she puts me to stress like I'm not already stress enough from school. I'm a senior & I'm 17 years old, she brings so much negativity and she harasses me and bully's me and insults my boyfriend horribly speaking poorly about it.. now I'm not sure if she remembers the next day what she says but she never apologizes. I graduate next month, I really want to move out as well.. I can't take it.. me and my boyfriend have been together for about 2 years, and I feel as if I'm ready to move in with him when I turn 18 of course, but my mom wants me to join the navy too.. I don't want to go now, I want to live a little and have stress free for once.. Get a job, a real license, just live out like a regular human being but she's forcing me..

The daughter is in highschool and usually they are allowed to have their phones on them at all time, but for the purpose of the field trip they are told to leave their phones behind and my daughter would like to skip the field trip opportunity due to the fact that she cant have her phone. What do I say or do?

I suffer from anxiety disorders and I try to hide it from my Dad but when he catches me anxious his fury goes on me as I was supposed to be cured of it by 21.

I was discovered by my half sister on ancestry who made him submit his DNA which links him as my dad. My mother also verified having a relationship with him that ended before I was born. They had a heated argument. He left, and he was never aware of her pregnancy. Long story short he will be calling me in a few hours and I'm so nervous I don't know what to say to him. I also have two sister's and A host of other family members that want to meet me and I'm kind of in shock. Any advice?

My mom has been with this guy for along time. We have took breaks from not talking because of him. She can choose his side instead of her own kids. He had been rude to me before. He has made me feel uncomfortable at get togethers. I bring it up and she will make some excuses taken his side. Last thanksgiving he got mad about my brother and I because we drank beer without asking. It was the night before thanksgiving. He got so mad that he didn't even join for thanksgiving. It was 10 beers that he found. Yes maybe my brother shoulda asked but it's thanksgiving.