My aunt died a few days ago. We weren't particularly close or anything, but I talked to her at family gatherings and whatnot. Weirdly enough, im not sad about it. Don't get me wrong, it's awful that she died, but it just isn't affecting me like it is my parents and siblings. But that's not my biggest problem. It keeps slipping my mind that she's died, and then when I remember, I'm just like "woah." This is the closest death I've had in the family so far (all of the others have been distant cousins, great grandparents, etc, that I barely knew). Is it normal to react to a close death like this? I know that people grieve differently, but it just seems odd to me that she we were so closely related and I'm not sad over it. Thanks.

I have a huge problem with mommas big curtain in the hall its too red and big and. Bigger than my room which is big as math classroom 2nd grade. Its heavy silk that looks like my grandma did a wee wee on it and its stained yello but she. Thinks its beautiful ad my dad and i doesnr stand. What fo i do ivr complained too many times she wants to disown me for complaining about thr curtian and im iknly 27

When I was 9 I was molested by my real dad for about a year. I decided to finally tell my mom. She then asked my dad if he really did do those things. He told her he was drinking and he didn't really remember but if he did anything wrong he was sorry. After that nothing else was really said or done. The whole thing seemed to be forgotten about. I remember once when my mom was mad at me. She was yelling at me and said I was ****** up in the head and I made it all up for attention. And how dare I say something like that about my dad. My mom and I never got along good after I told her. My mom started to drink really bad and take pills. When I moved out I cut off all contact with them. I later got married and became pregnant. I tried once to talk to them just to see if things might work out and if they had changed. My mom just told me I needed to forgive and forget and she wouldn't let anything happen to her grandson. She made excuses for him saying he was so drunk and you don't know what your doing really when your drunk. I struggled with it for many years. A part of me gets very lonely sometimes. I have no family now. People tell me those are your parents and that I should try to make things work because they won't be around forever. And that I should be the better person. Sometimes I feel guilty about cutting off contact with them. I haven't spoken to them in 2 years and they have never met my son. But then I think I would be crazy to let people like that back into my life

I am 20 years old and I have just found out that my parents are getting a divorce. I live at home with them and have no job because I take care of my little brother during the day while my parents work full time. Anyway, I feel trapped, stressed, and confused. I was planning on getting a job this year and applying to community college. I had a plan for my future. Now my father is unable to afford all the bills on his own, my little brother is heartbroken and I need to be here for him, so now I don't know what to do. Do I get a job and help him pay the bills? Do I just forget college for now? Can anyone offer me any advice, please?

Never met his family until I was a teen and they wanted nothing to do with me cause my moms a Mexican and talked **** about my mom and me. He's become extremely annoying acts like I'm some gang banger and believes Jesus is a pleadian. I had Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger pillows that cost me a lot and he threw them in the garbage. I'm 18 not spoiled just tired of all my enemies who hate me

I am 16 and my mom is overly controlling. I haven't been able to go out with friends since I was in 8th grade and now I'm a junior in high school. My mom does not allow me to talk to my sister because my mom ruined her own relationship with her. My mom lies to me and lies about me. And she calls me and my whole family names. My dad told me he knows she has problems but he doesn't care as long as the bills are getting payed. That's what my dad told me. And when my mom gets angry she drives badly and today she was driving me to school and we were coming to a red light and and she didn't slow down and she had to slam on her breaks and almost hit the car in front of her and I asked why she did that and she said she wasn't concerned. And I said we could have hit them and she said yep maybe I want to die. She has started drinking and was drunk one night and fell outside and hurt her ankle. I helped her friends clean outside for 4 days In a row from morning to when it's dark and she told me to text her friend a few days after that and she has a message talking **** about me to her friends. I want to be allowed to leave home but I don't want to be in a foster home. I want to be with my sister

I have a female cousin that still lives at home with her mom and dad who are 75 and 90. They are still able to manage own their own but my cousin claim they can't. So that's why she is still there. And she still sleeps in a tiny bedroom next to their room her entire life, and share a small bathroom. She should be living free her own life in her own place. I'm sure her parents would want her to be happy. It's baffling. She has a job and goes out with friends. No husband,kids or boyfriend I know of.

First of all, I'm a female and i love video games. thats what I grew up on, and thats what i love to do. Im an artist as well and I go to school for graphic design. I work as well and I'm a merchandiser, and i work when i don't have classes and when i don't have work i go to class obviously. Im not lazy and when i have the time i tend to play video games with my friends online. I usually do this when i finish doing my chores for the day and when I'm not tired. First of all, my mother hates that I don't want to be like her and be a teacher, i finally stood up for myself and told her that i wanted to do animation and work with cartoons because i draw and I'm an artist, and i felt like i was wasting my talent studying to be a teacher, and if i were to be a teacher i wouldnt even stay in that profession because i don't really like kids. so now she's yelling at me all the time for playing video games on my spring break, telling me she's going to take the car she gave to me away, and telling me to find something to do meaning she's trying to threaten taking me out of school to do a city job. she's 60 by the way. i try to mind my business and not really say anything because I'm about to graduate school and when i graduate I'm going to look for a better job and leave new york because i don't want to live in new york... what should i do, because I'm like really tired of my mother at this point and i know she doesn't like me either. she's just always picking fights.

I'm pregnat and my mother in law keeps twlling everone it will be her baby. She has already tried to kick my parents out of the picture and has been extremely rude to them even though they have tried to play nice. She keeps telling my husband and I how our child is going to be when its born and how we are going to raise it.. She has also crossed lines I have set and then played victim. Such as touching my stomach and just walking into our home I'm anounced or invited. This is just the too of the iceberg. I am a very vocal person but I'm in no mood for the stress and my husband knows how she is when you confront her... What do I do?

I don't like him he gets on my nerves, my mom really loves but I don't like him, I'm 30 and I should have my own place but I can't afford to move out

I'm 21 living on my own with my boyfriend of over a year. I've been getting manipulated and controlled by my parents since I was young and now it's gettu out of hand. They would drive around my town I used to live in to see if I was going where I said I was going to be, they would contact my friends constantly to know my whereabouts or just to know if I'm with my boyfriend, they took my car and told me to park it because "I had no insurance" (which I did, they tried telling me they took me off of theirs) then tried to trade my 2013 car in with my parents 2007 car for them to get a newer one but they couldn't I'm primary owner. They tell me if I get pregnant I'm no longer welcome there, my 29 yr old brother has two kids and they've taken him in throughout the past. They tell me I'm doing drugs(I'm not) then tell me I need to seek profession help because somethings wrong with me anytime i tell them I need a break from them. They also have tried to sabotage my relationship with my boyfriend by reaching out to my ex's and having them contact me to see if my boyfriend is the "controlling type", my father also screamed into my face that I am the main source of all their problems in front of my boyfriend. I don't want to block them out of my life but anytime I try and be successful in my own life they turn around and make me feel like I'm not doing enough and that I'll never be able to live up to their expectations.

I'm 15 (girl) and my brother is 12. He is expected to ride the bus alone, do more chores, and act in a no-nonsense attitude. When I was 12, I got away with being a drama queen and my mom rarely screamed. She gave me rides everywhere, unlike my brother. If my brother acts the same way I did, he will be told to grow up, take responsibility, and don't act like a 5 year old. My mom wouldn't have let him spend hours crying over typical pre-teen drama. It's very strange, she was and is less strict with me but more strict with him.

My mom has to wait for test results back, because something abnormal showed up and they wanted to do further testing to make sure its not cancer. I'm really concerned because I already lost my brother in 2016 and my mom is the only person I have left beside my kids because my dad abandoned us after my parents divorced in 2004. He is an alcoholic and didn't even attend my brothers funeral. I haven't seen him in years and like I said since my brother died my mom is the only person I can talk to and who gives a damn about me besides my kids. how do I stop worrying so much? these tests were ran on Tuesday so I'm hoping it will come back this week so I can put my mind at ease

Ugh so I was just masurbating really loudly with the door closed because I thought I was home alone, turns out my mom is in the room right next to me because I heard her COUGH (so she totally heard me) and now i really don't know what to do, like i never wanna open the door again. help ):

father of my 3 children left after argument on Saturday and took my car he has been gone for almost 3 days saying he's been smoking and drinking with friends when he returns I don't know what to say or do his mother is in the hospital and she isn't doing the best and it's a lot going on I just need advice

Ok, so my very good guy friend and occasional lover of a year and a half has been acting strange. So, about 2 weeks ago him and i decided to end our friendship because he didn't know that i loved him and he said he didn't love me. We agreed on a temporary hiatus. Yesterday i get a text from him saying goodbye and its been nice knowing me and he is deleting his social media and changing his phone number. Im like wtf! I was like, u seriously want to never speak with me again or what? He was like no, i DO want you in my life but he said i though you wanted this. I was like...um...no (because i never said that and he was the one who suggested the hiatus because i said i loved him). Anyway, he asked me to come over and see him after that phone call. I decided to go because i wanted to know what was going on. Long story short, we end up talking for hours and then sleeping together (please note that him and i haven't slept together in almost 8 months but more or less just talked all the time and developed a deeper friendship). He told me that he is dating a lot of women right now (which is true). So, he kinda let it slip accidentally that he was dating this particular girl but then changed what he said and told me that he is dating lots of women and it just came out wrong. Morning comes and i tell him i need to leave. He starts acting strange again and says, please don't leave anything here at my place. Im like i won't but he starts checking everything in his place... just to make sure i don't leave any trace that i was at his place. Im assuming that his "deleting his fb account" and wanting to change his phone number and also the being paranoid about me accidentally leaving something at his place is actually his way of telling me that he is about to get involved with a girl and make it official. He is very flirty and i know for a fact that most of his fb friends and social media contacts are girls he has in the past either hooked up with or was trying to. I know what you are all going to say....he just wants to keep you as a side chick until the other relationship becomes official which is in part true (we do have a solid and genuine friendship however without the sex which was an accident yesterday but i don't regret it). I just don't like being lied to and have him just not be 100% straight with me. We went through a lot together after his dad passed away a few months ago and got really close.

I have a step mom, and she has a step mom as well. I already consider my step mom's bio mom to be my step grandma, so what is my step mom's step mom?

So he is a different religion and we have known eachother since we were kids. I really love him and we were even talking about our future togheter. I told my family about that and what we are planning to do and they told me that they WILL NEVER EVER forgive me if i marry him. They even told me they would ask God to punish me... And if i marry him they will cut our family ties and never talk to me again even tho they love me. I care for them and i cant really cut our ties and run. After everything they sacrifised for me I cant just leave them. What should I do?? Please help!!

Mother (51) -daughter(24) relationship Every time the daughter doesn't do exactly what mom wants she tells her she needs to grow up. Today it was simply because she was looking for something and she just didn't see it. And mom tell her again she needs to grow up. Is that verbal abuse? I just think it's so mean. We all fail to see something sometimes right?

Is it a lesbian crush, obsession or do you think I just really admire and like her as a friend only? I'm being obsessed over someone who I shared a brief friendship with during my childhood years. When i was in 5th grade there's a university student who worked as a volunteer at my primary school temporary. She works with me every week in my class. At that time i was only a 10 year old child and she is a 20 year old women. I don't even know why I get attracted to an adult. She's a nice and friendly person, I immediately warm up to her since the first day I met her. We talked together regularly at class and I really enjoy her company. After I left primary school, we didn't see each other again. A few year later, I attempted to reconnect with her via email. She was happy to hear from me again at the beginning but after awhile I tried to message her again for a few more times over the course of several days and she will only give shorts replies and never initiates a conversation. Although she still reply to my message, but I sensed she is no longer interested to maintain contact with me anymore and she's only replying to my message just to be polite. From then on, I got the hint and stopped contacting her again. Now it's been more than 9 years since I last heard from her, but I still think of her from time time? How can I move on and stop being fixating on a person who is long gone from my life.

So my parents have been fighting constantly and they have had 3 different separations in the same summer (last summer) and it was very hard on me and every time I went to my moms I cried (shhh ik im stupid). And they are back together for now but my mom always talks about moving out again and she's very very mean to my dad saying things i dont want to repeat.. But idk I've been so sad like almost every (if not every) day I'm sad and it's a sad where I dont wanna move outta bed and i dont really wanna eat that much idk.. And ig I've done something to my wrists (since im not allowed to say s..h.a.r.m on here cause the "community guidelines") a few times on very bad days.. that's the first time I've admitted that to anyone so please don't think im doing this for attention or I'm emo or something.. But I can't tell my mom DEFFINETLY about that and prob not about my mood so what should I doooo😭?

And my kid asked me not to say anything to her dad about it because at first he got mad that the step mom had this conversation with my daughter behind the dad's back my daughter heard them through the walls arguing about it and then all of a sudden the dad agrees with it now so now she has to leave it downstairs on the kitchen counter like she's a little kid and my daughter is afraid for me to say anything because she thinks she's going to get in trouble when she goes over there. My daughter says that the step mom uses this real mean tone to her voice when talking to my kid and I guess my daughter had told her well my mom paid for this phone not you in the step mom several this is my house my rules. I'm asking Yahoo answers because in my opinion if I allow her to do something here they should allow her to do the same thing there I know it's her house but she's not a little kid and I think it's personally ridiculous that they are treating her like she's five years old when she's merely 17 years old

i am an older sibling of a 5 and a half year old. long story short hes been spoiled for all his life anything he wants he gets and he will act up after he gets it and he doesnt know what a punishment is. Theres no such thing as "go to your room and think about what youve done" he just walks all over the house after hes done something. He talks very vulgar and usually says a lot of bad words to my parents. im 16 and him and me both have different fathers but i consider my step dad to be very respectful and good to me and my mom. But they both dont know how to discipline him. He hits my mom while she has her new born son in her hand and pushes his dad. he will throw things and literally whine every morning at 5am which wakes me up. he wont respond to you most of the time and will say rude things at the most random times. if you tell him to stop cursing he will literally repeat everything you say like "stop cursing" . theres so much more but i know everything is mostly my parents fault but i really think it is too late to stop his behavior. he laughs when we hit him which is the craziest part. i just hope none of these things mess with his head later or i hope eventually he will evolve out of this phase because he thinks this is normal. My parents dont listen to me like at all FML when i tell them what the issue is THAT HE DOESNT GET A PUNISHMENT WHAT SO EVER.

I've been wanting to take my family to the local aquarium for months . I finally have enough money and arranged everything with my nephew and his fiance so we could all go together . When I surprised my mother with the news , that we all were all going to the aquarium tomorrow she wasn't happy. she said that it would be too much money , that she has bills to pay , that my nephew would probably leave early because he wants to be with his fiance instead of us , that it would be cheaper if we just went without her , that i would starve if i took us because it would take all my money ( which isn't true ) I was very sad she said this . I was having a very good day , and she made me feel so stressed, disgusting and unhappy . Im not sure what to do , I want to take her still but I'm starting to think i should just go alone . It makes me feel very depressed and I feel ashamed of my mother because she does not want to make happy memories with her family . after i told my nephew I wasn't sure what to do because she was acting up, he became upset because he thought the things she said were "harsh" and that she was "putting me down" for wanting to do something nice for the family . Overall I've been depressed, I feel very stressed and don't know what to do could someone please help me ? any suggestions ?

I dont want to be mean to the aunt but I love my grandparents, she is mad at them and says she can never be close to her father.

Me and my wife have been married since 2013 but been together longer. She found out in 2012/2013 she had infertility issues. Still to this day we still have not had a child. We tried fostering but that did not work out. We tried adopting but it cost so much (at least here in Illinois). We thought about someone having a baby for us and all the people that was suppose to do it for us it never worked out. Seems like ever way we try to have a baby of our own it just doesn't work. And I heard a lot over the years that couples only make it if they have baby's together. And to be honest I kind of believe it. Ever since we had negative pregnancy test and everything else not working out (adopt, Foster, Ect) we been fighting more and depressed more. I feel like my marriage is comming to a end since we can't have kids (and we LOVE kids!!) we both are just miserable anymore. Any advice? I will take any advice to either suggestions or if someone knows of places that help with cost for adoption (I heard there may be places that pay for adoption but never found any) thank you very much!

In 19 year old guy. I have a brother 23 and sister 25 I sometimes wonder if they would really be sad if I died. Like would they consider it a huge loss or no? They already have a son and daughter so me dying isn't that bad right? I remember asking my mom if she would care if I died when I was like 12 and she gave me a hug and said don't ever ask a question like that. But it came back thinking was she lying and I'm wondering do they care? If you had kids how much would you care if one of them died?

She discriminates against our other sister's son cause he is autistic. She left Christmas early and stated she was cause she didn't like being around the nephew and wishes my parents had put him and his siblings and Mom at a hotel (they were visiting from out of town).

I spend most of the time when i am at home in the living room because i like watching tv and in my room i dont have a tv and my mum brings flowers in the living room that contain polen yet she knows that i am allergic to pollen! I cant stay in the living room for longer than 30 mins because i sneeze a lot and i rub my eyes, my eyes hurt because of too much rubbing and they usually water .. i cant stand this, this is driving me crazy! In the past there were flowers in my room too but i threw them all away and when i tell her to take them to the kitchen she says there is not enough sunlight.. she says u gotta handle it and that is all! what should i do? How do i deal with my stupid mum?

I've had it. I'm fourteen and my sister is twelve, we share a room together. My side of the room is always clean and her side is a disaster! My parents punish us both for HER messes! I'm sick o getting in trouble with her for her side of the room. How can I get my parents to punish her only for her messes and not me as well?

Me and my little sister are really close but I only get to see her on some weekends because I don t like going to my dad s house. She always asks to come with me when I leave but my step mom doesn t ever really let her and my mom us worried about one thing. If she falls and gets hurt or if a dog scratches her can my dad sue for abuse? Like could he go to court and say my mom abused his child? If my mom and my dad both said yes then my step mom might so that s why I m asking. But even if my sister said that she just fell would the court listen to her?