Alright, this is starting to creep me out. I'm literally 14 years old, in 8th grade. My yearbook picture looks EXACTLY (and literally) like my mother's. We look EXACTLY the same. Same light brown hair, same eyes. Same skin. I'm white, my mom is white, my dad is kinda dark. Shouldn't I look like my dad since dark skin is the more dominant trait, and we're both male? Instead, you could only see 1-2 similarities (we have the same ears, and kinda the same personality) but other than that, I'm a clone of my mother. Is this normal for guys to look more like their mother than their father? Help me guys, this is getting on my nerves.

Alright so I'm 15 and my mom bought a whole chicken and she expects me to eat the entire thing but I really do not want it and she's disappointed in me and she's mad. Why didn't she ask me first before buying it? I wouldn't mind having a little bit of chicken but I can't eat the entire thing and it's a big chicken and I don't want to get sick from overeating. And my mom won't eat it because she's vegetarian. Should I eat it anyway just to make her happy?

So my dad recently got remarried, and my stepmom is causing some problems. At first she was really nice, and we got along very well. then she started trying to control my life. she convinced my dad into moving houses from my childhood home and even though my dad wants to stay close, she insists on moving over an hour away, closer to the city. me and my sister would not be able to see my dad as much in this case. also, every time i try to talk to my dad, she is listening in, and gives her 2 cents. I will be trying to have a conversation with my dad, or maybe even convince him of something and she will chime in and say "no you can't do that." and this makes my dad less likely to listen to what I have to say. she does this a lot, and it feels like she is trying to pull my dad away from me. Whenever my dad takes my side over hers, she gets bitchy. She also is always trying to cause problems between me and my dad it seems. I was showing my new shirts to her and my dad, she goes "that's not a shirt, thats a bra." it was normal sized crop top? these are just a few examples. I need to know how to deal with her, whether that be through ways to get closer to my dad so he will be more likely to support me over her, ways to deal with her (I have tried being nice, she still does whatever she wants), or ways to eliminate her all together. Also, please don't tell me to grow up or get over it. I've tried, but now she's effecting me and my dads relationship which i do not want.

Apparently she has a resentment towards cops since my dad is a cop even though mom left him...... So any "police" item I have around the house disappears, I ask for months if anyone's seen it and no one does, and they miraculously turn up in my moms junk drawers when I dig thru em at midnight... I had two gifts from close police friends, both thin blue line bracelets and i wore em all the time then they disappeared one day. Looked through all my stuff thinking i was crazy, asked everyone in family and no ones seen em, then they popped up in a junk drawer again..... I know this isnt accident, my mom has stolen many things she "doesnt like" from me before. Prob is this is second time bracelets have gone missing and sis said she saw them in moms makeup drawer and i havent found em so she mightve thrown em away this time...... Im getting my bracelets back, I don't care if I have to fight her off to go look in her closet, but just wondering if I "can" do this by law in case she does call the cops or something... I wont get violent unless she touches me but im tired of her taking my stuff for no ******* reason.....

Like ive met many people that seem nice if they have something to benefit from you but turns out they are very selfish and they dont want to see anyone happy? Like i get jealous of girls that look better than me, but i dont resort to gossiping. There was this one woman whose husband was cheating on her and she tried to convince my mom that my dad was cheating on her too.

He was in his workshop an he was like grabbing his chest and was going "Arnold, I'm having a heart attack" an he like fell on the floor an I laughed an grabbed my chest to an was like "oh, me to papaw" an then I was like "oh wait it's just gas" an I tore a fart off right in papaw's face an I was just a laughing! Sense he was laying on the floor I farted in his face again but he wasn't laughing so I went an got mamaw an she an mom was in the kitchen an they called the ambulence an then they yelled at me! I didn't think he was serious I thought he was kidding! Why would anyone body have a for real heart attack? I thought they was just jokes like seizures an cancer an stuff. The docter said papaw will be OK but he has to have like a by pass or something. I just don't think it's fair that I am getting yelled at.

Yes I'm 19 and yes I need to move out, working on it... But I want my stuff back if she hasnt thrown it away too... This is in my younger years though, first I had a magnetic bumper sticker on my car that disappeared and I asked anyone in family if they had seen it and everyone said no. A year or so later going through one of my mom's junk drawers found the bumper sticker..... I have some friend cops I see on the streets and two of them gave me bracelets that were black with the thin blue line through them so I wore them all the time. Then they disappeared so asked my mom again and she gave me the same dumbass look and said "I dont know what youre talking about, child." Then later found them in another one of her junk drawers...... The bracelets have been missing probably about a year now and I had other stuff on my mind so it didn't cross my mind mom stole em again until I asked my sister if shes seen them and she said she saw them in my moms makeup drawer several months ago...... So just went threw EVERY drawer downstairs and couldnt find em this time, I'm scared she might've thrown them away, I asked the ***** directly again and gave same response, "I dont know what youre talking about child"........ What can I do about this?? I'm really frustrated and I just want the bracelets back if she hasnt thrown em away by now........

Like since im a woman i do like some guys, but im saving myself for marriage. I see that my professor in college sometimes get red faced when a female profressor would greet him or he sees skin. Like how often do men get tempted?

All she does is use people, including my boyfriend. He grew up with her and is used to it. He's shocked that my family doesn't pull me into all the family drama and allows me to focus on myself. His family is the opposite because of his mom. She doesn't allow him to make progress in his life. I get frustrated for him. Should I tell him to distance himself from this his toxic mother?

My always complains when she has to clean the house and tries to make me feel bad when she does so. I didn't have much time to help because i was in school full time and almost working full time at my job. When I told her classes were over, she said, "Good now you can keep the house clean" she wants it clean alll the time. On my days off when I'm not tired i do clean the house very well. I don't mind. It needs to be done. I'm not lazy. The day before yesterday I worked all day. Yesterday I hung out with a friend. Well Mom went bat **** crazy and was pissed that I didn't stay home and clean. Now she's being a total ***** and ruining my day. Like I'm not her slave. I can have a life of my own.

Hey, so I have an older sister and she's 36 and I'm 26, and we don't really have a good relationship because we always argue about something. Well recently I just found out that my fiance is pregnant and that I'm gonna be a dad, and I called to tell my sister, and she just started laughing really hard for a long period of time and didn't really talk to me about it. She wants to have kids and gets jealous when other people have kids and that really gets on my nerves, then she tells our parents cetain stuff I post on my facebook and I'm like what are you 12. What should I do about her

My youngest son's biological parent lives in MD, I live in NC. My husband has been raising my son, no questions asked since he was 3 months old. Sad, but my son's biological father never wanted to have anything to do with him until he was 6 months old. Then he wouldn't pay support. Wanted to "keep it out of court". I want my husband to adopt both my sons (my oldest's father has never been present and I don't know where he is although I have researched it). My youngest's father never cares about my son, but when I say my husband wants to adopt, he gets angry and threatens to take me to court for support. But he never files papers. He's said this for a few years now. What can I do, because if anything were to happen to me, my son goes to a man who can care less about him and who he doesn't know. He'd be torn from his brother and they are inseparable. It would break him if he had to be away from his Daddy and brother.Did I mention he is very close and attached to my husband? He shows him more love sometimes than he does me, even though I know he loves us just the same.

What does it mean if someone calls and talks to you everyday, multiple times a day?

apologies in advance because this might be really long. Basically 2 years ago my 23 year old sister got pregnant her and her 26 year old boyfriend moved into my house with my mom me and my brother. 3 bedrooms one bathroom. Neither of them had jobs my mom supported them financially the entire pregnancy meanwhile they were sleeping in our living room. During this time my sisters boyfriend stole our expensive lawnmower and sold it to his uncle. For months we asked my sister and him if they knew where it went and they both kept denying it. Months later my sister and the baby and her boyfriend moved out (eventually moved back in and moved back out a month ago) admitted her boyfriend stole in and gave it away. Our lawn has been a mess with so many bugs and animals. My sisters boyfriend cussed my mom out and saying she's not allowed to see her grandson because she's told him that she needs him to pay her back for the lawnmower or get it back. She got in contact with his uncle and he just called her a whore and a **** and that he wasn't going to give it back. How on earth can we take him to court for this? Is there a way for us to get our lawnmower back.

I've noticed that some brothers are not on speaking terms. I have 2 sisters, one 48, the other 47, and me the 36 male. We all live in different cities, but we are always communicating everyday. Mostly sharing funny memes on the group chat on our phones. We don't call eachother everyday, but we do know what's everyone is up to everyday because of the photo sharing. My sisters daily share pics of their kids and places they go to. I'm not married, so I mostly share pics of my friends and places I go to. I can't remember the last time we got in a fight. Not since I was a teen. Is the fact that my sisters and I have no problems among each other something praiseworthy?

I hate my Job I lack family I don't get to travel I never got to go to prom and want to expedience something like it I think about suicide due to these things.

Well first of I am 15 and my my stepfather wants to adopt me. My stepfather has been my real dad ever since I was 4 and Hes the only fatherly figure that I i have ever had. My biological father never was part of mylife, even thought I went to visit him 2 times in my life. Well I only have my mothers last name, and on my birth certificate theres no father legally. I do love my dad and I always had. He has been wondering if I want to be his real daughter(As in legally) He wants me to take his last name also. This is where things get confusing, I dont know why I am overthinking this too much. He asked today, and I tried avoiding the answer, but I think I made him sad. Now I feel really ashamed. I dont know if things are going to changed If I let him adopt me. I feel nervous about this process and wondered that If I accept the adoption, then would it mean that I would forget my biological father and his family forever? is it some kind of comittment?Will it change our relationship as father and daguhter? I have always been closest to my mom and all of sudden having two parents. It kinda feel strange even thought he has taken care of me almost my entire life. I sometimes have felt like an outcast in the side of his family because everyone in their side of the family is blood related. They all have the same last name. But still what is holding me back from fully accepting this? I see my cousins getting adopted by their steparents and their happy. So whats the hold? Thanks.

Like sometimes my uncle talks with dad and stuff. Turns out my uncle is cheating and he admitted it to my dad. He has two kids so does that mean he his bad? Some men are like that, they seem nice in front of you but they are abusive people. One time my aunt asked my uncle if maybe his girlfriend took her underwear, and my uncle said no she is thin, you are fat.

She likes to embarrass me and is seeing me at a reunion in July and this weekend at a wedding on the other side of my family.

I am 20 and am mentally disabled and my step dad is who I consider my real father figure because my biological father was an abusive ahole and abused my mom and I. I am so lucky to have my stepdad in my life and want to make him legally and officially my dad.

My sister is biracial half black and half white and she has an abusive husband she's planning to leave him she implied that she is seeing a guy a few days ago I saw her with a man I was very alarmed to see her with (a few years ago she was being harassed by a known racist) and it looked like he was attacking her next thing I know before I go over it was like she was enjoying him hurting her and something felt off so I hid and he referred to her as well you know followed by the B word and then she said "I love it when you call me that." I was shocked to say the least I mean she's always hated this guy and they stopped and started getting serious he asked how her kids were and when she'd be getting them ready to move in and she said she was just trying to figure out a good way to explain the two of them. Then he asked her if her husband suspected and she responded with "If he does he doesn't think it's you who would?" What did I see I they were near a motel and they went there and I mean... what the hell? This guy harassed her for years how did this I mean how does this happen? Was him terrorizing her an act or did this start as some weird toxic fantasy oh god I can't even. It seemed like he was hurting her but she liked it. I mean I think he even said he loved her and she kissed him I mean please tell me my sister isn't in love with a racist? I mean I heard a rumor his daughter(hes a single dad) came out as gay and he accepted her but I thought it was a rumor what is this?

I'm an only child. He's been a good father to me but not a good husband to my mother. I've seen things that just makes me not love him the way I used to. He's always belittled my mother, he's had affairs and still is having affairs and that just made me see him in a very different light + he's annoying. Currently, everything is going 'fine', he lives in a different house with his mistress and comes over in the morning. The things that annoy me about him is that he thinks he's always right, he treats us badly and when I treat him the same way he treats us he gets pissed off. When he spends money on us (which we don't ask for) he thinks he's doing us a big favor. Just today, when I woke up he excitedly came into my room and shoved his phone in my face wanting to check out a jacket he found for me, when I quite nicely told him that I didn't like the jacket he got pissed off. I am a 21 year old girl who hasn't caused him any trouble like the girls my age do, I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't hang out with the wrong crowd. I've kept my image squeaky clean in front of his family, my friends and my mom's family but he still manages to find a problem. Lately I've felt like staying at home and reading books so that's what I've been doing for the past month. I stay at home and read peacefully but then he complains to my mom that I'm not going out and I'm not spending time with him when in fact thats what I do! Am I the one who's doing something wrong? I'm trying to hardest to make sure I stay good but every time he does something that just pushes me to the edge. Last night my mom was making food in the kitchen, I got mad at her cause she's had an operation and I don't like her standing in the kitchen for so long, so then he tells me that she's been standing in the kitchen for 2 hours cause of me! Now thats a lie cause the entire time, she was making food for him that he likes to take 'home' with him!

I keep hearing over and over that my nephew has behavior problems at school, and at home. He's actually getting good grades, he is smart, so he can make a minimum effort and still get As. I went 2 weeks to my hometown to visit my family. WOW! My nephew is really bad. When I was both a kid and a teen, I got angry at my parents. But I never ever called them a bad name. My nephew misbehaves a lot. But that could because he's a boy full of energy. I was very hyper too, but I stopped when my parents told me to stop. My nephew will not stop no matter how many times my sisters tells him to behave. The thing that worries me the most, is how he call bad names to adults. He calls his mother, his father, his grandparents, his teachers, and me bad names. Calling my parents bad names is a line that I never crossed not even as a teen. What to do with a 7-year-old boy who routinely calls his parents bad words?

My parents don't do family events cause of grudges my Mom holds. My Dad doesn't tell me when his family is doing things as they come to him not us directly. My Mom's family I see a little. I don't want my legacy to be "that other part" of the family. I want to be a well known and visible part of the family. I get Cubs and White Sox tickets and ask people and one aunt comes with her kids sometimes. I also host a party at a park on my Dad's side but very few come (maybe ten percent). On holidays they don't invite us. So how do I make myself an active and well known member of the extended family of mine

Or would disowning her mother cause additional pain.

They don't reply as to if they are coming or not and then do and say they are coming and then at the last minute switch plans and bail. I waste a table on them. They are so rude. They even did this to my aunt at her daughter's wedding. How do I point out how rude they are? My brother is the non-learning disabled one in the family. My sister and I are the ones supposed to be rude as we are LD/ADHD as kids.

About 24 hours exactly. This is a close family member who watches My daughter frequently, she s 2. She always works with my low budget because she enjoys the time she spends with her, she s very well behaved. I usually pay for about $20 for a 5 hours. I was thinking $50 for overnight with provided food and such.

My husband says he's tired of feeling like a child asking for money from our joint bank account. I offered to get him his own debit card, he refuses. I've asked him to get involved in the bills, he refuses. Not he wants to have separate bank accounts and him only pay half of the bills. We make the same amount per hour, he us eligible for over time I am not. His 2 adult (25 year old) kids live here and he refuses to make them pay anything. They both make good money. Now that he wants to separate the accounts I feel they should be made to pay. So what's the fair way to split the bills?

Hello everyone! Time for the details.. Hubby's birthday is coming up in a little over a month. We're a navy family and stationed over 2,000 miles from home and I know he's feeling a little lost and homesick. I've been wondering if throwing him a surprise party would brighten him up a little? we have only been here 9 months but have a wonderful church family so plenty of people to invite. Would It be a good idea? how big or small if so? He's turning 22 so not a very big deal. just thought it would encourage him a bit but not sure :)