They adopted him when he was 3 I think and I was 7 or 8 so I grew up with him and he's always been weird. He's 11 now, with no friends, he has 2 moods- angry or crying, hes in therapy for years, all he talks about is his pet birds or birds he watches outside. I think he's autistic idk. I said he was weird once in front of my uncle and he yelled "you shut the f--- up" LOL. Why not just have their own kids? My aunt said she was too old to have kids when they adopted him. Why not have kids earlier than 45? Seems dumb

Please help me. Recently my cousins husband confessed he has feelings for me. Quote on quote that he's in love with me. It's sickening. He is 15 years older than me and practically grew up with me. I use to see him as a COUSIN. FAMILY. I know in my heart I should tell her. But there so much that factors in here. I never gave him the impression of anything ever!!! They have one child together. She is my cousin my closest cousin. Practically a sister. That's how I view her. I never want to hurt her but my loyalty is to strong to keep something in like this. I told her the truth. She's hurt but not at me. She loves me and is so sorry I was put in this predicament. Did I do the right thing?

So. When I was little, I was super hard to raise so my dad couldn't handle it. My dad has full custody but he let my mom handle me on the weekends when he had to work. Since then, I've slowly started going over to my moms way more. Now, I'm over at my moms 24/7, except for like 3-4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. With my mom, I'm not allowed to do anything. I'm 14 years of age and have good grades, good attendance. At one point, I was doing drugs (smoking marijuana, drinking) but it's been 8 months since then, and I've switched my life around and am now doing really well. I'm not doing drugs, not drinking, AND have good grades and attendance, and I am in Algebra 1 in 8th grade with a post-12th grade reading level. Yet I can't have a phone, not even a flip, I can't hang out with my friends, and my mom's wife doesn't even like me. I'm not happy here. My mom is so intent on my having a good life that she's not letting me live it. I've told my dad this, and he says that he doesn't want me to live somewhere that I'm not happy. If my dad lets me, should I live with him? Full time? I would have a life NOW instead of later. And that's all I want. And it won't happen with her. I love her; she's done everything for me. She's made sure that I don't get charged with an MiP, she's kept me safe my whole life. But I want to life now. Not later. I just need advice. Should I live with my dad? Edit: Just because I wanna live with my dad doesn't mean I'm gonna start doing drugs again.

Or do you want to live by yourself?

My dad says I need counseling because I HATE being a janitor. I hate my job, I hate it, I hate it. I only took a part-time job to get some extra money to pay bills while I went to Barber school but now I finished. The problem was, the custodial company made some serious changes and they no longer have part-time positions so my choice was either go to full-time with 3 months of Barber school left or be terminated. My plan was to quit as soon as I completed Barber school, but you don't get hired as a barber, if you are luck you might be able to rent a chair in an existing barber shop but you have 1 chair available and 20 students graduating. Most of the time you will either open your own shop or give up. My dad has owned his own barbershop for the last 20 years, but he won't let me move in because he said it won't support 2 barbers. My parents pushed me to apply for another job because it's closer to them but I really was never planning on starting. Problem: Days are counting down fast and if I don't figure out a way out of this like today, I'm stuck. I told my dad I just wasn't going to do the job and nobody is going to make me. He told me I applied for the job, I accepted it, now I need to be a man and do it. I'm tired of these people running my life and getting their way every freakin time so I will just refuse to do the job, you can force me to go there but you can't force me to do it.

At the moment I live with my immediate family (mother, father and sister), but sometimes I really miss my extended family a lot - my grandparents, uncles and aunts, and four younger cousins. We live in the city, and they all live two hours away from us in the country. We still see them whenever we can, but some days I just really miss them - their presence, all their personalities, their homes, the feel of being with them... everything. Some day in the future, I'd love to live closer to them. Is it normal to miss your family this much?

Every since I turned 18 and my parents found out I wasn't a virgin anymore, my parents have been treating me in a very petty way. In my opinion. For example, they used to always give me rides to school in the morning but then i started having to pay gas money. But last week I only gave my step dad $20 for gas because I had to spend money on prom and a mother's day gift so he officially stopped giving me rides. Btw I plan on doing driving school after I graduate next week. But my question is why does age have to change everything? I'm a great student in school, I make good grades, I'm not pregnant. It was none of there business that I was sexually active, it's private. I'm on birth control and I'm protective. What's the problem? Should I talk to them about it or just save up and move out?

Like seriously I'm like so over it all. It's like I'll go thru his phone and find little ****. I kno I'm wrong for looking but I feel like if I didn't look n see it myself I wouldn't know. It's like he tells me how he always talking bout me to his female co workers yet when we went to his job for drinks a chicks jumped up ran to him to hug him. I think that was a bit much. My family think I'm tripping cause they see one side to him n they say oh he a good man yet I don't tell them my business. He called his co workers babe or boo. Inappropriate if u ask me. Things like this makes me not wanna have sex with him then it's like we go back n fourth bout how I don't sex him enough. How just maybe if I did give it up everyday then maybe things would b different. It's like a slap in the face. I saw that one night he texted his co worker saying they like hang out but I was at work. Had I not looked I wouldn't have known. It's like he so sneaky bout **** like that. Idk maybe it's a reason why we don't have kids yet or maybe that's why we haven't excel in life like we should b. It's like I kno what I see but he says oh it's nothing. I was cleaning one day n found a piece of paper n it said star aka tiny love u. So when I asked him he said his co worker gave me money for making a errand for her n she paid hi . How he didn't look at the note which I kno he lying. It's like total disrespect. Meanwhile he wanna move his mom in with us. For some reason my spirit ain't with it

So I noticed that I enjoy just being at home with my fiance . We try to spend a lot of time together because we have really hectic work schedules. He works five days a week and so do I. Almost similar, he works 6-230 and I work 7-330. So we enjoy just relaxing at home after work. My mom thinks I enjoy being with him more than her and she sometimes gets jealous of our relationship because she wants to spend more time with me. (alone) I m having a hard time balancing them both. Because I want to please my fiance and make sure he s happy and i also want to make sure my mother is happy as well. How can I do this? Sometimes I do work 11-7 and some times I also workout 5 days a week

I'm going on a road trip with my gf and her family. There will be 6 adults and 2 kids. We will be taking two vehicles so there will be three drivers per car. The trip is 12 1/2 hours one-way, so the plan is that each driver will drive about 4 hours each so it won't be taxing on any onHer e person. It also means my gf and I will be split up. I'll be going down with her sister and brother-in-law and her two children, and coming back with her parents. Her kids are 7 and 5. I'm wondering if it would be okay to entertain myself with my tablet and Netflix and ear phones. I was planning to binge watch Lost In Space during the drive to and from. There's also the rule where the driver controls the radio. My gf asked me if I liked opera and classical music. Apparently that will be her sister's pick. And her husband is a big Rush Limbaugh fan, and I'm kind of liberal. So if I could just get in the very back seat when my turn at the wheel is over and lose myself in Netflix and good music on Spotify, I think that's the best way to survive the drive down.

Basically everytime I'm really excited about something my family just starts bashing and insulting me/ what I'm excited about. for instance, there's this band I really like. I literally love this band and it makes me so happy but everytime the band is mentioned or performs, my family just starts throwing insults and talking **** and makes me feel like a complete dumbass for liking them. I feel like they take every opportunity they can to make me upset and I honestly don't think I can take it anymore. I've went through so much in my life already and the only thing that really makes me happy anymore is this band and I can't even enjoy that anymore.

My Step son gradution ceremony this week, I am not even invited officially or un officially, My husband brother and his wife are invited months ago, have a cordial relationship with step son but not in talking term with his mum. few days back my step son was telling who is invited my name was not even there, I drove him to schools and helped him with his homework when he was little , kind of heart broken should I goto the ceremony or not?

What do I mark my race as?My mom is Black & my dad is Puerto Rican but I don't have my dad's last name or a good relationship with him. Literally only my mother's name is on my birth certificate so I've always indetified as black even though I'm half Hispanic. As am now older, do I start to mark Hispanic & black on things even though my mom is technically my only legal parent or do I have to have my dad as legally my parent to do so?

So my brother offered me to ride his motorcycle in his apartment complex's parking lot .i hit the gas to hard and ran into a car and broke my leg and back.so I was given a ticket for reckless operation.and now my brother just texted me saying that the total damage to the people's car came out to $1400 dollars and he asked me to save $700 dollars when I get my student loan in August (I'm a college student).im so pissed so my question is should I pay him the $700? I don't even know if he's telling the truth about the damage I only hit the back end of the car and the back bumper came off and I'm a college student I don't have that kind of money to just give and he's the one who asked me if I wanted to ride should I pay it PLUS the $300 that I may have to spend on the ticket totaling about $1000 idk what I'm going to do about food and other exspenses I only get $2700 a semester

I'm a female, 16 years old. My mom verbally abuses me everyday. From the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. She calls me a whore and other similar words. She constantly tells me that she's tired of having me in her life and wishes I was gone. She tells me that all I'll grow up to be is a prostitute. I don't do anything to her. This all started when I started dating my boyfriend. She is racist towards Hispanics. I can't take all the things she says to me anymore but I don't know what to do. It may not sound so bad but you'd have to experience it for yourself... I've asked this question before and the response was to talk to a counselor but school's out already. I'm feeling worthless and I don't see a way out of this...

My sister and I run together often. I was ready to head out, but I was waiting for her and holding her phone and money because she was in the bathroom. When she came out, I gave them to her. She put her headphones into her ears and pulled down the zipper of her sweatshirt and crammed them into her sports bra, right in her cleavage. I personally keep my phone tucked in the wasteband of my leggings, so it struck me kinda odd.

a) yes b) no