I am 20 years old and I work for DHS (Department of Human Services). I just bought a vehicle and pay insurance. I also initially offered my parent to help them pay rent and utilities whom they denied because they did not need it! I always pick up my brothers from school, I do go grocery shopping whenever I see there is something missing at home. I can not cook or clean because my mom always steps in! I am never going to learn like that! I feel like I can not introduce any guy because they will not like him. I have been wanting to go to Chicago for the longest time and now is the time too. My moms want me to move these dates around so she can come to and so she can bring my brothers. I want to go by myself! I need a break of her telling me what to do! I get annoying and angry because I do not think i should be taking my brothers and helping her watch them. They are not my responsibility!

My step-mother's sister parents by isolating the child, now 22, who acts up sometimes and rejecting her until she comes around to growing up. It is a divorce situation where the father left the picture cause of alcoholism so she already felt rejected. The mother spoils the two children who are super cooperative and turns on the one who is harder. In return that child rejects my step-mother's sister even more. It has turn into a big controversy in my step-mother's family with the step-grandmother backing the daughter with the bad parenting and the others backing the 22 year old daughter. So should they all be getting involved or is it like a marriage where others should just stay out? Just curious as I am on the outside of it all and wonder if ever in a similar situation. Indeed the step-mother's sister is not the nicest woman in the world and supposedly called her niece fat and ugly during an argument with a niece. I generally stay away from the woman.

My daughter is only 2, almost 3 but I've been struggling with this. Her biological dad and I were together for a couple months before I got pregnant. At first he acted excited, saying he hopes for a girl, picking names, ect.. But after a few weeks that shortly died down. He was more interested in going out partying with his friends. So we decided just to break things off and stay mutual. I told him from the start that either he was in the baby's life, or he wasn't. That it wasn't going to be pop up when it was convientant for him. Well we started talking less and less. Eventually we just stopped talking all together. When I was around 6 months pregnant I got with my fiance. He went to every appointment he could, he would always try to feel her kick and move. He was there when she was born and he's been here ever since. She has only ever known him as Daddy. When she was around 6 months old my mom kind of pressured me and the biological dad into meeting up so he could meet her. We visited him and that was that. No contact since. He had a son last year, and from what I've heard not only is he involved, but his whole family. We were debating on not telling her, changing her last name to his when we got married, and adding him on her birth certificate. The chances of her finding out would be slim to none. My family wouldn't say anything, his wouldn't say anything, and her biological dad and his family complete ignores her existence. Would this be wrong to do?

I am a college student and live in dorms during the school year. Other than that, I live at home with my parents. I work part time and while I'm paying for college myself, I am completely supported by my parents when it comes to food while at home, insurance, and transportation (I still don't have my license). Neither of my parents seem to have a problem with me still living at home, or at least they haven't said anything, but I feel self conscious around my more independent peers at school. It seems like most people my age are on their own, and some are even getting married and/or having kids! And here I am, living at home with more or less the same responsibilities I had in high school, other than tuition payments. I don't know. Mostly I just feel guilty, like I'm mooching, and I was wondering if there were others in a similar situation to mine?

Yesterday we ate a whole bunch of sweets on vacation and I felt sick afterwards. The only candy I actually like is Pocky, whenever I say I don't want any dessert my parents get all fussy thinking I'm worried about calories, but I'm not, I just don't like sweets! How can I convince them?

I by no means want to be rude or ignorant, but my girlfriend lost her father this year on New Years to a drunk driver. It has been 6 months, she is a bit better than the first initial months, but sometimes if we go out and she sees something which reminds her of her father, she gets emotional. It kills me truly to see her like this. I know it is hard to lose a parent, but will she be able to recover? She is only 20, and her father was only 42. Her mom is getting through the days and so is her brother. But even little things that remind her of her dad make her cry, will she always be like this?

I keep getting texts from different imessages numbers. I thought if it's an imessage then it's a legitimate number but can someone get fake numbers and imessage? No these are all form random numbers from another state asking to play either 8-ball or sending random message like I heard you needed a plug.

She is not blood family and actually she is my Godmother. She is 24 years older then me but we are in love. She is divorced so it is not adultery or anything in fact before we started dating we had only seen each other twice since she and my uncle divorced when I was 12 in 2002. She was married to my uncle for 14 years. We love each other and would have children together but she is too old to. I am 27 years old now and ready to marry her. We have been engaged since April. The family us upset as they hadn't had anything to do with her since the divorce other then a cordial hello at two events for the kids. However, I feel like I am being controlled and her parents are okay with it. I'll be a step-father to my two cousins which I think is cool. We even wrote to the Dr. Phil Show though we have not heard back. So how can I get my family to accept that I want to marry my uncle's ex-wife? This is a serious question and not something I am making up. Marking private for her privacy as we share an account (we are living together).

My mom is very controlling, emotionally abusive and very overprotective. She has been doing a lot of things to me. (TRIGGER WARNING) Today my mom yelled at me because I wanted to go to church in this one jacket I like and she didn't want me to wear that one so she forced me to put something else on. She also called that jacket ugly but she was the one who brought it for me months back. She yells and throws a fit just because I don't want to wear what she wants me to wear and I'm 19 it's so wrong in so many levels. She says it's right because she is my mom so she has the right to tell me what to do. She also says I'm being difficult because I choose to wear something different than what she picks out. It's my clothes that I have spent with my money I should be able to choose how I am going to wear it.She even threatens to physically hit me sometimes if I don't wear what she picks. She has done a lot of other things that's are controlling and emotionally abusive. It is getting really bad to the point that I want to self harm and I know I will commit suicide if I don't get out soon. I always think about suicide and nothing makes me happy anymore and my bad flashbacks are getting to the best of me. I want to have housing benefits so I can leave but I can't even go and get that because I don't even know how to drive. At my campus we have no dorms there so that option is out for me.

So my daughter got some clothes from her grandmother for a birthday. And now the mil is taking them back and saying "she doesnt wear them anyways". And she actually went into my daughter's closet and took them back. And when I saw them she said well I bought them and she could take them back if she wanted. So I guess my question is how to deal with a petty person like this. I would rather not get them back if she is going to be that way about it towards a child. My daughter is only 7. Someone help.

They dont try to ask about your life or how you are. Only one person makes effort to talk to you. And you have social anxiety so you are vey shy but they all talk to each other in front of you and totally ignore you. Its not that they do it to hurt you but they literally act like youre not there for no apparent reason.

Lots of the girls in my old 7th grade class wearing crop tops, makeup, and swearing a lot were the youngest child in their family. I come from a close knit neighbourhood - we knew most people. I didn't notice this trend until later on in high school - when I noticed that more than half of the "popular crowd" in 10th grade that were interested in nightclubbing and copying college age people had older siblings too! These were a different group of young people, they're not the same kids from middle school. But they had something in common: both "wild" crowds consisted of kids who grew up way too fast, and were more likely to be younger siblings. I'm sure everyone is different, but I'm just noticing what's the higher percentage/most likely to be the outcome.

IT IS.... I don't know what to do. My mom doesn't even know I have a kid. The girl whose the mother is flying from NYC to Orlando to come see me with my three year old son. I went to NYC two weeks ago and took a DNA test. The mother and I are taking our son to see an eye doctor here where I am to an expert who can fix his amblyopia. We're debating on whether to have a doctor in NY do his operation or in Florida. I know that my son has never been to Disney or Universal so we're going to take him to that and maybe a few other kid friendly things. Im terrified of how my family is going to take me springing a three year old on them. Its just really nerve wracking

My dad and mom have been going through a rough time. They are probably going to file for divorce. BTW i'm 15 years old. My dad likes to complain about every single thing that happens in his life. He complained when my mom was fired, told her she should get a job, she got a job, and then he said it still wasn't good enough. He complains about how at my age he had to cut grass and do all these other things, he clearly doesn't realize that times change and most 14 and 15 year old aren't expected to hold jobs, most places don't even hire unless you are 16. He badgers me about this every single day, he complains about how he has to clean his house, even though me, my mom, and my sister try to help him, he still sits back and complains about how the dishes aren't done, or how his laundry isn't folded, but if our laundry is in the dryer, we have to fold it ourselves, yet he isn't expected to fold his laundry. He works all the time, which is kind of nice because we don't have to listen to him complaining about everything. This weekend, my mom went on a trip to Florida and when she got back, he yelled at her and made her cry because he said his house wasn't clean, even though he was the one here and she was in Florida, like WTF? My dad has honestly showed me who not to become when I get older. How do I deal with him later in life? Should I cut him out or should I continue talking to him? How do I deal with my parent's getting divorced if it happens?

When I was in college I went on a study abroad trip to Russia, I speak it fluently so I would flirt with the local babes. Me and this one girl lets call her Dasha, dated while doing the study abroad and I got a Facebook message from her. She's living in Brighton Beach NY, and she has a son and she knows that Im the father. She sent me a picture and the kid at three looks just like me minus my eye color, he has his mother's green eyes. She said that she thought I should now about my son, she is a single mother who works as a waitress. She told me that she would've told me sooner but she couldn't find a way to contact me. Heres the catch, she said that the her son has amblyopia and needs surgery on the eyes and that she needs my help for paying for it. Im 25 she's 21. What do I do? Im so overwhelmed.

First and foremost, my personal life outside the house is NOT his business, nor does he have the right to judge my lifestyle or choices.

My daughter I've noticed as she's grown up has been getting more angry and distant as well as disrespectful. Her dad who doesn't help with this because he has anger issues and refuses to seek help, has played into it. For years he has yelled at, belittled, and fought with my daughter to a point where she doesn't even love him at all and would rather die than talk to him. She has been through more than her siblings, not to mention she is the oldest. We've send her away for 3 years of military school, and though she is more independent it seems as if she is very hostile and gets upset easily. She had expressed that she is not happy, is insecure (though many have told her she is beautiful), and she feels like no one listens to her. I know many of you aren't doctors, but what do you think this could be and how can I help?

I'm about to be a high school junior this year and my mom said she wants me to dress more girly even though I don't agree with her style choices. She told me I can pick my own clothes, but if she doesn't like what I pick she'll pick out all my clothes and make me wear them. I'm sixteen years old and it's honestly so annoying I even have to write this out. I try to talk to her about it and all she says is I dress terribly and I need to dress better. If I ever tell her I dislike the clothes she picks out, she tells me I have no taste and that whatever I like is ugly and other insults. I have no idea how to handle this situation. Should I try to stand up to my mom or just deal with it until I move out in two years?

I have kept my kids homeschooled for 9 years so they have no friends to drive them. I REFUSE to drive them and I refuse to teach them to drive. They refuse to walk 30 miles (a little over 10 hours) to get to public transportation. They both say their safety is more important than having to walk with cars on the highway(no sidewalks). I do NOT spoil them, I do not buy them birthday/christmas present, neither have a phone, neither are allowed to use my computer and TV. Why arw they worthless like this? If either did get hurt on the highway, I refuse to take them to the doctor.