My parents keep fighting! I am a 14 year old girl and I am very shy. Anytime I go to meet new people or go to any social experience, I'm always the quiet one. I barely talk. Whenever I do talk to people my face gets red I don't know why. I also have extremely low self esteem and am very self conscious. I'm a shy person, that's who I am and I am trying to become more outgoing but it's hard for me. My parents have been fighting about how shy I am. My mom wants to keep pushing me to become a more outgoing person and to gain confidence but my dad thinks that i'll develop confidence once I learn more about who I am. He thinks that with time, I'll grow more outgoing and that if I needed help he would kindly guide me to becoming a more extroverted person. I'm starting to think they'll divorce or constantly fight and I don't want that to happen. I hate when they fight and I feel like it's my fault. ( if it's important I also have a younger sister who is 11 years old, she is outgoing and my shy at all, unlike me)

The father of my 15 month old son is not in his sons life. He admitted himself saying he knew it was his son but but yet doesn't help out. I do it all. We're going through the child support process.. he asked for a dna test knowing it's his son. He doesn't want to pay child support at all so maybe I think he's trying to drag everything. We did the dna test and now waiting on the result. His mom wants to be in my sons life. She knows it's her grandson and I've been taking him over to her house and she loves him. Her other two sons loves their nephew as well and my son met his daughter. He has a daughter who he cares for, and loves. I can't force him to be in his sons life but my question is how is it fair for my son to go over there and see his mom and be around his family when his own father don't want to be in his life. I know they have nothing to do with their sons immaturity but how is that fair. His daughter now knows she has a little brother. They met for the first time. I can't take that away from her but I'm just so confused.. what if my son grows up and start asking questions.. like mom I've seen my grandma and my uncles and my half big sister but what about my dad..

When I was 11 I was in the pool with my sister who was 17 and we were showing pool moves or something like that and when I was doing it to her I kept touching her butt like full contact with it while doing it and she didn't say or do anything about it .could she have just thought was part of the thing? or that we're brother and sister and it's okay?

I know 21 is an age where I shouldn't be too worried about needing my mom very often- but there is a hole that I can't help but feel needs filled. I have 5 younger siblings all the way down to 9 months old, and any and everything revolves around them. I get it completely, and am not trying to sound selfish; although, I can't help but get upset over not ever having any personal time with my mom like I did all the way up until being 12 years old. I just graduated college and my mom said she wanted to take me out to dinner- but not even that has happened. The last time I did anything one on one with her was my birthday weekend, which I spent with my family and completely ditched the typical 21 parties to do so. That was about 7 months ago. I ask her constantly to just watch a movie, if I'm feeling ambitious I'll ask to go to a movie, go to eat, just go to the store... but I just feel so desperate asking all of the time. As part of Mother's Day I even told her I'd take her to eat and to get her nails done and she hasn't even made time for that. I'm jealous of my siblings because they get every ounce of her time. I know she loves me, but I'm not sure what to do. She knows I feel this way, but has a "suck it up" attitude about it. I don't have too many friends, so doing fun things with my family is my fun time. And unfortunately I don't really know what do. Has anyone gone through this before?

My brother, every single day, calls me a f****t multipul times. I don't want to go too deep into my life but, he puts an emotional toll on me, and makes me cry. My parents just think it's petty squables! He also physically attacks me everyday! He is 15 and I am 12! What can I do?!??!?!

Or would you say, "I'll give him an allowance to live on as long as he's in school and how much would you give as an allowance?

I went to my grandma's house for a few days. I didn't see my parents and my grandma for 5 months. My mom went there every day and she cooked for me for hours. She treated me like I was a child until I moved out (I moved out at 26) so she didn't ask me to do nothing. However she cooked a lot and while I was was eating she put in front of me a lot of food. She waa anxious and she fought with her mom (my grandma) every day. Then I started yelling against my mom too. I told her to go away because 8 feel anxious with her. After 4 days I went away and I'm so happy. I had to see my parents and my grandma because people thought I was a bad person because I refused to see them for months.

In my house we have 3 bedrooms. 2 smaller ones, and one big one. My sister has been out of the house with a job, house, and husband for 3 years. Right now, I share a bed room with my little sister. Whats the best way to ask her?

My sisters boyfriend basically admitted that he doesn't really want to spend time/live with his kids to my husband. Should I tell my sister or should I just mind my own business? A little background: My sister and her kids are currently living with my little family and I until her boyfriend is able to get them their own place.

The last family that stayed here was violent. The wife was being abused and children at high-risk of physical injury. We had the police come here. My daughter can't unsee some things she saw. She stayed with their little son while the police came. I've had bad experiences with some tenants as well. We used to have a gambler who moved out due to using all his money for the addiction. Before my girl was born, there was another dysfunctional couple and I had to get the police involved.

He moderately likes video games, clothes, photography, and video editing (but he has a lot of things for all those). Any ideas?

Like 13 is too young for marriage or anything but i gained like 10 pounds and mom started to scream at me to lose weight and call me names. She spat at me and kicked me once after a party because I was fatter than the other girls and I ate extra sweets in the other room. She said no man want a fat woman. Like 13 is too young, but why did my mom put so much pressure at a young age?

The background of my family really conservative and traditional. I still have a curfew at the age of 21 years old which puts me in a disadvantage of going to events that my peers can attend usually its because of my dad, my moms understanding. My college had trips which did last 2 days or 4 days and they were perfect excuses for me to leave the house without my dad calling me 24/7 annoying me why i'm late. 5 p.m is apparently late for him too on a Sunday. By the way he has no job, terrible health issues, watches t.v 24/7, and sleeps all the time. Yes he's been abusive to me in the past and to my mom he's been way more abusive, i try to ignore him as much as i can, but his presence makes me angry, i really can't control it and find it very hard to forgive him, yet i don't do nothing or say nothing. He wouldn't let me travel alone, so i've done this in the past and told him my college is planning a 2 day trip, so i can go to either my best friends birthday party and a concert. I gave him a fake phone number, one of my friends phone number. I made a fake sign up sheet for the trip copy and paste and gave it to him and stayed in Airbnb which wasn't that bad. I had the best time of my life in those 2 days, but i was awfully scared as well that he would somehow find me, i was just paranoid. I am thinking of doing the fake trip again as well, but what can i do to make sure he doesn't find out it's a fake trip. The only way i can travel is with his family and i don't like his family. For the person who called me an immature lying creep. I would love to support myself and move out. I'm not even allowed to move out, or work past 9 p.m. The "You are an adult and can make your own decisions" is hard when you have someone abusive over your head ya know?

Every night, she says "I'm going to bed now" at 1am, but she usually ends up going at around 4am.

He did not hit her or anything with it but he does have a short fuse. She uses her kids as pawns in feuds with people like my Mom does. They divorced and were a bad mix and married WAY too young. They divorced 3 years ago and their kids are teens.

She says the only way not to enable is to cut all contact forever unless he is remorseful and gets help and refuses to drink anymore.

I'm originally from Colorado I moved to California to be with my 1 yr old sons father. We are not married, but recently he has been real verbally abusive calling me stupid, slut that if I don't like it I can get the hell out. When we are playing around I'll smack him but not hard and he will turn around and smack me harder like it hurts and he tells me 'I shouldn't have hit him first'. He is always trying to get my 1 yr old son to say bad words. He plays video games a lot and doesn't do much of the diaper change and feeding him. I wasnt working because I needed to stay home and watch my child after I heard that his mother was gonna try to take my son away from me. I have no family here and I would like to just know if I got up and left one day without letting him know would I get in trouble with the law?

I'm 15, he's 10. For the last few years we've hated each other. He's such a brat to me and my family and I always end up getting in trouble for hurting him even when he throws things at me (this morning he threw a nerf gun at my head, twice and missed by an inch). My parents literally just called me a disappointment because of how much conflict is between us. A few months back he went on a vacation with Grandma for a month, came back I hardly even missed him. My parents tell me if I start being more "mature" and treating him better he will do the same and he will look up to me and finally treat me like he should, but I find it so hard because every time I try, he makes me mad again. What should I do

My step dad has been in my life longer than my bio dad. He isn't really a father figure, he's strict, and always sleep. He treats us different than my little sister who is 9. Me and my little sister haave the same mom but different dads. I have 2 other siblings with the same parents like me. But im here cause i think my step dad is cheating on my mom. He works graveyard. So he told my mom he has to go into work early @9:30. He usually goes in @11:45. So he left. Than @11:45 my step dad sister texts my mom and asks if hes going to work that night. Cause her husband works with him and he said my step dad wasnt there. So he lied to my mom. Then his attitude has changed alot. Hes always sleeping. And when he goes uptown he takes long. ALso today he came home with writing on his arm. My mom seen it well he was asleep. She took a picture to investigate, cause it didnt look like his handwriting. So How Can I Find Out If He's Cheating On My Mom?

We work at a restaurant. I've gone back and forth over this person for so long...almost as long as I've known them (1-2 years). This person was flirty and sexual initially (or made odd sexual comments) while also talking about finding me someone to date. And at other times, acted disinterested or unaffected by me. They never asked about me, how I was or what I'd been up to, and we never actually conversed. I always initiated texts. Etc. I would get tired of this and would back off, become distant and cold....and suddenly they were back to "just loving" me and trying to joke and talk. I would respond coldly. After a while, I'd come back around because they were acting nice again...and this cycle has been going on for MONTHS. They come around and make me like them again. Even recently, I noticed their fingers tremble as they tried to put a lime in a drink for me and they dropped it. I asked if they were ok and the response was "NO! You make me nervous!" and a playful hit in the back. I've been at that stage in the cycle where I haven't been talking to them. I feel so immature. I feel so rude. I feel overly emotional. I give a short cold response when they say something to me. They've been saying bye before leaving work now (which wasn't happening in our "friend" stage). For some reason, they make an effort only when I've distanced myself. I've never experienced this. I'm emotional and overthink this and they don't seem to think twice about me...I don't know how to act! To add, they always claimed we were friends (claimed this for over a year). They frequently claimed "to just love me". In all that time, they never once asked about me...until a couple weeks ago while I was being distant. Even once claimed they hoped their daughter would end up like me. Has joked about me ending up as a nanny for their kid someday. Once responded "who's this?" to a text I sent and claimed they dropped their phone in the river and lost all numbers....

My sister and I got in a fight and we had a "discussion" about us fighting with our parents. It wasn't a discussion because the whole time the only thing he said was Im a *****, and she's a ***** drop the hammer. So my dad thinks my sister is his "best kid, almost perfect" I am not saying this in spite or over reacting he litteraly just told me. He thinks that of her and the opposite of me. He said that I am one of those kids on a teens rebel show. He thinks my sister will just try to talk to me nicely and I snap at her. He thinks im bitchy to everyone and that I wont let my sister love me.