My mother is horrific with her health. She blames her body on all her medical issues, when it's really her habits. Her diet consists of potato chips, cereal, and candy. She does absolutely zero exercise. Now this is affecting me in a huge way, because whenever she buys groceries she only gets what she wants, not what the family needs. It's really having a huge impact on everyone. Also, she doesn't care about her health, saying that there's already so much **** wrong with her that it doesn't matter. I'm really worried.

My Dad's crazy mom hates my stepmom with a passion. I am 15 years old and I have never liked my Dad's mom is evil. We are not close at all. She doesn't like the fact that I called my stepmom mom. My stepmom has been rising me since I was 3 years old. One time My grandma slapped me in the face for calling my stepmom mom she told me to never say that again in her presence. My grandma is always making up lies about my stepmom. When my Dad is working out of town my grandma start her crap. Last night she kept calling and saying that she knew I was getting drunk with my stepmom I turned off my phone. So my grandma came to the house and started beating on the door. My stepmom called my Dad and told him what my grandma was doing. He told us to ignore her and she would go away well she didn't go away just got louder and louder she was screaming I know you're getting drunk with my granddaughter. One of my neighbors called the police my grandma was very drunk. my stepmom had talk to a police officer and i had I to talk police officer because my grandma told them that I was getting drunk with my stepmom. My grandma got arrested for being drunk and slapping a cop.

He is 58 and does not regret the DUI. I am shocked that he wouldn't regret it. I am 24. He recently got rid of his Chinese zodiac thing. He seems more depressed since his kids moved out. Should he join a religion or what?

My son tried to kiss first cousin son is 13 cousin is 12 sorry English isnt 1 language

I'm 14 and I've got two younger sisters (12 and 11) and it seems like my mum doesn't care about us anymore but cares about my dad much more. When we come home from school we find our dad getting ready for work and his lunch on the table, when he finishes and leaves the house there's nothing for us to eat and I always find myself asking "mum, where's our lunch?" but she'll be like "oh I don't care...go eat bread and cheese". We never had a proper meal for nearly a week now. She always complains saying "you're so ungrateful!! Why are you not washing the dishes for?!" and starts screaming out of nowhere...it's getting irritating and I always cry at night because I'm just really upset or really hungry. I lost some weight too... i don't really know what to do...(sorry for my bad English I'm italian)

I'm at a loss. I am his only child. I don't know anyone who is going through this. So hopefully someone out there can point me in the right direction. To start, my father is somewhat competent, meaning you can talk to him and he can talk back, but gambling has taken over his life. It has taken over his life so much so that he went from a beautiful house to living in his car to getting license suspended to squatting in an abandoned place that is infested with rats, roaches, and mildew. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how he was living. He told me that he had tried to get rid of the rodents so he put poisons and pesticides down and now, in my opinion, his skin and body have now reacted to what he has put down there due to there being no ventilation. His skin was irritated at first, turned red, and inflamed. Then because he stayed down there for so long without bathing and didn't get any treatment for the irritation, his skin started to discolor until now it looks like he has a disease. He started receiving social security and like clockwork he goes to the casino to gamble it away within one hour. He won't even buy any food. I have tried so hard to show him that he can live a very comfortable life with what he gets but he says he wants to hit it big. It's so sad to see and hear. All I need to know is what do I have to do to become in charge of his finances so that I can use his money to get him a clean place to live and food and clean clothes?

My company is being taken over by another company and they notified us that our department was being eliminated. This will put 11 women out of work. The new company offered us a new position with higher pay if we complete a training course. They found an employee, Bob to give us this training at no cost to us. We take 4 hours of training each Saturday morning. Bob is 25, single and a great guy to give us his time to train us. He is not getting paid to do this training. All 11 of us have called him after work or after class to ask for help and he is always available to help us when we need help. We all thought the least we could do to repay his kindness was to take him to lunch after class. When I told my husband about this he had a fit. He said he did not want his wife taking a single guy to lunch. When I pointed out to him that there would be 10 other women at the lunch AND he could come if he wanted to it did not solve his problem. Gals, what do you think. Is my husband being unreasonable? All of the other women's husbands don't have a problem with this. In fact they are grateful to Bob for saving our jobs. I will really look ungrateful for all of Bob's help if I don't go. What should I do?

Growing up I was bullied all the time. I had learning disabilities and so was different. On top of this my mother had a falling out with her family cause her father was an alcoholic. Our maternal grandmother couldn't come over as often because of this so my mother would tell me our grandmother didn't want a relationship with our family. I felt so bad about myself cause of this. Not only do I have no friends but my own grandmother (and grandfather for that matter) don't want me in their lives. As I got older I figured out the game my Mom was playing and got closer to my grandparents. My grandfather drank but not nearly as severe as my Mom claimed or he had gotten better. However, I feel I must make up to her family for the 7 year estrangement. Now I am an adult. I feel everyone when they look at me see I am 2nd rate. I feel they see I am socially studded and that my Mom's family sees me for the 7 year estrangement even though it is long over. My mother used to tell me our grandmother thought we were being disloyal by not seeing the grandfather who was an alcoholic. As a result I feel my cousins must see me now as disloyal the way she did (grandparents died over a decade ago). On top of this I am annoying cause of my ADHD and so no one would want to be my friend outside of family. I feel I am good on the inside and bad on the outside. How do I heal toxic shame I feel as an adult? I am in therapy for it (and other mental illness) and looking for additional advise. I have OCD Anxiety and some Bipolar Depression on top of this. The OCD is often to mask the shame the therapist says. I am 41 and male with the mentality of someone college aged.

She died last night. Everyone will be here this weekend with the funeral Tuesday. I want to be able to enjoy seeing everyone and not be sad, I am sad right now though.

Is that rude?

So basically we were hanging out at my house watching a movie in the evening, and my dog kept whining for food because I hadn't fed him that day , it got so annoying that I kicked him hard to the ground and my gf screamed at me for being a bad pet owner and we got in a fight that I got so bad I threw a plate at the dog and kicked it more and my gf stormed out of the house. Now it's over and I'm really sad and regret everything I have anger issues and can't control it

They savagely attacked me verbally for an etiquette error 3 years ago. It was my Mom's two sisters and my Dad says just to get over it that they were in menopause. He might be right but I am scared now. I am autistic and they suffer from ignorance of the mind. They are otherwise good people and since they are family I don't want to be so scared of them. One of them has actually been really nice since.

I am guessing they are jealous I spend time with friends and not just my parents and siblings. I am an independent adult living on my own. I think it bugs them the most when it is a set of friends I have, two brothers, whose father was slick in a real estate deal with my parents 20 years ago.

I had wanted a Dad so much and a grandfather, older brother, neighbor, uncle, older cousin, etc.... is not the same.

I'm 25 now. I can't let go all the screaming and bagging my parents for a better life, a life free of sexual harresments in the streets and hummilating since ever. Telling me to wait and don't be that fragile only make it worse, I admit that I'm so sick and tired of all what happened to me and of all the failed attempts to fix it ...I can't let go all that past, and now I just want this life to end to finally get rest

One time at a family dinner one of my aunt's threw punch on my mom and my mom cried in front of everyone she screamed it ruined her shirt and my grandma and aunts laughed her for crying one of my aunts. One time at my mom's birthday party my grandma pushed my mom's face in the cake and she cried in front of everyone again my grandma and aunts laughed at her for crying and one of my aunt's posted the video on Facebook. Last Sunday at a Mom and Dad's anniversary dinner one of my aunt pour chocolate cake batter all over my mom's head and my mother cried and cried in front of everyone again my grandma and aunts laughed at her for crying and again one of my aunt's posted to stupid video on Facebook This is true they hate my mom's for some reason I don't care for them. Last week one of my stupid aunts text mom and told her my school just called my grandma and informed my grandma that I had I committed suicide and the reason they didn't call my mother that's because the suicide note blamed her. my mom almost had heart attack because that prank. I don't like my grandma and aunts. I refuse to go my grandma's house and I don't talk to her and I don't talk to my aunts. If they can't respect mom I'm not going to respect them.

When someone cancels a plan or even when my married sister makes plan and tells to my unmarried sister first instead of telling me, my mood gets off, idk what should I do it's clearly all over my face I feel like I don't want to go with them anymore. it's out of my control. What's wrong with me?

I am a boy i found naked pics of my sister in law and send her whatsapp she was embarrassed but i didn t blackmail her to take advantage but sometime i wish we could have some fun together. I wonder how does she feel after this about me. Can someone help?

Yesterday, I got in trouble in school for cursing a teacher. I got suspended for 3 days. My headmaster called in to inform my father, but luckily my stepmom picked it up while my father was at work. She told me that she would give me the chance to tell my dad what happened,cuz it would be the right thing to do. Otherwise she will tell it and that might be worse. Anyway I am looking of ways telling my father without get in any trouble. This is my 1st time I got suspended, but my father is kinda strict. I have never been grounded in my life, and I dont think I would handle lose all of my stuff and freedom. My gf is having a birthday party too and I would be extremly sad if I lose it. HELP! I am 13 if that helps. @myfavouritelucy I have never been grounded before, I will not make it... @CiCi he is strict

So I'm 16 and a junior in highschool and my dad bought a new house but he didn't sell our old house so we have two homes now. He SPECIFICALLY told me we're not moving into the new house until I graduate, but now he's trying to convince me that we should move to the new house before senior year and switch school districts. What I'm annoyed at is that he basically lied to me and then said we're actually going to move when he told me we're not going to. He bought the house because the whole family was supposed to come to an agreement, and I only agreed because he said we're not moving. This whole week he's been complaining about our current district and how "everyone will love me at the new district," which I don't really care. I've been in this district my whole life and I don't want to move to a different district with new people and graduate with "strangers." I also don't want to leave my friends. Any points I should make?

So my life os pretty werid. My adopted dad, who took care of me since i was a baby, will always follow me around when i go out.when he sees me, he licks my shoulders for an hour even when i tell him to stop. I do it to him to annoy him, but he acts like he enjoys it.when i was little, he would not let me go outside. I'm 19 now. Every time he sees me with another male, he hurts them. On top of this, he has other people living with us. Some werido who looks like a rockstar and his two twin children and some random man who he only let in because he could pay rent. He keeps letting another familys daughter come to our home and visit. Today he adopted a baby boy and says he is my baby brother. Daddy and the rock star man makes me take care of the kids. Help. Sorry for the wall of text.

Hi, I'm 28 years old male and I've been wanting a child since I was 19, I'm the middle child of 3 and my oldest sibling has 12 kids and my younger sister has 1. I've had 2 failed adoptions, but I haven't given up. I did adopt a sibling from my fathers side of the family when I was 21 he was 14 at the time, now he's 21 and off to college...Whenever the thought of a little one comes to mind I get so emotional, I literally cried over a gender reveal on Snapchat, which I thought was so odd, I've never wanted something as bad as I want this. This is a every day thought like a obsession, I don't have a addictive bone in my body but I'm so addicted to the thought of being a parent idk what to do. It hurts when everyone says how awesome a parent I would be when caring for their little ones or teaching them something new. Is this weird or what???

I6 years old I am about grown a least that what my mom told me when she walked out of my life . I live with my father and Stepmother. My mom doesn't want in her life . Wednesday I skipped school and my stepmom saw me smoking a cigarette in the parking lot a Walmart and she confronted me in front of my friends. She decided to take me back to school, but I wouldn't get out the car she had to take me home. Yesterday I got caught smoking cigarettes in the bathroom I also cussed the teacher that caught me smoking so I got suspended from school. My stepmom had couldn't teach her spin class cuz she had to pick me up from school. My father is out of town for work. My stepmom grounded me for three months. My stepmom wanted to know why I was acting because she says I am a basically good kid. Because I have never been suspended from school or disrespectful towards teacher. My grades are bad now l. She Thinks that something is bothering me and I wouldn't tell her what is bothering me so she searched my room. Took my phone. Earlier tonight I have tried to sneak out my Stepmom caught me. I am angry at mom for walking out my life that hurt me. I am an awful daughter. I feel awful about disappointing my dad and stepmom. I ruined my stepmom and and I'm going to apologize to her in the morning the trouble I've caused I know it won't get ungrounded but I need to apologize. I don't care about getting ungrounded. I can't sleep feel awful about how I treated my stepmom and my teacher. I am going to apologize my stepmom. In the morning and when go i go back to school I am going apologize to my teacher

My mom and my sister are estranged. My sister is married with a family of her own and she dislikes our mother very much. My sister won't even come to family gatherings where my mom is invited. They've always fought since childhood and my sister finally moved out at 21 and never came back. It's mostly because our mother showed preferential treatment towards me. However, I get along great with my sister. I feel torn between the two.

I am 27. My brother is 31. When I was a pre-teen (4th-7th grade), my brother molested me (as well as physically/verbally/emotionally/mentally abused me). When I was 18, my mom found out, but I have PTSD and was afraid he'd kill me or our family. so I didn't want mom to confront him. 4 years later, she confronted him, he disappeared. I've only seen him a couple times since then..one was at his 30th birthday lunch and one was at a family reunion. Our mom went into the hospital a couple of weeks ago. He actually gave me and our other brother (I'm female) a ride to the hospital. Mom passed away. He was there the day she passed away and was there for the memorial service. I still want nothing to do with him, but I know my mom would say he's trying to do better (he's an alcoholic and has been known to do cocaine, so we think he was on all that when he did what he did). Am I obligated to have him in my life? Moretime, she was sexually abused by her father for years as a kid, but had no idea what he was doing was wrong until she was around 30 years old. About 13 years later, her father passed away so there was never any developing of a relationship with him. Moretime, you should probably think before you type stuff. Just saying.

I'm 26 yrs old and I desperately need my own space. Its getting to the point where I'm so irritable that I have an attitude every day. I sometimes have to sleep on the couch and give up "my bed" because when my aunt stays the night she and her daughter take the bed. Its so annoying especially seeing as though she has her OWN HOUSE but comes over for 2 weeks when her husband goes off to work. My loser self works at a hotel making only 7.75 an hour so I can't afford an apartment. I don't even own a car so I catch rides to work. Ive been to college 3 times but left because it got too hard and overwhelming. *sigh* What can I do? I live in such a small town where its hard to get a job. Its depressing to look for one..

I am seeing them at something this weekend for the first time in 2 years. We used to be close but now don't speak cause our parents hate each other so we have to hate them.

My parents expect me to hate my Mom's sister like they do. I miss out on knowing my cousins as well because of it. I see this in many other families also. Why is it?

My mother's physically abused me before via choking, hitting, etc. She's stated that she didn't ask for children in front of me, asked why I was born (I hadn't done an assignment during the time), and constantly berates me with insults and judgement. I've become so depressed and anxious because of these statements and often times, I cry in bed thinking about this. My brother seems so much more loved and it's obvious to me - how she offers an abundance of money to him, how she suggests him any food, how she wholeheartedly trusts him when I'm stuck with her doubt and suspicions, how she sympathizes with him but lacks that with me. My mother's threatened to kill herself before and kill me as well and blames my mental health on me, saying that it's my fault and calls me selfish. Everytime we get into an argument, I lash out aggressively as does she and I always just seem to sob and feel guilty for what I've done. I struggle so much with self identity and my emotions and everyone tells me that my mother's toxic, but she's my mom.

I'm planning to go to a far away college to get away from my parents, because of how controlling they are. I live in a really toxic household and it has effected me mentally in a negative way. The problem is they won't let me go anywhere more than 2 hours away, and it's too expensive for me to pay for college all by myself. I tried talking to them but they jut won't listen.

I not feeling accepted at school or at home. My Moms don t approve of the stuff that I like (D&D, Fantasy, Video Games) and are yelling at me for finding way to incorporate them into some of my school projects. I am very food at that sort of stuff and I use it to make other people bond, like I work with special Needs kids at my school playing D&D. I also feel like I am the one doing most of the work at my house and that no one really appreciates me. And at school I just feel like people don t want me around anymore, also I get angry that the same rich kid get awesome opportunities from teacher yet I get nothing.

mom moved me to another state, no family here, we re broke, yet she says she loves it here. missing my family back home, hate my new school, i have too much drama already and don t fit in. i would move with my dad but i don t want to leave my mom alone. how can i reason with her??

To make a long story short, I had a very severe stroke and have since been forced to live with my Parents. However, the following things make me feel like I'm doomed to live with them forever. 1) They have basically forced me into a guardianship. 2) My Mother has been dictating the jobs I'm "allowed," to apply to. She often suggests I volunteer or apply to poor paying jobs. Most of the jobs that could actually provide me with a living, She either casually says I'm not capable of doing them, or is unwilling to drive me to them(I cannot drive) because they live in the middle of nowhere. 3) Even in a casual conversation about what I'd do when they pass away She was looking for ways to stop me from selling their house and moving away! 4) It seems they firmly believe I'm incapable of living on my own and are doing everything they can to make sure I never do. -Or- my Mom just hopes I marry someone that will take care of me, which of course whoever I date they insist they must approve of. All the things they are doing I feel are disabling me more than the stroke has. I had a stroke I'm NOT mentally disabled, physically mangled, or stupid!

ok my mom vents to me a lot and complains but every time I do she gets so negative or snaps at me today I told her if she vents I should be able to back she snapped at me I think I am just going to ignore her every time she complains now I don't want her complaining to me all the time if I can't even complain to her once or vent whatever you prefer to call it.

I feel like I'm doing fine with my grades, but it just seems like parents aren't as happy with them as I am. I recently got a 83 on my quarterly and my dad said it was ok and it was like I didn't give a **** about it, my grades so far are: Video production: 100 AP English: 86 Geometry: 81 Gym:99 Earth science: 92 Latin 1: 98 History: 90 Photography: 100 I don't think their bad, but it just seems like my parents feel that I could do a whole lot better and that I should be a straight a student.

But they like your older brother

My parents make lots of money on their jobs they specifically told me that they would not see me as much as they are busy with work and traveling. I spent most of my days with the maid, but since I am older now (21) she no longer works for us. I'm still in college full time and on my free time I go shopping or do fun stuff, but I can't find myself smiling or being happy. My dad got me my dream car for my high school graduation, and I remember the exact moment my blindfold came off and saw it, I felt nothing but emptiness. My dad even questioned my why I was not excited but I acted like I was. I also don't have many friends to hang out with but I don't think that is what is making me sad. I think I prefer to be alone most of the time. I don't get this emptiness inside of me and I really am trying to be happy but I can't find it. I often here the proverb "Money doesn't buy happiness" I feel like that's true in my life, so how can I find happiness? If you took the time to read THANK YOU!

I am 16 years old. I haven't had a period for a couple of my months. I am not pregnant because I am not ready for sex. I am on a strict diet and exercise a lot because I don't want to be fat. I only eat 2 meals a day. Yesterday I didn't feel good at all after I got from school I went straight to my room turn off my phone and started doing my homework and i went to sleep. I didn't hear my stepmom calling me to come to dinner She came in and woke me up and she started asking me questions about my plans for Halloween. I told her that i didn't feel good and asked her leave me alone so I could go back to sleep. She noticed that my diary opened and pick it up and started read it. I asked not to read my diary. She told that she had a right to read it .She read the part about the part my period. She yelled at me for not telling her that about my period and yelled I have to take to the doctor because this isn't good. I asked her if could have my diary back. She said I'm not done reading it then read the part about the my diet and how much I really exercise. She yelled for my dad then I got mad and yelled her at and told her to mind her business. She told me I was her business and that she loves me. She told that was going to show my diary to my dad and she also gounded for being disrespectful toward her. Last night my dad and stepmom told they worried about me and that I was going to have to go counseling and they may send me to a eating disorder hospital. I am very mad at my stepmom for reading my diary. I don't think I have a eating disorder. I they worry way to much. My mother isn't in my life. I don't hate or dislike my stepmom I love her. I am just mad at her for reading my diary. Yes I wrong for yelling at my stepmom and I apologized to her for yelling. I don't care if she comes in my room, I she can reads my text messages.. I do care that she read my diary because my private thoughts are in that. I don't have an eating disorder I just got carried away with my diet. I wish they would give a chance to prove to them that I don't have an eating disorder