My mom and dad are in the process of getting a divorce and my mom said she's going to school conferences. She's never gone to any past year conferences, but the reason she's going to this one is because she wants my teachers to think she's not abusive. My mom is very, very abusive, but she cn trick others. I see my Dad moe often than her. I have two b+s and the rest are a's so it's not that. I'm crying right now. I don't want anyone to think I'm related to that ***** who ruined my life and takes a bath every two months

My brother has a job but he doesn't pay anything, my other sister is a freeloader, the rest of my siblings are underage but I'm usually the one paying for most of the food and their clothings. My parents usually just ask me to pay for everything because they say they don't have any money left over. But as I can see they haven't payed anything. I know what most of you will say is just move out but how can I move out if now I'm living paycheck to paycheck trying to make sure there's food on the table.

My parents have always been kinda on the strict side and I understand that they want me to turn out well. But sometimes it gets to the point it stresses me out. Recently, I made a new friend and also recently got with my first boyfriend I've ever had. I enjoying going to see my friend and my boyfriend but my parents constantly seem to hate the fact that I want to spend time with them. If I go to my friend's house, they only allow me to stay until 4pm and if I stay after that, they will call me screaming wanting me to come home. Then when I go out with my boyfriend, they allow me to stay out until 8pm and they will complain that I'm being disrespectful by staying out past then. They are always coming up with excuses for me to leave my friends and for me to leave my boyfriend. Claiming that me having friends or having a boyfriend is a mistake and a bad influence. My friends and boyfriend are very good people and have been good to me thus far and have not tried to influence me to do anything bad. I'm 21 and it kind of stresses me out and I fear of losing people due to the fact my parents try to control when and how long I can hang out with them. Any advice?

I was so excited because I was able to go to the fair where there were all kinds of people and events and neat games to play and I was so happy because I got to go with my dad and brother who I haven't seen in the longest time did I mention that we were able to eat cake and dad bought me a balloon?

This past Thursday, I went to go see my grandma before she passed away. It was very awkward because I'm 26 now but I haven't seen my family for years now. My family thought I was not coming to the functions because of a small disagreement between me and a family member which was part of it but not entirely true. The truth is that my dad and I are estranged and I didn't want to be there when he was there. Also, I am not very close to my extended family. We barely talk to each other. They were nice to me that day but I felt so awkward that I was popping in after all these years. Now the wake and funeral are later on this month but I'm still going to feel slightly awkward. Should I attend my grandmother's wake and funeral? Just the funeral and not the reception? Should I attend each part?

She will be moving in temporarily on Sunday. I don't want to be around her. How do I deal with her when she doesn't respect me or my concerns? She yells, belittles me, doesn't like when I reprimand my kids(19 and 16) and she interferes and tries to get involved. She put on facebook daughters shouldn't be short with their mothers because it's the only mother you have. She's delusional and frankly, I don't like her very much. Let me add, she's divorced 2x's retiring. We never had a good relationship. She was on drugs a lot of my childhood. Married an abusive alcoholic man who tried to molest me and she did nothing. He left her. To this day she never apologized nor said how bad she felt about the type of mother she was. She believes she was a good mother.

I am 19 years old and pregnant, I just moved back in with my parents for 3 months just to save up and wait for my apartment to be ready that I have available in 3 months. My boyfriend moved in with a friend to save money as well. I pay $300 a month to stay here with my parents. I buy my own stuff, I do occasionally eat some of their food, but I can't usually eat much during the day because of my pregnancy making me sick, but that was agreed upon when I moved in that I could eat their food, but other then that I pay for everything else (shampoo, clothes, toilet paper..etc) They are leaving for the weekend and are telling me I can't be home alone and need to find somewhere to stay for the weekend, I have nowhere to stay and find this a little insane considering I pay rent to live here. Is this me over reacting by thinking that it is a little unfair that I can't be here alone for a weekend without supervision? I am pregnant, and I just moved to this town so I don't have any friends other then my boyfriend and I can't drink or be irresponsible in any way so I don't see a reason that me staying here is an issue. My question is just: am I overreacting by being upset about this? I have tried talking to them but they will not change their mind

I forgot to say im only 11

except for the fact that my mother seems to prefer him over me, I don t really have that much reason to get mad at him. I can admit that he s really nice and is always open to buy me things and pay for me, reminds me everyday that my mother and him love me bunch and all that stuff. but overall, there s a small voice in my head that tells me his kindness seems fake, I don t know why everytime I look at him my blood boils. I hate living with him and I hate seeing him around my space. I m sorry to say this and everyone can judge me for this. but he can just back off because I never really asked for a father so he don t have to feel like he has to worry about me so damn much, all his affection is choking the hell out of me. he s been living with us since 2011 and I never really got along with him and we always argue because I m giving him attitude .

My parents are not inteligable, sometimes they re not even rational. I don t understand them, or their belief system. They are extremely close minded, intolerant, and egocentric. ESPECIALLY, my dad. I can t stop resenting them and I dont know how I can ever have a good relationship with them. Every conversation leads to an argument or one of us just having to walk away (usually me). I seem to be incapable of overlooking their shitty values and uneducated minds. It sucks because I would love to have meaningful conversations with them. But to them, everything comes back to one thing..."God". I can t wonder about anything or be curious about any unanswered questions of the universe. I was never allowed to go to the park or even 5 houses down to where my ONLY friend lived. I m in my twenties now...and I m tired. They ve deprived me of a normal childhood and done the same to my siblings, and I hate them for it. How do I love them?

I hate conflict but I also hate what my father has done to me. I love him as a Dad but hate his values. He is not a good person.

One friend tries to divide my Mom from her husband (my step-father's) family. That friend will tell my Mom something negative my step-fathers sister said about my Mom. Another friend would lie about other people with malice. A friend she has now sleeps with my Mom's married cousin. She has an old boyfriend she keeps up with who among other stuff drove his some off to a boarding school to get a woman to marry him. Lastly, she had a friend who is now out of the picture what was a crazy narcissist. Only one or two of my Mom's close friends are good people. Does this speak poorly of my mother?

I want to be courteous but I really don't like that this woman is sleeping with a married cousin of my Mom's.

To make a long story short, at 28 I suffered a massive stroke. I have since recovered tremendously. Even so, my Mother for years now has been telling me all the things I can't do, because I'm "disabled."(in Her eyes). I recently landed a job interview that I'm very much qualified for. Upon sharing this great news, She suggested I only got it because it's probably a crummy job. She often has told me to volunteer or apply to work in low skill positions. I should mention, that She barely graduated high school, has never lived on Her own, or been able to get a good job. Whereas I am the opposite.

Ever since my little sister became a teenager she kinda adapted her personality to herself, like this immature, social media stubborn ***** type persona many women have. It doesnt sit well with me. She don't say hello, her hugs are fake asf, her moodswings are through the roof.. why cant she act her age and be more mature?

At my college, I feel like my group members don't like me because of a number of reasons. One reason is because they don't talk to me. If I don't say a word, they'll literally ignore me. But something happened recently and maybe I am reading into it? Over the weekend we had to write a paper for the class. We have a group chat of all our numbers so I texted them on a Friday asking a question about the homework. No one replied. I waited up until the next day in the late afternoon and I said, "Thanks for the inputs guys." And one of them replied and says, "Sorry I've been out if it this weekend lol I let you know when I do it lol." But the other three members still didn't reply. I left it alone after that. Then on Sunday, that same girl messages the group about the assignment and everyone replies to her. They all waited last minute to do the assignment and I am already done. They were asking each other how to do the writing assignment and they didn't understand it. I didn't reply because I don't want to help them out... I just feel like try don't like me. Does it sound like that to you? Or am I just being too sensitive? Thank you.

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? Basically I am funloving and outgoing. But sometimes when it happens I become irratable and I get an attitude. I want to change plz help me. Ps: I am the fav of my parents

Nobody likes her cause of her bully-like and narcissistic ways. Our Mom loves her but does not like her.

They say, especially my Dad, that I need to just put my mind to it and let it go. They get mad when I won't go to their place at the beach where it happened. I get flashbacks there. They say I should only have those if I am seeing the offender (he is in jail) and otherwise I just need to choose to put my mind to it and let it go. I am 35 and the abuse stopped when I was 13. The offender went to jail, was released when I was college age and then arrested on major child porn charges. He is now in jail for 40 years to life. Offender was my aunt's husband at the time. By understand I mean be supportive of not setting me up in trigger situations like this beach house example.

It shocking now women are chasing after boys not the other way around. It becoming a trend these days but why women dont wait for marriage?

There is someone i met against after not seeing she since she was just got out of highschool. I asked her if she remembered my name she said 'noo' and I said 'I remember your name' she said 'I don't even remember my teens name!' What do you think she meant?

I keep telling her to stop having that man buy her all that crap but she won't listen to me. My daughter is 24, her boyfriend is 30. Neither of them have their own place. She's staying with me and her mother and she claims her boyfriend is living with his grandmother. My daughter recently lost her job and while she's been unemployed she's been having her boyfriend fund her every want and need. I told her that's not right. He buys her clothes, makeup, food everything. I told her " listen y'all will never be able to move out into y'all own place if he keeps spending all his money on you. He's spending way too much money on you. Having all that crap don't mean nothing when you don't have a pot to p*** in. Have him buy you a house if he wants to buy something". She has all these expensive pots and pans but doesn't even have her own kitchen to use them in. The only thing she said was " at least I won't have much to buy once I move out. These pots and pans will last me forever" . We saw her boyfriend at the grocery store and he was about to buy her some expensive sasusages that were like $5 and I put a stop to it. I told her boyfriend " do not buy her those sasusages" and my daughter got mad at me and was like " I don't understand how him buying me sasusages is effecting you". Another thing is he will go out his way to drive to our house just to bring her something like a smoothie. I told my daughter do not have that man come all the way to our house for that.

To make a long story short, at 28 I had a massive stroke and managed to survive. I'm now 34 and MUCH better. However, my Mother has for years now been telling me all the things I can't do because I'm disabled(in Her eyes). Some background. I am highly educated and intelligent, whereas She barely passed high school and has never supported Herself as an adult woman. Recently I landed a job interview that I am very much qualified for. Upon sharing this great news(this is post stroke after all) She suggested that I only got it because it's probably a crummy job. She often puts me down, by projecting Her own failures on me!

I m 13 and I m not allowed to lock my door, even when changing. My stepmom took my door handle off as a punishment for locking my doors. She isn t my legal stepmom but has been dating my dad for 12 years. I told her that was an invasion if privacy and she said she didn t care since it s her house. Sometimes I just like the feelings if being alone or when I want to cry, I tend to lock the door by habit but now I feel like I have no safe space and she would never understand that because she never listens to me. She goes through my messages and emails when she what s to and my dad barges in my room for no reason. I feel like my only privacy is the bathroom but that isn t my comfort zone or safe space.

I don't want to get too personal, but it has gotten so bad to the point that we were suppose to buy a car but half the money was wasted in gambling. It is extremely easy to piss my mom off and now its the 3rd day she is ignoring me and my dad. She doesnt and will not acknowledge that she is a gambler so trying to talk any sense into that is out the roof (my dad and i tried a 100 times) All this ignoring really took a toll on me mentally because I was already visiting a psychaitrst for different reasons. I can't watch certain shows or movies without being super sad because it reminds me of those rare good times I did have with my mom, i became more sad that I used to be. Gambling took her away from me and I don't know how to cope with it. I'm 16 and I really want to find a job right now, to get away from this and try help my dad, he has heart problems I don't want him working two jobs over this addiction. I couldn't even get a decent rest these few days because of this i don't know what to do, not even my sleeping pills I have been prescribed can put me to rest before 4 am minimum.

My kids have gotten worse since she started getting them !! She tells them things I dont want my kids knowing about my past and. My kids. Tell me she has allowed a registered sex offered around them and has seen their aunt and uncle have sex their stealing and lying has gotten worse i am at my end I dont want my kids grown up to be like my childhood was.

So my mother tends to be a bit of a control freak at times since I still live at home(I pay rent monthly btw, not for free). So whenever I want to relax, I play games on my phone because I have no other electronic device to play it on. I'm also in college and work 30 hours a week, so I can't really do much outside of all that. So, while I was waiting to clock in one day, my apps locked out. Its all password protected and I can't do anything about it. She won't let me get a plan of my own(Believe me I've asked many times) because I'm still "under her roof" and I'm finding myself stressing out more than usual. Is THERE ANYONE THAT COULD HELP ME TAKE THIS OFF? I pay for my part of the plan. As well as I bought the phone my 18th birthday. Believe me, I'm doing my time.

My mom and sister have a weird custody agreement for my niece and nephew. My mom was granted custody for them, but we live with my sister. My sister asked my mom for money. My mom told her no because she is saving to move out and she needs to buy the kids winter clothes because my sister refuses. To make a long story short my sister made it so power only works in her bedroom. She is going to spend the kids food stamps only on her and her boyfriend. So the kids are now sitting in a cold dark house with no food

My Mom never gives me privacy like knocking on my door and I've asked her countless times to knock because I could be changing she calls me every single hour (no I'm not being dramatic) and she is always is bragging about me and I know she cares but whenever I ask her to stop she then says "fine I'll call you ugly then and I'll stop talking to you" And gets mad then she says that I have no right to be mad and she only has the right to be mad it makes me so upset and I don't have the right apparently because she's the parent she makes me so mad sometimes

Person A is male. Earns a Bachelor's Degree, didn't feel quite ready to get a full time job. Enrolled at a University for a Master's degree in sports administration, ran Division 1 track and field. Won some nice NCAA trophies. Gets endorsement deal from small show company, decides to be a professional runner. Eke out a living working at sneaker store and as assistant track coach to chase the Olympic Dream. Fails to qualify for Olympics. Quits as a professional runner in early 30s. Person B is female. Ran cross country for a D1 University. Studied an "easy" major in order to keep up with training as a D1 athlete. Wins a nice NCAA trophy. Graduates, no endorsement, stops running. Works a few admin assistant jobs. Person A marries Person B. Person A gets a job as a Retail Marketing Coordinator making annual salary 40-50k for shoe running company. Live in a semi rural area, cost of living is moderate. Few months at first real job, becomes a father. Person B no longer works, is now a full time mom. Given the fact that Person A spent his entire 20s chasing the Olympic dream as a professional runner instead of getting a "real" job and building wealth..... Would it be safe to assume this young family most likely will go through some financial or marital struggles?

So I ve just started my freshman year of college and im living in the dorms. I havent been gone for more then 4 months and my mom and sister have put all my things from my room in storage, repainted my room, and moved everything around. I knew that my sister was going to move into my room once i left but i didnt realize that they would change everything in it. Its not even my room anymore. Im coming home for all the breaks and stuff . where are i suppose to sleep. I get that they cant keep my room the same forever . I expected them to change it eventually in a couple of years . Im a sentimental person and ive spent more then 2/3ths of my life in there, i painted designs on the wall and it just all hurts. Maybe im over reacting. But how do i tell my mom how i feel? obviously they cant change it back, but im hurt they did all that so soon and without asking

Or would this make it worse? She has a phobia about people who are different.

I personally was unemployed so I really struggled with my money, I literally had nothing and had to borrow money for a year from my sibling (job centre complications) for everything i.e. rent, bills, food, sanitary items, transport etc. We were having trouble with our rent, for whatever reason my parent failed to pay back lots of money and parent also said they are struggling with money, thats why they dont help me out. I dont have savings, no inheritance....if i couldn't pay for my own tuition fees even if I wanted to.... So I said to this interviewr from a college that i come from a low incoem household. I do not know the exact household income but from everything mentioned, i said i coem from a low incoem household. I didnt mean poor, I just meant we dont have much income and I assumed we have less than the average family would have given the financial struggles i've mentioned. I feel embarrassed now because now that I think of it, I honestly don't know if my family is considered of low income. I just know that we rent, have stuff liek income support, i have to use loans for university courses, I dont have savings and I dont think my famiyl have much savings. My sibling has a job but my mum does not and she doesnt help me with money in any way whatsoever...