I am a 17 year old boy who's had his license since March of 2018. For the most part, I'd say I'm a decent driver, (all teenagers say this I'm sure) but something did happen a couple of days ago. So to start off, I drive a 2007 Honda Odyssey (minivan live) and my dad bought a white 2018 Genesis G80 sport that he bought in April. I didn't have a car to use when I had my license the first month but when my dad got his new car, I was allowed to drive the van. So 10 months later, I turned 17 on the 20th of January and on the 26th of January, it was late at night and I was backing out and I backed it into my dads Genesis with only 11,000 miles. I scratched the paint on my car as well as removed the mud flap, and for my dads car, I scratched the rear left fender flare and there's a deep black scratch near the bottom of the quarter panel. My dad called me in later that night and told me that I would never drive a car until I buy my own car, and by "buy your own car" they mean when I move out because they said they never let me buy a car even though I've said I'd get a job to support it. My parents also said if I wanted a job, I should raise my grades. I have done this and they said I can get it after spring break. I want to offer to pay for the damages for whatever it's going to cost but I don't think he'd let me pay. So as for now I am going to have to walk to and from school for another 2 1/2 years. I understand what I've done wrong and I want to fix it

My sister and I are at a passe. She is an addict. She relapsed back in 2014 and lost custody of her two year old son... he tragically died in the hands of DFCS/her baby daddy s sister who was not medically trained. He had special needs. I stepped up. Despite our tumultuous past. I helped her plan the funeral and she lived with me for a while afterwards. Which bit me in the ***, but let by-gones be by-gones. She gave me a diamond and saphire necklace for helping her... in 2014. Now she wants it back. She is pregnant. Lost custody of my niece who is 3. She is using pot. She is desperate. I really don t want that necklace to go to the pawn shop. I don t want to give her money and enable her either. What should I do????

i m 24 years of old male. day before yesterday i put my smartphone in my mom room with video recording mode enabled when she was about to change clothes after a bath. after a few minutes she got out her room & acted very normally, nothing was unusual i could notice. & then i got my smartphone & was checking the video recorded. i was totally embarrassed by what i saw. (my mom doesn t know much about phones or english at all - we re from india - & i didn t expect at all that my mom would realise that my phone was video recording). the video was recorded as following: mom was changing clothes - she was almost totally naked. & then she saw my phone & got suspicious (i didn t keep the phone hidden ,so no one can easily notice it, because i didn t expect that my mom would realise that the phone s in recording mode, but my mom knows a phone can get photos) -she got my phone & checked it - she got shocked to realise that it was recording everything -but she put the phone back the very way it was placed before -perhaps she didn t want me to know that she was checking my phone. However she was still in shock. i didn t have the courage to watch the rest of the video. i got really embarrased. then i deleted that video (without watching the rest of the video) i m a very sensitive boy. Note: see rest of details under question updates , because yahoo doesn t allow me to submit all of details at once because it s long. (i easily get sad -i've a sort of mental depression condition. it's a mild condition -however i was having treatment to mental depression in my teens. what i'm trying to say is that i don't have a mental depression condition now, but i'm a very sensitive person since my childhood) now i have no courage at least to talk with mom or face her. but to be surprise my mom doesn't seem to mind about it much -she seems acting normally -but i doubt it -i don't understand it -i don't know what she 's thinking about me -my mom should be upset about what i did even though she doesn't show it i should also mention that this 's not the first time i spied on mom. i did so few times few weeks ago for the first time. & that's why i think mom got suspicious this time. i just couldn't control myself. i'm very guilty about what i did. i accept i was doing something wrong & shameful. moreover i should say i'm not a that bad person. because i'm a person who's extremely influenced by Buddhism even though my parents 're not buddhists. Thanks to buddhism, paraphychology, paraphysics, etc. i'm a very spiritual person. i expect some comments from some real mothers, because i like to know how would a mother feels about such an incident. if not i like comments from some kind hearted people. please help !!!

I'll be 18 later this year so I'm almost an adult. Yet they still feel like they need to make decisions for me. My mom acts like I'm 12, my dad is just a controlling pr*ck. Like he'll tell me what I can do with my own property that I paid for. I want to put a spoiler on my car (with my OWN money) and he won't let me, just because he himself doesn't like it. I pay my car payments and he still tells me what I can do with it. He acts like a baby when he doesn't get his way. He doesn't buy me these frozen lasagnas from the store anymore just because he doesn't like them. Like his mindset is that if he doesn't like something, I can't like it either. I guess they think I'm not old enough to make my own choices even though I'm literally going to be an adult in 8 months. They are the type of parents who follow the law no matter how ridiculous it is. Like my sister is 20 and they still get pi$$ed off when she drinks, just because she's not a year older. It seems like all my friends have cooler parents than I do. How do I get them to just let me do my own thing?

my dad said his mom was tougher on him than he is on me. Why are parents tough on their kids but easy on their grand kids

Her to? She insists it's not fair but I'm paying her bills for her. She says it'll ruin her schooling, but I'd still be working 5x more than her. Our family backs her up saying she's not used to working. She spends at least that time watching tv. How do I deal with the worlds most entitled brat? I would never let my own child act like this yet the parents insist it's the obligation of the older sibling to pay the way for the younger sibling. All bills are in my name and it's a year lease so I can't just leave

I'm 25 year old woman and still live with my parents. Where I'm from it's not uncommon to live with parents until getting married, but I still want to get my own idependence that I can't get without moving out. I'm college educated with a Master's degree, but despite that I can't find a well paying job. I currently work 2 jobs (my father is a manual labourer and my mother doesn't work)...with all the income combined, the household still can't afford more than the basic necessities. Most of my already low income is spent on the household and I can't save almost anything...and definitely not enough to be able to afford an apartment on my own. I'd maybe like to go out of the country because there might be more opportunities, but I also don't know how to get the money to do that. Did anyone have a similar experience? What did you do? I asked this question before and someone asked how my parents didnt need my income when I was a kid. My mother used to work back then, but she can't anymore because of her health, and then too my parents weren't able to afford much. I worked during highschool and college, got some aid from the state, but my parents also helped me so it was a financial burden on them. Thats why I also feel guilty for thinking about going away, maybe out of the country and leaving my parents alone. I know their life was hard and they still helped me how much they could, but on the other hand I want a try at my own life and I want my life to be different than what theirs was and I can't do that by staying here. And if someone's about to say 'get a beter job', I'm already trying...

I'm 25 year old woman and still live with my parents. Where I'm from it's not uncommon to live with parents until getting married, but I still want to get my own idependence that I can't get without moving out. I'm college educated with a Master's degree, but despite that I can't find a well paying job. I currently work 2 jobs (my father is a manual labourer and my mother doesn't work)...with all the income combined, the household still can't afford more than the basic necessities. Most of my already low income is spent on the household and I can't save almost anything...and definitely not enough to be able to afford an apartment on my own. I'd maybe like to go out of the country because there might be more opportunities, but I also don't know how to get the money to do that. Did anyone have a similar experience? What did you do? In response to: 'Either you're lying or someone is lying to you. Your parents didn't need your income when you were a child and student. ' My mother used to work back then, but she can't anymore because of her health, and then too my parents weren't able to afford much. I worked during highschool and college, but my parents also helped me so it was a financial burden on them.

I am 20 years old, work full time, and I'm a full time student graduating from community college and dorming next year. I still live with my mom, and I want to better my relationship with her especially before I go away because I know she will just be as toxic (if not more) when I return from school on break, etc. I've had anxiety issues my entire life, it is way more controlled now but I still have issues with it. I grew up with an alcoholic father that she made me be around and made me feel bad if I said anything bad ab him or his actions. When she found out I was cutting myself and tried to kill myself (by going through my text messages, she still does this.) she threw me in a bathroom and locked me in there till I "learnt my lesson." I tried to beg her about getting therapy and I would be grounded. If I cried in the house, I would be in trouble because it's seen as a sign of disrespect. I learnt to not show that side to her, but lately it was bad again so I tried to have a mature conversation to get her to understand me again, and she told me I was ungrateful and I'm "probably just dealing with a stomach flu." (Complete denial of my anxiety.) She then told me I'm a crazy person and anxiety isn't real and she doesn't understand why I won't just shut up. I love her but this hurts me. What can I do? I have a lot of resentment.

So my uncle (Mom's brother) is having a Super Bowl Party. He invited my father as my mother is away. My Dad accepted and my Dad has since invited me. I said sure to my Dad and plan to go. Now it is my uncle's party, not my Dad's. Am I rude to be going when the host did not ask me but a guest did? In my Mom's family etiquette defines ones worth it seems so I want to make sure my etiquette is fine. So I saw the uncle and said "My Dad asked me to join so I said I would, is that okay". He said sure. I am wondering if he only felt forced to say that and was biting his tongue. Also, what do I say if I see the uncle again before hand. Do I repeat, I'll be with my Dad if its still okay? Do I say nothing about it other then see you this weekend? At the end of the party do I say "thanks for having us, hope its okay my Dad asked me to tag along"? I am an adult so not a kid going with Dad so not to be home alone. However, like I said this is my Mom's family and etiquette is everything and being ADHD and as you can tell very anxious I can become socially awkward and have gotten in trouble before in her family though not in 7 or 8 years. Please advise, asked earlier and asking one final time for a different set of answers in case I missed anything. Last time I'll ask. And yes I do see a shrink about the anxiety.

I'm a guy in mid 30s. I'm a family guy. Like I like to get around my cousins and siblings. However after spending 10 years with these "relatives", I kinda feel I want to leave and stay away from them. Why? these are the reasons: 1. they are not behaving like what family should be. Not supportive and rude. I have a good job and most of them are talking I dont have enough money. In reality, they dont make enough money (an English tutor & a stay home dad who print business cards, etc) where I'm an engineer with a university degree (kinda ironic). 2. they are weird. One aunt of mine (from my mother side) always talking stupid and weird things. Like one time, she said she wants to go to a Chinatown in China. A chinatown in China? the whole goddamn country is a Chinatown..... She was like 56 when she said that. 3. During one family gathering, sometimes my cousins fight with each other. They have a low self esteem, when somebody said I just got a promotion, the other cousin, the other cousin would say "oh I also got a promotion better than you". childish and mature. Where is the "Oh I'm happy for you...blablbla".... and they call themseselves a family? these are the relatives from my mother side. My mother family is an educated family. I mean most of them got a university degrees but they behave like a bunch of truck drivers. sometimes I feel embarrassed to be around with them. So I think after all these times, it is time to reduce the "less quality time" with them. corrections for point 3, "... childish and immature...." @good man: "to look after u at the time of ur need".... look after me? I do NOT think they will look after me when I'm old considering their attitude now. The feel of being a family is rather "vague" with these people. @linkus86: "...despite all of your flaws your family has accepted you with open arms every single time"... my flaw? no, I made enough money for myself. When they said I dont make enough money because it is like a defense mechanism for their own miserable life.

I have a sister who overthinks and she expects a LOT from me. I love her a lot for who she is. But sometimes its hard because she's harsh with words sometimes. She said I put boys before my family. I didn't, atleast thats what I think. I never had a boyfriend. She had loads. She got angry over us for no reason at all when she had a quarrel with her boyfriend. I always try to listen to her and comfort her. Yet she thinks I am coward, humiliated of her and such. As a family, I don't hate her but it hurts. She has anger issues and hurts my mother sometimes. Thats when I don't like her. But I never have hard feelings. Well she does tho. She thinks I am not good enough for her. Thank you for hearing me out. I don't know how to deal with this.

I live with my mom and sister. My parents are divorced, and my dad lives in another country. My mom and sister believe in some pseudoscience stuff, and my mom doesn't allow me to eat grain products (bread, cereals, products that contain flour, etc.) at all. Heck, whenever we go to a restaurant, she forbids me from eating bread, pasta, or anything that contains grain. Even the gluten free types of grain products are forbidden. I am not allowed to eat any type of grain product, unless it's made of rice. What can I do? I am 16 years old, and my sister is 24 years old, and she won't support me either.

I'm a 16 year old female, he's 10. We used to fight quite a bit but as we got older kind of grew out of it. But in the past couple months, we're at each other's throats constantly. It mostly is because I'm impatient due to his bad behavior. I'm home schooled and he goes to public school - my mom works so I have to walk and pick him up from school (which stops me from doing any activities with friends during the day), I also do all the cooking and cleaning around the house. To be fair I enjoy cooking, but the cleaning and babysitting is not my number one choice. As soon as he comes home from school, he messes up the house and calls me a ***** if I ask him politely to keep it tidy. He just sits around and plays video games, never helps out, never does his homework, and has a massive tantrum if he gets told no. Kicking and screaming and all. Inever acted that way when I was ten. He's lazy. The most bothersome thing is that he hits me. He's smaller than me but if I ask him to help out with a chore or tell him to go take a shower, he sometimes gets angry and starts to hit me. One time he left a bruise on my arm and when I told my mom, he said he never did it and that I gave it to myself to pin on him. I'm around him alone constantly and as soon as anyone is around us he acts like the sweetest thing. No one believes me. It's getting to the point where I'm actually afraid to be around him. What can I do

My parents weren't the best parents.. my father was verbally and emotionally abisive to me growing up.. he calls me a cow and mood at me like I'm an animal, he has cursed me out in public, and called me dumb.. and my mother was never really home.. she still doesn't talk to me.. i have texted her but she acts bothered by my existence.. I don't want my child to have to go through anything like this.. is it wrong to not want to have any kids? I just don't think it's fair for a child to be born into a awful world, when they didn't want to be here.. it's wrong

I have a Stepmom who is very very sweet, nice and caring to me everyday, but my biological Mom doesn't like her at all my Mom would say bad swearing words about my Stepmom behind her back and I'm not sure why she feels that way about, not sure if it has to do with jealousy or what. My Stepmom know that she doesn't like her but She doesn't let my mom stop her from caring and being there for me. For the Stepmothers have you ever had a bad conflict with the bio Mom if so how did you handle it?

My girlfriend got me an Apple watch for my birthday for 50 dollars through her isnurance. She changed her mind the day it came in the mail and said her cousin really wanted one.. so shes trying to convince me I at I should sell it to her cousin for 50 dollars.. she seems mad at me for being upset about it. I told her I was going to sell it online to put towards a larger model, she seemed to be just fine with it. But now she s going on about how I should just sell it to her cousin for a measly fifty bucks! I m not sure how I should handle this kind of situation.

Okay, I am 14 and my sister is 7. We always yell at fight at each other. She nevers shuts up and always hits me slightly. She always wants to hang out with me but i don't want her to. She always wants to do what i eant to do.

Today, my mom reached her breaking point. Everyday day my mom would say she wants to commit. I dont know what to do. My family members dont like my mom or me because of my mom, my aunt lives in freaking Chicago and its bad over there especially with the shootings, the other side of my family that is in high middle class, would treat me like **** because they're racist. I need help on what I should do? I think the best option for me is to go to a foster home.

So basically in theatre class. The teacher is so disgusting! Randomly when she is talking to the class she will randomely fart so loud and then laugh about it and it smells so bad. And then will also go and burp loud in a random students face and they will both laugh and she does it to me and I told her to stop and she still does it and laughs! She will even go as far as sitting on students and me one time and farting on their lap. She even tried pulling down our pants. This is disgusting behavior and I don't know how to get it settled

My daughter 24 and I am 66. We were talking about being smart with her sexual health. I was educating her about some things. She's waiting for marriage (How I raised her) and started talking about oral. I told her to never give oral to a man because it's sinful and disgusting. And I told her to never do anal as well. Then she tells me, "When I am marriage I will do whatever I am comfortable with, with my husband." And I put her down saying that she should only have normal sex not what they show in pornos. Then she tells me, "Whatever I do with my body is not your concern." And I was shocked by her reply. I told her of course it's my problem because she's my daughter. Can you believe the audacity she had to say that?

So a police man catch me smoking weed and the police man was being a jerk and my stupid brother told my family about it my younger brother I feel betrayed and I feel that I have let my family down and put them in this awkward situation as it is a big shame in my culture to smoke weed and such as how to deal with the frustration inside me ,, I'm so angry of my brother who betrayed me

I'm 25 and I have a 20 year old sister who does not know her place. She slams the door and plays loud music, always talks back to my parents, makes passive aggressive comments directed towards me when I'm around to make me feel bad, steals my things, etc. I've tried giving her the benefit of the doubt numerous times and I've tried completely ignoring and disregarding her but she gets on my nerves and makes me so angry. I've never hated someone so much before. I help pay the bills and I have student loans to pay off so I live in the house that family rents to save money. Also, one day she was going up the stairs while I was going down and my shoulder pushed her because we bumped into each other. She then cursed at me and told my mom that I hit her when I didn't. She did this numerous times to me in the past and I kept it in and didn't yell back or say anything. Now she's cursing and crying cause I'm treating her the way she treats me.

I'm in high school, and I want to take more classes (online) and get a part time job, but my parents say that I should "relax while I still can", but the key to success and fulfilment is hard work, and I'm realistically optimistic about the future, unlike them.

So I met this cute boy who was selling ASPCA monthly memberships. I love animals so i was all for it. Through the conversation we had hit it off and he flirted with me the whole time. It was rather cold outside and he even asked if i wanted to wear his coat to keep warm. He seemed interested. I was excited to find that he wrote his cell phone number on a flyer and he said if i needed anything to just call. Fast forward when I text him and show interest he says he has a fiance! I feel so stupid for thinking this guy was intrested in me. :( If he was just trying to sell a membership why bother writing his cell phone number down?

Since I'm jobless and broke, I have to live with someone else. I am looking for jobs, but get no interviews anymore and haven't for the last 5 months. I don't know why. My mom almost never gives me alone time. I want to watch my shows and movies. I know I could just go to my room, but going to bed really early makes me extremely depressed. So does having my mom around almost 24/7 355. I hope every morning that she goes to work, so I can be alone for a few hours. She's selfish as hell too. It's what she wants to watch, she wants to eat and she sleeps with her TV on and that keeps me awake, because of the flashing and I have to have it pitch black to sleep. She's gets mad if I turn her TV off. We live in a tiny rented condo and our rooms are too close together. She forced us to rent this condo in an old folks complex. She wants to just rent places to live and I want to buy and settle down. It's like we live in a place for a year or two then move again. My parents are divorced and my dad was horrible to me growing up, so no chance of living with him. My sister only has one tiny office sized room for me, that is roach infested and I'm deathly afraid of them. She and her boyfriend are too cheap to hire an exterminator. They won't even spray the room. My mom is super selfish. It has to be her way. She also deletes my recordings on DVR. She complains about everything. I want her gone, but financially I rely on her. What do I do?

So a while back I bought a ping-pong table for me and my friends and I've been keeping it in my basement. It's worth like $800 and I worked my @ss off to get it. Also, my aunt lost her house recently and my dad's been letting her and her son stay down there for the past few months. Last night all our parents were out, and my cousin came home with this guy I know from school. They went downstairs and I started hearing them goin' at it. It was kinda annoying but I wasn't gonna confront them, until I heard a huge crash. They decided to do it on my ping-pong table, which isn't weight bearing, and broke it. I ended up snitching on my cousin of course, and he's in trouble, but he's not gonna replace my ping-pong table anytime soon cuz he's an a*shole who doesn't want to work, and I'm not gonna make my aunt pay for it. Since I knew the kid, I called up his parents instead, but they were really uncooporative over the phone and when my dad tried to negotiate they cussed him out. So I'm pissed and I want somebody to pay for my ping-pong table and I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me out?

What do I say to them tomorrow? About it

Me and my cousin went to a theme park. When she saw me talking to another she grabbed me and said hey I'm looking at you. Why is this if I wanted to talk to the girl?

the girl i'm with now is abused and treated wrong at home. her father has touched her and beaten her and none of her family will say anything about it. currently they are trying to send her away to mexico to a very dangerous area. she isn't anytjing like her family members. what could i do to save her? she has two little sisters that she has stayed with to protect. i don't know what steps to take in order to have my family take her in. her aunt said she would take her in but she is scared to ask. what should i do? i'm tired of hearing about things like this happening to good kids. also, what should i even say to my parents? i've explained the situation to them but i haven't mentioned taking her in. she is very bright and deserves a lot more than this.

i'm 16 and the girl i'm with now is currently in a family who is abusive. she's been touched and beaten and now they are trying to send her to mexico. i've skipped school to be with her for 1 day and just talking to her makes my heart hurt. what could i possibly do to save her? her parents are illegal and they want to take her to a much more dangerous place than she is in now. her aunt has offered to take her in but she won't say anything. i've been considering asking my family to take her in but i don't know what steps it would take other than talking to my parents about it. she also has 2 younger sisters that she has stayed with to try and protect. she's older than 13 so couldn't she choose where to live legally?

Im 18 years old im having a tough situation at home cant go to school because of my residence of me not being able to transfer schools ive been out for 2 years now. & my mother has threatened to kick me out multiple times & I have no other family. i just wanna finish school & enlist into the marines & im not able to do that sadly I just need a little bit of support like im at home all the time with social anxiety & depression. I cant go out either becus I dont have a license & I live in a disclosed area theres nothing around me Nvm

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