Adult granddaughter lives rent free. The agreement was she food shop weekly, take out trash and recycling, and prepare grandmother's medications. She does this, on time, always. The grandmother asks additional things, such as having laundry done or help cleaning, putting food away. Sometimes grandmother asks for pizza. Sometimes she'll ask her to run to food store more than the once per week agreement. Granddaughter typically says no, stating that isn't her responsibiity and the grandmother tends to ask for more and more when people do things for her. Granddaughter makes it clear she is not a care giver. Is the granddaughter ungrateful for the free living situation or is she in the right as she is keeping her end of the agreement?

I have my house when my dad come to visit he start cleaning. I tell him he doesn't have to everything is clean but still he even goes in my bedroom to do the cleaning. He put everything in different places after me and my bf won't find anything anymore. I try telling him to stop but he just won't any help please

I'll keep this short, basically my mom sleeps all day and wakes up at like 8 to 12am sometimes. My brothers like staying up when my mom does so they'll stay awake with her until like past 3 and end up sleeping all day as well. How can I fix my brothers sleeping schedules? [Note, one is 9 and the other is 12]

She is always pawning cash off of me. I am always afraid to say no so I get used.

My mother is 67 yrs old and is still working. My brother and I over the last recent years have noticed a steady increase in memory issues. For instance; she will ask a question, we will answer it, and then a few minutes later she will ask nearly the same question again. When we explain to her that we already told her something, she will suddenly act as though she recalls but says she just forgot. Also, she has occasionally got names mixed up (calling a child by the parent s name, etc.) I know that just aging in general causes us to be forgetful, but now more concerning is that she was recently involved in an accident driving to work. She basically side-swiped a car head on. Thankfully no one was hurt, including herself, but when we asked her what happened; she really couldn t explain why she wrecked. She said she just suddenly found herself swerving to miss the car. My father wrote it off as her "falling asleep" driving, but when I asked her if she thought she had fell asleep; she simply said she didn t know if she did or not. Since the accident, this has really caused a concern with my brother and I. We want to bring it up to both my parents, but we re not sure how to talk to them about it without feeling like we are attacking them or accusing something that may not even be true. We re just worried that things will progress and want to make sure we are taking steps to try to slow this down as much as we can if in fact it is early stages of Alzheimer s.

I had no father around and my mother was a crack addict. My pets are parents for me as an adult since I had none as a kid.

My father was a verbally abusive man growing up, he started to become nice when I got a really good job earning more than him. He follows me to work, & asks if he can come work with me. He stares at me when I am eating which I ignore but find odd. He follows me around when I am walking in the house & sometimes I have to run away lol & and he will run and hug me and push me down to the ground. During family gatherings he just stares at me when his friends are around. Should I be concerned how do I get him to stop?

I just turned 23. Did 3 years of college and I'm shipping off to boot camp for the Air Force in a couple weeks. I have always wanted to adopt a kid after I have a career and can provide for the child. But I'm single. I don't see my self being in a relationship let alone getting married. Imy straight but I know that I'm anot asexual. I have no desire to pursue women. So, if I wanted a family in the near future by adopting without having a partner to have kids with, would it be impossible or close to impossible. I know it is hard but how hard?

My cousin on my fathers side recently decided to reach out to me on facebook. Her life is pretty great compared to mine, and I haven't talked to her in over 25 years due to severe family disfunction that disconnected us. I have had a very difficult life in recent years with a chronic illness and also don't have any exciting or positive to share with this cousin who just friended me on facebook. She sent me a message to talk and I agreed to call her soon, but that was 3 weeks ago and I honestly don't want too but in the moment she reached out, I didn't know how to handle it so I agreed to a open a line of communication between us. I do not have a relationship with my father (and my cousin was close to my father once upon a time). I don't think she knows that I do not have a relationship with him due to his abusive nature and I know that if/when we talk this is going to come up and Im not sure how to address this because its sensitive and difficult. My cousin is sweet, but I also don't want information that I share with her to get back to my father somehow either incase she is communicating with him also. Did I make a mistake in friending her on facebook? If so, how do i fix this?

Especially if you homeschool your children .

I'm trying to get away from my WHOLE family. They fight a lot and have way too many problems. I can't ask for help at all. They all have this snarky attitude like "why don't you ask mom to help you?" or "sorry I'm too busy". But whenever THEY need MY help they always try to play a guilt card on me like "why don't you want to help me?" LIKE WOW YOU GUYS NEVER HELP ME, F U GUYS..seriously.. I'm 21, living with my mom. No working experience. Seriously I have none because my mom has put me down so much and has hurt me to the point where I am suicidal. She constantly tells me I will amount to nothing without her. Im so sick and tired of it. Sometimes I go to sleep starving. Not hungry. Starving. My weight fluctuates based on how I eat and sometimes I feel so weak like I have diabetes or something. I'm quite scared. I just want this to all have just been a bad dream and wake up without having to be scared of my whole family..

They just sit there and talk at me until they see I'm upset. And they don't stop there. I don't get what their problem is with me.

I get irritated and causes me to repeatedly call back again and he doesn't answer. I call back a lot and we argue back and forth. And says I call too much and not a good brother/best friend. Only can call once a day. What do I do ? Sometimes I think the worst and he will block me and not want to talk me anymore How can we be better repair our problems? We have strong bond and I don't want him to just cut me out that will kill my heart . And make me so depressed. It's already bad enough he's in India and I can only see him through video chat or regular calling

I have a different religion than my Dad and I refuse to stop practicing in his home. So pretty much he took my door off as a power move after a big fight. Now, I cant sleep because my dad is yelling at his game, or arguing with my Mom, or even worse, having intercourse. Its horrible! How do I get my door back? (I will not stop practicing due to a very personal issue)

My 10 year old son and I are currently living with my grandparents and have been for the past 2 years, mind you in a 10x10 room. She asked me to come home, since not being home for 12 years (moved out at 18), because my grandfather was diagnosed with early onset dementia. He already had a short temper and my grandma loves to poke the bear sometimes, so they are a mess. Her and I don't really have a relationship (she's miserable anyway). They live in a large house and she's a bit of a hoarder (it's not too terrible but I already have OCD, so I can't stand to live where I'm at). Anyway I was given an opportunity to live in a tiny house where my son and I would be closer to his school, he would have his own room, and essentially I finally get my own place (never had one always rented a room). When I presented the news my grandma PLEADED with me to stay, almost demanded really. She has promised to clean out a room that is not being utilized. But this always happens, I start cleaning, she becomes an emotional wreck, I have to stop, then can only proceed when it's good for her. She is very emotionally attached to these "things" that she can't bare to throw away. But she has promised to open up a room for me to have and is begging me to stay. I'm seriously lost. I love my family but sometimes the emotional roller coaster is too much.

My sister married this guy on 3/16 and I go to his apartment to feed his cat and fish while they're on their honeymoon. He told me if I needed to get anything there was some money in a nightstand. So tonight I needed some money and he has two nightstands. The first one had a folder in it and I thought the money was in there. Instead, there a bunch of pictures of this girl, a tombstone and an obituary. She died when she was 13 and he was 16 and he was his younger sister. He has talked a lot about his family, but hasn't said a word to me or my parents about his sister. Is that normal? I've known him for 3 years.

my parents treat my younger sister way better than me. my parents believe everything she says, and they punish me when she gets in trouble, but never punish her when only im in trouble. they also spend a lot of money on her, and they compare me to her, saying "why didnt you win the cross country tournament like she did?. my parents also control me all the time, but never my sister. they let her do whatever she wants, and they say that she can move out once she turns 16. however, im 23, and im currently in graduate school, but my parents make me live with them. my sister is 15 and my parents let her do whatever she wants. once, when i was about 16 and my sister was 7, she got a 40 on her math test at school. my parents just told her that there are other people who have done worse than her, and than they lectured me about a bunch of crap and how i didnt score high enough on my ap exams and sat tests. they also have different standards for us. when i got a 4 in my ap chem exam, they yelled at me, shaved my head bald, and made me crawl around the streets wearing nothing but a diaper and a pacifier.. however, when my sister took a picture of her breasts and sent it to a guy at school and my mom found out, she didn't get mad at her at all, and punished me instead. please help, i want to commit suicide. dont tell me to call the cops or move out or anything like that. im 23, so the im too old for the cps to intervene.

I posted a facebook status about how jealous I was about my peers because they are doing ahead of me in life. This status was posted almost two weeks ago and it's no longer there. She asked me why I deleted it. It went from small talk to yelling at me about Facebook. She then threw a major hissy fit about what my family members emailed me and said I was an embarrassment to my family. She also called me an attention whore. She also ranted about my self hate about how I hate my ears, forehead, feet, etc. She needs to stop complaining because she wasn't the one coming home crying from being bullied for being ugly. I don't regret my feelings of jealousy towards my peers because it's true, my classmates are doing better than me in life. Even with two degrees, I've been unemployed for over 7+ months while they get to have their fancy cars, nice jobs, and having kids. I feel like she's acting entitled in a way. I want to get over this whole incident and I want it off my mind and fast. How?

I'm a 16 year old girl. My friend only has younger brothers and the boys rarely start drama with her. My sister is 22 years old and voices her opinion on everything I do. My life is none of her business. For example, she tells me which guys she doesn't approve of. She cares about who I hang out with. She's been like this since I was a small child. One of my childhood memories is back when I must've been 11 years old. I went through the crop top phase in 6th grade. I remember my sister telling me that I was too young to wear crop tops at the time. I look back and think, who IS she to try and tell me that? Jeez! To this day, she occasionally bosses me around and butts in. I don't know what her problem is. I've tried to treat her as an equal and be kind to her, but it never works. This girl will just put me back into my original spot and remind me that I'm her sister.

Because he has family coming into town he goes and asks her and gets her hopes up before he even asked me if it is okay that I will give up my weekend. He is constantly doing this he bought tickets to go see The Walking Dead on my weekend I get one weekend out of the month he asked her if she wanted to go out of town with him and his family on my weekend he's constantly asking her if she wants to do everything first before he asks me and then she makes me feel bad if I say no is this wrong that he's doing this should I be upset that he's constantly doing this to me? All he does is start fights between me and my kid because of it and then I look like the bad guy

I only visit my brother occasionally. He seems to impose strict rules on his three sons. The eldest is 19, second eldest is 15, and the youngest is 9. The three of them are constantly like house security and are constantly guarding everything with too much caution to detail. My brother is constantly giving them drills about how to react in potentially dangerous situations, such as not answering the door at a particular time and teaching them self-defense. If they mess up during the drills or break any of the rules, he grounds them for a week. The three brothers agreed upon making their own drill and teach themselves a trick. The three take turns volunteering to sit down in a chair, be tied down with rope, and then try to escape. Their general rule is that if one of them asks to be released or is unable to escape on their own, the two other brothers must untie the ropes, and then they are constantly debating techniques on how to adjust the knots or how to untie it. While this happens, their father is constantly monitoring this drill to make sure the brothers don't leave one tied up for a long time, as a cruel joke, but the fact that he lets this go on anyway just worries me. On Saturdays, he teaches them new techniques he's learned from boxing or goes over the original techniques he's taught them. I'm just wondering if this is something I should be worried about. They don't live in an area with criminals.

I'm 19, I already have a 12 month old and we live with my parents. Would it be wrong in your opinion to have another child even if the baby's father (both baby's have the same dad) has a job? He just started this part time job and they love him; he doesn't make enough yet to rent a place but after he gets a raise in a week or two (two people are quitting and he has to take over for both of them), he will make enough. The dad doesn't live with us and I'm only 4 weeks pregnant, so we still have some time to get a place.

Even when we had been dating for 7 years before getting married, she'd never ask about him and when she did she's refer to him as my "guy friend". Now we're married and she still refers to him as my "guy friend" and sometimes won't even acknowledge he exists, asking how my dating life is going even though I've been married for 2 years

My mother is an angry woman, she yells at everyone who is talking to her angrily. And in our house, i'm 16, in high school, whenever she is upset, she would say things like "I'll beat you till you die", I'll burn you with an iron, I'll kill you tonight, when she is angry with me/

My Grandfather gave me a really nice expensive guitar that's worth about $1800. Im 25 and have been playing over 12 years. I've been homeless for about 6 months keeping my guitar in a safe place at my brother's. The guitar is my pride and joy and it's hard to even think about selling it. But I'm homeless and it could give me options to get on my feet again. I don't have any family near except my brother and I can't live with him. I'm torn. What should I do?

Grandfather passed away in 1970, whem my mother was 10 years old. She once told me that she never got over the trauma, despite her young age. She is one of the most gentle people I know, but she is also a bit of an enigma and doesn t do much apart from gardening. She is happily married to my dad, but I wonder. When I was a teenager I was already falling for men that were at least 20 years older. The younger I was, the older the men I fantasized about. I remember moments at age 11 when I was fantasizing about 50 year old men. They seemed so talented, wise and protective. At 28 I dated someone who was approaching 50. I wonder if I got this preference through my mother, or maybe, do I subconsciously try to find a man for HER, someone who is old and wise, someone who could treat my mother like the father she never had? I tend to fakk in love with teacjers because they are usually older and wiser. My last relationship was with someone who was wiser and more worldly than my parents, they usually are. My mother loved him and they had the best time. We broke up because we were too different... and because he was too naggy (like an old man...), and seemed to be too rigid/boring. I can t think of any other reason why I have a preference for an age gap and why my love life is so complex.

The doctor who came out to my mum in a care home couldn't find anything wrong with her and wanted to leave her for 24 hours which would have taken us to Christmas Day I said I wanted her to go to a and e Despite me telling him she had opened her eyes and was staring vacantly whilst appearing to be in an unresponsive deep sleep He rang for an ambulance and after he left my mum had a seizure not that I knew this at the time I wanted to ring an emergency ambulance but was dissuaded by a carer in the home Once at a and e my mum had another seizure which lasted 4 minutes and a ct scan after that revealed a brain haemorrhage It seems that the care home may not have passed this vital piece of information onto the paramedics ie that my mum had suffered a seizure prior to them arriving at the home This was Christmas Eve My mum died on 29th January I am tortured with the fact that my mum may not have died if actioned differently Had the paramedics been notified she had already had a seizure she may well not have had the 2nd one and I can't help but feel it was the severity of the 2nd one that brought on a brain haemorrhage