My brother's wife Pam likes to flirt with me. I completely ignore it and surprisingly so does he. She told me one day "You sure have a low sex drive". I said you are right about that. I have ZERO sex drive for my brother's wife. I would like to stop her from flirting with me but the question is how. I know nothing good can come from it. Should I talk to my brother about what she is doing or would that just add to his problems? Should I confront her directly about it? I would greatly appreciate anyone's input on how to handle this problem. THANKS

My youngest sister is autistic and nonverbal, guys. My dad and stepmom have to work so they leave. My brother and Sisters and I have to work so we leave My youngest sister is left alone..🤦‍♂️ My parents don t want anyone to abuse her so they don t seek help, like get an aide.. But, at the same time no one is always home to take care of her.. 🤦‍♂️ What should I do. I brought up the issue so many times and no one is really helping..

My Husband and I live with his Mom and Great Grandma. We have 4 kids and Great Grandma loves to sit next to our 15 month old son EVERYTIME he eats. It gets annoying because our son then doesn't wanna eat his food. She plays with him. I've asked her nicely to leave him be and let him eat and today I couldn't eat at the table because she blocked my side off to sit and my Husband and I are tired of her hovering him while he eats. I don't know what else to do! (She'll get out of her chair in livingroom just to get up and sit by him) PS He feeds himself and she puts her walker on the side so he can play and she distracts him by tickling him so he has a hard time eating. I tell her all the time once he gets done eating he can come play with you, but he needs to eat and still she doesn't listen to me.

my mom won't let me use her laptop. And when I asked for one, she thought I'd just use it for games which I won't. I need it for certain assignments. I'm 16 and l had to type up a English essay all on my iPhone. I have Microsoft on my iPhone but It was hard typing a 3 page essay on a little touchscreen. Idk what to do. I can't use the school computer because my mom picks me up after class and she would be angry if I stayed longer to use the school computer. The only other option would be to go to the library but I'd have to get my mom to take me and she doesn't even be at home all the time. I just want my own laptop, the majority of people at school has one.

About a year ago my father & I both cut ties with each other. Personally, I cut ties due to his toxic ways towards me. For 14 years I have been raised by my father since my mother passed away, they were divorced & I was her only child. Our father/daughter relationship was fair for those years though he was doing very inappropriate things I felt personally not to me at least. He would have multiple women aged 22-40 (he's 60 +) in my mother's home that was inherited by me, some he would have their kids move in as well. I had best friends stay over & he would get really close to them & one day I came home & her car was at the house, while she wasn't there he was helping fix her car w/o my knowledge, & at 17 I came home late he open hand beat beat me & dropped me to school after. I felt like a battered woman. He was very controlling w/ my decisions. Now in 2018 when I had enough I evicted him but before he turned off my phone service, took my pets to the shelter, took my tv & air conditioner out my room, took my door off the frame, & threw away all pots pans & silverware. Clearly why he's evicted. But he decided to move DIRECTLY across the street, he watches me come home & leave home through his blinds, has friends pass by places to watch me, passes by my job, & has put a restraining order on my bf who is now the father of my child though there was no violence. So he is restricted from coming 100 feet from my father, which is damn near across the street. Any advice on this ?

I was in my room changing clothes and my sister walked in. I did not have any clothes on. I was really embarrassed and so was she. She said something that did not make any sense. She said "You would gag Linda Lovelace". That makes no sense. Do you think she was just embarrassed and said something to cover her embarrassment?

My ex mother in law Jan called me and told me she had to upgrade her computer skills to keep her job. She ask if I would give her this training. I readily said yes as she was a very nice person when I was married to her daughter. I really liked her and she is just a fun person to be with. She came to my house 2 days a week after she got off work and I gave her computer training. One night when I was training her a very bad rain and wind storm came up. I turned on the TV and they were warning everyone to stay at home and not get out on the roads as several power lines were down. I told Jan she should spend the night at my house as it was not safe for her to drive home. She said she would but she wanted to know what the sleeping arrangement would be. I told her they would be whatever she wanted. She said her first choice was too kinky, and ask if she could sleep in my extra bedroom. I said sure. Should I have had the balls to ask her what her first choice was?

my son hit a dog at the park yesterday with his bike. the dog didn't get injured, but it was still terrible he did it. should i install training wheel's on my son's bike and make him ride his bike to school and at the park every week as punishment? he's 15 btw, and he's in 9th grade. or an alternative my husband suggested is to put him in diapers for 40 years, and also make him wear a pacifier, and make him crawl around. he's mute and deaf, so talking to him won't help.

im a 15 year old guy, and my parents dont trust me at all. i do very well in school, but my siblings, not so much. my parents put surveillance cameras in my room. they dress me, spoonfeed me, bathe me, and my mom wipes my butt. but they don't do this to my siblings they put parental controls on my devices, but not those of my siblings. my mom snoops through my room, and even my trash, but she never does this to my siblings. my parents accuse me of lying and hiding things, but not my siblings my younger siblings are allowed to stay home alone, but not me. if both my parents are out of the house, i have to bring my stuff and go with them. my mom says she'll force me to be a doctor and follow me to college, but let my siblings choose anything they want for their futures. if my siblings do anything wrong, i get the diaper punishment for a month. but if i do anything wrong, they don't get punished. once my sister's scooter hit my dad's car. she blamed it on me, and my dad believed her and he beat me and diapered me, and also bought me baby stuff and followed me to school for the next year. 3 years ago my brother threw a basketball at my back, and i was paralyzed below the neck for 3 months. i had to "reimburse" my parents for "the burden of my hospital expenses" by selling pretty much everything i own, and strip dancing for almost a year.

when I was 9 I used to call her by her first name all the time. I have nephews and nieces I love and they call me by my first name. I do not mind it at all. I am not big on titles or rank we are all equal. Why did my aunt get offended? Is it her generation or her pride?

A family friend moved to the other coast 3000 miles away. Got married, had twins. I shipped her multiple gifts off her baby registry, nearly $100 worth. It felt like the right thing to do, since I also have kids, and she's a family friend. A year later, she flies out to our home coast with her infant twins, and hosts a meet-the-baby gathering at her sister's house in a nearby town. Hardly anyone from our hometown has seen her or met her kids since she moved away. My mother was invited. My brother was invited. I was NOT invited. I was crushed and irritable and angry about being excluded. It also hurt that my brother and mother did not have my back: They quietly endorsed the exclusion by not saying anything to the new mom host. I want my money back!

My MIL treats our 6 year old girl like a baby , and freaks out over everything. She drives us nuts , and she has to control everything

I've remembered my brother's and sister-in-laws birthday every year, sometimes taking her (and my brother) out to pubs, or hosting a small home party. They never honor my birthday ever. Getting annoyed! Feeling ditched! I'm a busy mother of three kids...all I want for my birthday is an hour in a local bar/restaurant with my adult relatives. Nobody cares. He's my only sibling and he lives in the same town as me.

I am 16 years old. While my two high school friends and I (one of whom is morbidly obese) were using my mother's computer, the backrest of her chair snapped off the seat, since my obese friend was the one sitting on the chair. So I called my mother at her job to let her know what happened. She was upset, but not ballistic, and said it's okay. When I got off the phone, I told my friends not to worry and that everything's cool. So the other friend said in a state of shock, "What?! You mean you're not getting a whooping?!" It was at that moment he totally lost me, but then it became apparent that he and I were polar opposites regarding our mothers' tactics on child-rearing. But from the way my friend reacted, you'd have thought his mom hit him with the belt just for breathing. Was she very abusive to him? I can understand if he reacted that way if it was ME who broke the chair, which still sounds totally out of wack, because it was an accident. So something more realistic such as not getting hit with the belt for telling my mother "F*ck you, b*tch!" is something my friend has every right to be shocked about. But shocked that I didn't get hit for something our obese friend did? Sounds like CPS should've taken him away from his mother. Please be serious with your responses, as I do not appreciate the first reply from "swag." :-( Thank you very much.

For example my dad started doing the dishes while my mom was watching tv. She was really snippy with him saying he was too loud and took over the dishes. They are never polite to each other

My Husband and I live with his Mom and Great Grandma. We have 4 kids and Great Grandma loves to sit next to our 15 month old son EVERYTIME he eats. It gets annoying because our son then doesn't wanna eat his food. She plays with him. I've asked her nicely to leave him be and let him eat and today I couldn't eat at the table because she blocked my side off to sit and my Husband and I are tired of her hovering him while he eats. I don't know what else to do! (She'll get out of her chair in livingroom just to get up and sit by him)

I'm female and I keep hearing that women always sacrifice but I personally seen many selfish women out there.

my dad is insane. i got in a fight with him last night and insulted him, but that was not after him insulting me many times. i thought it was resolved last night. now he is holding a grudge... he keeps saying stuff like ¨my mom and dad never said stuff like that to me¨ I should not have insulted him, but he has done that millions of times to me too. How do I fix this?

I'm the mother to a 8 year old child. I have been a teacher since she was born. Just last month I was offered a position that I will be able to work from home, but will have to work summers and travel twice a year. My mom and I began talking and she's concerned about me not having summers anymore to spend valuable time with my daughter. I'm not sure what to do. My daughter currently goes to school with me and they really want us to stay, but I can't figure out what's best. What would you suggest?

I am 20 years old and I grew up with parents who smoke. I'm exposed once or twice a week to it for I don't even know how long. So far doctor visits say I'm healthy but I know that's only because I'm still young. I have nowhere else to go because I have no plans for a career, they ask me about it but why should I work and be miserable when I might be dead in my 50s and can't ever prosper on the long term investment? Also what legal action can I take against them potentially causing my closer than average death?

I love my big sister so so so much, ever since we were babies we have been extremely close. Right now I am 14 and she's 16, and we started drifting apart recently. Last year, I have acquired a best friend whom I love- we talk and hang out all time, we even have an emotional bond. I consider her as my second sister. I find myself feeling very guilty because I don't pay much attention to my older sister. One time we were having an emotional conversation and she said that she felt forgotten. I was so dissapointed with myself. I was sure no one could replace her, but someone did. Nothing is the same anymore, when I talk to her I just feel like we're close friends NOT SISTERS- I really want things to change. I feel like I don't even know what she likes and doesn't like anymore. I want that special bond we had back, but I don't know how to get it.

My parents have always been more strict with me than my brother who is only a year older. Even at 16 I'm still not allowed to stay the night at a friends house nor allowed to walk to my job which is only 10 minutes away. Mind you my job is at a family owned diner where I waitress and only for part time because that's all my parents will allow. My brother gets to stay at friends house on occasion and has a later curfew. At 14 he was allowed to ride his bike around the neighborhood but my parents never let me. When I asked why my dad said it's because i'm a girl which is not a real reason. I get decent grades in school and stay out of trouble, I get so bored being at home and wish my parents could be more lenient. I am mature! Not much is going to change from now until I turn 18 except I will be an legal adult then and can do what I want, like why do they have to be so strict??

Im 16 and my parents have owned this house for i believe 20 years, and the bathroom especially is infested with mold. It smells extremely musky and earth like, and the pipe behind the toilet kind of drips a slimy black like mold on the daily. As well the sink emits a terrible smell (thats more pungent than the toilets smell...its horrid), and my parents wont do anything about it. Whenever i into the bathroom i begin sneezing and soon grow a headache but my parents pay no attention. When i shower i have to stick my head out the shower due to the smell the drain emits. I cant move out because they wont let me get a job it seems, and i have no options but to just bear it. I want to clean it but it seems to be inside the walls, the walls which are also connected to my bedroom. I really need help on how i can solve this situation... thanks!

My sister is three years younger than me, and we have a pretty good relationship. However, I feel very inadequate compared to her for a number of reasons. She's much prettier than me, and as a result of it she gets much attention from guys than I do (she's been in multiple relationships whereas I'm 23 and have never even kissed anyone), she gets much better grades than I do, she's had more jobs than me, and she has a much better social life than I do. I'm not bitter or jealous of her, I'm honestly happy for her and everything she has, but I can't help but compare myself to her, which makes me feel really bad about myself. I've always struggled with my self esteem and constantly compared myself to my friends and peers, but knowing that someone who's this close to me is so much better than me in so many ways is much harder to deal with. In addition, my mother is always talking about my sister's academic achievements, her boyfriend, her job, etc, which makes me feel even worse. I know that this is unhealthy and it needs to stop. So how can I stop comparing myself to my sister so much and letting the good things she has make me feel worse about myself?

Okay, so I am doing robotics, and I ask my dad for help, because I don't get half the stuff, so he comes over and tells me what I'm doing wrong. So I fix it, and it doesn't work. So I tell him and he calls me a smart mouth and a know-it-all. He wouldn't help me after that, so I had to call my mom in, who has no idea what is going on, so I have to explain everything and dad kept interrupting me say "Don't help him, he knows it all." And mom gave up, so I am alone, now. I am homeschooled and I can't Quit.

Minds hates me because I'm fat. Loves calling me a giant and not even asking me a single question of we're talking just making sure comments about me and others.

I feel so different as my parents are the only ones on both sides of my family to have divorced (not counting 2nd cousins or distant relatives I barely know, just mean of my aunts-uncles-and 1st cousins). This hurt me as a kid cause I felt shame. It has become a part of me and enshrined in my mind. I am an adult now and still feel this shame. Every holiday especially. I feel ashamed of myself for my parents divorce in 1994 when I was ten. My two siblings are over, I am not. What do I do? I am 33 and male.

My daughter wants me to drop her and her friend off at 10:30 at night to see a movie with her friend and then pick her up a couple hours

Ok so I was sitting down and my mom made a joke that I almost turned white and my grandma laughed loudly and I feel like my grandma did this because she was trying to say that I don't have nice features and that I look full black and fully black. My grandma even turned to look at my sister and I feel like my grandma was trying to say that my sister can be white and that I can not be white. Then my grandma even brought up a time when we were younger and my grandma said that my sister was lighter in skin tone than me. What do you think of this situation and what should I do?

Hello, so I have 3 daughters. 9,7, and 4. My 9 year old has a different dad so she goes out of town with her dad's mom every now and then(not anymore). So when my daughter was 6 she came out about being touched on while she was with her dad's mother. It was one of her older cousins. I knew something was wrong because she was always talking about this older cousin and it was weird to me the way she would obsess over him. I immediately told her dad and his mother. I thought I could fix the situation since I was molested as a child, I thought I knew what to say and how to say it but no. I caught my oldest multiple times trying to fondle with her sister(middle child). I immediately signed both of my girls up for therapy. After all of this my husband and I protected our youngest to the best of our ability. They have been to therapy for a little over 2 years but it still seems like they sneak and do things. I haven't caught them but I do know they talk about sex together and 'penis' and looking at boys private parts all of the time. My husband and I have a son on the way and I'm so scared they're going to do something to him. I was thinking about separating my older girls from the little ones. Would I be wrong? They know their behavior is not appropriate but it's like they're addicted to the sexual behavior now. Should I just talk to their therapist about it?

My 6 year old is getting bullied by an older neighbour kid. I've spoken to his parents about it. At first, they claimed they'd deal with their son but he continued to bully other children. The second time I tried talking to them, the mother and father claimed that they don't like disciplining their kids for such minor incidents because the kids "will give them a hard time". Excuse me? It is their JOB as parents to make sure their children are good people! I'm sure their kids won't like them at the moment, but they'll love them in the long run. My son was punched once, and the rest is mostly name-calling and getting other kids to exclude him from play.

I am a child of 6 and am also a twin, and only recently me and my mother became close and able to talk just like friends. She use to never really pay attention to me and use to be really close to my older sister but she moved out and I think I use to get jealous sometimes. Times have changed drastically and so she is closest to me now. But why on random days do I just have an uncontrollable mood where I just genuinely dislike her/ sometimes even HATE her and so I don't want to speak to her and some days I absolutely love her and want to cry to the thought of not having her. This sometimes even happens to my friends which has lost me quite a few. I feel like I have no control.

My husband's grandmother (so that makes her my daughters great grandmother) has been staying with us for a month now to "help" with our baby. And I truly appreciate this being a first time mom. I'm able to get my sleep specially because I'm not breastfeeding But lately she's been sort of obsessed with my baby. when my baby is crying or fussing she would take her from my arms and kind of shoo me away and won't let me soother her, feed her, or take care of her unless I tell her to hand my baby to me. Being a first time mom, I feel like I want to feel like a mother, I want to feel tired, I want to feel like I'm taking care of my daughter.. but gramma just won't let me. She acts like I don't know how to take care of her, which is true but I can't learn if she won't let me. She's leaving in a month so I feel like she's just taking advantage of this time because she'll miss her.. but I'm worried that my 2 month old baby doesn't even know that I'm her mom, what if she's not attached to me? I'm not breastfeeding her so I feel like I haven't had any good bonding time with her because gramma is always taking care of her... EVERYDAY AND EVERYNIGHT Please help.