I'm young but Im not going to say my name/age etc I don't want to give away to much info because I know my dad uses yahoo answers and could possibly come across this so I'm going to keep it short and simple.... Me and my siblings live with my dad and he lost his job (got fired) and won't find a new one, he has made no effort, he's never been a good dad but since our mom has been dead since we were little he's all we have. What can we do? We are far too young to work a actual job I can in a few years but that won't do anything now. The landlord has been asking about rent and he just doesn't seem to care. We are scared.

I m 16 and up until a couple months ago my dad and I had a really great relationship. However, I literally hate him now. He thinks everything I do is wrong and starts arguments over the tiniest things. He is apparently "never wrong" and always tells me how there is something wrong with my head. He has extreme anger issues and sometimes gets abusive. I honestly just ignored it until around two weeks ago, when he completely blew up. My 13 year old sister made him mad and apparently he got so angry (at my sister and my mom) that he just got up and left (he drank himself to sleep in the driveway and came back the next day). My mom was a complete mess, she kept saying how she doesn t want him to come back and she wants her. my siblings, and I to just move back to Norway (where shes from). I cant even stand to look at him anymore, he disrespects everyone and just because I m a kid, i don t have a say in anything. Every time I bring up him ditching us he says its our fault. He doesn t even acknowledge how I (or my mom and siblings) had to leave almost everything behind. He is getting more and more angry and abusive and I just want to leave, but I don t want to ruin everything my parents built for us. What do I do? I hate just being in the same house as him because he always starts a fight. Today he wanted something I was holding and before I could give it to him he completely lost it and scratched up my hand taking it from me. Please help, any advice is appreciated! I genuinely need help with this and if any of you could just respond seriously that would greatly be appreciated. Thank you.

Im quite young so plz help My mom never lets me hang out with my friends because she says they give off bad vibes, but she lets my brother hang out with his whenever he wants. she favors my brother over me. We both used to get and allowance of ten dollars every week, but she just stopped paying me, which wouldn't be bad if she didn't start paying my brother twenty dollars. When I asked her about it, she said that she was still paying me, it was just a slow week (still haven't gotten payed!) She will make me feel bad for everything I do. When I was growing up, I spent most of my time being grounded by her, and there's this one story I'll tell u: I was 6 at the time, and our family had a pool in the backyard. I got grounded, and my room was located with a window in front of the pool. So I was in my room coloring when I heard splashing outside. My whole family was playing in the pool (which almost never happens) without me. I started crying and it hurts to remember how low my family went to make me feel bad. I've wanted to kill myself before, and i have hurt myself. I'm really considering running away from home. I've had this thought before, I told my mom about it once, and her answer (I was being dead serious and she could tell) was that she wouldn't care if I ran away and she wouldn't care if I got hurt while running. I'm really confused on what to do, and I'm to afraid to tell my freinds because I sometimes think I'm just overreacting to this whole situation, and maybe I am i know this sounds really immature, i was just wondering

My brother (17) and I (15) are constantly having issues with our father. Every time we visit him he lashes out and screams at my brother and I always get dragged into it. To be fair, my brother is disrespectful to our father, but only because my dad doesn't treat us with the same respect we get from our teachers, mom/step-dad, and strangers. I recently confronted him about him not treating us with any respect (yelling over trivial things, invading privacy, etc.) and his response was "what respect does she deserve?" Are we in the wrong or is he just being wack? I may add that my brother is transgender and my dad refuses to call him by his preferred pronouns. My dad is not resentful of him because of this. It is, however, part of the source to my brother's disrespect (but it's mostly about how my dad treats us every time we decide to visit).

Okay, so I am getting married in five months. I am 34 and my sister is 36. I have two older sisters, her and another one who is 38. I was the only boy in the family. This sister's husband (ie my brother-in-law) and I are very close. When they married five years ago, he did not have me as one of his groomsmen. My sister had our other sister as her maid of honour and she really only has two close friends so she had those three. My brother-in-law has two brothers so he had them and his best friend. I didn't mind this at all, I didn't feel rejected or anything. However, now fast forward to mine. I have two very close friends but I don't have anyone close enough to me to ask as a third. My fiancé is fine with this as she just has one sister so she will be her maid of honour and then her best friend as other bridesmaid. However, where the issue is is that my sister really wants me to have her husband as third, and is saying that I could easily have three and am just being petty because he didn't ask me. She said that he is also upset at not being asked. I told her that this was hypocritical because he didn't ask me. Like I said, I was fine with this but I just believe in fairness and reciprocity. If he had asked me, then yes I would have had him as a third but since he didn't, I am not. I am not going to back down on this, so that is not an option, but am just hoping for some advice on how to deal with this issue?

I'm 16 years old and I ain't about to start cooking, so don't even tell me to. She's also the one who buys the groceries, so. Anyways, she always cooks things like spaghetti, tacos, pork chops and i'm sick of it. Nothing new, and I only get to eat fast food once a month but it's always something like McDonald's. I haven't ate pizza in like 2 years. What should I do about this? I hate her.

So I'm a grown adult, 23. so ultimately I know I can make my own decisions and be responsible for my own actions and stuff. But my dad doesn't He still sees me as a kid and has a habit of projecting his own faults and insecurities onto me. He wants me to feel guilty for things that aren't my problem (like How he feels bad for things that he did in the past) so that i can make my life decisions to meet his needs. The thing is I'm willing to meet him half way but he's not willing to meet me half way cause I'm a woman and in his mind inferior to him. So he wants me to give him money, and I'm willing to, but he wants it under his terms and conditions (drop out of college and be his housewife, answer to him at all times, share all of his beliefs and never have any of my own) So I told him im willing to give, but he doesn't want me to give as a separate human being. Cause I believe there's a middle ground,but he doesn't cause in his mind women are below men, and therefore property of ownership. so he's never tried to meet me in the middle with anything EVER. If it was a guy I was dating I would cut him out my life, but it's my dad unfortunately. So I can't I live in America btw. I know, weird flex, right?

I am 20. I have autism. I am man but dad say I behave like boy. Doctor say I act like 7 year old boy. In school I am not good. I can not learn fast. I do not read and I do not write well. Dad say he is tired and he can not keep me. Mom died when I was little. Now no one likes me.Dad say no one want to take care of me. Only nurses in group house can keep me. I love bicycles and running. I think in group house I can not play. I will miss my dad. I want to live with him. He hates me. I do not know why. He say I am different and no one like a different child.

I have no problem getting tons of dates with guys but none of the guys I dated seemed that interested in me. How do I get guys to get serious with me? I also graduated college at the top of my class, and when I was a preteen I used to model.

My 18y/o highly ignorant brother has been hanging out with a troublesome crowd and insists that he's a tough guy and that he's quote "not afraid of cops". After over an hour of explaining the risks he's taking with his drug use, that he will like be arrested sooner rather than later he starts listing all the "clever ways" he can avoid getting caught. Then our dad entered the convo and essentially said he would call the cops on him to save his life. Instead of stopping while he was ahead, he kept going on a rant about his rights (that he learned from TV shows) then my dad brought up cavity searches trying to dissuade him. That struck a nerve and he insisted that he would resist and that they couldn't force him bc that's illegal. We ran through what we imagined the procedure would be: "what if they tasted you?" "What if they increase charges" etc. But he is adamant that he could just resist. I'm sure he isnt the first schimdiot with this mindset but I'm curious about what they'd actually do if you flat out refuse a cavity search?????

We have our son's big boy bed set up. He wanted a loft style bed. However, he shares a room with his little brother who is no longer in a crib. I wanted to just get bunk beds now and use the guard rail we have on our bed with little man on the bottom bunk, but DH was concerned about safety. This has been a battle the whole way. So he permitted our son to have the loft bed. Following the concept of Ikea's Kura bed, I thought a Bunkie board and mattress would be perfect for underneath the "loft" to essentially convert the loft into a bunk. There wasn't any actual bunk beds that serve our needs at the moment, and DH was in a rush to get the bed. Besides, if this way will serve the purpose, than we can change the kids rooms a easier when they're older or if we move to where they can their own rooms. Has anyone used a loft bed as a bunk before? DH is very adamant that it's "too dangerous" with the ladder and attached slide that came with the loft. If it was so dangerous, bunk beds would be a thing of the past.

I've been getting really close to my gf and opening up to her about myself and my demons and she's always been super supportive. Last month I talk her about occasional suicidal THOUGHTS and ONE attempt (in 2017) which I never told anyone about b4. More recently about abuse from when I was a kid (which my parents already knew about). Then all of a sudden this week they're all, separately, start pushing for me to go to therapy (a road we'd been on before and agreed didnt work). It's been coming up all week despite me explicitly telling all of them that it wasnt necessary. They kept pushing it. Then this morning my gf just broke up with me out of the blue and unprovoked. I was pretty obvious that my parents and her parents pushed for it because she clearly didnt want to. I asked my parents point blank and it turned into a lecture about making better choices and "maybe it's better this way", then I talked to her parents and they said pretty much the same thing, and that I should work on taking care of myself and that I need to be "psychologically stable". I'm seriously confused and I dont want to assume she's been running and telling them everything we talk about but that's what it feels like. None of it is an issue now but it feels like they are working together to try and manipulate me and that our relationship is a part of some twisted ultimatum when I told them I was fine. At this point it feels like she betrayed me. We're both 16y/o btw

I am 14 and I am feeling so guilty and bad. My grandma came to live with us last year because she has dimentia and is a little bit retarded. At first I felt bad for her but she always used to do gross things like spit food out and sometimes I would sit it in or she would fart when we were having dinner. Once she even pee'd on the couch when I was next to her so I got wet and it was so gross. I love her but just wanted her out and some where where she could just be in a hospital so I didn't have to deal with it. So I started staying up at night and pooping in a container then putting the poop in her bed. I kept doing it over and over again and then started putting it in her door way or in the kitchen drawers so my parents would get sick of it. After about 2 months they ended up putting her in care. at first I was relieved because she was gone and she could be looked after but now I feel really bad. I just wanna know how i can stop feeling guilty without admitting it

Mom grounded me from driving my truck and is making me ride in the middle since my little sister found a pack of cigarettes a friend left in there a few weeks ago. Yesterday morning, mom was supposed to drop me at my job by 10 then take my sister to the pool. My sister was running behind and mom told me to get in the truck when I tried to rush them. I got in my truck and a few minutes later, my sister and then mom got in and I thought I would get to work on time. As mom was putting the key in the ignition, my sister told mom she forgot her float and mom went back in the house to get it. While mom was in the house, I saw it was 9:50 and knew we had to leave now to get there by 10. I started laying on the horn to let mom know until I saw her coming out of the house. Mom threw the float in the bed and then walked off. Around 10:10 she finally got back in the truck and drove to the pool to drop my sister off first. When mom was finally taking me to work, she fussed at me about honking the horn, and told me I was now grounded from driving or choosing my seat until school starts back for being rude. I think mom's punishment is not fair. I would have never honked the horn at her if I was not running late for work. I was ready to go on time and she and my sister were the ones running behind. How should I explain to mom this punishment is unfair and I should not be grounded again? I think not getting to work until after 10:30 was enough punishment. I have been sharing my truck with mom since her van died in January and think she is unfairly using this as an excuse to keep driving my truck and hold off buying a new vehicle. I could deal with her taking my truck for another week of two but all summer seems really excessive when she and my sister were the ones who made me late to work. It was really embarrassing being over 30 minutes late and having my boss ask if I would keep being unreliable.

This is pretty heavy, but I thought I would throw it out there on yahoo since nothing seems to be working. I have spoken with my school counsellor etc I'm 16 & when I was 10, my stepfather started molesting & raping me. It was reported to the police & it went to trial & he was convicted. During the trial and after I went to live with my grandmother however she has since passed & I am back with mom. Our relationship has always been strained. I always thought it was because she felt guilt, but I was so wrong. I asked her if we could talk about what happened properly now that I am a bit older and because we have never talked about it. She refused but after I persisted she ended up losing her temper & told me that she blamed me for ruining her life by reporting it, that she loved him & she has never been with anyone since. I was totally shocked and tried to explain that we are both victims of his actions but she said she just wants me to leave and she can't stand to look at me. This happened two weeks ago and we have barely spoken a word since. I thought maybe she would calm down and apologise but she just scowls at me. I don't know what to do. I have no other family. My father isn't a part of our lives, no grandparents are alive, no cousins/aunts/uncles etc. Apart from feeling like I really want family, it hurts so much that something I am still traumatised by and trying to work through is something my mom blames me for. I just feel lost and need advice.

he is 28 year and unemployed not doing anything . he bullies us three and no one stands up to him cuz are scared of him and he enjoyes this . well i can't do anything other than my dad stood up to him and disiplined him but he is scared of him. i really hate it . they have formed a pecking order that goes like this 1. my brother 2. my dad 3. my mom 4. myself. so i get treated the cra!piest(the worst) by three of them. an example he tried to chock my dad cuz he didn't give him money for buying pants.

Me and my fiance just graduated high school this month. He is going into the military and we both decided that I should be a stay at home mom. I know we are only 18 but we are very mature for our age.

Most my immediate family cannot come so I am disappointed. No cousins of mine can come but one. It is all my Mom's cousins and siblings so not my generation. However, it still is a nice party with 40-50 people so I don't want to be let down the whole time.

My aunt is having it so our cousins will be there as well as myself and the good siblings I have. My sister might come, she is the only bad sibling.

You might wonder why but her parents have accepted to host him for a while, as he has impregnated a girl in his town and has moved to find a job, make money and come back to take care of her and the baby who will come. The main problem is that the apartment is really small (2 bedrooms, 1 for parents and the other for her, and one living room with an old sofa). As he is family to them, they make him sleep in her bedroom, with her. Which upsets me a lot. I know her cousin doesn't do anything bad to her, forcing her or something, but he scares her. Sometimes he wakes up before her and he stares at her. One day he took her phone, read her messages with me and got mad. He saw a picture of us with me having my arm around her shoulder while being at the port, or me sending pics of her of when I go fishing (so really innocent things) and he got mad, said she was a b**** for having a boyfriend (and to calm him down she said I was just her best friend). He's not american btw, he's eastern european. He made a scene and made her cry telling her she was a *****. Then he threathened telling his dad, which isnt happy about our relationship too. My girlfriend is afraid of him because he's really impulsive and sometimes loses his temper and she's scared sleeping in the same bedroom as him (though I have to admit she told me he did nothing wrong to her except for scolding her badly, never touched her but just threathened her).. I want to have a "talk" with him to arrange things but my gf begged me not to, as she thinks we will fight and it will end up bad, she cried and made me promise not to do that, though I want it, just to understand what's going on in his mind. She's young and I never dared to touch her or kiss her, I just took her fishing, for a walk or bike tours or simply eating something at the café, things appropriate for her age. Just like friends. Why is he so convinced that I am bad and why does he insult her? Her family says she HAS TO LISTEN TO HIM because he is like a bigger brother to him No way! She is a good girl, and doesnt do those things, especially with her cousin! She is scared that he will bring up a knife to sort things out if she admits she has a boyfriend, you don't know the mentality of these people. I also thought of calling the social etc, but at the end until now nothing's bad has happened, so I would have to exaggerate. And if he forced on her, her dad would kill him. I just wanna know how to convince her parents to end the permanence of this guy at their place What if I let her stay at my house? In another room of course. Her parents will understand what they are doing is wrong. I thought about taking her to her grandma but its miles away in another continent. So impossible. I havw to talk to the guy to tell her to go home and leave her alone.

I always fight with my parents, neither of them actually care about and have even said so. My brothers are bullies and my mother is super mean and cruel bc she believes and always have, that I would be the trouble son ("black sheep") of the family, and that why people have hurt me in the past. I brought all this up to my gf and she told her parents, and they basically told her to break up with me and she did. So that's it, there's officially nothing binding me here anymore. And on other similar questions on here, the said to just leave, but since I'm 15, I dont know if I can. I just dont want to live like this anymore.

I'm a 19 year old college sophomore still living with my parents because they deem me too stupid to do otherwise. I have one credit card in my name and my parents have control over it and max it out to -$500 atleast once a month. I also have a car they bought me. My household is very toxic with nasty parents who have caused me to secretly seek counseling and I can't take it much longer here. I'm well aware I can't just "dip," I need money, a place to stay, and a plan. I want to be out by 2 years when I graduate because they don't pay my tuition, I've earned a full ride and they take ALL of my leftover scholarship money which is about $3,000. I just want to know what are the first steps in moving out? Do I need to build my credit and how?? How do I open my own private credit card account? I know nothing of these things because my parents refuse to teach me therefore I'm so deperate to ask here...

When you are dead, and when your family go to measure out [shroud-cloth] three cubits by one and a span/' then return to you and wash you, then shroud and perfume you, and then carry you and set you in [your grave], then pour the earth over you and bury you? For when your family have departed, the two tormentors of the grave, Munkar and Nakir, shall come to you and shake you , whose voices are as rolling thunder and whose eyes are like dazzling lightning, who trail their hair and scrutinise the grave with their fangs [apparent), terrifying and frightening. They make you sit up, and ask you"Who is your Lord? you reply, "Alas, alas, I do not know!" They ask you, "What is your Deen /religion?" you reply, "Alas, alas, I do not know!" They ask you "Who is that man who was sent to you?" you cannot recall his name, and you are told, "(His name is) Muammad!" you say, "Alas, alas, I do not know. I just heard the people say that." you are then told, "You did not know; and you did not recite (the Qur'an)!" A caller calls from the heaven, "He lies! So spread for him furnishings from the Fire; and open for him a door to the Fire." Thus its heat and fierce hot wind reach you; and your grave is tightened around you, causing your ribs to break. In torment you thus remain until God resurrect you from your bed

Ever since I turned 13 (I'm 15 rn) I felt like I was getting distant from my parents even though they acted the same as they always have towards me. My parents are good people and have always treated me well so even now I don't get WHY I started feeling this way. I thought it was because when I turned 13 and it was summer, I started isolating myself in my room and having body image issues but I'm not sure. Now that I'm older, I just act causally around them and I feel fine around my dad but it's my mom I have problems with. My mom loves me a lot and now that it's summer 2019, she suddenly wants hang out w/ me 24/7 which I find a bit uncomfortable. That, and my mom talks a lot. With my dad on the other hand, he's chill, a good listener, and has the right amount of distance with me. He wants to hang out with me too but doesn't force me to go places with him when I don't want to which I like. Meanwhile my mom on the other hand literally begs me to go somewhere with her when I say no. No one else in my family feels like this, My mom is a nurse and works long hours, and when she comes home or has a day off I try to avoid her by staying up in my room the whole day. I feel like when my mom is in the house or when I talk to her I feel constrained. Even when she tries to hang out with me I dread it a little bit, but I try to say yes whenever she asks. Does this mean I'm being a bad person or is this some teen angst thing? advice?

I can't live like this anymore. I'm 18 and I feel like I'm in prison. I'm not allowed to leave the house except for school but now that I've graduated high school, I'm stuck here. She won't let me go to college, I have to take the damn online semester. I feel so lonely and depressed. I want to go out and have fun. My entire teenage years have been wasted because I was never allowed to do anything. It sucks. I've been wanting a job since I was 15 but my mom always said no. I asked my mom for a job today and she still said no. Both my parents work full time and I'm left at home to watch my little sister (8 y/o.) I've been taking care of her since she was born so I'm practically her mother. My mom always said, "No, you can't get a job. Who's going to watch S?" I got offered a job at this great company, the office isn't that far from my house. Since I can't leave, they're offering me the remote position which means I can work from home. I can watch my sister and work, but she still said no. I've always wanted to do sports, but my mom wouldn't let me. I actually cried when my little brother joined the football team because I wanted to do sports too. My brother is almost 16 and my mom's telling him to get a job this summer and I cried in my room because this isn't fair. I always ask her if I can hang out with friends but she always says no. The only time she says yes is when she comes along. What can I do? I can't grow up all because of her. Mentally, I'm still a child. I can't talk to my mom about it. She has anger issues and is mentally unstable and I'm scared she's going to scream at me and hurt me. I'm not safe if I talk about these things. My dad is just as bad as my mom so I can't talk to him either. My mom is more scarier but my dad is more violent. I'm a baby sitter and a maid for them. I've been taking care of my brother since I was 7 and my sister since I was 10. I had to grow up fast. I clean the house and do the laundry every single day. I do everything accept cook. I think I deserve a little freedom. My parents have this tracking app on my phone and I'm 100% okay with that as long as they let me go out. I'm even okay with having a strict curfew (such as 5 or 6 pm). But they still won't let me. Someone please answer me before I do something I'll regret.

Now I'll just say first of all that I don't consider myself a perfect human being as the title might suggest. I just didn't know how else to word it to make sense. Anyways here's where the question is stemming from. So I'm on a big family vacation with cousins and aunts/uncles and such. To save money, instead of buying individual rooms each family just bunked together. Well somehow there was a miscommunication and our room for four had a queen bed and a twin bed. Now with my family there's my parents, me(19) and my brother(16) (who has an injured foot which is important to remember). Of course being parents, my mom and dad immediately offered to take the twin. And obviously I was very against that. The common sense solution is my parents take the queen, my injured brother take the twin and I get the floor. I figured my parents would argue, as I had just done but relent. Well that did not happen. They got very angry, saying I was making things too complicated and I was being the one making the bad call. I mean I did appreciate them automatically sacrificing the bed but it just didn't make sense! My brother and I are too old for our parents to make minuscule sacrifices like that. I just don't understand what my parents want from me! Should I have just been like "oh thank you!" and slept in the bed? Was I being a bad person by arguing with my parents about taking the bed? I really thought that was the right decision. I guess I really misunderstood.

We're 10 years apart, but we've always been close (judging by pics of us as kids, but I only remember as far back as me being 8 and him being 18). We're 28 and 38 now. Anyways, when I was a kid, I had a crush on him because I didn't know any better and I only saw him from time-to-time. He lives in another state on the opposite side of the country. We saw each other every other summer until I was 13. I haven't seen him in 15 years. A few years back, he admitted to finding me attractive and admitted to having a little crush on me (of course, this was all online). I told him about how I had a crush on him when I was a kid. Every now and then, he'd get drunk and say naughty things to me and even once (or twice) sent me a d*ck pic, but I never sent him any naughty photos. He got married a few years ago and still continued to talk to me that way when he got drunk. One time, his wife caught him and he blocked me online and she had no idea it was his cousin he was talking to like that, she was just upset he was dirty talking another woman. Last year, we started not talking as much as he has given up on most social media and I don't care much for texting, so we're not really in touch as much. We have a family reunion next week and it'll be the first time we've seen each other in 15 years. Do you think it'll be awkward to see each other again? His wife and child will around one of the days, but the other day I'll be seeing him, it'll just be him, but my fiance will be there. P.S. I know all of this is weird, but we come from very screwy genes to begin with. I mean, he's married and has a kid and I'm engaged and happy and any kind of attraction I was feeling towards him once upon a time, is gone now. I assume it's the same for him. I'm not sure we will be alone, but it's possible.

We are going to a wedding Saturday and I am afraid my sister will do this. She is 25 but a bully. I am 19.

I am worried I will be nervous when he gets this way but don't want to let him ruin the fun time with the rest of the family. I am already nervous thinking about it. I don't see my Dad except at Christmas time so it is unusual I am seeing him in summer. Usually just the week before Christmas as his birthday is Dec. 20th. He is a severe alcoholic and hurt me as a kid. I'm 34. babyboomer1001--- They will be serving alcohol. It is over 80 people so they have no choice. My Dad is one of the two alcoholics there the other being my Mom's brother. (It is my Mom's side of the family but my parents are married).

When we texted he was super clingy. He would ask me questions all the time and he always asked me out on a date. He was too available which is the reason why I lost interest and also he asked me a personal sexual question which was a deal breaker for me. So when I ended it (Through text) I said like "Thanks for the date I had fun but I don't feel a romantic connection with you. I have to be honest but the fact that you asked me a sexual personal question really put me off and was very creepy. I also feel like you are too desperate for a relationship. I wish you the best." I guess I expected him to cuss me out for being honest. But instead he didn't reply at all which is the opposite of his clingy personality, which surprised me. I just wondered if it was all a game to him and that's why he didn't reply.

Could you still trust them?

About 4 years ago, my adult sister Cindy calls me out of the blue saying that our mom(her name is Ann) blabbed a big secret to her kids (my niece and nephew who were 8 and 3 at the time). The secret that our Ann told was that my sisters husband (Derik) was abusing Heroin again (which is true). My sister told Ann not to ever tell anyone, but my sister claims that she told the grandkids. Our mother Ann claims that is not what happened. Ann claims that my niece approached her and asked her why her daddy had been acting strange lately. Our mother claims that because her granddaughter asked her, she decided to tell her the truth because she felt that she needed to know. Because my sister Cindy felt that our mother Ann told these kids a private home matter (that she felt the kids were too young to understand and also since she told Ann not to tell and she did anyway) Cindy went ahead and told Ann that she was never allowed to see her grandkids again. This was 4 years ago, and our mother Ann has been a mess ever since. Cindy still doesn't let Ann see her only grandkids and claims that what our mother did was beyond horrible. Their stories are different and its difficult to know who to believe. this has ripped our family apart. Any help you can offer us would be great as I still try to reconcile with my sister and mother to start talking again.

They say it's because he's troubled but that's bs. We ALL know it's because they have a conversion program for boys who like boys. But I'm worried he'll be treated badly. Does anyone know what kind of stuff goes on at those schools?

Her new friends are from families where parents are uninvolved and permissive. Unfortunately, they're the stereotypical spoiled kids. All of them live 2 hours away from us but they travel to visit her. I don't even know how they met each other. My daughter adopted their attitude and mannerisms, which I don't like. She was never like this before. My daughter is the adventurous kind of person who likes meeting new people. Unfortunately, that can lead to her meeting people who are unkind or don't have parents who care.

I'm 16. My step mom sorta shames me and I wanna know if it's just a normal parent thing or if it's actually bad. I don't know. Here's some examples. Since I was about 12 or 13 my step mom has been picky about my weight. If I go over 100lbs she'll say things like " don't eat that you'll get fat! " But if I get too low she'll tell me how I look gross and ' boney '. I have to keep myself between 97 and 94 pounds so she doesn't get upset. ( I'm 5'1.22 so it's not too bad? I think that's an ok weight? I'm not a doctor so idk) She seems upset that I'm into girls. She has made me feel bad about having crushes on girls. Like she'll say " do you like any boys at your school? " And I'll tell her about girls I like instead and she says " you're just confused". She tells me that I'm gross for being attracted to girls. She doesn't want me to visit my biological mom which I can sorta understand. My bio mom did drugs in the past and had issues. But she's clean currently. But her body is so damaged from the drugs she can't work. I love my mom. I still wanna see her but my step mom doesn't want me to. I've talked to my dad and he understands but he doesn't say much since he doesn't want to fight. When my dad and stepmom get angry at each other sometimes they throw stuff. Sometimes my step mom smacks him but only if she's REALLY angry. Usually she isn't though. ( Sorry my English is bad )

Every time I date, all I do is ending up getting hurt. I ended up getting dumped and it takes me a long time to heal. I don't want to get hurt ever again.

He's almost 34, lives at home, takes up for his parents over everybody. He does stuff for them all the time but anytime he ever spent money on me he would buy me these cheap necklaces from China. He is afraid of making his parents mad so he will turn me down for them, his parents treated me bad for a time and he would never stand up to them. His mama doesn't want him to move out and she went around saying he's not getting married but he didn't get mad about that. He blames everyone for saying he's abnormal but he doesn't do anything with anyone but his family. I don't understand how a 34 year old man is satisfied with just his parents. What do u guys think about this situation?

Do you think he's lying and he's just saying that so he won't hurt my feelings?

My spouse and I made plans for July 4th. We decided to invite my father, my sister, and my brother-in-law (my husband's brother) all to join us for the holiday..My father accepted, my brother-in-law accepted. My sister declined with good reason. We decided to go ahead with our holiday plans but my sister feels as though we didn't consider her feelings.. These were plans that my husband and I made.. We thought we were being considerate by including our families. Needless to say, I am feeling like I am being accused of being thoughtless.

Mother 1 and father have 6 children. One of those children is my mother. The father re-marrys and has 1 child. That 1 child has a child named Jen. Is Jen still considered my first cousin?