I'm home for the summer from college. I've been doing interviews to get a summer job. My mom has been talking down to be like "I don't believe you" when I say I have an interview, things of that nature. She says some rude thing to me, and I have not freaked out at her but I want to. However, whenever I stand up for myself, she responds with something dumb like "I can never win with you" or "whatever I say won't be enough for you" and I am OVER IT. I have done NOTHING to deserve this, have not said ANYTHING bad to her, and she is officially on my last nerve. How do you deal with a parent playing victim to her 20 year old son?

I'm asking this because I'm genuinely not sure if It's too soon to bring up the subject. I want to bring up the topic of kids with my girlfriend and get into what she really envisions for the future. So we've been going out for 3 months but we've been friends for over two years and only got together after getting out of serious relationships. We kind of just happened and it feels like we're still adjusting to being a couple. Anyway, I feel like asking her because we never talked about things like this and I want get to know this part of her. We're both 23 and its not like we're kids anymore, but is it still too soon. Should I just wait for her to bring it up?

I come from a small family. I have 1 brother and 1 sister. We are all in our 30's and i'm the oldest. I have a mother that can be a pain in the ***. She has made me feel bad for not being suppotive. Yes I do have my own place and a job. She is with this guy that nobody likes. I know he doesn't like me much. He has said things about me to where he shouldn't say. I have not been to a family get together at my moms in 4 years. I just think its all fake because nobody talks to eachother. I don't have a relationship with my siblings. My brother doesn't ever call my dad. He may just e-mail him. My dad has helped him out with rent and bills in the past. My dad said he can't remember when the last phone call was. I've gone to small get togethers like a cookout. I do want to stop going to all of them. There has been times to where my mom has tried to force me to go in the past after I said no. Its now June and I only seen her once this year. I don't want to be the one who makes plans. She may call but my dad even said that she should make plans. I just want to deal with my dad.

I know it's important to get along with your parents and to respect them. And I've been studying law of attraction and the way to manifest is being positive, and also being around it. However, I live with my mom and my brother. They are both narcs. I try so hard to get along with my mom, but I'm starting to think she's jealous of me. When I'm depressed it looks like she's happy about it and when I'm happy she goes "what do you have to be happy about?" And she got upset all cause I told her that she looks depressed when she eats and I try to make her feel better. I'm starting to believe she's psycho, in public she'll even talk to herself. I told her please don't do that and she started screaming I'm going home! And then left. It's embarrassing and I'm starting to hate her. No matter how much I try to get along it just won't. I get the vibe that she wishes she was going again. She says really horrible, mean things to me. I can't afford to move out yet. And what I plan to do is purchase my car and keep myself so busy that I'm hardly home. I do plan on excluding her from my life completely. Do you know any successful people that don't talk to their parents? Cause I've always thought that God blesses those who are close to their parents. But my mom is just really toxic.

I appreciate her trusting me enough to tell me and being honest and upfront with me, but it's been bothering me a lot. I don't want to come across like some self righteous type of person and push her away. I love her but it's been eating at me for a few weeks since I've found out.

I am currently not talking to either of my parents. I am 30+ living on the other continent. My dad has abandoned me years ago, I kinda gave him a second chance 6 years ago and he screwed up again. My mom is a narcissistic lier, who always plays the victim. Communication with her become unbearable with constant guilt tripping, shaming, criticizing and other psychological, emotional abuse. Last time we talked, we had a bad argument, to the point where I hung up (happened may be 2-3 times in my entire life). Her and my dad has been calling everyday for the last few days since we had that argument. I get so much anxiety of just a thought of talking to either of them, I want to throw up. I end up viciously crying and not answering the phone. When should I call back? And how...

i have heard anything parents tell their child is to help them. i mean good ways of doing thing that will help them. an example tell them to sleep soon so they dont feel sleepy later (also maybe not hearing their parents getting it on ) but an exmple my brother .no that he is older he sleeps at morning is awake at night. no one tell him a single thing. i read being an night owl decreases life span and is basically harmful and wrong. so i am getting this idea that parents do that just for bossing them around and showing their power and authurity over the child. not for their own good. so tell me what it is about and give and open and not rude answer. i am a parent myself so dont say stupid stuff like your a brat and how dare you even talk about your parents.

I tried googling questions such as these but they do not seem to understand the extremity of my specific situation. I guess for some background info, I live with my grandparents, and my uncle (their son) whom is the one I cannot stand to be around. I hate his attitude towards life, a typical mid aged man with no manners, no self-esteem, and no life (you may be thinking this sounds harsh; but it's true. all he does is go to work, come home, watch and download extreme amounts of porn, ****, sleep, go to his buddies house to watch sports, come home to complain about it and how unbelievable the results were, and do it again). He is aggressive, and get outrageously senile when things don't go his way. The other day, my grandma said she didn't really like one of her gnomes he bought her, cuz the paint was chipping off, so he went out in the yard and took them all and threw them out, whilst yelling, becoming verbally demanding and abusive and threatening my grandma "maybe i'll get fired so you have to look at my face every ******* day". I told him to eat ****. This is one of the many examples of what he's like. To further conclude this behaviour, I will mention that one of my earliest memories of my uncle when i was 3-4 is him holding the pot of dinner my grandma cooked outside the door and threatening to dump it all out, over some little argument. I remember crying. I feel unsafe at home, I feel like I don't know what he's capable of, continued in the photo

my lil girl loves to go out to eat at her favorite restaurants sych as cece's pizza and golden Corral .but can rarely afford it..this would really help if every now and then we can all get out the house

My parents protect my sister more than most kids her age. They say it's because she struggles with making friends and it makes her more vulnerable to pedophiles/stranger danger. I dont get it. She never did anything wrong, nothing bad ever happened to her. My parents worry about her safety and pay more attention to her. Me and my other sibling aren't as protected (they say it's because we have appropriate social skills for our ages and can form normal friendships). My sister is really frustrated that they seem to pay attention to her the most

Around me she's the meanest person you'll ever meet. But around other people she's a whole different person. It's weird. She acts crazy around me but acts normal around everybody else. She acts so crazy around me you would think she needs to be admitted into a mental hospital. She treats me like I'm nothing but treats everybody else nice. She makes fun of me, mocks me, barks at me, yells at me, picks fights with me. If I say anything, it gets worse. People know she does this to me but nobody does anything.

I'm 16 turning 17 in 2 days and I'm only 5'8 and a quarter. My mother is 5'2 and my father is 6'0.

We've been dating 3 months now he pursued me for a year while I was with someone else. He's sweet I met his mom and her family recently. All sweet a tight knit family. He doesn't want me meeting his dad they talk but he told me everything. He's a bully that annnoys him and his mom for fun his family is toxic and he's just not nice he was abusive when he was a kid.

Im not feeling her sincerity when ot comes down to it. Or like we are on the same page. I feel like sges content rotting away in the country and this auful dead end small town we both hate. I want to do sonething about it, but she's paranoid I'm going to dump her, leave, or meet sone one. I keep telling her Its not fair im trapped here and I thought we agreed to move. The excuses she makes to not get rid of c)utter or move seems like she doesnt truly want to go. I said I'm getting out oc here with or wiithoit you and she started crying. I said she does truly support my career. She said I misunderstood her but I explained she gets weird when I talk of moving to the city together. If she supported my career she'd be more enthusiastic to leave this place.

So basically I'm a stay home mom for the time being working on the weekends for the time being until I can get a part time job. Been trying to get one for the last 5 months. What's wrong with this?

My mom "gases up" my sister by repeatedly telling my sister that she should get married in a castle, that she's a princess of God and she never tells me anything like this ever. Then she tells me that I'm jealous and that it's a serious problem. I just think it's mean that she does that. Does any body else agree that it's sort of cold?

My Mam is going to make me pay £100 a week to stay at home will im at uni and after - is it just me or does this sound really unreasonable?