My mum has Parkinson's & Dementia, sometimes she wanders, sometimes she falls. I am the last child of the family, and the only one with medical training. Amongst other things I have suggested : 1) a walking stick 2) a hired helper in the house 3) moving her to a safer house without steps 4) better locks on the doors to prevent her from wandering. of course, in her state...she refuses any help and insists she can do it on her own. I expect this. What I didn't expect is for everyone else to resist assistance too. on the basis of "it's too controlling, it takes away her independence, things are not that bad yet." They keep asking me for medical advice, and expect me to give them some miracle recipe or prescription...to reverse her muscle weakness and dementia....I keep telling them that medicine does not work that way (...she already has a Doctor, who prescribes her medications...I can't write my own mother a prescription...something which I have explained to them repeatedly). I keep telling them, this will only get worse, one day she will wonder off, when none of us are looking....but they just keep saying "we will cross that bridge when we get there." Instead they want me to find a "miracle cure" from one of my doctor friends. The problem is...I cannot take any of these decisions without the support from everyone else. I cannot go ahead and get the walking stick...if none of the others are going to help me convince her to use it. I cannot, bolt the door...if the others don't want it...cuz then they will just take it out.. I cannot move mum out of the house...if dad won't agree.

My 5 year old son was invited to a play date at a schoolmates's house yesterday afternoon. I drove him there and saw that his friend lives in the housing projects. I then drove him home and told him to stay away from him. He is now mad at me and won't stop yelling and throwing tantrums. Honestly I think I am doing the right thing.

So my mum kind of doesn't acknowledge me. My results came from university and I did well to get into the next semester. When my mom came home I told her about it and she quickly asked "did your sister pass too?" And I said yes and she went over and hugged and congratulated her but didn't even notice me. I was barely noticed at my own prom too even though my sister went the year before but still decided to come to mine. It happens to frequently that I've just decided to distance myself from my sister and my mom. It's so frustrating because my sister is 19 , 20 this year and I just turned 18. I just don't know what to do and I'm so upset by the whole situation.

My 14y/o daughter's friend told me my daughter keeps harassing a boy in class. I thought she was being a bit dramatic and even lying but when I asked my daughter about the boy and if she like him she got angry, we started arguing so I took her electronics away and checked her phone and social media. Her friend wasnt lying she kept messaging him, the same boy from different platforms trying to guilt trip him into a relationship saying stupid stuff like she'll kill herself if he wont date her and literally begging him to send her inappropriate pictures of himself. All of their chats are basically the same and he's obviously not into her. Im honestly still in shock, her father and I have already taken her phone away and havent decided about the laptop. I feel like she deserves more punishment, especially since she'll still be able to see the boy in person, but we're not sure what else to do.

My sister is 16 years old and I'm 19. I will call my sister Rochelle. Rochelle doesn't have a phone or computer of her own yet, so she uses my Mom's laptop. My mom told me to get her laptop from my sister's room and I did. She didn't shut it down before she left for downtown this morning, and I found different websites and tabs open for Judaism studies about culture and history and other things related. I showed my mom and her mouth literally fell open. She asked who search it and I told her that Rochelle did this. She was in utter shock and looked disappointed, confused, lost, etc. My mom said that will have a "talk" with her when she gets home again. She was yelling things and angry about this and that. For some reason, my mom hates Jews and she would never allow this in a million years. My family is christian. My sister is still gone right now. How do I handle this situation before and after she comes? I have a terrible feeling of what my mom will say or do.

So I live in a pretty small town and most of the kids go to this youth center. Well there's a new instructor and his son started coming to. But his son is super weird and doesnt have any friends but he keeps asking what we think of his dad and if we think his dad seems cool. We can all tell he hates his dad but he keeps asking everyone separately if his dad talks to them a lot and if he ever asks us to hang out. Sure his dad seems pretty cool but the son is making everything awkward. We keep telling him no, his dad barely talks to us and he just keeps saying stuff like "it's cool", "be honest" and he "wont tell" that we said anything. He's annoying AF. Btw, me and all the other guys tried to be friends with him but he chooses to isolate himself Sorry, we're all 15-18. I'm pretty sure he's 16. I thought he might've been jealous or something but it doesn't seem like that because they both avoid each other. And he acts more like he's suspicious than that he's jealous or doing "damage control". It's pretty obvious that neither of them likes the other but they pretend they do, and it's super cringy.

It started in 2016 i was with my bd on and off After a while he tried to get at my sister (we broke up at the moment )and that pissed me off. He denied it but she showed me the txts After that i go back with him but ever since i always had in mind that he liked my sister . My sister was kind of a hoe . So i always had in mind that she would do something ****** up behind my back and i hated having that feeling . Well 1 years pass by and i get pregnant by him . My son was born on October 2017 my sister got pregnant around November or October 2017 she had a bf by the time already So around the time after i had my son we had broken up and we were arguing back nd forth txting I told him out of anger that the baby might not be his And its true he was talking more **** to me and then said "thats why i ****** your sister when u would leave to go get us food . That he ****** her in her red underwear and was hitting it feom the back. I immediately confronted my sister about it nd said that hes crazy and that never happened that hes just mad you told him about the baby not being his . So i belived her But ever since i been having a huge GUT feeling that they did i feel like they did and they never wanna speak about it till this day i see my nephew and NOW i have a feeling its his. shes still with her baby daddy but i feel like what he said got so much in my head and i actually belive my sister wouldnt do me like that but im driving myself crazy over this EVERYDAYY ?

My friends and I decided to prank another friend since he refused to even show up to prom. The boys grabbed him, tied him up and blindfolded. Then, the girls that he rejected to go to prom sat on his lap and gave him a 5 second kiss on the lips. It was honestly just supposed to be a joke, there was no ill intent but he completely over reacted and had a meltdown. Everyone got pissed off with how he was acting, not just the girls, and left him tied up to cool off. When he finally stopped yelling and b*itching we let him go. Now, all week, he's been playing the victim card. We asked him to hang out and try to smooth things over and he's acting like he doesnt even want friends anymore. So freaking ungrateful, most guys would've enjoyed that kind of prank. Even the other guys are saying he's overreacting, and he's avoiding them too, and they didnt even do anything. I dont mean to sound rude but I feel like he's acting like this because he's secretly gay or something.

I'm a 32 year old man. I work and live in Virginia. My mom lives in South Colorado. My mom's dad and my dad died about a year ago. This past year she's had me come back to SC much more than I should be going back. It's starting to affect my job in Virginia negatively. She begs me to come back every few weeks and visit her and tells me to leave work early on Friday's and catch a plane back to SC for the weekends. It's getting really out of hand. I've tried to talk to her cousins about this that live nearby her but they say it was a stupid move to go to Virginia and they are on my mom's side. My mom doesn't use good reasoning and is irrational. She says if I lose my job in Virginia then WHATEVER because she's more important than any job and with my skill set I'll easily be able to find another in South Colorado where I can live with her. I tried to get her to go see therapists and trauma specialists several times, but she refuses and says "I don't need anything but you, son. You're my everything". I have a girlfriend in Virginia I want to marry and am engaged to and my mom has began to hurt our relationship. She snuck into my phone on my last visit with her and wrote down my girlfriends number. She called my girlfriend and told her if she loves me she will let me go back to South Colorado and be with the person that needs me most. Advice?

Honestly I'm so sick of her. She keeps moaning about how much work she has to do when she has a maid and a cook to work for her every day so she doesn't really have much to do. I can literally hear her whining about her "body pain". She thinks picking me and my brother up from school is tiring. Seriously she doesn't do anything all day all she does is sleep and only spreads negative energy, even my dad hates her but to be honest my dad is worse than her. He is a psychopath, making me and my mum feel happy one moment and upset the next. My summer vacation JUST started today and I'm already loathing spending my time with them, especially her. And this happens literally all the time, every single day I'm home. I don't understand why I'm so hated by my parents; I get the best grades in my year, I spend basically all my time studying, I try and save their money; basically the ideal daughter. Also everytime my siblings hit me I'm expected just to "ignore" them and she screams at me for hitting them back every so slightly. Why can't she discipline them? people who reply with irrelevant answers - I can only pity you lol, no-one's laughing at your stupidity and showcase of your foolishness xxx

My girlfriend made me sleep in van last night instead of sleeping with her and she and her sister was making insults and jokes at me all because I didn't tell my girlfriend got mad because I didn't tell her that my parents came to the house to drop off some things for me. The reason why she got mad is because she wanted to meet them but the thing is that my dad had an appointment and she was working so there was nothing I could do anyways. She told me that I should've told them to come by on the weekend. Anyways when I was sleeping in my car in hot heat, my battery died overnight and she got mad at me for that and told me to leave. So I called someone to help me out and got my car jumped and I left. Now she's feeling some type of way for me leaving.

My mother is showing all the signs that of a toxic mother. Bringing my moral down, making me feel unimportant and stupid at all times, punishing me for the smallest of things, like blinking or taking a step. Many times before, I have tried to talk to her ini a normally civilized tone, but she escalated the fight and brought it down on my saying that she wished I were aborted and that I wasn't her daughter. She still refuses to bring that up again, and we proceed to get into fights every single day. My dads dead, so I can't go to him, I have issues with my dads parents, and my moms parents (who love me and I love them) are all the way in Europe. Please help. I need a solution to this toxic relationship.

What is the easiest way that I can leave them forever after get in USA..? After married or shelter in police station or some other way...? Cuz I don't wanna live with them or be around them anymore...

I was super frustrated with life last night and ended up overdosing. I woke up in the hospital, no one's talking to me. The doctors wont let me see my parents and they arent letting me leave. I keep asking them when I can leave and they just keep ignoring, and talking over me. one dr just came in and asked the nurse "how's he doing?" as if I werent laying right in front of him. I feel fine, I screwed up, i get it whatever but they are blowing things way out of proportion. I'm obviously not suicidal now, and even though I keep trying to explain to them it was a mistake and I was just tired, they just keep saying "ok" and that I need to wait for the "specialist" to come in, they arent even listening and I just want to go home. Im about ready to pull these stupid tubes out and leave if I have to. Am I allowed to do that? Like if you arent charged with a crime police cant hold you so is it similar with doctors.

My 7 y/o son has been living with his father's for over a year now and I've just seen him for the first time in a few months and I swear he's behaving like a scared little boy. He, cowers, flinches and clinches up at the slightest loud noise or sudden movement. At 1st, honestly I though he might just be a little sensitive but whenever I ask him how he's been and if he likes living with his dad he gives these half-way, runaround answers, basically "it's fine, i guess" and shrugging a lot. I honestly suspected he might be having an issue with his dad first bc they have a history of fighting but i noticed he's pretty chill and normal with his dad it's mostly when she's around. I brought it up vaguely, to his dad and he did a similar run around thing like "that's just how they are, they dont really get along yet". His response then prompted me to ask if she ever disciplines him and how. And he just got frustrated and turned it into, I'm just jealous and guilty and making stuff up in my head. That's not my intent at all, I could care less whose in his bed, I'm concerned about my child's behavior. His behavior, his nightmares and the secrecy are odd to me.I get that its awkward bt his dad and I never had issues co-parenting him in the past, all of this is new. I'm only meant to be here a few more days but dont want to leave things the way they are. It's making me uncomfortable. But I'm conflicted on whether I should keep digging and confront her, or butt out and trust his dad.

My 16 year old daughter is stingy with gas money. How can i teach her a lesson??

I've always been a mamas boy and im the only one who helped her with everything since I was born, as I became a grown mature man however she havent showed appreciation of me and seem to use my kindness for weakness and is only kind when she want something otherwise she can be very cold hearted. She sees me as her baby still and doesnt want to acknowledge that im grown and act more grown than what I did before, why's that?

Okay so my youngest brother does drugs and has robbed some things from the house including some money... he is over the age of 20 and lives with my parents my mom insists on putting him on rehab but he doesn't want 2 ... my brother is always asking my dad for money and he gives him money... in several fights that my brother brings up so my dad could give him money he always says "you know why I'm like this, you know why I do this" and my dad always ends up accepting what my brother wants ... I have asked what is it but none of them both say a thing... my brother has done a tone of things and my dad is always very passive... my mom kicked him out of the house but my dad doesn't accept... I feel like they both have a secret that keeps allowing my brother to move the strings however he wants to you my dad ... and I feel that if he speaks my brother is afraid of loosing all of his privileges.... can you help discover this.... any ideas what it might be ?

I'm 15 years old and always get into arguments with my dad, he and my stop mom always put me down and try to make me feel like less than trash. My dad and I literally just got into a fight tonight where he grabbed me and I reacted by shoving him, he got more mad and flung me, and pinned me on the floor choking me. My half-sister made him get off but said it was only because she didnt want the neighbors to call the cops on "her" dad. He almost chocked me out over something so stupid I dont even remember what it was, his wife was sitting right there the whole time and didnt flinch. And yet, no one lost sleep over it but me. Literally, everyone else just went to bed and I'm just sitting here, I cant sleep and just wanna scream my lungs out but wont even do that bc I dont want to provoke them.

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I did an ancestry test randomly. I have photos of what people claim to be my birth. A birth certificate from Denmark. I'm Tamil and also both parents are from Sri Lanka. My oldest sibling looks a lot like my mom. I have small teeth and none of my family have small teeth. That was the main thing. In the test it shows 53 percent Gujarat. No one's test shows it that highly. I don't know if I trust the results. I didn't really want to do it in the first place 47 percent southern Asia. What can I make of these results whether it means anything or not. My dad died when I was younger. I don't really know anyone here. My family is very emotionally distant from me but not from one another. Their friends too. I feel like an alien here. Maybe it's just me. Thanks for your answers.

My mum is so stressed out lately, and its because of her mother in law. Usually my mum just complain to me about grandmother, but now she's so stressed that she wanted to leave the state just to stay away from her.(We live very close to our grandmothers house) My grandmother just cares too much, like she needs to know about everything going around in our household. My siblings and I are skinny, but that doesn't mean we didn't eat much. My grandmother even called my dad just to tell him to buy more food for us. Like, we are all grown up already, we know how to take care of ourselves, we know how to feed ourselves. My grandmother is also (kinda) controlling. I think her children were "brainwashed" by her. I stayed in my aunt's house for a while, and she called my grandmother every night just to report to grandmother her daily activities. To me, this is too much. She even told grandmother how much I ate, did I poop(seriously) and etc... Not just my aunt, other cousins also report to her frequently. Luckily my dad is an exception, but that is also the reason grandmother cared about us very much. My mother felt suffocated because grandmother keeps butting in our family activities. She just wants to know everything, and have a say in everything. So....what can I do to help my mum? It hurts me to see her so stressed out. Do I need to tell my grandmother about this?

We grew up so close and still were. She's 27 I'm 25. Just recently i opened up about my depression and told her about therapy. We had an argument two days ago a bad one like we always do... and we always throw a lot of things in each other's faces but she ended up saying this is why i need therapy cause I'm this this and that and i feel like that was extremely disgusting to throw that in someone's face knowing they needed help. I ended up blocking her and her bf off all my social media's and blocked their numbers. I'm really hurt, and i know she meant it as well. What is the best way to deal with this situation?

So my daughter was walking to school today (we dont end till june 28). i let her walk alone because school is only a few blocks away, and the school called that she never arrived!!! im crying while writing this. and i looked all around the block and i cant find her. im worried she was kidnapped, please help i dont own a phone bc they are bad for us i read bc radiation

My 14y/o was manipulated into a relationship with an older woman. It started off online and ended with sexual encounters. When we found out, we called the police and had her arrested. My son however, felt betrayed and started acting out and distancing himself from us so we've been making him go to therapy. Well, he had a huge argument with his therapist and has been refusing to go to therapy since. I asked him what the fight was about and he wouldn't say. I called the clinic and they wouldn't say much except that he was triggered when his therapist used the term "rape". I get why it might be upsetting but not to this extent. So I figured there was something more going on. When I tried to talk to him and told him he needed to speak to someone a out the trauma, and I used the term "statutory rape" he went into a rage and took off. I'm confused bc he's aware of the charges against her, knows she was arrested and why but he's getting angry with everyone else who are only trying to help him through it.

Okay so my parents have been divorced for about 6-7 years now and I'm 18 years old and I usually stay at my moms house. I used to live at my dads house primarily which is about a 30 minutes drive away from my moms. Recently over the last few months I've been staying at my moms more frequently because my dad gives me anxiety and I've been dealing with it for awhile. The anxiety didn't start from my dad I've always had it. But every time he comes home from work I feel on edge and feel like I have to be doing something. He is a great dad but I feel like I'm never free around him and I can never be myself. I work at his store so he is the boss of me which might be why I feel like that. But I don't want to tell him how I feel cause I don't want to hurt him. My mom divorced him for the same reason and my sister moved out because he is like that. He isn't really strict but when he gets mad it's ****** scary... anyway I don't really know how to deal with this and he has done a lot for me and is caring but it's so hard to deal with how he is. It's hard to explain here so I hope someone understands where I'm coming from. He is saying that I can't stay at his house anymore when he goes away for work and is telling me to move all my stuff from his house (which is pretty much everything). Should I just go along with that and do what he says???

My brother dared his 15y/o to drink vodka and my dad encouraged it and gave him a shot despite all common sense and me explicitly telling him not to. He'd never in a million years let my brother drink vodka and he's 17, but he literally poured it for another kid. I obviously dont want him to go to jail but I do want to confront him about it. I'm not sure what to do/say that wont piss him off or make it seem like I'm attacking him or being dramatic. The kid is fine by the way, he didnt drink much.

How can I tell if a person is sleep or unconscious if he took a bunch of medicines to fall asleep hours ago and hasnt woken up yet. I tried to wake him up but he's out cold and I dont really want to call his parents unless I have to. He's 16 btw an took Advil, Benadryl, Panadol Night and Magnesium all at once but he threw up a little in his sleep.

My 17y/o brother has been having a lot of panic attacks lately and has even passed out from hyperventilating. Whenever he has one at home my dad kinda grabs him, hugs/squeezes him and keeps telling him to calm down but I dont think it helps at all, he just panics more until he gets exhausted and basically collapses or falls asleep. His friends called an ambulance once when he was out and they ended up giving him a sedative. I dont think his attacks are being handled properly and its making him worst.

What does Christianity and Islam say about this ? My dad and mom would be extremely shocked and angry if we had kids because he never expected that from my sister and I . Is my dad being unfair ?

For years, when my uncle and his kids visit my unmarried aunts they favored and use to be generous on my uncle and his kids and cheap on me and my mom. Few months later my uncle and aunt had problem and now my uncle and his kids don't visit them anymore. Now my aunts buy me gifts and take me out a lot and they make me good food. Why before they were cheap on me? I don't mean cheap, but they didn't treat me well

I'm going into my senior year of college and my fall semester is going to be SUPER busy. I will be taking 6 classes (18 credits) while working 40 hours per week at an internship that will probably hire me after graduation. I honestly don't think I will have any time to date or hang out with friends, and I don't think that would be fair for my boyfriend. On the other hand, I have invested so much time in the relationship and I don't want it to go to waste.

In my defense, i never wanted to be alive in the first place. I've been battling depression and suicidal thoughts since I was 11 years old. And she has the nerve to say "I gave you life" as if she did something I should be grateful for. Piss off. I haven't said it yet, but I think I should.

I am adopted and have no idea about what nationality I am although certain ones can be ruled out almost out of hand. So I would like to know. in essence, am I likely to be Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, something else.

My daughter is too young to get a job. No money is missing from mine or anyone else's wallet. None of our friends or family know about this. She's been acting happier lately. All these expensive clothes and items are appearing out of nowhere. I have no idea where they're coming from. Her brother suggests that someone is buying them for her. It is a possibility, but all my friends/family always ask for permission first before gifting my children. I doubt that her little 13 year old friends are able to buy such expensive items (unless they're extremely rich, which is not the case at all). So I'm guessing it's someone who isn't her own age giving her these things. My kids aren't even allowed to go anywhere far. Should I look through her room to find out exactly how many items she has, or confront her? It looks like as weeks go by, she gets new items.

So my dad's been mostly a stranger pretty much my whole life. Met when I was 5 yrs old & had an on & off relationship ever since. Growing up, I idolized him a lot simply because he was my father despite never being around, making promises to spend time with me & then not showing up,never once helping my mom financially &even threatening to take me away from her out of spite when she tried to file for child support. Wasn't til I got older that I started to resent him and saw him for what he was: a selfish guy who never really made an effort to be a decent dad. I cut my ties with him after that. But recently through Facebook, my grandma (his mom) reached out to me and said he'd passed away. This was three days ago and I still have no idea what to feel. It's like a part of me is feeling a little numb abt the whole thing, part of me is a lil sad and the then the other part is mad and feeling stupid @myself for feeling sad. I mean this guy never wanted to spend time w his own kid so y should I feel sad, right? Never involved, never helped support me, never once even said an "I love you" to me. I feel I shouldn't even be wasting my time feeling anything for him. It's confusing to feel this way about a stranger, even if we are bonded biologically. Can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to feel about any of this? Am I bad person if I don't even want to attend his own funeral? Am I a hypocrite for saying I don't care about him all these years and then be sad that he's gone?