I have moved in with my MIL and the two great grandchildren that she takes care of. After moving in to help her with the two kids my husband and I started to see that she is hateful and sometime physical abusive to them. Right now the mother is in the works of getting them back thought the courts. So I don't know if we should report my MIL to cps or wait for there mother to get them back. Reason being I feel like they would be put into foster care and then it would be harder for there mother to get them or it could be even worse then what's happening now.

My mom died about two months ago and my siblings and I were talking about how things seem more peaceful and people seem to be happier. Even my dad's health seems to be getting better and he's even smiling more. My mom was very aggressive, judgemental and physically and emotionally abusive(she tried to stab me when I was 12). In fact, I still haven't cried over her death which I think is common in this situation. I never felt so content with my life and I kind of feel bad about it. Is it wrong for me to feel this way?

My brother is allowed to go out with his friends,allowed to see girls,and they treat with more respect they do with me.Don't get wrong he is just as restrained as me sometimes but he my parents aren't as hard as him as they are with me. When I say I want to go out or do stuff with my friends I get a stern lecturing and get monitored almost daily . My parents are muslim but we live in a America so I thought that are traditions of treating me like a snowflake would slowly fade but they are still living like it is 50 years ago and telling me about when I get married, how I will get married,and even who I may get married to. I just want to have more freedom to do stuff then just school, the Mosque,or just sitting around my home on the computer doing homework. I talked to my brother about it and he just shrugs his head usually or just tell he doesn't see what I see. How can I tell my parents to back off a bit without starting a whole argument

Here are a couple of details about her: She works from 5 pm - 5 am. After she gets home she would then spend several hours cooking food for me. However, today, she didn't sleep at all because she wanted to make more food even though it is too much for me and her finish. Usually some of her food would go to waste and thrown away. She would occasionally give me money even though I may reject it. If I do refuse, she would just throw it on my computer desk. Because of everything that she does for me, I do my best to ensure that I'm serving her as well such as cleaning the house and cooking food for her (even though often times she just cooks her own food). Hopefully, I don't sound ungrateful. I'm grateful for her love and everything that she does for me. However, it does impact her health. And sometimes, I kinda get angry that she overworks herself for with me even though I can take care of myself. I tried to be as independent as possible. With all that being said, I feel like it would be better for me to move out. The reason why I'm staying with her is so that I can finish college with less debt as possible. But I'm tired of seeing her do so much for me. I don't know, what do you guys think I should do? I talked to her about it but she just ignores me. Again, I hope that I'm not sounding selfish or ungrateful. Just a loving concern son. lol

I'm a 21 year old black female. I'm being abused at home by my stepdad. He tried to rape me. My mom and sister saw. They didn't try to stop him. They just laughed. I went to get help for this but it's like no matter where I go to for help no one will help. It's like they don't care and don't take this serious because I'm black. This world just doesn't care about black people.

My family knows I'm depressed, suicidal, and haven't left the house in 9 years. They do nothing to cheer me up and help me leave the house. Instead they give me the silent treatment and laugh at me and let me stay in the house day in and day out not showering and walking around with my hair sticking up. I don't think they care anymore. When my stepdad bullies and tries to rape me they just laugh and don't try to stop him. They all hate me now and have turned against me. They say they haven't but they're actions say otherwise. I'm done trying to get their attention. I'm gonna shower, do my hair, and kill myself tonight.

Okay so me and my sister live with my grandma and my mother has custody of us , recently my grandma kicked my little sister out because she refuses to listen or go to school my sister is currently staying with people who aren't minors they drink and smoke with her is there a way I can call the police to have them bring her back home?

I recently started seeing a guy with a young son, 3 years old. I really like him and I think he feels the same. I've never been with a single father before but it doesn't bother me, I'm sure I'll love his kid. We are taking it slow (for obvious reasons) but before I get in too deep, I have this lingering fear that him and his ex will get back together. They were together for four years and broke up six months ago. He said they are still friends and broke up because they were arguing and fighting a lot when they had their son. I guess my concern is that because there was no dramatic event that happened (cheating etc) and the fact that they have a child together, they will always be close. I mean they share a bond that him and I are never going to have. I feel like once I enter the picture officially, she might get jealous and want him back and for his child's sake, he might go for it. Am I being paranoid or is this a legitimate concern?

My mom is 60 years old and she pretty much doesn't have anything. She has always depended on my father or boyfriends to support her and take care of her. She recently left her boyfriend so now she has nowhere to go. I am 31 and I just bought a condo. It's my first time living alone, I lived with my aunt for years. My mom is bouncing around to different family members houses but no one wants to take her full-time. She is extremely difficult and asks everyone for money and wants everyone to pay her bills for her and refuses to get a job. She stayed with me for a week because her car broke down and was mad that I asked her to leave once it was fixed. I have never lived on my own And I want to experience living alone and being independent. I work and I want to create my own life and have my own space. My mom gets really nasty when people don't give her money or she doesn't get her way and in the past has even threatened to come to my job and embarrass me and cause a scene for not giving her money. I feel I can't live my life like this. When her mother was around, my grandmother, she drained every penny she had from her. What should I do, am I a terrible daughter for feeling this way? She doesn't do anything to try to help herself, she just wants to depend on everyone else. Am I horrible for wanting to live alone and enjoy my own space for once?

She even began screaming at me in a hotel where everyone could hear cause she had to put my toothpaste in her check in bag since I cannot carry it on a plane on carry on per FAA rules. She is a cruel person. Our parents love her but I do not believe they like her. No one likes her but her friends. She is a bad woman. Maybe it is something in the head she cannot help like a mental disorder but in the meantime how do I get the ***** to stop bullying me? She is 26 and I am 36. We seldom see each other but asking for the rare occasions that we do.

Ever since my mom walked out on us I've been the only girl in a house of men. Men men men. It isn't fair. Why did my mom have to leave us?! I live with my dad, two older brothers and my twin cousins who started staying with us four months ago. My friends say I always have people over. I'm sick of it. I have two other brothers but they moved out. I'm literally in a house of men. This sucks because I have to deal with it. Every since my mom left, my aunt stepped in to help me out especially with girl things. She would always take me out somewhere. Everytime she comes over she asked if I wanted to spend some time with her or spend the weekend with her. She is angry for what my mom dad and left us heartbroken. My dad appricates what she is doing and I need a female role model/female to hang with. I appreciate it but she isn't my mother. She says I'm motherless and it's sad. I'm not motherless....an I? My best friend lives with her mother and grandma. Lucky her! My other friend has TWO mothers. At least they don't live with a house of men. I just leave and go places or spend weekend with my friends. I don't wanna be home on weekends anymore. I have a mom but she only thinks about herself and never returns phone calls.

So, I m 20 yrs old I stay at home while attending college and yesterday my mom and I got into a huge argument about me leaving for the summer to go to Seattle,Washington. Quick backstory: Growing up my mom has been quite controlling over me and to be honest probably my biggest bully. Since middle school she has made me feel crappy about myself. My grades weren t good enough, I was too fat, then I lost weight I was too skinny, she shaved me hair off, I didn t go away for college because she convinced that I needed her. About a week ago I overheard her talking to my dad about how I look like a clown and how I m dumb, Etc. Fast forward to yesterday I mention leaving for a Seattle in a week, she told me that s a dumb decision and that I constantly make dumb decisions(which up until now, she s been making every decision for me) It was a lot being said, but I just started thinking about everything she has said or done to me and I snapped and called her *****, with some other very demeaning words. My dad told me to apologize, but I can t apologize for something I don t feel sorry for. What do you think I should do?

It was really weird. No one tried to stop him. They just laughed. I'm tired of this. I hate living in this house now. It's scary and miserable. There's no one I can go to for help. Everyone thinks everything's a joke. I'm done. I give up. I'm gonna kill myself tonight. I can't deal with this anymore. I'm better off dead. I can't wait around any longer for it to get worse. It's almost been 3 years. I should've killed myself a long time ago.

I'm very honest about how I feel. I was 8 years old when my mom walked out on us. She decided she didn't want be a mother anymore. She did drugs and was getting help for it. She promised us she would never leave us even though she never showed love to us much...well me mostly. Then two weeks later, she left. Dad yelled that mom was leaving us. I tried to stop her from leave. One of my brothers and I blocked the doorway. She pushed us into the bushes and ran to the car. I screamed "MOMMY WHY ARE YOU LEAVING US?!!!!! They took off and I threw a rock and broke the back window of the man's car. I didn't care. We all screamed "MOM COME BACK!". I screamed bloody murder!! I sat on the edges of the street for 2 hours waiting for her to come back. I sat in front of the door every night asking when I mom coming home. She left a big hole in our hearts and left my dad heartbroken. I get jealous when I see my friends with their loving mothers. It hurts me that I never had that. My aunt (dad's sister) stepped in to help us out, especially me with girl things and puberty. My grandma did too and my other aunts. She was more of a mother than my real mom was. My cousin (her daughter) is so lucky to have a mother like her. I get jealous when I see people with loving and supporting mothers. 😭😭😭😠😠

In my household that doesnt seem to be the case, my younger sister act as if you cant tell her nothing. No respect at all.

when i was younger my parents said go to bed . but now whenever i sleep or wake up they dont say anything. tell me whats behind this . also they sometime hit me when i was younger but now they dont. i was way better when i was younger . so how could this be.

I envy my cousins because they have better life than me. They are not rich though but they have lots of friends and fun which I don't. I don't have siblings and I live with my mom, but they are two siblings with their parents. They always ignore me and I feel lonely as hell. 

I have started to have feelings for them but I know that they are not my wife and kids (as I don't even have any yet). I have 2 but brothers who do this to me. I don't think it is intentional (hopefully. And hopefully not to test my "faith" bc that could concern me with my health between us). I just don't understand. We don't have a dad so I think they look up to me a father figure because I stay home with mom a lot and mom has high opinions of me (hopefully she has high opinions for good) but I feel filthy to think this stuff is happening. I find myself in situations where my brother would go play basketball with friends and he tells his wife to ask me for help like babysitting the kids. At one point he didn't have his own car so I had to send his wife back and forth to work and it was kind of awkward. He doesn't tell me what is happening and he puts me in these weird husband type of situations.. My other brother sometimes does this too. I have started to develop feelings for them. Sorry I have to say it. I don't know who to talk to. I don't feel like My brothers will understand how I feel. They get quite jealous of their wives so how come they leave them with me? That's not the type of relationship I want with them. How do I stop it without hurting people's feelings? I want to have my own happiness. If I have a wife, I feel like they will expect my wife to have some alone time with them too. And this type of idea makes me sick to my stomach.. I have always found them flirting with my friends that are girls despite them being 18+ and having their own wife and kids already and me and my 's are still in high school or middle school. My eye will catch them trying to flirt with their body language and try to sexualize themselves for my friends. I don't like the idea of them flirting with my wife if i have one. I feel like they need a good fight with me. I feel like fighting them sometimes bc Tbh it doesn't feel like we're brothers. Half brothers to be honest. They always seems to skip this tyoebof coversation. They get too sensitive. One of them actually told me that my dad started treating him differently after I was born . All 5 of us have different biological dads besides me and my little brother. I feel so disrespectful for saying it, but they have pushed me too far. They have no respect for their wives, for mom or dad or me. Hopefully I find peace.

She has stopped asking me for help lately but has been blaming me for plenty of things that happen to her and tell people i don't love her. Whenever she cries to my older brothers they usually tell me to help her and I tell them I am helping but I don't know what to do. Basically she cries to my brothers and tell them that i don't help her at all and they seem to get defensive about her even though they seemed to have experienced the same thing and moved out for the same reason. I really don't understand. I feel like they hate me. I don't get it. So who loves me? Who cares? I am an adult now but I still don't have the self esteem and confidence to finally take off and move out. I am starting to save money now for a small place but I don't know who will be my co signer for a small apartment or for gas & electricity.. I feel so hopeless. I'm afraid if I can't find a job my mom or brother won't let me stay with them and will continue to call be pathetic and do bad things to me. They hit me a lot + they also seem to hate me for some reason. They don't say it directly, but they keep telling me the reason I have to take responsibility for mom is bc "I live with her". It infuriates me so much. Why do I have to take care of mom? I don't want to anymore! I feel like nobody cares who I want to be. My brothers tell me to live with them but they told menu have to find a job. Like I understand I have to find a job at some point in life, but not right now. I don't feel healthy at all. I eat fast food a lot and I am afraid of getting diabetes like my mom or higjh cholesterol. I have nobody who loved me as a kid. Sometimes when I think about this stuff it makes me sick like nauseous..

from the day I was born, I was abused by my older brother. I don't care anymore cuz its a dog eat dog world. I was browsing and I found 1. an older brother kills nine-year-old brother because didn't do the stupid homework 2. two brothers kill a newborn in the car when it cried 3. my older brother made me go blind just because didn't win a game I wanted to say they are just savages. and I wanted to say better the two brothers killed the newborn. why? she was gonna be tortured by them the rest of life. better the suffering ended sooner. the on that says he made me blind I personally say he had to pay by going blind too. you have to pay when you do something. it's the rule. also, don't answer beating up or killing the siblings is the way those as@holes show their love to you and I am making a big deal.

I'm only 15 years old and my mother and I don't have a good relationship. She screams at me everyday for little things and hits me. One time she threw a fork at my head, but thankfully, it missed. She reminds me that I am ugly and have no friends, even though I do have friends and I'm not a hideous creature. She ruins my homework and rips or crumbles it. Right now, I don't know what to do because she says my family hates me and I believe it. I can't talk to anybody at school because she not going to take me to school and I can't get there on time. I don't know what to do, school is very important to me, it's my only ticket to getting out of here and she is slowly taking that away.

I'd honestly rather kill myself that continue to live with my parents, I'm only 15 and I only have one friend I could stay with who's mom is fine with me living with them but it'd be the first place my parents would look. I've tried waiting it out and I just don't think I can any longer. I tried talking to the runaway chat line but it always says I need to wait for an open chat person but never loads. There's no physical abuse but for my mental health I need to get out of here. Our relationship is so bad at this point there's no nice interactions despite my best attempt to remain civil and calm.

I have a 6 year old daughter and lately she's always trying to sleep in my bed cuz she says she has nightmares. Even I wake up a lot to her on me or in my bed cuz she sneaked in when I was sleeping, smh. I give her a night light and everything, still not enough. I even allow the hallway light on for as long as I can until she falls asleep, cuz the electric bill, but sometimes I'm too tired to stay up just to wait for her to fall asleep first. Is this normal? I honestly can't remember my sleeping habits when I was 6. And her mom isn't around if you are wondering, so my daughter has no choice but to sleep with me. I just don't want people to think I'm a pedo. It's not my fault she keeps sleeping with me. I don't enjoy it at all. I know my parents would tell me to suck it up when I was little, but I am a boy, while she's a girl, and I think this generation is different. I don't want to make her cry.

dont say no he didnt because you want to sugarcoat it . just write anything unfair from you bro or sis.

I m 16 and I came out to my mother and she allowed me to purchase a dildo 2 months ago and I have used it since. I however haven t come out to my dad (who doesn t live with my mom and me due to complications) and he while I was at school, he moved one of my two beds which had my sex toy under the pillow. When I got home I didn t find it anywhere in my room. How do I approach this situation?

So a couple weeks ago I told my boyfriend that I was thinking about moving to England but she was confused and asked why. Then I said, "Well my mom lives there and she invited me." Then he said, "Well...she walked out on you guys. What makes you so sure she wants you to stay there? She only thinks of herself from what I heard." Why does everyone keep saying that. Then we got into a huge argument because he thinks I'm trying to set him up and dump him. I wasn't even. I told him we can have a long distance if I decided to stay there. He said he doesn't know about that. He said of I chose to do it and he'll get on with his life! We had another argument the day before the graduation. He took it literally. I'm in England now. He said he'll stick around with me but not forever. Everyone kept saying I'm making a huge mistake staying. My dad is against me staying here with my mom since she abandoned us but I'm 18 and can't stop me. I've been in England for three days now. My mom and I are getting along great.....accept she stood up. We were suppose to meet up fir lunch today.

Hi, before I go any further, please know I have reported this situation to DHHS/CPS and the proper authorities, as well as had my fiance move out of my home. I have a 14 year old daughter who has recently told me that my fiance has been touching her inappropriately for going on 7 months. It started back in November of last year when I was traveling back and forth to Texas to help my dad through end-stage cancer. She said that my fiance would offer to rub her feet after cheer practice, but would gradually rub up her leg, to her thighs. She would ask him to stop, but would repeat the same thing every time he rubbed her feet. This went on for months without my knowledge. A week ago, my daughter texted me while I was in the shower and told me my fiance rubbed her vaginal area while rubbing her feet. I immediately asked him to move out. He says that he's never intended to do it sexually. That it was always an accident. That he only massaged her out of love and to make her feel better. He's even blamed it on her a few times, stating that if she was uncomfortable she should have never let him rub her feet to begin with. I'm 7 months pregnant right now, scared, worried, confused. I believe my daughter. But I'm having a hard time understanding why he would do this. I've known him 15 years, and its hard to imagine he'd do this maliciously. But I know in my heart there's no way you can detour from a child's feet to their thighs/vagina for 7 mos and think it's innocent. Opinions?

My mother said he spend years reading up the get rich quick scam. He doesnt bath or wear clean clothes, he obessess with destroying christianity, he keeps blaming his father for abusing him but he necglected me and my sibling. He hasnt seen a doctor in 15 years. He is 60 years old still doesnt have a driver license. Please help is there something wrong with him?

I feel like I really dont want to be her big brother no more at this time. Ever since she became a teen she has become real disrespectful even though I sorts raised her bc father wasnt active, and now this is how she show her appreciation? Ok. She talks to me like she's older than me at times and I cant stand it, and my mother does nothing to stop it.

She's posted stuff like "I almost ended my life".... "I have nothing to live for".... " disappointed I'm still here"... "Waiting for life to be over".... "Struggling to understand the point of existence" She's been posting these to her twitter account ever since her boyfriend broke up with her... over a year ago. So do you think she's going to do something drastic like suicide? What should I do?????

My brother and I are 5 years apart but has always been sexually abusive towards me. It started off when I was 7 years old and he started touching me and forcing me to do stuff. Each year it got worst and worst until I turn fourteen. I am 17 now and every time he visits me and my parents it is agonizing watching him get away with it all and my parents have no idea what type of monster their son is. He caused me so much pain and so much trauma over the years where sometimes feel as if I have ptsd.I am just afraid if I told my parents they won't believe me and call me a liar or I will destroy the family apart. Should I just get over it and forget everything. I feel like I can't but maybe I am complaining too much about it. I don't want to ruin his life but I don't want to live with this lie and burden anymore what should i do

I personally a couple of people they hate me and they want to see me fail even if I did not do anything wrong. They love money and they fight over food.

Hes been my step dad for 20 years Hes last name is Johnson an easier name to spell Also how much paperwork is there to do something like this?

We met at the beach. I told him I was a mermaid and I fooled him with my blow-hole, but he might figure it out eventually.

Last year when I got married I wanted to marry in a church in New York (we live in Boston) and my relatives (aunts etc) told me not too and said it is too far for anyone else to get to so I just got married at home. Now my cousin is getting married and is doing so in Hawaii and the same relative to didn't want me to marry in another state is not excited for a Hawaii wedding. Why is this? Hawaii is a lot further away and everyone will have to pay for a flight and for hotel rooms. Is this one rule for one and one for another normal? Sorry for the typo but yes this relative is very excited about the Hawaii wedding.

(I ran out of words so I will continue here. I apologize but this may be long) As I was saying, many people plan mini vacations after prom and hang out at a super nice houses that they rent for the weekend. Well me and my friends just did that and now its all over. I went with about 23 other people to a nice house in Pennsylvania with a beautiful lake where you could kayak and fish and we partied and had a great time. Well heres where the part that I am having a difficult time comes in. I have been friends with these kids since we were in about 7th grade (Some even longer) and now we are about to graduate high school. It makes me so sad that its all over and this was one of the last things we do together before summer and everyone goes off to college. I bonded with them so much and had so many laughs and I wish we could do it all over again. We may be going away together again over the summer which definitely makes me happy. I just got back from the trip about 5 hours ago and its been making me super sad and I miss all my friends and being around them for those 3 days we were together. Of course I can text them at any time and we will see in school for the remainder of the year. I am really having a hard time dealing with that we will soon be graduating and many of us will move on Yes we have things like snapchat and GroupMe to stay in touch and make plans like we always do its just not the same I feel down and depressed that its going to be over I dont want it end.

My mom is 44 I have 2 young sisters & with my last sister she wasnt plan so my parents didnt sleep with eachother for yrs. Now they do & my uncle call me one day saying my grandma did tarot cards & saw my mom is going to have another kid (not true) my face turned blue, my mom notice & she kept asking & I believe she already overheard. I then told her & she said "you believe him?" I told her he said I'll be stuck she said "how'll you be stuck? Why would I have a kid near 50? Maybe for you it is". She kept saying maybe it's showing the kid I was supposed to have when she was 15 but miscarriage. I said maybe it'll be a surprise she said "stoooop" with a hand gesture. I ask her why she kept asking like she was worry she said because of you. She said my cousin told her she already hadn't the last child. Then one day she overheard me telling my grandma I had a dream of her pregnant & she said "that was your nightmare cause I was pregnant? (laughing)" I told her earlier I had a nightmare. My mom complains she hasn't live life hasn't even drive & she's going to be 45 but yet shes on no form of birth control, she doesn't check her ovulations, always ask me when was her last period. Dad had no vasectomy. Awhile since they bought condoms. They use condoms sometimes & the thin ones. Before they use it more I'm confused by it if she has gotten pregnant by accident twice, knows she can still get pregnant, & didnt have sex for yrs due to being scared she said god forbid about being pregnant