this is so frustrating! my husband, despite being 6'3 and muscular, has a really a high pitched voice. we've been married for over 20 years now, and it started bothering me about 2 or 3 months ago. i'm only 5'2 and i'm not at all athletic, and my voice is substantially deeper than his. every time we go out, like when he orders at the restaurant, its so embarrassing when he talks. i feel like he's a girl when he squeaks. and when he talks to me, i don't feel the romance and love i expect. all i feel is a gay or transgender rubber chicken yelling at me. there are some girls in my 2nd and 3rd grade class who sound more manly and deep than him. so can i sue him for having a high pitched voice?

My friend lives with an older relative. Recently, this friend was told by their doctor that they need to start cooking and work on their weight (they re not obese but could lose a few pounds), in addition to having high cholesterol. They hate cooking, and are very frugal but have made the extra expense for healthy foods. Their relative is older and claims to be unable to cook, and has begun whining about my friend having these meals. My friend does hate cooking, and pays for their own groceries and does other tasks around the house, and refuses to take on "caregiver" tasks such as cooking. I m in the middle, I can see both sides. Opinions?

im 16 is this normal

im a 17 year old guy and my sister is 13. it feels like my parents trust my sister more, probably because shes younger and shes a girl anyways, whenever my sister says anything, my parents believe her. for example, once she was playing with a soccer ball and it hit my dads truck and dented it. she said i hit it, even though i was upstairs in my room doing my chemistry homework. my dad didn't believe me, and he yelled at me and grounded me. my parents even put surveillance cameras in my room, they put trackers and parental controls on all my devices, and they won't let me close my bedroom door. i'm not even allowed to go to school without my mom following me, and my mom dresses me, bathes me, and spoonfeeds me. whenever my sister and i fight, my parents always punish me. about 3 years ago one day we fought over whose turn it is to take out the trash. my mom caught us fighting, and my sister said that i hit her, so my mom beat me so hard that im paralyzed from the waist down. i'm on a wheelchair right now, and since my school's bathroom is wheelchair inaccessible, i have to wear diapers to school. and because my mom knows i have to wear diapers, she also put me in a pacifier, and she breastfeeds me and makes me sleep in a crib. she also puts me in a playpen at home and puts me in the nursery at church.

My parents are in their 50s and they fight for nearly every day. I can't stand it anymore, I ask mom if fighting like this normal with other families she told me to leave the house if you don't like it and she insulted me. Literally today I woke up to my dad's shouting and my parents fighting for hours nearly every day. Is this normal with other families?

They didnt sau anything when i said it. they took it good

I live with my brother and have done for two years now since our mother abandoned us. Thing is, he's very controlling. If I don't do something he wants me to do (I recently broke my toe plus I don't have a good pair of clothes to head to the shop for him), he keeps threatening to throw me out/call the police to escort me out (he's the tenant). He literally called it 'disobeying his orders'. Another point, my brother is also my carer since I have a history of severe mental health issues and have been suicidal before (mostly because our mother was emotionally abusive as ****). My brother also has mental health issues and often raises his voice, throws things, punches walls and last year in an incident where his then girlfriend was the subject of an argument, he punched me in the face. He was arrested for it but since he claimed not to remember the incident and it was a first offence, he was let off, and he promised not to do it again. I don't believe him. He frequently gets testy, threatens to get rid of my cat and seems to get a kick out of watching me cook and clean for him. Is this a severe red flag, or am I overreacting?

We work together and honestly whenever we talk obviously looking at eachother with eye contact and as I continue to look him in th eeyes and talk then he manages to look away or look somewhere else then bring his gaze back or has difficulty to talk and keep looking me in the eyes. He always looks away randomly like at a wall then looks back at me or today i turned around and looked him straight in the eyes while talking and he looked up like wth lol. Why could this be? The other day he also said something like "yeah in this copany i'm not even my own boss I said yes then he smiles saying well at least here I'm your boss." Then he looked at me and said you didn't like that did you? I said no. He said I know i said how do you know? he said because no one can say anything to you. Not even your man smiling and looking down. I said yea i'm strong he has to respect me he said yeah but you have to lower your walls with his hand. I said yeah I have walls (but i was blown away that he even noticed this and thought about and brought it up) i was like yeah i'm very picky, no one is on my level. He said no one is on my level either i have walls too. I said well then how would you suggest to bring down my walls he said i don't know i have my walls up too. I said then why are you telling me to bring down my walls? he said because I'm working on mine too. Why is he acting like this?

I have a older brother who she almost always complains about him I always say there is a thing called kicking him out she just goes on and on and it never ends well. I am not sure what she is looking for when she is complaining about him I'm not giving her a poor her treatment. Do I even say this to her? It's very awkward for us right now I almost said it to her face today she is a huge stress head about it then she acts worse from talking about it. I'm not the boss of the house or I'd kick him out a long time ago less stress for everyone I am working on getting my own place before someone points out about me move out if I don't like it at least I am trying. But should I tell her to stop complaining or kick him out? Or no?

My mom hates incense, but it helps me a lot with my anxiety. She won't allow it in her house and I have no idea what to do. Any advice?

They are a good 30 years older than me (they seem themselves as a role model I think). I know them through family holidays and they always said come over for coffee. I really need someone to talk and think she would be good. don't know how to ask?? Should I just rock up?? HELP PLEASE.

I don't think I am mature enough and don't act enough like an adult. I have a job and get straight A's but I still make up stories about random **** all the time. How should a 17 year old act

recently she just never responds and completely ignores me like im not their. if it helps shes 15 and im 13 and we always played games together and watching stuff. now she is on her phone most of the time in her room?? why does she ignore me?

So, about 40 minutes ago I was woken up to my stepdad screaming for me. I could hear loud banging so I jumped up thinking it was something that happened to my mother. Instead, my mother was screaming at my stepdad, throwing him around. She was on top of him, hitting him in the head and tearing his hair out. It took me 30 minutes to separate them. But during their whole fight, my mother was saying he "deserved it" because he's hit her so many times and they've had to throw out so many mattresses because of the amount of blood that's gotten on them from him hitting her. She even pulled back the sheet for me to see the current one and indeed it had blood all over it. I never knew about any abuse. And currently, I'm unsure of what to do. Please offer me some advice.

So basically, I left to go to Chicago without her allowing me to. I am 18, okay. I am supposed to buy my $300 on bills and text books, and also to fix the car that she said I cause damage to because I drive it. So I didn't pay her this month due to some issue. However, I had just enough to do to Chicago for just three days. I came back form my trip and we got into a argument about how I'm supposed to put my education first on my textbook. And then on my bills. The argument was so bad that she told me she would not support me financial. I agreed to it. We haven't been on good terms since then. She told me that I owe her $300 and the money to fix her car. Every single day and moment I see her. I am gonna pay up for the $300 this month. What should I do? I am just holding my tongue because she is my freaking mom.

I love my mom and she does everything for me and she loves me to death but she won't accept who I am, she says a lot of things she doesn't mean but then later says she doesn't mean it when we make up, I secretly have a boyfriend who is Muslim and my parents are Christian and they are super against Islam, if they find out they will disown me and my mom would go crazy and I mean like over the limit crazy, I feel as if they would abuse me if they know how I live my life. I'm not a bad person I don't do drugs I don't even drink but i hang out with guys and I swear and if they find out who know what will happen. They dont let me date not even if it's their same religion. They always wish death upon me then later say they didn't mean it and they were just mad. They hate on my friends for no reason and are up my *** about who I hang out with. There's way more detail to this but all of that and I know they love me to death they spoil me and do everything for me. I don't know what t do or think I can't take this anymore I feel like they have full control of my life and I wanna move out but I feel bad because they do everything for me. I'm really scared of them I am 18. What should I do?

Do you think I should talk to my mom. I live with hate and anger twords her. Let me explain why. Also let me say I am not looking for pitty or anything I just want an outside opinion. My childhood was rough to say the least. my mom was a hooker and she was addicted to heroin and my dad was a drug dealer. They beat us, starved us and left us to fend for ourselves for weeks at a time. My mom would do business out of the house and my sister was raped by some of her clients. I grew up in fear. I never new anything else. When I was 16 I made the decision to leave. I hate myself for leaving my sister but I couldn't live there anymore or I would've killed myself. I was homeless for a year while I went to school and worked at an apple bees as a host. Even though I was homeless I was still happier than I have ever been. I joined the usmc at 18. Now I'm 20, ive been on one deployment to Syria. My parents have always been on a do not contact list and I have an advance health care directive and there not my next of kin so no matter what happens they will never be contacted. She sent me an email a few days ago, this was the first time I've heard from her since I was 16. She said she's been off drungs for a year now and she wants to reconnect with her kids, she said one year ago my sister slit her rists and now she is being held in a facility and that's what made her want to quit. I don't know if I should believe her or if I should try and talk to her. Ive moved on.

i love my family. but i have never been the affectionate type and i dont often speak unless they start the conversation first. my parents know that i was an extremely shy kid, and only now (20 y.o.) have i been a more open to friends and people outside the household. heck, my brother sent me a "happy birthday" message once, and it took me a whole 15 seconds to have the courage to reply "thank you." and just by replying, i felt happy as if i've accomplished so much lol. currently i am living with my aunt and uncle abroad for me to attend a certain college. they think i'm such a bad daughter for not calling/texting my parents. i want to but i. just. cant. i dont know why. it's like a wave of deep deep anxiety hits me every time i think of starting a conversation. as you may guess, i barely talk to my aunt and uncle either. i often have breakdowns because i know they talk about me behind my back. at this point, i feel like i have a much better and healthier relationship with my friends, professors, co-workers, even my supervisors at work, and i damn try to be the nicest person to everyone. what do i do? i obviously am not capable of blurting out to them how i feel. i want to just keep it all in, but it don't want my aunt and uncle thinking that i'm some sort of bad disrespectful child forever when i really just have this weird selective talking issue. I realize, even as i was writing down the question, that professional advise really is what i should be seeking for. guess i just wanted to let out my feelings somewhere for the rare case that someone might have a say in this. thank you anyways :)

I don't live with my mom -Every single day she asks me "how was work?". Every single day. It just gets kind of annoying after a while. -i'm almost 25 and she tells me to do things. For example, pretend she comes over to my house to eat. She'll say "come eat your dinner now". I can eat dinner whenever I want. -She'll say "Once you get married you'll understand what having kids is like". I don't even want to get married or have kids. -She talks about negative subjects randomly. For example, people dieing or other bad things happening in the world. I don't want to hear that negative stuff. -She asks me hundreds of random questions that I have no clue about. For example she uses a really specific kind of phone. She'll be like "how do I go to this specific setting on my phone, and enter a specific password on this weather app". Like, I don't know...? So recently, I've just been choosing to not talk to her as much.

im 14 and I spin karambits because they are like a fidget for me my parents say its dangerous but when my karambit hits my wrist if I spin it bad its just a little nick and they said they dont care if I get more but they dont wanna go all the way to the flea market I will most likely only be buying from flea markets

I turn 18 in October and she told me that I will have to start paying her rent when I turn 18. I feel as if it's unreasonable. She could at least wait until I'm done with school.

I personally know many family relatives that are in a very abusive relationship where hitting, insulting, and negativity is nearly every day. For over many years they do the same routine and if anyone tries to advise them all they do is just insult and say that the person is wrong.

My grandma is currently moving into a new condo and she's the most manipulative, demanding person in the world. I'm going into high school in 10 days and I haven't done any kind of preparation because my mom is making her priority one. My two sisters agree she's taken over are lives. She's never been a sweet grandma either, never been kind to me and expects money to make up for it. She has been peeing all over because she's to lazy to use the restroom. I've had friends say they think my dog has peed on the couch because when she stays for a few days she pees and I'm embarrassed to have friends over. My last summer as a kid has gone to nothing because I've spent all my time at her house cleaning and packing. My mom calls me ungrateful and bratty for not wanting to see her EVERYDAY. I've become distant to my friends and very irritable all the time. I can't talk to my mom and my grandma is just gonna play the victim and tell my mom I don't love her or am not nice enough. I'm struggling to enjoy my life and I'm wishing I'm in another family. I really just had to vent but if anyone has any ideas besides waiting it out I'd appreciate it. Thanks :)

My mom keeps coming up with these scenarios. A few weeks ago she got someone to see me and the person came in conclusion that a devil is following me and telling me what to do. I'm just so annoyed because no matter her much i tell her i'm okay she doesn't believe me. I'm not allowed to sleep alone anymore and i can't even be in a room by myself. She's forcing me to go out everywhere she's going forcing me to be friends with people she knows. And i'm literally alright i'm so irritated.

Hi, I've been wanting to vent about this for the longest time but I can't vent to my friends or any family. My mom is white and my dad is Mexican. I've always been fascinated by the culture and we don't have any family on my moms side but there's a ton on my fathers. I've taught myself the culture along with the help of my cousins, tia. Etc but it bothers me how my dad never exposed me to it. He says "I act more white than Mexican idk why you wanna be exposed to that" almost like he isn't proud of his culture. He owns a landscaping company but always lies to his customers if they ask if he's Mexican. It really hurts and bothers me because even my mom wanted him to teach me Spanish but he never did. I'm here because I don't know what to do at this point. It can be so embarrassing for me such as today. My cousin and I went to the flea market with my dad and he was speaking English to all the workers and they would look at him like he was crazy. My cousin was so embarrassed because she said "tio you can speak Spanish please they don't understand." Idk what to do at this point. Help please :(

I'm a 22 yo man, and starting when I 14 or 15 my dad started constantly asking me to have sex with him & his friends. Why would he do that to me? He also started to give me drugs around that age and quickly became an addict. (obviously, because I was a kid and couldn't handle getting high). I knew what he was asking me to do was wrong, but I couldn't really say no to him because I was basically dependent on him for drugs. What would have been going on to make him think any of that was ok?