He says the most inappropriate things and they make me uncomfortable. Why should I have to be around him just because he's related? I don't even like him. How do I get them to stop making me have dinner with him? 

Should I bother to acknowledge them before they go to hell? My father is dying of cancer and probably won't make it till the end of the year I'm told. My mother has Alzheimer's so no telling how long that which is going to be here for. I last spoke to them in the late 1980s. My siblings have only spoken to once since 1988. They were not quite as evil but still evil. Eternal hell awaits them both and probably my siblings to.  

My sisters husband Joe works at the same place I do. He was getting behind on a project he was working on and he ask me to help him. I said sure and I worked with him during my lunch and sometimes after work. He was afraid he would loose his job if he did not get his project done on time. It was a struggle but we got the project completed on time. I got an email from my sister that said "I hope you remember all the help Joe gave you at work and all the time he spent with you so you could keep your job". My first reaction was that I should take that email to Joe and tell him to tell my sister the truth about who helped who. However on more thought I didn't do that. I thought why start a family fight when it can be avoided. If Joe wants to keep the truth from his wife, I will not interfere. However when Joe needs help again (which he will) I am going to be not available. Please tell me if you think I made the right decision. How should I handled this situation? THANKS

I live in Montreal Canada and I have a biological daughter his age, he was found living on the street but he won't talk about his life before everything. He doesn't know where he is from, he is learning french in school alongside my daughter. We celebrate the day we adopted him and his biological Birthday but I'm worried I haven't made him feel safe or welcomed. He just reads or helps me cook. He is 8 just like my daughter and we attend Synagogue together. He's lived with us for 2 years and I'm planning on adopting him 

I went out with friends at 5 pm today and came back at 8 pm, my parents were angry for some reason. when i asked about how much i should be outside, my dad said 'from 4 pm to 5 pm is max'. I am 13 years old, male and i am Kurdish. Please help me convince my parents. I live in sweden.

Please help I don't know what to do! My father has used my mom for years. He shouts at her if she doesn't do exactly what he says. To him she's a stupid slave that can be treated horribly. He is manipulative and has anger issues, he told my mom that if she ever left him, he would ruin her life. She is scared to move out because if she told him the news he would get so angry that he would destroy our possessions and wreck our rooms or even kill my dog or my mom for it. Even if she succeeds and hides from him, I wouldn't be able to stay because he hates me. He would kick me out and I'm afraid that he would hurt or kill my beloved dog. I love my dog. She means everything to me. I was debating moving out with mom but I would have to do that without my dog. She is old and terrified of car rides and new things and I think taking her to a new place would ruin her life. But if I left her here, in a comfortable environment where she knows everything, my father would probably kill her and say we deserved it because we left him. He would turn the whole thing around because he's manipulative and besides us no one knows that he is a monster. The best would be If my mom could move out and I could stay with my dog and my father. But I don't know how to achieve that. He wouldn't take that. Without us he has nothing, no friends no family. He would be soo angry. He'd feel the need to get revenge somehow.  ...I don't know. There has to be a way that I'm not seeing. Please help!

Find another job or tell your mom to go it alone? My thoughts are: Jobs come and go but I only have one mom. 

I'm a 14-year-old girl who loves food, music, sports and video games. I have brown hair and blue eyes. My parents make a lot of money so we are well off. I have two older brothers (21 and 18) and one older sister (16). Everything in my life was perfect until November 3.  It was Saturday and the funeral of my mother's mother. As I was bored, I took my phone and started to play games. When my mom told me to put it away, I replied "whatever". I was in the middle of the game and had to concentrate. A few minutes later, my mom suddenly took my phone out of my hands and smashed it. I got so mad and called her a b*itch and told her to go f*uck herself. The first one was for taking my phone while I was playing and the second one was for smashing it. She lost it and slapped me across the face as hard as she could. I cried and covered my left eye and cheekbone because it hurt so bad. My dad came to hug and console me while my mom called me a spoiled and disrespectful brat.  We got home and my mom made meals for everyone but me. My dad ended up having to take me out for dinner. When we were in the car, I told him my mom was out of order hitting me and I'll never forgive her. This was the first time I got slapped. I know I was wrong to play games on my phone at a funeral, but that doesn't mean she can slap me. She literally assaulted me in front of hundreds of people. Should I call the police on her? I meant November 2, not November 3.

, my husband and I are really going through a ruff time with money right now and had to move back in with his mother in-law cause we had no other place to go  after my husband lost his job last summer and we got evicted from our apartment , he got a new job thank god and I stay home with out 2 daughters both under the age of 5 ,  I feel like his mom fights with us for everything , she tells us that she doesn't want to share her shampoo , food , toilet paper or laundry detergent with us and to buy our own stuff and I completely understand so I do buy my own stuff but as soon as I leave my shampoo in the shower it's all gone cause she decides to use it when she runs out of hers even though she yells at us to buy our OWN she uses my detergent when I'm not home because it's full when I leave and almost gone when I get there she gets mad when I go into the fridge and grab some juice and tells us it's for my father in law ONLY don't grab it so I buy my own and she decides to grab it and give it to my father in law for dinner and drink it's all , I wash my dishes when I cook and leave the kitchen clean because she gets mad when it's a mess but she cooks after for my father in law and leaves it a mess  I told my husband multiple times to talk to her and he doesn't and I'm starting to build up so much anger , we pay the rent we help with the electric bill and she still argues with us , I want to move out so bad I literally cry everyday cause of this ... no mean comments please  (I meant MY mother in law my husbands mom )

, my husband and I are really going through a ruff time with money right now and had to move back in with his mother in-law cause we had no other place to go  after my husband lost his job last summer and we got evicted from our apartment , he got a new job thank god and I stay home with out 2 daughters both under the age of 5 ,  I feel like his mom fights with us for everything , she tells us that she doesn't want to share her shampoo , food , toilet paper or laundry detergent with us and to buy our own stuff and I completely understand so I do buy my own stuff but as soon as I leave my shampoo in the shower it's all gone cause she decides to use it when she runs out of hers even though she yells at us to buy our OWN she uses my detergent when I'm not home because it's full when I leave and almost gone when I get there she gets mad when I go into the fridge and grab some juice and tells us it's for my father in law ONLY don't grab it so I buy my own and she decides to grab it and give it to my father in law for dinner and drink it's all , I wash my dishes when I cook and leave the kitchen clean because she gets mad when it's a mess but she cooks after for my father in law and leaves it a mess  I told my husband multiple times to talk to her and he doesn't and I'm starting to build up so much anger , we pay the rent we help with the electric bill and she still argues with us , I want to move out so bad I literally cry everyday cause of this ... no mean comments please 

My son and I are very close. He is in high school and in one of his classes he is the only guy. He thinks that is great as he is friends with all the girls. The girls in his class tease him all the time about being the only guy in class and he LOVES it. He says it makes the class so much fun. He came home from class today and said "Mom, the girls in the class asked me if I was hung. Can I show them? I told him "NO NO NO". "That would get him in BIG TROUBLE". He might get suspended from school or reported to the police. Then he said "Can I tell them I would gag Linda Lovelace"? Again the answer is NO. YOU CAN NOT TALK ABOUT SEX WITH THESE GIRLS IN CLASS EVER. He said "But mom, they ask me". I am going to try to get him out of that class before he does something stupid and gets in trouble. He will not be happy but I think I had better act now before something happens. He thinks I am being overly protective. Am I?

i'm 15 years old, and i'm 5'10. however, my parents still force me to ride on a booster seat. they say "this way you won't get hurt in case of a car crash". i've tried persuading my parents to let me ride without a booster, but no matter what i do, they dont listen to me. my younger sister (who is 12) can ride shotgun, and my parents even take her driving on school parking lots. but as for me, i always have to sit a booster seat.

I'm a 35 year old woman and he's 39. I've never trusted him or gotten close cause of the abuse so long ago. Our mother denies his emotional abuse and remembers her four kids as all getting along.

This user keeps posting troll questions and harassing other users. They have the same profile picture as Pearl L, is it her? Who is she??

I was visiting my cousins (my mom's sister's children). They were showing the family picture album. It has pictures of my mom when she was young and was she ever beautiful. WOW. I told my aunt that I had never seen those pictures and I thought my mom in those pictures was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. My aunt said "If you think she was beautiful then, let me show you some of national magazines she modeled for". Moms pictures in those magazines just blew me away. I had not idea mom had ever been a model. She had never told me about that? I ask my aunt if she could make me a copy of mom's pictures so I could put them on the wall in my room and she agreed to do so. Do you think my mom would have a problem with her daughter putting her mom's pictures on my room at home as I am so proud of her? Can anyone think of a reason mom never told her daughter she was a model and had appeared in national magazines?

Would you forgive if this was the case: - My boyfriend and I were playmates since 3rd grade. - His mother always thought her husband was cheating with my mom. - Then in 4th grade, both her husband and my mom died in a car accident. - She and many thought they were lovers. She made everyone think that. - His mother then separated us and took her anger on me. She slapped me once. - She continued spreading nasty rumors about me and my mother over the years. - The truth came out this year. The real mistress was my aunt, mom's sister. - The once close relationship with my father got ruined. He became distant, cold and sometimes wouldn't take me to school. - My aunt made him think my mom cheated on him and that I wasn't his daughter. False. The test showed I am his daughter and he now knows my mom never cheated. All of the sudden, his mother apologized to both my father and I in person. I don't think that's enough after all that irreparable damage. I'm still too hurt. I refused her apology. If the truth wouldn't have come out, that lady would still be hating me and my reputation as a whore would remain. Even if my mother would have been the mistress, what on earth did I had to pay for things I didn't do? Since when do kids have to pay for mistakes adults make? She would have never apologized for taking her anger and hatred on an innocent child but just because my mother was faithful the whole time.

  One day she randomly kept pushing me in private saying I could or should marry him, that he has a job, and she approves of us marrying. This came out of the blue and I never even saw him that way before. And she probably has only been telling me and not him or anyone else this stuff so I realize she's likely being a cruel trolling instigstor trying to mess with me and my mind. By the way him and I are both technically adults.... But I don't like him seriously. The only this is that I was so easily influenced by her at that time that I started secretly wondering about dating him and wondering if he was attractive in any way and started to get shy around him! He could probably tell!  That was a while ago. I want to avoid him now but it may not be always possible in the future. What do you do if you were brainwashed into being nervous around someone you don't even genuinely like? Oh yeah and I'm not close with my family so it's easy for her to instigate nonsense and assume I won't tell them what kind of ridiculous things she says to me behind their backs.

Me and my husband recently had a baby and his mother is already wanting to have her for a few hours and be a babysitter for us. I've expressed to my husband how I will never feel comfortable with this. Long story short his mother has alcohol issues, she used to be a raging alcoholic. She's cut down her drinking now but still will get drunk sometimes. She also has a lot of health problems (due to alcohol abuse), like breathing problems and mental health problems too. I just wouldn't feel comfortable leaving my baby alone with a woman like this, grandmother or not. I think I'm being pretty reasonable?

Somebody told my nana and mom that my boyfriend and his family smoke a lot of weed. In which they don't but my nana and mom won't listen to me when I tell them anything. On another side note we're selling puppies and my boyfriends mom really wants one but my mom won't let her even get one...how do I get control of this situation?

I'm 26 and I love my mom so much but I feel that I shouldn't because she's so mean to me. She treats me like trash. Whenever she's in a bad mood she uses me as a punching bag and it's been this way for years. Whatever I do for her she never appreciate it I even brought her something for her birthday but she yelled at me called me cheap and keeps demanding that I buy her a new present even thou she knows all the payments I have. She's very narcissistic. She's the queen and only her. People tell me on a daily basis how sweet I am but at  home I get treated like trash. Im moving out soon and I wanna live my own life.. my mom talks down to me all the time she doesn't appreciate me I feel like a stranger would have better expectations of me off the street than she would.. I wanna have a good year so bad I wanna be happy how to not love and care?  She even ruined my birthday I had plans to stay at this beautiful resort but she took me out and yelled at me the entire time.. but I still keep going back and allowing myself to be hurt

I could be in such a good mood but my mom always ruins it.. sometimes she gets so angry and snobby.. she could be so nice 1 second than the next she could treat you like a piece of trash. My life is bad and I went through so much and I'm still going through so much but she just always makes me feel like trash.. every year I go out of my way and buy her things  for her birthday but she never appreciate it this year I even got her something but she just acts like I didn't buy her anything and calls me names.. idk she really makes me feel low and pisses me off.. I hate my job but when I'm at work everybody tells me how nice I am and treats me different but at home I get treated like crap.. how to not let it get to me??

@hammy: they're idiots because anyone knows the post office won't leave it without your signature and the only time the post office delivers is when nobody is home and the only time the post office is open for you to pick it up is when everyone is working and can't get there.

1) How do you feel about it now? 2) Do you keep in touch with any of them? 3) If you are a parent do you let your child(ren) see them?

My son and daughter ride the bus ,he is 7 she is 10,a older girl hit my son resulting in his big sister stepping in and take up for him by hitting the girl ,one the little girl got off the bus her she told her dad my daughter hit her he got on the bus got in my daughters face proceeded to yell and harass her ,what legal options can I take ,what can I do to make the school respond 

My 21-year-old stepdaughter screamed in my 3-year-old daughter's face last week. My step daughter screamed at my daughter because she asked her to hand her her coloring book which was on the counter and she could not reach it. She screamed in her face for over 5 minutes, asking her what was wrong with her and to leave her the hell alone. You would have thought that she was talking to another adult. You would never think she was talking to a 3 YO child. The reason why I let it go on was because I was in another room and when I heard it, I thought that my stepdaughter was fighting with her brother because they fight a lot. But then I heard her say my daughter's name and that's when I came into the living room. She immediately stopped and started talking sweetly to my daughter when I came in the room and then tried to lie and say that she didn't yell at her. Then when she finally admitted that she did yell at her, she said that it wasn't a big deal and that I needed to get over it. Her yelling at my 3-year-old was extremely sick. Plus, She has a 2-year-old nephew from her older sister. Whenever her older sister is just a little bit strict with her nephew, she freaks out on her sister, yet she can scream at a very high volume in a 3-year-old's face.  I noticed at a family gathering last weekend that my stepdaughter was communicating with all the other children except for my daughter. She seems to have a personal issue with her and it's very odd. What should I do?

Every day when my dad comes home from work he gets drunk. He gets really argumentative and riled up. He basically becomes a total dick. I tell my mom and she says just ignore and stay away from him. She knows it is bad, and apparently has told him to stop, but obviously nothing has happened. Please help me. Thanks.