For some reason my mom makes a point to pick on me.I'm 20.My sisters are 18&17.For some reason,whenever I wear an outfit she has 2 comment on it.Calling me a bulldyke.Or will say "why are you wearing that?!"w/ a look of disgust.She lets my siblings buy and wear whatever they want.I wear regular band tshirts& jeans.& will tell me to dress feminine but the moment I do she asks who i'm dressing for.She also tells me that everything I wear doesn't have to be tight.But I wear baggy clothes too.She makes fun of my butt too.It started as a joke but them it turned into teasing.saying that I have a small butt & that my little brother has a bigger butt than me.She knows I have a problem with how my body looks.Yesterday I mentioned my headphones sitting on my head differently than it does 4 my siblings.She told me "you're not special, everyone is different."She actually pushed me away one time I tired to hug her.She wont hug or kiss me back when I give her a hug and kiss on the cheek goodnight.She seems distant and will go upstairs to smoke pot.When I pointed out that she smelled like it she got angry. B/c she knew I was right.She told me I could smoke but freaked out when she found my edibles.She watches over my shoulder with everything I do and its ridiculous.Yet lets my sister get away with EVERYTHING.Idk I just feel unloved or like she might be jealous?Ive caught her giving dirty looks to me and when shes mad at me she'll play mad songs over and over or give me the silent treatment.

My 59 yr old dad just married his 3rd wife this past weekend. She's 28 and a chemist and they work together. They welcomed a baby this past summer as well. It was his 9th. He seems like he's been reckless in his ways of bringing kids into the picture, having 9 kids with 7 different women, one being my aunt as well. So when my divorced aunt Nancy used to babysit me one summer when I was 11, along with her two kids, she'd take me 1-2 times per week to my karate class and occasionally my dad would show up from his lunch break to watch since he worked so close. this was back in 2006. I later found out after that, my dad and aunt(my mom's sister) were hooking up which led to a baby girl 9 months later in 2007. So I have a 12 yr old cousin/half sister out there who is in foster care since my aunt's alcoholism took over. My dad has since fathered kids with 3 other women, Kristen in 2010, Melissa in 2017 who was 20 yrs old at the time and an intern at his work, and now he just had a baby with his new wife Rita. He has grandkids as well and who knows how many other kids out there. My oldest half brother and him dont even talk, but my oldest half sister is super close to him. How can he stand the way he's acted? He doesn't seems like a good role model, unless you want to be a womanizer. I once overheard him say he's good at two things...getting women pregnant and passing kidney stones!

I am 19 graduated from school. My parents have standards which include me being a stay-at home. I love my parents and don't want to hurt them but we can't ever afford to go on vacation and my Mom is a stay-at home and so we don't get out much.  I have tried to talk to them but they are very sad I don't like their standard. What should I do!??????

My mom says I m stupid and blames me for everything when she is hungry or tired. She also compares me to her friend s kids and tells me to be grateful to my step dad because without him we would be living on the streets, but he also tells me I m stupid and compares me to his real daughter who is a nurse. My stepdad also yells at my baby brother relying he is retarded and he yells at me also and my mom often takes his side. My mom also doesn t believe in depression or abuse. She says that hitting a kid is not abuse it s called discipline.

My 13 year old brother and I were in the back seat of our parents car going on a trip. I felt sleepy and laid down with my head on his lap. Soon something big was poking me in the back of the head. I got up and looked at my brother. Oh My God. He had a b0ner. He was VERY EMBARRASSED and started to apologize immediately. I really felt bad about the problem I had caused him. I told him no need to apologize. Wanting to make him feel better, I said you have something to be proud of. He said what is that? I told him he was hung like a horse. He smiled and said thanks sis. I feel a lot better now. You are the greatest sister ever. Please tell me if you think I handled this situation in a good way. Is there a better way than what I did. Gals, what would you have done? Is my brother getting a b0ner a normal thing for a guy that age to do or is he a pervert?

Okay so my mom is very rude and harsh sometimes. I'm adopted from within the family, and stuff isnt great. My real biological family are assholes and dont really accept me. Blocked me from everywhere etc.  My mother gets moodswings so much and then she'll start commenting on the tinniest things and then we'd end up arguing. She says 'i regret adopting you' and 'adopting you was the biggest mistake of my life' No one knows how hurtful this sentence this. Nothing hurts more than this. She says this everytime she gets angry. Idc if it was in anger or whatever, shes said it so mang times that she really cant say 'it was in anger' anymore. Moreover, she never admits her mistake. Always goes like 'who do you think you are for me to apologize?'  Please tell me what she said, is wrong.  Because no one will ever know how hurtful this is, honestly, nothing is more hurtful than this is. Because i know my biological family doesnt accept and and then my mom says. 

I don't want to skip the celebrations but she is going to be there.

My stepdaughter lives in Tampa bay, Florida. Two weeks ago she came down to stay with her sister who is 32, lives 20 minutes away from me and my husband. She did not let us know she was coming here. She had been there a couple days with her sister and we didnt know and her sister text us asking us for dinner instead of the 24 year old, but only gave us one day notice. That day we had two big appointments back to back so we said no because we did not have any prior notice and because we were exhausted. The 24 year old then started sending us nasty texts saying she was real mad at us and to get over here and have dinner with her. We held our ground and said no and said if we had known you were coming down and had more notice we would have came. Then she stayed here for two more days with her sister and we asked her to come and see us and eat with us. She refused. She said I am not coming to see you. Before she moved to Tampa bay she was on good terms with us. I think she is unhappy with her life and taking out her frustration on us because she has moved 3 x in the last year and does not have a job. I have always treated her very well. I sent her a nice text and she was real abrupt. What should I do?

There were never any photos of me as a baby or young child. I've never been sensitive to pain or cold. My parents told me I can never have children of my own, but didn't say why. My parents are robotics engineers. Obviously I'm a robot. They made me cause they couldn't have real children.

My mother is 88 and isn't senile at all although my sister and her son thinks she is.  They live 2 hours away and come visit every other Sunday.  My brother and I live in same town as my mom. We are the ones who take care of her.  My sister has always been my moms favorite.  Slowly almost all my moms very expensive jewelry and a huge amount of money she kept hidden is gone.  My sister owns a expensive jewelry store but it's never enough apparently.  Last week my mom put a lock on her bedroom door, that should have been a huge hint but tonight she said my sister distracted her while my nephew got in some how.  I know shes telling her son get everything he can now. My mom asked why I couldn't come over and watch them. They think she wont notice it or care. I don't think it's fair all my mother's valuables are gone. She said the nephew was going through the china cabinet even and even took pictures of my moms stuff. It bothered my mother so much but shes too tired and old to stop it. I dont want a family fight. But I want to talk to my sister about it while my moms still here so she can confirm it and at least let them know we all know what they're doing. Idk. I know it will end up a big family fight, accusing them but we all know and it's supposed to be divided up in my moms will.  It's so unfair..What should I say to my sister that won't cause the family to be torn apart? Maybe my mom should adjust her will because of it? 

Both parents past away in an auto accident, they left the kids their house and everything. The home was lived for this family for over 10 years, there are wall paints that was did by the mother, decorations thru out designed by the parents. Siblings decided to keep the house for memory since there is no mortgage. Hence both have equal parts of rights in the property. One sibling, the son moved in with his significant other and live in his own room(he has consent with other sibling, the daughter), but one day decided to move into the parents master bedroom and remodel the whole room without noticing the other sibling. That means repaint the room, (mom did some special stamping on her bedroom wall with the daughter), remove the parents belongings, etc. Sibling did not find out the changes until the next time she visited what has been done to the parents bedroom and the house is also gradually changing, such as removing furniture, new decorations, so what was suppose to be save for memory is gone, not even a photo could be save before its remodel. What would you think about this matter? 

So my aunt hates her parents. She won't admit it but sees no good in them. She also hates a sister of hers (not my mother). So when I see her if others are not there the only thing she discusses is the generational sins her parents have passed down in the family. She also blends religion in with it but the stuff she says does not quite make sense. I am religious but cannot follow her. She says she has let it go but obviously she has not. So my question is this, I am helping her move some stuff for her daughter. She is giving me a ride. I know it is all she will talk about. Then when we are with her daughter it will be all my aunt discusses cause her daughter nods her head and agrees with everything. It is her only child so likely all she discusses. My aunt needs my truck which is why I am going so we will be riding 30 minutes together. How do I pivot and change the topic when she takes digs against my grandparents the whole time? It is my grandparents so of course I don't want to agree with her the way her daughter does. I used to be real close to this aunt and her daughter but avoid them now cause the aunt is so creepy and bitter. She is mad cause her parents backed this other sister of hers in a property dispute. The other sister I am not close to and she is kind of narcissistic but I just avoid her. The other aunt was getting divorced at the time so may have needed the property. That aunt has never been very close. 

A few months ago after my husband and I got married he adopted my 6year old daughter. Since my husband and I started dating he's treated my daughter like his own. My ex boyfriend who I thought was my daughter's biological father isn't even her father, it's my husband's brother. I've know my husband's family since I was a teenager, and I was around 19 when I slept with the brother (this was before my husband and I began our relationship). I always thought my daughter was my ex boyfriend's child, she really looked nothing like him, but that was probably because she looked 80% like me, and I've never put the pieces together until I had a DNA test confirm it.       My major concern is that I'm worried that if I tell her I might confuse her, and I don't want to do that. It makes everything  difficult because I want her father to have a relationship with her, and also the child I have with my husband is now my daughter's cousin and her sibling? That's really confusing for a 6year old. Any advice on how to handle this would be appreciated!! ( Hope I'm not confusing anyone)

I'm a 14 year old guy. Theres a bathroom between me and my brother's childhood room (he's visiting from college now , taking breaks). I opened the door that leads to his side a little. He was in his boxers half naked. It looked like he was using baby wipes on his girlfriend's privates (or wet towels) while she's standing there.After dinner i barged into his room while he was out. Sure enough, I found some wet wipes in his garbage can. Nothing was on them. I don't know why he was doing that!!

So my grandpa passed away in October of 2017. He was on his bike and hit by a car. I was the one to tell my mom the news. My grandma had texted me to tell my mom to wake up and call her. He was on heavy life support for about 2 days before we took him off. I'm 14 now and was 13 when it happened. Throughout the whole thing, I never really cried intensely. Everyone around me made me feel guilty for it. My grandpa was a quiet guy and we shared some close moments but never really truly connected. I really don't know why I never broke down like the people around me. I had a couple days where I broke down but that was alone. I feel almost as if people are counting on me to cry. And when they talk about it I get awkward and don't know what to say. My mom (her dad was my grandpa) says she's worried about me sometimes because of it. I don't wanna worry or disrespect my family but I don't know what to do. Is this normal?

My 65-year-old mother has been making me rub my temple and get absolutely frustrated to the point of tears, due to possible dementia not just making her forgetful, but also causing her to say irrational things, get snippy with me for no reason, and mispronounce words while thinking she said them correctly.  Examples: 1. Forgetful - She said our cousin has another baby on the way, but then the next day, she said it was a different cousin, and angrily denied saying the cousin's name from previous day. 2.  Irrational - When we got in my car to go somewhere that needs directions, she told me to not start driving until she finishes setting up GPS destination.  But the trip to the highway (which we both know how to get to) is 10 minutes, so the GPS will already have started directing us to the highway.  But the reason my mom told me not to start driving yet is because she can't use the phone in general while car is moving.  Meanwhile when we've gone other places without GPS, she's on Facebook, playing music, etc. while I'm driving.  ?????????????? 3.  Snippy - I told her my humble opinion regarding something I heard on the news, but she said "I don't know!!" as if I was a child annoying her with questions.  I didn't ask anything.  I TOLD her something (my opinion on news story).   4.  Mispronounces - She used the word "preface." I asked her if that word has another meaning, because I always thought it meant the introduction to a book. She said, "I said PREFACE!  You don't listen!" Typo on #4 - "I said PREFERANCE!  You don't listen!"

I am abused my dad, grandparents and my relatives for years. When i was really young i could only take it submissively.As i started getting a little older i started retaliating with bad language. Last night was another such incident. My dad said that he feels like putting a knife in my stomach to which i retorted saying that i feel like putting a knife in your mom's ***. I was really angry that's why i reacted that way.

I can't help but feel that my birth wasn't fully welcomed by my older siblings. For one by the time of my birth, it had been less than 2 years since the passing of a baby sister, & secondly I am between 7-15 years younger. My parents were a) middle aged b) still working hard and c) me being around meant less (& much needed) attention for each of them. I was the first in the family to go to college. & although this was a good, they used this against me, criticized me, my choice of husband and did a great job making me feel like the odd one out. After my mother's death, everything fell apart even more. I & my older sister were made the executors of my parent's estate & we stopped getting along. I was partnered by my mother to share ownership of a fully paid house with my rather unemployed, never been married, never had children older brother. Although @ first it worked out for a bit, his passive aggressive nature became hard to deal with. I later realized that his expectations were that I would enable him in the same manner our mother did. He demanded I forfeit my share of the rent, & pulled my other siblings & some of our cousin's against me. But I didn't really bother to address our issues with them, as it is non of their business. But whose suffering the most of an estranged family ties are my kids, because non of their aunts, uncles or cousins seek them out anymore, even after they know much I cherished each of their children through every milestone. 

Hey I'm 15 and my father has a huge drinking problem, he's always drunk and he makes my mother really sad He also has a smoking problem.He has been smoking for 50 years and I think he is hiding from us what the doctor is saying about his lungs I told my mom that we have to tell him to get treatment but she doesn't  like the idea cuz she says he'll never change. I don't know how to bring it up to him. I don't think he'll like the idea bing locked up and not being able to drink or smoke he could get violent  Someone please answer me I need Help, what should I do

The aunt had her wisdom teeth pulled a few days ago and is still a little swollen. The niece is calling her names and it is annoying. She is stuck babysitting until tomorrow morning when she takes the niece to school 

My husband has been in the military for 10.5 years and I have been by his side through it all. We have 4 children together and I am not happy where we are currently stationed. His entire career I have told him I did not want to move to Washington State. We started our life in Groton, CT then transferred for 6.5 years to Kings Bay, GA then back to CT after that. He got picked up Chief and got reassigned. He chose Washington State knowing this was the one place I didn't want to be. I  decided to move our family with him because that was best for his career. Well I am miserable here. In the past 10 months he has been out to sea 7 and is still currently out to sea. I have no friends here and am miserable! I don't know what to do. My kids aren't 100% happy here either. The Northwest is just not the lifestyle we are used to. When he comes home should I tell him I want to move or should I stick it out, be miserable and do what is best for him and his career? I have given up many great jobs in order to follow him around the country and I am tired of it. Him getting out is not an option because he loves the Navy. But when should you put your family first and think of their best interests??

She is cruel to everybody as she's a bad person. 

My baby's mom wants me to stop talking to my other baby's mom while I'm staying with her. And out of respect, I just hang up every time she calls me to pick up the baby. She said that she doesn't like her and I need to stop talking to her if I want a ride to work! she already KNOW that I've slept with her a month ago, so I don't know why she's acting like this now. Isn't she's wrong? 

She's a very odd woman and just not my type of person at all. She's an alcoholic for starters and has a lot of health problems and mental problems due to alcohol abuse, and she still drinks. I just can't relate or understand someone who does that. If I'm honest, I like to spend as little time around her as possible. Ever since me and my husband have had our daughter though she wants to bond with me more, I'm guessing so she's able to spend more time with her grandchild. At the moment she only sees her granddaughter when my husbands around, cos I don't feel comfortable being around her on my own. She'll ask me occasionally if she can pop over when it's just me in or if I want to go to a concert with her etc and I just really don't want to. I get she's my daughters family and I have to be around her sometimes but I am not interested whatsoever in having a 'friendship' or 'mother-daughter bond' with her at all. Is this bad of me? I can get on with her and be civil and polite when we go over to hers occasionally for a meal but I'm not bothered about anything more than that.

For starters, I'm an adult. I'm 27. Me and my significant other been together for 2 years and I just found out yesterday that I'm pregnant. Although I am very excited I'm terrified telling my mother. My mom has always been on the strict side with me growing and unfortunately it ventured on into adulthood. Very religious and she wanted me to wait until marriage. She was scared I was going to get pregnant in this relationship and I know she's going to be really disappointed in me. I want her to be happy but not knowing the unexpected is killing me. Advice?