I am a junior in highschool and she is driving me crazy.

I have always been nerdy, my dad is embarrassed and would make fun of me with others, always told me I'm not a man. Now I'm 25, became an electrician and I avoid talking to him because he always makes me feel bad. He would tell me to have sex with my uncle's wife because she wants it, I told him that's not right, this happened several times, even though I have accomplished a lot and stay out of trouble he never seems to approve of me or take me seriously, been depressed about it I went and try to hook up with my aunt, now she freaked out and my whole family that has supported me way more than him is gone, it just happened today a few hours ago, I told him about my thing with dad but I know is my fault, now I'm all alone.

Everytime CPS comes, they always listen to my dad and close the case really fast. He told me that CPS is coming soon and "We'll see who they'll listen to". I have a video of him waking me up by yelling at me and telling me hurtful things. I want to find a way to get me and my siblings out of his custody, but I don't know exactly what to tell CPS to get me out of the situation because everytime I explain to them that we're not safe, they act like they listen and then as soon as they talk to him, they close the case. Everybody supports him even the police. What should I show and tell CPS so they can do something?  Help please. 

After a hard week of school I like to go in my room on Friday night after supper an I will pick out a girl form school (last night it was Emily Walls) an print her pict out off Facebook an tape it to the wall, so like she is in the audience, then I will do something (last night I bretended I was having a wrestling match with WWE Champion Mark Kerner he is the biggest bully at school an I bretend he is in a group called Team Kerner with his best friend Earnie Gordon an Earnie an that kid who yodeled at Wal-Mart is tag team champions an Matt Binder another bully from school is US champion) an I bretend the girl is really chewing for me an last night I was getting beat up by Team Kerner an the Bullet Club came out an saved me an I kicked Mark Kerner right square in the worm an gave him the Arnold Clash 12 times and an won the title! Then I took a shower an put on my pajamas, clip on tie an jacket so it looks like I am wareing a suit an put my title belt on (I have the kid size WWE title) an then I bretend my room is da club an me an the Bullet Club goes their for relaxation an alcohol (root beer is beer an ice tea is whiskey) an I bretended Emily was their singing love songs an was like after me lolz but I was tired from a hard match an not really paying attention! But I told Stephen an he told EVERYBODY an now there all making fun of me! I am so humiliated! An that is my only enjoyment, sometimes I bretend I am a basketball player for Team Laborn an I am the star of the game! For those who ask when I wrestle I have a body pillow that I bretend is my opponent, last night I even put the title belt on my body pillow when o started to bretend Mark Kerner was champion! When I do Team Larbon I put my little basketball hoop on my door an bretend I am playing a hard game but I am the star of the game, making 90 baskets, some long shots an even some slam dunks!  Them girls is in the audience cheering for me an wishing I was there bf!

I'm 18, female and I feel so fricking lost. I have 0 friends. Literally because my insecure ness has messed up all my friendships. I even went so far as to spread a rumor about my best friend when I was in middle school. That's what basically ended our friendship. This type of behavior dates back to elementary. I've been through a lot from living in shelters to living in foster care when I was younger, I never knew my father and my older brother died when I was younger. My mother has been all I have, but she's never really been emotionally available to me. When I was younger she drank, smoked and clubbed every week. The years between that when she stopped smoking and drinking I can't recall any memories fr, she always worked, I remember one time my friend asked why I didn't say "I love you" when I hung up the phone after talking to my mother or any family member and I dawned that my family never really says that. Now 2019 I broke up with my boyfriend about 2 months ago after he cheated on me and I feel worthless, my mom got a new boyfriend after about 11 years and all she does is pay attention to him. She started back smoking and drinking (bc he does) and she started back clubbing. At first I thought of it as her having fun after 11 years of nothing but now she runs through about1.5 packs of cigarettes per day. And recently I had somebody try to bring me the phone while my nephew was on the line, I hid under the covers and yelled for him to get out Continued in updates And my little 9 year old nephew said "she act like she ain't even part of the family nomore, all she do is stay in the room"  I'm staring to think maybe it's actually not something wrong with the family that it's actually me, because I asked for family counseling and got laughed at so maybe it is just me. I've been very depressed lately and I can't exactly pin point why it won't go away. I have no one. Everybody has a boyfriend or girlfriend and I sit in the house every weekend because  I don't even have a friend to go out with. I also have social anxiety, acne, low self esteem. And I just don't know where all these problems stemmed from, everyday I wake up I feel emptier. I try to get hobbies but after awhile depression takes over and I just wanna lay in bed all day. I'm scared that I'm a step closer everyday to ending it all. 

I m 26, and my sister is 28. She told me that she rubbed her puppies nose in its poop, in order to punish it. We both grew up seeing out parents train their dogs that way. I was hesitant to say anything when she told me, but I brought it up later, and tried showing he some articles on poddy training. She essentially just brushed it off, and said what she was doing is thr right way to train a dog. She hasnt talked to me in 2 weeks, and we were so close, and were like bestfriends. I have proof that shes doing this to her puppy, so I could easily report her for animal cruelty, but than she would certainly never talk to me again. But I know that reporting her would be the right thing to do. I feel like the only way out of this is to kill myself, because I cant live with my sister hating me. What am I suppose to do?

I don't get along with my sister. She is very hard to get along with. She thinks she is right about everything and does not respect my boundaries that I ask for at all. She will refuse to make the smallest change to request a boundary I ask for but then will act like I'm the one at fault. I will tell her that I don't want to get together with her and instead she will call 50 times and ask to see my kids who are adopted whom are very young and don't even know her well at all. She will continue to call/text when I don't respond to her messages. I need space from her. I don't want to get together with her. I don't think she is a positive influence right now on myself or my family relationships. I want her to leave me alone but I can't seem to get her to respect anything. She feels that she has a RIGHT to visit my children when she wants to because we are family. I have asked her to respect my wishes and she will not. She tried to talk me out of adopting my children saying it was a bad idea to adopt children but then after I did she now feels she has a right to be in their lives. Do you feel that your family has a right to see your kids? I have no idea how to handle this situation.

Yesterday I agreed to watch my niece for my brother. When I was watching her my dad was also present. Around 12pm I realized I didn't have anything a 4yr old would like to eat for lunch, so I asked my dad if he could get food for her but he complained about his back hurting so I decided I'll just get the food and he agreed to watch her. Anyways..I'm out getting food and my mom calls me asking where I'm at and where's my dad at. I told her the situation to that she said she don't trust little girls being with men that aren't their dad. So she kept calling me to see when I made it home and she kept calling my dad but he didn't answer because he was cleaning up the basement for our Christmas gathering for today. My dad got upset because she basically is saying she don't trust him around little girls, although he raised 4 girls, and he packed up his things and left last night. My mom is saying she just don't trust little girls with men that aren't their dad because they can say anything. Who do you agree with? Also, I've would've gotten food earlier but it was such short notice.

I am 53, and educated. Most of the time I plan things out very carefully. My wife and I are debt free. We have no children, and plenty of vacation time. We have money in the bank. Our averge checking account balance is $40,000, and we have almost 300K in investments.  We earned that money betting on the stock market, and though savings.  We both started out with poor families. We pay cash for most everything. We never carry debt.Years ago, before I met my wife, I had plenty of vacation that my employer was pressuring me to use.  I flew to Bankok Thailand to locate my lost half-sister (my father was a womanizer). I did not even pack any luggage (just a carry on).   Clothing is cheap in Thailand so why must I bring anything?  I had no plan. I just went there to look for her. I felt I had to do it because I wanted to meet my sister.Also three times in my life I took last moment holidays with female co-workers. I was single, and they were asw well.  I flew to Greece with one, to San Francisco with another, and to Russia with the third. Those were back in my late 30's and early 40's. I think of that time as a "midlife" and it does not represent me as a whole.

She routinely is cruel to me and others so I have avoided her for a two year period absent large family events. I saw her last August and she has not changed. Our mother even says our sister has a case of narcissism.

If me and my siblings go to the PD and tell them that we don't want to live with with dad(custodial parent) and we refuse to go back, can the police force us to come back home? I want to go with my siblings but I'm so scared and I don't know what's preventing me.

My younger brother incredibly chose to spend Christmas Eve with our father, in California, even after he left him when he was a toddler. I can't understand it. He left mom and I to spend it alone. We had a strong argument. 

Hi everyone, my mum moved to France with her boyfriend half a year ago and dumped me at my father's. That's ok, because I'm an almost grown up man (16). I wanted to stay in touch with her but she hardly ever answers my texts and getting in touch is never her initiative. I haven't seen or spoken to her since she moved. She didn't even call me for my birthday. I don't really understand what I have done to her and why she doesn't care about me anymore. Do you think I should still send her a present and a christmas card? I'd have to do that today but I can't really decide and I don't know what I should get her either.  Thanks guys and merry x-mas!! Alex I don't really need a mum any more at my age, but I had hoped that we could at least be friends. All I want is to be in touched with her once in a while. I fear that I might never see her again :((( be in touch I mean

I grew up in a family where my parents raised us but they feel very owed. They expect money from us, for us to pay their property taxes, etc and if we don't they give us a bad look. How do I kindly deal with this?

Hello, about 2 years ago, my grandfather passed away. I was 18 and was finishing my second semester of college. When I was about 5, he had set up a 529 plan for myself and my brother (we each had our own individual plan). Fast forward to his death and he named my grandmother (his ex-wife) the new custodian and myself and my brother the beneficiaries respectively. All was good because I'm fortunate enough to have my schooling paid for through scholarships that are enough to cover my tuition, rent, and a little extra. However, I was visiting with my folks today and was talking about going to grad school when my grandmother tells me to not rely on my 529 plan because they "won't have any money to live on." My grandmother and her husband has made somewhat poor financial decisions in the past few years which has caused them to rely on social security and not much else. They live in a house that's worth about a million dollars and own a bunch of land, but don't have enough cash to cover the costs of living there. Their solution was to take money out of mine and my brother's 529 plan. Each had about $50k in it and now they have $10k and $20k respectively because of her. She also requested that I don't tell my dad because he tried to convince her to let him be the custodian of the accounts when my grandfather passed because he knew this kind of thing could happen. Do I have any options? (I am now 20 and my brother is 22 but he decided to not go to college). Thanks in advance.

I moved back from college in DC to a small Pennsylvania suburb. I have a terrible relationship with my family so I do not enjoy being home very much, but they never let me use their car. Some things are in walking distance, but you can only do those things so much. I only have like 3 friends here since I ****** up with all of them due to my past mental health problems and they are not in my life anymore. I am off for a month and a half, and if I do nothing I will lose my fricken mind. Thanks!

My Dad lies all the time and he failed to even call this person. He is busy all weekend and this person leaves the morning after Christmas. My Dad is such a liar. My question is how do I reach out to this relative and apologize for my Dad's lies without downright insulting my Dad?

when I say talks about herself all the time like I really mean it. There is not a second where we are in the room together where she is not talking about herself, I'll just walk in and the second I open the door She'll tell me the same story hundreds of times. and the amount of times I heard she's changed her Instagram profile pic) Literally her roommate last year is living in the house and didn't want to live with her. Oh and I'll say something like I'm sick and then refer to it like later that day and she'll like completely forget because she doesn't care about anyone else When she comes in the middle of the night she'll turn on a light that is literally brighter than the above head lights She has IBS like Joseph has and she makes it out to be like the worst thing in the entire world Whenever I'm in the room I can't study because she's talking to me nonstop but she always calls me out for not studying. And she'll be like "ugh I wish I was you without work" like I'm only not studying because I can't because you're in here anddd she makes the littlest assignments out to be like the hardest things ever. I can give examples if you need. She's also made phone calls in the room speaking at normal voice if not louder on early Sunday mornings!! ONE TIME she once woke me up!! Like purposely woke me up to tell me that she was sick!! And she'll wake up in the morning and I'll be sleeping and she'll just talk to me which like wakes me up idk how but it does I cut a lot bc word count

My two younger sisters and I are going to see Star Wars tomorrow and then hang out at the mall afterwards. The problem is that my youngest sister doesn't want to see it! She keeps saying that she doesn't like Star Wars because it's too long(she doesn't have that long of an attention span) and it's "boring", and that she'd rather see Frozen 2 because it's not only shorter, but entertaining! She asked my other sister and I if she could go to Frozen 2 while we go to Star Wars and then the three of us hang out at the mall together afterwards, and she even offered to pay for her own ticket to Frozen 2, but we told her no, she has to stay with us! Not only that, but the movie Frozen is for babies(she's 21), and we don't want to see a babyish movie! She's really upset with us about this! She's not crying, but she is upset! That's for sure! She says we're being selfish and that we should be grateful that we're seeing Star Wars at all. Honestly, she's the one being selfish because she absolutely refuses to see Star Wars with us! She has seen Star Wars a few times before and she was bored to tears, so she doesn't want to see it again, but we want her to do the right thing and be social! We told her that, but she just said to us "Why does it matter whether i'm there or not? We won't even be socializing during the movie. We'd just be watching it and that's it. What difference would it make if I wasn't there?" and "Why should I have to waste my time seeing a movie I don't like when I could see a movie I actually like?"! We just think it would be good for her to come to Star Wars with us as a way of being social, plus we want her to be with us! She's willing to hang out with us at the mall after the movie, but she won't come to the movie! She wants to go see babyish Frozen 2 while we want to see Star Wars, a more appropriate movie for our age! What should we do about our bratty little sister? We don't want her seeing a movie by herself! It's very anti-social! 

I can't get my boyfriend to keep his stuff picked up. I can't get him to make his kids keep their stuff picked up either. He won't put his laundry in the hamper, he leaves dishes all over the kitchen. His tools and clothes and shoes and every other stupid gadget he has to have has completely taken over my living room. His kids stuff is everywhere, all over the kitchen, the floors, the bathroom, the table. I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE! I have a 4 year old daughter who I have raised to not be such a slob and I'm not saying she's perfect, but she cleans up her messes when asked to. He truthfully just doesn't seem to care. He goes 2 weeks sometimes without a shower, sometimes just as long without brushing his teeth, and sometimes he smells. Do I sound crazy for wanting to break up with him and move out because of the mess? I want a clean house I can decorate and feel proud to have people see.

I'm generally a person who can rationalize and make decisions fairly easily, however right now I am having some trouble. I have been dating my boyfriend, Tim, for 2 years and 2 months. We have lived together for 1 year now. I have a 4 year old daughter and he has 2 daughters, ages 8 and 10. I was raised to be very independent, my parents don't cater to my every need and often times I need help and I need to figure it out for myself. His mom however is the opposite. She buys him everything and they talk nonstop....I mean all day every day constantly she is blowing his phone up. They fight and scream at each other almost every day as well. Her and I used to get along and we still kind of do, except I've grown tired of her drinking problem and her outbursts, (she can be very obnoxious and mean) so I try to not deal with her too much if I don't have to. I also can't stand his kids, they're brats and they're slobs (he is also a slob). I am the only one that cleans in a family of 5. My daughter and his children are very different by nature. Mine is lovey and snuggly, his are not. Mine is sensitive, his are not. He is a former marine, (much respect), but he has this attitude about him that is a pure know it all, my way or the highway attitude which he blames on being in the marines. He makes shovanistic women jokes all the time, and he blows up over anything. He doesn't listen to me and then says he does and then he will fight with me over something that he swears I didn't tell him.

Just because she didn't give her a gift. And your mother started crying and became suicidal. this happened to my mom today.