My son's mom was in a car accident and she shes still bothered by it. She can still walk but doctors said it will take 2 years for a full recovery. What can I do to help her along the way?

I have a Late 2009 27 inch iMac and it won't turn on. I tried pouring water inside the vents to cool it off but now it's dead

My grandad his half brother who was adopted for the first time in 2004. In 2015 my grandad died and I rarely ever see his half brother who lives far away. However, he generously sent me £40 for my 18th birthday and now I'm writing a thank you card and I'm not sure what to say bc I don't want to just say "thank you" when he's been so generous,  and i want to reference my grandad. 

I'm 31 my boyfriend is 49 and he spoils me while my dad treats me like an a s s 

My Dad leaves me out often. He feels I am too many people or sometimes he only wants his age range. It is never maliciously but it is because he is sick of me caring about family, he feels it is toxic that I care. I have OCD so he bases it on that. Next weekend I am left out of a late Christmas celebration since I already saw people on Christmas Eve individually. 

we used to be best friends in elementary school and middle school then we got in a fight and she blocked me so i made a new account and i keep messaging her begging for her back saying sorry and telling her i'm crying but she won't answer i keep telling her how sorry i am but she doesn't care

Tomorrow winter break is over and I have to go back to school. I'm in eleventh grade and I'm dreading it so much. 3 of my friends moved away over break to make it worse. I also hate english so much because my english teacher is really mean and rude and her class is so boring and my history teacher is a pervert and stalks kids on their social media's

She dumps on my only brother s wife. She hates her step-brother, she hates these nice relatives of hers that were born to a family enemy (her uncle s children). She gets irritated when I see her cousin whose only flaw is ADHD causes her to miss social cues but is very kind and innocent. She dislikes her cause her father was not nice to my Mom's mother. She hates her sister s in-laws cause one of them was unfair in a real estate deal to our grandfather. She hated her step-mother (now deceased). So anyway how do I deal with someone with this much hate? It is hard to be around her but she is my Mom and so I don't want to develop hate, I want to love her. Many of the family members she hates are ones I am close to. She came from a family with love-hate personalities. They are Greek but 5 generations back. Not sure if that is a common Greek trait or not. Her mother was the same way.

My mom is currently "sick". I put sick in quotation marks because she has a habit of getting sick when she doesn't want to do something and/or when my dad leaves her so he can come back. In this scenario my dad left her again, I would like to believe for good. My mom is very abusive and my sisters and I never understood why he stayed. We witnessed her ruin mutliple birthdays, try to get him fired from his job, destroy his car, call him crude names, etc. All of this because of my father's infidelity 25+ years ago. Anyways fast forward to now, My mother wanted to "cleanse" the house by throwing away all my grandmother's stuff(her cross, her paintings, her doll collection, etc). My dad looked so defeated, he left that night and hasn't came back yet. It's been three weeks now. My mom is coming to the realization that he's not coming back and so she is saying that she's sick. One minute she said she's been poisoned, next minute she's having an asthma attack, now she think it might be cancer. She's been doing this for yearsss. However, this time I'm not running around for her because I know she's not sick. three months ago I took her to the ER one doctor laughed at her for her dramatics and told her everything looks fine. I told her I'm not calling my dad and I'm not taking her to the ER unless I personally feels she really needs to go. My brother and two of my sisters agreed with this notion, however my other sister said I should still take her. What do you think?

We used to be best friends for 7 years then in ninth grade we had a huge argument where our parents even got involved and we stopped talking then in eleventh grade last year on october 14 i reached out to become friends again she seemed interested and i found out she's homeschooled bc of her anxeity and depression then she stopped replying i texted a week later "r u ok?" and she said she's just busy and she's sorry then we continued our conversation then she disappeared again and a month later in november i checked on her again and told her if she ever wants to talk i'm here and she said thanks then 2 days ago i reached out to see how her winter break is and she said relaxing:) and asked how mine is and then she disappeared again so i texted again hi i'm at the mall and she replied and we talked again then she disappeared again and i've texted like 4 times without a reply

I should have said frequently keeps me out of the loop, not always. He is a bad man. 

 On Christmas we were over at my sisters house for 6 hours during most of that time my kids were upstairs and then my brother-in-law decided he wanted to play a very long board game with the only adults. Only my sister let her daughter play while she was cooking I offered to help cook so one of my kids could play but she just wanted to do it herself this year. Eventually my 7 year old came downstairs and asked if he could roll the dice for my niece would had gone upstairs for a few minutes. My sister said sure but my Dad got all pissed off and said "No it's not your turn!" My son got upset and stated that he was never going to get to play (which was true we were playing risk and my brother-in-law had to teach everyone to play) he then said "stop it with the whinny baby stuff I'm onto you." Shortly afterward he yelled at my son about taking a toy from my youngest niece insinuating that he was trying to hurt her only she is almost two and is going through that stage where she can't share anything, he had the toy first she sat on it and he tried to get it back mind you it's Christmas and my kids basically have had no fun. I left clearly pissed and then he came to my house and got he got **** faced which is a regular occurrence for him lately. I then had to send my kids away again bc I didn't want them around him and he again got mad bc he felt they should go to bed at 7:40. we did talk I did set some boundaries.  Should even let him around my kids? He came to visit from far away and usually stays over

My Dad knows how important it is for me to see his family and yet he continues to keep me in the dark about family activities. I'm so hurt. I try to express this to him and he denies keeping me in the dark and gets really mad. He also lies about family stuff from time to time. How do I handle this and the hurt it causes me?

I did have 8 brother's but my younger brother Cain passed but I still say I have 8 brothers because even though he isn't here I still consider him to be my brother. I told a friend I had 8 brothers and she just says 'stop lying Cain doesn't count he's dead' 

I am going to college and staying with my brother and his wife. I started to have painful periods. It was 5 days of hell. I could barely function. My doctor put me on medication that stopped my periods. It is wonderful. I don't have these terrible pains each month. My problem is the medication that stops my periods is also a birth control. My mother is a devout Catholic who believed that anyone that takes birth control is going to hell. My brother said we should just let this be our secret and not tell my mother what I am doing. He said if she knew I was on birth control, it would cause her needless worry. Do you think he is correct in us keeping this secret?

Why does my son have to get married? Why did my do have to marry her? It's not like I want him too? I hare having to share my son. I just want my son all for my self :( and I hate seeing my daughter in laws face her voice is soft and mousy like her stupid families I tell my son to leave her so I can have my son all to my self but he won't what do I do? Oh and btw if you think I am trolling I am not

I was given to my aunt after my biological mother gave birth to me. Ever since then I grew up without any support from my biological parents. I'm already at the right age and currently working. I want to know if I can create a contract where my biological parents will agree that they will not get any monetary support from me. 

She can be nice but she can be really—really abusive

My father wanted to start a business and I refused to help him. Everytime my father talks about an achievement of his I make sure I speak about someone who is better than him to bring him down. I don't get why am I this way? Was it the verbal abuse growing up? Or is it me being arrogant

My WHOLE family smokes weed. I ve done it for a while now. My mom caught me 2x and the first she laughed it off but the second time she took my phone... she smokes but I wanna convince her to allow me. I dont use it to be cool. I use it for my anxiety. It helps calm me down and nothing is different. She's strict too

His mother lives with us. We both are 29 and been together for 3years. Of course he loves his mother and i have no problem with that. But i often feel awkward that he is laying on his mother's lap. Sometimes we are in the livingroom and watching tv and im just awkwardly sitting there next to them where my husband lays on his mother's lap. I politely and nicely asked him if u can avoid doing that in front of me. (im Asian and he is African American) and he told me that im weird to think that way and i told him its not that i think it as weird way but i just feel uncomfortable because in my culture, we dont do that especially in front of the spouse just out of respect for the spouse. He told me that i think that way because my people **** each other in family which I dont know where that idea come from. He cuss me out and he said he doesnt want to be with me because i asked him not to lay on his mother's lap in front of me. I didnt demand it either, I simply asked if he could avoid it out of respect for me. Am i too much? Did i offend him and his mother from asking this? Is it really me over react? Any advice?  He said i been in his life for only 3years and I dont know what him and his family went through together and im trying to split his family.  He said he doesnt want to be with me and he wouldnt mistreat his mother for no one. Which i dont understand because i never asked him to mistreat his mother but only just asked not to lay on his mother's lap because it makes me feel uncomfortable somehow. Am i really wrong? Would u feel the same way and very upset at ur spouse if ur spouse asked the same? 

So me and this boy used to be best friends for 7 years. We are both 16 and then we stopped being friends because of an argument in 2017 and our parents got involved and we stopped talking because of it. Now this year i started being homeschooled because of my anxeity and this year in october he reached out to me to be friends again and he was really nice and we talked a bit but i lost interest and stopped responding and he texted me again after a week asking if i was ok and i told him i was busy so i wouldn't be rude and we continued our conversation catching up over the years we weren't friends and then i stopped responding again so he'd stop texting and it's obvious he cares so much for me but i'm not interested in being friends anymore because i've moved on and then he TEXTED ME AGAIN in november a month later to check on me and he also said sorry for texting if i was busy because i didn't answer and i implied i didn't want to talk by saying i was busy and that it was ok and he said if i ever want to talk i can and i said thanks but he obviously didn't get the hint cause he texted 2 days ago asking how my winter break is and i said fine and asked how his is, and he told me his grandpa passed away and I said I'm sorry about it and today he texted me saying he's on his ps4 and trying to make conversation but I ignored it all and idk what to do though he's really nice but i don't want to talk because i'm busy and don't really care about him anymore

She has a red bloody spot in her eye and headaches and pain behind her eye and now her tooth is bleeding could she have something

they are so concerned about not disappointing their parents. I could care less if my parents get disappointed. I live life for me, its not my job to make my parents happy. I have my own life I want to live

My sister has a 4 month old lab puppy, and she told me when she does wrong that she slaps her on the butt. I asked her what she meant by slap her. She did an example on me, and she literally tapped me. I hardly felt anything, but while I think it's useless, I dont think it will harm the puppy. She said sometimes the puppy play bites her, so she Bops her on the noses but not nearly enough for it to hurt. She also said that sometimes her older dog doenst like the puppy, and that one times her older dog went angrily for he puppy, and she smacked the older dog on the snout. Once again not enough for it to hurt, but to send a message not to do it. I told her I dont agree with it, and than she asked "well are you gonna report me for that?" I said no, because animal co trolls likely wont do anything. I wanted to keep trying to discourage her of doing that stuff, but I didnt want to argue, and I said maybe I'm being too sensitive. Obviously if I saw her beating her dogs than I would be angry, but do you think arguing with her about a few little taps and slaps is worth ruining our relationship? I dont want to be a bad person for letting her do that stuff.

I'm 17 year old guy and I met my best online friend in 2015 and we've been talking everyday sense and he's 24 and he has a lot of mental issues and he's been to the mental hospital a lot when he was younger and we fight sometimes he's a bit crazy because of his illnesses but we still were best friends and were inseparable and i told him everything about me and he did the same and tonight we had another usual argument it's been getting worse over the past few weeks and he seemed to be getting crazier and falling victim to his illnesses and he ended the conversation with i'm slitting my wrists tonight and that was it and i messaged like 10 times please don't and everything and i'm really worried he actually did it because he used to cut and has always had depression but takes medication and first off will i get in legal trouble or something for making him suicidal like this because of our fight and second what do i do i'm so worried yes he isn't responding to anyone anywhere 

I masturbated watching my old sister naked in the bathroom

After one week. I am looking for another woman.

She lied and said she was going out for like an hour maximum and would be back. She told me to not tell my dad and I was okay with it because she never goes out and it seemed innocent. But her friend's mom caught her and called my dad and now I feel like I'm in trouble because she said I let her out. She's 17, I'm 20. What should I do? I've never been in charge of her before (it's a long story) and I'm not that close with my dad and I feel so guilty rn. I don't want to fight her and I don't want my dad to hate me either. What do I do? Just to clarify: I was raised as an only child my whole life and I hate being the one in charge because I suck at it obviously. She sneaked out because my dad is overprotective of her. He's too much. She can't even go out to eat dinner with her best friend. He goes crazy. 

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I am a middle-aged adult and was active in politics for years, including serving in government. I'm now a member of a third party. I don't care for my former party that much (it's one of the two main parties), but I just cannot stand the other main party. My mother is supporting a candidate of the other main party in this election cycle and constantly talks about how great the candidate it, sends photos and opinion pieces to me about the candidate, etc. The candidate has proposed specific policies that will adversely affect some of my mother's financial assets. My mother chooses to ignore those policies, but talks about how important those financial assets are to her. Well, they'll shrink once her candidate gets elected. Every time my mother brings up the candidate, I just say nothing, other than, "OK", in a non-emotional way. I don't respond to emails gloating about the candidate. My mother knows of my past political involvement with the other party and knows that I'm actively supporting a candidate of the other party. I find it tone-deaf, or obnoxious, for my mother to keep going on and on about her candidate. Even hearing the name of the other party makes my skin crawl. How to get my mother to stop talking politics to me? (Not "with me", as her political lectures are not a conversation.) Thanks.

My mom came up to me and said "I didn't know Cameron Diaz had a baby at 47! You know I feel like my legs want to fall off in this house too much, image a baby at that age you have no patients. And by that time the baby is 10 she'll be like a grandmother it's sad". Now my mom is going to be 45 this month, is she referring to herself? Like once we went to tj max and the lady she was talking to had 8 kids and my mom kept saying god forbid to herself. I don't think my parents use protection just saying like once she thought someone said she may have another kid and she freaked and that was last summer. 

My younger sister is only 17 . She asked me to do something in her car today. While in there I found a lot of bad stuff (My opinion) Vape chargers, Condoms, and Plan-B. I was kind of upset to find this. How should I approach this. Im Older than her so I don't know If i should just tell my parents or Not. I dont want to upset her but I think she is out of line. Thanks. 

My kids are 2 and 3 and a few months ago after my husband abandoned us we moved back to my parents house and my brother is only 17 so he lives there too. Everything was going fine and my kids love my brother and think the world of him. But when I saw my brother smoking weed and driving to school I told our parents and now I guess now he's not allowed to drive anywhere for a while and he's livid with us. He refuses to acknowledge out existence and everytime one of my kids tries to hug or talk to him he tells them to go away and whenever he gets home before us he locks us out of the house and we have to wait until my dad shows up to unlock the door for us and yells at my brother. The last time I tried to talk to him he told me to kill myself and that I shouldn't be allowed to have kids if I can't support them on their own and called them a waste of space right in front of them. Hating me is one thing I'm the one who told on him but my kids are innocent and they're heartbroken that he doesn't love them. I told on him because I love him and don't want my kids to hear that their favorite uncle died in a car crash from driving high. He doesn't even care he just hates us regardless. My parents won't help me out because they don't want to talk to him and are kicking him out when he's 18 in a couple weeks unless he behaves. How am I supposed to teach my kids love if their uncle hates them? It's not fair to them.

So all of us were at my nephew's second birthday party. This woman whom I've seen a few times before but don't know very well was at our table.She said she likes watching people.So my eyes were wandering around the room out of anxiety.Our eyes met briefly like three times in 4 seconds. Her and I kept turning our heads away from each other but we ended upLooking at each other. One of those times I quickly licked my lips because they were dry.So when we were leaving we shook hands firmly and she said "see you bud" while smiling.I said bye to her too.Chances are, she didn't think I was flirting by licking my lips. But I'm a little socially awkward and highly conscientious.She pulled her hand away quickly as we shook hands. I didn't mean to hang on too long, it's just my style. I find her attractive to be honest. But I haven't showed interest in her.

I am still living with my parents. I had hoped to move out by 21, but that's not very likely to happen. I have a job, I'm planning to start something on the side soon. I'm saving up for a house and putting money away for retirement. I've also started learning about investing in the stock market. Now I'm hoping to move out at 25. My parents dont mind me living at home thankfully but I feel pressured to move out because friends and family alike see me as a failure. Why is there such a bad stigma around living with your parents as an adult?

So, I'm a 17 year old girl who was brought up with three younger siblings. I remember my mom being pregnant with every single one of them, and I grew up babysitting them. They are hell on earth, I absolutely cannot stand them, and they're always creating trouble at school. I constantly had to sacrifice any chance of spending time with my mom and dad, and thus I have a weak relationship with both of them. I never once wanted a child, not even when I would play house when I was a child myself. I would even go as far as to say that I despise children, because I saw what damage they could do, the trouble they create, and the unbearable pain of having to put up with them on a daily basis. Recently I got into an argument with my aunt in which she said I was an idiot and a fool for not wanting children, this same aunt used to beat her now adult children bloody. She said that children are the only reason to go on, and well, I'm still relatively young so I don't know. Am I really that unreasonable for not wanting to waste my life for a child, and instead wanting to learn and invest my time and money in academia?

So I can't believe I'm even going to type this, but I don't know what else to do at this point. My parents are extremely controlling. I consider them very toxic for that reason. They try to stop me from advancing in life in every possible way they can. For the longest time, they would not even allow me to work. After A LOT of fighting, they allowed me to start doing side gigs, part time/minimum wage fast food stuff, etc. It was nothing to help me get ahead, but at least I was making money. I did end up finding a different job that pays more than minimum wage (and is full time) that was in their approved travel range. They still complain about my hours changing and having to take me in general. Yeah... another aspect is they refuse to let me get my license/a car. I have enough money right now to get one. They just won't take me to look at any and won't help me prepare to take my testing to get my license. They either ignore me/walk away or change the topic when I bring it up. I want out bad. I want to be away from them and actually have my freedom I've been getting robbed of. I have strongly considered looking into some sort of shelter. Are shelters just for people who don't work, or could I also go to one with a job? Could I get ride assistance to my job? Would they help me get a car/license?  I don't have a credit history due to my previously described situation. Could I rent an apartment or small house despite that? I just need help and want OUT. I want out. I want a license, car and my own place. How can I take the necessary steps to get away from them and actually have the life I rightfully deserve? I really want to live on my own until I find a relationship.

I am 66 my daughter is 44,,I asked my sister for a box of old pictures she has of our family.My sister was young so she doesn't know most of the family,my mom divorced and remarried,so to her our step father was her dad.Why my sister has these pictures I don' know,I think after our mom died she took them.I am getting older and often think of all my fathers family and there are pictures of me growing up.I asked her for them a couple times she said never will I get them.My sister and I have had a rocky relationship but last year she became seriously ill and I went the next day to help her.I told my daughter about the pictures and that my sister her aunt sent me a very mean text telling me I was crazy and I would never get these pictures.I thought my daughter would stand up for me but no she said she won't get involved.Well that hurt,I am her mom.My daughter continues to communicate with her on facebook.Am I wrong or what?