A lot of people are worried about cultural appropriation. My 12 year old daughter is white. Others might be offended about her wearing a costume from a minority culture... my daughter thinks the outfit is beautiful and might not understand why someone might not like her wearing it

When I was little sometimes he did mean things, or was nice. I decided not to lash out at him though and just be civil. Is this the best way to go about things?

I woke up to my mom telling my sister she has to start sleeping in her bed (long story short my house is badly haunted and my sister won't sleep upstairs or alone), she was also saying to my sister she's 45 she or my dad haven't celebrated their birthdays, we don't do nothing. She said something like life is passing and we don't do anything, I want to enjoy and so stuff. She said she can't rewind and get younger. Then later on she was in the other room with my dad and they were laughing a bit and he said "you want more" and she said as she was laughing "No" then she went back to say whatever else i don't know what it was because I went to take a shower. Like was my dad asking her if she wants more kids? My two younger sisters are 11-9 and my middle sister that's 11 has cyclic vomiting so basically my mom lives everyday like she's gonna have a heart attack scared, then my mom hasn't been able to take a shower in days because of everything she has to take care and she also has been having to do paperwork and she can't get to it with everything going on. My dad works a lot but doesn't deal with the stuff me and my mom have to deal with and he's been asking for a dog because my sister ask my mom for a golden retriever and now my dad wants one very bad, but we already have 3 dogs and a fish and my mom plays like maybe she'll get another dog but then she tells me no way that's crazy I have enough to deal with... but my dad makes like he doesn't even hear her. 

I have this sister I've written about before who is a narcissist. I'm worried that when there's a family celebration of sorts my mother will be asking me not to come on grounds if she wants to keep my sister from having a fit. My mother hates conflict and so she caves to my sisters demands which I think is how she became a narcissist in the first place. At Thanksgiving this year I was asked not to come over until dinner because my sister was present and then to sit in the corner room with my antisocial cousin to keep my sister from being mad that I'm in the room where everyone else was. So this would really hurt me and what do I do if it happens?

Like when I get divorced do I tell them that daddy and I still love each other when obviously we do not? when the dog dies and my daughter is crying about it eight months later do I say "you don't really miss the dog that much". When my mom gets stage for pancreatic cancer do I tell the kids it's OK she's just got a really bad flu and wait till later to tell them what it is? And do I tell them Santa brings them gifts when obviously there's no truth to that. I had a father that lied often and it always lead to disappointment and hurt till I stop trusting him, I don't want to do the same thing. My father did not tell huge lies it was just fib after fib and broken promise after broken promise. I don't have kids yet or anything but I'm just wondering after an article I read. Mark: of course not, I'm just writing sample cases where a lie would be necessary. I'm talking into my iPhone that's why a few of the words are written wrong

I'm 22 and in college and when I was young I outgrew babying and having my sister around me. She is 6 years younger than me and during my teens, I was cruel to her but she still loved me. In college, she tried to keep in touch with me but gave up when I didn't respond. She's half black and the oldest of my siblings and the one I'm close to which is sad on a different level. My dad, not hers called me out on only taking pics with his 14yo twin daughters and asked why my half-black sister thinks I don't like her. She has been a big sister to the twins who aren't related to her as it's what she wanted from me which hurts. I want to fix things but I'm in college, working, and have a boyfriend so I don't have time. I feel awful for the way I treated her when I was young and I want to fix it somehow. I have 5 younger siblings 3 half black from my mom, white twins from my dad and my parents went out of their way to give me the chance to know them but I was just so much older than them I didn't want to and now I think it's too late. Clarification* I said racist things to my half-black sister when I was in middle school and bullied her. She has every reason to hate me. I'm a girl just in case I didn't mention it.

I want him to feel the sting of disappointment that he makes me feel.  Then maybe I can move on. 

I work in an office of 26 people. I am the only woman in the office. The guys I work with are all great guys. I really enjoy being with them. They had a "take your daughter to work day" and I brought my 15 year old daughter. She liked the day in the office with me but what she liked most was talking to my co workers about sports. She is a big sports fan and so are most of them. What was surprising to me is they liked talking to her about sports. There must be some bond between sports fans. Some of the guys had extra tickets to sporting events and they invited us to go with them. These were tickets we could not afford as they were in the expensive boxes at the arena. We all had a great time and my daughter just loved talking to these guys about sports. After we got home from one of these games, my daughter asked me why I hadn't asked some of these guys for a date. She said they were great looking guys and they were hot and sexy. (I am not sure I want my 15 year old daughter knowing about hot and sexy. Isn't that too young to be using that term?) I told her it is usually the guys that ask the girls for a date. She told me that the guys had told her I was great looking and would like to date me but they were just to shy to ask. She said girls waiting for a guy to ask them for a date was SO IN THE PAST. Girls ask guys for a date all the time now. Anyone know if that is true?

This weekend is when the trip he lied about to Oregon would have taken place. Friday through Tuesday. He told me last summer to plan on it and so I adjusted my schedule last summer for it. Then come Christmas he said no he was not doing it cause he didn't have time for travel this winter. Then he went and traveled for 3 days last week and is again first week of March with my step-Mom. He has repeatedly done this.

I get 53 dollars a week from my parents. Im 16 years old people get so much less and I m wondering if mine is too much. I don t really do chores its just the amount I get a week.

I have a younger sister who is frustrated with her life. She's in her first year of college and has a strained relationship with my parents because they are overprotective and don't approve of her having a boyfriend and basically want her to only go to school and get married after she has a degree and such, they basically don't let her go out past a certain curfew and she is a very social type of person and wants to go out, but cannot. Because of this she is always in her room and rarely comes out and speaks to us and if she does talk to us she's always moody or irritated even if we say something simple like "How was your day." Even when I talk to her she is moody and angry. While I understand her frustration and empathize with her ordeal at the same time I also empathize with my parents because even though they are a bit strict, they provide her of everything, and I'm talking everything. Car, Laptop, cell-phone, clothes whatever she needs. Now my parents aren't rich they are standard middle class and they obviously can't get her everything she wants (she's spoiled) they try their best and I tell her this but she won't listen and tells me she is depressed and I've caught her crying before in her room alone and such, so I've tried talking to her and telling her how her life isn't that bad and she has it good and such because she doesn't even have to do any chores or anything my parents literally let her do everything except stay out late, but she wont listen to me. Any advice?

Im moving out of state in less than two weeks. I met him at work and we became good friends and hung out every other week or so. Both 25 years old. But there came a time since the summer that they transferred me to a different building (same company). And he would non stop text me complaining about work. He would find ANYTHING to cry about. For months id get long texts of him complaining and whining about the smallest of things. NON. STOP. BI#CHING! 80% of his texts were negative about work. Usually i understand venting but he crossed the line. I basically texted him last month to "stop complaining and bitching about work. You have it better than any other job and get paid well, no job is perfect ever. Enough complaining." Havent heard from him. 2 weeks ago i said "So youre still pissed i told you to stop complaining" He responds "if its not about work what else are we gonna talk about?". End of convo. So I guess he used me to vent about his misery at work. Other than that im nothing?. But im moving very very soon. He knows im leaving. Ill be gone forever. Should i hit him up to see him one more time? Or should I leave it at that?!

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when my parents saw me watching Disney channel, they said I'm too old for that. I turned on Jerry Springer but they said that is too adult content. Nothing satisfies them.

My mother used to insult and hit my father in front of me a my siblings. As boy, I wanted nothing more than my father to hit my mother back. But he never did. As an adult, I understand that my father knew my mother would call the police, and lock up my father for domestic abuse if he ever hit her back. If my dad ever hit my mother back, my mother could get a court to make my father never see my siblings and I again. I now understand why my father took so much physical abuse from my mother, but Did my father make the right decision by never hitting my mother back?

My two year old son do not want to set and y'all to his father on Skype, anytime he hear it rings he start to cry and say no. His father keep cursing me out saying I'm the reason he don't want to talk and I should "make him". Eveytime I answer the call my son hangs up. Back story: I caught him cheating for the last time and kick him out, he move to Cali to live with his brother, me and my son live in IL, he only visit once in the past six months. 

My mother could care less about my opinion. I really hate it when she tells me to shut up or makes fun of me. She never really fully supports what I do, she yells at me over the smallest things, and always plays the victim in any situation. I have tried and tried again to talk over this situation, but she always turns it into a conversation about herself, or tells me to get out of my own little world. She never fails to make fun of my problems, for example, my hearing sensory issues. She makes a certain sound in my face that I despise, and laughs at me for it when I would make a face or plug my ears. She teases me like a dog. She yells at me for the slightest of reasons. "WHO PUT THIS CUP ON THE WRONG SHELF? YOU'RE DUMB!" I've always had issues with this woman. She always plays the victim card on us and makes us feel worse about ourselves. I'm not allowed to cry in her house or else she'll give me this whole lecture on how I'm selfish and how I need to stop feeling sorry for myself. I try my best to not cry at all (even if she isn't around) just to please her. I've always felt responsible for her unhappiness. Everyday I come home from school, I'm scared to see what kind of mood she is in. If it's something I've done, she'll give me the silent treatment like I am one of her friends. She'll even pull the "I thought we were best friends" card out on my siblings and I. There are numerous other things about my mother but these are the basics. I'm emotionally suffering. 

As a lot of us know, children born between two parents that are closely related are more likely to end up with physical or mental issues. So if a person says to another person "your parents must be cousins" without saying anything else is it an insult?

My brother is about to celebrate his 22nd birthday. He is my best friend and we do everything together from run a business and attend the same college. He literally is always there for me regardless of the situation that he is in. I bought him a gift, and a card and wanted to write something heartfelt and kind in the card. If you have any ideas, please comment below! 

It's mainly my family that's the problem.  My oldest brother (he's 33, I'm 19) has blocked me from his life and his kids' lives because I refused to be involved in his volatile relationship. He wanted me to return some of his ex's things back to her, and honestly I have a lot going on (college, work, mom left) and I just didn't want the drama.  I did this previously with another one of his ex's and it ended horribly (she cried on my shoulder, screaming). Not to mention he dates ALOT and always asks me to get involved. Because of this, my oldest brother has brainwashed my two other brothers and now all of them want nothing to do with me. One of the brothers mentioned above (not the oldest one) sexually abused me while we were children and I cannot believe he gets to see my niece and nephew (he LIVES with them) and I'm not allowed. My mother is a drug addict and is homeless. The last time I saw her was through a visit in jail, and that was two years ago. My mother was forced to leave my home by CPS when I was 15 due to the constant physical abuse I suffered (she gave me a concussion, bruises, etc.) My dad has raised me and does his best. I know he loves me but when my brothers gang up on me, he REFUSES to say or do anything about it. He agrees that my brothers are ridiculous, but won't say it to their faces. All he says is "you shouldn't care, don't let it bother you" and moves on with his day. I get so angry because I feel like I have no one. I just feel like giving up

So my mother gets mad at me when I don't pay attention to her right then and there it doesn't matter if I'm reading, doing homework, playing a video game with a friend, or practicing my cheerleading dance for competition like today for instance. I was playing a game with a few friends and my mom walks in and wants to talk to me about a patient at work which by law she cannot do because what happens between her and the patient stays between them only at least they should. I told her to give me 5 minutes because I'm almost done and I will get off the game and talk to her. She tried to tell me to pause it and I tried to explain that it's online so you can't pause it unless everyone else does.So I tried to compromise but she got mad at me and started to throw things like a plastic cup at me or a medicine bottle and when that didn't stop me she walked out came back in and called me names and walked out again. This always happens it doesn't matter what I do and even when I stop when she wants she just talks about stupid things. I get that she may want to talk to me but she doesn't have to throw things at me. When I want to talk to her she tells me to give her a hour because she's watching tv so when I come back in a hour she tells me to give her another hour and it repeats. I honestly don't know what to do.  I understand that my time isn't more important than my mothers but I just wish that when I try to talk to her about something important she keeps pushing it off but when she wants to talk about something that isn't as important as my homework for instance she gets upset at me and then gets upset at me even more because I didn't have my homework done on time because she kept talking to me and I couldn't focus. 

He won't leave me alone. I told him to leave me alone and I told my mom on him but he still won't stop. I don't know what to do. I called the police on him but he still won't stop. When I was recording him he threatened to break my phone 

When I'm around certain family members they bully me. I can't enjoy myself. I told my mom and their mom on them and I told them to stop but they won't stop. I don't know what to do.