My job is at a grocery store. I receive the merchandise, and spend the whole day organizing it in the back warehouse. This happens three days a week. I work two days ENTIRELY among the general public. The remaining two days I'm off. I recently requested to have my schedule changed to where I ONLY work on delivery days, so as to avoid people. My workplace was perfectly fine with it. MY dad however is not. He doesn't like that I'm only working 3 days a week, and wants me to work more. I've tried to explain that the pandemic situation is not a joke. That I will likely get sick, since our customers don't care about spreading germs. I also explained that Covid-19 would probably kill him if I gave it to him... and DEFINITELY kill my grandparents who live in the house next door to us He either doesn't get it, doesn't care, or thinks I just want to be lazy. How can I make him understand the gravity of the situation?

I have not seen him in 3 years and it is a very distant relationship (to me he is nothing more then a distant relative like a 3rd cousin) However. it would feel weird if he died and I had not seen him in 3 years since his death. He lives in Virginia and I live in Oregon so I will not be able to see him before he dies. His sister I hear from and she is the one who told me. I do know when I mentioned funeral she said "well hopefully he will recover but if not he has always said he wants no funeral". I guess that will not be an issue therefore. It does feel weird as noted not to see him for 3 years and now he will be dead. At the same time he is no more then a distant relative and had never made an effort to know me since leaving us when I was two. It has always hurt me tremendously that he left us and I have no Dad. So is he likely to die since he has COVID-19? Or do most people recover fine from it? He has no underlying health conditions according to my aunt. Also, if he does die how do I let go of the bad feelings I will egt of guilt when my Dad was the one who left us? How do I not get sad over it or will the sadness pass if I do? I never thought I'd feel sad over him since he didn't want a relationship with me. I am 16 BTW

I am a single mom with a teenage daughter (16). Long story short, while she was at school one day, I needed to transfer some files from my computer for work. I figured she had a flash drive in her room that I could borrow. Well I found the flash drive, but certainly not school related files on her drive if you get my point... I was surprised because I wasn't expecting that, but honestly wasn't upset at all. She's an honor roll student, athlete, and just a nice kid. I would be concerned if this was affecting her behavior or her social engagement, but she is VERY responsible. In honesty, as single mom, I regularly watch and enjoy porn myself. Husband and I divorced a few years back. My daughter sees him very regularly. I'm not upset that she watches, but am I required to confiscate or confront her about this since she is so young? I would be an absolute hypocrite if I gave her any lecture on why she should not be watching this material, as I have been able to responsibly enjoy watching for years. She clearly is being responsible and enjoying herself.

I feel like some people, I avoid talking to on the phone just drain all my energy for the day. Even a parent.

So basically, my grandma and i were really close...some would say inseparable. It was around 6 months ago when we heard she was diagnosed with cancer, my other grandma died 2 years ago from cancer and that was devastating, but for some reason when THIS grandma died i wasn't sad at all i just carried on. I feel horrible, and sometimes i try and force my self to cry. Her funeral was weird because everyone around me were clearly sad, but me. I don't know, a part of me feels so guilty about the way i feel but the other half just feels like i should move on. I feel so weird.... 

Like, half of my digs bark too much and are wild, and I dont get along with my girlfriend or roomate.

My friends say that it looks funny and everyone knows that my stepdad blew his load in her a few months ago now. 

My father complains about his car getting poor gas mileage so I told him to stop using cheap no-name gas and do regular synthetic oil change. Instead he stuck paint damaging tape all over his car. I asked him why and he says he read on the internet that the tape makes the car go faster and get better gas mileage. I am speechless.

My brother owe's me a lot of money and hasn't talked to me in years.  A few years ago his brother n law became a minister and recently moved near by.  We caught his sermon online on Sunday.  I messaged I'd like to come visit his new church.  He didn't respond to me but his sister (who never messages me) sent me a nasty rude video the next day saying "stay away" but I never heard back from him.  What should I do?

She asks me to help them with their online classes and when I text her and tell her that they're done she still waits until like 6pm to pick them up.  I can't say anything because my mom loves it when they're here. She feeds them all of our food and they tear the house up when they're here. Ugh

Everytime something disappears he blames it on me, im not even sure if his age is something to blame he is 65 years of age. One time someone threw his extension cord in my room and I was so shocked. I always try to socialize but he's always trying to get my attention by inviting other guests that dont like me. All they ever do is come ask him for work and they are past drug addicts and gamblers. My dad used to drink and got divorced and he also tried to change by going to church, which is weird to me as to why he tries to irritate his children after everyone has their own agenda. The last time his friend came he kept nagging about how everyone just goes to their room, it was time to sleep and the friend was just telling my dad how nobody could kick him out of there.

 Awhile ago my dad and uncle got in a fight because my uncle stole some money from him and my grandpa. It's happened before but my dad was finally fed up. He told him that he didn't want to see him anywhere near our house ever again.   A couple days go by and my dad goes on a trip. While he was gone, my uncle came over to our house, knowing it was just going to be my sister and I. My sister and I aren't the type to argue, so all we did was tell him to go and called our dad. When he came back from his trip, my dad warned him again.   Up until yesterday, he hadn't showed up. Until a few days ago. He showed up once again. This time, he hopped over our fence and we found him in our backyard after we thought we saw something. My sister and I were home alone. Once he saw that we saw him, he tried to laugh it off but we know he was trying to break in. We didn't call the cops but once again we told him to go.  I was just wondering if we have the grounds to file a restraining order against him. We are from Texas. 

Every hour of every day my mother is constantly trying to feed me into her negativity. She'll text and call me all day just to say the same negative nonsense she's already said to me the day before. Anything nice that she says doesn't last 30 seconds before she puts a dark twist on it. If I ever say something nice to her she either ignores it or twists it around to make it negative. I told her about how the town fixed up the nearby park and reopened it, and she replies with "great, not gonna be long before they find a body in there." now that this virus is running rampant thats all that exists to her now, everyday it's "oh look at all these people who died and all these sick people. this thing is going to exterminate us" and when I tell her to stop, That im tired of hearing it she just snaps at me "You're always so miserable, I cant stand you" and then she'll leave me alone for a bit before she starts back up again. Now i'm starting to get depressed from being isolated and I feel like her behavior is backing me into a corner. I know she's intentionally doing this to me because she doesn't treat my sister or anyone else like this, so when I fly off the handle at her, Everyone thinks im the one freaking out.

co-dependent, move too fast, want too much from you as pen friends? 

I hardly see my mother and father side of the family. I do not talk with my sisters especially my first sister( she try to sue my mother by using my second sister(rip) for child abuse. Years later, she said that she is sorry but the damage is done)) My brother went to jail five times until he change his life. He is the only one talks to me and my mother. My mother is a strong woman trying to raise me but now she is paranoid and sick. I ask my sisters for help but they hate my mother over something when they are teens. I really do not care about father since he move to his hometown in Indiana because he cheats on his second wife. Plus, he has heart surgery. However, I'm still surviving at the age of 31. No kids and trying to get back to college.

I find I'm a person who prefers texting. Or email with family and relatives.

Would you treat the kids you have with him better than the kids he had from previous relationships

Is a hoarder, lives like a slob, is lazy, very moody, high strung yet wont put that energy into being productive.  I'm guilty of it sometimes, but I quickly snap out of it. Like nothing makes them happy, they worry 24/7 and are negative.  Its overwhelming.  If I avoid them they sink further but I can only handle so much.  Therapy is crazy expensive and my suggestions are taken like attacks instead of solutions so I get vented on and its draining.   Should I try to do something really nice for them? Focus on myself? Help them out more? We move together. 

Long story short of my dad- raised in an abusive home by his dad&fam and passed it on to my brothers and my mom (he would hit them) Growing up he was never really in our lives just and my moms (always working,noncommunivative) yrs later: got sick& is now blind.went thru 2ys of isolation in his room. Accused me&my brother of touching each other (we were playfighting) Thinks he's always right, has gotten abusive with me, plays the victim all the time, resents me and my mom(his youngest daughter) thinks hitting is ok and shows discipline, machista to the max, abused my dog literally all this while not being able to see. He's completely sick from the head, literally. Why should I give him a reason to be in my life? 

She doesnt do house cleaning stuff or dust. She doesn't even take care of herself.  I'm the one always trying to live decent. If I stop for a while it gets so gross.  Shes full of excuses and snaps ar me if I talk about it.  It's not worth the nice things she does a more. I feel like it's too much extra work for me and stress living in her house. Everyone I ever dated had a clean room, clean kitchen, dust free home or apt.  They also were more vibrant. Calm, worked out.  I cant tell the living perks away from my anger sometimes. I hate this area, the creepy weird neighbors. I dont want to move yet or call it quits. I feel like I come down on her like a parent. She says I dont live her enough, but really?  Is she giving me reason to? I mean I do love her, and feel sorry for her. Shes always on about her ex mistreating her. I get sick of hearing it.

I'm so sick of this, I can't even talk to my sister anymore because everything I say, she thinks it's a lie. She's like "yeah sure..." and later on she's like "I know you were lying" or "I can tell when people lie". And it pisses me off because I never lie to her. What should I do?

Iam not married. Iam living with his family's house. With his stepmom and half sister and stepbrother. I want to get my things without interference of my son's father. I want to leave peacefully.  My mom came by the the house we are at because I wasn't picking up the phone. I hope anyone can read the voice recording Voice 001_sd

I am currently 20 years old, and the last time I saw my mom I was 6. I barley remember anything about her at all, but all of the memories that I do have are very fond to me. She walked out on my dad after having a mental breakdown, leaving him to raise me by himself. My dad remarried when I was 13, and his wife and I have never gotten along. I love my dad and I wouldn't trade the relationship I have with him for anything, but for as long as I can remember, I have thought about what meeting my mom again would be like. Three months ago, I found her on social media. I haven't messaged her yet, as my dad and stepmother are very against it and I am not sure that its a good idea. They both say that my mom is only going to hurt me worse, but I feel like until I do message her, I will always feel like a piece of me is missing. Do you guys think its a good idea? Please help, I really don't know what I should do.

So in my life time this was when I was around 15 and I still had my 14 yr old sister with me at the time and all my dad did was pick on her like 24/7 until one day she said uk what I'm done and ended up telling CPS which brought to all of us being removed for over a year and my dad and mom saying my dad did nothing wrong! Pssh yea but anyway we finally after that year were able to come back and to no ones surprise my sister never wanted to come home so shes in the abbot house up in rapid I think or pierre tbh idk where it's at but anyway now my dad has decided to target the next child me and is now constantly picking on me and honestly picks on my brother who is 13 just as much too! Even if you tell him to stop he wont listen so you just have to wait till he leaves! And my biggest issue is him grabbing me and **** i hate that alot! And taking my phone and going through all my privacy on purpose not to be helpful in anyway but to find something to make fun of me about like a Gf. And then he complains everytime he comes home from work saying how I'm a lazy piece of **** who sits up stairs all day and does nothing( I am 17 now btw) but when infact I do the chores they give me everyday I feel as tho he expects me to do as much as he does everyday and I hate it alot! But he will also say oh you dont even have ur drivers license or a job and I'm just pissed cause it's like if I wasnt sent to a foster home because of your stupid *** I would have had both of those things already!!!🤬 And to continue I just wanted to say we live in the middle of no where so there is nothing to do out here period so no **** I'm obviously going to be in my room all day wtf else am i going to do and btw i dont have my license because cps requires i do drivers ed which I will not so we are waiting till the last court date which is on April 3 so I can be in my parents custody and get my drivers license without going through that!  Ig. I'm just giving up and and getting real sick of this crap I miss my sister alot and prolly wont see her till i graduate😞 and my mom is the one keeping me somewhat together atleast shes nice💜 And with the phone thing that's another big issue is home constantly calling me names and making fun of me about Gfs or bestfriends and **** i tell him to stop and he doesnt I have such anger built up inside because of him!😡😡😡 but also sadness it hurts alot😭😭😭 when I was in foster care I was never angry mabye sad cause Y not foster care is always sad but never did I have the need to get angry😥 and idk I dont wanna leave cause I dont wanna lose my mom and siblings!😭 I forgot to mention this too but I swear he has no idea how hard school is and all the homework you get and the hours on end you spend working on that stuff like frrl!😞😞 he acts like I do nothing when I have school to worry about and all the work that comes with it aswell I've told him before how much I'd wrather have a job than be in school because atleast I'd make money! And I swear he never listens😞😞😞😞

I believe that my parents have become too strict. They lock my phone at nine so I can't text, call, or facetime anyone (including family;) they don't let me eat certain foods, they've forced me to have a five o'clock curfew on weekdays and weekends, and more. Not to mention the constant arguing. If I don't do something they ask me to, they'll yell at me; If I do something they ask me to, they'll yell at me. Lately, the thing that's been bothering me the most is that they won't let me leave the house (the Coronavirus pandemic is occurring right now;) I'm not allowed to leave my house or my front yard. At this point, I feel like it's getting out of hand, and the majority of my friends and outer family are worried about me because I'm not going to have any real life experience when I go to college. I've told my parents about this, and it always starts an argument. Does anyone know what I can do to gain some freedom? Or maybe even advice on how to live through these next two years without losing my mind?

Salutations everyone! I would like some insight into my dream: My eldest son and I were sitting on the sofa watching television in our living room. I started channel surfing looking for something interesting to watch. I stopped when I saw what appeared to be an episode of Family Matters ... one that l hadn't seen before. My son blurted out, "Man I regretted watching this episode!" In the episode the cast members were all sitting in a horizontal row. I do not recall seeing the neighbor, Steve Urkle, only the central family members of the cast. Suddenly, they all started humming. It put me in mind of a church song or ***** spiritual. Suddenly, Mother Winslow the matriarch of the family, started singing: One day the Lord's gonna call me home. After a brief pause she loudly bellowed ... San Antonio. I woke up after that because my phone started ringing. I haven't seen an actual episode of Family Matters in many years. It was so random. It felt like a funeral, but not a physical more like spiritual. What could this mean? Thank you.

I just started a new job at a grocery store but I am super scared that I will get coronavirus there. I am wondering what the chances are of me getting it and what to do to stay safe.

Hi everyone. I just want the best for my grandkids and my daughter in law is very mean to me. I try to give her advice on how to better parent and she'll tell me to mind my own business and she wasn't asking for my advice. I truly do mean the best by it. I've gotten in arguments with her because I don't agree with how she does things and now I regret it because she avoids me at all costs. Her and my son fell on hard times financially so they came to our house and we welcomed them in but me and my husband weren't doing well. I moved out for two months then when I came back they told me they put an offer on a new place. I freaked out on her and called her mean names because I was mad at her and felt it was because of me. I want to make this right and I know my behavior has been unacceptable. How can I make this right

My daughter is not biologically mine. But I've raised her since she was two years old. Shes 6 years old now and her bio mom left her when she was 2. It took our daughter a VERY long time to get over the fact that she was never going to see her again. She would spend nights crying, daily she would ask why she can't see her mom. After 4 years she was finally at a point where her heart didn't hurt as much. But we just found out from my daughter that her grandmother was showing her pictures of her mom. Reminding her that that was her "actual" mom. Keep in mind my boyfriends parents don't like me. Reasoning being we moved out shortly after we started dating. Anyways my daughter came home asking about her mom and why she can't see her and we are starting to see the signs that we saw when she was 2 of how hurt she is. To be honest I'm beyond angry at his parents for showing her those pictures. Am I in the wrong for being angry about this? I'm mostly upset because we got so far and now I feel like we are right back where we were 4 years ago. 

Like reading my grandmother's old letters she and her cousins were all like siblings and same with my grandfather's cousins. They had 2nd and 3rd cousins who all gathered at Christmas. My great-grandparents had like 3rd and 4th cousins I know they lived in the neighborhood with. Yet, I see my cousins at funerals and we enjoy seeing each other but another 5 years or so pass before the next funeral. Only about half the cousins are even at the funerals. Some I have not seen in over 30 years. We never did Christmas and stuff when I was a kid other then 1 nephew of my Dad's who was an only child to a single father (they are close). I tried doing a family reunion twice but both times about 20 out of 88 invited guests showed up. I figured it wasn't worth the effort though I may try again in a few years. My grandparents era 4th of July was a giant family reunion every year as well as having Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I don't know anyone now a days who does Easter with extended family. So were families closer 50 to 100 years ago then they are now?

My brother sometimes calls my name, should I simply tell him to leave me alone and back away from my door?

Ever since I was little my mother yells at me a lot and she even admits that she takes her anger out on me and it honestly scares me. When I was younger I had depression and she told me if I killed myself to do it in the garage so she didn't have a mess to clean up. She's hit me a few times in the face when I was younger but she just told me to call DHS if I was going to act scared of her. She tells me that I don't love her and I hate her and she tells me I just use her for her money. There are times that I have been rude and she has every right to yell at me but I'd rather talk about it than her yelling at me. I show her I love her by telling her I appreciate her everyday, I clean the house, I make her breakfast everyday, I buy her flowers when I have money and I tell her I love her but it never seems to be enough. I really want to show her I love her and I've tried to talk to her about talking out stuff instead of her yelling me or almost pretending to hit me and she says she'll stop but it never turns out that way. I do everything she says and if I do something wrong I instantly apologize but she just tells me I'm trying to shut her up. What can I do to show her that I actually care for her?

She always thinks she is too fat. And ugly. She always says her face is too long and her lips are too small. I tell her alllll the time that she is pretty and amazing and to stop being so negative cause me and her look so much alike costumers think we are twins! I actually feel kind of offended when she says her face is too long cause mine is longer :/ how do I deal with this ?

My parents have been yelling a lot recently and today it escalated to my dad throwing a cup of tea at my mom during one of their arguments and cutting her. My mom has been gathering things in her bag like bandaids, her laptop, and I think she might be planning to leave. I know it looks my mom is a victim and my dad is the criminal, but it's more that they're both victims and both the problem. I don't want to report them because I don't want to make a big deal out of this, because that would just make it worse. I'm in grade 8, and my dad might lose his job because of the Coronavirus. My mom has already lost her job, and is planning to move to Madison for a new one. We might not join her. I know this might get written off as another troll, but I'm seriously asking. As a kid, how can I cope with this? I don't want to sit awkwardly while they fight and even attack each other, but I don't know what to do either. Do nothing, and let whatever happens happen? Report them, and get them both in big trouble? Pick a side, so when the move happens, I know who to stay with? I don't know and I really want some help with this. I know Yahoo Answers isn't really the best source for this, but it seems like the only place I can ask for help without looking like a karma whore or a liar. Thanks for reading this, even if you don't know how to help