My older cousin is gonna have a kid with his girlfriend & I stressed to them that I really want to be there for the gender reveal. They assured me they wanted us there & when they picked a date they'd let us know. He had me convinced that this time they really wanted me there. They have a history of paying expenses for my younger cousin's friends to go on their 'family trips' then later telling me 'you should have been there' I thought cause of covid that the reveal would be cancelled, then I see on their social media they had the gender reveal without telling me a thing. Then I thought maybe they were just trying to follow the 10 person rule.. nope as I keep scrolling I see they have about 18 (yes I counted) people there, among them were some family members, but 3 of my younger cousins friends were there. These girls had just taken a trip to New Orleans and haven't been practicing social distancing AT ALL and they got invited to my cousins gender reveal before I did?  As usual, they try to reach out to me later with things like "Where have you been?"  "What are you up to?" I played stupid when they told me excitedly they know the gender of the baby, I asked why they didn't let me know I would have loved to share the moment.. his excuse: "my gf didn't want to do something but then last minute she wanted to do something small" I can't decipher that and I just want good advice on dealing with them. I thought you should always forgive family but should that always be the case? 

in april 2004 my daughter's first boyfriend died a Marine in combat in Iraq. I knew the guy pretty well.. they had graduated high school the prior may. They had decided to remain friends but they were still extrermely close. When he died,it took her 2 years to get her life back on track. He was a good kid,gone too soon. I've always heard that there are those who put signs insulting soldiers,I just never thought I'd meet one in my neighborhood. There is this woman who has a big sign outside of her house that has been standing there for about a day. That is so disrepectful,to him and to his parents,who luckly don't live in this area anymore so they don't have to see it. That kid died for my freedom and for yours too,including that woman's. I was gonna remove it but ultimately decided to put my own sign and actually encouraged all neiborhors to flag their flags. I still haven't put my sign,now I'm writing it. I was gonna go with something simple,but I'm open to suggestions.....' MRS .... WHO LIVES AT .... JUST DOWN THE STREET IS DISRESPECTING A FALLEN SON OF THIS TOWN. PFC ..../.... 1984+2004 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS- KIA FOR OUR FREEDOM APRIL ..,2004-AL ANBAR,IRAQ. NEVER FORGOTTEN' so it would be it. What do you think? If you think you might phrase it better I would gladly accept this. We have to show we are honoring this kid,especially since he's not here to defend himself anymore. Her sign says this. ' The boy that you call ' Hometown hero' was a pig like all soldiers are. He died because God hates soldiers and the Iraq war was inspired by the devil'... I am tired of people who play the 'freeom of speech card. This kid was not even old enough to buy himeslf a goodamn beer but he died for our country. I understand that you would not want your kid's name there. I wouldn't my own either,but since his parents are living in another state now I don't want them to know about this,otherwise I would've at least called the news since his parents aren't here to defend their kid I am since their son died for your freedom and for mine aswell

I've heard some people say it's perfectly normal because they grow up in the same house and aren't attracted to each other anyway. But then some people find it disturbing and gross.  Let's say a sister accidentally sees her brother without a shirt on or something. 

I've been self-isolating for over 21 days. I haven't been anywhere other than to get my mail and to my car. I haven't been sick (other than stress) and they haven't either. They have been begging me to come visit and hang out with them for the weekend. Is it safe? Can I go? Can I hug them? Play bird games? I really want to see them but I'm scared. Any advice would be great! Stay safe everyone. 

It's been a crazy relationship with this man. Few months of physical abuse when he found out I was pregnant. Wanted me to get rid of my son but I refused. Which resulting in him resenting me. I finally left and he was in jail for a month. He was in  counselling and AA before covid. After two months apart I thought he'd change a bit. He wanted to be a family. He acknowledged how he treated me and it was wrong. I believed him.. but now he's not abusive like before but all he does now is drink and smoke weed. He drinks from morning till night. He's dead broke but when he does have money it goes straight to alcohol and drugs. When we were apart I about everything for our son. When he was released from jail he bought two outfits.. in which in delivered to me in a dirty plastic bag and one of the clothing had coffee stains on it.  Although he's change in being more emotional and open he has definitely also changed in being completely useless to me. I do not think he's the right father figure for my son.. who is due in a week..  I am planning to cut all ties but I want anyone's opinion on the matter. This is my first kid. He has two other girls from his first marriage. He's also 10 years older than me.. it's not like he's a teenager he's a grown man. 

Im 9 and want some privacy as I share a room with my younger bro. I wonder about it bc im "growing early"

If you believe in either of them you'll get trapped in the black widows web of this dying universe.  They're both made out of a meteor that's a piece of Eve's dead corpse from when God threw her and Satan out of heaven

Since the coronavirus has started I am out of work and college and me and my older do jobs that my mom has requested us to do around the house and we never complain about doing them and we do as we are told, anyway we were painting the wall as she requested and my mom starts to scream and shouting and cursing at me and my brother for not hanging out the clothes and we lost it and told her to f**k off and we now refuse to do jobs for her, she is really angry and will not let me and my brother have food and she now doesn't want to pay off my college fees, just to let you know, I never shout back I never get angry when or anything like that but my mom is a bit special I think and the only reason I shouted back is back is because I was still working and i was going to continue on with the rest of the jobs but if I had refused or forgotten to hang out the clothes fine I wouldn't of got angry but since I was still working, no I was going to get mad and another thing, I'm 18 I don't smoke or do drugs, I am not a trouble maker at all 

My bf (26) and i (23) have been together for 1.5 years. We're both active duty military, and we live together and just recently closed on a house together. He has had high stress and anxiety for the past two weeks, we made a trip to the ER because he was having chest pain and hot flashes and it worried us. They gave him anxiety meds and he hasn't been much better since, but he's stable and doing ok. His parents think I'm abusing him mentally and they're blaming this on me. And I'm in fact, absolutely not. He is my world and I'd do anything for him. I just got on our MacBook and he had his iMessages op where his step mom and dad (he is SUPER close to his family, i used to be close to them) were disrespecting me, screenshottjng my Facebook posts (that were irrelevant, about the military) and saying rude things. I've been updating them with how he's doing and they ignore me or are very short and ask "why is he this way now". I dont know what to do or how to handle this, when two months ago they were texting and calling me just to chat and saying they love me. I understand their concern as parents, but they're disrespecting me and it's making me feel horrible. I dont want to talk to my boyfriend about it because he's so close to them and it would only stress him out more. 

This is how Satan has kept his children incarnating within this dead rock for the last 50,000 years. (That's when the Sons of God descended into earth and gave the sapiens rice, wheat, and Maize.)  Reason the Sons of God (these were fallen angels, who had the Light of Life, but chose to enter the worlds to reproduce with women).  When the Sons of God entered the earth 50,000 years ago they gave the Eurasians rice, wheat, and Maize (to the mesoEurasians).  They did this by also modifying the existing millet and grasses and putting their demons in union with those foods.  As the hunter gathers then begin settling and consuming the carbohydrates that were cursed in to the fallen angels, the Eurasians then received Light but also were cursed by the gifts they accepted from the fallen angels.  40,000 years later, the Sons of God (the fallen angels) trained the now settling neolithic humans, in the craft of pottery.  As the humans learned to form drinking containers and other crafts with pottery, the Sons of God taught the humans that this is how they were formed (out of clay).  And this is how the Sons of God, began to enslave the souls of humans.  By convincing the humans they were made from clay (after giving the humans Light and the ability to become Gods).  In this way, the Sons of God then entered the women, producing daughters that they then produced with.  They became sealed as demons in the earth.  Many humans rejected the soul enslavement campaign, becoming Brahma  But like I was saying, every 200 or 300 years, Satan (evil or dead) makes a covenant with a family giving them power over an empire, then after 200-300 years have passed, and their family has collected an accumulation of Soul Energy, Satan then sends another empire (family) to destroy the other one.  And he steals the Soul Energy and that family dies with no Soul Energy.

For most of my life, my parents love has always seemed that it was conditional. If I didn't do what they wanted, here are some of the following things that would happen:  (Please keep in mind I just turned 25 and I live on my own).  -Asked for space the other day, just wasn't feeling good and didn't want to talk-in response my dad called me 45 times (11 phone calls, 34 face time calls) in a 20 minute period.  -Was upset a few weekends ago about something that happened and tried to talk to my parents to resolve it, my mom told me I "ruined their whole weekend"  -My mom has told me to never vent any of my problems to my significant other, and always try to solve them on my own, because nobody wants to be with someone who is mentally unbalanced.  -Whenever some issue does end up getting resolved, my mom will find some way to turn it into drama again and call me and yell at me for no reason-doesn't even give me a chance to talk.  -Whenever I have normal human emotions and I get upset and cry or accidentally swear, I'm automatically labeled as "Crazy" and "needing help" by my parents.  -I've just become so depressed and I don't know what to do anymore. 

My mom kicked me out and sent me to a place with dumb a$$ immigrant strangers that are not even my own race. My mom never, ever lived with any type of strangers. Only friends and family. Okay only ONE stranger, for about three months.but me? Now it's with 3 other strangers sharing the kitchen and bathroom all the time. She doesn't have compassion. She just said she is ashamed. Right now I can use $20 dollars to move out if I want. I can't handle this. My mom is 55 and never lived like this. Why would a mom make her son live a lower quality life? I blocked her number because I can't handle the pain. I went yesterday to her house and she cooked me Mexican food. It was more fulfilling than the noodles I am surviving on in this closet sized room with noisy roommates. It hurts that she's always making my brother dinner and stuff, cause they live together. How dare she ask for me to strain my skinny body helping her install a new fridge when I almost never eat her dinner anymore. And since my brother signed that apartment lease, she allows him to not even let me sleep over because of the corona virus. It's hypocritical because sent me to live with 4* strangers who I don't know. 

My mom always makes rude comments to me about what games I play or what tv channels or YouTube videos I watch. I have a job so it's not like I lay around all day and do nothing and I also pitch in. I like to watch a lot of scary/spooky stuff. I like watching Ghost Adventures, paranormal horror movies, and I like playing horror games as well. Every time I watch these my mom always complains and says things like...  "This is dumb" "Watch something else, I can't stand it."  "Turn this sh*t off." "You're not considered cool because you watch this sh*t" "You just think you're soooo coool because you watch sh*t like this. Turn it the hell off." I don't hog the tv when I watch these things. I only watch these when no one else watching tv. I'm 21 years old and I don't see why I can't watch or play horror movies/games. My mom watches literally nothing but world news and I don't say anything. I do watch and consume news but not excessively like my mom. She will watch it for hours at a time. I don't like how much news she watches and I don't say anything, but she continuously makes comments about what I watch in my free time. It's very annoying when she does this.  Also, don't make the main focus about me moving out. I'm doing everything I can (plus we are in quarantine).

So here's the deal I'm trying to buy a console. I'm 16 and I want to get a job so that I can spend my money and not have to rely on my parents for my wants, but I'm not allowed to have one because I have to focus on school which isn't a bad thing. But, when I want to buy something my mom says that I can't because I'm spending her money..... so when I say I want to spend money that I get from gifts she tells me to save my money 😭😭 HELP?????  Like I've tried to convince her and everything and I just can't get through omg maybe I'm being spoiled idk 😭 tldr..... I want to get a job so that I have money but I can't, I want to spend my gift money but I cant 😭

As said above my mom is 38 and doesn't need glasses while reading nor for normal use. Is this normal?

I'm not going to go into details, but here's the short version: my mother is a very angry person, she'll always cause some bad vibes, argue, call out all mistakes and then simply calm down later without ever acknowledging the damage her words do; my dad is similar, quick to shift blame and get angry, he's just a tad more relaxed than my mother.  On top of that, we got my uncle who is EVEN angrier and who believes everything we own is his and my grandma (the mother of the said uncle and my mother) that always backs him up in whatever idiotic scheme of his but when times get rough and when she needs someone, it's always my parents and I that are there for her. On the days when things are "good", she's the sweetest and claims I'm the only person she can depend on just to stab in the back whenever we need her to step up. My parents just let them do whatever they want because they don't want to get into fights (when it is necessary for them to do so).  The whole family is like that - two-faced, self-centered, lacking empathy and shifting blame. I'm in a situation where it is not possible for me to move out yet and my parents have been living in this situation even longer which gives me the creeps - I don't wanna live like this forever. Not to mention, I'm a very sensitive person and I feel bad whenever I call them out or distance myself while they don't give a damn. Thank you for reading and the tips in advance, means the world to me! 

As the title proclaims, I indeed have an absent father and a narcissist mother. My mother has depression, and I hit the jackpot when it was passed down onto me. My mom ignores any feelings that she doesn't perceive to be normal and says that they are just a phase. While she can be overbearing, she also is emotionally distant. The only positive male figure I had growing up was my granddad. Growing up, I found that I was attracted to older men, which my mom became angry at me for and still does not wish to understand it. I am also attracted to women, and in elementary, high school, and college, I would have crushes on my teachers. Not all of them. But some. Now that I am out of college, and I work all the time, I am still attracted to older men, and older women. But, they are all in their 40s, my parent's age. I work with an older woman in her 40s and while I know she is old enough to be my mom, and at times I look at her as a mom, because she is positive, uplifting, and supportive. I'm still attracted to her. This same thing applies to an older man in my life. However, I know that I have found love with a girl who is about 5 years younger than myself. So I want to know, what is this that's going on, and does it have a name? 

When he kisses me with so much love and passion on cheeks and neck he makes me forget about everything and my heart beats so fast, when he puts his head on my chest I feel like cuddling him and being with him forever. It's like he's making me feel all sorts of emotions all at once and it's confusing

So me And my stepdad never gotten along since I was at young age we just never clicked but In my twenty's and I'm still living in my moms house with them and I get this strange feeling he is trying to kill me i lately haven't been feeling good In my stomach and I wonder if it's him poisoning the food he is the cook . I've been wanting to move out for so long but can't really get on my feet. I might just get ssi I'm accountable.  but I'm also in college but recently dropped out. I know he is tired of me and I'm tired of him I wana get out of this house I'm starting to get really paranoid strange ways about him as I'm older any suggestions ? Any way to tell if I'm getting poisoned . He is a mechanic I there around chemicals idk 

She is 74 years old and she acts like a child. She spat at me one time because I was holding her hand to take her to her room. She is such a mischief. I want to teach her lesson not to be such a mischief, maybe limit her food so she will know that she depends on my family and be kind with us. What do you guys think?

It's not fair because she bought my sister an iPad 2, I want the iPhone 4 so bad.

She actually had her body abused by an orange blob of fat to have his children and his money. Poor lady. But dedicated to her goal.

My mom said the reason I am barred from seeing my aunt is because she is an acquired situational narcissist. Yet she's the same one who is forgiven another aunt that she didn't talk to until the last year. Why might it be that she's punishing me when I'm not the acquired situational narcissist? Why are acquired situational narcissist not safe for a high school student like me to be around?

Onetime when we were teens, my sister headed outside to the yard to sunbathe. I'm her younger brother. If she was 17 I would have been 15. Now I understand she felt safe and comfortable around me knowing I'm her brother but still. I thought women were body conscious and tried to keep themselves covered in front of relatives as a general rule.  The suit she wore looked similar to the one in the picture.

My sister was writing on her Facebook wall that she was very upset she's been crying. She's in her room still crying. She said she was crying over her boyfriend. How can I make her feel better ? 

So pretty much, my stepdad has been around ever since (well right before) my dad died. It is sooo annoying on how I try to ask him to leave me alone when I'm in a bad mood but as soon as I ask him to leave me alone he gets all defensive and starts yelling. He always try's to discipline me when obviously I'm not going to listen to him because I'm still getting over my dads death and he keeps trying to act like one. He hasn't even been in my life for 5 years and he is trying to control it. My mom definitely needs to have more control than him. But that's not the case. Everytime I try to do something it's always his decision. Hella annoying if you ask me. I just need help with this whole situation guys. Got any suggestions? 

It's extremely frustrating. I feel like she doesn't have any respect for what I want for him because I'm not his biological mother. However, I have been raising him as mine for a year and a half as his mother had her parental rights stripped for being a meth addict. Which also doesn't help the situation as she did meth while she was pregnant with my step son. So he is high strung and extremely hyperactive as it is without the added caffeine. I have to wash his sheets every morning because he pees through his diaper at night because she gives him tea and Dr. Pepper ALL day. I should mention that she lives about six yards from me. So I can't exactly keep him from going to her house because he walks between my house and hers all day. When he comes to my house I take the soda and give him ice water. He pitches a fit and goes back to her house to get his fix. I've told her time and time again he shouldn't be drinking this at his age but she says I'm being "too strict." My husband has also told her not to give him these sweet drinks and she doesn't listen. Would it be wrong of me to just stop allowing him to go over there since she refuses to respect my wishes? 

im 15 and my name is phoebe and i got a brand new iphone 11 for christmas and i was so happy and today i got in an argument with my dad when i hit him in anger and we were arguing and i was texting while he was yelling at me and he got so mad he came up to me and grabbed my phone and smashed it on the floor hard and it shattered, i'm planning on calling 911 tonight

Ok so to begin this let's just call my mom and stepdad my parents because that's easier and almist correct anyway. My parents are in their 30s so it's not unexpected that they still do it. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night at like 01 or something. I didn't check but it was late. I obviously got out of my room and while walking by my parents room our cat started scratching tveir door. I opened it for the cat but the cat didn't wanna go and instead hesitated. The lights were out in their room but I did feel like something was off. Soon after I heard my stepdad saying: "Close the ******* and let me have some privacy to **** my wife. You always stay up late and walk in so I don't have any privacy in my own room!" I apologized and pushed the cat in with my foot and got the glass of water and went back to my room and to sleep.

Filipino here. I don't understand why Americans move out of their parents home once they turn 18 or once they become an "adult." Also staying with your parents is looked down upon by society.  Most Asians live with their parents until the age of maybe 21 or 22. I'm 24 now and I moved out of my parents home when I was 22 just right after I graduated from college. At 18, you're not that matured yet. It's not like you instantly become an adult as soon as you turn 18, or is it?  I remember my freshman year at college, we had to do a presentation about our life so I was doing my presentation and I told them about my age and one person in the class asked if I was still living with my parents and I said "yes, I still do" and she's like "That's good. Stay as long as you want. You'll get to spend more time with your family." She was 34 and she's American. I was surprised that came from here.  I have a friend who's 19. She moved out right after graduating from high school in 2018. She doesn't go to college and she's working part time. She said she's planning to go to college this fall but she's taking some classes in Psychology but her parents agreed to pay for her tuition but she refused. I just don't get this. She could have stayed with her parents and go to college. I forgot to mention that I live in the US. I moved here when I was 17.

or call your doctor so he can report you to the government? @potatogirl: the government does have a cure but they're keeping it for only really important people. ordinary people like you and me cannot get access to the cure and just have to take our chances or die.