My mom is loving and caring but she sometimes can lash out at me and beat me. Sometimes its because I was "mean" to my little brother and other times its because I was roughhousing with my brother. She claims to love me but she also says that I am a bully and always sides with my little brother on everything even if she doesn't know what he is talking about. I HATE her and I don't want to continue living with such a worthless piece of human trash. HAPP MOTHERS DAY : [

my mom and dad make me feel like a failue and i want to run away but who's going to take care of my dog? i have 7 siblings but my dog isnt used to them and she might do something bad to my siblings. i have a crush at school who im never going to see because my parents are taking me away from the school and let me tell you. every year when i make the best of friends, my parents take me away and i have to say bye to my best friends and i just want to run away and forget about. what should i do?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

My mom is very traditional (or closed minded) and expects all her kids to be living with or at least close to her as she's getting older. While my sister and brother do just that, I want to move to another state that is 5 hours drive away. After my sister got married, she and her husband and the kids moved out. And although she only lives 15 minutes away by driving, my mom still complains is far and not convenient for her to go over to help out if needed. But at least they're still close by. As for my brother and me, we are still living with our parents. While my brother doesn't plan to move away from my mom, I want to. Not that I want to leave and abandon the family, but I want to venture out and gain new experiences. My mom only gets angry every time I mention it. She said I will never make it out there, that I won't like it. And also since I don't drive now (which I've told her I'm determined to drive eventually), I will never be able to get around anywhere. She said I'm selfish for wanting to move away so far from her, saying I'm abandoning her and not caring her feelings.

i live with my grandparents because my own parents couldnt bare to take care of me anymore, im 15 and ill be 16 soon. but i am still treated like a little kid. i just got ungrounded for saying "****" when i stubbed my toe (i did it around christmas) i cant play violent video games or watch r movies, i act wayy older than i am and everyone who gets to know me questions how old i am because i look and sound atleast 17, last night me and my grandfather got into a fight because i was tired if them saying i couldnt play a video game so i spent $130 of my own money i have been saving up for weeks and and now i am locked out of my microsoft account and they took away my xbox, on my birthday i got hit bc i knocked his glasses off his face and i ran away for a couple hours. this is just a small portion of what happens everyday, i dont have a phone because i made a huuuge mistake in october and then again in february (i started smoking) and they still havent gotten over it, i have no privacy, no door, i cant go outside for more than 5 minutes without an adult, i cant see my old gf or get in with any contact with her and she lives right down the street, and god every ******* day i think about just ending it all because it doesnt seem worth it do be this unhappy every single day. so could someone please help me i just need something. 

The funny thing about my father's side of the family is that they are so unfriendly. When we visit them, there's no smile, warmth or friendliness in their attitude. They always act cold and don't really talk to us much when we visit. It's almost as if they either don't like us or don't feel comfortable around us. But here's the funny part, during Christmas time, they give us A LOT of expensive gifts. It's amazing how much they buy for us. So what's up with that? Why do they act so unfriendly but then go all out with buying holiday gifts for us?

My stomach has been bleeding on and off for a few weeks at a time for about three years now. Sometimes it's enough blood loss that I pass out.   Any time I mention it my mom insisted it was because I wasn't being clean enough and was getting food poisoning.  When I was passing out she was insisting I just wanted to be lazy and was faking.  Now she is insisting I need to be screened for stomach cancer and that I was being irresponsible for "not telling her sooner" even though I told her many times and she insisted it was just me.  I hate how no matter what I do it's my fault.  

I'm 20 year old. I just found out my dad I grew up with isn't my biological dad a few months ago. I found out because my bio dad's wife contacted me because he has lung cancer and it's been getting bad. His "dying wish" has always been to meet me. Now fast forward to now, he is dying and my mom and I are taking a trip out to see him this weekend. My fiance is upset because I don't want him to go. He thinks is something with him. I don't know how to explain it. I'm meeting my biological father I have never met or known about and I want to do it alone. My mom was the one with him and is a comfort person to be with me. Plus i don't want to overwhelm my bio dad and his family by also bringing my fiance along. I just feel like its something i have to do on my own. How do i explain this to my fiance to make him understand? I don't know how to put it into words. 

I grew up into a dysfunctional family. My parents isolated me and my brother into another apartment because of their sex life. My brother never let me sleep until 5 AM, because he was playing strategy games, he was always shouting and speaking loudly; he wasn't using headphones either. My mother was very proud of her boy and she always defended him and sustained the fact that his gaming was very important, even more important than my education; plus, she insisted him not wearing headphones, because they supposedly hurt his ears. My father never had anything to say, he was dominated by mom. They bought my brother a good computer for his gaming, but I couldn't have one for my career, as mom considered gaming was more important. I developed a hatred for my brother that just got worse and worse.We also didn't eat together as a family. Mom cooked for our father and brought "late breakfast" in bed for my brother, as he woke up late in the day. I always ate alone.My mother is misogynistic (she thinks men are smarter, but that she is an exception) and she always said that my brother is better than me and he'll do better in life. When she was beating me, she also used to say, with much hatred in her voice, that she wanted to break my head as one of a snake's. All my young age I used to cry until my eyes became swollen. I have severe depression and severe social anxiety and they just get worse, as no antidepressant works anymore; and my carreer, social and love life are in shambles.

This seems like a odd question to ask but since all of my family seems to tell me that now that I announced I'm pregnant they're so negative and keep saying to get an abortion. That my life is ruined I won't be able to finish nursing school ect. I'm 25 years old and currently still living with my mom because I'm in nursing school and work part time. She told me i have to find somewhere else to live if I wanna have the baby and everyone is so negative toward me about this. I have no support and the same thing they keep saying is I will ruin my life! Everyone has kids these days how will this ruin my life? Because I'm not married or with the baby's father? It's 2020 things have changed. I really want this baby more then anything but nervous at the same time. Will I be be able to finish school? Will I have be able to care for it with no support I have so many emotions 

About a hour ago I rode with my dad to go to the drive thru to get breakfast. Since it was warm out and I did not get out of the car and we came right back home I went for the ride barefoot to be more comfortable and did not bring any shoes with me.

My 6-year-old brother and my 7-year-old sister destroy everything.  So, my mom told me to give my siblings my headphones for them to use. Within the past month, they have broken 4 pairs of my headphones. Not only that, but my brother also broke our iPad. Now, my sister is a bit different. I have art supplies, like, tape, paint, pens, pencils, markers, oil pastels, etc... and she steals every one of them. no matter how much I tell her to stop. They have ruined countless amounts of my art supplies. They've stolen the money that I was keeping. They have banged up my computer, and my mom's computer... They literally destroy everything they touch. When I tell my mom, she says "Their just kids!" "Your the eldest, you need to keep better track of your things!" (I am 13) Like, I do! I hide all my stuff! It's not my fault they destroy everything! What the heck do I do?

What kind of father would stop talking to their children because he is upset with their mother my kids dad walked out 18 months ago and stopped all communication with them and myself. I finally yesterday talk to his sister and she told me he is upset at me for hanging up the phone on him over 2 years ago and he is upset about other things that she does not want to go into which I am not sure about because he has done plenty him self the only thing I'm worried about is my emotional upset kids. Although he has sent Easter baskets last month for them but still refusal to call I even sent him a letter in the mail saying the kids would like to reconnect with him so please give them a call and talk to them maybe set up a video chat. But still nothing at all what do you tell your kids when they get stuff in the mail but their dad won't call what would you do?

About 3 years ago we had a disagreement. She's always been sort of rebellious and doesn't always make good decisions. She called me to ask advice on how to handle an issue with her grown son, so I got him on the land as she and I talked on the cell and told him what she was saying in order to fix things. The call didn't go very good. A heated conversation happened between the two of them. After that she told me that I did it to cause trouble and accused me of being senile... it was heated. I hung up, text her and told her that if she ever contacted me again I'd have a restraining order put on her. She hasn't contacted me but she keeps sending me gifts every birthday and Mother's Day, Christmas. She remains close with her brother, my son and she babysits their children, but I just don't wish to see her or have anything to do with her. What should I do? I don't wish to have her gifts or well wishes.  You would think she'd get the message. I don't call her on birthdays or holidays. She doesn't me either I just don't want her gifts or cards

its been my dream since 5th grade to go to ucla and study law and actually live in cali and have a good life there. i told my mom that i really wanted to go there and shes like how are you going to go there with what money and im like my money in the bank and shes like that's about 15,000 dollars and im like okay i can get a job and start working and shes like no you are going to stay in Jacksonville and study law here and then when your done you can go to LA and live there. (whenever i think of this i start to cry btw) the reason why i don't want to go to a jax college is because she wants me to live with her near her because she doesn't want me to grow  up. i just want to be 1,000 miles away from everyone and just live my dream plus Jacksonville has a lot of fake people and i don't trust NONE of them exept my friends. one of them wanted to go to LA with me and she told her parents and they both started laughing in her face. but she said after we graduate we can move to LA spend one year there and then start college. btw i'm in 9th grade and my gpa is a 3.3750  i don't know what to do i really want to go to ucla and study there and not stay in jax.  i already planned out my whole life and i don't want my mom ruining it.

Ever since he was born, I didn't like him one bit. I used to attack him all the time because he would take the attention away from me. I'm autistic and he's not. We used to pick on each other growing up until in the late 2000s. My brother is currently twenty three years old and I'm twenty seven. We stay away from each other these days and are civil towards each other when we interact. He has his own biological father and I have my own father. My biological father passed away twenty seven years ago when my mother was pregnant with me. My father and my brother don't get along with each other due to personality differences. He calls my brother a narcissist. My mother had gotten a psychologist on my brother on why he acts so mean towards us. My brother usually ignores us when we interact with him. It's been like that for years. His father is more respectful than his own son is. My brother feels estranged towards us. My mother had to focus on me constantly due to my autism with my meltdowns and tantrums. Whenever my brother borrows anyone's stuff he doesn't take care of it or loses it or destroys it carelessly. He doesn't clean up his room nor contributes to household chores. My brother doesn't care about anyone else but himself. He doesn't interact with us that often unless he wants something. Even though my brother forgave me for what I've done to him over the years he still stares at me giving me a dirty look. I don't have tantrums and meltdowns as much anymore because I've developed better coping skills with the help of counselling and therapy over the years. Guys, I want serious answers please no jokey answers.

We were talking about breakfast, and she said to me to pretend I'm a bachelor and make my own. Shes the one constantly paranoid of cheating and has really a bad opinion of herself. I got so fed up I got up merely, and she took that as a sign Ibwad leaving, and honestly I'm sure how much more I can take of this because she had issues from her ex.  Was I too sensitive to her comment? Really if I were to play bachelor it would break her heart. I'd be sleeping with other women and not paying attention to her at all. Im.npt exactly that happy with her as ot is, but would miss her if we split up, why does she say stupid things that completely kill the moment.  It's like she shits on everything sometimes.  Shes a fat person btw.

I'm 19 years old and I'm gay, my dad is extremely homophobic and conservative so I cannot come out as gay, or have a boyfriend or anything. My dad is 57 so I know he probably won't die any time soon, but I am waiting for the day because once he dies, I will be able to start dating men and eventually marry a man and live my life happily and stop living a lie. Is this selfish?

My adoptive parents (no biological relation) currently have power of attorney over my inheritance left from my biological grandmother and won't allow me to use it for what it was left for (and when I can, I have to physically do a presentation every time I wish to use it).  As a 19-year-old, I wish to move into my own place (I work part-time on minimum wage and take community college classes) and away from my abusive sister, but my parents won't allow me to use the inheritance. According to both my adoptive parents and my biological family that I have contact with, the money my grandmother left me was to be used for anything related to school and education. The apartment I wish to move into is across the street from my college and a 4-minute drive from my job. Can you guys help me figure out how I can legally do this? 

I am at the age where I am looking to date and meet a girl to settle down. When I want to go on dates with girls my father gets mad and says I should go to restaurants with him which is nice but he gets mad I want to go on dates. Another example would be in family parties I love saying hi to everyone and talking to every person individually he also gets mad at that and rolls him eyes at me to only talk to him and to seclude myself from everyone. Why does he behave this way?

I need some perspective please. I know for a fact that she's seen the message at least by late afternoon (just before 5pm) and spent at least 20 mins on facebook after that yet she didn't call me, not even for 2 mins because she's supposedly seen the message only by evening and was too 'tired' to respond as she has gone to bed early.  All that while her daughter's world was falling apart. Is this a normal way for a mother to behave? am I too harsh to blame her and be angry with her? My sisters called me the second they have seen my message and I keep thinking about this and putting myself in her place and unless I'm literally dying, there is no way I could be too tired to respond and comfort my child in need. At the very least I would have sent a voice message or made a 2 min call. When I confronted her with the fact that I needed her and she just ignored me and that I can't get over it, she just kept on insisting that I was the one who should be understanding as she was tired and went to sleep. 

I have four siblings and four of the five of us are very scared of spiders. My youngest sibling is 8 years old and not scared of them at all. This is typically a good thing but she has recently begun to kill the spiders with her bare hands by slapping them. This grosses us out so much and she tries to wipe the spider goo on us as a joke afterwards. How do we make her stop and kill them with a shoe or something?

My father went in for surgery and I told him the two surgeries he would have. I sat next to him for different meetings with multiple people, they all told him hes having two surgeries. My father sat up there and literally slept through most of the meetings, no matter how calmly (in public so I cant yell and curse) I told him to wake up he wouldnt do it. He even defecated himself on the table because of a drink he keeps drinking and he refuses to stop doing that too.  After surgery he was shocked to find out that he had two surgeries instead of one. He is alright but the sore is having complications, I feel terrible about it because the removal in the end was unnecessary. No cancer. It's going to go away but I freaked out because the doctor didnt let us know. He told us nothing will happen. Now my dad is mad at me because i snapped at the doc(his surgeon. Not his primary. I know I should move out but I have no money. What to do?

So, the situation I'm in is a little difficult. I have never met my father and have no intention to ever do so simply because I never really felt the need to even when the option was given to me by my mom. However, I also know that he has two other daughters who are biologically my older half-sisters. All my life I had always wanted to have siblings, especially sisters, and have recently been thinking about reaching out to them. The only problem is that, as far as I know, they don't know that I even exist and seem to be estranged from our biological father. I don't want to make them feel like they have to talk to me or even acknowledge that I exist. If anyone can give me any advice on the situation, I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

I'm 17 and I live with my parents and 2 younger sisters. I was always close with my mom, and I'm still very close to her. I love her very much. As for my dad, he's a narcissist and I don't get along with him at all. I rarely ever speak to him. It feels like we're strangers around each other and it's so awkward at times. When my mom spends some time with my dad, she starts changing. She comes up to me and tells me that I'm ugly and no one will ever marry me and that I've never done anything right in my life. I feel like my dad is making her think that way. Whenever he's around, there's always a fight between me and my mom. I end up forgiving her after because she's the one that raised me all her life. My dad basically did nothing but taunt and torture me throughout life. Why does my mom always switch sides when she's around him? She becomes mean and aggressive. She's driving me nuts and I do want to move out as soon as I can. I'm just wondering why she's acting like this. 

I was really looking forward to it. I live in Alexandria, VA and the mayor is fighting to delay the city reopening even when the state begins to reopen this Friday. So I am guessing the city will still be on strict limits June 28th making ti impossible. Also I do not want to risk getting anyone sick though it is an outdoor reunion so we would be spread out at a National Park (Fort Hunt). So how do I get over the disappointment? Might it be safe a month later in late July or early August?

I don't know why I expect any different. DH didn't even tell his kids to wish me a happy Mother's Day or he didn't get me anything. They always come on the weekends and I go into mom mode and help fix them food and give them gifts. DH did mention my birthday to the kids, but I doubt I will get anything for it. When he mentioned his birthday, SD6 said she would get him a grill for his birthday. SS3 said he didn't get me a card. He was saying how he got his mom and grandmother a card, but not me one. Why do I feel hurt? 

My one and only daughter is the same way and I believe last year she didn't even call me on my birthday but this year she hasn't called me either for Mother's Day and she probably won't call me this year for my birthday I'm so sad and the weird thing is is that she lives for the Lord so you would think the Lord would be guiding her in the right way. I know I don't deserve it and you'd think as an adult she would grow out of being sensitivity as a kid I feel for all you mothers out there. And if it means anything happy Mother's Day to all

My mother and I have always had a difficult relationship because she can be very abusive / neglectful. When I was 18, she severely attacked me because she was mentally unstable. She put somewhere between 60-100 bruises on my body only because she didn't agree with a man I was seeing my first year of college ( I didn't hit her back, she literally started swinging at me, kicked me, grabbed me threw me into the stairs). After that happened, I left home and didn't speak to her for over 2 years. Although that incident happened over 25 years ago, I choose to forgive her at that time. At the present time, we have struggled different reasons. I don't live close to her or my family. Due to severe illness for many years, I am too poor to return home. Because of this, our only contact is through social media. I tied calling her all the time to keep things up, but the sicker I became it became harder to call her. She never calls me in return, or texts, or messages. She never called me on my birthday and would most times forget even though I would always call her on mother's day and her birthday in years past. But now that I'm so I'll, and she won't even call .....for years and years. She won't say why she won't call other than she doesn't like calling ( but she doesn't text or message either). I've tried...I have. My mother is severely mentally ill but refuses to admit she has a problem. Others in my family conform. I can't anymore. I don't want to call her anymore on mother's day

I know a parent like this and I could never come up with an answer to this question I always thought it.  Maybe someone here can give me ideas?? A parents love for there kids is pure but she's different that's crazy. This lady is neglectful, terrible provider and hateful and abusive with aggressive bad temper To her kid all this kids life 

Why or why not? 

My parents have always wanted to be extremely involved in my life. My mother expects me to check in at least every other day otherwise I get the "guilt trip" and her panicked to get ahold of me.  I can deal with this on a regular basis, except when I take a trip. I enjoy traveling solo without having to talk to anyone and check in. I enjoy the freedom of not having to tell anyone my plans or what all I am doing- this is part of the relaxation. I can not enjoy myself if I have to call my mother and let her know how my trip is going or where I am staying every night. They strongly dislike me traveling alone, and so I've opted to lie to them and say I need a "week break from conversation" and then just go on my trip. Except this gives me extreme anxiety that they are upset that I don't want to talk to them for a week, let alone the fact I'm across the country.  How do I deal with this situation? I just don't want an argument with them, they are so stressfull. Please offer advice?!

I voted at the perfect age of 18 when Bernie Sanders was doing his campaign at the time. I'm tired of being told that I'm always WRONG by Republicans and Feminists that we're my teachers whom I went to school with. My sister and I had a sexual inconvenience. I BELIEVE THAT I'M BEING TOLD LIES ABOUT MY SISTER. Should I at least ask to mail the "paternity test" that my stepmom has to mail me so I have rights to my sister, whom I believe my stepmom is a liar. I have the right to know, so does everybody in my family. What do I do to stop this potential crisis? If you understand, she is not LITERALLY MY SISTER. Especially if I voted for Bernie Sanders. I just don't think so, and is injustice. My dad and her Mom had a marriage. I was young and it was none of your business, anyway.

I'm in my 20s and still live with my dad. There really hasn't been any urgency to move out since we get along so well and my brother is here and we are all really close. However, my dad is very controlling. For example, I have an iPhone 7. My battery is bad so I was just going to replace the battery. He knows this, but he is extremely insistent in me just getting a new phone. I don't need a new phone. So what does he do? He calls T mobile to order me a new phone. I know he's trying to help, but getting a new phone is more Work because I have to transfer everything over (photos, notes, etc). So I just went with it and am getting the new phone. So I'm on the phone with the T mobile agent, and I'm changing! I was changing to go my boyfriend's house and usually I have the door locked. My dad just walks in but luckily I was not facing him(I was topless)! He had a note for me to tell the agent and I said "leave it by the door and I'll get it." Instead, he kept the door open and kept waving the paper. So I throw a towel over me, grab the paper, and close the door and lock it. I was just kind of shocked because I didn't want him to see my boobs. So then he says through the door "Ashley, you can f**k off. I'm never helping you again" and then he says "you're a f****ng b***h! And then goes downstairs and tells my uncle and my brother "she's such a f****ng b***h! My dad have NEVER said anything like that to me or about me so I'm just in shock. Any advice would help! I'm gonna move out. 

I am staying with my mom for 2 months free with my 2 year old . My abusive mother and sister constantly bicker at me . If I nicely respond to what they ask or say of me they flip it around say I'm disrespect and tell me that they can't wait for me to leave . I'm 32 by way and needed a place to stay for 2 months until I relocate . My mother cursed me out for no reason . I've even revised my mother cursing at me just for evidence and talking about me when I left the house . They hate me for no reason . Like it's always something . I can sit down and breathe and not say anything and they will create something. My choices are either to stay with them for 2 months or a random guy I met on the internet that I've been seeing . I  Obviously I chose my mom and she's trying to kick me out on the street with a baby .  My mom will sometimes stare into space and roll her eyes at me . She's like a ghetto attitude jealous disease with my sister and they team up .