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Moving into an apartment for the first time...
Posted Friday July 17 2009, 11:59 pm
So, I am moving into an apartment in about a month and a half...I am excited, and a bit scared... because I have no idea on what to do first... haha. We have found the place, we just need to sign the papers and apply to get it, and viola! Its just after we sign the papers...what do you do first...buy stuff that you need? I need some help, haha.
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How to Deal with Bad Manners?
Posted Wednesday July 15 2009, 12:57 am
Well, one of my cousins always comes over to my house, especially during the summer. She's a college student, and she's almost twenty years old; I'm a couple years younger.
Anyways, she lives about 45 minutes away from me, and has a lake cabin a couple miles away from my house. Some days during the summer, she pops in unexpectedly, and walks in the house without knocking or anything.
Her and her brother are nearly the same age, and one time they came over to our house, and my mom ordered dinner. It ended up costing over $40 just for the 4 of us, and my mom and I barely got anything, while each of them ordered a pizza and onion rings. They left after they got done, didn't throw anything away or clean up after th...
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I am not a christian but my family is
Posted Tuesday July 14 2009, 12:15 am
I am 15 male and i do not share the same faith as my family. I am wiccan and i want to start telling people. not just my friends. I just dont know how to tell my parents. advice?
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Parents want me to have more self confidence but they are not helping
Posted Monday July 13 2009, 10:57 pm
So I know that my parents love me and want the best for me. So ya Im not the best person, but I try. When I do bad in college classes my dad says its my fault, not because its hard for me, "I'm just lazy" he says. My room is semi messy and my dad keeps saying that I will end up like these lonely isolated people we know. I have picked up housework but he still does not acknowledge it. Of course my brother is perfect smart, party dude... He always compares me to him. It really does not help for my self confidence. Sorry just venting. What can I do? I can't talk to him because he sees himself as perfect.
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how to deal with moms
Posted Thursday July 9 2009, 11:18 pm
hi im from canada and i struggle with helping my mom get over her addiction, im 14 and i have a chance of moving in with my aunt who is much more better for me and has more time, money and strengh too keep up with me. so do i stay with my mom for grade 8 and be stressed with the bills and her self or do i leave and start fresh with my aunt and hurt my mom for myself?
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pregnant and stressed out
Posted Wednesday July 8 2009, 5:29 pm
i'm 21 weeks pregnant 25 years old and have two other children my husband works for his mother at her resturaunt from 7 in the morning till 4 or 5 at night he dose everything while she walks around doing nothing we live at her home so she pays him 50 to 100 a week because we have to buy all our own things including food , soap , and colthing etc she is an alcholic and throws tantrums regularly yelling and screaming i dont think it's right in front of my children but what can i do ??? my husband's sister is trying to get us to move all the way to las vegas but thats over 600 miles away what to do??
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My mom left me alone and I don't know what to do now
Posted Wednesday July 8 2009, 4:23 pm
My mom just left me and I don't know what to do! We got into a big fight because she was talking to this guy on the phone a lot and I asked her if she was cheating on my dad. She got really mad and went into her bedroom for awhile. When she came out she had some things packed and told me she was going to go somewhere else where she is appreciated more. I don't know what to do! My dad is gone for another 2 weeks and I don't know what I'm suppose to do in this situation. Do I call the police and tell them I'm alone and stuff and I don't know WHEN or even IF my mom is going to come back? I'm scared.
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family
Posted Tuesday July 7 2009, 1:25 am
Hi i met a wonderful man and married him i now live in new york but i came from england i have all my family in england i have been here for nearlly 4 years but i miss my family so much i dont know what to i want to go back and be with them but also want to be with my husband i am so sad at times it is so hard as i have no freinds just his daughter here and her son i feel like i dont know what to do i am so confused please help me
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My Mom Doesn't Understand My Fear of Heights
Posted Sunday July 5 2009, 7:57 pm
I'm a 15-year-old girl and I have always had a fear of heights. But my mother and sister love thrill rides. As a result, we often go to theme parks. When we do, I'll usually go on a couple of the "kiddie rides," which is what Mom calls "mild" rides. Mom and my sister try to drag me on the roller coasters, but I always say no.
After I refuse a few times, Mom will finally snap. The last time it happened she said: "You know what? I'm not paying for your ticket if you're going to wimp out and not go on any rides."
I have been driven to tears more than once. She won't stop even if my friends are with us. I wish I could stay home when they go, but then my mom accuses me of being "an...
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DAD's
Posted Sunday July 5 2009, 11:51 am
14/f
Hi, my dad just stprmed out of the house like he normally does and now i want advice because i am tired of IT!!!!!!!! okay well my stupid sister did her regular routine of being annoying which normally i end up having to take the blame for her stupid actions. Anyways my dad always calls me a bitch, says i should die in hell, and that i am a stupid child that should have never been born. He only says these things when he is mad BUT i dont know anymore. He says it so much that i am starting to feel ALL THOSE THINGS. i want to run away but i know that will only make him more mad do i dont think i will. BUT he is so mean .... all he says is that i am a bitch who should die in hell!!!! WHAT DO I DO!???
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is my mom an alcoholic? how do you get help for alcoholism if so?
Posted Monday June 29 2009, 10:43 pm
My mom has always drank some on the weekends to relax from her stressful job. I've lived with this all of my life and there was never a problem. Well, my dad has been gone for about six months now (died in a car wreck) and my mom has started drinking more.
Dad's death was really hard on us but it's hitting mom the worst, I think. She drinks a lot more than she use to. She drinks every night and sometimes (more frequently this past week) passes out in the hallway floor before it's over. She's even missed work a few times because of her hangovers. Since she has started drinking like this I've started waking her up for work and stuff because she's been oversleeping dramatically. I mean, I don't want her to lose her job an...
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Mom never keeps promises
Posted Monday June 29 2009, 8:36 pm
I'm 13. My mom never keeps her promises or does what she says she will. Like I take horseback riding lessons once a week, and I really want her to go at least sometimes, but she never does. I get a ride with my friend every week. My mom said she was going to take me every other week, but when it's the day that I go, she says she's busy... but when I get home and ask her what she was doing, she says she stayed home or didn't do anything. The last time she took me, she just dropped me off and left for almost the whole time. She also never comes to any horse shows that I'm in. I know she knows that I want her to come, because last week I overheard her say to my dad "It bothers her that I don't go," but she still doesn't.
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My best friend..
Posted Thursday June 25 2009, 3:46 pm
I'm pretty sure that my best friend is mad at me.
Like everytime I message her on myspace she just reads it. every time I text her she just ignores it and doesn't reply either. Everytime I try to hang out with her she makes up lame excuses like she's grounded from hanging out with people and then like an hour later she's hanging out with someone else. I wanna talk to her about it but I don't wanna start a fight with her. If I was to talk to her what should I say? Am I just being to overdramatic or do I have a reason to think she's mad at me?
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cousin overreacts.
Posted Thursday June 25 2009, 3:17 pm
I recently went to my cousin's house for her senior graduation party. This kid was there that I have had a major crush on for nearly a year now, so I was by him a lot. He likes me back, for now, so he was being rather cooperative. When I left that day, we were making plans to see each other again. Randomly, my cousin texts me telling me she doesn't want me and the boy talking, so in result, she will never invite him over if I am there. She tells me that we should see each other on our own time. She also freaks out about how all her friends have my number. On Friday, I'm s'posed to go to six flags with a bunch of her friends, but I didn't invite her because she doesn't know this girl I'm friends with that was originally going with me. She fo...
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future plans: Planning to have a baby as soon as I graduate high school. Advice?
Posted Wednesday June 24 2009, 11:21 pm
I want to have a baby early. My boyfriend and I are going to start trying to get pregnant as soon as we graduate highschool. I know babies are expensive, but I don't know exactly how expensive. And I know they are hard to deal with, but I don't really know how hard.
Anyone who is a young mother, or was a young mother, can you give me any advice? And please don't tell me to not have one or to wait. Because I know I'll be a good mother. I just need some answers for my questions.
Thanks in advance!
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being bored
Posted Wednesday June 24 2009, 3:59 pm
hey i am at my dads house and i have no friends and nothing to do so what can i do?sincerly,alwaysbored4ever
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My mom is putting up a wall between me and every guy.
Posted Tuesday June 23 2009, 9:47 am
I'm a 16 year old girl, not allowed to talk to boys, not allowed to have a boyfriend, and not allowed to hang out with guy. It's not that I like a guy and want a boyfriend, because I don't, but I have some guy friends that are strictly friends, but I'm never allowed to hang out with them. I've snuck around and have done it anyway, but I don't like that. My friends that are girls get mad when I always "ditch" them when they're hanging out with guys because I can't. I'm even going to a sleep away chorus camp, and my mom asked me if boys would be there. Of course there will be! Then she said that maybe I shouldn't go. The only guys I've hungout with are gay/pass as gay, and one of them is my neighbor that I've known forever, and she ...
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my dad. long haha
Posted Tuesday June 23 2009, 12:51 am
okay so my parents divorced when i was about two, and my mom has been married three times (none of them worked). and it's fine now me and my mom are best friends. my dad's been married once more and now has 4 kids.
I visit him every summer and Christmas to Louisiana, because i live in Florida with just me and my mom and little brother.Every time i come here for the summer it gets harder and harder to stay long and see my WHOLE family over in Louisiana, its all my cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles over there. So every time I come to visit him i try to see him every time he takes off of work. But for some reason if i ask to go see my cousins or other family members him and my step mom come up with the answer "...
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Did I make the right decision for my son?
Posted Monday June 22 2009, 4:15 am
My 17-year-old son, "Seth," is set to go off to college. He is going to a state university about 20 minutes from our home.
When filling out the paperwork for school, I did not sign him up to live on campus. His behavior during his senior year was less than stellar. I felt he needed to prove himself a little before I spent the money for him to live on campus. He's furious with me, and I admit I am second-guessing my decision as I talk to other parents whose kids are all living on campus.
I want my son to be independent. I told him if he did well the first semester he could live there the second semester. Did I do the right thing?
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How do I get my family together again?
Posted Sunday June 21 2009, 1:34 am
In my family, I'm the youngest. We used to do a lot of fun activities together like playing catch, family poker, watching movies, playing board games, family volleyballs, and other great stuff. The problem is that lately all my brother does is play xbox, my dad watches tv, and my mom just complains about them doing that and how unhappy she is about it all. I really want us to be together again and do fun family activities. I heard of a specific idea called Family Fun Night but I don't even know how to approach that suggestion. Any suggestions?
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