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Posted Monday July 10 2017, 8:46 pm
I just graduated with a masters, and am now back home living with my mom, trying to find a job and become independent. As I have a very distant relationship with my mom and always have, and miss the people in life I'm close with very very much (they are all far away), I'm painfully depressed. I think it is partially because I'm an empath and sub-consciously absorbing all of my mom's negative energy. Today was a rough day of crying all day. I just feel unbelievably sad and empty. Does anyone have any tips on protecting myself so my empath qualities aren't constantly hurting me?
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Mom keeps controlling my life?
Posted Tuesday July 4 2017, 3:31 pm
I'm 18 years old and my mom keeps controlling my life. I cant leave the house unless its to go to work or hangout with my elementary school friends that she knows. If she doesnt know the friends i cant go out. Also i cant go out if shes at work and shes always at work. When shes home and im out as soon as the clock strikes 9pm she literally sends my sister to call me until i get home. As mentioned earlier i have a job right now and to this day i havent seen the money ive earned because my mom has my debit card, ive asked her repeatdly for it and she always says "what do you need it for?" like what the hell its my card just give it to me. Then when we get into an arguement about it she says "fine i'll give you your card just d...
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Dealing With Racist Granddad
Posted Saturday July 1 2017, 1:01 am
So I have this granddad who's a horrible racist. He grew up in a time and place where black people didn't have the same civil rights that they do now and it was completely socially acceptable to treat them like $#!?. He's very stuck in his ways and doesn't realize how much things have changed nor does he like seeing how some things have changed. He hates it in fact and has this conviction that the way things were done back in his day (not just when it comes to this, but when it comes to anything) is the right way to do things.
I apologize if this offends anyone, but you'll never heard my granddad use the term African American and will rarely hear him say black. To him, they're n!&&ers and c@@ns. It makes me mad that h...
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Boringness
Posted Friday June 30 2017, 10:19 pm
Did anyone else have a boring parent but still love them? It sounds like a silly question. I guess what I mean is have a good relationship with them.
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Relatives that live with relatives
Posted Thursday June 15 2017, 10:47 pm
Well a few years ago my mother passed away leaving a very expensive house to my bum sister. ( my name was taken off do to her scamming). Now all these years later her bum son lives with her . He has 2 kids from first girlfriend and the she left him and then he married had a baby with some one else and split up after 3 months and lives with his mom (my sister). He is 37. It burns me up. That I struggle. And the money I got from the inheritance I bought a house in a not so good. Neighborhood. Me and my husband have always lived on are own but struggle. I see people living with family members and getting away with it. I feel stupid. Maybe I should have taken the easy road.? Am I stupid? Burnt up
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Divorce.
Posted Thursday June 15 2017, 8:05 am
What we can do to help a person going through a rough divorce?
My sister is going through her divorce and facing a painful time. She has hired a lawyer (http://36avocats.com/annuaire/bechara-tarabay) and he very supportive but still she remains sad. Family members try to make her smile but all in vain. What should we do?
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How to make someone be a healthy eater?
Posted Thursday June 15 2017, 1:54 am
My dad is 75 years old and he has had a poor diet for most of his life. He believes that because he goes to the gym every day, he is at the peak of condition. But for the past five years or so, he has been struggling with severe chronic constipation due to his bad eating habits. He has had colon cancer twice (both times we were lucky and the doctor cut it out before it started to spread too much) but cannot get himself to stop binging on burgers and ice cream. Over and over again, I have tried to explain to him the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. I have tried creating menus for him to follow and came up with all sorts of ideas to make this as easy as possible for him. He always agrees, but abandons the plan within 2-7 days. Part...
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custody of granddaughter my daughter terminally ill
Posted Saturday June 10 2017, 10:05 pm
I am a mother of 4 and grandmother of 8. My eldest daughter C has been battling cancer the past 2 years she has now fallen terminally ill and is only expected another week or two. Her 3 children will soon need a new home the my eldest granddaughter from C has a different biological father from her other siblings when her mother passes it is likely she will be sent to live with him even though he has not been a part of her life and she doesn't know him. The bio father of my other two grand babies passed in Afghanistan in 09 shortly after the youngest was born. What can I do to insure that all of my grandbabies come to me mostly the eldest as she has a father that never wanted her. Please help me not worry as much in this very tough time
Sincerely concerned grandmother
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Fight with my mother, was I in the wrong?
Posted Saturday June 10 2017, 1:31 pm
So, me and my mother were gonna go to the local shopping center to get some equipment for my summer sport. Well, we were also gonna get me a teething ring. I constantly grind and chomp down on my teeth, it's a habit that I can't put down. I read somewhere that chewing on a teething ring sometimes helped them, so I decided to give it a shot. Me and my mom were listing what we needed and I added my teething ring. She suddenly went all ape shit and was saying in a loud voice how I don't need one and I should just stop thus habit because I apparently suddenly have the ability to stop an addictive habit. I said to her that if I can suddenly do that, then she can suddenly stop smoking. Do now she is yelling at me at the top of her lungs, outside ...
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Info about adoption?
Posted Monday June 5 2017, 7:54 pm
Lets start off my saying I'm only 15, so I have along way to go before I'm even ready to start thinking about taking a child under my wing, but I just want to start by being well informed about the adoption process and how it all works to if I do decide in the future that I would want to adopt, I won't be such an amateur. I can't handle small children, I do a lot better with older children so I probably would want to adopt a child 10 or older. I've tried researching this but all I could find was the adoption process of new borns. I don't know if it's the same of current at all. If any of you know a reliable source, or are well informed about this process, I would love to hear it, thanks in advance!
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How to treat my dad
Posted Wednesday May 17 2017, 1:59 pm
My dad was always absent in my life and I was basically raised by a single mom. For the first time, he is showing interest in getting to know me. I'm 25 and he is 60. Do I have a moral obligation to tell him about my life? I would prefer not to.
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How to tell my mom/boss I found another job?
Posted Sunday May 7 2017, 1:56 pm
I've been working under my mom for a year now (in a different office) as I'm in college and it's hard to find jobs that will work with my class schedule. The job pays decently and it's with a bigger company (my mom just works there) so it looks good on my resume.
My main issues with the job are that they send paychecks a week late sometimes when they can't cut the check by Friday and that's left me in a bad position before with bills, and that my mom can be unreasonable at times and will call me on her personal phone to scream at and insult me when she thinks I've done something wrong.
This usually isn't an actual error, but a miscommunication. For example the most recent time she sent me something that said ...
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Cheating
Posted Saturday May 6 2017, 5:08 am
So usually i am on this site, to give my advice. I come to my fellow website friends to ask a question in hopes to find a answer that will finally bring my brain some ease. So to make this story brief as possible, i have been seeing a gentleman for about 8 months now. It started as a friendship. Spending endless hours talking and exploring life in ways that we both agreed we have never been able to do with another human being before.He is a deep, emotional type person. He prays to the universe and loves the rain. He is the type of person i have been looking for my entire life. After about 3 months of me and my "friend" being able to escape these moments that would happen, we finally kissed. The type of kiss that i never thought ac...
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My mom won't let me go
Posted Saturday April 29 2017, 4:40 pm
18/F .. I am 18 and a few months and my mom is still telling me when to go to bed and what to do. She is constantly trying to run my life and won't let me do things on my own. I tried talking to her but she just brush it off. I'm sick and tired of it. I just want to do my own thing and I need her to let go of me a little. Please help me??
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Dying
Posted Tuesday April 11 2017, 4:06 pm
I sacrificed my life for my daughter. Her father who I divorced because he,was,abusive, physically and emotionally. I moved away when the divorce was final and concentrated on my new job who gave me the opportunity for a good life to support my child because her father never helped. To this day he has never admitted what he did and I minimized what he did. So my daughter visits him like he was the one who sacrificed for her. I left my family, friends a familiar place now many years have past. Daughter got married to a multi degrees ass. He doesn't respect me and she goes along with him but acts like that's not the case. A mother knows. I tried to remarry, he died 14 months after we wed. Put me in financial turmoil. I'm crawling out but so t...
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I'M F---ING SICK OF BEING PUT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY PARENTS ARGUMENTS
Posted Tuesday April 4 2017, 2:12 am
Please excuse the hostile title of my question, but I am VERY angry right now. I want to warn you in advance that this writing might make me sound like a truly terrible person, but like I said, I'm extremely angry and fed up at the moment with my parents and my situation.
My parents have one of the worst marriages I've personally ever seen in my life. I don't understand why they ever got married in the first place or why they have stayed married for as long as they have. It's against our religion for them to get divorced, but there are many times that I feel like they, and the rest of our family, would be better off if they got separated or something. I don't think that's against their beliefs.
If I had to tell...
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Was it sexual abuse
Posted Monday March 20 2017, 5:33 pm
I'm 23 yrs old male. I am from Indonesia. Something just triggered me to ask this now. When I was a child (8 or 10 maybe), my father tend to touch my genital and i get hard (not in a fondling manner but only a poke). He sometimes kisses my ears so i get an erection too. BUT it is not in a creepy, forced, sexual way. It's more of a playful thing. He sometimes wrestle me or tickles me then does that and we just laugh
Thing is, I kinda liked the sexual stimulation i got back then. I would sometimes intentionally stay beside him to 'play'. And i think it affected me now. I just want to confirm if it really was sexual abuse or im just overthinking (I dont know if its really abuse because i also see some people touch the genitals of other young boys to tease them in public here)
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Problems with In laws
Posted Friday March 17 2017, 5:00 pm
Hi there. I'm looking for more opinions, and advice on a current situation i'm experiencing. I've been with my partner for 5 years now, and his parents have had a hard time accepting me, or us together. Every time I am around them they pick fights with me, or there is always confrontation. I'm not someone who likes fighting or arguing, in fact I avoid it at all costs. In the past I haven't been able to make it to every event they invite me to, and recently they took it personally (I had to work three shifts in one day and couldn't make it to thanks giving.) They decided to not invite me to family Christmas, so I had to stay home while my significant other went. Now some time has passed and they've invited me to his mother's birthday. I'm to...
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My mom is killing me
Posted Wednesday March 15 2017, 8:55 am
Hi 18/F .. I am in Gr12 this year and I have a lot of stress. My mom is a single parent and I have a younger sister and my grandmother lives with us. We have financial issues but I feel like my mom is taking her stress and anger out on us. I don't know what to do because she's constantly yelling at us. I can't talk to het because then she will be really angry. I can't take any more stress. Please help me?
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How Can I Move?
Posted Tuesday February 21 2017, 9:49 pm
I m 18 and will be 19 next June. My best friend said I could move in with her and my family is against it. They re very religious and don t let me watch anything that has magic or anything that would be offensive in the Bible (rated r, LGBTQ) and I m not allowed to date (I have a LDR boyfriend but my mom refuses to allow it, saying that s not dating anyway and my bf could die at anytime because of cancer related concerns) and I'm not allowed to drive and they want me to work in a place they don t like themselves. As soon as I bring up the subject she either screams at me or gives me the silent treatment for a few days. My friend isn t reckless and is responsible (my mom not liking her because she says I just want to do whatever I want over ...
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