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Convince the gift of being 16
Posted Saturday February 2 2008, 6:06 pm
ok so i will be turining 16 in like 10 months now but thats besides the fact i know what i want and i want to get it "done" and ten months well i better tell them something worth convicing by that time thats a lot of time. so i have nothing so far and i was just thinking of convicing my parents and its all three. step mom dad and mom. i already told them i want it. my step mom is like ehh idk your father wont like it my moms like NO my dad well never really said anything but thats what i want its cheap and on our 16 birthdays its like a royal day rite and we get something expensive and thats what i want a belly button piercing thats all my step sister has one and its fucking awsome!!! ilove it i want one and it will happend ....w...
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life getting screwed
Posted Saturday February 2 2008, 4:47 pm
wow...15f and my mom has been acting wierd lately, more explosive (mad) for things that i think dont make any sense. my dad is calm, and my sister says she is going insane...which i dont believe (or dont want to believe.) it has been really stressful and hectic lately though. but i just dont know what to think or do anymore. i am having a mental brake down...and i just cant stop crying (i am alone and not going out of my room because i dont want them to know.) what if this is the start of my life going downhill? my dog is the only one keeping me sane, i love him to death. and my mom and i are REALLY close, so if she looses it...i think i will just about be screwed up. help? ps.i am not goth, i wear bright cloths and have many friends and teacher like me.
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mom mad
Posted Saturday February 2 2008, 4:40 pm
okay, 15f, and my mom just bought me a new piece of furniture.heres the story:
i was at my house, my parents went out to the mall, my mom saw a piece a furniture that she really liked for me, and tried sending a pic of it to me a bunch of times, but it didnt work so she just bought it. when she came home she asked me if i liked it, and i really didnt...it just wasnt my style, and downright ugly. i told her i didnt really like it because it wasnt my style, but i was thankful for her thinking of me, and she got mad at me because it was $200.00 and i didnt like it. so to make her happy i told her i liked it and i would keep it, but she told me for now on she was going to only buy for her and my dad. did i do something wrong? what do i do?
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alchoholics
Posted Friday February 1 2008, 9:11 pm
okay well i recently posted a question on my mom and how to tolerate her sober well....she didn't exactly stay sober. She just went on a really bad drinking benge and i went to stay at my sisters house. My grandma had to drug her in order to get her off of the beer and hard liquor. now i have been going through this my whole life and nowthat i'm getting older i know how to handle it and all but i don't want to have to take care of my mother when she is like that when my grandma is gone. I do try to help some but my grandma has bee ndealing with it more. I'm tired of being on the edge and not trusting her to stay sober at 15 i have no escape routes only my sisters for a few days. I have talked to my mom about when she is sober and she knows ...
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i have a problem with some things mostly with my dad and i n
Posted Thursday January 31 2008, 10:15 pm
umm ya well i told my bishop that i needed help that i wanted to live with my grandparents because for the past 5 to 6 months i have had to hear things between my mother and father and it would take forever to write it all down but there has been alot of stuff going on like arguing and stuff but nothing physical like fighting. my parents are divorced.. but see my bishop, my grandparents, and i all sat down and talked about it and well my bishop said to my grandparents that my dad abused us and i didnt say anything like that...he misunderstood me. but see even if that didnt happen i think i made everything worse. they desided that with all that is going on and with my dad being "hot headed" that i should take two peices of paper an...
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cant date but i want to
Posted Wednesday January 30 2008, 12:27 am
ok so i have a problem...im 13 and my parents say im not allowed to date until im 16! this is a HUGE problem for me because every1 i know has been on a date before and i havent.also i really want to ask thiis 1 guy out and im not sure if i should because im not allowed to date. HELP PLEASE!!
(im a girl)
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how do i make my mum happy?
Posted Tuesday January 29 2008, 3:15 pm
hi....
so my mum hasn't really the best of mums ( i blame my ass of a father for it) over the years (30 lets say) she has been repressed beaten cursed at yelled at threatened embarrassed in front of an audience and worst of all hated by sisters because of him. i am a psychology major... and despite that i can't seem to get through. what i have in professional skills i lack in personal interconnected emotional ones...... the reason she has become such a kleptomaniac and a very passive person is because of this ongoing constant abuse over the years. she isn't a saint... her sense of responsibilities and her inability to control her spending is unspeakable.... but that doesn't justify him treating her as a mule....
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panicking/bitchy mom
Posted Thursday January 24 2008, 3:03 pm
16/f. parents aren't divorced..
so, I'm a sophomore in school. generally, i'm a good student and i have honors/ap classes and am part of clubs and activities.
lately, my mom's been really quarrelsome. she'll panic over the tiniest things and always blame them on me.
today we had a fight. i don't know what i want to be in life yet, but i do have an idea. my mom's been PRESSURING me SO much to find out. i told her i didnt know. she started yelling at me that i'll never succeed, what kind of life am i going to live, i'm an egomaniac and a little bitch who's a coward and has no friends and that chatting on the internet is more important to me. she just EXPLODED on me. now she's not talking to me and she said "...
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what to do about a friends mother in law situation
Posted Wednesday January 23 2008, 5:37 am
i am askin advise for my friend she has been married for 4
yrs and she has always been nervous around her mother in
law.her mil is manipulating,controlling,negative,stubborn,nit
picky & more.her mil has an illness and she moved in so her
daughter in law could take care of her also because she
couldnt afford to live where she was and she didnt get along
with her neibors.her dil was nervous around her already, and
thought she would try to help her even though she would be
physically drained from anxiety being around her.she meant
well she hoped they would get closer,but her mil started
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how to make them trust me
Posted Tuesday January 22 2008, 4:37 pm
hey i have been with a guy for 2 years and my parents say they trust me and they know him well but they will not let us hang out alone. and we arent even going to 3rd yet so i dont know if they think we are worse than we are but what are some things i can say to them to make them allow us to hang out alone?
15/f
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Moving out at 17
Posted Tuesday January 22 2008, 4:19 pm
Alright, I'm a bit depressed where I live now and I've tried to tell my parents about it but I didn't really tell them HOW upset I was because I don't want to worry them.
Anyway, I thought of going back to my birth country (I'm in Spain now, I'm from England) to finish school next year. If it goes to plan, I'll be moving out a few months after my 17th birthday (I'll have 2 years left of school, not 1)
So the idea is to get a little studio apartment or share a flat near a public school and live alone while I finish school (by the way, living alone in the UK is legal as long as you're 16).
My parents would be paying the rent but I'd get a part-time job and work as much as I could to pay for food and help o...
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My MOM...
Posted Monday January 21 2008, 7:07 pm
....is pissing me off. All. The. Time.
I do not know what to do about my mom. Generally speaking, she can never be happy with me or anyone else; picking and picking at sore scars is what she does best (she's weak, what can I say).
To be more specific, we fight all the time, and it sounds outlandish, but it's almost never my fault. She fights with anyone and everyone. Simple as that.
Today she called FOUR times to yell at me about the same thing. FOUR times. I did not want to go to HER friend's house for lunch, I had other things to do. She yelled at me about it, and changed the topic to something that had nothing to do with it at all, only to YELL again (and feel good). She's off the wall, everyone knows...
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I feel like this is so confusing
Posted Monday January 21 2008, 2:13 pm
I don't know where to start....My mom has this so called boyfriend for seven to eight years. I hate him!! He is soo moody!! He'll be nice and then he gets fricken crabby. Once he yelled at me for not liking strawberry juice and not finishing it. Then after I got out of the shower last night I was drying my hair when I stopped he was yelling my name so I go down and it was the telephone so I went to the regular phone then he yelled at me because it was his cellphone!! All these things made me cry!! Then sometime when hes nice which is once a month, I walk by him he'll spank my butt or put me on the couch and tickle me! I don't feel comfortable when he does this. Sometime he'll grab me by the private and put me over his shoulder and ...
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My brother
Posted Sunday January 20 2008, 4:51 pm
13/f
My brother is 10 years old and he bugs me so much! I know everybody has to deal with this but I want it at least a little easier. Well he only comes in and starts talking to me about something random when I'm on the phone. Then when my friends come over he wants to hang out with us. But when I'm not doing anything like that he just would leave me alone. Except for when I am on the computer and he tries to take it from me. I don't bother him or do anything when he is hanging out with his friends but I don't know how to deal with this.
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my mom and me
Posted Thursday January 17 2008, 6:05 pm
okay this problem has been hearsince i was born. my mom divorced my dad and left my 4 siblings with him. i wasw about 6 months old when we left for nc to live with my grandma because she couldn't afford living on her own. while we lived there she neverm ade any friends or had anything to do with our family there besides my grandma. Since she had nobody all she had was me and she was stuck up my butt and would get mad if i wanted to go to a friends house or anything without her.so i didn't go places very often. she is also an alcoholic.She get really violent and she has also done a whole bunch of drugs. she would diappear for a wee or 2 at a time. she got caught and when she recovered she was stuck up my butt even worse. i had to start just ...
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stepdad
Posted Thursday January 17 2008, 1:45 pm
15/f/this is long.
i've had a stepdad since i was six so i guess we were pretty close and got along and everything but now i can't stand him. he doesn't do anything. he was a stay at home dad to care of my brother and sister who are now in schooll so now he doesn't even have a job. he has a back and knee problem and is really overweight so it's not the fact that he doens't have a job all the way that bugs me but he won't go to the docter to get help. we bought a treadmill and he doesn't even go on that and he's home all day by himself! he wouldn't have the problems if he'd just work out a little, you know?
ugh and not too mention last friday just set it off. he like hates me. i wanted to go to a friends house...
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Legal custody
Posted Wednesday January 16 2008, 8:58 pm
Can a single mother give legal custody of her newborn to a friend to raise?
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telling my dad
Posted Monday January 14 2008, 10:52 pm
Okay. Well. Yeah. =]
I'm a 17-year-old guy and I'm bisexual. It took me a while to admit to it, but I finally accepted it. =] Anyways, I've told my mom and she has no problem with it. My parents are divorced, by the way. Well, I want to tell my dad, but he is extremely homophobic. I seriously think he would yell at me. He lives in another state. I visit him in March.
Should I tell him I'm bisexual, and if I should, then how? I'd like to tell him before March because I wear eyeliner and don't want to stop wearing it when I see him.
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Posted Monday January 14 2008, 7:36 pm
19/f - I am in serious need of advice. :(
I've been hanging out with my older brother's friends for about 3 years now. My brother is 25 and his friends range from 21-27.
One of my brother's friends has a New Years Eve party every year, and I always go. I've always liked one of his friends, "B", who is 24 now and we've finally got to know each other. I really think he likes me as well. :]
Well, 2 days after the party, "B" and some of my brother's other friends asked me to hang out. It was already 11:30PM and my mom gave me a real hard time about going, but I ended up going anyway.
After that, I decided to tell my brother and dad about "B". My brother is...
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Son & his Girlfriend Problem
Posted Monday January 14 2008, 2:16 pm
My son is dating a girl who, I feel, is very spoiled by all the material blessings that have been bestowed on her lately (a new BMW, a $l,700 ring from her Dad, A Birthday party with a limousine and dinner for l5). It's not so much the fact that she has received these things, but, that there have been big changes in her personalilty because of it.
I was doing her nails (I am a nail technician) and after l0 minutes of hearing all about this extravagant party and the limo and the ring her dad was about to buy her, I kind of "got all over her case" about how she would feel if her and my son ended up together someday and he could not provide all the material things that she so loves for her. My husband and I are peop...
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