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Don't like love from men
Posted Monday June 6 2016, 5:22 pm
Let me explain. Most adult men in my family growing up were either substance abusers, insane, emotionally distant, dead while I was young, and/or abusive. My dad had always been strange. He'd be a nice guy but then be screaming and threatening violence at me in the same hour. When it comes to love from men, and not romance, I'm talking about emotional support, or just generally caring about me, feeling sympathy, younger boys (like children 1-12), boys my/around my age (13-17) I'd be ok and completely accept it. Women at any age I'd be ok and accept it. When it comes to men older than me, like 18+ I can't. It makes me feel awkward, scared, upset, etc and I've shut down my feelings before to stop it. I rarely got any love from my dad and when...
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Help with talking to Sister about cleanliness
Posted Sunday June 5 2016, 5:02 pm
My sister has been a very messy person her whole life. She has three little kids and their house is awful. There is stuff everywhere. Laundry, toys, dishes, shoes, food...It is too the point that she has had worms growing in her house in a few spots. The house stinks of mold and BO. The bathroom is a mess. You cannot see the floor and it smells like urine. I hate even going over to visit. She has been talked to several times about this and many of us (family) have gone over and cleaned the whole house to help her out or so that she can just focus on upkeep but she does not. Its not a hording issue, its a laziness issue. She does care what people think because she says is always making comments about cleaning or trying to clean or that it of...
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I caught my step- brother what do I do ?
Posted Saturday June 4 2016, 6:05 pm
I caught my step brother what do I do !?
Okay so I lived with my Dad, because my mom didn't want anything to do with me. So he started dating this women, and she had 2 kids. Finally they got married and I was forced to move in with them. I had to leave all my friends, family...etc. Anyways I already have step brothers that live with me. A couple of months ago my dad sadly passed away and I was still forced to live with my step mom because like I said my mom didn't want any thing to do with me. So her 2 kids names are Van(16 yrs old) and Tayler ( 15 yrs old). We have a big family because I have other step siblings so I was forced to share a room with Van and Tayler. So heres what happened. Last night Van snuck out to a party a...
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About my grandmother's rude behaviour.
Posted Wednesday June 1 2016, 8:51 am
I am upset with my grandmother.She is the head of our family. Everybody respects her. My mother always takes care of her and her daughter in bad conditions. But now my mother is ill but she is humiliated by her and her daughter because of my mother's illness. I can't say anything in front of her as she is elder to me, but I am not able to see my mother's sad face. I don't know what to do.I am not able to concentrate on my studies too. Please help me if possible.I just need the advice as I am confused what to do.
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My life is a nightmare
Posted Saturday May 28 2016, 1:01 am
I'm 25/f and I still live at home, unfortunately for me. Now I know I may sound ungrateful, but please forgive me. I don't know where to begin. My parents and I have always had a rocky relationship. We never seem to get along. They're constantly criticizing, yelling, or getting pissed at me if I don't do the things they want me to do. Now I've tried to talk to them but they don't want to change, and i'm trying because I know I can't change them, I'm trying to focus on me. I have ADHD and depression. I've made a lot of mistakes in my past. Like experiment with drugs, sex, etc. But i'm over that. However my mom is still holding a grudge against me and can't seem to ever let it go. She uses that as a weapon. We can't have a normal conversatio...
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Mom Has Kleptomania and Got Arrested For It
Posted Friday May 27 2016, 4:30 am
I don't even know where to start with this. My grandmother died about seven and a half years ago and it was really hard on my mom. The two of them were extremely close. They saw each other and/other talked on the phone everyday and my mom is convinced that my grandmother's death was her fault. She died from complications of cancer. It was out of anyone's control, but my mom keeps coming up with ways that it's her fault and won't listen to anyone tell her it's not.
She has battled depression since then and because of that depression, she's developed kleptomania. What's disturbing Is that pretty much everything she's been caught stealing is something she would never want, but rather, something she obviously planned to.give to m...
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Issues with parents
Posted Wednesday May 25 2016, 8:18 am
I'm 22 years old and recently got into a pretty serious relationship. My folks are old school and freak out whenever I would ask to stay the night at my bfs house or I'd suggest he'd come stay the night with me (still living with my parents). I feel like I'm limited to the things I can do at my house, which sucks! His family is so much different than mine, their so welcoming and kind. He's suggested I move in with him, and I've been giving it so much thought, and I really want to do it because I feel like I just can't be at home anymore, I feel like I can't grow up. Help!
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I think I have a half sibling
Posted Wednesday May 25 2016, 1:11 am
I believe that I may have a half sister. I know my father was not the most faithful of partners and I remember seeing a picture of his high school"friend" and her daughter. She shared many traits with my dad, and her mother was unmarried. I'm not certain how to figure out if I really do have a half sibling. Any advice?
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Posted Sunday May 22 2016, 5:04 am
Why won't my mum let me get my ears pierced? I'm 12 and all my friends have them done. I've been asking her for ages, but she won't let me. Me and my best friend started asking our parents at the same time and shehas them done, but I dont ! What should I do and\or how to persuade her? Thank you x
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My dad doesn't talk to me
Posted Friday May 20 2016, 4:38 pm
Everyday my dad gets home from work and I try to talk to him about things but he's always short with me. He'll just say "yeah" or he'll burp loudly and obnoxiously for no reason and then sings sexual shit all the time talking about assholes and sucky sucky stuff. I laugh but at the same time it bothers me because he's 52 and still doing this. I tell him to stop and act civilized but he doesn't listen.
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Hurtful words
Posted Sunday May 15 2016, 5:38 pm
Why my mom say to me
Lazy
Horrible
Bad
Rude
Selfish
Mean
Ugly
Jerk
Cuss words to me is not nice
My mom says to me I can't be friends
Not loving me
Grounded
Pusihment
Triaier
Brat
Every day what time should be bed on time
I don't even like 11:30 and going to take my phone away so addictive to my phone everyone does not care about me anymore in my life is touching me my heart is broken and crying busting to crying I want everyone to give me a break to leave me alone trouble maker every night is not even I wanted is not funny is about the truth
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What should I do
Posted Sunday May 15 2016, 2:57 pm
High I sleep a lot and get mad
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My mom is annoying
Posted Tuesday May 10 2016, 8:56 pm
I'm a 12 year old female. Every day I'll have a nice day, come home happy then when she comes home and if I so much as complain because I stubbed my toe or something she'll start talking about me as though I'm not in the room. She then stsrts asking me questions. She'll ask how I am, I'll say good then she'll follow up with 900 more questions. She keeps bringing up a girl I haven't talked to in months. She makes me extremely stressed out to the point I'm about to have a panic attack and I'm hyperventilating. It annoys me, and the worst part is if I try to explain my feelings to her she'll either just pretend to go along with it to shut me up or start talling about the age. Her and my dad are always making fun of me, my interests, my hobbies...
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Deal with the most annoying dogs ever?
Posted Wednesday May 4 2016, 10:20 am
Long story short, about 6 months ago my parents kicked me out because they didn't want to "enable my depression." I stayed with my real dad for a couple months, but was having panic attacks because he's... a piece of work. So my boyfriend of 2 years said it was okay to move in with him at his parents' house. With nowhere else to go (I was unemployed, my summer job ended) I moved in. It's been stressful, but I'm staying here only having to chip in for a bill or two while my boyfriend and I save up.
Problem is, they have the most annoying dogs. They're small, and bark nonstop. Not kidding. They get spoiled by the mom. She doesn't care when they climb all over her when she has a plate of food. They get a "oh hush," ...
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my parents think theres something wrong with me
Posted Sunday May 1 2016, 6:11 pm
My parents think theres something wrong with me and dont trust me to do anything they treat me like a 4 year old.I only live with my mom and stap dad.I dont like my real dad but t be honest i want to live with him at this point how do i tell that to my mom?ps sorry for the errors im really stresssed rn
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Confused, What do I do?
Posted Sunday May 1 2016, 1:53 pm
My dad recently gave me a phone call. He said he wanted to be there for me and he wanted me to stay with him starting this summer. I told him I would think about it.
I didn't want to go with him because I knew he didn't love me. The years when my parents were still together he barely spent time with us. He would always say he had 'shifts' to do all the time. Well to let you know he is in a bar and getting drunk. One more thing I hate him and always have once I was old enough to understand what was happening.
But I also do have some thoughts about going because I feel like I don't belong in this place. I felt like this on my first year in Iowa. I have many friends but we don't hang round each other as ...
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My mother is a bipolar
Posted Tuesday April 26 2016, 10:08 am
My mother is a bipolar just like the subject says and I'm actually tired of her shouting at us whenever she feels like it then calm down like nothing happened like she don't mind us getting hurt emotionally because of what she does to us.
We told her that she may have bipolar disorder and it's probably better if she consults a specialist but she says no because it's like telling her she's crazy and won't listen to us and she gets mad us again and calm down then get mad at us it'd a tiring cycle and I'm starting to hate her...... sometimes I'm so sick of her getting angry randomly I sometimes think of killing her for peace sake... and shenever she gets angry at me furiously for petty reasons like the delivery man takes too long and s...
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My boyfriend has dreams I'm pregnant what does that me?
Posted Sunday April 24 2016, 11:52 am
So my boyfriend keeps having dreams about me being pregnant and not like first months. It's the full 9 months im giving birth and we are taking the baby to meet family after that. He Says it's a baby girl. We have been active these past couple of months but i have gotten my monthly cycle every month.
But out of both of us he's always the one talking about becoming a family and having a baby, he always saying we should tell his mom I'm pregnant just to see what she will say
I'm just curious on what it means
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is this a way of telling someone they smell?
Posted Monday April 18 2016, 11:12 pm
So basically my sister went to a hair salon and 5 minutes into the hair styling the lady was criticizing my sisters hair and giving her hair tips on how to improve it. My sister didnt take offense to that cause it was just hair tips. then all of a sudden they lady asked my sister how many times a day she showers, she said once but twice if shes out the whole day, the lady said shes a women she needs to be showering twice a day and that starting now as homework she must shower twice a day. So a couple days later the lady calls my dad to speak to my sister my dad was kind of weirded out by it but gave the phone to my sister, the lady asked my sister if shes done the homework she has asked her to do my sister compeletly forgot what it was so t...
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feel alone
Posted Sunday April 17 2016, 10:14 pm
I have never gotten along with my family. My dad died recently and I don't miss him or feel sad about it at all whatsoever. My mom is being crazy and is manipulating and threatening me in all different ways and I finally feel like I need to cut her out of my life completely. I am away at grad school. I know every family has its issues, but I don't know anyone my own age who doesn't have at least one parent in their life. I feel very alone.
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