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Family doesn't help out on Holiday Meals
Posted Tuesday October 10 2006, 9:41 am
I have 3 sisters and 1 brother, we are all over the age of 40, and except for me, nobody has small kids anymore.
In general we all take turns in hosting the various Holiday Meals (as our parents are no longer alive). When it is my turn, invariably my wife and I do virtually all of the cleanup of the dishes etc. In other words, my family doesn't help out in the clean-up. However, when it is my sister's turn (my brother doesn't host as he lives out of state), I always lend a hand in cleaning-up.
Now, one of my sisters wants to host Thanksgiving Dinner, this will be the first time that she is hosting (in the past, my parents were the host). She has stated that she will need help in cleaning up. Do I take this opportunity t...
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I have 2 boys 21 and 23. They are not speaking to me.
Posted Tuesday October 10 2006, 8:37 am
My boys are 21 and 23. They live together in an apartment in a city not far away. My oldest son quiet and easily lead by my youngest son. My youngest boy is bitter about my divorce of their father and the fact that I started a relationship with another man. He has convinced my oldest boy they they should not have a relationship with me. Before all of this came to my attention I bought my oldest son a birthday present. I want to send it to him. I am very hurt by thier behaviour and I have no intention of forcing myself into their lives. Should I send the gift? If I do, what should I write in the card?
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depression
Posted Monday October 9 2006, 11:58 pm
hey i am 16 and female...i just recently moved but i have been considered depressed for 3 years but really didnt say anything but now after the move i feel worse...i am never really happy and i feel like i just really dont want to be here... how can i have happiness again..and how can i feel alive?
eissac
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mom in jaiil
Posted Monday October 9 2006, 11:54 pm
So i've known for a long time that my mom is an alchoholic, but she just resently got sent to jail for drinking and driving again... This really upsets me especially because i didn;t even have a chance to prepare myself for it. i don't live with her, so that's a plus, and I've always been really close to my dad. but there are just some things that you need a mom for.... SO yesterday i got a letter from her (from jail) and she is acting like everything is perfectly normal. SHould i write back? idk if im ready or not. and if i do should i confront her about her issue, now that she's in jail.... or should i just leave it alone and wonder?
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Posted Monday October 9 2006, 1:06 pm
this halloween i planned on going trick or treating with my mates at eton wick which is about 20 minutes away, but the thing is no adult will come with us so my mum wont let me go all bcoz she carnt trust me!! so my question is how can i get my mum 2 trust me? nd no one say do chores etc etc coz i allready do!!
plz help!!
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Child Abuse?
Posted Monday October 9 2006, 2:26 am
Ok, well I've already posted a question for help with my family, and recently some more has happened. My mom thinks i'm dating 2 guys at once, and she read my Diary again. This time, we were moving things from one house to another. So, she asked me to ride with her to unload the stuff. I of course said I would help, but once we got into the truck, she asked me if I was still with my Boyfriend. Whenever I replied that yes, Yes I was, she exploded and told me that I don't apreciate her, and that I have no remorse over the fact that she has cancer. I tried to tell her that they won't take her whole breast, and she told me I was too young to know anything. So, when she read my Diary, it basicly said that the moment I get a good job, and get int...
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I need a job, too!
Posted Sunday October 8 2006, 11:35 pm
Well, I'm a 14 year old female.
Now, my mom has gone back to college this year. All I ever hear from my parents is 'Lauren, its always "I WANT" "I NEED"!!' and so I wanted a job.
Of course they won't let me get one. So now we always get in huge fights because they want me to make my own money - but how do I do so without a job!?! They tell me to just do my chores but I said 'Well, I just can't keep doing that. I need my own job!' and then they start yelling at me about my wants and needs, but they won't even just let me have a job so I told them to expect me asking for money and they said NO WERE NOT GIVING YOU MONEY YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF - but how can I if I have NO JOB and they wont LET ME GET ONE!...
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Posted Sunday October 8 2006, 4:04 pm
my summer vacation started in june. its now october and i have been grounded since the first day it started. not grounded from material items. just from everyone i was friends with and i cant even go outside! im going insane. i never did anything wrong. my mom said she just doesnt like who i was friends with. soo now that i couldnt see them, i lost them. im down to 1 friend and a boyfriend. i tried to make new friends but my mom wont let me go anywhere. i know shes just trying to be protective but this is crazy! im almost 16 and ive only been allowed to see my boyfriend since june. i feel like im a prisoner in my own home. im so depressed over it and i have no idea what to do. what can i do? please help im going insane.
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annoying sister
Posted Saturday October 7 2006, 6:27 pm
hi well, my sister and mum are always argueing. she's 18 and acts like she's 4! she complains about how she has no friends, and that the frriends she does have, have thier own friends. she complains about everything when they get into a proper agruement. she makes my mum cry, and my mum starts shouting, and usually theres hitting. even if something little happens she's all "arh see no-one wants to talk to me!!!!" and after she argues about how theres nothing to eat, me any my mum goes mcdonalds drive through to get something for her at 11pm. when we come back, she doesnt eat it, and when she does, she starts shouting at me, about how its cold and theres so plate for her to eat on! i cant do anything about them argueing, and trust ...
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my mom
Posted Saturday October 7 2006, 1:27 pm
a few years ago, my mom got really sick, she was in the hospital for about 6 months, But the problem is, now that my mom is okay most of the time, she wants to get out and do things. However, she cant drive (and Neither can I, I'm fifteen) so we always have to take the bus. But recently my mom found out that her legs are too weak to walk or get up stairs, and has to take a special car service. There is the option of her bringing me along on the ride for free, but the car has advertising on the side, and people can tell that my mom is on disability and stuff. And it embarrasses me. A lot of my friends parents have big houses and lots of money, and I feel embarrassed about a lot of things about my life like my apartment, and the fact that we ...
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Teen Privacy/Family problems
Posted Saturday October 7 2006, 3:37 am
Hey. ^.^ I'm a f/15 and I have a boyfriend. My mom caught me and him getting really close, and now i'm not allowed to see him. I was fine with that, because I planned to move out whenever I get a decent job, and some money (and of course come of age), but my mom continues to tell me that i'm not leaving the house until I finish college. (Which means I won't leave the house until i'm 24 or older...)And anytime I happen to tell her i'm moving out until I am legaly an adult she screams at me, and cries to my dad insisting that I hate her and want her dead. Which gets me on my dads bad side. But, she think she has cancer so i've tried to forgive her, but i've just found out that she went to the doctor, but didn't get a biopsy to prove she does....
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annoying relatives.
Posted Friday October 6 2006, 5:27 am
Anyone tell me if this is wrong. I am in a room and all of the sudden the door opens and I said why? This person in the room seemed upset that I said that. I swear I hate them I wish I had other better families I hate the way they think already. I was shocked that someone opened the door because i thought no one is in there.
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bad person
Posted Friday October 6 2006, 5:22 am
My uncle's girlfriend thinks that I am using my realtives time with me or being with them to make me look preety. I am not it's what everyone does. I hate her she's a brutal bitch. Can't stand what she is doing to me. SHe thinks she can just make changes or something. Then she gets her little daughter for my grandmother to buy her toys and pay attention to her and I can't even get to be near my grandmother. I hate her she's a bad bad bad bad person.
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frustrated at what people I live with does.
Posted Friday October 6 2006, 2:00 am
I just don't get what my mom is doing. THere are simple stuff that she can do on her own and yet it is like she wants me to do it for her to make me look like a maid that doesn't get paid. what the hell it's getting to be frustrating I tried to avoid it but the same things keeps happening. It's like they are forcing things on me that I don't want. I deal with this everyday. Why the hell can't they just put their plates on the sink like normal. Instead it's put in there like they know what's up. ANd they can't even throw away their garbage. I wash their dishes and they still aren't satisfied and when they wash disheds it's still not clean. LIke all the sudden since I wash it for them they don't know how to do it by theirself. I think this is...
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i dont want to move!
Posted Wednesday October 4 2006, 5:16 pm
i live in Lake Elsinore and i moved out here about 3 years ago from redondo beach. Everythings going perfect out here, i have alot of great freinds, im happy here, the happiest i have been in all my life, and i have so many memories here, like i had said, everythings good excpet that my mom wants to move back to redondo beach cause she found a much better job. But i dont want to move again, its not for the fact that im scared to move cause i wont have any new freind or anything, i have some freinds out there from when i moved the first time, i just dont want to have to leave all my memories and freinds again, im too attatched to the ones i have now. i kind of want to move back cause i miss being in redondo and cause my freinds out there but...
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ummmmm yea!!!!
Posted Wednesday October 4 2006, 2:16 pm
What do girls do when they flirt? like how can you tell when they are flirting or just being a friend? any girls out there who can answer this quesition? how do you flirt? i want to know cause i like 2 people and i sometimes think that they are fliriting with me but i'm not sure. thanks!!!!!
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my sister
Posted Wednesday October 4 2006, 1:48 pm
my sister is a bitch...she's 10 and i'm 14 my parents always pick her side and like her better they say they don't but they do...all of them are being bitchy...my sister makes stupid and unneeded remarks..like if i do something she says you better and it makes me mad because she does it all the time and she even hits me and scratches me...and goes and tells i started it then my parents get mad at me be cause they think i started it and i hit her....and then i show the scratches and hits she does to me they don't say anything...it bothers the crap out of me..i can't stand it...wat can i do to make my sister stop!!
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My Father
Posted Tuesday October 3 2006, 1:48 am
I have been with my boyfriend for 3 years and he's a wonderful guy and to me he's the type of guys girls look for not him as a person but his qualities like he's kind, sweet, generous, will leave his friends just to be with me, and different things well i really do love him and he wants us to get married but my dad hates him but he will not tell me why and my boyfriend has no secrets from me or lies to me but my dads always brining up things like "i know he's a liar and a cheater but im not going to tell you what it is i know" what should i do to make my dad like him please help me i don't know what to do?
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friendship/family
Posted Monday October 2 2006, 7:58 pm
my mom is having her 29th birthday and ma bff invited me to the ross game and then go to the haunted hydro so wut should i do i think that i should go to ma moms b-day and then go to the hydro so wut should i do ?????????????
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My job and my family
Posted Sunday October 1 2006, 7:06 pm
I'm soory this is so long but I'm in desprate need of help here -
I i'm 17 f - i work as a bank teller - and totally love my job - i came home from college for the weekend - and i was supposed to hang out with this kid i knew from high school- he called and canceled on me so i decided that i would go visit my friends at work for a little bit- when i got there - someone had called in sick and they asked me if i would stay - since i no longer had plans - i quicky agreed - seeing as how college is expenisve and i could use the extra cash- when i got home my parents freaked on me - saying how i only came home to work (not true ) and they said that i had lied to them about my enitre plans for the day - that i never had the intention of m...
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