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Do I go with my family or the popular kids?
Posted Saturday April 15 2006, 4:06 pm
Tonight is familynight and I've known about it for about 3 days. I also got invited to go somewhere else with some of my friends. But the thing is that the place that I might go with my friends A LOT of people are going to. So it will give me a chance to mix and mingle with a lot of people and have fun. The place with my friends seem so much more fun that family night. But I don't know if I should just ditch my family for my friends? Can anyone help? What would you do? What is the right thing to do?
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Family Problems
Posted Saturday April 15 2006, 4:26 am
I’ve been having issues with my parents lately. I have a different problem for each of them. I guess this is a two-part question.
In order to fully understand my situation, I think a little background information is required . . .
My parents met one another while they were in highschool. They started dating soon after and eventually my mother ended up pregnant with me at the age of seventeen. It was completely unexpected and unplanned - I was a ‘surprise’, if you will. At the time, my grandmother was a very traditional woman. The idea of premarital children just didn’t sit well with her. She managed to convince my parents that marriage was their only option. They married three months after I was born.
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working
Posted Friday April 14 2006, 9:54 pm
14.f okay this is gonna be kinda long but help would be greatly appreciated
my mom works at a farm, like she plants flowers and such and this summer she wants me to go plant flowers with her so i can earn money. the thing is im lazy and i dont want to go. basically i would have no life over the summer, i mean summer is suppose to be a time to have fun hang out with friends and just have a good time but shes ruining my summer cause i have to effing go to work with her. i cant stand it at all, shes always saying that oh even michelle thats 10 years old goes and helps her mom to plant. ugh i always tell her that i dont care i dont want money then and i try to be nice about it but then she wont accept what i tell her! its gonna b...
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Posted Friday April 14 2006, 9:46 pm
i dont look fat, but im overwieght. im 13 and im 5'6 and about 150 lbs. im on a swim team, lacrosse team, soccer team, im not a couch potatoe. my parents think i am. my dad bought a box of cookies, and i had 2. they were gone by the end of the night and my mom told my dadthat i probably had 4 or 5. i didnt and i told them and my mom was like whatever and my sister said she had 4. i have a check up tomorrow at the doctors, and my parents are gonna be reminded how fat i am. it hurts me cause i know im freaking fat and i would do anything to change it but they dont need to talk about me even though im just upstairs. i never cry yet i am right now. just tell me im not over reacting.
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Lesbian mum
Posted Friday April 14 2006, 6:13 pm
I'm 15/f, and my mum has a lot of problems including alcoholism which I won't go in to, but she split from my dad when I was 7.
They never told me why but by the time I was 11, I'd worked out she is gay. It scared me so much, I convinced myself I was insane so I wouldn't have to deal with it. And no-one else knew. Then, about 18 months ago, my mum told me and my brother that she's gay. It hurt to hear it out loud, but was a bit of a relief too.
We've never ever spoke about it since, but I know she has a current partner, and she's becoming more... open with her partner in front of me. Which I can't stand. I can't tell her how this gets to me, I just can't bring myself to mention her sexuality, it hurts too much. What can I do,...
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normal
Posted Thursday April 13 2006, 10:42 pm
is it normal to feel like you don't belong in your family cauze thatz how i feel but is it normal
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Big Brother Issues
Posted Thursday April 13 2006, 8:58 pm
Recently, my brother has been in a serious relationship with his new girlfriend, Amber. Amber used to be one of my really good friends. Until my brother started dating her. But that isnt the issue. The issue is that he has lately been going behind my parents' backs. He just got a job at a stupid joe-schmo computer store that isnt paying him at all. zippo. Well, tonight, the shop decided to close early because tomorrow is good friday and they had nothing else left to work on. So, he decided to stay away (instead of coming home) and went over to Ambers house. Ever since he has been dating her, I noticed a change in his attitude. He has been more "i dont care-ish." He has come home with hickeys on his neck and eye liner on. He has be...
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At my wits end with my sister
Posted Thursday April 13 2006, 1:46 pm
Since my sister and I were about 11, she has become (over the last 10 years) more and more irrational, irresponsible and impossible to talk to.
You can't say anything to her because it always turns out in an argument. She gets almost EVERYTHING she wants and never lifts a finger to do anything. She doesn't realise how good she has it but she treats everyone like dirt, then insists that whatever latest argument they have had is all their fault.
She goes out of the house at any time she wants without telling anyone where she is going, who with or when she will be back and then just saunters back and shuts herself in her room, which she barely ever leaves.
I've tried reasoning with her and being n...
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dad = mad, birthday coming up soon, how to deal?
Posted Wednesday April 12 2006, 5:57 pm
Okey this is the deal, in short my father is really mad at me, lik not teenage-mad but mad as in hasn't-spoken-to-me-in-3-months mad. Won't even look at me. Talk to me or even about me. And don't tell me to communicate with him because in my culture things don't work that way,trust me..you have no idea. Now the thing is, his birthay is coming up..and what do I do? I don't even know if he'll accept a gift from me, and if he does - what do I even give him? And when I give it to him, what do I say? "Happy birthday dad, love you, *hug*, hope you dont feel like killing me anymore" (?) Any advice - PLEASE??
so basically:
question #1) What do I get him?
question #2) How do I act?
By the way, I'm 15 ...
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They want me to go back!!!!
Posted Wednesday April 12 2006, 9:22 am
17/F
I'm really scared about what my parents are making me do. Last year I was sent to a hospital for manic depression and compusive behavior. I was released two weeks into school. Thank god I had my bf or I would have gone crazy. U see hospitals scare me everytime I go into one someone dies(someone close to me). So when I over heard my parents talking about taking me to a different hospital last week I freaked out. I've stared cutting again and I cry myself to sleep at night. If I didn't have my bf I wouldn't even go to school cause my grades suck.
Someone help me I don't want to go back
I'm scared
Ps
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my sister is crazy
Posted Tuesday April 11 2006, 9:22 pm
since my dad has left my sister uste to cut herself cause she hated life..and then she started getting angry all the time.. she uste to beat the living crap out of me when my mom ain't home seriously if i do one little thing to her she tried to hit me with a bat before.. she cusses up jack to me if i am having music up to "Loud" or if I am just standing near her (shes a freak to me anywyas) my mom trys to control her.. but she can't atleast she don't try enoguh..my mom is never home any more either she's always with her boyfriend or gone to college or something..I have to be careful and watch what is ay around my sister or she'll go crazy.. she always says that my mom hates us and my mom hopes that were dead and all that crap.. sh...
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who do i like
Posted Tuesday April 11 2006, 8:16 pm
i have been single for to long and i dont no who to like
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Should I give my sister advice about her niece (who keeps ge
Posted Tuesday April 11 2006, 6:43 pm
My niece is a High School graduate who dropped out of college in her freshman year. Although, she is not a "genius" she is probably an average student. She says she quit school since she was "bored". Since then, she has gotten 3 different jobs (sales clerk or receptionist) and has been fired from all 3. She keeps blaming the company. But, I think it is her attitude or something she is doing. Should I tell my sister that her daughter needs to go back to college? Should I tell her that instead of blaming the company, that perhaps it is something that my niece is doing (or not doing) that is causing her to be fired? I think my sister is in denial over her daughter.
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what to do
Posted Tuesday April 11 2006, 4:24 pm
ok well the other day i went to my grams house that i never go to and she said that i can come live with her if i want. i havent said anything to my mom is cause she will blow up at me and tell me that im not there enough to wanna move in. but my grams rules are alot cooler then my moms. im gettin a new remodled room later curfue and more TRUST which is wat i want. pluz she is rite by my friends and my dad. so i wanna go there but i dont wanna hurt my mom or have her get mad at me so how do i tell her? plz help ill rate high.
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Trust
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 5:41 pm
my name is Rachel and my stepdad is always accusing me of talking to people I don't know on the internet and yesterday he told me to get off the computer becouse I was talking to one of my friends from school,but he thought I was talking to somebody in california what can I do to get him to trust me?
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Driving with annoying parents
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 5:28 pm
Anyway, whenever I drive with my parents in the car there always yelling at me, speed up, watch out, your gonna crash. They need to realize that I'm already nervous. All there doing is fueling the flame. They've gotten so nervous they haven't even let me drive for about a month now. Thing is i've never crashed and I know I'm not that bad of a driver. They say they expect me to get my liscence next year. I'll be 16. What do I do?
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Please help me...I don't want to get sick
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 5:02 pm
My grandma had a stroke a few months now...4 to be exact! There are some problems in the family rite now so can you please help me. My grand-dad , who died, his niece came and she started bad talking me infront of me for the babysitter , my mom and even right next to me. This happened 2 days now and she's makin me ill. My mom told her to go home and don't come bak quickly. And now the doctor made me buy my grandma this expensive tablet...whre I live it's $3690 a month! And I am gettin money to buy groceries and stuff for the house but I'm not gettin that much money to buy it...and I know I should take it on because I'm only 14! I think I'm goin in a depression because this evenin I jus bought 12 tablets for $367 and that's only for 3 days!!...
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hurt
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 7:58 am
I'm 13/f. Whenever I sometimes pick on my sister or don't let her touch my stuff, my mom keeps calling me b*tch. Even when I do stuff that's not even that harsh, she still says I'm "b*tching" around. But I'm not a biatch! And I get hurt when my mom calls me so but I don't think she feels I am. What should I do?
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Am I right for thinking this?
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 4:08 am
My mum and I just had a big argument.. we NEVER fight, but when we do it's pretty bad. Anyway, I told her I hadn't been sleeping lately, like it takes me hours to get to sleep because I'm doing year 12 and I'm very stressed. I have trouble concentrating at school and I'm having difficulty doing my work because of lack of sleep (I get 5 or 6 hours at most, but usually less). I asked her if maybe I could see a doctor or get something at the drugstore to help me sleep, and she got REALLY angry at me, saying it was my fault for not concentrating and that I was selfish and that there's nothing a doctor could give me ever so I just had to deal with it. She also made fun of me and acted like it was no big deal. Well, I know it's nothing serious, b...
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My parents' dont control me.
Posted Monday April 10 2006, 12:00 am
I guess this isnt really a question, more of an opinion and/or your relation or differences to this topic. Its about my parents control over me..they dont care what I do. Ever. 15/F. Chicago. I have no curfew..weekday or weekend, no 'chores', they don't care who i'm hanging around with, my mom knows i smoke marijuana. I can, and do, leave the house for days without them calling my cell phone and asking what i'm doing and where I am. I've left the town and state for days numerous times. I get good grades in my private school though and only got in trouble with the police once. I think i'm a pretty good kid. I am going to ozzfest this year and they dont care. I'm always in bad neighborhoods and whatnot. So, basically, whats your opinions on m...
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