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Child Abuse.
Posted Monday February 27 2006, 8:29 pm
*Names have been changed. My friend ... lets call her Sara* is 17 turning 18 in a few months. Every day we sit together on the bus and lately it seems like she's been talking about her mom lately and how mean she is to her. I didn't think anything of this really. I mean, she probably did something wrong and her mom punished her. You know how teenagers are ... they tend to overreact sometimes. But today, when we got on the bus in the morning she seemed really upset so I asked her what was the matter. She started telling me this. Sara said it was her, her mother, and her little brother *Josh. So Josh was drawing all over the windows and Sara made the comment "How old are we now *Josh" And her mother freaked out, told her to shut the...
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they wont listen!!
Posted Sunday February 26 2006, 9:49 pm
okay so i have two sisters and it gets hard sometimes; oh yea, and theyre both younger than me--now youre startin to get it..
anyways i find myself soo frustrated sometimes--by my parents, my sisters, and the world itself. its seems so unfair sometimes that i feel like packing my bags and leaving--but where??
i have tried to confront my mom about it before, but it didnt help much(it just started up another arguement)..this all happens bc my sisters do not behave, and i start to yell(bc there is nothing else i can possibly do) -no timeouts-no consequences-nothing!!
sometimes i think of moving in with my dad(since my folks are separated) but im afraid ill miss my ma' even tho i have so much hate ...
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my younger brother is bullying me
Posted Saturday February 25 2006, 8:28 am
i am 19 and my brother is 18 and we dont get along he has a realy bad temper and when he is in a bad mood he hits me and i dont do anything to him like the other day he strangled me and though me on the floor i told my mum but she does not say or do anything about it so he is just gets away with it and then he tries talking to me and pretends like noting happened and i hate it what can i do to make my mum and dad listen to me please help me.
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Posted Tuesday February 21 2006, 10:33 pm
So both of my grandparents died last year. Their house went to my dad and his brother. My uncle bought a few houses before and now he wants to buy a better house... but doesnt have the money so he wants it from us. We dont have that kind of money. And he's most likely gonna take us to court since he's supposed to get his half of the house blah blah..so we might have to sell our house...Is there any chance for us not to sell our house? Because if we do, we can't afford a house in this state meaning we move to up a couple of states. Yeah..I don't want to move. Can we win this and stay here? Because no one thinks so..
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locked up.
Posted Tuesday February 21 2006, 10:17 pm
my parents are way too overprotected. yea everyones are, but mine take it too literally. im in 10th grade and havent done things most middle schoolers have already. ive never drank, smoked, or done anything with a guy... i dont want to drink or smoke.. but having a boyfriend would be nice. my parents only let me out of the house for school, sports, and babysitting. if i want to go somewhere else they have to have a list of names, phone numbers, addresses,... you get the point. even if its just across the street. and i have to call them every hour while im out. not that i go out alot because they dont let me and i have to fight if i really want to go. how can i gain their trust when they wont listen to me when i try to talk to them about it? ugh im just so frustrated.
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keeping the house locked
Posted Sunday February 19 2006, 8:07 am
We live on a farm in rural Minnesota. We are a 3/4 mile from the county road. We live on a dead end road. There is a zero crime rate in this area. My husband insists on keeping our doors locked at all times. I hate this and feel I am being locked in as there is no way in the world that anyone ever comes to our farm. To me, this is abuse. What do you think? I also say that it is cruel to lock me in when I have arthritic hands and opening the locks could be a problem, especially if there was a fire.
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Posted Saturday February 18 2006, 6:41 pm
okay..well i just totally lied to my parents and i feel horrible..i seriously want to cry and this is going to ruin my night! they have done so much for me i cant beleive i did this..
first off i lied to them last weekend about something i was doing and then toda (a week later) they get suspicious and start asking me questions and they ask if im lying and i say no. i still think they are suspicious but i feel horrible!!
DONT SUGGEST.. "just tell them the truth" because seriously..im not gonna do that..i cant..but i promised myself im not gonna lie to them again..i will tell them the truth because i feel horrible. please dont call me a cunning lying bitch and blah blah and if i lied once i'll keep doin...
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Battles with mother
Posted Saturday February 18 2006, 12:22 pm
I know that most teenagers don't get along with their parents, but I don't think what my mother and I do is healthy... not one bit. She and I are the only two in our household now, but we use to live with her parents because she couldn't work because of back surgery. Well, during this past summer we were living with her parents and I was dating a guy who lived by himself(he was attending college that was 45 min away from me). My mom didn't seem to really mind, she even let him stay over on the weekends because of the distance or maybe to keep an eye on us.... not sure, lol. Well to make long story short, he moved away it ended horrible and I had to tell her that we had sex and I thought I might be pregnant. She isn't the type to really show...
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Posted Friday February 17 2006, 8:54 pm
I really need advice on how I can stop myself from getting angry at my parents! every time I get angry I start flipping out and it gets so bad I try running away and I get in trouble with police and everything just because of my anger!
How can i make myself not get angry?
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when is enough?
Posted Friday February 17 2006, 1:08 am
well lets see...i love my gf to death and thats how all guys should be. lately we broke up but we said we love eachother so we were still going out unoficially. I was doing everything i can for her i was like too selfless i guess. she told me to try not to luv her because she doesnt want to be hurt so i rip a part of my heart out for her and i do that. just asking how can i change and i guess this sounds weird but be a little more selfish because i cant. she has to be happy or im not thats the catch.
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my girlfriend's mom is...
Posted Thursday February 16 2006, 9:35 pm
ok, so 1st, i'm 18, my gf is 17. To be blunt, her mom is very imbalanced. she's like cinderalla's stepmother. , doing all these things. She constantly battering, yelling, and swearing at her. totally at random. and she's always making her do too much stuff. because of her, my gf is working 2 jobs, and she wants her to get more. On top of a really hard school load (4 AP classes), she always has a list of chores to do. Like to perfection, her mom will make her scrub the bathroom fro hours till its "right". She even kept her home from school so that she'd do more chores.
The thing is, i really, really care about her. I mean, its not healthy to be facing this all the time. It really is verabl and mental abuse....
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Posted Thursday February 16 2006, 8:04 pm
i cannt stand my mother any more, she is fucking crazy. she randomly get all mad at me and screams and will fight with me, and im no person to just sit there and take it. a few examples, this morning i went to sit and watch tv in her room and she was flipping our sayin i dont want you in here get out! telling me to "go FU** my self" and if im in the bathroom, doing my makeup or either going to the bathroom she comes in like shes allowed when im in there! and she`ll yell at me and stuff and if i tell her to get out and like eggs me on and gets in my face saying like " you think your tough??" i hate her shes crazy.. and ya ive known shes been on drugs forever but shes never done anything, like last night at like 3:45 am sh...
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I need advice
Posted Thursday February 16 2006, 5:28 pm
im 14/f and i have alot of guy friends and also girls friends but i dont know how to ask my mom if i can hangout with my guys friends im always afraid she gunna say no what should i do?
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I was adopted.
Posted Wednesday February 15 2006, 8:37 pm
Okay this may come off as a very stupid question, but since I was adopted, my birth my mom was really young when she had me.. well 20. And she wasnt married, gah I'm worried that if she had an STD or like ahh something, would I have it? Theres no way I can know, beacuse we dont even have any information about them.. and I'm kinda freaking out now.
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Posted Wednesday February 15 2006, 6:25 pm
My family doesnt care if I am starting to do real good in school that i have been coming home every night and that i have been usualy calling them telling them where i am going!
Im not doing anything bad no drugs no alchohal or anything!
My family always puts my down.. my sister came N my room went through everything nd ripped up things she gave me. My dad calls me at a friends yelling at me saying I didnt tell them where I was going BUT I DID.
My dad tells me im still doing drugs nd going out drinking like every day but im not! and how can I be if im usualy always home because they dont let me do anything!
I dont even want to bother talking to them because they always put me down ...
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Road Rage
Posted Wednesday February 15 2006, 5:41 pm
I am 13 years old and my mom has a terriable problem with road rage. The other day their were 2 people riding her bumper and the first guy in the white car went on and passed and their was another blue car behind him. Well my mom was trying to miss a pot hole in the side of the road so she got a bit close to the yellow line. When she did the blue car (that must have been chasing the white car) came around her and went in to the grass and almost tore the whole side of my mom's car off. It was so bad that if she hadn't have looked back in her side mirror she would have been destroyed because the person probably didn't have insurance on her car.
So my mom pulled off on the side of the road and gave them the middle finger and pulled o...
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will my son go back to college
Posted Wednesday February 15 2006, 11:48 am
My son is going through a difficult period. my husband and I split up in july and my son who is 19 and in college met up with a girl who has a boyfriend and is engaged my son is not in school and says hes returning in summer but I'm afraid hes not going back and she is ruining his life she wont leave her borfriend will he go back to school
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my older brother needs to grow up
Posted Tuesday February 14 2006, 4:22 am
I am a 16f. I'm concerned about my older brother. He is 27 and he still lives at home with me and my parents. He lives in the basement. He is unemployed and extremely lazy. He usually sleeps in until 1 in the afternoon, then for the rest of the day he'll either watch MTV or play on his X box. He doesnt have to pay rent as he is unemployed. He also doesnt do any chores, and never washes his own laundry. I am angry at my parents, and feel like they are just enabling him. He can never get a gf because as soon as they find out what a lazy mooch he is they want nothing to do with him. How can I convince my brother that he needs to get a job, and get his own place? If I don't do anything my parents will probably let him live in the baseme...
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agree or not agree
Posted Monday February 13 2006, 9:53 pm
i was just wondering...my mom thinks thats she's supior to me. that i should have to earn the stuff i do but she should just get them without working for them.and everytime i try to get justice she can just say well im the adult, or your the kid or i get certin things that you dont because im a grown up.she also says yeah im unfair or yeah im a bitch and she also says i should have to do chores and she sounldn't. like she's a queen bee and im just one of her workers. im just wondering do you guys think she has the right to do that or do you think she's just being a mega bitch. oh yah she also lets my step dad do what ever he wants like perposly try to eyyoy me or get a toss every month and when i do bad stuff i should get in trouble and whe...
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IM MOVING!!
Posted Monday February 13 2006, 9:37 pm
Ok...today has been pretty much the worst day ever...I cmae hoem from scholl and all of a sudden my dad sais we're moving to NC in August! I can't believe it! I had a really rough year last year..and my friends have truly become my heart..if it werent for them I honestly woudl nto be the person i am now...they have always been there for me...and I just cant imagine not having them in my everyday life. Not to mention...Im afaraid that my school in NC will be segregated and recist..I'm white and i can not stand racism...i like all typ3s of guys..and thinking about being shunned if I like a black guy really pisses me off! Im so sad and I was ballign to my best friend earlier...it's so surreal..i just wish soemoen would wake me up from this nightmare! Please, how can I handle this?
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