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Should I take my thirteen year old daughter to visit her mother in prison?
Posted Thursday September 20 2012, 6:19 pm
her mother is going to prison for a year for a forgery charge. I wonder once she goes if I should take my 13 year old daughter to visit her, but I am not sure I want my daughter to be inside a prison environment
it has nothing to do with her mother, she made some stupid mistakes but she is not a bad person nor was she a bad parent to my child, but it is the envioronment I wonder about
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hi im bi how do i tell my parents
Posted Tuesday September 18 2012, 5:24 pm
hello internet,im a 13 year old girl and im bisexual.yes im sure,and im proud.ive always liked girls,but guys are attractive to me as well.my parents are divorced,and my mom is bisexual as well but never really dates or has sex with women.my dads a racist anti-gay kinda guy.only 2 people know,by bff who is also bi,and my friend who ive known forever.do not want to come out for a while.but my mom has obviusly thought i am gay before,and in a way i am.shes had her suspicians,and vervbalized them to mke in a delicate manner,and now i dont know if i should tell her or what soon.how can i bring this up?shes accepting as anyone i know,but still hard to talk to.i live in an anti gay town where it is NOT acceptable whatsoever.how should i bring thi...
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Our son's ex-wife's expectations at family functions
Posted Tuesday September 18 2012, 10:26 am
I'm a 75 yr-old grandfather from wisconsin. Our son's ex-wife insists on being invited to our family functions such as holiday dinners. It is very uncomfortable with her at the table with our son and his new wife. Is it reasonable for to expect to be included?
Thank you.
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who can I talk to when I feel like I don't have anyone? /.\
Posted Sunday September 16 2012, 10:47 pm
I've been feeling so down and so lonely for a while. I'm not the kind of girl that likes to express my feelings with people only cause I really don't want to worry them. I'd rather keep everything to myself. I don't think it's working cause it only makes me
feel more and more down each day. at first I started off with feel down, then i started to stay up late thinking, now I just wanna cry at random times of the day but I hold everything in cause I don't want to worry anyone and I cry myself to sleep a lot of the times. it's only gotten worse. I honestly think I should talk to someone but I just can't /.\ whenever I'm around people I always act like I'm alright but when I'm by myself I just cry a little , any advice would be great ? thanks /.\
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My mother doesn't care about me anymore
Posted Sunday September 16 2012, 1:25 pm
I am 17 and a senior in high school, trying to cope with the insanity of my mother.
Let's start off with saying she has gone overboard. She doesn't ever do anything around the house, she never takes care of my baby brother, and she doesn't ever spend time with my siblings and I like a real mother should. She's always in the garage, on the computer, on her phone, and smoking. Yet she claims she's quitting. My stepdad is in Michigan for two more weeks for a job, and I know she's stressed out, but that gives her NO right to treat me the way she does.
She always complains she never gets a break from my brother. It's her kid. She shouldn't have to have a break from him. I have school, homework, chores, and on top of...
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My parents make no sense.
Posted Saturday September 15 2012, 11:21 am
M/17
In the past year I've really started to get into guitar. About 4 months ago I got an electric guitar and amp for about $160 at best buy. It was basically a cheapo Gibson. My dad knows a lot about guitar and he's really good at it. Plus, he's kind of old so he's always talking about how everything was cheaper back then and whatnot. So I told him I wanted to get a PRS, and he's talking about how I don't need a new one and that he's never even heard of Paul Reed Smith guitars. He's the type that he'll use anything as long as it works. I went to guitar center and tried out a bunch of PRS models on an amp that I want. All the models I tried are from $460-$700. And they all sounded and felt better than a $1,000 Gibson I tried. He said...
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I hate my life..
Posted Saturday September 15 2012, 4:57 am
21/f. I still live at home with my parents. It's so annoying. All they do is fight with each other. No one in my house speaks to each other politely. We're all rude to one another, and the problem is that no one ants to change. I have no good friends. I did, but she changed, and now she acts like she doesn't need me. But she was a huge bitch so i quit hanging out with her. It's hard for me to socialize with other people in my class, because I have ADHD and I am impulsive. My psychiatrist won't put me on a higher dose because my weight is low. My parents are constantly telling me what to do. My mom calls me to see if I've waken up, if I've eaten breakfast. Then I get an attitude and she gets mad. She tells me what time to go to bed, to set m...
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I don't think I can ever forgive my mom.
Posted Thursday September 13 2012, 12:51 am
Today my mom came home at lunch angrier than a bull. That isn't really abnormal she usually has crazy mood swings about once a week and everybody who knows her thinks she has some sort of bipolar disorder. Today though she was just completely ridiculous and said some things I don't think I'll ever forget.
The first thing that really bothered me was that she brought up something I posted on facebook FOUR years ago. I posted a status about her driving her me crazy (which I think is normal for a very stressed honors student (freshman at the time) after a fight with their mom. He called her and told her that "I was saying very bad things about her on facebook" (he was 28 at the time). Of course she was very angry at t...
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My mom snaps at everything! Do you think I deserved what she said?
Posted Wednesday September 12 2012, 2:19 pm
So it started with me learning how to drive a month or so back. My mom didn't want to have to teach me so even though I said I could get somebody else to teach me for free she paid $550 to a local driving company. I begged her not to because that's a lot of money but she did it anyways. Well it consisted of like 5 lessons being taught to me in a dodge charger but 5 two hour lessons really isn't enough to make somebody who's never driven before a pro and he didn't teach me everything I needed to know for the test.
So then my mom had to teach me the rest in her Mazda Protege 5 which handles everything completely different so it was a lot like starting over. Well now it's like a month later and I'm getting really good at drivin...
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Alcoholic Mom is stressing me out
Posted Tuesday September 11 2012, 11:05 pm
I am a 20 year old female who has a great day life. I go to school, I work part time, I have great friends and a good family. I live at home with my parents to save money while I attend nursing school.
One bump is my mother. My mother is a sometimes functioning alcoholic. She holds a day job but at night drinks to oblivion and is just disgusting. She can't handle her booze at all, she'll go to bars and call me for a ride because she is kicked out of the bar. My mom is in her 50's so it's not normal. Her newest weakness is not making it to the bathroom, she will pee on the FREAKING floor. It's DISGUSTING. She's a mean nasty drunk and I want nothing to do with her.
I love my younger sister and my dad but ...
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she's overstaying her welcome.
Posted Monday September 10 2012, 9:18 pm
wasn't exactly sure what category to put this in.
my boyfriend's sister is constantly staying over our home. every now and then, there'll be a length of time where she might not come over for a whole week, or even sometimes two weeks but it's really she comes over one day a week (always stays the night) into half of the next day cause then she has to work, or it turns into a couple days either in a row or sporadic throughout the week.
my issue is, i have (never been vocalized cause it would just not be a good idea, all hell would unleash) issues with her and i have issues with the fact that both she and my boyfriend never ask if it's ok if she comes over. not that she even ASKS my boyfriend, i've been with the...
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My sister's cocaine addiction
Posted Wednesday September 5 2012, 9:22 pm
I'm 14 and I have an older sister who is 17 care about a lot. When we were kids, we were best friends, but shes a senior in high school and in a way different group from me. My friends and I barely ever party at all/...maybe drink and smoke weed sometimes. I still love her to death, though
My sister, on the other hand met this guy from another school and started making a bunch of friends in the cocaine crowd. She's only been doing cocaine since around New Years when she started dating this guy who is a a notorious drug dealer. Last week they decided to drive down to Mexico for a "vacation". My parents thought it was fine because they are so naive. When she didn't get back when she said she was supposed to and we couldn't ge...
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Upset with Groom's Mom
Posted Tuesday September 4 2012, 6:54 pm
My nephew was married out of state a few days ago and we spent well over $1000 traveling to the event. There were several relatives there on both sides of the family and up until 3 hours before the wedding it had been a happy occasion. Literally at the last minute while I was in the process of getting dressed, I was asked by my sister which is his mother to travel to pick up some elderly guests, which was half an hour either way. Suffice to say due to the incompetence or lack of consideration, I missed the wedding ceremony and by the time I made back to the wedding venue, the reception was well underway. Needless to say I was devastated and so upset, I stayed only 20 minutes and myself and my entire family left. I have not spoken to my sist...
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My Mom Lost It (Huge Fight Over Contacts)
Posted Monday September 3 2012, 5:18 am
My mom and I fight a lot over contacts. I use one-day lenses and take good care of my eyes, but my mom thinks I'm going to get scratches, infections, and eventually go blind. Once, she actually begged me, and although I feel bad,I CAN'T wear glasses. Yes, vanity, I know. But I feel so ugly and worthless in them (overdramatic, I know) and I do know I look very different. I know that maybe I should just give them up for the sake of our relationship(she talks about how stressed she gets whenever she thinks of my eyes), but I feel like that means giving up my self-esteem.Not to mention I think she's completely overreacting. Today, she was complaining again about having to make eye check up appointments and I got annoyed and told her I'm not goi...
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dad's adoption mother
Posted Monday September 3 2012, 1:55 am
13/f
found out yesterday that my dad was adopted! and, my 'foster grandma' also died last weekend. i felt so bad but now im just realizing all these things, like, I used to think Iwas scottish but now i have no Idea what I could be. I know im being dumb but I feel like Ive been lied to. I just wish I knew my reall backround. like, at the doctor when they (the doctor) asked if there was any past of liver cancer in my family, my mom said, 'on my side, but I'm not sure about her fathers' now I get what she meant! I just want to know how I should take this.
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argument with mom
Posted Sunday September 2 2012, 12:56 pm
So my mom called me a bitch twice in an argument last week and we still have not been talking. Today she proved how immature she is. Our family was supposed to go on a boat today on the lake I already thought I was going my dad and sister already invited me. And this made me my mom angry, she turned into a high school student throwed a fit and said if I'm going she isn't going. She got all the attention on her in the house and played the victim. I was so over it. So she tells ny dad he needs more control and he then says I can't go. I went to her and asked her why she is acting like this she had no good reason. So we got into yet another disagreement. My dad doesn't know she even called me a bitch. She's asking like its all my fault. She kn...
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cousin jealousy
Posted Saturday September 1 2012, 7:05 pm
when i do something my cousin always tries to do it better than me even if she isn't interested in what it is she just wants to prove she can do it better
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gaining forgiveness
Posted Thursday August 30 2012, 3:33 pm
I have a past that would make anyone ashamed. I have done things that I am not proud of.I have had things done to me that I don't feel comfortable even writing down. My son was taken off me when he was a baby. (He is 2 now). My actions put me in hospital for nearly almost 6 months. I almost died. I wish I had. It would have been so much easier. I have changed though and I don't want to make the same mistakes as before. I want to be a good mum and be part of his life again. My family keep bringing up the past and throwing it in my face. They don't realise that this is starting to tip me over the edge. Is there any way that we can move on from the past and I can get forgivness for the past? I need to be forgiven or I cannot be at peace with m...
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Why doesn't mothers listen to they daughters?
Posted Wednesday August 29 2012, 1:12 pm
I hate my mom she always lets me down i want a new family, a new life and a new happnnes.I hate my mom because she made me lose a lot of friends,now when i go to school it looks like no one wants to talk to me, because my mom took me back 7th grade and than she made me do 6th grade math. I want my old life back. I want to move and to have a new life.
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Wife's past sex partners
Posted Tuesday August 28 2012, 3:24 pm
I have started to wonder if my wife has totally moved on from her sex partners just before we were married.
She had at least two partners, both men were best friends and they shared everything including her, and at times both at the same time.
OK... I would have done that too.
What bothers me is, since we are from a small town, and everyone of our friends know everything. So when we get together she always asks my closest friend "how is Wayne". Wayne is one of the men and he is the cousin of my best friend. One in awhile this would be OK, but not every time.
Now it has escalated to stalking Wayne's wife, on Facebook, who we met once twenty years ago, really not much in common, she is ...
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