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Divorce question...?
Posted Wednesday May 26 2010, 9:10 pm
This just randomly popped into my head the other day but when 2 people get divorced does the woman keep the mans last name?
Example:
Mary Ann White married John Young and so Mary became Mary Young...then they divorce. Would Mary go back to being Mary White or stay Mary Young? I'm confused
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My mom is driving me crazy
Posted Monday May 24 2010, 10:17 pm
19/f. I'm in college and I still live at home. I live with my mom and my grandparents and I love them all very much. But, my mom, especially, is driving me crazy. She use to be my best friend. I still love her, but, she's just too difficult for me. She just doesn't let me live my life. She wants to drop me off everywhere I go. If I'm going on a date, she wants to drop me off. If I'm going to someone's house or to the gym or to work or to school, she wants to drop me off. It's getting to the point where it's just upsetting because there's things I don't need her for. I fight with her about everything. I'm kind of dark blonde now and I wanted to go brunette and she had a major fit about it and she was just like "no, you can't do it."...
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Is this child abuse?
Posted Sunday May 23 2010, 2:29 pm
okay, so i am 15 years old and my whole life i have been a daddy's girl and stuff. But we'd always go through rough patches where he'd pull me by my hair, jump on my stomach, or smack me with wooden spoons whn i was in my childhood state. Now that i am a teenager, he has gotten worse and he tries slamming our heads to the ground. He also still punches and yells really loud if i say something bad. If i stick up for myself now that im older i punch back and then he goes insane and throws things and punches and sometimes even strangles. But i don't know if he has a bad temper but i love my daddy cause when we get along, we really do get along. But we had a child abuse class in school because all i wanted to do was cry. Because all of t...
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Annoying baby daddy
Posted Saturday May 22 2010, 10:54 pm
I really messed up and had a one night stand with a guy who got me pregnant. We didn't talk at all after we had sex until I realized I was pregnant. When I told him, his first reaction was "we can't do this I'll pay for an abortion". Well, no way I was getting an abortion. So now, things are so annoying with him. His girlfriend messaged me on facebook and was freaking out on me which I don't feel like dealing with, he freaks out on me for everything I do, like if I go on a date he'll freak out, if I say I'm going to a different state for vacation or like to stay for a little while he freaks out. He's getting on my nerves so much I'm ready to just tell him the baby isn't his so he'll leave me alone! What do I do?
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Problems with my divorced parents- my dad is driving me crazy
Posted Saturday May 22 2010, 7:32 am
My family situation is pretty crazy and embarrassing to talk about, and I'm still having trouble coming to terms with it. My parents divorced 3 years ago. Basically, what happened was that my dad said he was going a business trip, and then never came back.
Since he disappeared he left a lot of loose ends. He has never let me talk with him about what happened in an honest and open way (he didn't bother seeing or calling me until one year after he left), the divorce process lasted a year and was really ugly, he left my mum to pay the bills and take care of me, he remarried without telling me, bought his new family a house and settled down on the other side of the atlantic with them etc.
Now he's saying he wants...
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five year old little girl wont wipe
Posted Friday May 21 2010, 8:36 pm
I watch a five year old little girl and everytime she goes to the bathroom she doesnt wipe. I try to remind her everytime and even if tell her to she usaly doesnt. Well its getting to be a hard thing to deal with today i was out with my mom and she had to go to the bathroom, i took her and told her to wipe. she comes out wash her hands and we go back to hang with my mom she wont sit down i ask her why she said she didnt want to. i told her to sit down she does then she gets back up after a few mins i smell something. she didnt wipe, she isnt my child so i dont feel right wiping for her or check so me and her have to leave and come home to change and take a bath. how can i make her wipe she refuses to and doesnt seem to care if she gets in trouble. HELP please
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Living with a newborn
Posted Friday May 21 2010, 4:50 pm
My sister gave birth to her first baby today and will be bringing him home tomorrow. We've been a four-person family unit for 18 years and my sister is a very young mother so it's going to be a big challenge. On top of that, I have some really important exams coming up in the next month. If I pass them, I'll be leaving home in September and going to university.
Has anyone got any tips on living with a newborn baby? I need some practical advice on how to get through these exams while getting used to having a new family member.
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My mom is so unfair!
Posted Wednesday May 19 2010, 9:23 pm
Ok so my grades have never been that great, like bs and cs. Last quarter I got all As and 2 Bs. I get a "good job" and then my younger brother who got all Ds. And gets a freaking new xbox game and other stuff! I got nothing! And all my
mom says is "well I know you are capable of that" like what. No. I've never done that good, so I just don't think it's fair! And my brother tried hard at his baseball practice so
my mom got him ice cream and I got none. And then my
mom says "I always spoil you." I haven't gotten anything in a really long time. "/ it's not fair. I know I'm just jealous, but when she does this it makes me feel bad and I get a why bother attitude. It's not about getting stu...
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My sister is nice to my man but cant stand me
Posted Tuesday May 18 2010, 2:39 pm
im 18/female and my sister hates my guts she talks shit about me and my man all the time and i get to the point to her and tell her to stop and ack her age but she tells my man that i start it all the time and be nice to him i dont know what to do he believes me over her but im getting tired of it can someone tell me what i should do
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Letter to my father..
Posted Tuesday May 18 2010, 12:06 am
I haven't spoken to my father in 8 months, Let me begin...
A year ago, My oldest sister and my father had a fight as my father is remarried and my oldest sister never saw eye to eye with her. My stepmother is very manipulative and often told my sister the right and wrongs of how to raise her children. Eventually, My father had felt that my sister was coming between him and his wife because my sister had stated that she doesn't appreciate her stating her opinions also she wrote a letter regarding her feelings towards my father. My father never really seem like he wanted me or my sister in his life, His time spent with us were almost as if they were a burden to him as he put his wife before his k...
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divorce
Posted Sunday May 16 2010, 1:40 pm
i heard a rumor that my parents are gonna get a divorce when igraduate, i believe them but i wish they wouldn't wait. they dont kiss, or even sleep in the same bed or room my mom sleeps in the same room and its irritating. ive actually got my dad to spill a little but i wish there was a way for me to0make them. next year im graduating but ill be tooooo busy.
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My mom is so jealous and controlling.
Posted Sunday May 16 2010, 10:50 am
My mom is very controlling and easily jealous. My freshman year of highschool I did very bad in school. Ever since then I have worked very hard. My cummalitive gps is now a 3.6 I worked really hard and pretty much gave up a big portion of my social life. I've always wanted to go to college away and live there. I'm a junior now and I was talking to my mom about colleges I'd like to attend. Her response was "what you can't leave me, if you go away I'm not giving
you any money for college" so I later said to her "me and Hillary are going to get an aparment and go to a college close by and it will be cheaper anyway." my mom says "what no I don't think so, your not living with her. If you two want to live at our h...
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Child abuse? Neglect?
Posted Saturday May 15 2010, 5:11 pm
Hello! I just move to a neighborhood and there are 3 little girls that constantly knock on my door and ask for food, band aids for boo boos, and to use the bathroom. We caught the smallest one in our car in the driveway trying to steal some candy and change out of it. She is about 5. My son gave one of them a bowl of applesauce and all 3 took turns taking bites. they did the same with some chocolate milk minutes later. They are outside and dirty from 8 am to 9pm on weekends and after school til dark. I asked the one girl why she couldnt go potty at her house and she said mommy wont let us in. After the little on stole from us I dont want to let her in though. She has been caught going in our garage and walks in our home without permission c...
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five year old mom abanonded her
Posted Wednesday May 12 2010, 1:42 pm
my bfs little girl has been with us for the last month. her mother dropped her off one week and said she will see her when she can. the little girl says her mom doesnt love her, that she wont see her, and her mom rather hang out with her bf then her. what do i tell her, its all true but of course i am not saying it is. i tell her that her mom still loves her but what else can i say to make her feel better without getting her hopes up that she will see her again. cause right now she isnt going to for awhile
my bf is getting full custody because this is stupid her getting child support and not seeing her child at all.
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I don't know how long I can keep doing this
Posted Wednesday May 12 2010, 12:52 pm
I have a daughter dx with depression at age 10. It has been a long battle of medicines, doctors and fragile emotions....she is now 19. I have done everything I know to do.meds, doctors, counseling. At 19 she is a good student and she is a beautiful young lady. She has many admirable traits...except her depression keeps her from so many things. She refuses to take initiative in her treatments, she will not follow doctors orders, she will not assume any responsiblity for her recovery at all....I am at wits end. It seems all of her disrespect, sarcasm and negativity is directed absolutely at me, her mother, and only me. I understand that in mental illness, emotions cant always be controlled however, she functions well around other people...
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My cousin likes me!... help please
Posted Monday May 10 2010, 5:56 pm
19/f and my 17 yr old cousin likes me
Ok so I used to visit my cousins every xmas because my family and i live in a differnet state than my cousins, aunts ,grandparents.
For some reasons my family wasnt able to visit them since i was 8. so i hadnt seen any of my cousins since we were little kids so when my mom told me we were gonna go visit them this year i was sooo excited!
i just never expected what happened during that visit... i saw my 17 yr old cousin who i had only seen as kids and yes i immediately found him very attractive but no way was i gonna like him i know better than that
the thing was he liked me liked me and actually asked me out... i was like frozen i never saw it comin...
i dont...
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dilema.
Posted Sunday May 9 2010, 9:33 am
alright so my dad signed me up for this recruiting camp called maximum exposure. i already do club and i only get one week off from lacrosse the entire summer, and that week is the week of the camp. i told him i didnt want to do it but he signed me up anyways. now a couple of months later my friends all planned a beach week. its the week of the camp. i really really really want to go to the beach beacause i dont get a lot of time off from lacrosse. but i cant because my dad alrready signed me up for the fucking camp. apparently the camp isnt refundable, and it cost about $600 so paying him back is out of my reach.
i just need help in getting out of this camp and going to the beach and enjoying my summer. i play lacros...
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Running away/moving out
Posted Saturday May 8 2010, 3:50 pm
I'm 17 so it's not really running away, it's more of moving out with out having contact my family kind of thing. Anyway, I've been on and off depressed for the past 7 years. So since when it started whenever I want to leave I'd take all the money I had and put it in an envelope. Well since then, there is about 6000 dollars. I turn 18 in July and I think I might wait till then. But I don't know if I can wait that long. I tried killing myself a lot when I was younger. I'm not like that anymore though, but I worry I might get like that again, especially since it all started because I hated being alone. I've never been treated for depression or anything either. But, my friend is on anti-depressants because she was depressed and she said she cou...
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Me v.s. Myself or is it Me v.s my mother?
Posted Thursday May 6 2010, 5:33 pm
A year ago last month I ended a bad relationship with my ex and my mother told me to just come back home for a while. I'm almost 23 years old and have been residing in my mothers 1 bedroom apartment since. My mom is on public housing so her apartment is small and I sleep on a futon in her living room. She has 2 cats and 1 dog and she isn't very motivated to keep up on cleanliness when it comes to the pets or even her things. I clean the living room daily and by the time that I get done with work the house smells like dog feces and there's things all of the place again. I told my mom that I didn't think that she should get a dog and if she got it that it would be her responsibility because I thought it was a horrible idea in the apartme...
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SMOKING
Posted Monday May 3 2010, 4:25 am
My mum has been smoking for a long time now, and need a way to get her to stop. And all the typical ones arent working. I'm really scared that something is going to happen. Help Me!!!
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