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my life is messed up... I need someone to help me to give me a reason to smile.
Hi, I'm a 15 year old girl and my parents just don't understand me.My mom and dad had a divorce and I just hate it. They don't realize what this has done to me and how much its effecting me. My dad is ALWAYS lecturing me about how I'm going to screw up my life when I'm 18 and that he's not gonna help me when I'm older. Every chance he gets he tells me to get better grades and I'm the laziest person ever and I don't do anything. He doesn't Ever appreciate what I do for him and he doesn't realize that I want to do things regular teenagers do. I watch my 4 year old little brother all the fricken time and I never get to do anything a regular teenager does. I never go out or nothing just sit at home watching my brothers. My mom just doesn't give a sh*t she never wants to listen to me and married a complete moron (my stepdad) and they had a baby. He is currently 11 months and I watch him to. My dad thinks I'm a complete failure and he is always putting me down. I cry every night and try to put a smile on my face the next day. I'm fed up with it I need someone to help me to give me a reason to smile.
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When you're 15, everybodys life sucks, trust me.
You'll find a reason to smile, and you shouldn't have that, you should smile regardless!
When we're upset about something, we tend to count more and more things to add to the list why your life sucks and most of these things have been going on since long and doesn't bother you that much but you just add them to feel worse.
So, cut those out, try to tell your dad how you feel about their divorce and that you don't get to go out as much, and tell him that you want to make him proud and you want to get good grades, you're doing the best you can, and just try to make him understand about how you feel, I'm sure he'd understand and if not, have a heart to heart with your mother, Mothers are always too understanding, she'll surely help you out.
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Lots of people go through these times when there family break up and im going to try and give you advice for all your questions individually
When i want to express how i feel i think that when i speak i cant really think what to say that will make them think about you, So i sit down and write a letter to them personally that i leave on there pillow before i they go to bed so i wont be with them when they read it and they can sleep on it and talk to me about it in the morning
You have to think that maybe your parents are acting like this is because the break up was hard on them too and there trying to get over it by having fun
Try and talk to them by yourself face to face about the things that are bothering you and for this i'd wait for the time when there most calm and arent busy so they can pay more attention to you
tell them about everything you do for them and that you are grieving from the break up to and want to be a normal teenager like all your other friends
If you are made to babysit your brothers try to make it something you can enjoy by playing little games with them and trying to make them laugh, because hearing laughter can often cheer other people up even a smile
Everytime your dad lectures you try to act like you understand and that your trying your best even
if inside your cursing him, Tell him that he's making you feel like crap and talking to you like someone who's not studying for there GCSE's Tell them you want to be treated the way you treat them and if not you treat them the same they treat you and give them a taste of there own medicine and tell them that how they feel when you do it to them is how it makes you feel.
If he still bothers you with his lecturs try to proove him wrong for a week and if still nothing happens then hes definatly the person who has work to do not you
I think here your being pressured with school work
and having to balance it with family life and your
own teenage life style
Try to talk to your friends about it at school a problem shared is a problem halved, Maybe if they understand when you come to school they can try there hardest to cheer you up. I hope this helps! Please ask me any more questions thanks x
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Tell your parents the truth. if they don't value your honesty, that's their loss. Start playing an instrument to get out your anger in a harmless way that will turn into something positive. music always is the answer. also start going on runs. this may help clear your head. venture out and start meeting new people surrounding yourself with people that care about you will lead you in the right direction and help you thru the bad times.
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I was in a similar situation when I was your age except my mother was like your father. My parents were divorced, I went back and forth to each house every week. My mom was terrible, she told me if I didnt let her get full custody of me, I would be nothing when I turned 18 my father would disown me. She said I do terrible in school (( I did terrible 9th grade year then went to a christian academy and had B honor roll )) she would say how she hated me and wish I was never born, basically making me feel similiar to how your feeling, like your worthless. My mom got married, had a child then divorced. She had full custody of her baby, I watched my little brother almost every night while she went out dating other random guys, this went out for a long time. My mom then was going to get married again to a guy I barely knew, she met him online and dated him for 6months. I couldnt take it anymore and decided to live with my father. My father wasnt a horrible dad, but also wasnt the best dad. He did not show his love for me nor did he really talk to me, I pretty much supported myself by buying groceries, clothes, etc. Honestly, moving out of my moms was the best decision I could ever make, it sucks not having a parent figure at a young age but if you handle it the right way you will turn out stronger then before. Since my mom talk so down about me, I used it to make me stronger and prove her wrong, I went to college in 11th grade and never stopped, I am now an accounting manager and working on my bachelors degree at the University of Maryland. I have gained so much knowledge about everything just by viewing situations instead of making them make me worse, if that makes sense to you? When I lived with my mom I felt so terrible about myself, I attempted suicide. Luckily, I had a friend come help me. There are a ton of kids with bad situations at home and turn to drugs, alchohol, and just not caring about school or their future, if you do this then you let your father win and let him control the situation. Instead, you need to set goals and do good for yourself and your future, you will feel so much better about yourself once you accomplish goals your father never said you could. you should conisder moving in with a family memeber, is your mother and step father really that terrible? I would move in with her for the mean time, just to avoid hearing those things your father tells you and then find another family memeber or friend to live with.
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Just at 15 living with that already is just too much you need to get out of the situation you're in you and your brother if you have other family members you should contact them and tell them all this cus life could possibly get much better I know if I were you there'd be no way id stay in that house
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Hahaha. Wow sounds like me when i was around your age. My mom was a drug addict who actually never married my father. And i stayed with her. and i was always either staying home watching my handicap older sister or grounded for small reasons so i could be forced to stay home in general. And my dad... i live with him now but growing up he basically has always criticized me. So let me tell you sweetie. It doesn't matter. If anything, your family has just taught you the same thing my family taught me... in the end all you got is yourself. And your dad always saying stuff to you don;t let it bother you because he honestly seems to have nothing better to do with his life. and in the end if all else fails, do what i use to do. Think about how much worse others have it. How there may even be someone in the world going through the same as you feeling alone. And how in the end if you make it through this, you'll only be stronger.
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