Family - April 2007

yesterday i was out, spoke to mom on my way home, made a stop & came home. i had 2 calls from mom, 1 from cousin. mom's msg ask, "did you have trouble getting home?" i call back, tell her i had no problem getting home. she said "oh because you didn't call me".

I JUST GOT IN THE HOUSE. i call back & tell her she has to quit worrying bcz it drives me nuts & its gonna drive her nuts. i think she got mad, she goes into she's a mom, she's gonna worry, women are getting raped, stuff she hears on the news, come on now. I dont want to hear that depressing stuff. bad enough i worry on my own bcz i know its crazy out there. but i dont want to have to CALL MOM everytime i come or go. i'm grown. i know she wants to know i'm ok but i'm living my life. i dont want to HAVE to CALL MOM bcz she's worried & i gotta ease her worries. she even calls me sometimes to tell me "make sure you wear a sweater" bcz its cold outside. it just gets on my NERVES.

am i wrong? how would you deal with this?

2007-04-16 03:46:00 · 15 answers · asked by Silence 1

She has been in prison most my life till I was 15 . Since then she has been notthing but a pain. She is a theif and a drug addict . Anyway last thusrsday she went to jail for trying to steal steaks . She is mad at me because I wouldnt bond her out for $ 500.00 that i didnt have I am 22 and almost 9 months pregnant . I did go pick her car up , It was on empty with a flat tire now she is yelling at me saying I did it . No one touched her car since I got it to my house . I was sick all weekend and shes mad cause I didnt go visit her plus she will be out on wensday . What do I tell her she is always treating me like crap .

2007-04-16 03:28:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently was contacted by my mother's cousin, who lives in Spain, and I have never spoken to. She has been working on our family tree for a long time, and sent all the info through to me. She ended up telling me that there was information in the history of the family that my mum wasn't aware of, and it was up to me if i told her or not. she had kept it a secret for 48 years.
basically, my mums mum had a relationship with a South African man in early 1946. she fell pregnant, he was shipped back off to south africa. she married my mums supposed father in 1949. i do not know if she was with this man when she slept with the S.A. man or not. Whichever way, nobody ever told my mum the truth. they went on to have another child in 1956 (my mums brother/half-brother).

my mum is 60 now. should i tell her the truth? i dont have any info on this S.A man so cant give her any details. the man she thinks is her father is dead now. it is her right to know, but will it be more hurt than its worth?

2007-04-16 02:41:02 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

your parents and siblings since you left home? How often do you see them ?
do you spend time with them like you do with your friends?


**was surprised to read that people think it's 'odd' and 'weird' to hang out with siblings**

2007-04-16 02:09:08 · 40 answers · asked by Aaron E 1

My family don't get along. It's like we all hate each other. It's my mom, me, my two brothers ans a sister. Iam the oldest. We all have certain problems: My mom wants to quit smoking so she is really stressed out. I am really selfish (i just can't help it). One of my brothers is too bussy. He thinks he is better than the rest of us and that he is the only one who helps my mom. My other brother is kind of abusive and depressed. he always starts fights and he's really spoiled (my mom doesn't yell at him for doing things wrong and when she does, he laughs at her); My sister (who's 7) makes messes and doesn't clean them up. I'm really want to help because I don't like being upset all of the time and having everyone hate everyone else. Even when we start to get along, someone will say something to upset someone else. Please help me and family!

someone please tell me what should I do?
please give my some suggestion to overcome this problem..

2007-04-16 02:05:27 · 18 answers · asked by EDisON 1

2007-04-16 00:58:38 · 15 answers · asked by Span 2

and how many did you end up with?

2007-04-16 00:51:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-16 00:41:47 · 5 answers · asked by Blondii 3

My 13 yr old stepdaughter has been very rude and disrespectful. She has very serious blow ups and temper tantrums and says hurtful things. She says she wants to go live with her mother. Although we know that things will be no different for her there, should we allow her to go to see for herself. She refuses to do chores and is very hard to live with but we still do not want her to go.

2007-04-16 00:27:00 · 13 answers · asked by peach 4

im 15 and thinking of moving out. i have a long term bf, and think of moving out to his place. hes nealry finish skool, has a job and everything and yes, he's rich .haha. but yeah he loves me and all that and i believe everyhting would work out

ideas?

2007-04-16 00:19:50 · 12 answers · asked by holz405 2

Here's the deal, my dad stopped talking to me just before Christmas due to his girlfriend and her two kids. I'm due to get married in August and he wouldn't return any of my calls, texts or emails - as we've just moved into our first house that needs tonnes of work, I haven't been able to make the two hour trip to confront him in person about what his/her problem is. My brother has just told me that they've split up, do I become the bigger person here and say "hi, hope you are ok?" or just leave him to come to me?

2007-04-15 23:47:42 · 34 answers · asked by gemma_florida 3

My teenage daugher seems to find everything to complain about. From the constant pain all over that she seems to have to there not being anything in house to eat (although I always ask if she wants anything specific when I go shopping). Mostly she's in a good mood and a pleasure to be with, but when she's moody - don't give her the wrong answer to question or all hell breaks loose.

2007-04-15 23:09:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

3 yrs ago my f-in-law went on this wild streak and left his wife for a crackwhore & moved all over the country. I dealt with that through my pregnancy & through my sons 1st birthday. my m-in-law took him back after leaving her for a yr. she lost her home,business & her extra job bc of this. my son was nearly 2 when we finally said fine you can come back around us. I still dont like them. my f-in-law is a jerk & treats me like crap when noone is around. on top of this they abandonded their family & moved 6 hours away & only come in a few times a yr. & didnt show up to my daughters birth or her 1st bday. in 2 weeks my son will be 3 & they refuse to come in bc its a long drive. but 2 wks after that they will be driving in for my nephews grad.i feel like my kids are getting the shaft because somehow they always appear at the other grandkids events. they wont watch my kids when they are in town but always manage to watch the others.i dont think they are very good g-parents to my kids.

2007-04-15 19:45:03 · 7 answers · asked by jody g 2

what would you do if your daughters dad has been out of her life for 4 and a half years. then decides he wants to come back into it. He wasnt there before. She is 7 years old. i have been married for a year and together with my husband for 2 years. She thinks of him as her dad. I dont want to keep her from her birth dad, but he hasnt been there. He has been in trouble with the law in the past, and he was emotionally abusive to her and I. He has told me alot. I have trouble beliveing anything he says. I dont want my daughter hurt and i dont want any bs. Our life is good right now. I dont want anything messing it up but at the same time i dont want her to grow up and hate me for not letting him see her. what would you do?

2007-04-15 18:16:28 · 10 answers · asked by COUNTRY GIRL 2

My daughter is turning 15 in 3 weeks. She lives with her Dad in another state. He has sole physical and legal custody. I gave it to him during the divorce.

I want to send her something nice for her birthday. However, I just received a message from her saying that she does not need anything from me for her birthday. I have not talked to her for a few weeks. I have been e-mailing her though.

I had gone to stay with her in my ex-husband's house because he moved due to job reasons. I live in another state. I could not stay and so I came back.

I feel that I have failed in my responsibilities as a mother and am an excuse for a human being. However, when I was with her in my ex-husband's house, I could not take care her the way that I wanted.

I feel like punishing myself and am generally down and depressed about my actions. He will not give me legal custody though. HIs mother is taking care of her for the time being.

2007-04-15 16:00:05 · 14 answers · asked by Stareyes 5

okay. my step mom is always getting on me to eat more and i eat alot it just dosnt show on me and today she broke me down and made me cry she said :shes like have u ever looked at ur self and compared ur self to other girls look at ur arms and face ur to skinny ur like anerxic and said thats y no boys like me and she like don't get mad im telling u nicely. and it broke my heart i no im a little skinny but not to anerxic i just hurt me bad how do i make my self FATTER to live up to my step moms standards.
im sick of crying. she does this alot at dinner she will yell at me if i dont lick my plate clean but tonight it made me cry.

2007-04-15 14:49:42 · 19 answers · asked by Chloe 1

What is everyone's opinion about reading your children's journals/diarys. I am pretty torn about this.
I am a step mother to 3 children. We have always gotten along, but latley, the older girls have just pulled a complete 180%, and I know that some is normal for a teenager, but they have become so disrespectful to me. Today, I found 13 year old's diary. I read it, desperate to find out what has been going on with her and it had a lot of mean things to say about me, but also about her father, and mother, and other step parent, all her siblings..ect...so I didn't feel as badly about that...
But, here is the tricky part: What do you do when you come across something in a child's journal, that you need to question? She has a major crush her step-father's brother. He is 13 years older then her, and she doesn't see that as a big deal because her dad is 10 years older than me. AND...he lives with them at her other house. I think we need to confront her about it, but I don't know how?

2007-04-15 14:07:21 · 16 answers · asked by sincerelysarah117 3

go running. She is always on my case about the little sh*t, like keeping my room spotless and doing chores without her asking. I'm a good kid and don't ever break the law and gets really good grades. It has bothered me since i was little, how do I talk to her about it, or should I even say anything? What can I do to help her? I have no idea what to do to get it to stop bothering me, please help.

2007-04-15 14:06:58 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok. I'm 22 years old and still live at my parents house because I'm going to school. They are trying to control all aspects of my life, telling me what I can and can't do, putting an 11 o'clock curfew on me, and making me ask permission to do things. If I tell them I wont be home not to worry they will be ok with it at first then call my cell 50 times untill I get so upset I come home. Basically I have to cater to their needs. This moring they told me I was kicked out and so I went to my aunts house. They called there to apologize and wanted me to come home. Any suggestions on how to handle this? I really don't want to be on bad terms with my parents but if need be I do have a place to live.

2007-04-15 13:53:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-15 13:43:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I was going through a nasty custody battle with my child's father ... my sister wrote against me while she was on heroin. My sister had been living in another state for several years and came back to haunt us with a heroin addiction, she baby sat my child and used heroin whilst she was in my home, she ate all the food from our cupboards, and I came home screaming at her. Her writing me off in court against my child, she stated "I had anger issues" - what mother wouldn't be screaming about having someone using heroin looking after their child ... !

2007-04-15 13:33:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

my mil gave us an old holiday decoration that was made by deceased relative that I'd rather not keep or use. my husband doesn't even remember this thing, it has no meaningful value to him and we both think its tacky. My mil called it a family heirloom. Do we have to keep it? its not an antique or anything that holds financial value. i guess i'm afraid howd she react if they to visit during christmas and it wasn't on display. We have limited storage space and i hve limited space for holiday decorating. does anyone know what really defines a family heirloom?

2007-04-15 13:33:39 · 4 answers · asked by Panda 7

My fiance's neice died in an accident. His mom let me know where the viewing and funeral will be and told me i could go if i wanted. My fiance is in iraq right now and we're choosing not to tell him because we're afraid it'll mess up his concentration. I dont know if i should go to the viewing or not. It hasnt been formally announced that we're engaged and not all of his family knows me yet. What should i do?

2007-04-15 13:31:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

My 14 year old cousin wants to move with me and my parents because she has no friends where she lives and all her friends are where i live. She is severely depressed cuz her parents wont let her. She's crying right now. Her parents dont understand what she going through. Is there anyways shes able to move with us without permission of her family?

2007-04-15 12:54:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

my son want to move in with his father i was wondering at what age they could choose what parent to live with

2007-04-15 12:15:40 · 6 answers · asked by proudamerican 2

My mother has a boyfriend (she is divorced from my father), and he's very nice, polite, and respectful. In the beginning, I really didn't like the prospect of my mother having him as a boyfriend, not because of his personality or anything, but because it's just hard to accept him into the family, and I don't like the idea of him ever being my stepdad if they get married one day. I try my very best to accept him into the family, but it gets harder everyday. I thought after a while this feeling of dislike is supposed to go away! I don't show anything, but it's hard to keep my true feelings in. How can I have myself accept him as a member of the family? After all, I have no reason to hate him.

2007-04-15 12:11:16 · 9 answers · asked by julia 6

My uncle is into things like contacting ghosts and stuff and for my birthday he got me a book called Developing your Psychic powers. It freaks me out. He didn't give me a reciet so I couldn't return it and has been calling me asking if I've read it yet. Should I tell him I don't like and ask to return it? Or would that be rude?

2007-04-15 12:10:15 · 16 answers · asked by Carly 1

2007-04-15 11:46:55 · 8 answers · asked by segkid92 2

My nana died about 6 year ago she meant everything to me i sort of never left her side she died of a stroke and well basically i still cry and think about her so much and a few weeks ago me and my step dad were on about my nana and he said that she wouldnt like me now if she was still alive as i have a nasty attitude it really hurt me

2007-04-15 10:20:37 · 40 answers · asked by Amy s 1

She is Michelle Westbrook and all I want right now is her e-mail address or My Space name if there is one.

2007-04-15 10:01:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous