Family - July 2007

In a nutshell, my Dad is a World of Warcraft (a well-known MMORPG, for those of you who don't) addict, and he can't stop.
I haven't confronted him on the matter, but my mom has, and she gets really upset a lot of times. He plays almost 5 hours some days, and seems depressed any time that he can't/isn't playing.

We're staying away from the house, and since he hasn't been playing, he seems very down. He tried to download it on my laptop, and when it didn't work, to cover it up so I wouldn't see it. Since I played World of Warcraft to these extreme extents a long time ago, I recognize that he misses the game, but I want to show him he needs to stop, so he doesn't get completely consumed by it. It was okay when I did, I didn't have anyone relying on me, and I've recovered since (though I'm not saying what I did was okay). Since he's my dad, I worry about my mom and two younger brothers, that, along with me, rely on him to be there for us, and I want to know how I can help him stop.

2007-07-31 15:10:17 · 3 answers · asked by Hugh G. 2

2007-07-31 15:09:39 · 3 answers · asked by Alex 1

ok i have been trying to become a better christian and i have started to read the bible more often and make me and my mom go to church as well. i reall yam trying hard.. i also want to bring my family closer to God and Jesus Christ. I talk to my mom alot about christianity and the bible and tell her that we need to change alot of our ways and sacrifice alot for God. she agrees but she can be sometimes alittle hardheaded. you see my brother married a girl in ukraine and later they divorced. Well her parents got a green card moved here and lived with us and at first was all good but later there were problems that pissed my mom off and now she has hatred towards them and they workd at her job and she hates and i try to tell her to not do that but she cant help it they just get on her nerves .. like the husband barely does ne thing at the job and she always cleans up after him and he makes her angry alot i dont know how to help her with her problem i dont want her to be so stressed please

2007-07-31 15:06:39 · 6 answers · asked by victoria1617 2

i want to come out to my parents but they both hate gay people and they said if they ever met one that they would kill them

my dad once beat me when i was 7 years old and made me promise that i wouldnt grow up to be gay and he said if i did he would kill me

so i want to come out to them but i am scared, what should i do??

2007-07-31 15:03:48 · 9 answers · asked by joe m 1

I am 12 years old and i am going into 7th grade.I really want a myspace...
all my frends have one..
but my mom thinks i am too young..
what do you think
state your age to plz

2007-07-31 14:55:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

my father just recently past.. and i do mean recently..and my mother has his last pay check..is pay to the order of his name and the the estate of... not to mention his life insurance will be going thru and she needs someone to help her with these things and the family voted me it. im lost i have no idea what to do. this death was an accident so odviously i thought i had years to worry about things like this was not expectin my dad to pass at 42.. im not an irresponsible daughter just thought i had more time to have to think of stuff like this.. is there anyone here who can help me?

2007-07-31 14:21:16 · 4 answers · asked by Always Asking 2

My wife works at 4:00am until 11:00am then she goes to school from 12:00am - 4:00pm. And i work from 6:00 am - 6:00pm. Anyway since we have working schdules like that she wants her drunk mother to watch our children. She always drinks when shes at home and also at our house in front our children who are 7 and 3. And sometimes even passes out, and im worried she might pass out and the kids might be dead because she wasn't watching them since she was passed out. What should i do or say to my wife? She doesn't think her mom's a drunk

2007-07-31 14:07:37 · 11 answers · asked by Y2J 1

do i need to go on a diet and lift alot of weights or are there other ways

i mean i see these guys with musles and there look good and id love to be like that

2007-07-31 13:26:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hey yeah so i'am 19 years old and im a guy. Not that i don't like my parents but we are having alot of problems..i just wanna move out..be indepdent and all you know..should i feel bad that i'am moving out and leaving my mom and dad..because i love them very much...or should i just do it and go for it?

2007-07-31 13:23:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-31 13:17:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a younger sister who just turned 18,she is overweight and has low self asteem...she has had many boyfriends before this one she has now........he is 56 years old,people know him in our town as a woman beater,my mother and i have gone round and round with her about this...we do not approved,we have confronted him,but it didnt help.she didnt even tell us she was dating this man,but we found out,she swears she has dropped him,but i just passed by her house and he was there.i have decided not to open my mouth to my mother.question....should I?please give me your opinions on this what you think i should do and your reasoning behind it.thanks, for your help

2007-07-31 13:16:53 · 6 answers · asked by sleepy 5

2007-07-31 13:10:32 · 2 answers · asked by Girl 2

so i live with my dad and we dont exactly get along. he doesnt really take care of me either. so i have been wanting to move in with my mom but if i did i would have to go to a new high school. [im going to be a freshman] but my whole life is here with my dad and i know everyone. my basketball team has been together forever and they are all going to that school. and i know everyone here! so i dont know what to do. should i stay with my dad and just suck it up so i can be with my friends or should i move in with my mom and be happy but go to a new school and start all over. :/

2007-07-31 12:11:40 · 10 answers · asked by be_bombshell. 1

I've thoroughly checked his room, but kids are creative.

2007-07-31 11:51:12 · 25 answers · asked by Jeancommunicates 7

did your older siblings do something and they thought they were being sneaky and tricking you but you knew it all the time? In return you played a nasty trick on them but to this day they don't know it?

2007-07-31 11:39:43 · 3 answers · asked by ~~∞§arah T∞©~~ 6

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S This is emberassing, but I am about to take my son back from my sister.?
I had a drinking problem and recieved a P.I. and my son had to move into my sister's home while I attended an intensive outpatient program. After that, I recieved a D.W.I. and let him stay with her until I cleaned up my act. I am ready now, doing very well and very happy as a matter of fact (I actually love the 12 steps-they are life skills). I know she is going to fight me tooth and nail over this, legally. I will go to any lengths to keep my son and do whatever is necessary in order to do so. Who can help me prepare for this upcoming battle? I finally have the guts as he alwyas comes over crying and saying how awful it is there (she's very demeaning and controlling and argues non-stop), but it is nothing that would carry any weight. She used to cocaine and dated a dealer, etc. She put this in her pass and is very successful now and I respect that, but I will never be "good" in her eyes. Nobody is. Please don't think I just want to play mom out of the blue.

2007-07-31 11:30:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My sister is 14 years old and acts like a baby she screams cries and Throws a fit everytime I tell her to do her chores It used to be when she threw a fit I would let her go to her room but now my mom says I'll get Punished if she does not do her chores my sister calls me names and threatens me I know it has to do with her ADD but I can't stand this. I've tried Putting her in time out she still does not listen (my mom will not let me Punish her anyother way) Are try to tell her The nebohrs will call the police or I will call our mom if she does not quit screaming and Still she screams what am I to do Please help

Troubled Babysitter

2007-07-31 11:19:50 · 13 answers · asked by Arc_Angel 3

I want to get rid of them without lawsuits, or police, or stuff due to violation of property, so how can i make them sick and tired or at least make them experience what i have?
they took away my cousines (freinds)
they took away my "happy to school" feeling
and they "took away " my dog. . . (dead)

2007-07-31 11:08:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have been together going on 20mths.See he's not working and he would do nothing around the house so we got into a heated argument & I kicked him out.(Well cops were invovled) Part of me wants him to come back then another part I guess doesn't..He is a good guy but struggling to get a job. DO you think I should give him another chance or should I just let him go. I'm confused I know I love him & I miss him, but right now he blames me for all of it but yet I was annoyed w/him not helping me.

2007-07-31 11:07:53 · 10 answers · asked by kumo 1

2007-07-31 10:55:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

whenever im on the computer he has to say what r u doing? and when i say im on the computer he comes and looks for him self. and he constantly checks my own email and says "who is this person?". he wont let me go out to the movies with my friends unless a parent is going and he treats me like a baby! he told me i wasnt aloud to have a bf so i have to hide my boy friend from my dad. he also wont let me on myspace so im sneaking that too. i just dont know why he acts like that all of the time to me. (im 13)

2007-07-31 10:34:42 · 13 answers · asked by PresleyRenee 2

My highschool was just being finished up from remodeling over the summer and the gym's inside
was being painted with our school colors and decorations, etc.
Lots of the kids who are going into the senior class next month volunteered to paint it and my brother was one.
and this little, Christian, witch, Adria just happens to also be one of them.
Late Friday afternoon, he and she were the only two left.
and she claimed that he raped her.
We have no reason to suspect this is true because he came home just like any normal day, he's been doing this for two days out of the week
for the past month, and nothing seemed out of place about him or anything.
Now, she was taken to the hospital, and was found with semen in her that matched my brother's blood type.
However, the thing ppl don't know is, she was dating my first cousin who was a senior off and on at the same time
and his family is Christian. And she completely denied this to the doctors because they asked her if she was seeing anyone and she lied and
said she wasn't.
you know the type..blonde, gorgeous, rich daddy, loooveeesss Jesus yet a total s l u t who can't keep her legs closed
and a b i t c h to everyone? Yet she gets away with it because she's so active in the church, and leads the youth group bible study.
So no one believes you who doesn't go to your school and everyone who does is already friends with her and they're just the same?
Her parents are just as bad, they were somehow able to get intelligent Design taught in our school, which wasn't too hard because the entire school board is either
Orthodox Christian or Catholic.
My brother would honestly never do anything like this!! He is the sweetest guy. He
helps out at the homeless shelter, and sometimes does food drives for my school.
And my parents and I, believe this was some type of ploy against my family because we're Atheists.
She has never been nice to me OR my brother. My brother really liked her one time and asked her out
and she told him to spazz off, because she wouldn't date someone who was stupid enough to sell their soul or some stupid crap.
And that really hurt his feelings.
He is only 17 and we don't think it's fair that she said that just because my brother is an Atheist.
What should we do?

2007-07-31 09:47:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am moving thursday no matter what and I have 2 options. to go with my dad or go with my mom. my dad has a bad history and I am afraid tha the will go back to that. my mom has this boyfriend that I hate.

2007-07-31 09:43:45 · 13 answers · asked by daniel i 1

I really want to go somewhere and my parents are probably not gonna let me go so I decided to try to make them so happy that they would want me to go!! Any ideas? please help soon cuz I am wanting to go 2morrow!!

2007-07-31 09:38:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

who has a twin.an identical twin. do you get along and do stuff together?

2007-07-31 09:22:47 · 8 answers · asked by Missa♥ 1

My son is three and a half and is autistic. There are therapies but they are extremely expensive (40,000 to 70,000 dollars a year for 40 hours a week) - we've been on a waiting list for a year and a half for government services but we just found out that we'll have at least two more years to wait. My parents have been extremely supportive (my mother and a friend of hers who are both retired special ed teachers have taken courses and are currently working with my son as therapists) all along, but now that we know how much longer we have to wait my dad has decided to come out of retirement and work so that we can hire a therapist (20 hours a week at 40 dollars an hour - you do the math).

I've always had a good relationship with my parents, but this is something beyond I would ever have asked. I know it's his choice and that he's doing it for his grandson, not me, but I don't know what to say to him - thank you and I love you doesn't seem to be enough. Any suggestions?

2007-07-31 09:17:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

We live in the US, but my sister refuses to aknowledge this. She keeps saying that she wants to live there and she wants to go to college there, she has even changed the region and time settings on her laptop that they reflect those of the UK.

2007-07-31 09:02:07 · 25 answers · asked by Alex 2

I asked this question before but i want more answers! please read this and answer. PLEASE!


A while ago i asked my mom if i could make a myspace and she said no. but i did anyways, mostly because i felt pressured by friends, them saying that everyone had one andd that they were cool. and now i deleted mine cuz i felt bad that i made a myspace when my mom told me not too....but i still feel guilty. i think i should tell her but i am scared of what my punishment will. also we are going to mackinaw on sunday and i really want to go but i don't want my mother to make me stay home if i tell her. what should i do?

2007-07-31 08:47:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wrote about this a long time ago, but the situation has just gotten really stupid now. My sister in law (My husband's brother's wife) has not "allowed" me to have a single thing in the world without her having it, too. I got a treadmill, she got jealous and despite being broke had to go get a better one. I bought a Jeep, and this was the time she chose after 10 years of driving the same car to go buy a Jeep. I went back to college, she had to do it, too...but I did distance learning, so she wouldn't go to the actual school...she had to do it at home too. I just had a baby, so she went and convinced her husband that they HAD to get pregnant. She just contacted me with news that they are expecting! They are seriously immature people who have never had a relationship except w/ each other, and are in a bad financial situation (so they say), and she did this out of jealousy! She knows something is upsetting me and wants to know what. Is there any point in even telling her?

2007-07-31 08:44:09 · 14 answers · asked by TruthSeeker 4

this is the story:

my grandparents came here to visit us. my uncle lives here. my mother is his own sister. so my grandparents are leaving in a few more days, and my uncle has planned a farewell treat in a restaurant. he invited our family as well, but my dad don't want to attend it. he is always saying excuses, and saying he is busy. what to do. i want to attend it, and so does my mom. they are of course her own parents. what to do??

2007-07-31 08:34:00 · 17 answers · asked by Seungyong W 5