Family - October 2007

My "soon-to-be" 12 years old cousin is driving me nuts about her birthday present!! she is really "in style". If she see something in a catalog that saids "must have for this season" she wants it!! and i don't want to buy her something she wants me to get her then it would ruin the supprise.. shes "young", out-going, preppy, the kind of girl who shop at american eagel, hollister, abercrombie and fitch stuff (i've never bene in there) so.. any idea???

2007-10-22 13:43:59 · 1 answers · asked by smplytffny 2

2007-10-22 13:27:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a junior in college, I live 3 hours away from my hometown. Friends from my high school are scattered throughout the country. Mom and Dad don't call me as much to talk. Have a boyfriend of 1.5 years. Im so attached to him because he's the only thing I have here. I depend on him for my social needs. He lives 25 minutes away from his hometown. I feel like if I lost him Id lose everything. I have a few close friends, and I'm involved in clubs. But I think since he's the only person I'm truly "close" to, I depend on him too much. My parents do love me, but they don't call me very often, they come and visit once in a while, and when I call they always like to hear from me. Is that just part of growing up and moving on? I feel like they don't really "know" me anymore. I feel like my boyfriend is the only person who truly knows me. I feel like because of this it's caused me to become too dependent on him, and I know something HAS to change. Im too paranoid in relationships. Help?

2007-10-22 13:24:47 · 4 answers · asked by Consultant 1

is she loveing careing etc

2007-10-22 12:17:24 · 49 answers · asked by NONAME 2

I overheard a conversation with my mom and another man on the phone my dad suspects that she is she cheating but she says she isnt i heard my mom talking to someone on the phone and she was calling him baby and says how she thinks about him everynight i also heard her talking about how she was just planning on them having a one night stand but now she cant live without him the man lives out of town in our hometown and all of a sudden she tries to find every little reason to go out of town now i look at her different i cant trust her anymore do you think i should tell my dad or let him find by for himself

2007-10-22 11:51:45 · 75 answers · asked by Anonymous

my phone is horrible and it doesnt work. i need a new phone. but how? my mom wont budge

2007-10-22 11:35:51 · 7 answers · asked by DEVIN! 1

Okay so I catch my 6 year old squatting with his feet on the toliet **** pushing forward his nuts to see himself take a poop. I really freaked out screamed at him and walked out. I smoked a ciggarette to calm down. and then I told him what he did was discusting and told him to get away from me. Then i felt bad and told him I was sorry i yelled at him but he did was un heard of and would not be tolerated. I told him that way the nastiest thing you could do. When he came home today I reminded him what we talked about and told him it was gross agian. Did I over react.?????????what would you have done

2007-10-22 11:34:27 · 42 answers · asked by pualla walla 1

My Dad left my mother when I was 3 for another woman.
He already had a son from a previous relationship who he still sees(he's grown up now) but he hasn't had any contact with me since I was 3.
Is it because I'm a female?

2007-10-22 11:16:43 · 5 answers · asked by IloveNewYork 1

i will shorten this story: my teenage daughter whom conitinued to tell lies and even started to sneak out of the house has now been sent to live with her father i tried to be that mom that tried to gain her respect and for two years now her being 17 years old i sent her to her fathers did i do a bad thing and i haven't called her and she hasn't me either and should i call or wait for her

2007-10-22 11:13:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

My Daughter constantly tells me she wants to die, its really upsetting me now i dont know what to do to make her happy again she didnt used to be like this. please help me

2007-10-22 11:01:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

My Dad passed away 15 years ago when I was 9. I’ve only been to the cemetery twice since because his ashes were taken back to the small town where he grew up. This past weekend, I asked my boyfriend to drive 10 hours each way so I could visit his plot. While I was there, I couldn’t say what I wanted and I couldn’t even think straight and all I did was cry. I wanted to tell him about my new job and my boyfriend and how they would have gotten along because they both like football and he treats me great. I wanted to thank him for watching over me but those words couldn't even come out. I almost felt like I was a kid again when my Mom told me he died. I didn’t know what to say or think and all I did was cry. I think what I felt at the cemetery is normal but can someone just tell me that it is. I've moved on with my life but I still really miss him.

2007-10-22 10:59:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

and I have had a child with my 1st cousin and my child had a child with her 1st cousin.
Is my grand daughter any different from you?

2007-10-22 10:52:47 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a girlfriend that I have been seeing for 3 months now & she lives about 4 hours from here. We met on the internet. I ask her if we could spend the Holidays together, but she wants to work on
Thanksgiving & said that she would have to think about Christmas. She said she does not like the Holidays, because she has no family.
Here is the catch-----When she was a little girl & even in the crib, her own father molested her & the mother did nothing about it. She remembers crying for her mother not to leave the room in her crib when her father would enter the room. She was afraid of him. When she started to mature, he began to molest her & her sister too. She tried to press charges after she grew up and the authorities said it had been too long. She is 35 & this was in South Caroline. "I thought there was no time limit on this?"
She is trying to break free from her parents because of this and said she spend the Holidays by herself last year. She said she use to like the Holidays,

2007-10-22 10:09:59 · 3 answers · asked by J.J. 1

We offered for them to live with us when they first got married so they could save money to buy a house. Two years later they havn't saved a dime and have talked about moving out but won't take steps to do so. It has put a real strain on my marriage and my relationship with them. Also my mother in law is at my house watching my son 4 days a week and stays all night two nights a week. Everything combined has made me a rather bitter person. They are all I think about lately. Every day gets worse. And of course my husband is not bothered by it as much as I am because its his brother. I could go on forever with stories of things that have happened but that would take forever.

2007-10-22 08:44:09 · 11 answers · asked by Sophia G 1

Since time began (it seems), every year at Christmas, myself, my wife, and our children have had to visit all the family.
We get up at eight, have breakfast, let the kids open their presents then immediately rush off to the in-laws, stay there until about 3pm (having Christmas dinner) then go to my parents until 10pm.
The poor children get ferried around and dont even get to see their toys until Boxing Day afternoon (because the in-laws expect us over for lunch that day as well).
I want to have a nice quiet Christmas this year, just the four of us - Christmas dinner, kids enjoying their presents, and a lazy afternoon watching the repeats...

Is it too much to ask, or am I being selfish?

2007-10-22 08:43:43 · 27 answers · asked by R G 3

i peeled 10 lbs of apples with my husbavd and we made two cakes with that plus cooked the rest. also spent most of sat. on yahoo answers.

2007-10-22 08:26:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A co-worker makes her working son and daughter (18 & 22) pay one utility bill a piece. She says it will teach them responsibility. The floor is split 50/50 on this. Some say this is wrong while others agree. What say you?

P.S. She is married and they are fully capable of paying the household bills.

2007-10-22 08:24:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I keep hearing "If you're over thirty, and you want to get married, you have to marry somebody with children !" . Is this true ? Children won't obey somebody's rules if they don't want to, and they don't want to . I'd have to have my rules obeyed and respected, and children aren't obedient and respectful . Any children that live in my house would have to follow my rules . Is it fair to make new rules halfway through their childhood, or "change the rules in the middle of the game" ? Would EVERYBODY make a good stepparent ? Aren't there some people who shouldn't have children ? Is it realistic to think ANYBODY can inspire respect and obedience in children ?

2007-10-22 08:22:52 · 6 answers · asked by I_hate_being_single 3

I WAS SERVING IN THE ARMY I LEFT IT WITHOUT INFORMATION TO FATHER NOW HE ANOID FROM ME FROM LAST 4 YEARS AND BLAMING ME FOR MY MOTHERS DEATH AS SHE DIED IN 1999 AND I LEFT THE ARMY IN 2004 PLEASE GUIDE ME

2007-10-22 08:22:22 · 9 answers · asked by majid aziz 1

has nightmares still, one parent dies, the other is sinister, prefers their sibs, no relationship because that parent is still crazy-abusive, they all (parents, sibs) "got away with" tons of abuse of every kind, the other parent is going to leave out the scapegoat kid from the (substantial) will, the other sibs just want more of the take...is there anything that the youngest abused kid can do before the last (abusive) parent dies, legally? Once that happens, all the assets will be scattered to the winds. The "statute of limitations" has long since run out, unless current nightmares make a difference.

2007-10-22 08:08:10 · 2 answers · asked by BS,MS,Ph.D 2

Me and my dad never really had the greates of relationships..
Actually, it's been pretty shitty.
I don't live in the same state as him anymore, and when I have to visit, it is literally hell.
Now he is probably getting divorced from my step mom, which it's no secret that they got married because she was pregnant. I know things will be hard for him when they separate. It's also really hard for me to forget all the things he has said and done. I try to stay mad, covering up for feeling sad that me and my dad aren't close.
I know this is sad, the situation is sad, and has been for many years. I just don't think that I can be sad for him anymore. I'm not sure if I can put this behind me and try to sympathise for him,I think maybe I should, but is it worth it in the end??
Somebody help..

2007-10-22 08:04:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i stay in some apartments that are right next door to the school I go to. i signed a 12 month lease and i want to get out, because my roommate (she signed her own lease and I signed mine) she moved her boyfriend in the apartment with us, he's here all the time. She goes home on the weekend and leave her keys with him and he have his friends in here they come and wash there clothes here and they be in the kitchen cooking to. We also have a extra bedroom that nobody stays in and he let his friends come over and spend the night. I think it is totally disrespectful of her to let him stay here and let him do the things he do. i have wrote the managers 2 letters and i have talk to the general manager so i can move to another apartment and they haven't done anything. Do you think I can break my lease/

2007-10-22 07:51:30 · 5 answers · asked by joyej16 2

My mother makes an exceptional amount of money but she claims she makes way less (which is not true). She's asking me to pay rent but I'm pregnant, going to school and have a full time job (bf doesn't live with me). I also have an 18 yr old brother who doesn't work, skips school (high school) and has stolen money from my mother in the past. I plan to save up & move out but I can't do that if I pay her rent. That money could go to my savings. She refused to ask my brother to get a job and insists that the money come from me. She even demands to see by budget to see if I actually can afford to give her money. I want to tell her respectfully that I don't think it's fair for me to pay when my brother isn't but I wanted a parent's opinion on why she might be acting like this, I feel like I'm just being picked on. BTW, we haven't always gotten along bc she has a reputation on being somewhat of a bully with me.

2007-10-22 07:48:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hello, I'm a 17 years old Canadian young.
I'm sad beacuse I never saw my father and he dont accept me... I do not know why.
Advice?
Kisses from Clinton,ON,Canada.

2007-10-22 07:44:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

k here it goes.. this weekend we had my brothers wifes baby shower to go to.. my sister thought it would be a good idea if we all went up together in my van.. she said she knew how to get there because she used to work up near there. so when we started out i said okay what way do we go... she said she know how to get there so. as it turned out almost an hour into driving she had the road all wrong and we went the wrong way. mind you we had a printed out map that was provied for us. she was looking for hunting pike but what we wanted was hunting rd. well that was a real pain in the ***. minf you i wanted to leave at 1pm to give up a good amount of time just incase something like this were to happen and IT DID! the shower started at 2 by the way.
i pulled over and asked someone where hunting rd was and we had to turn back around and go the other way. i was not happy but didnt say anything. then my sister yells there there it is turn so i turned ral fast and she flipped out on me

2007-10-22 07:13:33 · 6 answers · asked by sue s 2

I mean something really bad that disappoints you, like being mean to other people, showing irresponsability, dishonesty, thinhs that can even hurt and damage other people. Should we show all of our disappontment, give a harsh punishment, ane even say things like you don't deserve my trust, is not worth my respect? Or should we handle things differently?

Should we forgive in case of sincere regret?

2007-10-22 06:44:12 · 7 answers · asked by Tania 1

my MIL and Sister in laws run the show in my house.
and my husband says that they are just helping u aroung the house.
i've explained to him that i need my privacy. but, he said "Sorry, I can't say anything to mommy, cause she will get mad" and this is normal. "why are you complaining, they are just helping"
but they come over and cook, clean, do everything for my husband. I wasnt brought up that way!
I want my PRIVACY!
any advice.
how can i tell my husband in a nice way? also, is this normal for arab MIL?

2007-10-22 06:35:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

life ebbs away and its death at the door step why r we so reluctant to go and r generally afraid. of what
pain or the unknown?

2007-10-22 06:28:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My dad beat me and the rest of my family. He threatened everyday of our lives. Now he's dead.But now he's gone my mom doesnt listen, look or understand me. But that has been going on for the past 4 years. She screams at me.I know thats normal parenting but thats the only way we communicate.I feel as if she pushes me away.So Ive pushed her out of my life
Ive given up on trying to make her see how I feel.Because
she doesnt understand my poetry and thats the only way I find I can tell her how I feel.But all that does is makes her scream at me for not understanding then she says "make me understand" and I say "I dont know how" and it just keeps going on like that. Now I'm too the point where I'm planning my
own death. By the way I'm just 15

2007-10-22 06:26:58 · 16 answers · asked by angel b 2

So here's the thing i'm 18, my parents have been divorced since i was about 11 my mom cheated on my dad, and then married the guy, then that left my dad heartbroken, and my little sister and i had to watch it, we knew he wasnt exactly happy. He's been dating on and off since then but no one he'd ever tell us about, the only reason we knew is because he'd leave emails open, Well just last year he started dating someone seriously that my aunt and uncle had set him up with and well they've beentogether for almost a year now. We Love her, i was scared to deal with my dad dating someone because of all the drama wiht my mom and her husband. but my dad spends all of his time w/ her and for sweetest day there was a card from her on the tv and then the day after sweetest day we assumed he took her to dinner and a movie but then there was a card and a dvd there and the card was signed "Love ya, Sexy suzie"my sister and i confronted him, he just turned and walked away. What the hell is going on?

2007-10-22 06:20:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous