Family - December 2007

I have a BIL 22 years old, and SIL 32 years old, that still live with their parents. My wife (their older sister) and I have put in new tile, installed cable, etc. mainly for my mother in law and not them, although they benefit also. Not only do they not help in any way, either financially or physically helping me install the tile or cable, or say thanks, but only make critical comments about how the things could have been done in a better way. I asked them one time if they wanted to help me and if not then I didn't need any of their comments. Didn't work. How should I respond to people like this, if at all ?

2007-12-29 06:00:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 17 and a half years old and I was held back a year in second grade. Not my fault MPS failed me and my Mom would have to agree with me. So I'm a junior in HS

But right now I have the left one done and I wanna get my right one done because I'm the kinda guy in the middle of liking one now you see it now ya don't and two because it happens to look more balenced and I'm not afraid of looking like a girl if some people say you look like a girl. But people at my school are very accepting and really like it a lot especially the chicks.

But I wanna get another one but this time in my right ear. cuz gots one in the left. Don't do that left right gay thing though.

So my Moms fine but my Dad ain't cuz he's so old fashioned. and sticks by his rule book you said you wanted one but I said contracts extend and new ones are created but still ain't bending.

What do I do? Please help? Should I just pierce it myself or have a friend pierce it for me. It's now or later.

2007-12-29 05:28:15 · 8 answers · asked by Successor 5

okay i need help and fast!

here it goes.

okay so i live with my gma rite, and my dad came and visited for Christmas and wants me to come back with him, my gma got all mad and was like fine take her then and 10 minutes later said she didnt mean it, and my sisters want me there too, i have no idea what to do!!

if you were in this situation what would you do?

oh and i have lived with my gma for 4 years and only see my dad and sisters like 2 times a year!

and my dad lives with his sister right now who is planning on moving here but idk when, but my dad is getting there place, but if they move here within the next month idk where i will stay because my dad has to work out of state for three months so yeah... help!

2007-12-29 04:23:40 · 31 answers · asked by Smilee =]] 4

Me and my friends are planning to form a band but my parents won't let me join them because I am the only girl in the band. They are that strict. Their point is that it doesn't look good seeing a girl surrounded by boys. They always make me stay away from boys. I am an only child.

Being the vocalist of a band is one of my biggest dreams. Any idea on how I can convince them?

2007-12-29 04:21:33 · 15 answers · asked by Catzie 2

My mom told me that if you curl your tongue up, you would die- and of course I believed her! LOL

What are some lies your parents told you as a child?

2007-12-29 04:17:42 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do u get a myspace without your parents finding out

2007-12-29 04:17:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-29 03:40:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

So, my mother-in-law lives on an island 4 hours away from our city. She has a flat in our city too, which actually belongs to my husband, but of course he or I would never ask to get it, it's hers as long as she lives. She comes to the flat 2-3 times a year, for a month each time. Now she just left, and she will be back in 4-5 months. I had promised a friend to cat-sit for her 2 cats for the holidays, and we thought it would be best to keep them in my mother-in-law's flat, because they would fight with our cats. My mother in law found out. I would understand to get mad and complain that we didn't tell her, but what she did instead was call mu husband crying, almost unable to speak, and say that "we can have the house", "she can rent a one-room bouse for when she comes over", that "she couldn't sleep for 2 nights ever since she found out", that she got sick, etc.

2007-12-29 03:03:08 · 9 answers · asked by cpinatsi 7

my late grandad's step-sister lived in Petaluma, California..she is 95.....she has just sent a card and letter to my nan here in the uk stateing that her kids have been hlding her in the place where she was living, not letting her use the phone, or read her own mail! apparently she has said they have put her in a home, somewhere in petaluma we think, and they have stolen £59 000 from her bank account! they have told the care home that she has alzheimers....but she hasnt! ive been looking on whitepages to try and find the address! in the card she has put......16-37 and what looks like Toann Drive, or something similar, (her writing is not great considering she is 95) does anyone know where i could look to find some address please?

any help appreciated!!!!

2007-12-29 02:40:09 · 3 answers · asked by mmmmyeah 3

2007-12-29 02:28:53 · 4 answers · asked by kuntrygrl 2

My little sister is with my and wanted to ask a question so here it is :

" what is you most embarasing moment ? " She says thanks!! Oh yea she also wants to know what is your grossest moment??? She say thank you again. I am saying she is thirteen. ( so she can here this stuff )

2007-12-29 01:52:13 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hate basketball so much. I hate it with a passion. I hate it so much I'd rather endure 2 hours of torture than go to practice.

It's not that I'm bad at it, it's just that I hate it SO MUCH. My parents made me sign up for it and I've resisted and complained every step of the way. I just think it's the worst, most boring sport that ever existed. AND I HATE IT.

How do I convince my parents that I WANT and NEED to quit?!

2007-12-29 01:41:16 · 24 answers · asked by The Big Cheese 3

i want to pay my mom back if she pays the fee for an online game but she said she had to think about it but if i wait any longer 1) ill get really mad 2) the sale will be off. so how do i get her to say yes fast? i told her all the benefits and everything, still she has to tink about it.

2007-12-29 01:26:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Alright yesterday,i was mouthing off to my parents because they were being jerks.And My dad started screaming at me and swearing and wouldnt let me talk at all.He Also grounded me for a month just for me saying "I hate You".Then he took it out on my mom and screamed at her and everything till my mom was crying and begging for forgivness.My Dad left in his car and came back an hour later.Then he got all mad and things.Also he slapped me in the cheek and my stomach hopefully he didnt hurt my baby.it wasnt hard but it was just enough to hurt.Please Help me is my dad an abuser.if so what kind
Emotional Or Physical

2007-12-29 00:53:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

My husbands sis and husbands bro's wife have started picking on me again. Both have a history of making me look like the enemy, my husband's brothers wife is a real drama queen, she just starts crying and expects sympathy from everyone. I dont know why they do it, but for some reason they find any excuse to start conflict with me, it could even be something as petty as "you said a size 10 won't fit, so you think I'm that large!", or my husband's sis would go out of her ways to make me feel jealous, which I find really childish. Either way what I've noticed is that once a problem does start it ends up with everyone e.g my husbands brothers acting distant from me for a while which is what my sister in laws desire, I feel they want everyone in the family to think bad of me. I am a phd student and also a television model, my work has suffered as a result. My husbands brothers wife is a housewife so she has got all the time in the world to gossip.

2007-12-29 00:38:27 · 9 answers · asked by kitty 1

My family consists of me (I'm 21), my 13yo best friend (Jea), my 1yo daughter (N) and J's unborn daughter (Jea is pregnant in 9th month). This is not the usual type of family but the best for us. Jea and I run the family. We're both intelligent and responsible and we solve problems together. When N grows up a little she would be treated as equal, we won't play God-slave games (like most parents do with their children). Jea is just as responsible for the family as me.
How about your families? Do you have unusual type of family?

2007-12-29 00:15:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its been the same story for years. my parents don't get along. my mom constantly wants to divorce my father because he is emotionally abrasive and hates her family for no real good reason. they are always fighting..my siblings are married and live in their town, but i am away at college. I really can't stand to come home to these problems..i listen to them talk trash about each other, but honestly the stress gets to me..and most of the time i can't wait to get back to my college city and my apt.

ive been home for about a week and half but its felt like months. i cant wait to get back on the 2nd so i can pay my rent and start school the 6th, but my dad makes faces at me that im leaving earlier than the school start date...i need a vacation too! i want to see my fiancee! i have a life too. they seem to think that i have no life because im a student.

they wake me up early , open my door to let the light in. they don't understand my clock is off from finals! i need rest!

2007-12-28 23:53:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

My mother has got herself an internet boyfriend from America (We're from Australia). This has been going on for some months now. Mum is constantly on the net at home, stays up all night and gets up at 4am to talk to him. It's really starting to interfer with her work now too. She also plans on selling the house and leaving Dad and my younger sisters with nowhere to go, so she can go to America to be with him. She doesn't believe that she is doing anything wrong and believes she is being mature about it all. She believes she is in love with this man and that it's the happiest she has been in a long time, even though she will snap at anything. The whole situation is quite frustrating.

Any advice on how I can talk some sense into her? Thanks in advance.

2007-12-28 21:49:15 · 5 answers · asked by Alicia 6

Ok... My parents have a huge house and I live in it now.. but the thing is .. I don't care. I don't care where I live. When I was in the military, I stayed in a crappy trailer home comfortably with no a/c or heat.

I'm sick and tired of people praising me because my parents have a big house. when someone comments about it.. what do I say??? My parents maybe wealthy but I'm poor and people think I'm rich because of the house.

2007-12-28 19:09:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many Dads are realy trying to make payments to stay afloat , and how many Moms are blowing the $$$ on coke. Is this a county isuse. Or a forgotten isuse.
Power to the Dads.
Were trying our best. Fokin Be- och.

2007-12-28 18:49:54 · 5 answers · asked by six 4

My dad makes annoying jokes which are not funny at all, sorta like the kind of jokes a 6 year old would make, to me and my sister (we are 12 and 8). It gets me so p*ssed off when a friend comes over and he starts cracking these types of jokes. How can I (nicely) tell him to stop?

2007-12-28 18:49:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got back from my first semester at college earlier this month and my mother had noticed that I put on some weight- about ten pounds. It really doesn't bother me, since I still fit in all of my clothes and don't think of 120 as overweight at all. Still, it really seems to bother her. She's always noting that I look like I've gained weight and whenever I eat she points out what's not healthy about it. It's not like she's calling me fat- but it's really bothering me.
Once she realized that telling me that I've gained weight hasn't caused me to change my eating habbits, she's gone as far as to get rid of all the snack food in the house and only allow me one meal a day.
How can I tell her that she's acting crazy without making her upset? Do you think she's out of line as well, or is it just me? I know that I only have to deal with her a few more weeks, but it's really bothering me.

2007-12-28 18:46:56 · 6 answers · asked by Meana 2

He's 7,and he pitches a fit if he does not get his way or if things don't go his way.

2007-12-28 18:40:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The last time I heard from my father I was around 13 years old. I am now 49 years old. I am the oldest of 4 girls. I am married and live almost 150 miles from where I grew up. My father abused my mother badly. He kicked her in the stomach when she was 9 months pregnant with my youngest sister. He tried to hang me from the rafters in our basement at age 9. My father left when I was 10. The last time I saw him is when I was 13 at the church I grew up. My aunt of my father's side sent flowers when my mother died in 1989. My 2 sisters and I are close. I wouldn't even know what he would look like. My family and I lived a normal happy life after the divorce. I would like to go on with my life and forget the horrible abuse. Why would someone contact his daughters after so long? I have forgiven him for the abuse. My second sister is in a abusive situation and we lost contact with her. She reunited with my father in the 1990's. Is there a reason why he is trying to contact us?

2007-12-28 18:30:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to change my last name to my mother's maiden name but my father doesnt want me to. Do I need both parents consent to offically change?

2007-12-28 18:25:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

my parents are divorcied and my dad said that daturday i could hang out at his place a couple of days ago then yesterday i was at my dad's place cause my mom was going out and i asked if saturday was okay to hang out and he said it was okay then today my dad said that he might invite a girl over but expalined her as a friend so i said that was fine and told my mom now she said to me that i can't go even thought i said to my dad that having the girl over was fine now i can't go. Why is my mom doing this i said it was fine but my mom says that my dad should have left the day to me rather than with someone else.

2007-12-28 18:12:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I usually try to have fun on here but I miss my mom so terribly...especially around the holidays. I feel cheated and envious of friends and relatives who still have their moms to hug and talk to. Has anyone else lost their mom? How do you cope?

2007-12-28 18:11:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

So I have the chance to go to Africa to help out an orphanage and go on a safari for 2 weeks with a well-known service group. The thing is I am 16 years old, and my mom is uneasy and basically telling me I can't go because she is the biggest worrier you will ever come across. This is something I am incredibly passionate and serious about but she doesn't believe me! I want to go more than anything in the world, and I am a responsible young adult. Any suggestions on convincing her that the world is not out to get me and rest assured there will be no civil war?!?

2007-12-28 17:37:38 · 2 answers · asked by qwert w 1

My dad was supposed to watch my uncles two children, but he has to work third shift so I offered to fill in for him and I won't get paid. The kids are both boys; ages 2 1/2 and almost 5. I will be watching them at my aunt and uncles house for almost 6 hours. The thing is, both children are very active and need constant attention. I am afraid that I might not be able to give them the attention they both need since they both can walk. Does that make any sense? I would hate for something to go wrong after having these feelings knowing I didn't think I could handle it.

I'm almost 15 and have taken multiple courses for childcare. Does it sound like a reasonable request to ask my uncle & aunt if I could bring a trusted friend, whom they can approve, to help me? How do I ask without them getting the feeling that I have no clue what I am doing?

2007-12-28 17:25:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Friends of my parents live about 10 blocks from us. Since they are away most of the time at their other house, they said my and my two sisters can use the pool in their backyard.

The problem is, since they are not home, their house is locked. This means we can't get to the bathroom when we need to pee. It's too far and too cold to run all the way back to our house.

Could we pee in the yard somewhere (it is fenced for good privacy) or even in the pool?

2007-12-28 17:22:05 · 30 answers · asked by Sandra F 1