Other - Family & Relationships - 29 January 2007

2007-01-29 15:47:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognise that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, and your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car.

2007-01-29 15:44:50 · 6 answers · asked by reena_ree86 2

i met my ex bf 11/11/06 and we started dating the 14th.. i met him through my old best friend who is gay. he told me that the 2 was dating and i believe him at first but when i spoke to my ex {his bf at the time} he said that he was saying that cause he knew i got a thing for darskin men with long hair and he thought i would hurt him. i KINDA believe him. but 1 night me and my ex {his bf at the time} stayed at over the gay guy house, i turned around and saw them in a DEEP kiss.. but.. me being a dummy, he kept denying EVERYTHING. when my old best friend found out, he came to my house with him and his other cross dressing friends and tried to junmp me for stealing his bf.. now he's locked up for assualt on me {we faught} and he admitted to having relations with a gay man, dont that make him bi sexual? but he tells me he loves, wants me to pick out an wedding dress, the ring, plan it everything. he wants a baby. he wont leave me alone i tell him its over n i dont want him.. what do i do?

2007-01-29 15:34:14 · 12 answers · asked by Shaun J 3

2007-01-29 15:29:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

"When Life Throws You a Lemon, Make Lemonade!"

My friend and I have not settled on the meaning of this quote. He thinks it means when life throws you something (sour) something bad that you are suppose to make it better. SOO his view is based on if life throws you something bad, make it not bad pretty much.

MY VIEW point is that I believe when Life Throws you and opportunity one should sieze that opportunity. When life gives you a scholarship to college than you seize the opportunity to go to college and study (making lemonade out of it). I believe the lemon is an analogy for an opportunty that one should take hold of.

He believes the lemon is an analogy for a bad thing.

Are we both right, wrong or which was is the one you think is best?

Thank you so much and we can settle this stupid argument once and for all!

2007-01-29 15:28:24 · 11 answers · asked by justaquestion 1

I have had this fear since 4th grade..i mean its not that my parents leave me alot its just i have something bothering me..and its so bad that i have anxiety attacks periodically..its horrible..what do i do? i'm old enough to stay home alone

2007-01-29 15:18:09 · 24 answers · asked by drew r 1

my husband and I are talking about having kids. I really want to have kids, but my husband comes from a bad family background. He's got a lot of issues. He won't talk about them with me or refuses to get help. He says he's capable of dealing with it on his own. His life is better now. So he doesn't want to think about the bad times. A lot of times when we argue, he gets so angry that I can't handle it and I worry how a child would deal with it. also because of all his problems growing up he isolates himself and tries to isolate me. so I'm worried that the same will happen to our kid. Should i be worried about these things? is it okay for me to feel this way? sometimes I feel horrible that i have these feels. please help!

2007-01-29 15:05:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-29 15:02:52 · 7 answers · asked by Chris R 2

2007-01-29 14:59:28 · 9 answers · asked by alexis r 1

to all girls- be specific-what qualities, do girls prefer for such a serious relationship--what do you girls what off a guy?

2007-01-29 14:58:12 · 5 answers · asked by lazer 2

2007-01-29 14:56:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok well me and this girl were never together but well she cheated on her b/f with me and and we are still messing around and we have liked each other since before she got with her boyfriend but we didnt tell each other.and now i feel like im madly i love with her, and i have tried to stop talking to her because of fights that we have had(like her choosing her b/f over me eventhough i knew she would pick him)and i feel like im her b itch because she come with me then she goes with him and it feels horrible and not to long ago i told her that we should leave each other alone and i didnt speak to her for a week and yesterday i saw her at a party and i ignored her at first but the whole time i felt like crying and i missed her so much! and i kept on looking at her..until she approached me and we talked and kissed..and today i saw her again and she was supposed to stay for a party but she left(she ditched me) and i found out she left me for her b/f..what should i do? how do i get over her!?

2007-01-29 14:50:31 · 2 answers · asked by pixie7 3

so my parents are getting divorced (finally).
But i am glad.
I don't love my dad..i don't LIKE him. he has never done anything badly wrong.
He is just a nasty person. Constantly argues with everyone. Moans. He must be right all of the time. he can give out insults but not take them. You know the type.
I am sick of having him in my life. I can't remember one single memory where i am having fun with him around.

i want nothing more to do with him. Is this wrong? How would you feel if your kid wanted nothing to do with you?

I mean i don't know how i feel. i feel guilty of course.. on one side - i don't want to hurt his feelings. But on the other hand - i don't like him. i don't want to spend time with him. i get the feeling he doesn't like me anyway.

How do i tell him that i don't want to go stay with him or meet up with him or anything..

Or should i just put up with it?

i am behind in a lot of coursework. with many other probs. This stress is just making me worse

2007-01-29 14:48:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear this all the time and I want to know if its a myth or true, what do you think?

2007-01-29 14:47:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 23 and my Boyfriend is 19. My family is in Iowa and I am in California. I gave up my job for him and my car. I was stressed out in my new job. So I took it out on him. Now he took all of his stuff. He called the nieghbors and talked to them for 30 min. They came over to tell me that he wasn't happy. Now I'm stuck having to leave my job again and travel in a uhaul back to my family. Everything that is happening to me sucks. I love him I do but maybe he was to young for me?

2007-01-29 14:39:35 · 1 answers · asked by amandamc32183 2

If I was the husband and I asked, "What is the term for my wife's brother's son?" what would it be? Looking at it from the wife's perspective, it would be the nephew right? I'm not sure if it is nephew from the husband's perspective also.

2007-01-29 14:16:25 · 3 answers · asked by Hannah B 1

2007-01-29 14:03:41 · 7 answers · asked by smoothopr_2 4

I am 21 years old with two daughters 2 1/2 and 4 months. My husband recently told me that he wanted me to dress sexier. At first I was excited...until I found out what he meant sexy to be. He means mini-skirts and semi see through shirts. I have never dressed 'girly' before and I think that he and I may be on different ends of the extremes. His being kind of slutty and mine being too conservative. I don't want to give my girls the wrong impression either that it's good to market your body to the other sex. I just don't know where to draw the line. I would like to look 'prettier', but I don't want to be a slut. Anyone have any suggestions of what is too much and/or what is acceptable?

2007-01-29 13:55:27 · 2 answers · asked by A W 2

a 14 yr old boy

2007-01-29 13:53:36 · 6 answers · asked by catrinawithac 1

2007-01-29 13:50:04 · 14 answers · asked by goddess 3

My friend recently called off her engagement in august, her and her ex fiance are still living together just in different rooms, since august she has met someone in that time and has been enjoyying his company since then, however her ex kind of thinks that they are on a break and he is interested and is fully pursuing a job where she and this new guy both work. Everyone at this job knows that she is with this new guy. She loves her ex dearly and whats to be at least be friends. How should she tell him of this new guy so she doesn't hurt him anymore or should she even worry about and just let him find out on his own when he gets the job?

2007-01-29 13:48:35 · 5 answers · asked by Sammy 2

The disregard towards users of this site shows how many ignorant people there are in the world .

2007-01-29 13:39:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want another life. i'm very sick, i feel like throwing up half the time, i get dizzy spells and my chest tightness, my mum tells me that there's nothing i can do, she doesn't think it's anything, she calls me a complainer. She pushed me when i was trying to get in teh car, i want another family, then i have school problems. There's an ex friend of mine, she told me off a few weeks ago, she tried to say sorry, but after she would say sorry, she would say something else mean which would make me not forgive her. She got her mum in on it, her mum is trying to make me be friend with her, i thought it would all be over, she was supposed to move away during the summer, but i found out today that she isn't moving anymore, instead she's going to be going to my school, she's going out with my ex boyfriend, which makes me upset because i still have strong feelings for him, i don't know what to do now, she told me that she loves him more, but she never will. What do I do?

2007-01-29 13:34:16 · 3 answers · asked by Kayla B 1

I'm in love with the perfect guy. He makes me laugh like nobody else does, he makes me smile, he treats me good, we share secrets.....Everything. But he's taken. I don't want to mess up his wonderful relationship with my friend. But I like the feeling I have. What do I do? ESPECIALLY because he asked me to go to a movie with him....alone. Oh, and he's 2 years older than me. I don't want to lose our friendship, but my feelings for him may become a problem. What to do??????? :|

2007-01-29 13:31:52 · 26 answers · asked by B 1

My sister has like this major crush and she wants to get him a valentine present what should she get him?? she wants me to get it ahhhhhh please help me and dont skip this quetion.

2007-01-29 13:14:48 · 37 answers · asked by ♥Sunshine♥ 3

Ok, can a man tell his partner she is not allowed to go to the pub to have a drink because she is a mother, my friend is 21 and has two kids and has only ever been to the pub once in 3 yrs her partner says she is not allowed because she is a mother, why does he do this???

2007-01-29 13:09:19 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let's say you have a decent job and you love it. How would you feel if people belittle the kind of job that you have? How would you feel if your parents belittle your job?

2007-01-29 13:06:16 · 14 answers · asked by ~Amor~ 3

just feel like he thinks I am granted

2007-01-29 13:04:48 · 22 answers · asked by silver wings 4

Say the women is in her early forties and the guy is half her age. (early twenties)

2007-01-29 12:59:05 · 15 answers · asked by M S 1

She is very independent and does not like Doctors. She has been complaining that her mouth is sore and will not let me take her to a dentist. I can get her to her Dr. for her breast cancer, but she is becoming more and more unwilling to go. She just turned 86 years old. She does not want to move in with me and wants to live in her own home, and refuses to even think of a nursing home.My living in her home would not work out as she doesn't want anyone even looking at or touching anything. My main concern is her sore mouth and what can I do to help her, I really think that there is nothing I can do as an attorney tells me that it is her right to refuse care, I just hurt for her and wonder what I can do to get her to the dentist.

2007-01-29 12:57:42 · 3 answers · asked by Judy 2