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mom
Posted Sunday January 18 2004, 9:31 pm
my parents got divorced a year ago and ever since my mom has always been trying to do stuff with me. My only free days of the week are wednesday and sunday..and now she wants to have dinner both those nights. I feel like everything I do with her is scheduled. What should I tell her to make it not feel like she had to make an effort to see me?
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i dont know them
Posted Sunday January 11 2004, 1:50 pm
i am so confused. i have never met my father or any of his family. My mom has told me the story of how they met and has given me a picture, but that just isnt enough. i want to go to sacremento to find my family from his side. should i travel across the country alone? who should i tell? i dont know what to do. where do i belong?
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My brother
Posted Sunday January 11 2004, 3:31 am
My brother william always seems disapointed in me. i really dont want him to be dissopinted in me, but i just dont know what to do :( im not really shure if anyone can help me, but i would really like it if someone would just say something about it
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moms
Posted Saturday January 10 2004, 9:24 pm
ok here i sit a 14 year old teenager crying cause my mom just came in telling me how disapointed i made her and dispointed was only a nice term for how i made her feel cuase to her i am acting like my step sister (lazy) and she said now me and my mom are going to have the same relationship they have - none - i dont know what to do cause 1st of all i love my mom to death and dont wanna heart her and i want to have a relation ship with her 2nd its hard for me to grasp when i need to do something untill its to late today after dinner i washed my dish and walked away from the sink and my step dad starts washing then after i say i was going to go up stairs and then i realized that i should clean up the kitchen after dinner so i asked should i ...
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I just need some help.
Posted Wednesday January 7 2004, 11:48 pm
See grandma and me and mother got into a fight and they told me they decided to ship me off to school as they put it. I talked to mother about it and she also wants to send me to school but i dont wanna go I like homeschool even if it is loney having no friends and im scared if i got to school Ill get talked back beind my back and have no friends. what do i do?
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Posted Friday January 2 2004, 11:45 pm
well i used to live with my step mom. she was very abusive in many ways (ie) telling me i was worthless, throwing things at me, forgeting about me all kinds of thing she once made me stand in a corner from sunrise to sunset for 6 days straight but im getting off topic...im now no longer living there i was able to move in with my father who i realized that i wanted to live with after i could see through all the brainwashing done by my mother.... now its been a few months since i last saw her let alone talk to her...yet after all of the pains she has caused me i keep trying to reachout and make contact with her. i called her to wish her a happy new year and merry christmas and she never called me back to even say hi. yet im still filled with ...
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Smoking
Posted Wednesday December 31 2003, 12:34 pm
I've convinced myself that just because the rest of my family smokes, doesn't mean I will. But most people I know say "you never know if you're going to end up smoking yet"
I always tell them "I promise you I'm not going to smoke" and they tell me I cant make a promise like that. Hardly anyone believes me. A few people do but that's not enough. I could start smoking anytime...so when is the right time that they will believe me? When I'm older? I'm still young, and if I'm not smoking now...I'm not a smoker, so why can't I just stay like I am.....NOT A SMOKER. I know a lot of people say that they're not going to smoke and some of them end up smoking, but I'm not one of those people. I counted how much money my famil...
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Posted Thursday December 25 2003, 1:44 pm
Okay, so I have this friend who is gay. And he really wants to tell his parents, they said they'd love him not matter what, but also, they don't approve of gays too much. I'm thinking of talking to them myself, but then he might get mad at me. So I really don't know what I should do, or what he should do actually. I told him to wait until he moves out to tell them, but he said he might feel guilty for doing that, letting them think that he was straight for 18 years or so.. then all of a sudden breaking the news. What should I do? Talk to his parents for him, or just leave it to him? And if I leave it up to him, can you give any advice for me to tell him? Thanks!
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My in-laws and their denominational dislike
Posted Sunday December 21 2003, 8:30 pm
Here's the situation:
I am a Baptist. My in-laws and my husband are Methodists. My husband and I attend a Baptist church. Under most circumstances, I don't pay attention to denominational differences, because I think we're all going to the same place anyway.
The problem is that my in laws, especially my mother-in-law, have made it clear that they don't like the fact that we're going to the "wrong" church. Earlier we even suggested that they could come to church on Christmas Eve with us, and my mother-in-law burst into tears and ran out of the room.
Evidently, the fact that I am not a Methodist offends them deeply. I don't want to join a different church just to please them, though. Any th...
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Posted Wednesday December 17 2003, 6:48 pm
hey this isnt a question but i got a 160$ dress for 35$ great deal huh its so cute it is like a dark red at the top then it goes toa dark purple then to a black and it has black beads all ova it and the back part is an open back with these beads going straight across then it hangs down kinda hard to tell ya exactly
anyways its for the skol miltary ball and im goin wit my best friend kate
(no im not bi lez or anything) but i really wanna go wit nick or todd but ow ell
*******happy********
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Holidays are not my favorite days
Posted Friday December 5 2003, 11:41 am
My parents were divorced about 7 years ago. I am in my 30s. I feel like the holidays are a job because we have to go so many different places in one day, and worst of all, eat.
I wish I could rent out 2 adjacent ballrooms and have Christmas. It stresses me out. I have tried saying, ok, your house for Thanksgiving and your house for Christmas. This year I made Thanksgiving dinner, but my father forgot or just didn't bother to care. I did visit him the Friday after, which was fun. Mom and brother did come. Brother is also making the grand rounds with his family.
How could this be easier other than purposefully being out of town?
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Posted Thursday December 4 2003, 2:36 am
Well, okay. I have been wanting to learn how to play guitar for a year now, but I am afraid to bring it up to my parents. I have done it before, and my mom was all for the idea but then she tells me things like "Oh, if you start your own band with all girls they are gonna think you're lesbian" or "it's not your talent", or "you've never shown any interest". WEll now I am interested, and it is all I think about. I don't want to be famous, and I at least would have something to do after school. (My mom is upset that I don't do any activities). My birthday is approaching and my friend knows drums and my other friend just got a bass guitar, but I am the one they are waiting for. They know I really want this. But m...
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Sleepover...
Posted Wednesday December 3 2003, 5:11 pm
My 10 year old daughter is invited to a birthday party sleepover this weekend. Is ten year old too young for sleepovers or is it okay for this age to go on sleepovers?
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Abort or not to abort.....
Posted Wednesday December 3 2003, 4:35 pm
I am a 29 year old married woman with three kids. I just found out that I am pregnant and my husband and I have agreed that I would have an abortion because we couldn't afford to have another child. We are already struggling to raise our three kids. I am so confused and depressed right now. I am scheduled to have my abortion next week though. If I continue with this pregnancy that means I would have to stop working and money is really tight right now. We are actually living pay check to pay check right now. The other side of me wanted to continue having this child. And it really hurts me so that I have to do this. My family and his family would be so dissappointed if they learned I'm preganant and I doubt that they would be willing to...
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family dinners
Posted Friday November 28 2003, 5:04 pm
I'm 16 and my family still makes me sit at the kid's table at holiday dinners. They act like it's just too big a seating issue for me to not have to eat with five year olds, but I think they just don't want to treat me like an adult. I'm sick of it, but they don't care. How can I wake them up? I somehow lived through another Thanksgiving but Christmas is coming up and I'm going to want to beat them all.
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sister
Posted Tuesday November 25 2003, 6:24 pm
ok my older sister is such an @$$ she makes things up and makes me bad
she makjes it look like she is the perfect one i mean i am not jelous but i need some combacks anything will do
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Posted Saturday November 15 2003, 8:40 am
is it really bad that i think i'd rather go on a ski trip over thanksgiving than go home to see my family? they drive me nuts.
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my father
Posted Thursday October 30 2003, 8:03 pm
well i have never met my father and my mom told me that he was married 2 times before he met my mother but he never married my mom and he had 6 boys beofre me and i'm a girl. and the only thing i don't get is why he could get married 2 times before my mom and then have 6 boys with 2 other women and spen time with them but when he realizes that he has a girl he runs and i ahve never met him and i don't understand how he could handle 6 boys but not me? and all i want to knwo is how like when i talk about my dad that i don't break down in tears how can i do that?
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help
Posted Tuesday October 28 2003, 9:11 pm
Lately I've become very emotional about stupid stuff (crying, screaming, etc) my mom has been calling me a bitch and my dad just doesn't like to be around me, which I can understand - I don't want to be around myself either. I dislike being around my parents - they ask stupid stuff, and just won't leave me alone. My doctor also thinks I have depression. What can I do to make myself a better person to be around? lately I've just been biting people's heads off - and I honestly don't mean to. HELP!!!!
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Crazy Driver!
Posted Monday October 20 2003, 9:58 pm
I don't know what it is but as soon as i get in the car with my brother, I'm ready for him to crash. He has this thing where he takes his hands of the wheel to get something or he starts looking at his cd and the car will start to slowly head for the shoulder or whatever else is at the side of the road, including other cars... he also drives fast but even other fast drives I'm fine with (i don't eve mnd taking a turn fast, unless I'm with him), just him. something about him makes me brace myself no matter what, even if he's got both hands on the wheel looking out to an empty road going the speed limit, i feel like were going to crash, and only with him... could this be like postdramatic stress thing since last year at about this time we got...
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