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OtherI'm a single mother to an 11 year old girl, we recently got moved from the UK to America by my Company and it has been quite an adjustment but we're settling in well enough. She misses her friends and the family we left behind but we zoom regularly and she has begun to make new friends, especially after I found her a new Dojang to continue her Taekwondo. All in all, everything was going fine ex...
ParentingI (28f), have 4 siblings, one of them being disabled. The other three have kids, this post is about A(35F) and B(32F), A have 4 kids (17F, 15M, 14M, 9F), the younger 3 have severe physical and mental disabilities. B have 3 (12M, 7M, 2F), the oldest and middle have the same disabilities as my older sister's children, and the younger have down syndrome. They are both SAHM, all the children are i...
WorkI (26F) am a part time housekeeper. I go to night school to finish my degree. I have a fiancé, Kenny (29M), who is a mechanic. The problem started between us almost recently. I have been asking Kenny to help me with the household ch**es more. But every time he gives excuses that he is busy or tired all day after dealing with cars. I get his job is a physically demanding jobs but so is mine. I ...
OtherSo my husband and I have a 5 months old son. He's our first and as new parents we struggle a lot but no complaining as we help each other all we can. However I have been having this tiny, little issue with my husband lately. He constantly takes our son's pacifiers and chews on them like a dog for no reason causing them to be ruined. He does this everytime he spends time with our son. he'd e...
OtherI honestly have no words. I (27) just bought my house in july 2024. We have learned that most of the neighbors are all old as h**l.( 60s +) and are very nosey and onery that young families are moving into the neighborhood in recent years. They will just walk up to you and tell you this. I have been shopping thrift and estate sales to furnish this cute house. This morning, I came home from a...
OtherMy daughter is in the 5th grade. Thursday night she got her first period and it freaked her out. She was sad she was getting older. She was up all night. Likely dealing with a lot of unfamiliar hormones. We ended up taking the next day off for a mental health day. I called the school and said we’d had a personal matter and she wouldn’t be in. She has a male teacher who she doesn’t really ge...
BoundariesMy fiance and I were invited to go along on a trip to California for a week. I do not have my children with me due to them being with their father and having wrestling tournaments that they cannot miss (already spent hundreds on nonrefundable tickets for them to participate). We drove here with his family, so I was already quite exhausted when getting to the resort after having listened to an 8...
OtherMy wife has a somewhat difficult relationship with her parents. The usual stuff you see on this sub: lack of respect for boundaries, bossiness, unso***ited opinions about personal choices. She has a hard time pushing back, in part because she is a natural people-pleaser, and in part because her parents paid for her long and expensive education. I don't have big issues with them, but then I don...
OtherI (37M) live with my wife (37F) and son and daughter ( 9 and 11 respectively). Recently, there has been this kid who comes by our house after playing soccer and either rides his bike or walks over the lawn with his cleats on his way home. It started out as me giving him stern looks whenever I saw him, then it slowly progressed to me asking him to just go around. The last time I asked him to ...
OtherMy brother, “Rob,” is a self-proclaimed prankster. He loves pulling pranks on everyone, including strangers. His pranks, in my opinion, aren’t funny and may land him in serious trouble in the future. His “pranks” are just antagonising someone until he gets bored and then calling it a “prank.” Rob’s behaviour has seriously affected my relationship with him. When I first started dating my wife, ...
Family ConflictWhen I got into university my parents purchased an apartment close to the campus so that I could live my way without having to deal with other people. I'm not social and I could best be described as either a misanthropist or curmudgeonly. It was great for two years. And I came out of my sh**l a little. I met other people like me and discovered that, unlike high school, university isn't h**l. ...
Family ConflictMy parents had me (16M) kinda young and just last year they decided to have another baby. My brother Leo is 2 months old. I love him but he cries nonstop every night. My dad and his friends are doing some renovations to the bedroom downstairs which was supposed to be Leo’s room but some stuff came up and it delayed now. They told me for a little while Leo is gonna be in my room because my dad ...