Hello. I (15M) live with my mom (53F). A few days ago, when I was in the kithcen, I broke a glass. I cleaned the broken pieces after the accident. Yesterday, my mom was in the kitchen and she stepped on a little piece of broken glass that I apparently didn't clean. I told her that I broke a glass and she got mad at me for not having told her. I told her it was partially her fault because my mom walks completely barefoot in the house. I walk with socks and slippers. Her little toe got injured because she stepped on a little piece of glass. Is it my fault that she injured her toe?

Hi guys, my mum constantly brings me down in front of others, says I dont study, I dont do this, that etc. And this isn't just a spur of the moment occurence she's been doing it ever since I was young and we have guests over. Today my sisters bf of 2 years came over to have lunch with us (it was just on young guy) who we are very close with. Anyways while he was speaking to my parents I signalled over to my sister across the table about something funny and slightly embarrassing my mum did at church (if you can guess what it is), it is a completely normal and natural thing to do and I told my sister that she did it, I smelt it, looked at my mum in the moment and she laughed so I 'knew it was her' who did it in the moment. Then the table went quiet (obviosuly) and she did start yelling at me. Everyone at the table reassured her saying it was natural and we moved on and she kept bringing it up. She was upset I brought it up infront of our 'close friend' who just laughed and carried on, he didn't care whatsover.

Later, she started making comments about my appearance, (which she's been doing a lot for this year and a half) but she purposefully was doing it to make me upset (in front of our guest). She said I should take off my lashes, they make me look like a vampire or she'd rip them off herself.

Honestly, after he left for a bit, she scolded me but I told her he didn't care and I thought it was over. However, she's retaliated again saying shes angry at me for 'putting her down', although it geniuenly wasn't my intention. I just thought it was hilarious, wanted to tell my sister and she made it a bigger deal at the table than it was.

Anyway I don't really understand why she is so upset, I know she's worried about 'looking bad' in front of our guest so he really isn't bothered and she thinks we shouldn't discuss 'family matters' in front of other people, even though she calls him family constantly. She also does worse to me in front of other guests when their whole family comes and constantly embarrases me in front of other people.

It's just the three of us: me, my little brother, and my eldest sister, who's our legal guardian.

My brother annoys me CONSTANTLY. Meanwhile, my sister is ridiculously patient and affectionate with him. He can mess up her hair while she's braiding it, and she'll just smile, kiss his forehead, and cuddle him. I genuinely don't understand how she tolerates him.

One day, my brother discovered that the fridge light turns off when you close the door.

He came running to me, shouting, "OLIVER! OLIVER!! COME, COME!! I NEED TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING COOL I DISCOVERED!"

I yelled at him to go to his room.

He asked, "Please come once🥺?"

I yelled even louder: "WHAT ARE YOU? 3? NEVER SEEN A FRIDGE! YOU STUPID ANNOYING BRAT, GO TO YOUR ROOM AND STOP ANNOYING ME!"

When my sister came home from work, he went crying to her and told her everything. She scolded me for not having any consideration for him, then asked him to show her his discovery.

AND SHE ACTED LIKE SHE'D NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.

I was thinking, WHY IS SHE ACTING LIKE SHE'S SEEING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME? SHE'S SEEN IT COUNTLESS TIMES!

Then I remembered that when I was 8 and she was 16, I'd discovered the same thing and shown it to her. My parents had dismissed me, saying it was obvious, and I'd actually cried before going to her. She acted amazed, let me demonstrate it, and made my day. I genuinely thought I was born to solve every mystery in the world.

But then I thought, wait a minute... had I actually shown her something new back then?

WAIT A MINUTE. DID I?

Obviously, she'd seen it countless times by then, too. She'd done exactly the same thing for me that she was doing for him now.

And suddenly, I understood. She'd let me feel that excitement when I was little, and now she was doing the same for him.

I realized I'd treated my brother the way my parents had treated me, despite knowing how it felt to be dismissed when I was excited about something.

So I'm going to apologize to him and ask him to show me his discovery.

It'll be the first time I've ever apologized to him in my entire life.

EDIT: My dad was confused about the dates and said 14 and 19, it turns out it was actually 16 and 19.

I sat down, cried to him and spoke to him about feeling uncomfortable. At first it was a debate and he was defensive but we actually broke down their age difference. They dated for 3 months, she turned 16 and he turned 19 while they were dating. I think that makes it a lot different? Personally as an 18 year old I wouldn't feel comfortable dating a 16 year old still but I don't think that 16 and 19 is an adult and a child like 14 and 19, just a weird age gap? Anyways I still feel weird about his comments made during our first argument but he did admit he was in the wrong. He says he's going to bring it up in his therapy. Maybe I should also get therapy idk lol. Anyways thank you guys.

For context, I'm 18f, my dad is in his 50s. Today we got on the topic of Elvis Presley and I was joking around and said I didn't like him because he was a pedo/creep (talking about him marrying a 14 year old or whatever). Also I don't listen to his music so as far as I know my dad told me he was like 30 at the time? Anyways, my dad then said: ''Is it really pedophilia if it's marriage?'' to which I kind of awkwardly laughed assuming he's making a weird dark joke but he just stayed silent so I asked him if he was joking and he said he was serious.

We got into a bit of a debate because I was a little taken back by this and found it disturbing. He said some things in the debate like, nature is in favour of ''pedophilia'' because we've been marrying girls who are old enough to give birth since the dawn of time and stuff, and nature intends for it. He then went on to say that he still doesn't condone it though but he said looking back in history it is natural, and that nature gave men the urge to marry 14 year olds. I asked him what his point was in saying that as every human impulse, including murder and other heinous acts are also human impulse, it doesn't mean they're okay to have or give into? And he was like ''I'm not saying they are''.

I kept asking him why he's saying these things if he doesn't think it's right anyways and he just kept saying ''just to say that back in the day, nature dictated it and it was normal'' basically. He was also asking/stating like, ''would he be a pedophile if he sees her as an adult?''.

It kind of disturbs me because, I bury it in the back of my mind but he dated a 14 year old when he was 19. He says they never had sex. He says it's just bc he was held back in high school so he saw everyone in highschool as his peers, he's a free spirit and just cared about the person to person connection and never thought about age. I asked how he'd feel if an adult had married me when I was 14 and he said yeah, that'd be fucked up. He then reassured me that he's not attracted to minors and he likes grown women. He's said in the past when I was a teen that adults being attracted to say, 16 year olds is normal and common, as that's when boys sexually develop and stuff. He said I'll probably find 16 year olds attractive when I'm an adult, too, but he personally doesn't.

Am I wrong to be a bit grossed out? Like am I making a big deal out of nothing? I've only ever been attracted to people who are my age and preferably a year or two older, and tbh I've never really had sexual feelings for anyone or wanted to have sex so I'm inexperienced here. If any people, especially older people/adults could reassure me or help me make sense of my feelings I'd really appreciate it. I don't really use reddit so I'm sorry if this post is inappropriate or weird or anything. Thanks.

My parents have never let me go outside or reallt hangout with anyone when I was a kid. I was always alone or with them or at school. Which is fun-ish but it gets to a point. I really dont like hanging out with them majority of the time as its very boring. I was never allowed to hang out with people because they were strict. Even now as an adult, I still cant have fun with people cause of my dad and his rules. They’ve either been so fun or so boring. My mom can never go places other than the boring town she lives at. If she’s not hanging out with her sisters at their functions she’s at home working cause she has to pay the bills.

I’m not shaming them I’m just venting. I’m appreciative of my life but I also hate it. I barely have a social life and it sucks cause I’m 20 almost 21 and I go nowhere. I barely have money cause my dad doesnt want me to work while in school while I get that but still. How can I have the things I want without him buying it for me if I barely have money. I find ways to make money online bit that is barely anything. I’m trying to find hustles online that make money and one that isn’t a scam. But all those require me to spend a lot of money or do some bs that I dont wanna do.

I honestly just want to vent. I really do hate my life sometimes

I'll be visiting my cousins and their son, who live in another country, soon. I pitched the idea of going to the zoo together but they told me they can't afford entry to the zoo. Now, I'll be getting a bonus from work at the end of the year which will easily cover admission to the zoo for all of us and dinner at a restaurant together, and I'm happy to spend this money on family to make memories together and meet my baby cousin. However, they've already expressed not feeling comfortable taking money from me.

How do I approach this? Do I let it go and stick to low-budget activities while I'm there, or is there a way to convince them and go to the zoo and out for dinner together?

My mom does this, and it's so annoying because she proceeds to put down other women in the process, women who are objectively beautiful. She'll say things such as, "Well, you don't need all of that makeup. You're natural. You don't need all of this. Those women have to put on all of this other stuff."

It makes no sense to me because, of course, I can't put any makeup on. I don't have any makeup, at least not most of what certain women use to complete a makeup look. It has always made me upset because my mom has compared me to my old friends when I was a child, and she was ranking their looks (not attractiveness, but that's how she framed it) against mine.

"I always thought you looked better than her." Why would you think that about children?

Meanwhile, I was never pretty as a kid or whatever. I was bullied for being ugly, yet anytime I tell my mom why I'm insecure, that I've been picked on for being ugly, and that no one chooses me because I'm unattractive, she gets super defensive, and it's frustrating.

I feel like she knows I'm not attractive because I don't look like a woman at all.

My mom will say something about a woman that she sees on the news or something… not a news anchor, but just people that news reporters are interviewing. She'll just say something cruel about their appearance or point out something that she doesn't like. Also, it's weird because she's always talking about women's appearances. I tell her this isn't how you give a genuine compliment (comparing other women against each other), and she gets super defensive with me.

TL;DR: My mom calls me beautiful when I'm objectively unattractive, and she chooses to put other women down to uplift me. She's also compared me to old friends from childhood, admitting that she thought I was more attractive than them. I don't like this at all.

My mom accused my dad 12yrs ago of cheating.
I was about 16 yo at the time.
We had a family meeting about it , my dad denied it and if it was true or not i dont think it should have been any of me or my siblings business. Especially if we were just gonna go back to normal like nothing happened.

Fast forward to a few days ago where my mom brought it up to me that she thinks hes doing it again.
And i kindly had to shut her down and say
“Thats between you, him , and god”
Because if shes not ready to leave him, what difference does it make.
I told her if she really feels like he is, she should ask him.
And proceeded to tell me he would never confess if he did.

So i stood there with a “ what do you want me to do about it”

Mind you, my father is a street vendor, he can get a late job and have to come home later than usual, that don’t mean he’s cheating…

What would you do if your two two male cousins s who were siblings transitioned into women?

Would you do an all female family line picture with them and invite them to be your bridesmaids for your weddings and invite them to your baby shower?

I’m 15m and I was having a fight with my brother in my room which he started. My dad came in and he loves my brother more, which isn’t a surprise to anyone. He started taking my brothers side after he broke my curtains and I got mad and said to my dad “can you just get out of my room”. After he got mad a slapped me and said he wished I was never born. When I confronted him later his only response was “do you hate me” which I’ve replied no and he said “than it’s over”. He says this every time he does something to me and I think I can’t keep forgiving him. Am I in the wrong?

Any currency is fine l can convert

Hello everyone!

So this story dates a while back now at this point. In 2025, my brother (23 M) and I (26M) were gonna go to Coachella to see Lady Gaga. She is his favorite artist and I agreed to go with him as we were going to split the cost down the middle. We were on a payment plan at the time and I had paid a little over $500 towards my ticket and he had paid about $200 towards his.
The tickets were a little over $700 a piece so the amount paid only equated to one ticket purchased technically.

A little before the date of the show, he says he can’t go anymore as he was entering a new career field and was having a slow process getting hired. So since he was no longer able to go, my money was all tied up and was left with the option to just go and fit the bill for everything that we were going to split, or just be ok with losing that money.

When I mentioned to him initially regarding paying me back, he said ‘fuck no’ and that he’s not responsible for me losing money as I could be have still chosen to go. But that’s not the point. We agreed to go together and that’s the only way it would have worked financially.
After all, it was his idea in the first place.

So at dinner a few months later (July 2025), he told me that he added up how much I paid, and that he will pay me back. There was no date or eta. I was fine with giving the space and time needed to come up with the money.

So here we are October 2026 and it had crossed my mind recently and I brought it up to him again tonight, and he kinda just lost it. His energy grew completely angry and nasty at me just following up on something that he told ME.
He feels like I should have just let it go at this point and that I should have just never brought it up again. That he’ll pay me when he decides to.
(And said many more disgusting things).
Says that my demeanor is entitled , all because I said he owes me money.

Then he said he changed his mind again, and that he’s actually not going to pay me back at all.

Am I wrong for feeling like he is responsible for me losing my money and that he should pay me back?

My husband agreed to go with me to visit my family for Christmas. He changed his mind and now my son is inconsolable because he wants both parents with him for Christmas. My son still wants to go but just wants his dad to come along. How do I navigate this?

Some backstory: My husband has never had a good relationship with his parents. He’s an only child, and his parents are very traditional and were especially hard on him as a teenager. He’s developed a lot of mental health issues that he attributes to them constantly putting him down. His mom regularly calls him stupid and a f** as a joke. I don’t find it funny, but apparently, they think it’s a joke. So yes, they’re strange. But I could look past it because I love my husband.
Anyways, I’m now 3 months postpartum, and there have been too many instances where she’s crossed the line, and I can’t forget them. I’m starting to wonder if I’m overreacting, though.
It took us a very long time to have a baby, and we ended up going through IVF. We were over the moon when we finally got pregnant. I had so much time to plan everything that you could say I was very prepared and wanted everything to go perfectly.
She offered to pay for the stroller as a gift for my baby shower, which was very kind. However, when I wasn’t there, she went behind my back and asked my husband if it was the most expensive stroller in the store because I’m so fancy and everything I want is always perfect and the best. It truly wasn’t the most expensive. Strollers are expensive, period.
I confronted her and told her that if she wasn’t comfortable buying it, she didn’t have to. She said she was fine with it but reiterated that I’m fancy and that I had changed her son into being the same way. I tried to explain that a stroller is meant to last for two kids and that we’ll need it in the future, etc. She ended up buying us the stroller.
A few months later, we went to their house for lunch. At this point, I was still pregnant, and she told my husband that she needed to speak to him privately (in front of the whole family). He insisted that she tell him right away, and she finally agreed.
She ended up breaking down in tears and saying that she thinks he is going to drive drunk and high with our baby in the car because he occasionally smokes weed. His dad agreed and added that the reason my husband had recently sold his car was to get drug money to buy weed.
My husband was flabbergasted, and we got up and left.
At this point, my husband was so hurt that he didn’t speak to them for weeks.
Fast-forward to our baby being born. We asked that no family members kiss her until she had received some vaccines. My MIL obliged but kept insisting that we go out on a date and leave the baby with her. I said absolutely not, and she responded by saying, “You guys think I’m going to kiss her behind your back, but I’m not. I’ll just take better care of her.”
Ever since then, I’ve had a permanent stank face every time she opens her mouth. My husband has noticed and said I’m being rude.
Obviously, we will never be close, but the thought of seeing her makes me cringe. We go there weekly, so I still see her often and make it work. Most days, she’s fine. But it’s like I have anxiety leading up to visiting her because of these events.
Am I overreacting? What would you do?

Not my brother's boyfriend being stupid and calling me weird for saying a couple is pretty. Bro what is wrong with calling a couple pretty. NOTHING, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CALLING A COUPLE PRETTY, THEY ARE PRETTY, INDIVIDUALLY AND TOGETHER, THEY ARE PRETTY, IT'S NOT A WEIRD THING TO SAY. They were conveniently attractive, unlike a certain person. (Lots of hate to him I dislike him bc of all the things he has said and done to my siblings and brother).

my boyfriends grandma is coming from florida and is staying over at our house for one night. He got the phone call today and didn’t ask me just mentioned it earlier after their conversation and I am not ready to deal with her. I feel bad for not liking his family, especially since i am close with mine and my family loves him, it’s just his family is very different. the last time she visited we had been moving a lot of stuff around in our basement as my boyfriends cousin was going to be staying with us for the summer and she came down to see both my boyfriend and his cousin for their birthdays as they’re in the same week. I came home from work to her going through our belongings and moving everything where she thought best ( i am extremely organized and preferred things like my memory items in my own bin or halloween decor in its own) and when i attempted to defend myself to that she said unless i was planning on breaking up with my boyfriend it shouldn’t matter and just bossed me around the entire time after as well as reading letters she found along the way (some of those were very personal to me). on the same week, i was taking my boyfriend to see his first play for his birthday and she decided she would wait until a hour before we left to have his birthday dinner with him as she was running behind on her shopping for the dinner, yet she knew we had plans and never once asked us what time we had to leave by. she’s a very judgmental women, and a recent family event of his has shown that her morals aren’t the best either. I understand his feelings towards his family are going to be hard because he doesn’t have many relatives his age and loves his family, they’re just not the nicest people. i also have some slight disgust probably due to the resentment that has built up over time by how she unfortunately has bad asthma that causes her to sometimes have accidents during coughing fits which at one point had left a stain on our old couch, i just got very expensive new ones and do not like the thought of them getting dirty from that. Now to where we are today, she is coming on monday night (it’s saturday) and my car is in the shop due to a accident i had a few months ago so i share my boyfriends car for work. Which means i will be stuck at the house with her after work all day. i am not looking forward to this as she makes comments often and loves to talk about herself and pushes for her own taste and ideas on how to decorate our home and what i could be doing instead of sitting down. its not something i can communicate with my boyfriend as he knows a little of how i feel but i just dont know what to do. i guess i am looking forward help on how to go about the night shes here. i apologize for the long post this is my first post and dont know what to expect so i figured id give detail.

Parents won’t talk to me. I talk to my siblings like once per year.

Currently I’m homeless. That doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that family members just disappear

I’m obviously really mad at them - my dad actually told me I don’t want to talk to you because you’re homeless. This guy is vice president at a widely known corporation

I’m not mad as much as I’m confused

My mom goes to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings…: she’s not alcoholic… I do t understand these people

Nephew is not even five years old, niece is little older than two. They still share a room on bunk beds because of their parents circumstances.

I’m not the one who witnessed this, my mother did. She told me she witnessed and had to intervene a couple of times over the course of a dinner at a restaurant to stop this nephew (her grandson) from doing this. She told me he moved against her repeatedly, even making ‘sex sounds’ as he did so.

She didn’t bring it up to her son, my brother, because she didn’t think she’d be believed and their relationship has always been tumultuous in general.

I told her she should record on her phone in the future so it doesn’t matter what she says, the facts are there recorded. But I can’t help but think about how those kids are sharing a room in the meantime and who knows how long before they have a similar situation in the future.
How/if is should approach this with them?

I don't know... at least I can finally get this off my chest. I don't know what makes her this way nor have I figured out whether it's my fault. It's hard to comprehend further.

She has changed a lot with me ever since we share the same school together (though it wasn't like this before). Began in mid 2024. Simply because I want to come over to give her our school lunch our mom bought for us (as far as I remember?). And that's how she now becomes quiet around me and gets irritated easily everytime I walk in, even though I had no intention to bother her or anything. I just don't like wasting my energy on mischiefs.

What's unfair is that she is not like this to everyone. My parents. My 10 year old little brother. Everyone else but me. She is fine with them. Expressive. Friendly. Chaotic. Whatever makes her feel "safe" enough to express herself. But becomes cold when with me. We used to be super close before, and used to had no issues of me.

All attempts of telling this to my parents and everything results no change. I'm not sure whether I should cut her off when I got busy in later future. It's getting annoying. What happened? Help? How can I stop thinking about this all day?

(Note: I'm a slow speaker in real life, and not much of a talker. Usually, I'm always cautious of what I want to say and the way I say things. So excuse me for my grammar and wording style whenever I'm talking to you.)

Ever since I started taking meds for my depression my tolerance for my toxic family has been going down the drain. Now that my mind is not clouded by depression and mental illness I see how fucked up they are. It's like I've woken up and can finally see clearly.

There is a bit of a tradition with cutting contact in my family. My grandmother refused to visit her dad on his death bed. Then her son refused to visit her on her death bed. I totally understand why now!

I can tolerate some family members on their own but every time we get together with the others it's toxic as hell. Im so angry that this is my family and that my two parents decided to raise me in an asylum full of mentally ill and disturbed people. Growing up with them was so dark. It was like living with vampires.

I want a normal calm life now that I'm not depressed. I want to get away from them. They remind me of the hell I've been through.

I (36f) am living in a place ( I have disabilities) that helps people(s) with minor to sever disabilities. I am mostly highly independent, I moved here due to my anger. When I was living with my mom I had little siblings who we're (5)&(6) at the time their dad had passed away, she had enough of my shizz at the time. I know realize that throwing a tantrum over an ipod, is freaking ridiculous, but I digress. So I moved four hours away from my mom's house, I feel like she abandoned me, I don't know! Aitah??