I turned 18 in 1979 and I was legally allowed to Drink beer at 18 in my state Georgia and I could handle it just like all my friends.In 1980 the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving daughter was killed by a drunk driving who was OVER 21 so why are they restricting it from 18-20 year olds and treating them as second class citizens.If you are not old enough to drink beer and I’ve even heard they are trying to get the Smoking Age 21,the age to be a porn star 21 and credit card.It is true that these are minor things but an ADULT should have ALL rights thats the purpose its in the Amendment that Alcohol should not be denied by any adult.If they aren’t old enough to drink then in my opinion they should not be old enough to fight in war since most kids 18-21 are in College and they need time to mature and maybe practice for military but not allowed to fight until age 21.
People suing me. I have a pregnant wife and a 1 year old daughter. Help please?
In late 2006, I had my car breakdown, and the father of one of my friends said that he would pay for it. He told me I just needed to do some lawn work for his wife. A couple months later, after I had been doing lawn work for awhile, I had a girlfriend who lived in Virginia who had become pregnant. So I left my home here to go care for her. In the time that I was gone him and his wife divorced. Then when I came back I was told by her daughter that she was irritated I left so soon, but eventually that passed. I had even been over to the house numerous times and she never said anything about wanting me to do more lawn work or giving her any money. Now that her daughter is trying to jump out of a lease with us, because her mother got hooked onto heroin and other drugs, blew all of her money, then tried to kill herself; and we are no longer friends, her mother is trying to say that I owe her $450. There was never any mention that I would pay any money back for his assistance, and if there was I would have refused it.
In addition, the other night, after she was yelling at my pregnant wife, she brought it up and I told her I would pay it back, just to get her to leave us alone because she was upsetting my wife so much that she was having early contractions and shes only 7 months pregnant. I don’t think that matters at all, but my wife was worried.
Here’s the thing, I make $700 a month and am going to have to find a new home, while I have no money for a security deposit or rent. I was never asked to pay the money back until now, and HE paid for the parts, not HER and they’re DIVORCED now. She has had plenty of time to ask me to do more yard work or pay, seeing as I’ve been back in Florida for 9 months now and over to her house numerous times, including living with her daughter for the past 3 months. If I would have known they would be wanting the money back, I never would have accepted the help. I believe it’s not fair to tell me I dont have to pay, it’s all right, then later, demand the money. When it’s none of her business.
What would you do about an alcoholic ex?
My ex is a functional alcoholic. She drinks a lot, but she also works, feeds our kid, gets her to school, makes sure the homework gets done, etc. My ex is taking our daughter to a wedding out of state where she will most likely get too drunk to care for our daughter. I don’t want to get a gardian ad litem or special advocate for our daughter because I don’t want to put her through the legal meat grinder. I’m hoping for some options other than police, court, child services…
My boyfriend is over-involved w/his ex(w/whom he has children) and now his mother want her 2 spend the night.?
So this is a long and bizarre story.
I have known this guy for seventeen years an prior to our romantic involvement that started less than two years ago, I had no interest in him although he has always liked me.
We are in our thirties now. I have a 10 yr. old from a previous relationship. We have always been friends however had huge gaps in our correspondence because I had a child, he went away to college, worked nightshift and got married.
When we were 27(we are the same age) he got a seventeen yr. old girl pregnant and married her. It turned out to be a tumultous marriage. She physically abused him while he was in the military and living on base. She would hurt him and them call the police. She drank heavily, partied, cheated on him(even took out a loan for a lover putting up the family car for collateral). The biggest deal though was that she hid an entire pregnancy from him. They had already been married, had one child (who was 20 months old at siblings conception), and one abortion they both participated in. He was deployed part of the time. She didn’t even tell her identical twin or mother(with whom she is close) that she was pregnant even though she moved back home to live and work with him during part of the deployment. She sought no medical attention even though it was free. Her first baby had been born via emergency C-section. She told no one she was pregnancy and also did not seek alternative care. She also binge-drank vodka on several occasions. In fact she came back home w/him when she was seven and a half months, and attended a large party thrown by his parents for her older child, surrounded by multiple relatives and told nobody. Two months later he is in one of his training classes and is pulled out by a superior and told his wife is going into labor. He is not sure if this baby is his, she looks NOTHING like her sister but he raises her as his own.
She assumes he is involved with me one day(which he isn’t) and sends me multiple harassing and vulgar text messages.
Anyway, after the delivery, 14 months later he comes home for a three week leave on a fifteen month tour and she tells him she doesn’t love him anymore and wants a divorce. He is devastated but eventually relents. He and I are not involved at this point. She makes harassing phone calls to me. He asks her about it. She denies it.
They are now divorced. In 2008, they arranged a custody agreement for him to have the children five days a week. They come back from their mother’s home disheveled and often dirty. They look tacky(but she doesn’t), their hair is unbrushed and their nails overgrown with dirt underneath. This is amongst other neglectful behaviors.
His mother becomes very angry with the ex daughter in-law because she has taken them on weekends when he is in Iraq and witnesses their commonly unacceptable appearance and mannerisms. When son returns(after leaving military for good to be with his children), he and his mother have a huge falling out due to his renewed relationship w/his children now that he will no longer have to be away from them. His mother have previously hated his ex-wife due to the wife squandering thousands(of husband’s and mother-in-law’s money), hateful, disrespectful language from the ex-wife, and continued neglect of the children. His mother decided to have bad will against me because I was an emotionally supportive friend of his and as he spent more time with his children, she seemed to become angrier.
Well, I became pregnant. He and I now live together and have a child together. His ex-wife repeatedly calls her ex-husband for trivial matters even though she continues to neglect the children. She also repeatedly invited him for dinner. We reside in the old neighborhood in which I grew up. She invited him to go trick-or-treating with her(but didn’t invite me) and said to him she would love to go trick-or-treating in my neighborhood but didn’t want to run into me. He said nothing to her about this. She also has said disrespectful things about me to the children. He has said nothing about this. I have continually cared(meaning I take care of them)for her children by him in spite of the ugly way she has treated me. I have given them baths, have done their hair, dressed them, taken them to different activities, read to them. I don’t expect praise. I just know that all children need to feel loved. I also do not speak poorly about her to the children. It is clear she is emotionally unstable though.
The year where his mother stopped speaking to him, she then decided to like his ex-wife again.
I now have a baby with him(I know). I decided to let bygones be bygones and let her meet her grandchild. His mother trivializes the abuse the wife has enacted against her son and overlooks the neglect she enacts towards the grandchildren.
His ex-wife told him about the last time she had sex, how she was pregnant last year. It i
Blending a family is an investment, right? I have my problems with this guy(who I am planning on leaving). We have are own problems. However if he was hitting her, it would not be trivialized as just a “flaw”. When CPS, was called on her, the case was closed. People don’t like to think of women as abusers. I can see, as an abuse vitime, he appears to be relating to her the same way as in marriage-as a vitime-walking on eggshells. However I think he sends her mixed messages and he thinks he doesn’t. He spent Thanksgiving in her family’s home, he attended a birthday party with her, went to his child’s school event with her. I understand, that it is important to get along for the sake of the children, but she uses the children to have a relationship with her. She gets irritated that he doesn’t spend more time with her. How is telling him the last time she had sex have anything to do with the children? His mother abused him, so it isn’t surprising he stayed with a woman who did
I mean she uses the children to have a relationship with him. He doesn’t see it as inappropriate to text her at an odd hour or talk to her late at night, unrelated to the children. Also, he said when it comes to his mother offering her to spend the night, it is “none” of his business even though his Mom told him to tell it to her. Also, less than 1% of women conceal pregnancies to that degree, so it would appear to be more than just simply a “flaw”.
He has custody most days except she has them late afternoon Sunday through Tuesday morning.
He has custody most days except she has them late afternoon Sunday through Tuesday morning.
My step daughter is only 14 and told me all the bad things she’s done. Should I tell her father?
My step daughter is only 14 and told me she’s already had sex with more than one man (older men) and that she sometimes drinks and smokes weed. I’m only 10 years older than her and she sees me as a good friend and listens to me (most of the time) so I tried to steer her in the right direction without scolding her but I’m concerned she’s going to end up in trouble if I didn’t get through to her. She’s going through some rough times right now with her mother. Her mother and father don’t talk so he doesn’t know what’s going on but she also told me about her mothers recent alcohol addiction, she physically abuses her daughters, and is dating a man who berates her children. Should I tell her father or should I discreetly get her into counseling. I’m afraid if I tell him he’ll yell at her, embarrass her, and make things worse and also that she may not trust me anymore.
to clear up any confusion, I am married to her father and I am her step mother.
live in the now- that’s terrible advice. Yell at her? Tell her I think she’s a liar? If that’s how I handled things I wouldn’t even know what I know now and she’d have 0% chance of getting help because no one would know what she was going through or doing! Just because i’m her step mom doesn’t mean I have to be mean to her. I have way more pull with her as the friendly step mom than the screaming b*tch she doesn’t want to be around. Also, how could she have nothing to gain from counseling? It’s a safe environment where she can work out some of the emotional problems that are actually causing the bad behaviors…
is this good? and is it too personal?
My parents got divorced when I was nine years old, but I feel like they were never even together in the first place. I don’t remember my parents ever spending time together, except for the loud fights they would have. I don’t remember guests coming over, except for the police who would come to calm my dad down during those fights. I don’t remember my dad tucking me into bed, having father-daughter days with me, or teaching me how to tie my shoes. I do, however, remember the day I came home from skiing in third grade to my father gone and moved out. I remember my mom telling me that it was for the best. I know for certain more than anything in the world the reason why my dad has never really been there for my family and me: alcohol. Because of my dad’s alcoholism, I hate alcohol. I more than hate it. It hurts me more than anything to know that my dad chose alcohol over his own family. Some of my relatives in my extended family also struggle with alcoholism, and I am determined never to be one of them.
it’s for a personal essay for school. it’s the introduction. but i think it might be too personal, so i might not use it. what do you think?
thanks
Sorry if I’m confused…?
Please let me know, after reading this, who you think should be in the White House: Barrack Obama and Joe Biden or John McCain and Sarah Palin?
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re
“exotic, different.”
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American
story.
* If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well
grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become
the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12
years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State
Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become
chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee,
spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a
state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving
on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s
Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000
people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000
people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second
highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches,
you’re not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re
a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the
fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with
no other option in sex education in your state’s school system
while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very
responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position
in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner
city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s
values don’t represent America’s.
* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one
DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to
vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated
the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely
admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
Sadly, Facts and Truth Seem not to Matter