Polls: Family & Friends

All my relatives are 28, late 30s to 40s with kids, bought a home, and earn a lot of money. I seem to be the youngest turning 25 and a black sheep ignored. Everyone is older 30-40 & rich showing off their home they bought. I’m young but I’m the only person that has lived in a studio home with a small business. Everyone else in my family had none of that my age. Just living with parents broke or party. I don’t talk to any of my family at all. I’m alone or see boyfriend. Also my family members became stuck up as they have good job or earn more money, which is sad to see. Everyone in my family ignores me , no one asks about my life or business, they r just distant gone. Don’t care of me. I don’t have kids so I don’t need buy a home yet. Maybe in 10 years when I’m 35. Or meantime I can live with a boyfriend when I have a baby in a nice townhouse Big apartment. i don’t want be rich or stuck up. I want simple life , no competing, just enjoy my home and partner that’s it. I don’t desire be rich have expensive things.

I have been clean for 11 years now I smoke weed and occasionally drink. It was a hard rough ugly battle to get sober. The day after tomorrow It will be 12 years I've been clean. My bottom was waking up to my sister in my parents bedroom freaked out because of the way I was acting. That was the day I knew I needed to change or I would eventually drive my family away. I use n\a meetings to help keep me sober but what really helps me is seeing what I looked like when I was fucked up all the time. Not a pretty sight. My question is kind of a 3 part question. What is your experience with addiction? If you decided to get sober, what was it that pushed you to make that decision? What keeps you sober?

Before you call me a heartless parent let me explain. In Singapore raising a child is no longer meant for people with low or average income, as for me my salary is less than $1.5k, if I really want one child I had to marry a man who earns around $3k per month. That’s because I also have to pay $1k to hire a nanny to take care of the baby, if I were to marry a guy with the same income as me and have a child basically our lives will be very miserable because there won’t be enough money to raise a child. I also wouldn’t want my parents to raise my child since they already had a hard time raising me due to financial issues, no way will I want my parents to go through that again.

This man still wants to find his daughter (then 2 years old) that's been missing for 25 years. He had full custody and dropped her off for a supervised visit with the girl's mother. Neither the mother nor the girl were seen since. The girl was allegedly kidnapped by her own mother.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-father-still-searching-for-daughter-25-years-after-she-was-abducted/2730016/
He's not giving up. Would you give up at this point?

So from time to time I have been known to drop a few hundred dollars on friends just because I see them want something I know they can't afford even though they never asked me to do it. I have bought different friends a bed frame and mattress, a Nintendo Switch, sent them money just so they could order out, and even just dropped a few hundred so one friend could start a secured credit card and build credit for a house she wants one day.

I have been there myself and know what it is like to struggle. I remember a time when $25 was our monthly grocery budget. I never asked for money, but it would have probably been nice to get it. I feel like I have been blessed financially now with our jobs, my kids are well taken care of and we have everything we could possibly want. My spouse is perfectly fine with it, but I worry about the perception of it.

Would you be grateful if it were you receiving the gift or would you feel like that person is flaunting their money over you?

I've done both but just wondering what guys prefer? Would y'all want to find out at the together or she takes the test alone and does a pregnancy reveal?

I'm going to start by saying that either parent can be any kind of parent. From stay at home to having absolutely nothing to do with their child (ren).

Everyone's circumstances are INCREDIBLY different & unique. I'm on leave taking care of my newborn & have mixed feelings about leaving him to go back to work, but I still have time before I have to go back. My boyfriend is very involved when he's home, although even then I still take on the brunt of the child rearing because he's still nervous & not sure of himself with our baby. His friend & his baby momma on the other hand... His friend doesn't have any involvement with the child, he claims to only have gotten his baby momma pregnant because "if it wasn't this b*tech, it would've someone else I spread my seed to," & the mom still retains her parental rights, even though she gave up her child to her mother (child's grandmother) & should absolutely sign away her parental rights to grandma so that the child can be enrolled in school, since mom refuses to do anything for her child. Won't even let the child call her "mom". So, where do you fall on the spectrum?

My male friend just admitted while drunk to developing feelings for me during our HS years. After that incident, he has become distant. He's online but doesn't speak to me as much like before.

I really have no romantic feelings for him. Kissing him would feel like kissing a brother. I'm just wondering if I can ever get my old friendship back? I've known him since 4th grade; that's a lot of history. It would suck losing a good friend. I just want things back the way they were. Can we go back to friendship again like before?

This is my story:
I was in my senior year of HS at the time. Someone was about to be unfairly expelled and I knew my then friends were lying about it. It was about framing someone for harassment and stealing.

Guilt took over and I ended telling the truth and showing a recording of my friend and 3 other girls trying to convince me to frame someone. I ended up losing their friendship, my own reputation as one of the popular girls, getting bullied by them and it was a lonely school year for me.

Would you would have the right choice even if it means losing your friends and popular rep? Basically you lose it all just for telling the truth and saving someone innocent from a false accusation.

I have a medical condition called polycystic ovaries and I have had 3 miscarriages since I lose my little ones everyone tells me it's not mean to be and to get over it my reborn doll (Ava) helps me get on with my life but when I took her out a lot of people just kept pointing and looking as if it's not normal I understand that some people will look. I just don't get what the big deal is

Ok so remember the neighbor who has never made plans to hangout or do something but text me for help with walking in the snow because she has medical issues? Anyways, I declined and encouraged her to get a caregiver to help her. I felt I didn't know her and it was just weird that she's asking for favors off the bat. I mean at least offer something in return. Anyways, I seen her today. I was cordial we talked casual then she brings up yeah Karen helped me but I didn't tell her anything we talked about. Karen is the neighborhood gossiper which all have learned to avoid and i dont care for her. Anyways, to me what was the point in even bringing Karen up? What am I suppose to do with that information? Anyways she was like we didn't get a chance to hangout let's go see batman. After bringing up Karen I was uninterested.