Polls: Family & Friends

I was a happy little accident 🙃

I am desperate to leave our house because my father is narcissistic and controlling.

I applied for a work abroad and got hired as customer service. I grabbed the opportunity even if I didn't had no experience in taking calls because I was in Finance. I was doing well in the email and investigation. But when we had our channel exam, I both failed in "Calls" and "Chat." It was kind of embarrassing because I was the only one who failed. And, the team lead has no choice but to put me on the email only.

I am so depressed and embarrassed of what will others think of me. I didn't fly yet abroad, should I stay or resign from job?

Please advise.

I know a lot of us Have stories where family members are very mean to us. Weather it's insults, using us, being ungrateful towards us because they are Blood. a lot of them crossing lines and boundaries with no regards 😕.

Please share some of your own experiences and how you overcame it or if you're still trying to overcome it.
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These are my babies and I love them all equally

My boyfriend‘s brother is having a family gathering at his house tomorrow to celebrate Easter early. They have a hot tub and everyone is planning to use it, but I don’t want to because everyone there is skinny and I am not and I feel too insecure. I just don’t want to seem stupid but at the same time I know I would just make myself really uncomfortable and anxious. So am I being silly?

I've known of two single parents raising the opposite gender and trying their best.

Single mother with boy:
A family relative is a single mother of a 8 year-old boy. The father bailed out on her long ago and she has raised him on her own. She tried her best on teaching him morals, values and how to be a gentleman.

Single father with girl:
My neighbor's wife died in childbirth and left him with their baby girl. He had to learn to cook, clean a whole house, what to feed the baby and everything she knew. He tried his best and his daughter is now 12 years old.

Which parent do you think has it harder? A single mother trying her best to raise her son or a single father raising his daughter as best as he could?

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?