Polls: Family & Friends

My situation is this. I was abused by my father who had a drinking problem when I was younger. Around age 12 or 13 was the worst time when he physically abused me by hitting me. My parents later divorced and I chose to stay with my mom, I did not want much to do with my father. I did not feel safe with him and the violence caused some emotional trauma that I needed to get away from. Over the years he hasn't helped me with anything and didn't even call to see if I needed help. Now I'm older and started talking to him again about a year ago when he wished me a happy birthday really I was just hoping he would offer to help me pay off my student loan debt or something as a way to make up for the past. But he never asks if I need help and never offers. He merely texts me to ask how I'm doing, and I am tempted to tell him I don't need a buddy to ask me how I'm doing. I needed a father and now I don't need one anymore. A father's role is to protect and provide which he didn't do for me. My spiritual father says he forfeited his role when he failed to do these things. I would like to confront him about the past again, last time I did about eight years ago he denied everything. I would say that it's hard for me to forge a relationship with no Foundation seeing as he never asked for forgiveness or confessed anything. Thank you for your feedback and feel free to comment.

In the past a former girlfriend left him for a physician when he was financially struggling and a couple other people wronged him.

He's now 35 and always wanted a family but was afraid of landing a golddigger. He recently proposed to his girlfriend with a fake ring (keeping the real golden one hidden in his workplace locker), said he couldn't afford a good one due to his recent hours reduction and bills but she was still happy. According to him, her reply was like ''Doesn't matter, it's you I want to spent my life with not the ring. If you want, I can work overtime hours''.

He has tested her in the past and did two more recently but none seems to be indicating her being a golddigger. Actually she's into saving money and once made him return an expensive Louis Vuitton purse. She didn't want it. She finds it pointless to waste money on expensive, fancy things. To his amaze, she's passed all and has passed the last one too.

At this moment, he feels he can trust her and is willing to get her the other ring sometime this week. In your opinion was he still right to test her?

Hi everyone

I'm pregnant with my second baby and having a little girl this time and finding picking a name so hard
Me and my boyfriend love ophelia but our families sont like it and keep pronouncing it wrong saying "a feel ya " which is do annoying

We also like freya

What name do you thinks better and do you think ophelia will be miss pronounced all the time

I’ll take the spanking for $200 please. Lol it was quick and to the point. Get spanked and i know not to fck up again. Sometimes my mom would send me outside to play when i got in trouble. I literally begged to be put in timeout. 😭 I didn't want to go outside where the bugs and animals and wind was. Like how could you do this til little ole meee? 🥺 But Had i gotten grounded, I’d lose my phone or something. Now that folks, is some real pain in the azz haha. 🤣 I’ll unlikely spank my kids but it will certainly be a last resort if the sit down discussions dont work. And if i do ever ground the kid, I’m not gonna take the tv. Thats just savage. 😈 I’d also never send them to bed without dinner. Thats just crazy. But i’d take their cell phone and the video games cause thats the reeeaal punishment lol. 😎
#FeelFreeToList #FaceTheConsequences

I have. It was shocking and it took me a whole to adjust. It’s so strange bc I really liked this person a lot and it still kinda freaked me out to get such an in depth letter. By expressive I don’t mean of their romantic interest per se tho including rust but mainly, I just mean expressive like being very in depth and open and well expressive of their thoughts their views their feelings in life in general etc. it makes me double think explaining stuff in letters to people who have had difficulty communicating with lol bc I’m a fairly chill person and I figure if I react badly well… 😮‍💨

my phone is sick so I have few pics to choose from this will have to do 😢
She’s a cutie tho 💕

She's my age by now (29) and her son is 13 years old. She can't forgive her mother because the lady literally kicked her out of the house when she got pregnant, told her not to ever come back, that she was a shame, that she's dead to her, forget she has a mother and other horrible things.

The lady has been trying to get her forgiveness for the past 10 years, trying to meet her grandson but she wants nothing to do with her mother. She reminds her that she's no longer her mother since, she wasn't there when she needed her the most, that she can go take a hike, that she'll never forgive her ever, etc. My friend still doesn't understand what mother kicks out a then underage child. She was 15 when telling her mother about it (and getting thrown out) and gave birth at 16.

My supervisor had a long grudge towards his HS bully, the ringleader. His bully used to punch him at times (mainly in the shoulders where no one can see any bruises), break his glasses, destroy his bike, humiliated him with his friends, shove his head on the toilet, etc.

He was terrified of that guy and then hated his guts. At some point he wished death on him. A decade later, the guy apologized but my supervisor cursed him out. Then by May 2020, his child (age 7) had an accident, had to get surgery and then a blood transfusion. The issue was his blood is a very rare type. Luckily they found a donor with his same blood type. The donor turned out to be his former bully. He helped out with some of the hospital bills too.

Both guys are now 36 year-olds and the bully was totally forgiven after that. According to my supervisor, there is no greater gift than seeing your child happy and healthy again. Now he feels bad for wishing him dead. The guys are friends by now.

Would you forgive your former bully if they save your child's life? If you know very well your child would've been dead if it weren't for them.