Questions tagged [parents]
Questions involving someone's mother or father, either biological or legal, and interactions between them or also interactions between yourself and one of them. Can also be used for interactions with someone else's parents.
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My parents are going to disinherit me. Is there any good strategy to try to change their mind?
My parents have recently told me they are going to leave their entire estate to my brother. So, he is getting a two-bedroom apartment in the capital and whatever will be left of my parents' savings, ...
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How to ask my father to not get angry because my tutor is male
TL;DR: Dealing with a father that gets angry because my out of school tutor is male.
I’m 18 years old and male. Currently, I am pursuing 12th year education (the final year of high school) and am very ...
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How to persuade my parents that I am learning by using computers but not playing games
I am currently learning C#, and I need to look for a lot of information through different webpages. However, my parents distrust me and they think I am playing computer games because almost each time ...
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How to tell my mom i want to move out of her house? [closed]
I'm a man, 28, living with my parents since I was born. I was raised in a very poor city, so I never had money to buy or do things I always wanted to do until I started working and making my own money....
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My classmate is sharing pictures of my mom without her knowledge. How can I make him stop?
A few days back my classmate shared a picture of my mom (her facebook profile picture) on a subreddit for cum tributes, and sent a screenshot to me.
After much threatening and requesting I was able to ...
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How can I explain to a parent that my decision to not have children isn't an accusation that they've been bad parents to me?
I am fully aware that there is a similar question already on this site, but I need help with a specific issue.
I brought up the fact that I have no intention of having children as an offhand comment ...
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How to convince family to accept my choice?
My family and I live in a big crowded city. My dad has a little house with a big garden out of city (about 15 km away). At weekends my parents and my sister and her husband go there and stay for a few ...
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How to stop recurring conflict in family home
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I am an early 20's British Male. I moved home after University and am suffering from somewhat severe depression.
As I got towards graduating, my mother suggested I moved home instead of ...
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How do I get my mother to use the bathroom?
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My living situation is as follows: I live in a two-story house with my mother and no one else. Our Bedrooms are upstairs, together with a small bathroom without a toilet. The toilet is ...
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How to tell to my mother that I don’t want to do certain things she requests me to do?
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I’m 19 years old in Bucharest, Romania in high school at grade 12. Since I’ve been gifted with an iPhone, I kinda liked staying on my new phone. But, I couldn’t control myself. Now my parents ...
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How do I encourage my family to talk more and watch tv less when I'm visiting?
My husband and I are visiting my family for Christmas. I moved out and have lived separately from them for 10 years or so. We're staying with my parents. The TV in their home is on all the time. We ...
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How do I effectively explain my parents and neighbors to understand me and support me while I try for the best?
I'm from India and to obtain a Learners License (for driving) is a nightmare if you want to follow a legal way, especially in small cities or towns.
What I mean by legal way is, you need two things to ...
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How could I apologize to my girlfriend's mom?
My girlfriend's mom is upset with me over girlfriend's decision on a car.
Her position
A car that's around 5 or 6 years old with more than 80k miles will just break down (~80k is high milage)
Such a ...
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How to get my Mom to be less strict?
I'm sure this question has been asked in multiple other scenarios, but my background story is very specific.
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Disclaimer: this is quite lengthy.
I'm 14 and female, and my parents are divorced....
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How can I raise my opinion to a biased person without looking too offensive?
Personally, I am a 25 year old male who has just graduated with a Computer Science degree and currently a Software Engineer by profession.
Recently, my dad was very interested in numerology after ...
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How can I ask my parents to stop calling me when I'm out or ask me where I'm going?
I'm 24 years old, have my own career, my own car but I live with my parents and my 2 younger brothers. I live my life quite independently.
One of the problems I constantly face from my parents is ...
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How can I tell my mom to not cause herself so much stress when I'm visiting?
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I visit my parents about one time per month, for one to two days. Sometimes I manage to visit them twice, in rare cases I have to skip a month. So we see each other in person regularly (and,...
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How to talk to my parents about living abroad
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I'm 30, my parents are in their mid 50s, they are divorced and they both married after. I don't live with any of them (I'm in another city) and I visit them about once a month, also for ...
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Offering help to an online friend who just lost their parent
A friend I met a few months ago over online classes recently (this morning, a few hours ago) lost their father. I live around 12+ hours away from them, so as much as I would like to I cannot go and ...
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How to ask parents to stop screaming at other sibling?
There is a large age-gap between my younger sibling and I (it's just the two of us). I am a college student (at home due to the pandemic), while she is in middle school. More often than not, I find ...
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How to provide feedback when my mother tries new recipes, in a way that doesn't upset her but still allows for honesty?
This has been a thing since I was a kid, but I experienced it again tonight. My mother has always done the cooking at home, it's also something she won't give up. She's the kind of person that would ...
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How to defuse meaningless arguments?
This is about my mothers husband (let's call him Bob for now). I visit them from time to time, and they are mostly pleasant to be around.
However, Bob has the tendency to blurt out completely false ...
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How to deal with Friends With Strict Parents?
I have a friend that I'm quite close to and I'm in danger of loosing her as a friend. Her parents are very strict and protective in spite of her being 19, they let her go out as often as my parents ...
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Politely paying back a loan that turned into a gift?
My partner and I have lived together for the last few years and during that time we have occasionally asked her father if we could borrow money, ranging from $500 to $5000 (roughly). The reason for ...
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My mom won't let me handle my money, what can I say?
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I'm 18 and I live with my parents, I also have two younger sisters. Ever since I was younger until now nothing changed in terms of their parenting with me. I have to go to bed at X hours ...
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How can I convey to my dad that I like that he buys me things, but sometimes they are just not my taste?
I'm an adult male in his late 20's and have been living on my own for several years with a good job. My dad every so often will go to garage sales or the store and see something interesting he thinks ...
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How can I get my mom to compromise and not use her total authority?
I am a 19-year-old autistic male that currently works as a Software Engineering apprentice. I live in a small village in the middle of Bavaria.
Even though I got officially diagnosed - secretly - as I ...
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How to tell a parent to stop spamming?
Background: My father and I live in different countries. I moved a few years ago on account of my job. My father is a curious person who likes to read and understand whatever he can find.
He retired a ...
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How to tell my mother not to visit?
I left my mother's home to live on my own 8,5 years ago. Since then, no one in my family has visited me once. Some years ago, my mother even dismissed my idea to visit me when I suggested to do so, I ...
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How to deal with my grandma and aunt's hurtful behavior towards my family? [closed]
I am an unmarried 22 year old girl in college. I have a mother, father and brother who is also doing his masters in college. We live in India and all stay together in a flat. I'm the youngest in my ...
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How can I ask my mother to give me privacy?
I'm a 19-year-old girl, who has a Facebook account. My mom respects my privacy most of the time, like she keeps out of my Instagram account, but always keeps logged in to my Facebook account.
She ...
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How to convince my parents to let me study biotechnology instead of MBBS? [closed]
From my childhood, I haven't had any dream of becoming something but my parents always wanted me to study and become a doctor and that's why they enrolled me in Neet Coaching (The National Eligibility ...
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How to help my mother accept my relationship with a soon-to-be-divorced man?
My boyfriend is a 33-old, separated from his wife but not divorced yet and dad of 2 little girls. I am 25yo. Despite this particular family situation, our relationship has quickly become serious and ...
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How do I stop my mother from interrupting me every 5 minutes?
I'm exasperated by the behaviour of my mother and I don't know how to make her stop, please propose some solution... I'm a 21 year old student far from home most of the year, and I'm currently in my ...
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How to correct my dad's misconception of my partner?
My dad appears to have a long-standing misconception about my partner of nearly 10 years. He seems to believe she does very little to contribute, either in terms of labour or financially. Neither of ...
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How can I refuse to kiss my mother while minimizing the hurt feelings?
Note: this has nothing to do with the current pandemic.
I don't like physical contact, especially kisses and especially when I don't fully trust the person touching me.
Also, my current relationship ...
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BF (35M) wants to have a baby but I don't think he's ready. OP 35F - how do I communicate this?
My boyfriend wants to have a baby, but I don't think he's ready for one. He claims he wants to be the main caregiver but he is often emotionally unavailable, either playing video games or focused on ...
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How to make mom understand about my phobia
It might sound funny to some people but for me its the most horrifying thing ever.
For any answers/comments don't use the word "li......" it just makes me feel like yuck. Please refer to it as "IT"
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How do I assuage concerns about working in the healthcare industry amidst the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak with my parents?
I live with my parents, and I work in the healthcare industry. I'd like to continue working in the healthcare industry, however there are some issues that I have trouble resolving. Specifically, ...
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How can I explain to my partner that the relationship with parents depends on cultural expectations?
Me and my wife come from different countries with very different social norms and expectations (Russia and Spain). We live in Germany and handle the differences between us rather successfully as we ...
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How to ask my mother to stop giving me unsolicited (health related) advices?
I have a lot of mental health issues and my mother tends to think that fixing my life is her duty. As such, she will often give me unsolicited health advice so that I could get "better".
She would ...
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How can I get my mother stop making me apply to jobs that aren't a good fit?
I graduated from school a few years ago. I have had a lot of trouble finding a permanent job for what I went to school for. In general, my mother gives me a really hard time about it, we've gotten in ...
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How do I get my father back after an extended time of being estranged?
Long story short: my mother recently has been diagnosed with an inoperable malignant brain tumor and her biggest wish is for us to mend our relationship before she dies. My father and I have had ...
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How can I communicate to my mother that her complaints about me make me feel like I'm not enough?
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I'm on the autism spectrum and often feel overwhelmingly fatigued and tired. My mother, on the other hand, has a lot of energy and is always doing a million things.
From time to ...
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Bringing up financial concerns with partner’s parents
My partner’s family has been financially struggling a long time (way before I even entered the picture). Their parents frequently ask for money (which at times can be their entire weeks paycheck).
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How to tell a stranger that the way I wish to educate my child is none of his/her business?
Consider the following scenario: I'm taking my kid (5 years old) to a coffeeshop and we do some 'math problems'. By math problems I mean that I explain him about the numbers, addition, counting and so ...
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How to help an elderly paranoid parent? [closed]
My mother is elderly (pushing 80) but is generally is good shape, sound mind, is able to take care of herself and live on her own and so forth. She is able to drive except at night due to her ...
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How to warn father about catfishing scams?
Due to my father's browser sloppiness, and in spite of my efforts to NOT see what he's doing, I know he is on dating sites talking to women. I was fixing something for him when a chat window popped up,...
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Telling my mother that I have anorexia without panicking her
I have a lot of (mental) health issues and I know my mother is often worried about me. One of the things that worry her is how poorly I eat (I told her that I basically eat the same thing at every ...
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Best way to advertise an outreach event last-minute [closed]
I work for a consulting firm and have planned and organized an outreach event at the suggestion of the managing partner. It will take place in a public library, in a meeting room. This is a free event ...
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