My sister is going through a really rough time right now. I asked her to come for dinner with her kids on Friday and Sunday to get her mind off things. Both time, rush in, eat, no offer to help clean up, no thank-you, gotta get home. Sheesh. I forgive her because I know she's very upset right now, but damn, her kids are teens! I won't be inviting her again.

I don't understand why my dh seems to think that I should just handle everything at home without burdoning him while he is working out of town. I am trying to raise 2 teens on my own, one with special needs and the other a hormonal teen girl from hell, 3 friggen dogs and house hunting alone. Now the damn dryer and dishwasher broke in the same day. Sorry dh that I am a little stressed out today. I understand that you have your own worries right now. I must be difficult for you, deciding wether to eat at Famous Dave's or Outback tonight. I won't burdon you with my little problems anymore. grrrr.

Sometimes, kids grow up and you don't like who they turn out to be. Stepkids, biokids, adopted kids, it happens. I'm a stepmother, I can empathize. But if you marry someone with, say, a teenager who is set in their ways, you really don't deserve much sympathy because you hate the kid. Children change and develop personalities, good or bad. Teens might act out, but for the most part they are who they will be forever, and they don't hide it.

My BFF and her DH are moving out of state because of too many "people" are moving in and living 4 families to a house or apt, not caring for their property, bringing increased crime, letting their teens run around loose and "angry" and endangering everyone, including themselves! Poverty is not pretty. Moving for a better life is something I cannot deny anyone, but I don't want to live scared in my own home either.

Bad stuff: Ma was sex abused by her charming dissolute dad. He had to leave town bec some trouble he was in when I was 3. Then idiot Ma talks my Dad into moving 1800 mi to be near her parents. Sisters & I then were abused by her father, our g'pa, for yrs. This was long ago when no one discussed it. My dad didnt find out til we were teens. Could have taken g'pa to court but didn't bec didn't want to deprive G'ma of a home, if G'pa went to jail. Thruout this, Ma expects us to be devoted daughters cuz 'we're all in this together' & 'tell no one'. Sick people. I'm pretty OK but now telling Truu!

I used to shoplift in my teens and early 20s. A LOT. I don't do it anymore, but that doesn't stop me from "casing" stores and noticing all the ways I could get away with it. Especially as I get older, and therefore more invisible.

I miss my 20's. Young mom, full of hope and naive to the world. Having fun with my babies and husband. Then my 30's came in like a tornado. Kids are selfish teens, my husband left me. I have had to deal with so much traumatic stuff that I'm not full of hope and naive anymore. I'm bitter and live with hurt everyday. I would give anything to go back, but I can't.

I'm in my early thirties. I have always felt that I am not cut out to be a mother. I've never had that urge. I have always liked babies, but never fawned over them. Lately, though, when I see a little one, I think "oooohh, baby!!!!" and I want to cuddle him/her. Still, though, beyond a teensy bit of baby fever, I don't think I want to be a parent...but I'm so scared I will regret not having kids when I am old. I am so confused!!!!!! (DH is no help. He could go either way on the kid issue.) If we are gonna have kids, I want to do it relatively soon... I feel like I'm screwing up regardless.

I'm an adult, I'm a mom and a wife. But I think like a teenager. I relate to the struggles that teens have and often feel like I'm a teenager in a woman's body. I struggle with eating disorders, self-harm, crazy hormones that feel out of control. Why am I like this? It's embarrassing. I want to grow up and out of these things.

My number is one. I'm almost 37. I've been with my husband since we were teens. I have no regrets.