negative sometimes. I don’t mean too, but I’ve been depressed about being laid off. My sister is a single mom w/ my mom living there to take care of the kids. She lives in a nice house and has the perfect little family it seems. She and the kids take karate classes and go to church every Sunday. If we are together and someone makes a put down about a celebrity or something, she’ll have no part of talking "bad" about people. She told me to only talk positive. That’s good advice, but her coming off as so perfect is putting me off. How do I handle her over the holidays? Now, before anyone goes off on me, the following is why I feel the way I do about her…
The two kids she has were accidentally on purpose pregnancies. She said she’s the only person she knows that gets pregnant on birth control. She told her ex husband and my mom she was taking classes at college at night and was having an affair. A few years ago she took rent money given to her by our parents and she bought a clothes instead. She has had a history of lying. I’m not sure, but if you have a history of stuff like lying and the above, do you stop and all of a sudden become perfect?
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It seems that there are more resources for single mothers than for single fathers. I have a friend – a single dad with five kids – he struggles financially, has no time for himself and his love life is nonexistent. Also, it’s really difficult raising girls because they’d probably find it easier chatting about boyfriends and other "girlie" stuff with a mother. Any single dads who have similar problems or some advice?
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my family is like really mixed up, i don’t talk to anyone on my dads side including him, and m moms side doesn’t have much money. we have a lot of family that is not blood related to us but we still have the bond and what not.
my mom being a single parent ,and her having me so young has always been more like a sister. she never really got me anything cool for my birthdays and would get my hopes up every year. on my birthdays i feel like im not important to my family because everyone else gets such cool gifts and i rarely get anything at all. sometimes i will get a 20$ bill in a card, or hand me down stuff for my infant daughter. i feel really guilty for feeling like this but it gets me down on holidays. for christmas this year someone in my immediate family gave me half a pack of socks.. for my sweet 16 my mom asked me what i wanted and i asked for a jacket that i wanted really bad and she paid 50$ towards is, when the night before she went out to dinner for over 100$ and i remember being really upset and crying because i felt like no one cared, but feeling really guilty because i felt like i was being selfish and stupid. this year for my 18th birthday im not really expecting anything from my parents but tonight my boyfriend asked me what i wanted and i said it would be cool if he could pay for me to get my hair highlighted, [which costs about 85$-100$] because im 8 months pregnant and i feel really unattractive, and he went off on me about how its too expensive and i never get him anything good for his birthdays and what not. and i felt really guilty for wanting something and like he didn’t care about me.
how can i stop feeling sad for not getting presents? i know it sounds really childish and stupid but i honestly cant help feeling like that. i know its wrong and selfish of me to get upset about gifts, but i don’t know how NOT to feel that way!
please don’t write rude things like "omg you sound so selfish get over it its the thought that counts" because i already know that!
my parents were never together and i didnt meet my dad or his family till i was 14
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