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I’m 19 a Sophomore in College living and campus and I work part time. Growing up my parents were out of work a lot and money was always an issue. Which is one of the reason’s I’m going to an in state university (which isn’t well ranked compared to other colleges) because it’s cheaper. I work about 20 hours a week at a restaurant serving and I love my job it’s not far from campus the people there are so nice and Im making good money, enough to possibly buy a beater car in time for christmas break (so when I move back home for break I can still get to work and visit friends around campus). My Grandfather pays for my tution by the way not my parents.

My problem is my family just recently moved and my dad finally has a good job that pays well and my mother is trying to convince me that I don’t have to work that much that they can support me so I can focus on school. But I like working I like being independent and I’m a good student I spend most of my free time in the library. but How do I convince my parents that I want to work and need to work because eventually I want ot move out of the house and get my own place near campus.

my issues:
growing up I wasn’t a good student in high school because I had trouble balancing a job school and doing extra curricular school activities (school plays) and hanging out with friends. I didn’t have the best grades mostly a B average. Thus my parents don’t think I can do it.

I want to be independent of my family and support myself. I love them but I’m 19 and want to support myself. Working gives me comfort that I can support myself and be finacially ok if my dad looses his job again which happened to me a lot growing up. Now I’m older and more mature, able to handle the work load and orgaize my time better.

How do I explain that to my parents (mostly my mothe by the way). What do I say? Has any one been in this same situation? what do you recomend I do?

So, my wife and I have been together for 8 years, married for 4 months, and have a 7 month old child. There have been some pretty rough times but we have made it through. Before moving, I had been a stay at home father for about 4 months, my wife lost her job, then we moved.

Since my step-mother recently passed away, my Dad extended an offer to us to move into his house. No don’t get me wrong, he has a very nice house. We have our own room, the baby has her own room, and he is never here because of work.

The problem is, we have been at each other since we moved in. I’m not sure if it is strictly coincidence or something more? We never have sex anymore since it feels awkward to me that my father is downstairs or nearby. We also haven’t been able to spend any time together because of work. I’ve going through training at the airport all day while she babysits. We used to carpool but then the schedules changed enough so carpooling didn’t seem to work well anymore. So we spend little to no time together.

She also has BPD and last night, I snapped a little. For the last 2 weeks straight she has pulled some mood change right before bed. And since it is BPD, it is the most ridiculous things like not getting a pudding for her, then a giant fight ensues and etc. So last night, I had enough and told her off. Even though I’m gone a lot, I still end up being the one who cooks, cleans, pays bills and etc and I still get told nightly that I don’t do shit for her…those things are just expected. A “real” man would take her out to dinner or etc.

We have a 7 month old child. We have officially reached the no restaurant at night part but she just doesn’t seem to get it. Our daughter throws fits right before her bedtime(8 pm). So at 730…I don’t think it is a good time to go to dinner. She does though. Her family brought us to Florida over the past week and I relaxed this idea since we were on vacation. Well guess who got stuck with the baby every night outside while everyone else was inside enjoying their meals?

This is all besides the point. Since we moved in with my Dad, things have been bad. I want to move out but we are broke at the moment. We fight daily, have no sex life, and nothing ever seems to get done. I’m not really sure what to do.

alright. my Dad works in a restaurant, and his friend found an iTouch, and asked us if we can fill it up with music. but the thing is that it’s locked, and we tried many passwords, but none of them work. so, now it says “Connect To iTunes”, and I did. but it says that it can’t sync items to it because it’s locked. how can we unlock it?

I’ve dated successful models before, and never felt intimidated, but her…she’s quite something. She’s still in her early 20s, but she’s always passed the BAR, is a qualified laywer and working towards her masters. Last month she was in South America working with human rights groups…geez. For our first date, we had brunch at this really nice restaurant. She seemed at “home” in the environment.

We’re suppose to have our 3rd date this week, a dinner. My friend is the head chef at one of the best restaurant possibly in the world. He’s asked that I take her there, that he would create a special menu for us. Although I frequent these kind of places, it’s not something I normally take a girl on the 1st or 3rd date. I found out her dad is an ambassador, mother a White House aide, and brother a diplomat…so she might be used to these kinds of dinners…..

Basically I am asking, is this too much for a 3rd date? A personal menu at an upscale restaurant? I feel like I am trying way harder than I do most girls…a turn off?

It is serious. I am worried because she makes up these stories about my husband being in the Mafia and my sister’s husband having something to do with drugs - her proof being that he was talking about the flying J’s (he is a trucker) in Canada here and she is in the southern states she noticed there are lots of restaurants there that have J’s in it. She even called the police to her house to make a statement about it, but luckily my dad was there to explain her insanity. She is kind of dangerous. I really don’t believe the police would have believed her if they had half a brain, but what if the police officer was a total knuckle head?
Just the other day she was visiting here in Canada and she approached a woman in the bank, (because she though they were standing in a weird spot) and she said, “Are you one of the people who are following me?” Then she went to the window and said to herself, “I can’t believe I just did that?” She may have been uneasy about saying it because it was totally insane or it may have been because she thought that now she let them know that she knows.
She always gives people dirty looks, because everyone is following her.
Usually her stories and accusations are aimed at other people, not her family, but the other day i was with her in her car we were having a nice day and all of a sudden she yells at me. “HOW DARE YOU SEND SIGNALS WHEN YOU ARE IN MY CAR!” I was hurt that she was accusing me, and shocked, it kind of upset me.
My dad works a lot down south and up here so he doesn’t have much time to do anything about it. I really think he just doesn’t know what to do or how to do it like me, not that its my responsibilty but its really his. I once tried to take her into get help when i was visiting down south and the person we saw at the clinic did nothing, my mom believed she was in there so she can explain some of her stories about current bombing and the Mafia and how they are related to this group of guys she passed on the street and made her and my sister walk on the other side of this pole. They were related to this bombing because there was a pole left over after this building was bombed. So she thought she would see a doctor who was smart enought to understand her story. the doctor did no help in getting her condition on tack. Where do i go to get her officially diagnosed? We live in Alberta, Canada if that matters. She is normally in Louisanna, USA.

I’ve gotten rejected by a 19-year-old for being 26, but then I see rich and semi-rich guys in their mid-30s getting 20-year-old girls right and left. I had an 18-year-old reject me then I see her with a guy only a year younger than me (also shorter, less attractive) who’s dad just happens to own a string of car dealerships. The guy I worked for is 35 and has a 21-year-old wife. He owns his own restaurant. They met four years ago (he was 31, she, 17) and are on their way to having a second kid.
What is the deal? So, basically, age is just a number when the guy’s loaded?

I know this question is overused and boring, but I just wanted to know.

So there is this guy and we’ve been friends for almost a year. My mom and his dad are friends and that’s how we met. We’ve only hung out a few times.

The first time we hung out was at my house with my little brother and sister and his little brother and sister. My mom and his dad were upstairs talking, while the rest of us were downstairs. He stared at me a lot and checked me out a couple of times. He laughed at my jokes. He tried to make me laugh and whenever he would talk to me, he kept looking at the ground. At supper, he tried to sit beside me, then my mom told me that I was sitting in “her spot”, so I moved. She doesn’t want me to have a boyfriend obviously. When they had to leave, he seemed kind of hesitant. He kept looking at me then looking away while leaving.

The second time we hung out, we were a little more comfortable around each other. We went to the park with our siblings and we were standing really close to each other. We had a lot of fun. We threw stuff at each other and joked around.

The third time we hung out was during the indoor soccer tournament. We hung out all day (with our siblings). We went to a restaurant (my mum and our siblings) and we didn’t really talk or sit next to each other.

We go to the same high school. Whenever we pass each other in the halls, he looks at me and smiles and sometimes says “hi”. Sometimes he just looks me in the eyes then looks away or just smiles. I think he’s shy. On the first day of school, when he saw me he just looked at me and didn’t say anything.

I’m pretty sure he likes me, but I just need a second opinion. What do you think?
One time when I was walking home, he was walking behind me. I didn’t know it until I walked across the street and saw him looking at me. He never took the way I took before that I know of. Every day before this, he took a different way to get home.

My parents don’t allow me to be in my friends car driving around. My friends can’t pick me up or drop me off. My parents tell me I can hang out with my friends but they have to to drop me off and pick me up. I am a sophomore too. They said I can drive around in others people car when I am in 12th grade. My dad told me that my friends can come in their car but all I can do is take them to this lake by our house and there is nothing to do there and it’s stupid. I feel like my teenage years just came to an end :(. I need help and how to convince the. I tried talking to me they just told me a simple straight forward answer of No. My friends and I usually drive around to restaurants and then usually go to someones house. We don’t smoke, do drugs nothing bad. My friends are good drivers too. I feel like this new rule they put on me will ruin my social life
I need Help

OK, I’m a dark Hispanic with a bunch of Mayan in my family tree, but my wie is Swedish. Our kids take after her, and look white. I took them to a restaurant. Apparently somoeone thought I was a kidnapper, and called the police. They stopped my car, and it was a few hours before everything was sorted out. My kids were really scared.

Can I sue? Or, I suppose, if I sue, do I have a good case if I do?
My wife was away on business.

Shouldn’t the fact the oldest saud “he’s my Dad”when asked have been enough to resolve this?

They asked cuffed me and asked me to go to the station.
My wife was away on business.

Shouldn’t the fact the oldest saud “he’s my Dad”when asked have been enough to resolve this?

They asked cuffed me and asked me to go to the station.

Okay, first off we just moved to Wellington from Tallahassee and I hate it in Wellington. All my friends are back in Tallahassee and I was kinda popular in school. We moved here because my dad got laid off and he was looking to own a Subway restaurant. He went through training in Connecticut and got his degree. He was looking to buy a Subway in the local mall here in Wellington and I saw a couple Subways in Tallahassee, where I would like to move back very much. So my question is if he got his Subway franchise degree already, can he buy a Subway in TALLAHASSEE instead of the one in Wellington? Oh, and one more thing, if he CAN buy a Subway in Tallahassee, but nobody is going to sell theirs, can he BUILD his own Subway if he uses his degree? Please help, I really want to move back to Tallahassee. Thanks