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I hate my life

My son has just turned 2 and I actually can’t stand been around him. He’s smashed 4 tvs, he doesn’t stay in his car seat, he breaks toys, he hits punches bites. He constantly has to pull my hair and he rubs his feet on me to sleep and literally scratches my skin off with his toenails and rips my hair out of my head....

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f*ck my baby daddy

i need some advice. this is a conversation i just had with my baby daddy. atp, should i just go through the courts for child support? because this is crazy!! this man never pays!! he left me 2 months ago & now i’m a single mom while he play house with his new gf & her kids. we agreed on $150 every two weeks for our ...

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I don’t feel like my child was in the wrong. My responses in comments.

So today for some stupid reason a group of kids kept calling my son “chucky” (his name is Clark.) and he has been dealing with this for months. He asked them REPEATEDLY to stop. Because of that, a child elbowed him in the stomach (it was super red for awhile, so I have seen it with my own eyes) and my son finally ha...

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LO getting kicked out of daycare

My 16-month is getting kicked out of daycare for her allergies (may be environmental/seasonal, we’re not sure). She had a cold on and off in the winter and now allergies. Mostly runny nose & watery eyes, never any fever. I would keep her home when things were really bad. The provider claims she’s doing it for the ...

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I feel horrible

I want to leave my boyfriend …I love him to death but my life has been going down hill the last 3 months since I had baby, he won’t help me at all not feed or change him ,the house is disgusting cause he won’t help me there either and I can’t do things with out permission,he’s a great dude… I just can’t handle it an...

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Sad

I feel like my baby daddy literally can't even stand the look of me, he just dropped some groceries for me which yes is nice but I had to ask him about 3 times if he was going to come, he said he'd come last night , then this morning& didn't end up coming till this evening but with no explanation or I'm sorry or any...

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Trying to include MIL

So I confronted my MIL the other day as I was upset that she makes time for her older grandchild but never asks to come and visit my daughter who is almost 2. She admitted to feeling left out as my mum & siblings babysit if me and hubby go out which has only been an handful of times. Mil mentioned shes never been a...

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Male Childminder advice on nappy changes

Our little girl (20 months) attends nursery and there are two males who work in her room. Her Dad has expressed to me he is very comfortable with the males changing our daughters nappies when she is in nursery and wants to ask the nursery that all nappy changes are completed by females only. I partially agree with h...

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No mother’s day gift

I’m actually so very fucking angry, it’s my first mother’s day and my man hasn’t gotten me anything yet. it’s been 3 days. today after work he decided to go fishing and is still fishing. he could’ve gone to the dollar store to get me a gift for all i care. I texted him long paragraphs about how upset i was and how e...

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Household chores and juggling life

I’m struggling to juggle household jobs with looking after my baby and I don’t know how I did it before I had her. She only naps for 30 minutes at a time. My partner works full time and works from home a lot so he could be doing more but I’m fed up of raising things and it changes for a few days and then goes back t...

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Feeling like giving up!

I don’t know if I can do this first time mother 😩😩 I’m a single mother raising a boy he just turned 2 months 😩 he is still colicky . I just changed his milk on Monday to the purple gentlelesse I guess that helps with gas he cries a lot idk if he is spoiled but he is barely eating he loves sleeping, ugh I’m going…

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Where you congratulated on the birth

Did any ones in laws, congraulate them on the birth of their child? See how they are etc. we had a bit of a tricky birth, all was ok in the end . But they never once asked how I was nor congratulated me, no flowers cards not even a text, to be fair they never mess me any way 😂 my family and friends did. To be…

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Feel like a maid and a prostitute in my marriage

I feel close to my spouse through conversations. But all he does is stay on his phone or talk to his friends. He says he listens to me...but honestly I feel so alone in this marriage. I was forced to be a SAHM (which is not my personality at all). I feel like I been paying the price for his mistakes repeatedly. ...

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Control / Sex issues

I’ll try to keep this short - My husband and I have 4 Children the oldest is 16, 11, 3 and a 4 month old baby. We have been married for nearly 15 years and we have had our ups and downs through the many years. Our 11 year old was really ill when she was 3 years old ( cancer) but she is totally fine now but my ...

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Tired of being labeled as the bad guy

I do 8 to 430 everyday , pick up baby from daycare and make it home at 530. Work out ,shower , cook. Dinner be ready around 8. I'm tired of him not helping out, just smoking n drinking everyday not doing dishes not taking entertaining daughter ,not picking up just taking no intuitive. He complain and say im.lazy, n...

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Not sure how to feel!

SS is 9, he & my husband  have had a long distance relationship for about 4 years and we only last year moved back to the country so see him more. The first time I met him I was pregnant with our daughter who is now 2. when ss stays over he will walk into the house avoid eye contact with me & not say hello. I wait ...

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