I have an older brother that i love very much, he looks out for me and is the most intelligent person i know. He will be 22 in august. He really is my half-brother, but that doesn’t mean anything to me. I know he smokes and drinks, but about a year ago he told me he does pot. I didn’t agree with it, but it didn’t cause me to love him any less. He has gotten into car accidents and has been in court, he recently got a DUI and has to go to court. My parents(our dad, and his step-mom) don’t see how responsible he really is. He has the most brilliant ideas i’ve ever heard of, and is competative and driven. I know that they love him, but i second-guess their love sometimes.
He has been seriously thinking about joining the coast guard, and a few years ago he went to Mississippi to clean up and help out after Hurricane Katrina. My dad was so proud of him then. I’ve always been proud no matter what hes done, because the mistakes don’t show what a great person he is.
And he is in college with a job, he hasn’t even asked my parents for college money, and i think hes grown up so much since highschool.

I have a Kodak C433 Zoom Digital Camera. I had it for over a year now and lately I’ve been noticing something weird. One day, I charged my batteries over night and the next day I stuck the batteries in my camera. Later, when I wanted to use my camera, I turned it on and it said the batteries were low/dead. How can batteries die inside a camera when its not even on? Anyways, I decided to stop putting batteries in my camera until I was ready to use it. It did help but I wish it wasn’t like that. My friend told me that the same thing happened to her dad’s camera, but they can’t figure out what was wrong with it either. So I was wondering if this has happened to any of you and if this is normal. Is it just the batteries? Or do you think its the camera? Please answer, even with a guess. I’m thinking about getting a new camera anyways but I still would like to know incase it happens to me again. Thank you!
By the way, I use AA 1800 mAh 1.2V Kodak Rechargables.

Ok, i’ve been really stressed lately and my mom is not doing anything to improve the situation. Now to start I will say that a few years ago she had congestive heart failure (5 yrs to be more exact) and then she had to go to rehab 2x for alcoholism. That really screwed ME up. Now, she’s been clean for 2 years and shes doing well with that. She’s on oxygen after her heart failure but she only wears it at night or when it’s hot.

ANYWAY. All she does – this is the complete truth – is sit on her bed and sleep. ALL DAY. She’s like a 5 year old. Last time we had a day off for school she slept, got up at some lunch, went back to her room. Now, My dad’s working during the day and my bro and I are up early on and the bus. She is in bed. Then when I get home she complains about how I didnt run the sweeper, clean off the desk after I did my homework or take out the garbage. I do admit that I’ve been slacking but she does nothing and she’s home all day and I go to school and my dad works and she sleeps. Today she flipped out and started stomping around because she didnt have a clean dish cause no one did the dishes. I had to wash my own plate cause I had work to do for school. I had to make my own dinner. I had to get my bro dinner. I JUST CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE. all she does is sleep and 8itch if she doesnt get her way. what do I do?

I have a pretty close relationship with my father. Recently, though, he found out that I’m gay and sent me a letter detailing to me why he thinks that being gay is living a lifestyle of sin- comparing it to alcoholism- and telling me that if I try hard enough, I can purge these feelings. However, I do not consider myself affiliated with the same religious beliefs as my father and don’t necessarily agree with his statements. I want to keep a close relationship with him, but I don’t want to get into a debate about religion with him. How should I handle the conversation when I call him?

It’s my father’s birthday in a week, and I’m not sure what I should get him if anything. In the past since I’ve been on my own, I’ve tried to do very good by him, getting him a digital camera once (he never even took it out of the box) and a good watch another time (my mother ended up giving this one to my uncle whom I really don’t get along with. My father is an alcoholic whom has lost nearly everything in life. With his 51st birthday coming up, I have no idea whether I even should acknowledge it! Help!! Also let me add that he and my mother totally skipped over my sister and I at Christmas and our birthdays!

my mum is addicted to drinks like Pepsi max, Cocacola zero and that stuff and my dad buys lots of it. I normally end up drinking it if its there, i mean its like putting a yummy cake infront of a hungry child, the child will eat it even if it feels sick afterwards. I have tried asking her nicely but she wont even try and help me by cutting down herself. My health is not so good and im overweight and people say that a lot of the reason is because of these drinks. My mum won’t help my health im 16 and i have bad health and my mum won’t help me, is it just me or is it kind of selfish that she wont help me?

I dont want to end up being 35 with body problems, obese, alone and possibly even cancer. please, what should i do?

to give a run through i’m eighteen. and i’m five months pregnant. the father is denying the baby up and down. well..atleast one day he is. and the next day he isn’t. well i AM going to do the DNA test, just to prove to him that the baby is his. but i dont want him to try and take the baby away from me. he isn’t stable. i’m more stable than him. and i’m 100 percent sure he wouldn’t be able to even pass a drug test. he smoke marijuana & is doing crack cocaine now. he wasn’t always like this BTW until he got around the wrong crowd. well i decided to name the baby and he’s always yelling about me about how he should have been able to name the baby.

1. does he have the right to name the baby, or does that lay with me?

well he’s always talking about taking the baby away. and running off to detroit.

2. CAN he do that?

if he signs the birth certificate does that give him as much rights as i have?
or is it just a signature.

please dont comment on here if your going to say negative things about me. all you know is what i can tell you. and if you answer thank you so much. if you have any other information that may help me please share it with me.

AND P.S. he has also mentioned that if i have sex with someone else while pregnant that it will change the outcome of who the father is. CRAZY RIGHT?

My dad has been an alcoholic his whole life pretty much, and even when we (me and my sister) were little, he was hardly home cuz he was drinking and at strip clubs.

My parents got seperated when I was in 6th grade and divorced 2 years ago. I’m 17 and my sister’s 15 now. 2 years ago my dad was in jail for the 5th time because of a DUI and/or violation of probation. He never appeared for the court date with my mom to see if he has visitation rights or anything like that, the judge said my mom has sole custody and it’s up to me and my sister if we want to see him, because if he doesn’t care enough to make it to court because he was drunk then he doesn’t deserve anything.

Me and my sister don’t want to see him or ever talk to him, but he’ll call over 10 times a day and tells my mom he’s suing her for custody even though he’s well aware now that my mom has sole custody and it’s up to us…if anything was to happen, is there anyway my dad could get ANY visitation with me and my sister, even though the judge already said it’s up to us, and we don’t want to? He also has been addicted to drugs and been in and out of hospitals and rehab centers for proof.
They said we can’t get a restraining order because he hasn’t ever physically hit or abused us.

I need some real advice. I lived in Fl and the girl I lived with got pregnant (my child) my grandfather died so I came back home to Pa and managed to get a DUI. On top of that my girlfriend had lost the baby (probably becuase she didn’t stop smoking or drinking). Now i’m up in Pa staying with my dad my step mom and my brother and sisters. They have a big house so me and my dog are sleeping in the basement. Nothing down there but it’s a nice room has its own hot tub down there. Thing is my step mom hates me. My dad and step mom always go at it when I stay here. I can’t drive my car anywhere for nearly 2 years now becuase of this DUI so I plan on selling it. My ex doesn’t want me to come back to Fl. So my question is how can I resolve this family problem and see if I can stay in the basement you know pay rent so that I can sell my car and get a place of my own up here and find a job. I am sick of my step mother hating me and want to be around my brother and sisters and be with family.

What causes a 13yr old boy not to want to have any friends, always wants to stay in his room and play video games, computer, tv, movies.

He does not want to play outside, not interested in sports or outdoor activity’s.

Very very scared of people that are new?

He loves john lennon, jim Morrison, kurt cobain, keith ledger, all dead?

His brothers do not act this way. His real dad is a loser, alcoholic, crackhead, has never been solid in kids life.

His mother remarried, he has step-dad, step-sister, we are worried about this boys actions, it seems to be much more than shyness?

We are worried that he will turn to drugs and alcohol when he gates older? HELP

An old buddy of mine is having a tough time with his life and I’d like to help him, but I don’t know how.

Back when we played hockey together about 7-8 years ago; he had a great $90K job, a beautiful $500K home, the wife and two kids, and things were peachy on the surface.

But, his wife used my friend for some really horrible (and illegal) things I won’t go into (other than tell you that it was to secure US citizenship for her 3rd-world relatives). Just know that she would always threaten to divorce my friend if he would disagree. She even tried to get me involved in her schemes, which I wisely declined.

So, my friend finally decided to stand up for himself and his wife divorced him, since he was of no use to her anymore. He paid for her college education, the boob job SHE wanted (he told me that he hates fake boobs), and put his neck out for her illegal schemes.

Not only did she kick him out of the home he paid for, but he also lost his job because his depression led to alcoholism. Which also led him to the hospital with some alcohol-related problems (ulcers, poisoning, etc).

Now, it’s 3 years later, and he’s free and clear and healthy. No more alcohol. But he’s having a hard time getting his life back on track. He’s stuck in a Catch-22 and I dunno how to help:

1) He’s been out of work for 3 years now since he was fired and went to the hospital/rehab.

2) He’s got $30K credit card debt, which he only started to accrue once he was jobless.

3) He owes $25K in back child support, which is tough for him to pay because he doesn’t have a job.

4) His driving license is suspended, (because of the back child support) which makes commuting to and from a job much more difficult, especially since he doesn’t live anywhere near public transportation.

5) His work license is suspended, (it’s a gov’t-issued license), also due to the back child support. So, the last 20 years of his work experience counts for squat if his license is revoked and he can’t get that type of job.

What can my friend do to get back on track? I try to speak with him as much as possible to keep his spirits up, but he’s sounding more and more suicidal and I don’t blame him.

He’s not gonna ride a bike to the local pizzeria for $8/hr, just to give his entire crappy paycheck to that idiot ex-wife. He can’t afford a lawyer. He lives in his dad’s basement and has zero social life b/c he can’t drive and can’t afford to go out. He just told me today that if I didn’t speak with him a couple times a week, he’d have nobody.

This guy is a great guy, a real good friend, and a good person who just has had a bunch of bad luck.

What can he do? Claim bankruptcy? Claim hardship? He’s stuck in a hole that gets deeper everyday and soon, I think the authorities will be knocking on his door to throw him in jail for being a dead-beat-dad, which he’d rather kill himself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Oh yeah, and please don’t tell me to have my friend contact a Suicide Prevention Hotline. He’s not some emo-kid struggling with social-difficulties. He needs real advice and having someone one the other end of a phone tell him that “Suicide’s not the answer” is NOT the answer he needs.

I have been raised a Christian, but I recently re-committed myself to the Lord. I am married, I am faithful to my husband in every way and I go to church every wednesday and sunday. I recently got a job as a jello shot girl in a bar here in town. There is no uniform, I can wear what I want, which is usually jeans, boots and a sweater or cute shirt (nothing low-cut). I wear my wedding ring and all the regulars have met my husband who frequents the bar often to hang out and keep me company while I work. I make darn sure that my clothing is modest because I do not want to make my tips off of my looks and I definitely do not flirt with customers. Despite those things, I make decent money for a small town hangout.

One of my friends from church made me feel bad when she told me that a bar was a bad place for a Christian to work. I was raised Catholic, but got “saved” in a Pentecostal church. I suppose you could just call me a non-denominational Christian, because I do not follow every single belief of pentecostalism (ex. I have never spoken in tongues) but my friend is VERY pentecostal. I think that her reasoning was based on her denomination’s view that alcohol is not “good”. I myself, do not drink, because I have anxiety and alcohol makes it worse. I am having trouble now because I find myself second guessing my decision to work at the bar. I have to admit that this particular friend is older than me and I tend to let everything she says get to me, so I need an un-baised opinion. I myself do not condone drunkeness. I realize that selling jello shots (which have only 2 cups of alcohol dispersed between every batch of 72 shots) is supplying people with alcohol.

I am aware that the Bible does not condone having a small amount of alcohol, but that drunkards shall not go to heaven. I myself, do not drink and I am certainly not okay with alcoholism, but is it sinful for me to work there?

My husband says it is OK. So does his mother, father, my mother and father.

So my boyfriend sometimes says that he has to have a drink. I thought he was just kidding at first, but he really does have a drink of a hard liquor mixed drink like every night, or a beer. It’s really starting to bother me, but I don’t want to say anything if he’s not. Also, his father is an alcoholic, so I’m afraid it may be being passed down. What should I do? Do you think he is?
@ zoggins

thanks ever so much for your opinion. Why are you even on yahoo answers if you’re not here to help people?
@ Tino

Well, it’s not like that and I wouldn’t freak out about that. It’s like a few drinks of hard liquor (like three shots) every night or every other night or a couple beers, never one. I guess I didn’t stress that though

Ok first off i’m 18 years old. My dads 45, my older brother is 22 and a younger brother that’s 9.

My mom is addicted to strong codeine phosphate painkillers. She stays up till late at night, falling asleep while standing, falling asleep with her head in her food, basically falling asleep in really weird ways and very uncomfortable ways…this happens almost every night.. i always tell her to go to sleep and she says “im going just now” but she never does and then she just falls asleep in a random way again. Me, my dad and my brothers are really concerned about her and its come to the point where we are SOO fucking angry because we dont know what to do. Her stomach has swollen up aswell and she complains that theres water in her feet or something. Basically she denies that she takes too many of these pills but we know a fact for she does. We are really worried about her but the exact fucking same thing happens literally everyday…we dont like seeing her like this, it’s messing up her health. She was put on reduced treatment (SANCA) to let my dad be in charge of her pills to make sure she doesnt take too many but that didnt work. She spends thousands on pills and we are even struggling because of it.

What can we do? can we get a court order against her so that she’ll HAVE to go to rehab?

I have been praying very hard about this but I feel as if i need some help. My unborn babys father is very far into an addiction of cocaine and drinking right now I am not in direct contact with him at this time because of his lifestyle but he needs help. He has pushed so many people out of his life because we were standing in the way of his addiction, he is on a downward spiral. I just ask that you pray for God to come in his life and take Satan out. Help him get back on the right track open his eyes to his life. It is very hurtful to watch someone you love ruining their life and not knowing it.
He isn’t my boyfriend and he denies he has a problem.

My dad is an alcoholic, and I can see it ruining just about every aspect of his life, as well as a few of mine. I want to do an intervention, but I’m scared it will just be so…awkward…I hardly even have a relationship with him, so I doubt he’d even listen to me.

their Dad was sentenced to do 2 years in jail for dui’s and he got out to do 6 months in a rehab program I’m not sure the name but it was like a salvation army program and he got kicked out of the program cuz they said he wasn’t speaking out or something and so he called his kids to come get him and he is staying with them and he was supposed to turn himself in within 24 hours and its been almost 4 days. so what I am wondering since he still will have to finish out his sentence in jail and hes staying with is kids could they get arrested for housing him?

About a month ago he started coughing up so much blood he was chocking. Turns out he has lung cancer, and it’s terminal. It’s his second run with cancer, and the second time my family doctor has missed it.. we didn’t find out until he was rushed to the ER.
Last June I left my finance because he was cheating on me. Again. It took a lot, because he was my savior. My mother is bipolar one and my dad is a raging alcoholic. I had been living with my ex since I was 17. Before I left him I was just starting to heal my relationship them.
But once I left him, I moved back in with my parents, and I realized that nothing had changed. (June 2009). I lasted at home until February when I had drop out of school because all of my money was spent supporting my mother. I moved out, and was trying to start over again.
Problem: I elected that I needed to just separate from my dad, let him fix himself and maybe once he got better, we could work on it again. He got in a huge fight with my mom and ended up in jail for battery. He started anger mgnt, but he didn’t seem any different to me… I was completely content with my choices…
Now he’s dieing… and every single time i try to reach out again, it’s good, but then he’ll say something. He’s angry about being sick, and I get that.. but he was always angry about something… now I’m torn between fixing it before he dies, which will most likely result is just tolerating him before he dies, and playing the politics game, destroying more of myself… or carrying on with my own life, and suffering with the very possible guilt for the rest of my life. ..
All I’ve managed to do is think myself in circles.. I need some outside advice/words of wisdom

I am kindof in a sucky situation right now in my life. I am a 20 yr old male. I am trying to decide what to do before my life goes by too fast and before i know it ill be 30.I feel like I am not making enough progress. Here is my situation

1. I am a community college student. I am taking General AA classes. I am not taking enough classes which means i am not getting enough credits. I have being going to school for 2 years and only have 24 credits/ i need 60.
2. I have no car nor a job due to living in a small town. When there is a job opening, thousands of people apply which means I have a slim chance of getting a job.
3. I live with my mom and little brother. My dad died 2 1/2 years ago to cancer. I also have a big sister who lives in a town next to me.
4.I was going to join the US Navy but I dropped it because I got down on myself and even though i wanted to join, I was worry about leaving my mom and little brother.Also the recuriter I had seemed to lose interest in me after I done my physical and i told him I had to get xrays for my spine for my scolosis.
5. I tried going to church but I never felt a connection to “god” and I dont believe in religions to answers in life.

So, if you were in my situation, what would you do?

My dad drinks all the time. He doesn’t during the day unless he takes the day off, but he comes home for work and has a bottle and a half of wine. On the weekends he and his girlfriend have several pitchers of beer and then come home and have another two bottles each and then a couple glasses of wine

I don’t care if he drinks it’s just annoying cause he comes home in such a shoddy mood. The number of times my dad has passed out on the floor, or on the toilet, or at his desk, or in a bowl of cereal, is just ridiculous. I’ve been locked out of my house because he’s too smashed to recognize me. He’s always craving beer, he’s always recovering from a hangover, he’s always in a shoddy mood, and he’s always sleeping.

maybe this is a stupid question but if these are signs of alcoholism, it’s just hard to believe because when he’s not drinking, he’s the nicest guy in the world. Everybody loves him.