10 out of 10 people prefer people that they are attracted to. That's it. Everyone discovers personal preferences, but then everyone discovers that those preferences can just as easily be shattered when they end up attracted to something outside of it. Attraction can be biologically, cognitively, and even emotionally layered. The thing attraction struggles with, is being summed up and boxed in by internet slogans.

I do have compassion, genuine compassion, for obese people. I worked at a bariatric clinic where we helped the morbidly obese and super morbidly obese get their surgeries to assist with weight loss. We had a very rigid program, you could not get surgery without doing therapy, an exercise class, a nutrition class for six months up to a year depending. Anyway, a lot of our patients were in a whole lot of emotional pain. Many got through the program. Many also backslid. After five years I think at least half our patients gained a signficant amount of weight back. Some start skipping appointments and no longer come to support group. I know they are ashamed. What do you do? We often felt so hopeless. I had to leave the job, I got too burnt out

That was my perception that my son had a better relationship with his dad because they did all the "Fun" expensive stuff whereas I didn't get to do any of the stuff with him besides reading and playing ball for example. I know better now because even though his dad spent all the money and "time" with him, he was still emotionally absent no matter what and didn't help raise my son. I would like to add, even though it hurt me that my ex got remarried, his wife is a nice enough person and has never hurt my son and I always said my son will form his opinion of his dad, he didn't need my help with my negative words. I talked crap about my ex to my girlfriends, that's what they were for.

I'm realizing our relationship was based on kinky sex. Once we moved in together and daily life "got in the way" he lost interest in me fast. I would make suggestions to go places and he said he'd rather stay in and play in the bedroom. God forbid I go through some emotional hurt - I couldn't count on him to be there for me, his "solution" was to have sex as a distraction. Thanks a lot buddy, wish our lease was up sooner -when it is, I'm outta here.

My husband doesn't care about me, emotionally, at all. I really think he feels like being a decent provider is the end of his role. I can't live like this for the rest of my life.

I live with my parents who are emotionally abuse. I can't afford to move out, don't have anywhere/anyone to move to, and cannot find any assistance that I can claim. I'm single and in full-time employment so naturally I'm not a concern to most schemes anyway.

I have my earphones in, I am not in a good mood today and one would think with my quietness and no smile today (which is normally not me) my coworker would leave me be. But she hasn't. She's talking to me with smiles and laughter and I'm just not in the mood. She's not picking up on my vibe so I am here just faking it and trying to stay/look busy so she won't bug. And I'm faking it because I don't even feel like saying, "not today please" because she's nosy and will ask what's wrong. I hate when this happens and I hate it more when it's a Friday especially after an emotional week I've had.

How do you tell your friend you think their child has emotional and psychological problems and needs to be seen my a doctor? My friend is an amazing mother but doesn't see that her son's actions are abnormal. He is 6 and very physically aggressive and manipulative. I know all kids know how to play their parent but he is very skilled and has no remorse for his actions. His view when he does something is that it is someone else's fault because they upset him. So if the person is playing with something he wants he goes up and punches them or throws something at the child. There has even been a couple times he has had his hands around a child's neck.When the mom says something to him he starts the dramatic cry and says the other person was being mean to him. The mom then lets him go back to playing. His excuse it always they made me do it. No matter what situation it is he always feels like he was wronged and forced to be physically aggressive. He was at my house and started the dramatic cry with me and I told him he wasn't pulling that mess with me I knew it was fake. He stopped immediately on queue, sighed and rolled his eyes. He did something to another child and walked over to me and said whatever he tells you is a lie I never did anything to him. He broke an expensive item of my son's because another child was playing with it and he didn't want him to and denied doing it even though I saw him and he had no remorse and didn't care. He is possessive of my son and isn't mean to him but will be mean and physically aggressive to anyone that intrudes on their play time or friendship. He feels threatened if another child comes into the equation and will do anything to exert his dominance. I haven't been friends with this lady very long, only about three months because they just moved across the street from us. I never leave my child alone with him because I know things could happen. We are moving in a few months but I still worry about this child. The older he gets he will just get worse and I feel it could lead to a lot of bad things. I don't care if it hurts our relationship but usually when you tell someone something like this they just get mad and never really listen. Everyone wants their children to be perfect and amazing. There are just times he does things and his body language and facial expressions are just plain creepy. The child doesn't know his biological father but I know his biological father has diagnosed psychological issues and I am certain it has been passed onto this child.

My heart hurts for my kids cause I don't have parents for them to have a grandparent relationship with. I cycled through family member to family member until I was place in foster care and then cycled through the system until 18. The very center of my soul feels so empty and sad. My soul hurts and feels heavy. I watch the show Intervention and I see so many people that care about their addicted loved ones and I know if I were one of those addicts nobody would be there cause nobody cares about me. I'm angry and resentful at my parents who should have been parents to me but instead they chose drugs over me. I deserve parents and my kids deserve to have grandparents. I feel so unloved and like my love isn't enough for my kids. I cry more over my pain and nobody knows it. I've started to self mutilate again and I haven't told anyone. I hide the marks on my arms. Sometimes I think if I just go a little deeper with the blade I could end this pain. I think about all the pain I went through as a child, being molested by my mom's multiple boyfriends, being molested by a church member, being abandoned by my parents, the physical and emotional abuse. I feel inadequate, dirty and unlovable.

I just started a job 17 days ago. Working overnights at a hotel. My schedule is Sunday night-Thursday night. Well, the weekend girl called in last Friday so I worked for her then last night she worked for me. NO OVERTIME FOR COMING IN ON MY WEEKEND! Then today, the weekend girl up and quit. I get a text from my boss "I need you to work this weekend". No please, no explanation. I'm so fed up. Working nights is draining me and it makes me physically and emotionally exhausted. It also depressed me and I have cried every single day this week about dumb things. This job was bad enough with the sucky pay and night hours. Now this? Sigh.