I am introverted too! I love alone time but I do like catching up via FB or twitter or email or texting. It's plenty for me. Being around people for too long is exhausting. Plus, most are not good listeners.

I'm fighting myself about "saving" my sister too. It is really hard to see someone you love go homeless when you could help them out - even though you know they are suffering from an endless line of bad choices. Every time she calls me up for money, I think about letting her clean up her own mess. But honestly, she doesn't make better decisions long term when I don't give her the money - she just suffers more. I'm not sure parenting had much to do with it - we had the same parents, and I grew up being (almost unhealthily) financially frugal, while she never worries about tomorrow - at least, until she gets an eviction notice.

I was young when I had my first child. Very young. And I didn't do a very good job with that child. I was too busy living what I thought "my life" should be like. 15 years later, I had another child. And I was so good at being a mother this time around. Even my oldest has noticed it. He always asks why he didn't get to have the same Mom. It kills me inside everyday. I'm wracked with guilt. And to make matters worse, sometimes I can't stand being around my oldest. Because he is everything that I used to be. Arrogant, defiant, rude, disrespectful. It makes it hard for me to love him. He is my little boy but most times I don't like him. And he holds his awful childhood over me all the time. How can we get past it and make a good life for our family? I'm at a loss. I'm a shit mom

my dd is almost 24. she went almost 2 years without drinking. she started again. not sloppy drinking and getting drunk. just going out with friends and having a drink or 2. her ex-boyfriend also od'ed last month. he was her 1st love. worried and scared for her, but it is her life and she has her own place and pays all her own bills.

I always love Sonic's Happy Hour, especially during the summer! Half-priced drinks! And tots! Enjoy.

I love my DD35 with all my heart, and her dad and I did everything we could to raise her to be responsible. Through the years we've had to bail her out financially because of her choices. Two years ago we told her the Bank of Mom and Dad was closed....this morning she called to say her water had been shut off and she needed $250 to get it turned on. This was after being at her house last night for my granddaughter's birthday party...where her parents gave her two purses, a pair of Keds, jeans, 2 t-shirts and a new cell phone. Priorities????? I may be wrong for paying for the water bill, but the Mom in me just couldn't help it!

I hate that feeling of knowing that someone you loved could think so little of you in return that they could cast you aside without a second thought or a look back.

I love that this site updates in real time! I loved Truu but after the sale went through a couple years ago things went to sh*t in a hand basket on Truu. No more waiting for the Mod to update or no updates like when Truu went to sh*t. No more waiting for someone to come back from vacation to update Truu or being given sugar coated lies about what's going on or being left in the dark about what's going on. I never did believe what we were being told about what's going on. I thought we were spoon fed lies and many of the Truu users believed them or should I say they wanted to believe them. I think I love this site waaaaay better than Truu! And I'm so glad to see so many of the users I liked on Truu have found their way here.

Hehe. Ribbon wands were made popular by Ryan and Trista from the Bachelorette back then. It looked like a fairy wand had unprotected sex with bicycle streamers and ribbon wands were their love child.

I used to love reading The Knot when DH and I were planning our wedding. I had no idea there were so many off the wall brides out there. I learned with tears of joy packets were, STD cards, ribbon wands, mini bride and grooms, replicas of the wedding gown meant to be kept in glass cases, and how nasty chocolate fountains look. Or women do get depressed after everything is over.