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WWYD - I'm 24 and I think I'm pregnant again. We've already got 5 and DH hasn't increased the housekeeping since baby number 2. I can't do this again, I'm already down to a stale loaf and jam for the kids by Wednesday and DH has to have roast beef every Sunday, so I can't cut down any more. I asked my doctor about the new Pill that I've heard about, but DH won't hear of it because it's unnatural. My friend says there's a lady she knows about who can help me.
AIBU to borrow some money from the man who comes to collect the rent to pay this woman and tell DH I'm visiting my sister for the day?
I went to the doctor because I was feeling tired and he gave me these pills that he said would perk me up and help me lose a bit of weight. They've been great, but I've started feeling really, really ill if I don't take them. AIBU to stop taking them even though they're helping me?
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My daughter has a boyfriend. He's a nice lad, very polite and seems to like her a lot. He's a bus driver who came over on one of the boats from Jamaica. I told her not to tell DH as he'd go mad, but she's just told me she's pregnant and they want to get married before the baby's born and before she starts to show. He's told me before that if she ever got pregnant to a black man, he'd kick it out of her. Because she's 16, she needs permission to get married. Do I sign it and pretend I don't know where's she's gone?
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I want to leave DH. He came in from the pub on Friday night and he's spent his whole pay packet again. When I asked him where it had all gone, he slapped me around again. Mum said last time this happened that it's part of being married and if I leave him, I've got to leave the children behind as well. But he's getting nastier every time, I'm scared that one day he won't stop until it's too late. I can't stay, but I can't leave my children, I've lost my cleaning job because I couldn't hide the black eye he gave me last time, so I've got no money to go, either. What do I do?
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And then there's the ones in my family history;
My baby's died. He always cried lots but the doctor said I was being silly. The day before I found him in his pram, his tummy had started going a funny purple colour like a bruise and I was waiting for DH to be paid to get the doctor to visit again. The Police came and took him away and we aren't allowed to go to his funeral as they think we hurt him. They're doing tests, but I can't eat, I can't sleep and nobody will talk to me in the shops. I know I didn't do anything, I'm sure the other children didn't, DH won't even smack them because he says he wouldn't do it to an animal so he won't do it to a child. How can I go on?
I've got 4 children - DD (7), DS1 (6), DS2 (3) and DS4 (1). DS1 is strange. He couldn't talk until he was 5 and only talks now about things on TV that he likes. The children at school don't like him because he's strange, one has been picking on him and today, I had to go into school because he went mad and attacked the boy. I've done everything I can, I've put him in the cupboard when he's refused to speak, I've told him I'm going to put him in a home, I can't hit him anymore because his father came home one day and found me doing it and said if I touched him again he'd do exactly the same to me. He talks to grown ups if they're men, not women, about television programmes and music, but he won't talk to women and just makes the other children hate him. The teachers said that he's different and that's how it is, but I don't want him like that, it's embarrassing when he won't shut up about The Man From Uncle or starts waving his arms around and gabbling about Elvis Presley. How can I make him be normal like the rest of my children?