When did you last hug your father?

I feel my life is extremely difficult after demise of my beloved father at the age he should have not left us this early he was 51 and now without him my life is just extremely difficult in all aspects , people around me , relatives , career aspect marriage aspect future everything just scares me and i feel i cannot reach out to anyone for my help not even my mother with my problems I feel if i reach out to anyone they just shut it like dont overthink , please stop with your negativity I just dont know how to get on with life He was like shield to us Now i dont know even me , my mom , my sibling has changed like anything Nothing feels good anymore

Don't feel like throwing them away, can't reuse them or keep them around me either except one or two things. All sorts of memories attached to the gifts. Any advice?

Hi friend, I am sharing my personal life with you all. Kindly address me what to do, I was born in poor family, my father was a small business man my mother was a house wife. In 90s my grandfather was in power to rule in our house no one can disobey his decision. My father is two brothers. Big brother has no childers. I am the only son between them. One day my grandfather decide to give me to big brother. At the age of 3 I was away with my real mom. They happily treat me as a our child, One day I also called him papa and mummy. Don't know how but I did it, takes courage 💪 for the first time and then it was usual. They spend around 18 years on my care. I become adult now and goes for higher study and leave the town where they stay. So I am the link between both of my parents they both want me, somewhere there is a compition between them for me, not sure. My real father always supports me that your first priority is your big father and mother and Then me and your real mother. I was connected with my real father and mother after so much when I was come for further study. I can not explain you the hole story guys. But I am connected to both of them. If they divided or share me its not there fault it was my grade father fault. I always make sure that there bonds become strong day by day. But some conflict were there between them. My question is to you guys is that, I was stuck into one thing the empire my big father and mother has created should I aspect that they should give me or not. My real father says don't think such things. You will not get anything. My real father is so negative person. But he says what ever is mine you get after me. I am earning well in my life and want to create my own empire. But if they give there property it boost my speed for more. My big mother is close to her family. I think her decision will be last. What to do your opinion 🤔 Life is short live it or dead.

Hello married folks, how have you been managing work after getting married and having kids. Sometimes it gets really hectic to give time to all things at once. Your spouse, kids, work, parents, exercise, upskilling etc. What suggestions do you have with regards to this?

My father worked as a peon when I was a kid. I barely had any friends and could not afford any toys. He used to work really long hours everyday. He was sleeping when I went to school and I was sleeping when he got back from work. So we never really talked. I was not good at studies during school, later I got to know that I had severe ADHD. My teachers used to say that I am good for nothing and very talkative all my life which gave me a lot of anxiety. I got into a CSE at a Tier 2 college. This was with the help of my cousin sister who used to tutor me after school and taught me how to think from fundamentals. In college my seniors used to do a lot of ragging and make us not have food in the hostel mess. I lost a lot of weight and ended up with jaundice. This was the reason why I had a very bad CGPA in first year, <6. Slowly over the years I was able to bring it over 7. I got into a service based company after college with a CTC of 3.75 LPA. I did not have any offers and I did not have anyone for guidance in my life. That is when I started to pick up some freelancing gigs and talked to people from other countries and cultures which educated me about top tech companies. So I started preparing for that. I was rejected a total of 4 times by Amazon which completely broke me from the inside. Meanwhile my father got stomach cancer and he passed away. To this day my deepest regret is that my father did not see me finally achieving success in my life and till his last moments I am sure he thought of me as a failure son. As I moved through my career I made a goal of reaching Google. I prepared very hard for an entire year with a lot of studying and preparation. Finally I got into Google. My family became very happy for me as I was the first person in my entire extended family to get such a package. After a lifetime of struggle I was finally content with where I am. My only wish is that my father was here and his struggle for providing me with the best was not wasted.

29F, I still stay with my parents Working, earning >1lpm, remote work Over the years, I have realised I own no assets. Everything has been bought by parents EVERYTHING My mom would always make sure she or dad paid, saying you can keep your money for yourself (which I initially thought was very sweet) Now I see how I am dependent on them for all What ever I have bought can be put into a polythene bag and that's all my life (I generally spend on food and stuff that goes away) I have bought certain items for family or the house, but that isn't mine obviously I need to get out of the house, my mental health is at the edge

Dual Income and No Kids sounds very attractive but advice from people in their late 20s and 30s is probably too biased to be considered sound advice. Wanted to understand how couples who took that decision in their 30s feel today. Do you regret it? Do you feel purposeless? Do you feel lonely? Do you feel the FOMO? And so on.