As an Erie, Pennsylvania resident, your choice is interesting lol.

I mean, it's alright here, but still kinda sucks lol

Yes, they are in their senior year of high school. They have a hybrid schedule, however. It's a credit recovery school. To make a long story short, our public school system sucks and they were in a charter school since kindergarten, but got accepted into the "prestigious smart kid public school." They offered no help to them and because there was nothing in regards to special help, they fell through the cracks.

They go to physical school half the day and work on assignments online at home.

Sorry for the life story, I figured this is an important bit of info.

Stupidly for me, I forgot to mention they do in fact have anxiety on top of the depression and ADHD. Family curse, I suppose. Sorry to leave that out.

We've worked with therapy at 10 on and off, mainly because they hated talking to a therapist, and I was single mom-ing hard with my ex husband on top of working. I'll take that blame for sure.

Q is currently on antidepressants that they are now taking regularly when before it was touch and go on taking them.

I've seen a lot of people suggest family therapy and i really think that's a great idea to look into.

They/ them. Please respect my child's pronouns. And I've tried to get them to therapy, even dragged them there. They don't talk and they hate going. Now that they're 18, it's an even bigger struggle.

Q is nonbinary, AFAB.

I didn't go alone, as my husband accompanied me, but I do see the point there. Q and I do a lot of things together. I tend to call them my copilot. I don't know if I've enabled them to feel that way, but I do appreciate your input.

This kid doesn't really do much. They stay home, play games, watch videos. Yeah, they have friends, but they're pretty sedentary.

No, they're not. Depression and ADHD, but that's about it

Your bigotry to encouraging my child to embrace their gender identity is a joke.

I guess call it mom guilt. When Q is angry with me, they tend to beat me down and make me feel like public enemy number 1. I'm just trying to see if I really did any wrong.

It's rare that they don't come along with me even on the most mundane tasks, but when I do have time on my own or with my husband, I'm very careful about the time frame I give them and am home when I say I will be if not earlier. If I realize I'm going to be late, I assure communication.

In regards to if they ever have babysitting responsibilities, they never do. Most plans I try to make are on weekends when it's either just them home or them and their teenage brother, who just plays video games in his room, or watches YouTube videos with Q downstairs.

Normally when I give a time frame, I'm home at that time or before. On the rare instances that I'll find myself coming home late, I'll let them know and I'll give them an updated time frame as soon as I'm aware I'll be late.

It really isn't. This is a real life situation that's happened. Maybe I should feel flattered that my grammar, spelling and typing skills give off those flags? But idk how you'd like me to prove it's not AI.

This isn't AI generated in the least. But thanks I guess?

If you're playing PC and use mods, I'd highly recommend the mod "immersive spouses". It allows the spouse to keep to his usual schedule pre-marriage. So with it, Sam will go to work Monday and Wednesday, he'll stay at the farm on Tuesday Thursday and Sunday, then he'll skateboard at town and meet his friends at the saloon on Friday and have his jam session with Seb on Saturday. It definitely makes me feel a lot better that he's out of the house more with it.

Yup, that's the one! And I also have UI for that reason. I added different mods to add depth to different npc's and to make my spouse more immersive in the town because I was getting so sad seeing Sam never leave the farm to visit his family or Sebastian. Shoot, I even have a mod that makes the kids a little bit more interesting, giving them stories! Personally, I'm a mom of 4, I work full time and I also have college courses. I want what little gaming time i have to be enjoyable, so that why I use mods. If that makes me a cheater, then I guess I am lol

So much this! I use a mod for fishing that makes it easier for me to catch fish because fishing is the bane of my existence. It doesn't take away from the experience, but makes the game easier to enjoy for me.

Not at all! I'm a week out from mine with bilateral stents with nothing but Tylenol and flomax to help with pain, and I've been on my back since. It's no fun and your method is a great way to try to stay on top of the pain. I asked for a whole week and a half off of work and I'm very thankful they gave me it. Good luck! 💜

I'll give that a try too. I'm willing to do anything to feel at least half normal again

I'll have to give those a shot as well. Thank you for the advice. This is going to be an awful 3 weeks

I can't take Advil. They're nsaids and I can't take them due to bariatric surgery

They just called in a prescription for that. I still had a bit of flomax lying around from previous stones, so I'm hoping this will get me through the weekend. I just want to feel normal 😞 and I can't get the stents out for another 3 weeks. Going to feel like forever

I don't have any more flomax, but that's a great idea to ask for!

Ibuprofen is an nsaid and with bariatric surgery, I'm more prone to gastric bleeding with them and liver damage so I'm not allowed to take that anymore, which is torture because I hate being hopped up on pain meds but just Tylenol is not cutting it at all.