Pinocchio

Basically I have been with my boyfriend for ten years. He's a bit older and only boyfriend I've ever had. To cut a really long story short we are from different cultures and he is ten years older. He wanted us to keep our relationship secret for many years, he is a sociable popular well off man. I was young and it caused me a great deal of heartache especially as he was my first and only. I can't even tell you the number of occasions when I could have given into my jealousy but I never said a word.he had loads of female friends and we worked together every day and none of them knew. It was hell. He's a flirt and I'm not, well only with him. Anyway. I moved jobs and location 300 miles away after 8 years and him deciding it was now time to tell the family. When I got here things were great at first. About 6 months ago he became more aggressive stressed and detached we had been arguing as he'd become more cultural and nit picky. He runs his own business and looks after the kids on his own now as of last year his ex abandoned them. I help as much as I can. This tutor woman of his sons starting getting friendly with the family. I met her when she came to his surgery to get her sons head stitched. She was quite frankly stand offish and rude to me. Punching his arm platfully and making comments about how handsome and well off hebis. Then makes somd jokey comment about me being with him for his money. Haha. I like everyone but wasn't keen on her. Then she starts hanging out socially with his daughters. All fine. Meanwhile we are still arguing and he is unreasonable and unyielding as ever. The next week I see his email open with a fairly innocent email to his ex in his sent folder. I was a little hurt because of the arguing he'd heard a song and thought of her apparently but it was sent at a time where he'd stormed out for 48 hrs go the Kids house with no contact. He does this a lot. All this added to my crippling insecurities do by the time I saw the text I was already at b

So my boyfriend has been acting very oddly lately lots of signs that he could have someone else. We've been together ten years and I'd rather know. Yesterday I saw he was setting up a yahoo email account on his iPhone. He already has an email account but he said he needs a yahoo one for orange back up. Anyone know if this is correct? Thanks

So my boyfriend has been acting very oddly lately lots of signs that he could have someone else. We've been together ten years and I'd rather know. Yesterday I saw he was setting up a yahoo email account on his iPhone. He already has an email account but he said he needs a yahoo one for orange back up. Anyone know if this is correct? Thanks

First I'll tell you a bit about him. He's 40, attractive, very successful, runs his own surgery and manned it on his own for the first 5 years working 15 hours a day. He is very charming and not easily embarrassed and can be quite crude and superficial in public but everyone loves him. He had a strict family background and his family are in each others lives daily but there are often arguments and some of them have stopped talking for years. He himself stopped speaking to his sister for 3 years over something trivial. We have been together ten years and the first 7 it was a secret from everyone. He had issues with me being 10 years younger. We worked together which made it difficult but he was my first and only. Anyway through the years as I went off to uni and then work etc I always thought he would be upfront and he just made my life very hard and sad but there was much joy too. He has special qualities. He didn't want to tell his strict Muslim family about me eiher but to cut a long story short we live together now his family really like me despite me being very upfront about my Christianity and the fact that it is who I am and will always be. He adores me in public always praising me and boasting about how much he fancies me. He is under a lot of stress at the moment and his temper has got worse. He's always had a very short fuse and he seems to really be changing and getting even worse. He often gets very het up about trivial things such as the back of the toilet seat bei g dirty or something else he can find and hea even trashed the house on occasion. He will then leave and stay at the kids house ( I'm close with his family so I know this) and won't talk to me for days no matter how hard I beg cry and plead.he even go silent when I talk for long periods and then say ' I'm listening' when I call his name. I make the mistake of sending texts and stuff. Im quite a deep person and im kind to people and id cry if i even thought id upset someone a little bit.

My little boy is 1 and a half years old. Yesterday he didn't get up all day and at first I just thought he was having a sleepy day as he was in good spirits. In the late afternoon I started to get worried as he wasn't interested in food and was a bit quiet although he was moving around. When I was on phone to the vet he used litter tray and had diahrrra so I rushed him to the vet and he said hes fine but has a watery bowl. He didn't seem to concerned. So I took him home and at about midnight he started being sick and today again no food or water and very quiet and lethargic. He's been sick twice today and when he poos it's just brown water. I've been using a syringe of water every couple of hours or so so he doesn't get dehydrated and put a bit of sugar in the morning one to give him some energy, also got this medicine from the vet for the diahrrra. He definitely hasn't got feline leuk or fiv as he's had a snap test and been vaccinated. This seems to have happened very suddenly he's an indoor cat. I got a new kitten last week who's also vaccinated and checked and they are good friends. Could some food do this to a cat? My boy never eats meat food only biscuits and a bit of chicken but hea been eating the kittens felix which surprised me as hes never liked meat. I've never tried felix but it's what the kittens owners use. I'm so worried. If he's not better tomorrow I'm taking him back, don't care what the vet says. Anyone ever had experience of this? And what could it be???

It's driving me mad, it was removed from youtube for copright issues, but warner bros don't seem to be doing a fantastic job of marketing their own product. I live in the UK and have checked every website that professes to have episodes, as well as amazon, ebay, hmv and google search. cant find it ANYWHERE. I need region 2, amazon only has regiion 1 for America. Could this be why society is so ****. It's so easy to access other things, so why not this great family show. It's ridiculous, especially as I'm prepared to pay :( do any americans out there fancy posting me a copy?

Firstly I have been with my boyfriend ten years, we are not married yet so technically he is not yet my father in law but the relationship is the same. My boyfriends family are muslim and I am a christian. When I met him I had never had a relationship before, I was very innocent and naive. He did not want his family to know and so they only found out when we'd been together for 7 years, this was his choice not mine, and as well as that he didn't tell any friends etc. It was a horrible 7 years to be honest. My boyfriend is a decade older than me. When he was 18 he was forced into an arranged marriage and had 3 children, it really messed with his head and I believe has lef him with issues. However he managed to become incredibly successful and looks after his whole family. They divorced and he met me a couple of years later, his family were disgusted by the divorce. He is a very loyal person and has always financially supported his ex wife, he still does! She deserted the kids and he is a full time father, I help him. They love me, we get on great. His mother can't not like me, she knows I'm a quiet dignified and loyal person, not quick to anger. I feel things but I don't show them, She also thinks I cook better than any of her 5 daughters lol. His father on the other hand has not said a single word to me ever. I have been living here 2 years. All he's ever said to bash is I'm not very pretty. This doesn't bother me, I've done modelling for years, I'm tall slim, and always told I'm really pretty (who cares really anyway tho right!) I moved 200 miles to live near my boyfriend, he asked me to. I feel hurt by this as I made an effort with him, but he doesn't ever respond to anything I say. I basically stopped going around there as often after about ten occassions such as this as it's just awkward and not fun for anyone. I sent him a loaf of homemade bread and a homemade curry for fathers day. I went over there today and he didn't even look at me, he was in the garden and just walked off when I came in. I feel hurt by this, and feel if he got to know me he would like me, theres nothing wrong with me. My boyfriend says 'thats what dads like, he's old, he can be how he wants to be' to a certian extent I agree, but what happen when we get married and have children? It just hurts.it hurts even more when I think that I have more reason to be angry at him for screwing up my boyfriends life, my boyfriend is the kind of person that wanted to be married to one woman for his whole life. I feel this arranged marriage was wrong and disgusting. How can you be forced to be intimate with someone you dont know and dont love? I would never hold this grudge against his parents, after all what's done is done nd it's their culture and that's their perogative, I just don't know what I have done wrong I am polite wuiet and respectful even in the face of utter rudeness. what can I do.

Firstly I have been with my boyfriend ten years, we are not married yet so technically he is not yet my father in law but the relationship is the same. My boyfriends family are muslim and I am a christian. When I met him I had never had a relationship before, I was very innocent and naive. He did not want his family to know and so they only found out when we'd been together for 7 years, this was his choice not mine, and as well as that he didn't tell any friends etc. It was a horrible 7 years to be honest. My boyfriend is a decade older than me. When he was 18 he was forced into an arranged marriage and had 3 children, it really messed with his head and I believe has lef him with issues. However he managed to become incredibly successful and looks after his whole family. They divorced and he met me a couple of years later, his family were disgusted by the divorce. He is a very loyal person and has always financially supported his ex wife, he still does! She deserted the kids and he is a full time father, I help him. They love me, we get on great. His mother can't not like me, she knows I'm a quiet dignified and loyal person, not quick to anger. I feel things but I don't show them, She also thinks I cook better than any of her 5 daughters lol. His father on the other hand has not said a single word to me ever. I have been living here 2 years. All he's ever said to bash is I'm not very pretty. This doesn't bother me, I've done modelling for years, I'm tall slim, and always told I'm really pretty (who cares really anyway tho right!) I moved 200 miles to live near my boyfriend, he asked me to. I feel hurt by this as I made an effort with him, but he doesn't ever respond to anything I say. I basically stopped going around there as often after about ten occassions such as this as it's just awkward and not fun for anyone. I sent him a loaf of homemade bread and a homemade curry for fathers day. I went over there today and he didn't even look at me, he was in the garden and just walked off when I came in. I feel hurt by this, and feel if he got to know me he would like me, theres nothing wrong with me. My boyfriend says 'thats what dads like, he's old, he can be how he wants to be' to a certian extent I agree, but what happen when we get married and have children? It just hurts.it hurts even more when I think that I have more reason to be angry at him for screwing up my boyfriends life, my boyfriend is the kind of person that wanted to be married to one woman for his whole life. I feel this arranged marriage was wrong and disgusting. How can you be forced to be intimate with someone you dont know and dont love? I would never hold this grudge against his parents, after all what's done is done nd it's their culture and that's their perogative, I just don't know what I have done wrong I am polite wuiet and respectful even in the face of utter rudeness. what can I do.

Lately I've started bursting into tears everytime I see pictures of the countryside. Its really freaking me out. What the hell is wrong with me. I went to the cotswolds with my boyfriend a few weeks ago, it was lovely. I'm not a particularly bursting into tears kind of person but the feeling I get when I burst into years is like a really emotional surge. It's unexplainable and stupid.

I found a stray 6 weeks ago. A neighbour called thinking she was my cat Ruby who went missing 4 months ago. It wasn't her but I took her in as she was covered in parasites and her long fur was falling out, she was thin as a rake and in agony. I have been doing my law finals revision for the last 2 months, so I have spent about 2 hours a day with Grace (the name I gave her) I think she benefitted from the peace quiet and routine and she has blossomed, been treated for the critters and is in my outhouse which is warm cozy, furniture just like another room in the house really. I didn't want an infestation in my home and more imprtantly my boy cat fatty, son of Ruby is in the house. Fatty is the softest and sweetest natured cat ever, he helped his mum look after her second litter of kittens and is an absolute angel with other cats, he is such a happy little thing and I din't want him to feel dominated in his own home. Grace is also a softie, with me....but I have been bringing fatty into the outhouse every morning for half an hour. First time, he went up to her carefully but excited to find a new friend (he is spayed by the way so I know she cant be in fear of that) He's very careful to not appear threatening to her, very cautious, doesnt make eye contact and turns his back slowly to her which I know is a sign of trust, and a signal they want peace. Thing is she gets really funny with him, low growls and miowing loudly, although she hasnt tried to go for him, she's really not the type, you can tell shes been mistreated because she freaks out about really odd things like when I picked up a chair to move it once. Not sure whether these morning introductions are doing more harm than good, fatty is very quiet when he gets back in the house and just gives me this sad look. I really wanted to give her a home but I can't bring her in the house and I can't keep her in the outhouse forever she needs the kind of tender loving care I am giving her but from someone with no kids and no other pets...I think. What doesn everyone else think? Any experience of this? I want them BOTH to be happy, and I'm not prepared to compromise fattys happiness. I know If I got a kitten or something fatty would be all over it and theyd be best friends, I also know he's like to be friends with Grace,it's just not fair on him, or her. is there any hope here?

You can read my previous questions for background on this but basically I took in a stray about two weeks ago, she was a mess, fleas ticks bald patches and skin and bone. She has been living in my outhouse and seemed very happy and content there. She looks totally different to how she did a couple of weeks ago. I put a collar with my number on it on her. I took her out for sone air today as I do every morning. Usually she is happy in my arms and runs back into the outhouse when she's had enough. Today I put her on the ground and she ran off a little bit then turned back to look at me and ran off into the wood next to my garden. I have had lots of cats but never a stray, do you think she'll be back? Anyone with experience? X

My cat is missing and someone called me thinking it was her. It wasn't but the cat was flearidden with ticks and matted hair. she was also incredibly bony and clearly in need of help. I took her to the vet hoping they could provide me with some answers and this is what happened. We went into the consulting room where the vet who wasn't particularly friendly prodded and poked her for a bit. she scanned her (which is free in UK) to see if chipped but she wasnt. Really what I wanted was to be able to bring her from the outhouse into the house that night. Id frontlined her but it was really really bad. They huddled together outside for ten minutes and then said they couldnt sort her fur unless I pay 200 quid for loads of tests as they reckon shed need to be put under anasthetic. It would take a week or so before they could treat her. shes a gentle cat, I reckon they could have done it without all that, and she has no symptoms of fiv, feline leukemia or renal failure.I've been managing slowly to sort her fur it's just now the outhouse is probably covered in fleas :( They seemed uncaring and couldnt tell me whether she was neutered or how old she was, and they poked her so hard she yelled in pain at one point. All in all I didnt get much from it, and they used no equipment or meds. I was nearly in tears when they told me about the 200 quid, they could see I was upset. I take both my cats there and have spent a fortune in the past. I left and stood outside to collect myself. One of them ran out and I thought she was going to give me some helpful advice but she ran out to tell them I owe them 25 quid for the "consultation". All in all I feel let down. If My Ruby was found I'd want the owner to be given helpful advice. Ruby is chipped but sometimes it can take up to a minute to find a chip. she took about 5 seconds. Am I right to feel a bit mad?

A neighbour called me as she thought she had found my missing cat, it wasn't my cat but I took her home to feed and look after as she was in a bad way. She managed to escape, but came tentatively back to mine today. She is in my outhouse at the moment with a sofa a bed, food water and a heater. I am taking her to vet tomorrow. She is skin and bone and her long fur is all matted and stuck together. she has quite a bit of hair loss, and some sores on her exposed skin. I tweezered a copule of tics out of her skin also. I know she has fleas and I know I'm going to have to blitz the outhouse when shes sorted, hence why im not bringing her in house. From my description what do u think could be wrong? she was frightened at first but is incredibly loving to me and wants to sit on my lap, I've been very affectionate to her, but kind of worried after reading about ringworm and the like that I could catch something from her. As I said im going to vet tomorrow, but anyone have any advice for me or know what she might have? I've put a pic on animal search uk, and am going to get her scanned for a chip tomorrow, and if no joy then put posters up around my local area. I hope she has been missing for a long time as opposed to having a cruel owner.

I recently purchased a laptop off ebay, it's an RM CY25 it's quite old but its been reprogrammed and has all new software installed. You can tell it's sturdier and better made than the newer laptops, it's great, I love it and it was only 70 quid. The only problem, as with many older machines is it doesnt hold very much charge, it holds about ten minutes worth. While I'm not too bothered by that it would be handy to get a new battery for it if I can get one cheap. Can't find one ANYWHERE and wondering whether perhaps they dont make them now or am I just looking in the wrong place?

Firstly I would like to say he is much better today otherwise I would have called the emergency vet out as my vet isn't open at the weekend. Basically my partner woke up to our tom cat fatty howling at 2am. He din't wake me to tell me as he didn't think it was serious. In the morning I gave him a cuddle and put his breakfast out but he didnt seem interested and I thought as he's been out all day thursday he was probably just sleepy. That was at 6am. I got home at 7pm and he was still sleeping and dint want any dinner. I found diahrea in splotches near the litter tray, he is a very clean cat I have had him from birth (owned his mummy cat Ruby) he has never done that before. He was walking very slowly on the odd occassion he did get up and wasn't interested in playing or food. He was basically very dazed and not himself AT ALL. He usually follows me around and is very kittenish, he's only one. I pinched the back of his neck to see if it would bounce back, it didnt so I knew he must be dehydrated. I forced some water down his throat and some tuna. I also rubbed some honey on his gums in case it was low blood sugar as I know that can save them from going downhill rapidly. I stayed up with him til 4am just cuddling and stroking him, and then put him on my bed when I couldnt stay awake any more. In the morning he was curled up next to me, and when I woke up i put some wet food out and he ate a little, he also had some about an hour ago. He seemed a little more sprightly and we even played for a bit in the morning, and he seemed interested in going outside (although I didnt let him) hes always very vocal and he's been silent throughout this. Today he has given the odd ill sounding meow but seems a little more alert in terms of responding to my babytalk and nuzzling me etc. I have looked into the possibility of colitis, diabetes, or more significantly renal failure to do with the kidneys. If it were any of these do you rhink he would be worse today rather than a little better? should I continue to force water down him? Anyone with experience of this kind of thing? By the way he is spayed and vet checked and healthy, but I dont imagine they would do kidney screening etc?

I was bought up Christian and have never believed really in psychic ability or superstition. Despite things happening that only now am I beginning to question. Last week I had a dream that I was heavily pregnant and had loads of little purple bruises all over my legs. I went to a doctor who told me I had blood clots in my leg and needed to stay still. The next day I rang my pregant friend who I hadn't spoken to for a couple of weeks and she told me she is at high risk of a stroke and has blood clots in her legs. She also told me she has got very big for 5 months. We live 300 miles apart and have no mutual friends. This has happened countless times before. One example was when I had dream that my little brother got lost in a wood. The next day he got lost in the supermarket. About a week before 7/7 I had a dream that I was in a lift and someone made a racist joke, I said' that's not very nice' The voice said, this isnt either. I turned around and there was a large woman in full hijab holding something cold and metallic to my hand, noone else had noticed. I was quite calm and asked her what this would achieve, she laughed and in slow motion everyone started screaming, the bomb went off and it went black. I also have odd feelings about things, like when my cat went missing I knew she was dead, it was only one day which is hardly unusual for cats but I just knew. 3 months later I found out she'd been run over the day she went missing. My other cat went missing 6 weeks ago. This time I have not had this feeling at all. I just KNOW she is alive out there somewhere, I have barely got upset at all, apart from missing her. Both times I had the same dream about the same house with loads of cats. When my first cat went missing she was in a corner dead wrapped in a towel in the dream. My second cat had a new collar on and was running up the path. These are just a few examples. I have towns and villages in my dreams that I go back to all the time, I could even draw a map, but they are completey made up, or at least I've never been there!. I live in a constant state of expectation, and I often hate my dreams because I feel like I know somethings going to happen. I have also seen things on occassion. I saw a figure of a women in my window when I was on the way home, she was wearing a long dress and just staring out. I live alone, and once I was working in a pub when I moved my stool to let the big black dog walk by. My boss laughed and asked what I was doing, so I told him, he was quite shocked and went upstairs and bought down a newspaper clipping from a few years previously about a big black labrador haunting the pub. Last night I had dream that my boyfriend collapsed at work. He won't see a doctor and I feel stupid nagging him, but he really needs to go. The dreams have happened all my life, when I was only 4, living in a very sheltered household where tv was banned I had a dream about witches making vortexes with a spinning wheel and evil people flying down them and disappearing. I only found out about vortexes whe I was qite a bit older and able to watch tv. I was like, ahhh...that's what it was... Can someone tell me whether I am thinking logically or whether all this is just cooincidence?

I was bought up Christian and have never believed really in psychic ability or superstition. Despite things happening that only now am I beginning to question. Last week I had a dream that I was heavily pregnant and had loads of little purple bruises all over my legs. I went to a doctor who told me I had blood clots in my leg and needed to stay still. The next day I rang my pregant friend who I hadn't spoken to for a couple of weeks and she told me she is at high risk of a stroke and has blood clots in her legs. She also told me she has got very big for 5 months. We live 300 miles apart and have no mutual friends. This has happened countless times before. One example was when I had dream that my little brother got lost in a wood. The next day he got lost in the supermarket. About a week before 7/7 I had a dream that I was in a lift and someone made a racist joke, I said' that's not very nice' The voice said, this isnt either. I turned around and there was a large woman in full hijab holding something cold and metallic to my hand, noone else had noticed. I was quite calm and asked her what this would achieve, she laughed and in slow motion everyone started screaming, the bomb went off and it went black. I also have odd feelings about things, like when my cat went missing I knew she was dead, it was only one day which is hardly unusual for cats but I just knew. 3 months later I found out she'd been run over the day she went missing. My other cat went missing 6 weeks ago. This time I have not had this feeling at all. I just KNOW she is alive out there somewhere, I have barely got upset at all, apart from missing her. Both times I had the same dream about the same house with loads of cats. When my first cat went missing she was in a corner dead wrapped in a towel in the dream. My second cat had a new collar on and was running up the path. These are just a few examples. I have towns and villages in my dreams that I go back to all the time, I could even draw a map, but they are completey made up, or at least I've never been there!. I live in a constant state of expectation, and I often hate my dreams because I feel like I know somethings going to happen. I have also seen things on occassion. I saw a figure of a women in my window when I was on the way home, she was wearing a long dress and just staring out. I live alone, and once I was working in a pub when I moved my stool to let the big black dog walk by. My boss laughed and asked what I was doing, so I told him, he was quite shocked and went upstairs and bought down a newspaper clipping from a few years previously about a big black labrador haunting the pub. Last night I had dream that my boyfriend collapsed at work. He won't see a doctor and I feel stupid nagging him, but he really needs to go. The dreams have happened all my life, when I was only 4, living in a very sheltered household where tv was banned I had a dream about witches making vortexes with a spinning wheel and evil people flying down them and disappearing. I only found out about vortexes whe I was qite a bit older and able to watch tv. I was like, ahhh...that's what it was... Can someone tell me whether I am thinking logically or whether all this is just cooincidence?

We have known each other for ten years but now live over 300 miles apart, we keep in regular contact and she has been a very good friend. She is 27 years old, same as me and five months pregnant and has just been told she is as high risk of a stroke due to her poor health. She has a partner and family around her. I want to send her something to show I am thinking of her, something to help her relax or rest or something. Any ideas?

Basically I have an alcove in the spare room under the window. At present I have two single bed bases with a double mattress on. The double matress only covers one and a half of the single bed bases. The length from the uncovered half to the wall is about the size of half a bed base. Basically if I can find something the size of half a single bed base, I will have a giant bed. I have a spare single matress already so the bed would be a double and single mattress spread across 2 and a half single bed bases and each side would be snugly right up to the wall. It will look brilliant. Any ideas?

It was like a slow motion nightmare. I picked up the phone and wiped it off, it was fine, was working, making calls etc. the alarm sounds and ringtone works, however I have just noticed other sounds dont work like music ive got on there and game sound effects. help?????