I'm a college freshman, and a friend of mine told me about a friend of hers so I asked her to hang out and we really clicked, we talked the whole time and it went well. She asked me to hang out a second time, and it went well. Third time, I asked her, and she seemed to be spaced off the whole time, kind of aloof, so she's invited her roommate to hang with us and we got along really well. Fourth time, i asked her to hang out again, went pretty well again. Today I asked her to go visit a friend out of state and she made up excuses as why she can't go and I understand but it's frustrating because it's just been me trying to hang out with her and not vice versa. My friend that set us up told me she's having difficulty making and keeping friends in college, and that she's shy and introverted, even tho she goes out every weekend, and the only people she goes out with are her high school friends when they're in town and people from her hs that go to our college. It is kinda awkward but friendly between us cuz we're both shy. Btw we're both freshman girls and we're both trying really hard to form a friend group. I can't tell if it's me or her, I get along with literally EVERYONE despite being shy however it's not working out w her and I can't tell if it's because she's shy or she doesn't like me. What should I do next, her friend told me she likes me earlier when we met but now idk 😐

Okay, so on Wednesday, my friend was feeling sick (sore throat), and she was talking about getting signed out. As we were walking into dental class, I said, "Wow, you get signed out for everything, you'd get signed out for a stubbed toe if you could." Keep in mind that this was a joke, and we constantly have playful banter and jokes about her missing school (she once missed a month of school), so why is she mad now? She told me why she was upset on Friday, and I basically told her she was overreacting, and she stormed off. To make matters worse, the day we fought was my birthday, and I'm upset that she basically ignored my on my 17th birthday. I've blocked her, and unfriended her on snapchat. Am I wrong?

Ever since I was a kid when people picked on me or tried to fight me I would be really afraid and cry and hide and get upset. No one ever tried to get me help for it. They just made fun of me for it even my parents. I'm 21 and I'm still like this and people still make fun of me for it including my parents. Why do my parents make fun of me for this instead of helping me or getting me help? I don't know what to do about it. It's embarrassing and hard to deal with.

Me and my friend have been fighting , she told me she had thoughts for me one day we hung out , but since then we've gotten into a fight over trust and I told her I'm sorry for the mean things I've said but we should go our seperate ways ! She then freaked out called me a hypocrit and called me angry and upset why is this ?

Is it ok to just grow apart from the friends you have because you want to? I have some friends but not very many and people have treated me wrong in the past and I am concerned it's kind of happening again in a way but it's really nothing like what has happened in my past and I have always had a hard time having friends and I still do and i'm A 27 year old female. I am deciding to grow apart from them because like I said I don't know how to handle having friends. I have a couple of friends that make an effort to talk to me and I do make an effort to talk to them. They are true friends and I have never had that before and I don't want them to know that i'm Struggling anymore because one of my friends knows that I struggle a lot and I just don't want her knowing that I am emotional again. Sorry I am all over the place with this but today has not been good for me. I am just scared to get close to anyone

So what do I do? I really don't like to go out and if I do it is by myself. How should I tell him I don't want to go without making him feel like I don't want to hang out with him.

how do i top the bullying?

I'm currently in high school and this guy recently lost all of his friends because, well, he's an a$$hole. He now forces himself on us (my friend group and i) any chance he gets. At first, I allowed it because I felt bad he had no one and i didn't know how truly terrible he was. He tells me to kill myself, calls me a whore (which I am far from), and even goes to the extent of saying I have autism and down syndrome (which is what really pi$$es me off because that should never be used as an insult) He's close friends with one of the girls in my group (even though she apparently "doesn't actually like him at times") so I'm afraid to force him away from us because I don't want to upset her. I'm getting close to beating him up though. Please, if you WANT advice for this I'll appreciate it :(

I live with my friend. We do groceries and everything together and by the end of the month we split into two. Rent groceries everything. We had a rule, snacks and everything no matter who eats it will still be splited. But as for make up and clothing one pays for their own. But she is being manipulative now. She buys sunscreen and stuff from store while doing groceries and at that point one pays together and by the month end when I remind that you bought ur personal stuff too. She becomes defensive saying I buy so many things little things for home that I don't even take in account. You always point out stuff and she says okay this is how you want right to calculate everything separately, this is what we will do now. She always does that. Very cleverly she points out my personal stuff but when I do that, she becomes the victim. How is that fair? Moving out is not option right now.

My best friend and I were arguing today as we were frustrated ovwr something on the phone, well she said a sentence of anger and then she said "I love you! Bye!" - hanging up on me. Why did she say i love you when we qere both mad at each other?

so I have a friend and sometimes we talk about how I want smaller breasts and **** like that because they hurt my back (no big deal) however, my family has a long history with breast cancer and it's a hard topic for us to discuss since it effects my family. so fast forward and we're sitting in the car talking about how bad cancer is. and she said "don't take this the wrong way, but if you ever get cancer and they cut your boobs off, you won't have the back pain you've been suffering anymore!" Is that insensitive or should I not be worried? Idk I kinda got offended

I'm going to be moving to a different country soon and I'd like to make friends with some people who live there before I move so I can know people already, but since it's in a different country it'll have to be online. I've never had online friends and I have no idea how to go about it. Are there websites or apps that can connect me with people around my age in that specific country? How can I find them online and how do I start conversations? (I already know all about online safety, I know not to trust people and to always double check them to make sure they check out) I've heard that having close online friends can be fun, but I don't know where to start. Help!

I've been working at my current job for a little over a year. There's a guy at my job who is 4yrs older than me (he's early 30's) who I barely see as we work in different buildings. At first, he would ask me alot of personal questions about myself (where I live, vacations, if I cook, can swim etc). Also, he made a joke about porn with me once within 2 months of me working there and would give me compliments about my hair and photo. Honestly, how he asked the questions it felt like at times he was interrogating me. Interestingly, he would never volunteer info about himself. I did try to ask him questions but he would give one word answers, say things like let s not talk about me right now. He's not shy because he's very talkative and open with strangers and other coworkers. Anyway, I noticed too that he would talk me differently when other ppl were around vs. alone. When I'm by myself he talks to me in a stern way and would dominate the conversation. For example, he would quickly get up and leave after asking me 21 questions or if I tried to have a side conversation about something related he would cut me off to go back to the info he wants to get out of me. I found it uncomfortable that I backed away. I just one day stopped speaking to him or acknowledge him when he is around. I guess he notices the change because he'll see me and avoid eye contact, but when I'm not looking keep watching me at a vantage point. I'll even be on the other side of the room. We NEVER dated. Anyway, I recently called out sick from work and he sends me an email requesting something but also said, "Hope you are feeling better!" He never writes this when I call out sick. Then I had to call him to request urgent documents from him and on the phone he started asking me, "How are you?" Again, we haven't spoken to each for months. Then he kept apologizing to me over the phone because he accidentally sent me the wrong documents. He sounded to humble. Thats not like him! I'm not trying to read into everything he does, but if you don't like someone and see that person has backed away from you why would you send me a compliment in email, offer to pay for a cab for me to get home, call me "My Dear", and send me well wishes. You could have acted normal with me from day 1. Now that I stopped talking to you you wanna keep looking at me and pretend you are a good person. He's never consistent too.

I've had a really bad friendship breakup where I had a complete mental breakdown, since that break down my (ex friend) decided they wanted nothing to do with me, left a message before the mental breakdown stating they cared and they wanted the best for me, then after the breakdown I messaged them I apologize, they decided they couldn't help me any more (after a few years of knowing each other) they blocked me then unblocked me to say one last thing about staying away from their gym but didn't block me again I blocked them from all communication on FB then about 5 days later they decided to block my family members who had nothing to do with the disagreement, I really want to reach out an say I'm sorry but I don't know if I should or how long I should wait. Really just need advice

So a friend is moving into a new flat she is a girl and she invited me to her flat warming witch I guess is a party. She said its jungle themed and I have nothing like that. She has a boyfriend but she sometimes acts like she is flirting with me so I gave up on trying to read her and I just like her as a friend well my only good friend she is. She is far better than my other friends who just never shut up about cars and boy race. So anyway the party why I'm nervous about this and dont know if I should go is because I won't know anyone there and I normally hate party's because I'm to shy and quiet and socially awkward for them like I'm so uncomfortable and embarrassed at them. At another party I went to I knew everyone but I was to shy to talk to anyone and I was felling weird the whole time and I just went home. Another problem is I don't drink but I sort of want to get drunk for fun but how can I do that. Like to be honest I would be more comfortable with a gun pointed at me then being at a party like they just terrify me and I hate it. I want to go to the party to keep her as a friend. She said I could bring a friend but that will make it worse because they will probably want to leave and she will think what kind of weird people do you hang around with. there just like baby's and one of them has brain issues. I'm sure you can tell making friends is very very hard for me. Probably the best one I have if he came he will just make it awkward because he is shy to. Any advice?

Recently, one of my closest friends have been distant from not only our entire friend group, but also the world around him (I hope that makes sense) We're all very worried about him because of how sudden this happened. He now only talk about "cosplay" and does it every single day for hours. it's like he addicted to it. I want to talk to him and ask if something is wrong or if maybe someone in our group upset him (which isn't likely. We never treat eachother poorly in any way possible), but I'm afraid he could get upset and take it the wrong way. should I say anything or just leave it be? Oh I forgot to mention this has been going on for 1 and a half months, sorry.

My friend and I are college sophomores and we met last year. We were great friends freshman year, so we decided to be roommates the following year (this current year). To make a long story short, she and I got into an argument about cleaning, and I admit that i started the argument because I was tired of being the one who always cleaned everything. So, after our argument (on the same day) we went our separate ways to cool down, and later that night, we talked about what was said earlier, except we weren't yelling this time, just talking. A few minutes later, the police come to our dorm. Apparently, my roommate was texting her friends some concerning things and her friends called the police over. I asked my roommate why the police were at our door, and she said that she didn't know. Then I asked her again a few days later, and she told me that she texted her friends, "I can't do this anymore, I'm not strong enough" then she changed her story, and told me that she's not obligated to tell me what she told her friends. Anyway, we're still roommates (I wasn't allowed to move out) and I'm having a very hard time trusting her again, and I don't know what to do. I'm skeptical about everything she does now.

My friend ask me for any friends number, then he called me showing a friends number that's out of state that he doesn't even know. How did he do this? Did he hack there phone?

A couple invited me to visit them. I am divorced straight female, so I invited a good girl friend of mine went there with me. Because I felt it would be award if just me going as the other are a couple. However, I felt somehow the couple thought we were dating etc. And my girlfriend started to act as if in a relationship with me too. Do I think too much? The girlfriend and I lived in different area, but did try to visit each other every couple of years to remain in touch. Is it still socially acceptable for two females socially, having dinner, going to movies etc, without being considered gay?

There's a guy I talk to and he always asks for nude pictures of me because we are FWB. But he never gives me any of him. He says he's too shy but i don't understand how a guy is shy.

There's this guy I met at the store where he works. I've been seeing him there for a couple of years now. And we would always talk he eventually asked me for my number. We talked via social media for awhile. Then we finally went out and we had sex. We aren't in a relationship we are just friends. He knows my parents and my mom goes to the store at least once or twice a week. I use to go in there with her but I stopped. Sometimes when she goes to the store she sees him and they talk. I stopped going in there because I didn't want to look like a stalker.

I am a straight female. I visited one of my best girl friends that I know for over 20 years recently. We did not meet in person for years, but have been in touch. She made comments on how nice my dress is etc. She did not say that before. And looked at me smiling weirdly. She did not act like that before. Was she a hidden gay? I knew she went out with guys before. Do I think too much?

There's this guy I met at the store where he works. I've been seeing him there for a couple of years now. And we would always talk he eventually asked me for my number. We talked via social media for awhile. Then we finally went out and we had sex. We aren't in a relationship we are just friends. He knows my parents and my mom goes to the store at least once or twice a week. I use to go in there with her but I stopped. Sometimes when she goes to the store she sees him and they talk. I stopped going in there because I didn't want to look like a stalker.

I think it would be cool to have a dance battle against her at my birthday party.

Should I just uninstall snapchat & Instagram to see which people care about me and wonder where I am? Or that's stupid. I am just really stressed out right now. I would but the only thing holding me back is my streaks are sentimental to me as the people I have streaks with I met them in other countries and are my friends. Idk what to do.

So a friend is moving into a new flat she is a girl and she invited me to her flat warming witch I guess is a party. She said its jungle themed and I have nothing like that. She has a boyfriend but she sometimes acts like she is flirting with me so I gave up on trying to read her and I just like her as a friend well my only good friend she is. She is far better than my other friends who just never shut up about cars and boy race. So anyway the party why I'm nervous about this and dont know if I should go is because I won't know anyone there and I normally hate party's because I'm to shy and quiet and socially awkward for them like I'm so uncomfortable and embarrassed at them. At another party I went to I knew everyone but I was to shy to talk to anyone and I was felling weird the whole time and I just went home. Another problem is I don't drink but I sort of want to get drunk for fun but how can I do that. Like to be honest I would be more comfortable with a gun pointed at me then being at a party like they just terrify me and I hate it. I want to go to the party to keep her as a friend. She said I could bring a friend but that will make it worse because they will probably want to leave and she will think what kind of weird people do you hang around with. there just like baby's and one of them has brain issues. I'm sure you can tell making friends is very very hard for me. Probably the best one I have if he came he will just make it awkward because he is shy to. Any advice?

i saw my neighborhood friend/acquaintence Damien outside crying. I asked what happened and he explained to me his parents threw him out because he was gay and has no friends/relatives to stay wit hes 16 im 17 We already cannot support the people in my house but i said he could stay for as long as he needed to. Idk if im going to regret this. He is always partying and doing drugs, he is loud, he has to share a bed with me, he is aggressive and sometimes violent, keeps asking me to have sex with him. (UM NO) He is harassing my cousins is also telling them to try sex with him and he has been here for a very short amount of time and eaten/ hid a lot of food. He told my sister to kill herself and pulled her by the hair. He has broken a glass window and tabletop and he keeps crying that his parents didn't let him take any of his **** and give him ours. I asked him to also sleep on a sleeping bag he said no I've heard that he's done: Slept with other peoples boyfriends (This is probably true.) Punched a baby in the face Cuts himself and other people Has attempted to poison people (When he was 13) Has tried to use rape drugs and ectasy at parties on himself or other people Steals Vandilizes and started a forest fire twice Hit teachers and hit on teachers Grows weed and deals and does it Posted adult videos and pictures online without the other persons consent Do you have any advice? Could we ask another family to adopt him or how can I convince the parents to take him back?

Hi! I'm having issues fixing my relationship with a friend. I need genuine suggestions on what I should do. It is kind of a lot but any help would be appreciately greatly. Thank you for any help!!

if it's behind the victim's back both figuratively and literally This bully (let's call him Joe) spreads rumors or gossip about someone (let's call her Sara), i.e. I consider that *behind the victim's back* No one believes her whenever she tells them the truth or won't accept her answer why she has such rude habit. They shun her. Unfortunately Joe sits behind Sara during class and/or she has his back to him during lunch, so he throws things at her. Maybe even when their class is in the school auditorium for an assembly, he kicks her seat if his seat happens to be behind hers. Her being motionless and not turn around to make it look like it's not bothering her so he'd get bored doesn't work because he won't give up or he can still sense that it's bothering her. Her getting up and confronting him herself would definitely be giving him a reaction and/or showing that it really is bothering her. It obviously wouldn't stop him and/or she's not intimidating enough. In fact, she may be the one getting in trouble by a faculty member if they were to see her going up to him in a very aggressive manner; they'd assume it's someone attacking an innocent classmate when it's actually someone trying to stick up for herself. So, how is it possible to fight back in those scenarios? Maybe I should've said that if she were to get caught doing something really bad to him, she could face detention or maybe even suspension. And if her parents were to be told that even she did that, they'd come down on her.

I barely think of this friend anymore. Only because i realised she isnt worth my time, energy, friendship or pain bc of what happened (she ditched me for her boyfriend, and i mean hella ditched!!)and on occasion, she will just pop up in my dreams' usually she wants to rekindle our friendship or something.. what does this mean? Probably nothing really but.. just curious.. Also, sorry for this spelling. I'm so tired

it's been over 5 years since i left my old school so i could have education overseas, however i haven't been really connecting with my old friends and i kind of miss them, i'm currently in year 11 and whenever i get back to my home country, they don't really invite me to parties anymore, they used to the first 1-2 years i left, but not anymore. any tips i could get so they could remember me? lol

There s a guy I know sometimes he talks to me directly other times he has someone else ask me whatever for him. Today he was right next to me taking Starbucks orders and he asked a coworker, "ask *me* what I want from Starbucks." So she asked me. Why TF didn t he just ask? So fusterating. We are aquantant.

If you are in that situation, how do you deal with it?

Yesterday I had my hair down half way and the guy at work comments and says he likes my hair down and it was very hot so it got frizzy and he said it looks good that way. Than today I had it first in pony tail than I made a messy bun and again he comments and says my hair like that looks nice. Lol in my opinion it was messy!

So I am a 14 year old boy, I'm still single, and I don't really have a best friend. So I don't have anyone I can really depend on. I am a very social and talkative guy, but I am constantly alone in my room. And I feel very lonely in my room, I try to get out and do things by a lot of the times my friends are always busy. So what I'm asking is, how can I be happy on my own?

Hi I'm 18, and a dude if that matters, and I've always been sort of a loner in school. I don't really have any friends. Can someone please give me advice on making friends to chill with or just someone to talk to?

Every year I plan my sister's birthday parties. She's turning 13 this year and she's really excited because I always plan a lot of fun activities for her and her group of friends (Like 7 kids total) Last year one of her friends was running really late (almost 2 hours late to the party) and everyone was sitting around waiting for the party to start. A couple of weeks leading up to the party I teased my sister, joking that I was going to force all her friends to take a math test. When I saw everyone sitting around bored out of their minds I decided to print some from the internet. The rest of the party was a lot of fun but that math test really stands out. It's probably the most mentioned thing about last years event. Everyone always jokes about how terrible it was (while laughing, they're not actually mad. and the tests were never graded) and with the party this year my sister's friends keep warning each other "Do not show up late! She'll make us do math tests!" I want to find another boring activity that I can make a group of 7 13 year olds do (that doesn't take up too much of the real party)