Someone told me that they like when I give them things but that I don't have to.

I live in Louisville Kentucky. The women are at least 21 years old with children that are at least 7 and a boyfriend whom they met more than likely in middle school or their first year of high school. They typically shack up with these men and the women whom are married are married at the first day of being 18, and their boyfriend whom they married they met more than likely in middle school and dated from middle school up until they are 18. The typical 16 year olds around here are pregnant. Any suggestions? Is this normal?

So I had this best friend in middle school. And we lost touch because I moved and stuff. We are friends on social media but never talk. Lately, I have had these crazy dreams where we are doing stuff together and involved in all these crazy situations. I am not sure what this means? What should I do?

It was a video with my fingers in my *** and I swear I'm NOT GAY but now he thinks I'm gay and it's my best friend

I aint proud of that! Sometimes i feel like i left ppl hanging. I aint built for confronting and if im scared or overwhelmed you aint gone see me lol!!

I feel as if I'm just easily able to be stomped on by everyone. Everyone's able to roast me, but I don't know how to do a good comeback for when that happens or when someone insults me. I sound incredibly stupid but, how do I practice having a good comeback instantly when somebody tries to insult me or something like that. I just feel as if it's good to have good comebacks, because I don't believe in ignoring it. It will just make them wanna do it more to me. How do I practice having good comebacks?

Look, I probably sound like I'm overreacting a bit but she's my best friend. We're always trying to hang out and we recently did, we've told each other our personal secrets, were always texting, etc. and she is a real friend. Only problem is when I feel confident about a picture of myself which is just a regular selfie, she responds with "ew" "wtf" "no" I never do that to her. I always try to make her feel more confident about herself but she just puts me down, help?

I was really close with a friend of mine up until the beginning of this last school year. We were never good about resolving conflict, but we always were super close with one another. Over time though, she began getting more and more on my nerves, did a variety of things that I had issue with, and I have several mutual friends urge me to cut ties with her. So, last year, I simply just stopped going out of my way to talk to her and dropped one (of several) classes that we had together, though for unrelated reasons. Literally, within the day of me doing this, we completely stop talking, still having not said a word to this day. It's remained very tense, and the friends that urged me to cut ties are now closer to her than ever, but still talking to me about how they dislike her. I feel like I made the wrong choice, and even if I never become close with her again, I at least want to end this "beef". And, to be clear, she definitely has some not so great qualities, and has a tendency to HEAVILY gossip, with which she has been trash talking me since out little 'breakup'. I can't decide whether I should reach out to her over text, or I should just leave the situation as is. I do regret cutting ties, but seeing her reaction does make me regret it less. Thoughts? I know that I can't really give you the complete picture, but with this information, what should I do? Also, over text, if I do choose to reach out, what should I say? I wouldn't want her to think that she is innocent in this, but I definitely played the larger role here. She is more the type to play the victim.

My roommate has this terrible habit of coming into the kitchen everytime I'm in there and wants to talk. It doesn't matter what time it is, he'll come into the kitchen and just blabber on about whatever is on his mind. He doesn't care if I participate in the conversation he just wants to talk and the topics are things I don't care about. Sometimes I can ignore him, though it's hard, but there are times where I just want to make my food or coffee in peace. I've asked him several times in very nice ways to leave me alone. But he doesn't. I understand the kitchen is a commonplace, but he's not in there to make food or get something from the fridge, he's in there to talk to me. I've even stopped in the middle of cooking and left the kitchen to see if he was in there to get something and would get it and leave. He does leave but he doesn't get anything and he comes right back in when I go back into the kitchen to finish cooking. I could understand better if we were friends but we're not. My next step is to tell him flat out that he is bothering me and that he needs to leave me alone, but I don't want to cause a fight. So I feel like my only options are to fight or move out and I don't want to move out because I like my place. Any suggestions? I should have noted I've tried earphones and he talks still, even asks me to take them out so he can tell me something. If I don't he thinks I'm being rude.

I m on my school s hockey team, I m fairly new to the sport (I was a figure skater before). But there s one girl on my team who snaps at me and rolls her eyes at me when a make a mistake or mess up the practice drills somehow. I m truly trying my best, but she always finds a reason to yell at me every game/practice. She s very popular and is loved by the coaches and other players so I don t feel comfortable telling anyone or confronting her. I also feel that some of my other teammates don t like me either; they sometimes roll their eyes at me or exchange looks. I don t know whether or not I should quit. Does anyone have a similar experience or know how to deal with this type of situation?

Mom and I catch dad in traps, we see what he masturbates on, Mom says these girls look identical to me, just to always be on guard and yell if dad wants me for sex. Im really shook by how my dad acts with porn..dont masturbate to girls that are identical to me, come on dad.

Someone told me that they like when I give them things but that I don't have to.

My friend, 16, has been having difficulty sleeping and his parents were adamant that he was exhaggerating and just needed to do remedies like baths and tea instead of taking him to a dr. or something. After like a week of barely sleeping he literally searched online for over-the-counter medicines that's possible side effects include "drowsiness" and/or "sedation". I thought he was kidding but he just came over with thre different pharmacy bags and took a bunch of different medicines and is waiting to fall asleep. He took: Panadol Night Advil Benadryl Magnesium I doubt he took the time to check if he could take all of those together, or maybe a pharmacist told him he could so he went to different ones, idk. My parents arent home and his parents know he's here but obviously dont know about his little shopping spree. Should I just let him sleep it off or should I be worried? He took 2 of each med so: 1000mg Panadol Night 400mg Advil 50mg Benadryl 500mg magnesium He only fell asleep like 20mins ago, almost an hour after he took them.

One day a few months back nearly a full year, one of the two very close friends I have decided he would cut off my other friend and I. We've all mutually known each other since elementary school. We are now juniors in college. I know, I'm a dude, I'm not supposed to get all worked up over stuff, but I thought this man a brother to me. We went though all the phases and fads together. I can honestly say I love this man like family (same goes for my other remaining friend). Despite our childhoods consisting nearly entirely of being around each other, he just blocked us on social media after months of cryptic nonsense and dancing around our questions. From what we've heard he's taken on a new personality and it hanging around with people he and the rest of our group were never very fond of. My friend and I are nearly clueless as to why he seems cryptically angry with us and has taken on this new social life. We miss our friend and we're both worried about him, but whenever we try to talk to him he rejects us and replies with the same cryptic bull as before. Should we just forget about him? (It's impossible, half of everything we say is an inside joke between the 3 of us). Should we keep pestering him? Should we leave him alone for a while? Our parents know each other to a limited extent, should we try to get them involved? I miss my friend. Any advice would be appreciated.

last night I put myself in an extremely vulnerable position with a man ..I was afraid I was going to get raped. He is a friend of mine but things got out of control a bit with him ..thankfully it did not go too far and I was able to stop it .........but I feel so stupid now for letting it get as far as it did. can any other ladies relate? I have been feeling like such an idiot all night long and I am not that young..I am middle aged so you would think I would know better by now. I think I was just so desperate to have him like me. What an idiot I am! Can someone relate?

Many years ago I was assaulted / raped by my sisters ex boyfriend. I blamed my self at the time, and apologized since then to my sister for hurting her and her relationship before I grasped that I was sexually assaulted by her ex. My sister doesn't blame me, and we've since grown closer. But at the time I had this thing with my sisters ex's friend. He and I were sometimes seeing each other and liked each other. But he found out about what happened between my sister's ex and his friend, and of course my sister's ex didn't tell him the truth, so he believed him. When I asked to meet him in person to explain what happened, he said he 'didn't feel comfortable hanging out with me.' That really hurt me. Years later now he has a steady gf, and both of us have since moved on. But I still want him to know the truth. Should I tell him?

I was introduced to a girl a week ago and she seemed really nice and we got along. I never hit on her, never said anything offensive, and never made any assumptions. She saw my interest in fashion and make up (which I use for theater) and assumed I was gay or bi. When the topic of our orientations got brought up and she discovered I was straight, she said "Oh, you're straight? I thought you weren't cause of your clothes and make up interest. Are you attracted to me cause I'm a woman? Now I feel like that's the only reason you became my friend and now I feel weirded out. You've been nice to me and haven't done anything wrong, but I thought you were just gonna be like a girlfriend to me"... is this new friendship even worth keeping or has her biased thoughts ruined it?

I know not right or some of you tell me and say to me that i should leave it her alone and to move on. Anyways I made a fake this girl name Courtney and I never got along after high school i dont know what it was.But up till 3 year go I see her boyfriend name Joe I knew for a 2 years before I moved out the state and he have told me and he told me I am one of his best friend he have and then he told me there story and not her because we weren't friends anyways he have told me slap her in the face but i dont know how bad then i made fake account of trying for 3 years and Courtney finally have accepted me as a friend so we chatting a few times then she told me she had a bad past of everything is this could be why she pick up fights? she wont tell me yet of what happened but my name is Britney and I made fake account and i was wondering if this best way of should i asked I came a cross of a friend request name Britney and I was wondering what type person before I add her She have messaged me that you girls where friends before, but I dont want to add her yet before your option

Backstory: I've known this guy for 3 years this week. I've been in love with him and friends with him, for 2 years. We've never been SUPER close, I wouldn't call him a best friend, but we've always had a connection. When we talk, it's never awkward, there's never an awkward silence. We are extremely comfortable with each other. He's happily married and has a family and I've been engaged a little over 4 months. Don't get me wrong, I do love my fiance very much. My fiance has met my friend several times and they get along fine, but my fiance doesn't really care for my friend because he's smart and has my feelings for my friend, figured out (well, he thinks I have a crush on him at least). Anyways, I hadn't seen my friend in over a month when I saw him on Father's Day yesterday. We go to the same church and as my fiance and I were leaving, I spotted my friend, who appeared to be looking for somebody. We made eye contact and he smiled and put his hand up to say hello and I wished him a Happy Father's Day and we went on our way. This afternoon, I wrote him saying I'm sorry we didn't get to stop and chat yesterday, but that I hoped he had a good Father's Day and that I hope him and the family are doing well, that we hardly see them anymore. He read it, never replied. Did I make a mistake by reaching out to him? I guess I honestly miss him a lot. He never really talks to me much at church, but when we're alone, we could talk for hours if we had the time and if it wouldn't upset his wife. By the way, she and I aren't friends, but we're on good terms. She almost always hugs me when she sees me. I'm 28, he's 39. I don't think he's necessarily scared of ruining my relationship. To be honest, I'm not sure he's my fiance's biggest fan either. He's never acknowledged my engagement and whenever I bring my fiance up, he seems to have this tone that expresses not wanting to discuss him. I've seen him look at my engagement ring a million times without saying anything. But you're right that he could've just been busy. He was at work when he read my message, but I figured he'd reply after work.

Ok, my friend and I were having a serious conversation and I told him if he was lying I would smack him right on the penis and then I smack his private area LIGHTLY. He now is mad at me and said that was gay. Thoughts?

For around 4-5 months I was in a group chat and met a lot of new friends. I realized one of them (Let's call her Madison) would be really stand-offish towards me and said a lot of passive aggressive things. Then around our friends she would act nice. I eventually started being passive aggressive back and we kind of had unresolved tension between us. I realized she would purposely say things just to get me heated, so I started ignoring her. She didn't like this at all. She would get frustrated and make posts about me a lot. One day she unfollowed me on instagram and I texted her asking why. She said it was because we weren't close and seeing our friends act nicely towards me make her feel anxious. I tried to keep the convo going but she left me on read. So I went on with my life. A month or so later she texted me an apology and said she got too playful with me and was trying to become a better person. I accepted and things were okay. Soon after, she would purposely leave screenshots uncropped so I could see that she was in a groupchat with our friends that I WASNT in... it wasn't even a jealousy thing. It was the fact that she was trying to make me upset again. Or maybe it was me being paranoid. THEN I found out she hurt some of my other friends as well and I don't like when people mess with my friends. I started to dislike her again and ever since then i've been having some kind of one-sided competition with her. (Continued down below)

Look I am going on vacation and I'm taking a train. My probably black friend said he would come with me, but then a week after that my definitely racist friend said he would go. What do I do in a situation like this. Like my friend is probably black so I really don't know, but I do know for a fact that my other friend is racist

So, there's a girl I like and I want to follow her on Instagram. She has her main account and a finsta. Both in my contacts and suggested. Which do I follow? I can only follow one. It looks like she barely uses the main account. Following both might make me look like a psychopath.

I think something happened to me during college that makes me dislike black people. I was fine entering college and hung out with several of them. I had a black roommate as well who was a really nice guy. Maybe its the people I hung out with afterwards but now something changed in my brain. I desperately need to get rid of this. When I met my cousin's black friend recently, I became tense and I'm pretty sure everyone noticed. This is a big problem, and it can't go on. Should I take a trip to an African country by myself? Should I join an African meetup or club and attend consistently?

This person was my best friend in the entire world, we met when we were both in diapers and we were very close for many years, we both had that "childhood crush" feeling with eachother when we were in kindergarten, and as the years went on I felt like my feelings for him were getting stronger but we still played and talked like best friends. Then suddenly around 4-5th grade he became less excited about me coming over to his house, he played with other friends who were boys like him (I m a girl) and one of them would tease me to no end because I was easily upset when teased, idk. I guess he started to like me less as a friend from there. Around the end of 5th grade, he got his first cellphone and his mom gave me his number, but he never called me nor answered my calls. When I was around 11, his mom came over to my house without him because he didn t want to visit me. I was such a blockhead looking back, because in my mind i still believed we were best friends, even then. Well a couple of years went by without me seeing him because his parents lost contact with mine, but he transferred to my middle school around 7th grade, and when I saw him I ran out to greet him because it was so long, and that s when he paused before flatout telling me "hi...and bye" and walking away, without another word. I was heartbroken and miserable for a long time after that, especially since while he had so many friends he made at school, I had no friends. He was basically my only friend. I idolized him in my mind and everything, thinking that he felt the same way. Well, fastforward 10 years later, I still have a desire to reach out to him and ask him why he rejected me as a friend.. part of me still hasn't moved on especially rn that i have no friends at the moment (again). Another part of me wants to be his friend again, somehow.. i guess i still love him . i just feel that he was too big of a part in my childhood for things to have just ended like that, i dunno. Do you think it's a bad idea? Will i end up regretting it? It sounds pathetic but I actually cried this morning thinking about it and looking at our childhood pictures oh and another thing, i have had friends on and off but none of them were as close to me and I am very introverted so I guess it's weird looking back and thinking how "extroverted" i was about wanting to hang out with him and stuff. I just was never the type to keep friends because my mom moved a lot and i wasn't that "friends with everyone kid".. @boardingace gosh that stings.. i mean we did talk but it was a gradual process of him talking to me less and less. maybe you're right, I guess I was pretty bad at reading social hints back then, but it was around middle school that I was pretty much self aware of things like that. I just don't know why he didn't like me anymore (we really were close friends when we were younger)

I knew her from work for almost a year now. She is shy. I asked a question if she takes her anger out on her bf because she said she was cranky. She kinda frozed when i asked so I asked again then she finally said "no he knows" and she's been with him for 5 years. Then I said hope one day you get married and have kids then she said " whatever happens happens". She's so confusing. Any help why she acts like this?

So I m throwing a surprise party for my friend at my house . He lives in the city and I live an hour train ride away. The excuse to get him to my town is a friend s sleepover with just the guys at his house, but I need an excuse to get him from that house to my house unsuspectingly. Help!

Hi Everyone so I am 20 years old soon to be 21 and I am going into my second year of college. I had met this guy named Noah when I was in middle school and we became friends all through middle school. We ended up going to different high schools but we still kept in touch with each other. When I was around 16 and in my second year of high school I moved out of state and we still talked through Facebook. 2 years ago though I searched for his profile on Facebook and I couldn't find it. When we talked through messenger I looked at our old messages and it said that we were friends on Facebook. We haven't spoken or seen each other in years. I still wonder what his life is like now. My life has changed a lot since that time. All answers are appreciated. Thank you! Sorry this is long.

I have always been a very different individual but I did have friends from art and music class people made fun of me for being a goody two shoes and I remember the most painful situation that I still think about every now and then is when I went on a field trip with my 9th grade class and we ate lunch at the local Wendy's I was about to sit down straight across from these guys in my class that were considered the bad kids and pretty much everyone in the class had a parole officer and a police record so anyways I sat down and they asked me to sit somewhere else and I moved into the booth in front of me and one of them said dang and gave me a dirty look like I was worthless I have always struggled with self esteem and depression so I sat by myself which my teacher noticed and I tried to fight the tears that were about to cascade down my cheeks so I went into the bathroom after I ate and I almost threw up from anxiety and stress I did have friends but they were the drama students and from the art club I was a very active member in drama club so I would focus more on my characters I portrayed I didn't want people to know I was suffering significantly inside. Please no rude comments I just want to know why I was shunned I was so kind to everyone I sat alone a lot I wondered why because I wasn't ugly or disgusting I was just very different like I was a book worm and I loved reading stephen king and Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock and I watched anime and I was a little on the goth side I was nice to everyone but I was labeled a freak My pets were my true friends and I would cry I the privacy of my room I also wrote poetry and stories about my life I was always a gamer and fantasy nerd I made very good grades and had a high gpa

I have always been a very different individual but I did have friends from art and music class people made fun of me for being a goody two shoes and I remember the most painful situation that I still think about every now and then is when I went on a field trip with my 9th grade class and we ate lunch at the local Wendy's I was about to sit down straight across from these guys in my class that were considered the bad kids and pretty much everyone in the class had a parole officer and a police record so anyways I sat down and they asked me to sit somewhere else and I moved into the booth in front of me and one of them said dang and gave me a dirty look like I was worthless I have always struggled with self esteem and depression so I sat by myself which my teacher noticed and I tried to fight the tears that were about to cascade down my cheeks so I went into the bathroom after I ate and I almost threw up from anxiety and stress I did have friends but they were the drama students and from the art club I was a very active member in drama club so I would focus more on my characters I portrayed I didn't want people to know I was suffering significantly inside. Please no rude comments I just want to know why I was shunned I was so kind to everyone

Why does it seem like I can't keep friends for a long time? Has anyone ever gone through this? Did you eventually find a good friend? I'm okay with being alone but then I wouldn't mind having a friend to hang out with and to do things with.

I'll make it short. We're in our late 20s. He never comes over to visit me or really call me unless he's bored and wants me over to sit with him. I'm starting to think men and women cant be friends after all. He wants sex from me a lot too since "I'm good for nothing else" He lives in my street so if we fall out, God help us lol. I bought him a guitar for his birthday so I've been a good friend to him. When it came to my birthday though, he didn't even text me that day. I texted him and said "wheres my birthday present" as a joke lol. He then texted and said "awh I've been sleeping all day" He has been good to me sometimes when making meals he'll call me over and feed me well, but then I soon realize its only because he wants me there so that he can try get me into to bed at the end of the night. He makes dinners at weird times like 9pm. What should i do? get him out my life?

I have a "friend" who likes to gossip. Half of the stuff isn't even true.... at least I doubt the legitimacy of it. With people like them, do they usually gossip about you too?