I had a nice friend for a couple years, me and her were inseparable and I really love her. Her and I had a couple hiccups, but my mental health derailed and I distanced myself away from her because it felt like I was doing everything wrong which caused the friendship to sink very quickly. We're still high school students, meaning I see her very often and I could feel how heavy the air was. All of this destroyed me, I haven't ever felt so guilty in my life before. She started posting indirects towards me on her social media and I couldn't take it anymore so I finally confronted her to hopefully try and fix this for the both of us. It's been back and forth, I've admitted my mistakes and took blame for everything, I'm trying my best to fix this and my efforts don't seem to work. I don't expect us to be close again but I can tell this is just putting a constant stress on both of our lives and I just want her to feel better about the situation. Lately things feel better, but she won't even look at me anymore after we seemed to clear things up. We text each other just fine, but every time I'm near she turns away. This has been killing me for almost a year now, I feel so terrible. I'm trying to give her space as well and trying not to worry too much, but nothing seems to help anymore. I've been to my full extent of trying to support her but nothing is working. I feel like I'm such a horrible friend and it's affecting my social life immensely. Any help will be appreciated Miyasita

this is probably me just being overly sensitive but my friend knows that lately i've had a lot of self esteem issues and that i am constantly hating the way i look. so she sent this photo of me where i looked pretty rough and i'm like ew i look ugly. then she said "then glo up" (and i know i might be over thinking this) but is that her practically saying "yeah you are ugly, just glo up" ? like you always see friends boosting each other up and mine is telling me to glo up haha. this might all sound dumb but i over think a lot and i'm really critical on myself and her saying that did not help.

So my friend took a job at a place where people that want to beat us up go to a lot. She wants me to walk her there, but I don't want to get beat up either. What to do?

In July, my best friend and I went to the beach and got lunch after. She had mentioned she recently moved and started dating this new guy. We usually update each other on everything so I was kind of bummed but didn't mention much about it. During lunch, I was a little upset because the waiter messed up my order. My friend told me "just to pick the tomatos out of the pasta" I was a little annoyed and told her I'm paying for my food so I should be able to get what I want. I asked the waiter for a new order. After this, she was quiet didn't say much. I drove back to my house because we carpooled. She said I'm going to head home to let the dogs out. In August I texted asking when we could get together. She responded two days later 'i'm really busy and am planning to do somethings on my days off maybe next week." I responded okay let me know when you can fit me into your schedule. Now its almost October she has not reached out to me at all. Do you think its because of the new boyfriend or does she no longer want to be friends? This friend was also at the hospital with me when my dad died last year and supported me, so it just hurts for her to cut me off.

I was at a party and the host Billie asked me to drive June home because June was too drunk to drive. I was not drinking. Billie asked me to stay with her until she was sober as the last time she was this drunk she choked on her vomit and they had to take her to the hospital emergency room. I said sure and I drove June to her apartment. She was barely able to walk because she was so drunk. I carried her in and put her to bed. I slept on her couch, checking her often to see that she was OK. In the morning she wanted to know what I was doing in her apartment. I explained to her what happened. She said, Did I f— her". I told her "no". I would consider that rape. I told her I stayed with her until I knew she was sober and would not hurt herself. She really appreciated what I had done for her and said "You are really a nice guy not to f— when I was drunk and to spend the night with me to take care of me. I want to get to know you better". I got a call from Billie the next day thanking me for what I had done for June. She said everyone at her party really cares about June and it was very rare that someone June barely knew would take such good care of her and not take advantage of her when she was drunk. Billie wants to honor me at a dinner for what I did for June. I don't know if I want to attend a party that honors me because I did not have sex. Is what I did that uncommon? Should I go to the party?

I've never succeeded in a customer service role, leadership role or even personal relationships because whenever I give people an answer they don't like, they try peer pressure. Example someone wants me to do something that I'm not able to do at the moment. I explain it, the person walks away then comes back and starts the same conversation with their friends along this time. As you explain a second time their eyes dart around to their friends where their friends stare at you. Clearly this is peer pressure and a power play. I get this gang all the time, always with their stupid friends watching and waiting to help. Is this a sign I look like a loner, or does sounding shady make me sound like a pushover?

so if you had a friend who you knew since Kindergarten and she said horrible things about you on Facebook and called the cops on you because her other friend was playing along with her. would you be her friend again after she apologized to you? I mean this was months ago in June. She was crying when she was apologizing to me. Since she called the police on me. Does that mean i have a record? I don't know exactly why she called the cops on me when she did all the posting herself on Facebook. My mother doesn't won't me to fail for her apology. She keeps saying I'm going to get poisoned again. People fights all the time and gets over it and moves on. Don't know what else to do

I'm really sad. I'm even depressed. I'm such a extrovert and talking to people is my favorite thing. I'm a 14 year old girl who is homeschooled. I have no neighbors and no out of online friends. I have one friend who I text but she moved far away so we just text and call. I wish I had more friends though. I see pictures of people I use to go school with years ago and it makes me sad. I have tons of anxiety I can't even sleep by myself. I have social anxiety too so I can't just talk to people. Online I'm really confident and I have lots of friends. I'm not really good at sports but I'd join one to try and make some friends. Sometimes I see other girls my age and wish I was them or looked like them. I love animals so if there's any sort of work I could to do meet people involving animals I would love that. I hope someone can give me some advice. Thank you.

Look I'm 22 and always struggled with this but after moving to a new city 5 months in with other issues its getting intense. I'm not asking for professional help. I honestly don't want to tell my friends because I'm certain this will lead to a certain perspective of me..i just don't know what to do..

I met this guy in a running shop about 6 years ago. He was serving me and had to spend about half an hour helping me find the right shoes for training. We really hit it off laughing and joking. I didn't think anything of it then I noticed he had a wedding ring on and my heart sank. We met a number of times at running events etc over the years but I kept it low key since I don't want to get involved with a married guy. He got in touch with me on FB and asked me to meet up a few years ago. Anyway never heard anything more then today he sent me a friend request. I remember he used to have that he was married on his profile and several pictures of his wife but now theyre either gone or hidden. I did notice she is still his friend even though his friends are hidden. I seen it on her profile but she doesn't have any pictures of her and him on her profile. I don't know what to make of it all, why get in touch after not seeing or hearing from each other in years He sent me a message as well asking how I am.

My friend always comes to me with her problems. A lot of the time, they're about her family or her mental health issues. She tells me how she can't deal with them anymore or life anymore. I mean don't get me wrong I love her, but I can't help her. i am struggling significantly with mental health and my family. Except I'm not telling it to anyone so it also doesn't help that she acts like my life is perfect. It's just hard, you know? Anyways, she's coming to me for support but I just don't have any to give. I don't know how to tell her I can't help her. Honestly, her telling me her problems brings my mental stability down but I don't think she has anyone else to tell things to. I don't want to hurt her, but maybe I need to look out for myself? Idk but i really need help so any responses would be appreciated. Thank you :)

My best friend and I have known each other since we were 5 years old. I know all of her family, extended family too, and we, in fact, are closer than most sisters. My friend has this "spell" , whereby people fall all over themselves to be with her and do things for her. Every guy she ever dated was madly in love with her, stop their life for her, marry and be with her until death. Every single one. It's not just men either. Women do the same thing, regardless of straight, not, or in the middle. One of the friends in our group and I were talking about the "spell". She said she remembers being under it herself back in high school, though she is not any more. I never was, not even a little bit, and it kind of creeps me out. She is by far not the smartest, most beautiful, wittiest, kindest, etc. She has average features, is severely overweight, kind of mean and bossy at times, and not very deep or philosophical. I cannot, for the life of me figure it out. Have you ever been under someone's spell? If so, why? How? What did it feel like? What do you think causes this kind of reaction in people? Is it only weak-minded people?

I recently met this person i really like. We both come from very different backrounds and volunteer at the same place. I made an effort to become this persons friend and they seem to really like me. However outside of work, we don't really know what to do. This person is more of a party person who enjoys drinking and smoking. I have never done either and am not gonna start. I guess my question is, what should i do with this person? i feel like they find me boring even though they have set up plans to hang out with me before. But when we hang out, it is a little boring.

So it was my 21st birthday and my friends and I had planned to go to a club. It was supposed to be my first time ever going to one. Anyway the night comes and I tell my friends to get there at a 10pm and the club closed at 3am but I just wanted to go a bit early. They come an hour late, and still wanted to pregame. They literally argued over an hour as to who was supposed take a shot. I kept asking them over and over if we can go because it was already pushing midnight and the club was downtown which is 20 mins away and we needed to find parking. Anyways we get there at like 1am and one of my friends tells me and another friend to wait in line while they park. The friend I was walking to the club with starts freaking out and saying how we're going to be raped and drags me back to the parking lot, and tells the DD that we're no longer going. We end up going to whataburger then going home. I'm just so upset because it was supposed to be a fun night for me, but we didn't even end up doing anything. Am I right to be upset?

My roommate has been a buddy for almost 8 years now, and we've been roommates for 1.5 years. This is going to sound weird, but over that same duration of time, I've lost several pairs of socks between home and the laundromat. I chalked it up to me being careless or to misplacing them somehow at the laundromat. That is until I was asked to retrieve a Mac adapter from my roommate's room at his request, and run it over to him on at work on my way to my own job. I had to look beside his chest of drawers and I noticed a Kroger bag full of dirty socks wedged in between the wall and the drawers. My dirty socks! Every pair I have "lost" since we moved into that apartment. What does this mean? What would make someone do this? I feel completely weird around him now, and I hate that feeling. We were best buds until I "caught" him doing something unexplainable. Has ANYONE else ever experienced anything like this? How do I bring it up to him? Do you think he had me search, knowing I would find his stash of MY socks? And why does he want to just keep them around? Any serious help is appreciated.