I am looking to host a summer party (post-social distancing) but I am kind of new to "hosting parties" and do not want it to be too awkward. I would like it to be a casual, indoors/outdoors event. I am not looking for a crazy/wild party. Just a good time for us to hang out, especially since I have not seen a lot of these people in person for a while. The people I am inviting are all master s students or young couples so the cheaper the better. The thing that could get weird is the fact that I know the people that I am inviting, but some of these people do not know each other. My 2 questions are: 1. What are things that I could do to be a good host and not make things awkward? (games to play, things to talk about, how to get people to talk to each other, outdoor activities.) 2. What types of food should I make and/or what food friends should bring?

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A new friend, we hung out a few times and everything seemed fine. She seemed very friendly and there was no drama. Then I noticed she added a few of my friends on IG (who she had met briefly) at one of my parties. She then removed me from her followers & later unfollowed me. We dont talk anymore and I had forgotten this until i sent her another follow request, she didnt accept my follow request but followed me....Why would someone do this?

SO my close college friend hooked up with one of my friends a few times, drunk. She had conversations with the girl afterward. First wanted the friend to admit feelings for her, then decided it had been manipulative, coercion, etc etc. They don't talk any more. They are kept out of groups together. This means it is a very emotionally sensitive, touchy thing when I spend time with my friends as a group without close friend present (since the girl she hooked up with is there). I've shown sympathy but also expressed in a very considerate way that I would be going to these hangouts because I miss seeing other friends. My close friend keeps coming to me saying how shitty it feels to be left out, but also saying she just wants to be heard and emotionally supported. Which support I do provide. But after two rounds of her bringing these emotions to me while I'm just trying to live a night (watch a movie, go to an event over video chat) I expressed that I felt uncomfortable being vented to because I was so close to the situation and couldn't help feeling guilted. She got defensive, never really said she respected that, and justified me feeling guilty because as she saw it I had been curving her all day around going to the college event. She said she felt I didn't even think about how that made her feel and that I make her feel at fault for my own problems. Stopped talking. I don't know if I ought to address it and maybe things will smooth over and improve, or just back off.

My mom has a talk with me about my personality and how I'm selfish and sensitive I know I am but she blames me for losing my friends but it wasn't my fault. I lost because a gurl who just transferred to my school was in the same friend group as me and she kept asking people to hang out with her or be her partner but they said no they wanted to hang out with me because I'm one of the closest and nicest person in the friend group that's what they said and during that time I was at many dentist appointments for braces and she told everyone I was being rude to her and bullied her cause I thought she was annoying and was stealing all the attention when I really didn't causing everyone to hate me and bully me. When I told my mom this she told me it was my fault for being selfish and sensitive about this and it wasn't a big deal . She kept saying how she wished I was a a quiet kid and constantly yells about me instead of my brother please help me 

I need help with the work im getting? Let me know, i will give my email

my friend keeps asking me to play doctor with him? does this mean something?

here's mine:   I grew up in Delaware and Maryland. I attended college in California. I married my college sweetheart, and raised my 4 kids in Cali. Then, when my oldest was 13, we moved to Connecticut. Immediately, my family became really good friends with another family. Our kids are always hanging out and we, the parents, were always talking. My kids are currently in middle school and high school, and my friend's twin daughters are in high school. Let's call my friend Lauren.  One day I went to pick up my teen daughter from Lauren's house. I remembered Lauren telling me that her niece, brother, and sister and law were visiting from New York. My daughter, Lauren's twin girls, and her niece (the twins' cousin) were all petting the dog of the niece. Lauren goes to introduce me to her brother and his wife (Lauren's sister-in-law). It is at this moment that I realize Lauren's sister-in law looks kind of familiar. After hearing her name, I literally gasp. My daughter and everyone is staring at me.  "Did you grow up in ______, Maryland?" I ask.  "Yes," she replies, smiling, but I can't tell if she recognizes me. "Do you know Sara ______?" I ask her. (Sara is my older sister). A few seconds later. "Oh my gosh, Sara! My best friend from high school.." Then, she says: "No way? Are you Sara? Oh my god." I shake my head. "I'm her younger sister." Then we talk for like an hour and FaceTime Sara. it was really really cool, actually. I had no idea we were connected like this

All I said was he's made better songs the drop was whack and the vocals were trash (vocals weren't even his he just remixed the song) I was kind of hurt so it maybe came out wrong. Then he blocked me. Do you think. He'll get over it and unblock me?

Whenever I argue I only think of getting physical. Is this normal?

I feel weird talking to them in a different voice and I don't ever know what to say to them anyway. I don't know what do when I try to play with them. My friend can just throw a kid on his shoulder and start running around pretending to be a plane. That doesn't come naturally to me.

Hi all, I am a recovering addict and now almost 3 months clean (still have a ways to go!). My former friend who I've known for 15+ years is an addict as well and we used together. When I made the chance to get treatment, she wasn't very supportive. In fact, she got defensive and said things like, "you can't expect me to quit!" and made my decision all about herself (making everything about herself is what she does). For the record, I didn't ask her to quit. That is HER decision to make when she is ready. On top of her being self centered, she was abusive — put me down constantly, never celebrated my achievements, talked about herself for hours without asking me how I'm doing, slept with friends exes, dragged me into her self-created drama, competitive, superficial, had a bad temper, etc. I could go on and ON! Anyway, to finally get to the point: about 2 weeks into my recovery, I was feeling better. At about 10am on a workday (I work from home and she works about 5 min away from me) she texted me that she was having withdrawals from her adderall and asked me to drive an hour to my old dealer and deliver the stuff to her workplace, where she happens to be a child therapist. When I said no, absolutely not, I am staying away from that stuff, she got mad. We haven't spoken since and I have no intention to. Now she's going around blaming the fall out on me, saying I made it about myself. How do I move past this? I want to tell her off, but I don't want to stoop to her level. 

I'm a 21 year old guy and back in the winter I became online friends with a 17 year old girl. She lives in my city, we have never met in person, but we found each other on Instagram because of people we had in common, and we mostly are communicating on Snapchat. Usually just joking around, or talking about how our day went. I want to become more of a friend to her. How can I do this??

Told me I didn't clean enough? How much do you think I should clean?

I'm nice and care for everyone around me, even if they don't deserve it, but I don't really have any friends. I don't have anyone who genuinely cared about me. Am I too nice? What am I doing wrong.

 I started a YouTube channel last year and didn't tell anybody. It's been a year since and my channel is incredibly popular and I am now a YouTube partner as a career. I don't have to show my face on my YouTube channel so nobody knows who I am. Because of my large platform I started an online business and now have an incredible source of income and I'm only a college student. I will be graduating this fall in biomedical sciences so I never planned to be a businesswoman. Here's the thing, my life is becoming elevated and people will notice and be curious since I'm so young and for all they know I go to school full time with no job and live with my parents. I bought a new car recently and didn't tell my peers. I will be moving out soon and don't plan on telling any of my friends. Thing is, why should I hide my success out of fear of nosy ppl. How can I take pride in my accomplishments and deal with the many nosy people who will have a lot of questions about how I'm getting these things. Also, how should I answer when asked what I do for a living?  I don't want ppl to know about my YouTube because I want to live a normal and private life. 

There's a guy that I'm pretty good friends with, though we don't talk a ton. We used to talk more in person when we went to school together. I'm on his close friends list on instagram. He posted to his snapchat story saying to swipe up if I wanna be on his private story. Should I? Would that be weird?

Someone accused me of being a paid troll because my opinion was different than his. My question is can trolls really get paid and where can I sign up?

My old best friend from last year who dropped me and blocked me randomly added me and I dont know how to feel about it. It caused so much pain when I was dropped and never got an explanation why but I was just starting to move past it when he now talked to me again. Part of me misses us hanging out and the memories we had and another half is still full of anger for how he dropped me and now acts like he can just be fine with me again. Im broken and dont know what to do. Me and him were great friends for 4 years and I had begun acceptance and moving on and now this makes everything bitter again and god forbid he blocks me again after giving me hope he wants to be friends again. I want to move past but Im stuck and still want to hang on to the memories and I would give anything to go back to when we still were friends. 

I'm a 21 year old guy and back in the winter I became online friends with a 17 year old girl. She lives in my city, we have never met in person, but we found each other on Instagram because of people we had in common, and we mostly are communicating on Snapchat. Usually just joking around, or talking about how our day went. I want to become more of a friend to her. How can I do this?? Meeting in person would be really cool down the road. 

I moved to a new state alone and have been really good about quarantining and staying home. I wear a mask to the store and stay 6 feet apart. Today I was invited to someone's bday party and I wanted to meet people, I was told the party would be a few people hanging outside by a pool (6ft apart). Instead it was like 20 people all packed into a house drinking and partying. I felt so anxious but had already entered and felt I couldn't leave. I said hello and met some people. Shook hands, all while forgetting about the pandemic. I'm kicking myself so hard for going, i didn't drink and left after about an hour. What is the likelihood that someone at that party of 20 somethings had brought COVID19 to the party? (Arizona) I'm definitely not one of those "i don't care about corona" type. I'm very anxious about it and worried I may have it now

I know this man a few years now and I think he knows I like him. We often predictively bump into each other. But hes never asked me out, sometimes he just stands somewhere like in the middle of a shop or outside a shop and just stands there looking and smiling at me or sometimes he chats to me with no purpose or any real interest

So my best friend and I have been friends since like 6th grade and when she calls and you don t answer she just keeps calling and calling and calling. Also sometimes I just don t feel like talking to her so I ve just get over here you little dip shitz Oh my gosh how embarrassing my phone recorded me yelling at my cat and I accidentally hit submit question. Anyways sometimes I just don't feel like talking to her so I ignore her call. A while ago on Facebook I saw this post about being a good friend but never answering the phone and posted it I'm pretty sure that's what caused the problem but I thought you would find it funny and not take it so seriously.  Well she went like two months without talking to me and then call me on my birthday and asked me if we could talk the next day cuz she couldn't talk that much that day and I said share but you never ended up calling me back.  4 weeks I don't hear from her then I get a random excuse for not talking to me and then two days ago she calls me. We have a good chat for about half an hour and agree to talk again soon but I don't know when that's going to be because lately I have no idea when she's going to call.  Do you think she's mad at me for the post on Facebook or was her excuse actually the reason she hasn't been calling me. She said she's been having some problems with her house because she has uncontrollable hiccups and has been trying to get different medication for it

I introduced my friends to each other and they clicked instantly. They both are loud , goofy , talk about sex constantly , and they find each other funny. Then when I'm around them separately their energy changes from excited to more calm. I am more of a quiet and less talkative. I dont talk about sex because I have never had sex. I dont date. And when I attempt to bring up stories or crack or joke they dont laugh. They act like they are so bored with me. But when they get around someone else they brighten up and get talkative. I feel so bad because I have social anxiety and I want people to find me interesting and funny. But people have never found me interesting. It's like people get really quiet around me. Its to the point I get nervous when some friends call because I think I will bore them and I will feel bad. Is there anything I can do to appear more fun or funny? How can I lighten the mood. 

Unfortunately I found out some pretty devastating news - a friend of my child passed away. My child is already really down in the dumps (about other issues), but my husband and I know we have to tell them before they find out... like in the next day... how do we even start this conversation? need help quickly and thank you.  child is a 16yr old if that helps.

I've noticed that my best friend has been acting different towards me, like more distant. Communicating less, and even before the quarantine she began spending less time with me. It's been bothering me for awhile, and today I saw her at the park. It was night and i was the only car parked in the parking lot, and she passed by me and parked in the other side. She def knew it was me bcuz of my car, and she could have come over to say hi or send me a text asking if i was there, you know? But she didn't and when I sent her a text, saying I was just there and that she could have said hi,  and her response was rather defensive. I didn't go over to her because I got the impression she saw me but didn't want to talk to me. My response to her was that I understand.  She said, 'ight good'.  I feel like this friendship isn't the same anymore like it was at the beginning, and the only thing that kept us connected recently was working together and being gym buddies. Does it sound like I should just let her go? And move on from this friendship?