my friend is always joking about me and saying mean things and says shes just joking. So i recently started saying things back to her but she doesnt seem to take it to well, she even hits me most of the time. For example, she called me a name and i called her the same thing and she got angry and hit me. When i get angry she tells me that its a joke and im too sensitive or a baby

A friend of a friend (who I've met briefly 3 or 4 times) invited me to his birthday dinner. He's turning 21. I actually thought it was a night out at first, so I had planned to just get him drinks instead of a present. Now I'm confused on whether I should take one or not. If so, I'd have no clue on what to get him since I barely know him...

I owed my friend a favor and she said she needed my help with pulling this prank as payback on her brother. A few days ago, I came to her house, at around 11 or so. She had come from work earlier, but she was waiting for me outside. When I walked to the front porch, I noticed she had two single-hole ski masks in her hand. She handed me one and when I asked why, she said she needed to make sure we couldn't be recognizable. I figured just to go with it, and she said only our eyes were to be showing. We walked into the house and everyone was sleeping, although the kitchen light was on. We walked upstairs to her brother's room and went on opposite sides of his bed. What weirded me out was when my friend pulled out some sort of rag or something out of her bra. I'm like "wtf?" And she whispers "relax it's just some bleach soaked in". She told me The prank was to smack it on his face and make a run for it. She said she was gonna hold his arm down and I had to hold his legs down. So I put my hands on his legs, she smacks it on her brother, and he started shaking around. Eventually he got a little more crazy and I had to hold down harder. My friend finally lets go and he's coughing like hell and trying to make sense of what just happened. I ran out to the front porch and my friend was right behind me. I was pissed that she hadn't told me what the prank was. I told her next time don't include me, and if she gets in trouble for this, I wasn't a part of it.

So I have this good friend of mine who is about to be released from prison in June. I will be there for him, as I have already started to get certain things. Now he is being paroled to the other side of the state -3 hours and I have spoken with him about getting him an apartment near me, because I believe he should have a fresh start. I have a job lined up for him making pretty decent money as soon as he moves, etc. Once he is out I have talked about picking up and taking him to his PO and then shopping He however, told me he has someone picking him up. An old friend of his, whom I KNOW is a bad influence and is going to influence him to start smoking again and this guy has been a terrible friend to him. Hasn't sent him money, or visited him when he said he would. He is extremely unreliable and - ill admit, I am a bit jealous - because I think like I have been and am a damn good friend and I feel like I am being shafted a bit. He claims he wants to move near me, but only 6 months after he's been out and has saved a bit because he doesn't want to be totally reliant on me. He is going to community placement I have told him my worries about him dealing with people from his past and how he will end up in trouble again and he doesn't want to listen. It makes me want to end the friendship but im not that person. Is it okay if I "threaten" him and say if he starts making mistakes or smoking again, etc. he will have burned his bridge with me and I will end the friendship?

I am awkward and not good with making friends in person, so where can I go to find friends online?

My granpa's friend earned the Medal of Honor in the pacific during WWII. After his granpa died last year the medal stayed in his house and sometimes he takes picture for instagram with it,wearing it,just to get likes. Other times he just uses it to impress girls and that bothers me a little. I mean yes he was not my granpa but that man did not EARN that medal,risking his life for our country so that his nephew would use it to impress girls or to get likes on a stupid damn social media. I tried telling him that that is not very respectful but he told me like "c'mon dude it's don't get too upset about this". I was thinking about telling my friend's father but then my friend would tell me to make my own business and stuff and I don't want to lose his friendship over something like this. What would you do?

Long story short, i have a very old friend of mine asking me to come up this summer for 5 days. This was my best childhood friend but we parted ways 10 years ago ( we were both 31 and now we are in our 40's). I moved far away so i could actually be far from her. She has some serious mental health issues including (eating disorders, prior drug abuse, personality disorders....not to mention a very manipulative person). In the past, she would obsess over things and use me to get what she wanted. If i didn't comply with her plans, then she would say i was being a horrible friend for not doing things her way. So now here we are, fast forward 10 years later. She contacted me out of the blue to let me know that her brother has cancer. She said she is having a family reunion and invited me to stay with her and her family for 5 days at their place. I felt bad about her brother and a part of me missed her so i agreed to come. After i made that agreement, her old ways started surfacing again and she is now obsessing over this trip. Every week she is reminding me of how great its going to be, and she wants to know if I'm going to pig out like her (she weighs over 300 lbs and has had issues with binge eating/anorexia/etc). She asks me each week if i bought my flight ticket yet too. She is literally obsessing over every single detail of this trip and it is driving me insane! Everything has to be exactly her way, and she obsesses over it if it isn't. She contacted me out of the blue because her brother is dying of cancer. Plus, we were more like sisters than best friends. we were each others maid of honors when we got married, i held her hand when she had her daughter. I was much younger and this was before her mental illnesses had gotten out of hand as we got older.

Hey, so I've been friends with this girl for a few years now and I'm having trouble explaining the concept of slut-shaming to her. She claims to be a feminist, but then she turns around and makes a face if she thinks another girl is wearing too much makeup, or her skirt is too short. The final straw was when we were trying on outfits at the mall, and she tried on this top. I told her it looked good, and she responded with, "Thanks, but I look like a slut!" I told her that clothes don't make someone a slut, but she cut me off by laughing, saying "Slut!" and putting the top back. Fast forward to a few months later, we repeat the same process, I try on a skirt and she says it's cute but makes me look like a slut. "I've never even held hands with someone of the opposite gender, how does a plaid skirt suddenly make me a 'slut'?" She shrugged and just kept laughing about it and pointing at outfits that were "cute but made you a slut." I honestly think it's just what she's been raised to think, but what is the best way to explain to her how this isn't ok without being mean about it?

A girl I have been friends with for the past 2 years has recently started shutting herself away from me. I have no romantic interest in her, she is just a close friend. When we text she replies shallowly and doesn't want to FaceTime anymore. We used to have really interesting conversations about a bunch of stuff... we just clicked really well. She has a boyfriend of 3 years and he doesn't really know me, he's a little protective of her but it has never affected our friendship. Now, she isn't even trying and I don't know how to ask her why she's closed herself off because she's talking to me the same rate as before, just with less meaning and emotion. She doesn't tell me what's going on in her life anymore. I feel hurt because she's the only person I connected with (I have AS and don't get on with many people) and I don't know how to ask her without annoying her.

Depression can be a symptom of not having friends. I feel like everywhere I go where I can make friends there are people who don't really care about others.I feel isolated even around others Is there a way out of this. Thanks.

This girl (we're both girls) always used to say hi to me but I ignored her in regards to my crush. After a while, my dislike for her faded away. She's in my lunch period now, and one day I was sitting on the outer side of the cafeteria. She walked in front of me. When I was looking at her she stood still. I looked away and she walked by. Few days later I see her in the lunch line and she smiled and me

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A friend's mom accused me of trying to steal the radio out of her 2015 Ford. The reason she thought it was me is because her dash was broken, and I had just installed a new radio in my pickup. I was furious. I told her this: "1. I'm not a thief. 2. I don't want your factory radio that is useless in any other vehicle. 3. If I was a thief, and for whatever reason I want your POS factory radio, I wouldn't 'try' to take it, I 'would' take it, and nothing would get broken in the process cuz I'm competent enough to take apart a dash." All my friends said I was overreacting, and the mom said I'm no longer welcome in her home. For me it's the principal, don't call me a thief, especially with no evidence. Don't sour my name. Am I in the wrong?

There is an older guy who lives in another state he's 13 years older. He and I have been hooking up with each other since 2015. I don't see him as much as I want to. But I want to see him more often. He's having a rough time financially and I help him out. He and I aren't in a relationship though. I am planning to go see him in September. Then there is another guy he and I are the same age. I see him sometimes at a store where he works. We just usually talk whenever I see him in the store. He asked me for my number in September but he didn't call me recently. I asked him if he wanted to be friends with benefits. And he said he would love to if it had been a couple of years ago and that he had a girlfriend. So I told him that we could still be friends. Yet he's asking if he could come over or either meet up at a hotel. I don't want anything serious with him. Sometimes we don't talk for months at a time. I like the older guy because he helps me academically and I feel comfortable with him. I don't really ever want to stop talking to him. And I've been helping him for awhile now.

We broke up and when I tried going back(4 months ago) he said he wouldn't forgive me for saying something about his mom when he said something to mine first(idiotic).I didn't chase him. We ran into eachother one day i expected him to ignore but he smiled and said hi.Now he keeps looking at me, making eye contact and i caught him looking at me sneakily through the door crack. He's started coming out about the same time as I do and he said hi hesitantly and smiling. Today I was going down the stairs and he was behind me. He was "on the phone" saying he was leaving church and would call back which wasn't necessary since church was already over. I feel like he did it so I'd know he was behind me. We walked next to eachother he smiled and said how are you. We had a few exchanges and I asked him about his sick brother.

A cousin of one of my good friends literally hates-my-guts-wants-me-to-freaking-die hates me. She's pretty much a drama queen and loves drama. I have to deal with her because she's a cousin of my friends but it's come to the point where I'm kind of sick of it.. I'm the type of person that it won't affect me until you lay your hands on me. The other day, I set my bag down to sit next to my friend and her cousin put her foot on the chair so I wouldn't sit there. Me, being stubborn (and kind of oblivious it was even there) sat anyways. But to be honest, I did notice, I probably would've sat right on it. Anyway, I sat and my leg grazed her foot and she went absolutely insane. She started shouting, yelling, and wen had the audacity to punch me in the back. All I could do was laugh, really - but I'm tired of the harassment. The reason I was laughing was cause I was so livid that she actually hit me and if it wasn't for my math teacher and my respect for my friend I would've punched her right in her face. She's been a bully and harassing me ever since middle school and it never really affected me. She's telling everyone i "hurt her ankle" and that's shes going to "beat my butt" and honestly, I'm ready to fight her but I'd like to avoid it at all costs. I don't know if she's a fighter, she kinda seems like it but I'm not too sure. Can anyone give me advice or pointers how to handle the situation? What if it comes down to it where i HAVE TO fight her? What do I do then?

I have been best friends with this guy (let's call him T) for 3 years, but over the last 6 months he's changed dramatically. He started to insult me every single second of every day. He calls me gay, a *****t, retarded, stupid and so much more all the time. Then we started to hang out with the girl I am in love with and he started to flirt with her. I talked to him about it and he didn't stop. Then he started to get mad when I was talking to her even though he would all day long. Then I went away for a weekend and when I came back I found out that he was trying to discreetly get a feel of her body. He even counted how many times he touched her breasts. I then found out that he would talk crap about me to her and a few of our other friends. Then when I confronted him about how I felt about all of this, he said that he is suicidal. I don't believe it because he is constantly making fun of suicide, telling me to kill myself, saying he's gonna kill himself, and faking hanging himself. He also told one of our other friends, who is very suicidal, to deal with it herself. I want him out of my life for good, and I want to do it in a few that doesn't effect my real with the girl I love or our other best friend. How do I do this? If I told the gir how he really is, she would want nothing to do with him, but I don't want to be that cruel with this. I feel like no matter what I lose and it makes me so mad. He lies about me to her and he ALWAYS has to be better than me.

My best friend of 22 yrs recently told me today that she needs a break from talking but part of me thinks she actually meant she needs a break from me. She claims that she has been working a lot & stressed out with school. She does have a child too. I then asked her if she was mad at me bc that's what it seems like bc why else would she want a "break". She told me that she's frustrated w me. She said it's bc I need to make changes in life but I choose not to & she says I deserve better than this. I don't really know what she meant but I'm assuming it has to do about my life bc I don't have much going on for myself whereas she does. What I don't get why didn't she tell me this sooner. She made it seem like everything was fine when we talked all week until now. I know deep down she cares about me..why else would she feel frustrated but I'm kinda bothered by everything she had mentioned. I don't want our friendship to get ruined by her being frustrated w me. She never said the friendship was over but I'm getting the vibe it might be bc she hasn't replied to the rest of the texts I sent her today including questions I asked. She's giving me the cold shoulder for no reason after telling me everything she said. We have been friends since we were younger. I was planning on giving her space bc she wants a break from talking. I'm kinda pissed bc I have always been there for her & was a friend to her & I feel she's not acting like a friend now. How should I handle this?

Out of even my whole family my sister is by far the realest person I know. It's kind of sad in a sense. But it's REAL. She's a healer, she heals people without them realizing and she wouldn't even refer to herself as a healer. I'm pretty sure she knows the impact she has. But she probably wouldn't even consider it healing in her own like dictionary of words. But that's definitely what it is. Because I can pick it up so well and I know every time she does her thing. It's not like she's purposely using magic but I swear there's something magical about it. I know she probably thinks anybody can do it. It's just kindness. But no I swear it's rare. I know there are other people in this world with this gift but it's so rare, they're so hard to find. They're like gems lost in a sea. I wish I knew more people like her but I know deep down it's just not realistic. Shes really one of a kind. And I almost want to take my life because I know I'll never meet anybody as real and genuine.

I met her in sixth grade, and she liked the same things as me and was really polite. Now, I don't think I want to be friends anymore. She comes to school moody almost every day and complains about getting no sleep, then explains to me that she stays up all night and plays video games until 3am. She talks to me about it almost every day, and I'm sick of her complaining about it when there's a really obvious solution. If one bad thing happens to her (she gets a bad score on a test, one of her friends I don't know say something rude to her) she takes it out on everyone that cares about her. She's called me an idiot and rolled her eyes at me before for asking questions when she's in this mood. She constantly finds a way to put her sexual orientation into the conversation, and it feels like it's always changing from bi to lesbian. I thought she was charming at first, but now she's constantly being rude to the people around her and I don't want to be her friend anymore. What should I do?