My friend Sam is blowing Natalie and I off because Natalie rejected him romantically and I don't get along with his friend Alan. We started growing apart last year anyway. I bought him 30th birthday gifts. Should I give them to him, or save them for someone else? I have two other friends who'd appreciate these gifts for their birthdays and they're beautifully wrapped.

I texted my best friend last night "hey" she texted back "hey how are you doing" i texted back "I'm good and you?" She never texted back until this morning and her text was "hey how's your day going so far" So was she starting a initiating a conversation or replying back in a sort of way

My friends and are at a pool party and we were all racing and doing laps in the pool. When we got done one of my friends decided to stay in a bit longer because he wanted to see how long and far he could swim underwater without coming up for air. He made it the whole distance (which was pretty long tbh) but when came up at the other end he just sunk back down. Luckily we were nearby and where able to jump in and get him.Once he was out of the water we panicked because he wasnt breathing but after we patted his back a couple time he coughed and was breathing again. We let him sit there for a while until he felt okay then helped him inside. None of us are quite sure what happened it was like he fainted a soon as got up for air, he said he had a full dream and everything. it was weird. Was that normal? Is he really fine now? We're all just really worried.

We're in 10th grad. I went to middle school with her too and she has been going crazy for 1D since we were in 6th. I'm pretty sure 1D isn't even together now but that doesn't stop this girl. The first thing she tells everyone is, "I love One Direction" or "One DIrection is my life." She does all of her class presentations and projects on them and even if she can't find a way to fit them into her assignment, she does it anyway. I had to work with her today for an assignment and she would not be quiet about 1D. We have some magazines in the back of our classroom (it's film class) and one happens to have a pic of 1D on it, I'm p sure it's from 2014. She took it and started SCREAMING in the middle of the class, practically shoving it in everyone's face and talking about her favorite member. Someone told her 1D is long gone and old news and she started babbling about how they promised they'll have a reunion and she loves them or whatever. She was forcing me to include one direction in our project which has absolutely nothing to do with it. She even got mad at me when I said I didn't want to What's wrong with this girl?

I'm a loner at school. People are nice to me, im nice to them but we never get past the politeness so i don't hang out with these people. I was able to make one friend, we hang out all the time. She ditches school a lot and everytime she does i feel like im being judged as the loner. It's weird cause i am a loner and enjoy being it but i feel bad when i think they're judging. She's decided to drop out of high school. I get so mad at her because she blames the school but she's so lazy and have collected so many F's she thinks she can't graduate and wants to take the easy way out instead of spending these last two momnths of the school year (and finish the year with barely any F's) I know most answers will be to try to befriend other people, please try to understand it's very hard for me. I have social anxiety. Just the polite small talk with classmates can keep me up all night. Im trying! joined the bookclub, more active with people aproaching me but that is far from having friends to hang out with. What do i do? I feel so anxious about this.

I texted my best friend last night "hey" she texted back "hey how are you doing" i texted back "I'm good and you?" She never texted back until this morning and her text was "hey how's your day going so far" So was she starting a new conversation or replying back in a sort of way

I'm a loner at school. People are nice to me, im nice to them but we never get past the politeness so i don't hang out with these people. I was able to make one friend, we hang out all the time. She ditches school a lot and everytime she does i feel like im being judged as the loner. It's weird cause i am a loner and enjoy being it but i feel bad when i think they're judging. She's decided to drop out of high school. I get so mad at her because she blames the school but she's so lazy and have collected so many F's she thinks she can't graduate and wants to take the easy way out instead of spending these last two momnths of the school year (and finish the year with barely any F's) I know most answers will be to try to befriend other people, please try to understand it's very hard for me. I have social anxiety. Just the polite small talk with classmates can keep me up all night. Im trying! joined the bookclub, more active with people aproaching me but that is far from having friends to hang out with. What do i do? I feel so anxious about this.

I like anyone who likes me. I'm a girl, and I never thought in my younger years that I would be attracted to other girls, but if a pretty girl were to find interest in me, I wouldn't at all cut her off and I'd like give her a chance, you know? I would automatically catch feelings. I also literally take everything to heart. One time, my brother was talking poorly of one of my friends who isn't the most "typical" teenager, and I started bawling my eyes out and I defended my friend and he ended up "apologizing" afterwards but I was still so upset. My friend is an 18 year old guy who has a lot problems going on at home and family issues and he's just "different" and without assuming anything, he might have gender dysphoria. I tried my best to put my brother in his place, but he was still disrespecting our friendship by telling me that I shouldn't be friends with him because he's "annoying" or weird" and I took that to heart because I would never just abandon a friend like that. This kid has been bullied and tormented his whole life and I happen to be one of the only people who accepts his quirkiness and him for who he is. I don't care if he's not like everyone else, he's still my friend. I also bawl my eyes out whenever I think about one of my dogs or someone close to me dying. A friend of mine's dog passed away recently and I never even met the dog. I was really hurt by it and I cried more than her. Man, I'm even getting emotional by just writing this. Why am I like this?

I feel aimless though I have an aim. I feel like there's nothing to do though there are a lot of things I could do, I don't feel like doing anything. Also I'm not allowed to get out of the house w/o my parents and they are just too busy (even during weekends) to take me out. I also don't have friends to talk to. I do nothing throughout the day except play games on phone. I don't know what to do and I feel really weird.....

Just curious?

I feel like people don't like me:(

I don't know of anybody in these groups, but this is what I wonder. Most children learn the most important social skills from birth to 6 years. They learn manners, right and wrong, and making friends. So I'm wondering if an orphaned child would have trouble understanding these concepts? They are rarely homeless in western society, as relatives and friends step in... if not, foster care is the ultimate choice.

He fidgets alot when I am talking to him, I am not scolding him, we are just having normal conversation and such and he starts to fidget and walk around the room while I am still talking to him. Is he nervous or am I intimidating to him? He is bid size and I'm petite btw

So for two days a week for the next four weeks since it is testing month my lunch depends on my second hour teachers lunch. I usually have lunch B and sit with all of my friends but I got switched to lunch A for those days and all my friends still have lunch B. I have really bad social anxiety and I'm very shy so I dreading those days. I don't know anyone in A lunch and it makes me flash back to when I had no friends and 6th and 7th grade and just sat in the library every single day at lunch. I'm afraid I'm going to have a panic attack tomorrow because I have to sit alone, what should I do!!!?

I have a good friend Wanda who is a single mom who has a 15 year old daughter Jo. She told me Jo was failing math in school and needed a tutor and that she could not afford a tutor. She asked if I would tutor Jo and she would pay me when she got some money. I told her I would tutor Jo for free and I did. The tutoring must have helped because Jo's grade went from an F to a B+. Wanda and Jo were both happy with the results of the tutoring and wanted to take me to dinner to just to say thanks. At the dinner Wanda excused herself to take a cell phone call. When her mom was gone Jo asked me it I thought she was old enough to be allowed to date. I told her that was between her and her mom and I did not have an opinion on that. She then asked me what age I started dating and I told her 15 or 16 years old. Jo asked if I would talk to her mom about her dating. She said her mom greatly respected my opinion and she would listen to me. I don't think I should get into this discussion with Wanda about Jo dating do you? Moms and teen age girls, please let me know what the right thing to do in this situation is.

Ok so please try to understand before judging me .. ok my 4 year old is in a special needs / developmentally delayed program. We are finding out for sure that she has adhd and on the spectrum of autism. ( I had a feeling for a while ) So she hits and pushes her classmates, not every day but often , and lately she has gotten better ( she isn't always like this) I really feel awful for the other children and their parents. I would like to invite them to her bday party , but I'm afraid they already hate me and no one will want to Come( in which I understand why) should I even bother ? I want to find a way for her to apologize. Would you let your child go ?

My friend shakes her hands really bad, like shaking them up and down as fast as possible and are far as her wrists will let her. A boy who sits at my table shakes his leg, and it moves the whole table. It's giving me a lot of anxiety but I can't leave, and my other friends get mad at me if talk to them about it. What should I do? I know they can't really help it but it's really bothering me.

So a close friend of mine who recently started using social media kind of blew up on instagram getting 10k followers in like 2-3ish month. She's shy but she liked the attention she was getting so she frequently post pics/selfie which are great and all exceeept when she post videos.... You know when you try to take a nice pic, so you adjust the angle, fix your hair, find the right position and just think about how awkward it is from an outside perspective.... Her videos are basically that except the camera IS rolling.... She's been sensitive for the last few months due to her being at a low point in her life and being aware of that, we have mutual friends who are making fun of her videos which I too have to admit, they're very cringe and if she were to find out she would literally breakdown. So I want to find a way to tell her that her videos are cringey and to stop her 20 second instagram story of just her staring at the camera and smiling............... before she finds out the hard way and breakdown. On top of that her ex boyfriend and his friends are out there being petty and trying to savage her.

My step dad recently took his own life. He's been my rock and best friend since I met him when I was 8, I'm now 20. We are doing a gathering with his friends and family, I know I'm going to have to say something and I know I want to say something. But I can't find the words. I know this is a very personal thing that I should be doing on my own but if anyone can give me some kind of starting point or direction. I know that as soon as I hear something that clicks with me, everything will just flow but I need a little push.

I am more or less just ranting. We only dated a couple months early last year, but our friendship grew stronger after we stopped seeing each other (we stopped sleeping together when we ended our relationship). Anyway, one of the reasons we broke up was because i wanted the relationship to go somewhere and he didn't. But we both relate well as people and our friendship flourished. I am older than him by 10 years (I'm 41 and he is 31). My age shows and I'm not certain i can have kids, so i am assuming this is one of the reasons he did not pursue me for a relationship. But I really love him. I would jump in front of a bus for him. Loving him isn't stopping me from pursuing other men, but I just love everything about him as a human being and it goes deep into my soul. I shared with him my deep feelings of love recently and even though he knew...he didn't know how much i loved him. He said we should probably take a friendship break. He is right BUT his father passed away a couple of months ago, and i know he get's lonely in his thoughts and i know he appreciated my calling to check up on him. He is totally broken right now but he goes on living day to day but he cries when people aren't looking. I know how he is....our friendship was deeper than our romance ever was. So even though i love him, I miss his friendship more and worry about him. I guess you guys will probably just say leave him alone and let him come to you. Its been 2 weeks we last spoke.

This girl would talk shi* about me behind my back and I'm known for being strong and confident. Few days after someone told me what she said about me she smiled at me? Is she scared I'll confront her? And stuff

I have this friend and she's a major *****. We started ignoring each other as a home but now I actually hate her. I realized how fake she was and now I really have a high disliking towards her. She would yell at me for talking to much when she does the same exact thing. I would do something im really proud of and tell her, and she would just say nobody cares. I would get excitedover the smallest things for her like her walking next to her crush. At lunch, she would completely ignore me and leave me out, and talk to her other friends. She would talk about our other friends behind their back and I wouldn't say anything. With that, I figured she did the same to me. She would ignore me for days before talking again. I would always help her with homework and studying and whenever I asked for anything, she would say no and that I never do anything for her. She makes fun of my friends outside our circle and constantly says "Why are you even friends with them. They're so nerdy. Band nerds (I'm also in band) Ewww. They look so ugly." I think the only reason I stuck with her is because we've been friends since preschool, and it's pretty hard to let go of a friendship like that. If she comes back, should I take her back? (BTW, I sit with new people and I actually enjoy lunch now

I'm 19 and my friend is 24 but a lot of her friends are 25-33. Were going on a trip for 3nights and 4 days. I get along ok with everyone but I'm not sure if i'll have a lot of fun with them. Were going clubbing and hiking and sight seeing but I'm worried it will be awkward and a waste of my time and money. I'm and "adult" and turning 20 this year but I'm kind of small and act childish and i've only hanged out with everyone once or twice. I live in canada so i'm legal and can drink/go to clubs.

Good friend but just started doing this, we are both 18 year old males but it seems kinda disrespectful. Should I cut him off or what

My best friend always makes fun of me, calls me names, and is pretty much a b***h. She doesn't act like this to anyone else, frankly she's so nice to other people except me. She only acts like this when she's in front of other people but when we are alone she's not like this. I just want to know, are all friends like this? Or is this something I should be worried about

(Not their actual names) My friend Carmen recently had a situation where she ended up having feelings for her friend Gale's "romantic interest", Bradley. Bradley feels the same way towards Carmen even though he's with Gale. After Carmen and Gale talk it out, they invite Bradley over to speak to him. Carmen tells Bradley to look her in the eyes and tell her he doesn't have feelings for her and to then tell Gale that he wants another chance. My problem with this situation is that Carmen practically forced Bradley to try again with Gale, he did not choose this naturally. Carmen tells me that everything is back to normal, Gale and Bradley are together and Carmen hangs out with both of them as friends. I still have a bad feeling about this situation, especially towards Bradley. It seems like he has some hidden motives. Also, if I were Gale, I wouldn't completely shrug off this whole situation of how at one point her romantic interest and friend seemed to have feelings for each other.

Sorry for asking this here but I lost her number :( Please don't move my question, I only know she goes to Ramadan