This girl that i was "best friends" with for 3 years was very toxic. She would make fun of me, (call me ugly, call me fat, etc.), abuse me (sprained my pinky, push me, hit me, pinch me) and verbally abuse me. She would spam my phone everyday to call her and if i didnt she would yell at me and hit me. I tried to find ways to escape the friendship but she would threaten to call my parents or post stuff on my social media considering she had full access to them since she forced the passwords out of me. I finally ended the friendship by getting a no contact contract on her at my school which means she can not approach me, talk to me, message me on social media, text me, or having someone deliver a message from her. The next day she approached me trying to talk to me but my friends made her go away. Then this morning she had someone send a message to me from her. I went to the office and reported it. She then, 10 minutes ago, called me on no caller id, and then messaged me through her mother's Instagram account trying to talk to me. She won't leave me alone, and she is obsessed with me. I'm scared and don't know what to do.

Hello.. I'm turning 40 years old and getting depress and lonely.. All my friends are married with kids, so I don't hang out with them anymore... I'm self employed, makes pretty good income but I don't have any social outside or in my home.. I really don't know what to do anymore.. When I'm outside my house, I don't know where to go, who to meet or how to approach a girl...It gets harder everyday... I tried online dating but no luck... I tried meeting up with new friends on craigslist but people there are really weird and bizarre.. I only have a couple family and friends on facebook, and I'm not even active there.. My last hope is meetup.com, but there's nothing there that I'm interested in... I'm only interested in making money, watching movies, tv, researching on my laptop.. I have a boring life... I used to play basketball, but I'm getting older and my bones gets hurt when I move around alot.. My mom is very scared for my life because she thinks I'm going to die a very lonely man... And honestly, I'm a bit scared too... I've never been stressed out like this before until I turned 40.. Any people here has experience being lonely? How do you deal with it? What do you do to meet new people?

Lately I've been feeling like our friendship is onesided. It's like she comes to me with her problems and just wants stuff from me. I'm just feeling used

I go to a local meetup - I've no friends locally and options to make friends is limited - I don't get to go to these meetups often but it's a successful meetup and members spend a lot of time together outside official meetups, there's also a group chat on Facebook that I was only included in when an acquaintance invited me. Last weekend there was a big house party at the home of the meetup groups owner, most of the regular meetup members were invited...I wasn't invited, it feels like an oversight as I don't go to many of the meetups or talk in the group chat, but at the same time if people had cared they'd have surely asked if I was going. I'm also now dating the above mentioned acquaintance (the meetup group don't know this), he ended-up having to drop me home after our date that day before going to this house party, so I feel like a bigger loser. I was sat looking at the photos of the party posted in the group chat feeling totally rejected.

The things they vent about are actually serious problems, so I feel like it s bad to cut them off. But they want all of my time, getting upset if I m not online 24/7. If I try to console them they only shut me down, only saying "I m sorry, I m such a bad person, you shouldn t talk to me." Making me feel bad once again. The thing is, if this happened once a month, or even once a week, I would be fine with this. But it s every single day for multiple hours. After a while I got tired of it but I just don t know how to deal with this?

I added a girl from school on Facebook last night I found out today she unfriended me. I haven't seen her in a few years since school. I didn't say or do anything to her. Why did she unfriend me so quickly ?

I'm 15 years old and I really want kids. I already have names picked out and I just really want one right now. I don't know what to do. I know I'm not old enough to want one, but I really do. I don't know what to do. Can someone please explain why I want a kid so much?

My professor had mentioned this theory how the more intelligent you are, the less sexual prowess you have. Then he added "just like Asians". I'm Asian...was he testing my interest? Jealous? Something esle?

help, he's a weird kid who keeps turning his head around and he always stares at me and it's so creepy.

I'm just so tired of pretending, every single day is a struggle for me. At 28 I'm so unhappy. I try to sleep as much as I can to numb the pain. I just graduated from being a nurse.., I hate it. I thought by now I'd be married with kids. I can't describe this dreadful feeling inside. I try to avoid others due to having to put on a front and fake. I feel like I'm slowly wasting away. My family is way too dependent on me. It seems every time I try something I get knocked back down . I'm just so tired. I don't want to die but feel dead inside.

HELP!

My parents have always been extremely strict. not letting me watch movies above PG (i've seen like 2 marvel/DC movies and both those were at a friends house), not letting me have any video games, not letting me listen to any music besides christian, forcing me to be homeschooled because of "bad influences", forcing me to do devotions every night, not letting me wear anything too short or "questionable" (AKA anything off-the-shoulder or a little above the knee), make me to give my electronics at night, not letting me text or hang out 1on1 with guy friends, etc. So, of course I broke a few of those rules, mainly cuz they were unreasonable. I had quite a few guy friends and of course i'm a 14 year old girl, I swear. I went to a christian youth group and participated in a lot of church events. well, my mum decided have me hand over my phone. she looked through all my messages and I guess was "traumatized". It wasn't even that bad, guys. I didn't do drugs, I drank once, but never did it afterwards, i don't smoke, we weren't even dating, but she just doesn't trust me. She made me leave that church and youth group saying it was a "bad and unwholesome place" (mainly cuz that guy friend went there). I've been "restriction" for 9 months now. I finally asked her when I was getting my phone back and she said that I was never getting a device back with internet access again as long as I'm under their authority. I'm a good kid, guys, but this is so unfair. what can I do to get out of this?

I just go from one high school to another I'm already on my 7th one I haven't been able to really keep friends and I was selling drugs to just get money here or there but then my family found out my mom can't even pay rent and I feel lost I just wanted to get this off my chest and people find me weird I just want a stable home or to feel loved or wanted or to even hang out but I think I made things worse I'm supposibly punished for dealing but I ran away because I spent too much time inside I felt like I was going crazy now that I write everything I feel crazy it just felt like little stuff on top of that I barely go to school I just feel lost any advice?

We go to the same college and been talking for like months. Im an American and she's from Peru. Whenever we hung out we got along great. We were always going out and messing around. Throughout the semester we saw each other like 2-3 times a week. We always went out to lunches, dinners, and bars etc. whenever we were out shell always be all over me. Like holding my hand while we eat, resting her head on me, and playing with my hair. She told me she liked me to my face several times. The thing we talked about early on what this was and we kind of agreed on friends with benefits. But the more and more we hung out the more it was obvious, at least to me, that we were more. Like we didn't hook up everytime we hung out. We went food shopping together once a week, and just really genuinely enjoyed each others company. she's not so good at communicating. So I dont know what the future holds for us. She just left for a month to study abroad and things were kind of awkward saying goodbye before she left because I told her there's a chance Ill be moving back to my home state for good which is 1000 miles away. I really like this girl. And before she left i told her again i liked her and that ill miss her, she told me she liked me too and that shell miss me a lot and not to forget about her. Im afraid to ask her out officialy because i feel shell say no. Even though she told me liked me I feel she doesn't see me as her official boyfriend.

I am in eighth grade at the moment and I have been facing this issue before, but even more this year. I need help. Basically, I'm the type of person who does not know what to talk about when the previous conversation ends. I also do not know how to make proper eye contact, which is pretty embarrassing. Whenever there's group work, my friends never choose me because they know that they won't enjoy talking to me or anything. If I am in a conversation with three people and one leaves, I panic and get anxious because I know it would be awkward to be left alone with that one person. Whenever there's a group conversation, I'm always the one to get talked over and ignored. I want to be the type of person who is interesting, and not boring and bland. How can I be someone who is fun to be around with and is enjoyable to talk to?

I don't like seeing fights because IN person they look so frightening and I kinda got paranoid. It got so bloody. I saw this outcast girl being pushed to the trash can by two other girls and she, alone, tried to smack both back but she had her hair pulled and in the end got punched horribly in the nose, and all of them were forced to go to the office campus, with bruised faces and a bloody nose. All because of name-calling..

People use the excuse of being 'busy', even comfortable silence seems out the window these days. Like I understand people have their own lives, but how can someone be so 'busy' to not reply to a message for months or call for years. A simple Hey, How are you, This is my life right now, etc too ******' much. It's like people completely forgot how to be social after they got their faces glued to a cellphone. "I'm busy" sits on their *** playing Candy Crush for three hours.

Before I begin, it is relevant to note that I am female. Anyways, I have this boss at my work. She has been there for a few months now and I have been infatuated with her from the first day I met her, but I don't think it is a "crush" thing because I don't feel anything sexual towards her. I have tried to determine what draws me to her and I think it is because she's everything I hope to be ten years from now. She's respectable, hard-working, and her physical body is something I strive for. Whenever she talks to me I get this high and I feel really energized. Every conversation I have with her gets replayed by my mind several times, but I'm pretty positive she doesn't feel nearly the same way as I do. I overthink every thing involving her and mull over every word she says. I know it is compulsive and creepy so I want to stop but am not sure how. I just want to focus on other things but when she's around I can't seem to think about anything but how I appear to her. I know if I just relaxed around her, we would probably be friends but it's too late for that because I feel like a creeper and can barely look her in the eye. Any tips to stop overthinking everything would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a college senior graduating tomorrow. I was an RA for freshmen and my floor was great, all unique personalities and so much fun to be around. They all moved out today. It was really sad to know I'll never see them ever again, after living on a floor for them for a year:( How do I cope? I honestly feel pretty depressed, like they are going to move on with their lives and forget about me

So, I was talking with a few people in my class at a field trip, and it was getting quiet, so I decided to make a joke directed at myself saying, "oh, I'm so depressing, I'm so tired and I cut myself". Then, someone asked me if I was trying to imitate a different person, and thinking that the person who said that would like me more, I said yes. Someone overheard, and told the person I was "talking about". The next day, (today) I got sent to the vice principal's office to sort things out with her. I had done other rude things unintentionally to her in the past, and told her I would never do something like that again. But apparently, I messed up another time. I told her I was sorry, and she declined my apology, but I'm fine with that. I'm just not fine with the things I did and said. I'm moving from this town I'm in currently, thankfully. But another thing that bothers me is that I lied to the vice principal by saying that the subject of the person I was "talking about" was already brought up. The person I was "talking about" wanted to confront the people "talking about her", but I already told her that I lied. It's just the vice principal who doesn't know. She will probably confront me about this, and I know, but the main issues I'm worried about right now is the person I "talked about" talking about the things I did after I move and my parents finding out about this.

I want to travel, and I have a two year bike tour planned and a friend of mine wants to go, but he wants me to wait for a year and save up for something I don't need. Should I go ahead without him?

My mom s best friend is currently dying, she wants to go and is ready. But my mom doesn t want her to- yesterday she didn t open her eyes and was just nodding. I m not sure how to help my mom through this - she is most likely going to see her in two weekends. Advice for what I should say to help comfort my mom?

Last summer she said that she was going to visit me in NYC. That never happened. She eventually stopped talking to me altogether. I became a survivor of narcissistic and sociopathic abuse on 7/31/2017. That is the day I blocked my ex-boyfriend after he was gaslighting me. This is after two years of mind games. The first year he sexually abused me. My friend slowly stopped talking to me. My ex hacked my email and facebook in September and I made some reports to the NYPD for stalking. My ex goes to the same grad school as me so I made a title IX report too. All this drama was a lot and may be why she stopped talking to me. My life is fine now and I'm graduating this week. She still will not talk to me. I spoke with her on the phone after a police situation five months ago. I have not spoken to her since because she ignores my messages.

my friend (well-ex friend) had a birthday party recently and invited almost all of the people in our class. At first I didn't really care but when I asked her about it she lied and pretended she didn't have a party, she then made other people join in on the act. I was singled out. A few days later my other friend that was invited to the party said that the reason why I wasn't invited was because others said if I go, they don t want to go. she told me this in private and said not to tell anyone because she doesn't want people to hate her as well. I don't know what to do and i'm starting to stress a lot. I have also noticed that I have drifted away from so many of my old friends. I feel so alone and don't know what to do. I have thought about telling one of my favorite teachers but don't think it's really appropriate since it doesn't seem like its bullying. I can't live like this. Please help ASAP would this be considered bullying? Also, I cannot simply "ignore" the people doing this because its almost all of the class Please tell me if i should confide in a teacher about this issue because I feel so alone right now. I feel like I don't even have real friends anymore...

we have been together for 1 1/2 years but now he is spending time apart away from me by attending parties with his friens . Should I date someone new?

Hi. I'm 15 and a sophomore in high school and i am not happy. I have always been shy around people and I don't talk much. The past 2 years have been miserable for me because of my social anxiety. I have trouble fitting in with most people. I like cars and mechanical stuff, which not a lot of people my age are into. I'm not well liked by students or teachers, and am generally made fun of often, they consider me to be weird, antisocial, and awkward. The only people that wanna hang around me are nerds (who I don't fit in with at all) or the people who are bad influences on me (I'd rather not be around them). I just want to find my place in this world and find good people to be around. I can't stand the loneliness anymore, no one seems to understand. Can someone please help me out? Thank you.

Recently, my friends started to compare me to one of my closest friends, saying she's prettier than me, and she has bigger boobs, and was voted on wining for singer of the month while I wasn't. Up to now, I never compared myself to her, but then all of a sudden I feel that I'm uglier than her, and she beats me in everything. Idk, I feel insecure at times, but it seems like I guess everyone likes her more than me, which is understandable, because I was always the outcast in groups. What should I do?

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