I skipped youth group tonight in favor of smoking weed at my homegirls house. What do I tell my parents? I'll be back home before they arrive but they'll find out I skipped youth, so should I just say I had diarehha or something?

So lately it's been really boring with my friends whenever we hang. We can never think of something fun to do and my friend usually wants to play a bored game or do makeup which I hate lol. I'm more into do like rebellious stuff ig like lighting things on fire and running around town at night lol I'm not a super bad kid but that's just fun to me. I also love drama and doing truth or dare or Oreo (where u have to ask someone out as a joke) So pls help and give some rebellious ideas for me to do with my friends who are boring asf 😂 I also want a bf so anyone interested lmao jk

We have been friends for over a year, he started the friendship with me but I think there are some problems. There will be no contact unless I instigate contact either text, email or talking in person. I always plan the hangouts and am always the one to make the suggestion and when we do hangout it is very brief and he always seems to be in a rush to get home. Will make time for other friends but tell me he never plans anything and everything he does is spontaneous and when I am spontaneous he tells me he is busy. I hope I am not overreacting, I know the world doesn't revolve around me but I can't help feel a bit pushed aside. I have minor social anxiety and it is hard for me to make friends so without this friendship I will have no one else. (I am not overreacting here) What should I do?

I'm 16 and I love being alone. I don't want to hang out with my friends or do anything that involves other people. I go out everyday, but I only enjoy it when I'm alone. I often avoid hanging out with my friends altogether and I CAN ONLY go out with a single friend at a time, I would NEVER hang out with a group. I very often even lie that I can't go out while I actually am outside alone. You might be even surprised I have friends, but I would actually want to be left alone and have no friends. I do talk to people, but it's mostly over chat.. And I don't do that too often. I am not depressed or unhappy. I would describe myself as pretty lively and joyful person. I rarely feel lonely. It might have been caused by some bad events that have happened to me in the past, since I used to be a polar opposite of myself 6+ years ago, but now I'm over it.

I was isolated in high school and only now that I've finished, I would like to do activities to meet me people. All I did was academics and now I am on antidepressants and need to do something to stay sane and build confidence. At the moment I am planing on studying part time, as I need to heal, it's quite bad. Any advice? I just got invited to my church's hiking club, which is great for a humble start. I would love to do drama, but aren't I too old for that? I crave human touch and having fun and being silly. I never made any friends and now I am worried about surviving the real world.

We broke up about a year ago because we were fighting and arguing and his tense family circumstances didn't help as his brother was diagnosed with kidney failure. During the fight he said i didn't know how to treat a man because my parents were divorced and i hadn't seen a loving relationship like his parents. I then went on to say that his mom had no voice in their household. He attacked back saying "at least she didn't come to church dressed in club attire, arms and legs showing" I then responded which I shouldn't have "your mom looked like she came from the stable, you never buy her new clothes." Fast forward two months I saw him staring at me in church so I texted him but he said he would never forgive me and wouldn't allow himself to have feelings for me again because of what i said about his mom. I didn't respond. Every Sunday in church he'd keep staring at me but I gave him cold looks and avoided his looks. He started smiling and talked to me as I went down the stairs saying hi how are you. I saw him peek through a door crack as he walked past to see if i was still looking at him. The other Sunday, he walked past me and smiled and I smiled back and he winked at me. Recently I've been warm to him looking at him and smiling. I texted him the other day and this how the conversation went. I asked about his brother then he asked me about school and when I get acceptance letters. Is he interested? Why isn't he making a move?

I want to contact my 'best friend' after 1.5 months. We had a falling out and have not spoken since. He blocked me on social media, and I contacted a mutual friend telling him things I am starting to regret. I think by myself contacting the mutual friend, it made things worse. I only wanted the friend to give me some advice, I only think it back fired. Is it a good idea to send him a text saying 'hi, have you calmed down yet, I think we need to talk'.

I asked a friend why he bothers with me because I have alot of insecurity issues that I talk about with him and he replied by saying that he can relate to my feelings and that is why he deals with me. He then proceeded to say that he cant think of any other reason why he deals with me and then "jokingly" said he has nobody else to talk to. am i being over-senstive? or am I right to feel insulted? thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

Why am I always copied? I am a twenty six year old woman and I've experienced this my own life. Why do other women copy me? Or people in general. I know this girl who copied everything I did from the way that I talked, dressed and my interest even my social media. Even popular woman have done the same thing. I know this incredibly popular girl that has a boyfriend who saw me, and he tries to do everything in his power to make her look like me. I always wear my hair in a bun.... now she wears her hair in a bun. I have a natural beauty mark under my lip.... now she wears a fake beauty mark under her lip. This girl and guy is popular, I'm a refusal person... what do they need to copy me for.... isn't having a big following enough. At work the females used to talk so much **** about me wearing makeup and coloring my eyebrows in....... now they are obsessed with make up. Smh This is weird I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. How do I handle this, it's annoying. Smh

My friend is black (and adult in early 20s) but likes to buy tactical knives to collect. I don't think it's a great idea because he's black and he might get attacked for it. How can I tell him to not buy these things and to give up what he has for his own safety?

We have been friends for over a year, he started the friendship with me but I think there are some problems. There will be no contact unless I instigate contact either text, email or talking in person. I always plan the hangouts and am always the one to make the suggestion and when we do hangout it is very brief and he always seems to be in a rush to get home. Will make time for other friends but tell me he never plans anything and everything he does is spontaneous and when I am spontaneous he tells me he is busy. I hope I am not overreacting, I know the world doesn't revolve around me but I can't help feel a bit pushed aside. I have minor social anxiety and it is hard for me to make friends so without this friendship I will have no one else. (I am not overreacting here) What should I do?

my bestfriend is really depressed and sad for most of the time and there's little to nothing I can do to help him except telling him that he's going to get through it and he's going to be okay one day. It feels like he has it very hard to believe that. I've been through depression before but I got through it, I did my best to fight it with all my heart, but my bestfriend really is having it way harder than I did. He's very disappointed from everything and says he doesn't want to do anything. I ask him to go places to make him feel better but he says he doesn't want to. He also says that he could never make his parents proud and he failed everyone. I told him that if you're trying to impress others and trying to make others happy instead of yourself, you're never really going to be good and happy and proud of what you've accomplished. What can I do to help him? What could really help him? Should I suggest a psychologist? I want to see him happy again. I dont want to see him suffering anymore Any help? * he also said that he doesnt enjoy anything in life. Nothing attracts him anymore. Literally nothing. He constantly feels bored and sad. he also thinks that everybody thinks that he's a bad person. He's really the best human being I've met in my life and I dont regret it at all. I've seen his true colors and all he wants to do is try to be happier and help other people. He's the kindest, sweetest and the smartest guy I've ever met. He doesn't believe it, though. Why is he so disappointed?

So, I have recently been diagnosed with social anxiety and although I didn't know it at the time, it has prevented me from celebrating anything in the past few years for various reasons. This year I've come on leaps and bounds and because it's such a big birthday I want to do something with my circle of friends. It won't be anything massive, just with 11 other people in my group. Now, I am not in school anymore, but my whole group of friends are just about to start their final year. My birthday falls on the first weekend after they're back to school. They are going to have a meal and go to a nite club to celebrate their last weekend of summer together which is great, except that's when I was gonna do something for my birthday. But I thought, it's fine, I'll just ask them if they wouldn't mind going to a nite club on the night of my birthday! Another, more social, friend asked them to go out for her birthday.... the weekend after mine. So basically they won't go out 3 weeks in a row when they're just starting their final year of school :( I know for a fact if I tried to invite everyone out anyway that my closest friends might come but they most likely would be doing it because they felt obliged and not because they were truly comfortable about it. My problem in short is... I want to celebrate an important birthday, my 18th, my first year with some more confidence, but everyone's plans conflict entirely with that idea. What can I do?

I've already made a post a few days ago so I'll keep it short, I really like my best friends girlfriend (we're great friends). I didn't ask to like her, I don't want to like her, but I do. I feel heartbroken every time I look at her or see her name, it just hurts the more and more I think about it. I don't know what to do and it's killing me. I'm not telling either of them as that would ruin my friendship (he's very sensitive). I don't want to feel this way, hell I went into this friendship with her never expecting anything else. As I type this she's texting me and snapping me. We're very close friends and I'm not just cutting her off, but i don't know what to do. Sorry if my grammar has been shitty, I'm just not in a great place right now

I just finished reading "The power to make friends and influence people". and it as a great book. My one friend has been away for a few months and when he returns I want to try some of the things I read on him. I want to make him go from being my friend to being my best friend. I really want to take it to the next level here. Are there any other books on being a good friend and making sure people like you, that you would recommend?

I text my friend to let me know things that happen in her life. For instance, I told her to let me know when she hears from colleges that she applied to, but she does not let me know. I told her to let me know where she end up going, but again she does not let me know unless I text her first. Why does she not let me me?

Do you think it's wrong to write a letter? I don't know what to say in the letter ..

I have a friend who is gay. He has a partner. I am a single female. I have known this friend since I was 19 years old. We are now in our 50's. After about thirty-five years of not even being in contact with this person, I found him on the People Smart website, wrote him a letter, and he was thrilled that I found him. He lives a little further than me but he often asks me for pictures and we talk almost everyday through email. He and his partner share a phone, a computer/email, and a car. Recently, my friend was going to come down maybe for some Disney event and he said that "we" have an older car, "we" won't be able to make it (referring to him and his partner). Yet, he said he plans to rent a car to take to Disneyland next year. I want to ask in the most delicate way I can without offending him why he can't just come out himself to visit me. Either borrow the car, take an Uber, or take a rental car to see a friend he hasn't talked to in years. Me and my other friend might want to have a reunion with him. I want to see him alone but he keeps mentioning that him and his partner would come down. He seems to have a codependent relationship. Also, he often asks for photos of me and my kids but never sends me any pictures of himself. He also didn't say anything about the pictures I sent recently of me and my kids. He just said "I got them" but had nothing to say about them. How am I going to ask this without offending him?