I'm a very anxious, depressed guy. I'm single, and I just get a lot of panic attacks and such and this girl she worked at my workplace for a couple years. Sometimes she'll sit with me in breakroom. She has said she is always there if I need to talk and tells me I'm a good person...but like we're friends on Facebook but wouldn't accept me on Instagram or Snapchat . She didn't deny me either but didn't accept. She said we're friends, and I gave her a ride home once when she needed it, and asked how she was when she was upset but she usually won't talk about her feels she's stronger than me. But like she didn't like this girl I went out with was treating me bad, and told me I deserve better. So she will ask if I'm emotional what's wrong and talk and reinsure me, well joke sometimes, she has a boyfriend we're not into each other romantically I just want her as a friend but is she?

Me and a friend have recently fallen out as he said I call and I text him way too much. Now he says he doesn't want anything to do with me and has blocked my phone number. I do see where he is coming from, I get extremely attached to certain friends and want to be involved in everything and I suppose I can be quite suffocating. He hasn't yet removed me from any social things like Facebook or snapchat. Should I stop holding out that he may talk to me again or does he just need some time away from me

I'm a junior in high school. My boyfriend broke up with me because he thought something was going on between my best friend and i (there wasn't) but my best friend is in love with me also. They had planned to fight and tried to leave me out of it so i didn't try and stop it but i successfully did without anyone getting hurt. They both got mad at me and are making me choose one or the other. What do i do?

I have a best friend and I love him to death. And sometimes he'll hang out with someone else or other people and he'll just ditch me but I don't think he does it intentionally. I get very very Jealous and I really don't want him talking to or connecting with somebody else. I sometimes feel like he has better connections with a few other people rather than me and It hurts my feelings a lot and I just can't take it anymore. Idk what to do.

a friend became homeless an i let her put her belongings in my closet she doesnt sleep here but needed to move it out of where it was. if she doesnt come back to get it what can i do i dont want to get in legal trouble.

Can you give me some things going on or pointers I have lived here for awhile but dont have that many friends yet or anyone who has similar intrests to me.

So my roommate and I used to be friends, but sharing a room with her has ruined our friendship. Anyway, growing up, I was always taught to keep a clean kitchen and bathroom. However, my roommate is the exact opposite. She doesn't clean the bathroom unless told to and she leaves dirty dishes in the sink for days (but no more than a week). That bothered me because I'm not used to living that way, and I tried to deal with it, but eventually I couldn't, because I just can't stand a dirty bathroom. My roommate misunderstood me asking her to clean as me "micromanaging". I thought about that, and she is correct, so I tried explaining to her that we weren't compatible as roommates, but she went on about how I was toxic and how I was a terrible roommate. I wasn't trying to micromanage, I was just trying to add order to our lives by making a cleaning schedule. She used to leave unwrapped pads, bloody and **** stained wipes in the trash, leave hair in the shower, leave dried up food on the kitchen counters, and that honestly bothered me.

Im good playing basketball and my coach took me out of the u16 team to join the u21 team(Im 16 years old boy ). Everyone think that just because im good playing basketball i like being on the u21 team.I don´t. Everything its diferent and my first game went horrible.I normaly score +20 points per game and i used to play almost all the time. In my first game in the team u21 i played only 5 min and scored just 4 points. They mock me saying "You supposed to be good?" or "I heard you were good. You still have to learn a lot kid ,to be good" and they laught. And when the game was over it was horrible. Shower time.I hate taking showers with other people even on the u16 team i hated that but it was ok. Now i just cant. They were like "Yo kid, you smelling very bad go take a shower!" i was super nervous and i dont know why. Then i finally striped down and enter to take a shower. It was like a nightmare, i saw they looking at me and laughting. Then some guys there were like "Yo kid nice b.u.t.t". Then i dress the quickest i could and got home. I donno what to do. I dont want to be in that team. The youngest of them is 20 im f.u.c.king 16. What do i do??? We are all white dudes, not that matters.

So I have this friend in my college Principles of Management class- I notice he'll hug everyone around me and act awkward and won't hug me unless no one's there. He had a house party and he stayed next to me the entire time. I helped him cook, when he first bumped into me it was an accident; then it became repetitious. I'll catch him staring at me, he'll quickly look away though. I did notice once I mentioned liking someone in the fall he started paying attention to what I said. If he does hug me I notice his face gets red, his hands are warm and sweaty. Do you think he likes me? During his house party his friend mentioned how she wanted to become a dentist I said mouths were gross, his best guy friend said "We both know you two are only interested in each other's mouths"(referring to my friend who may like me and myself). He has told me he finds me to be very pretty, he acted awkward after he told me this.

Abt a month ago it happened and she told two of her other close friends and then one of her not so close friends. I know it sounds ridiculous but it really hurt my feelings that she didn't think she could trust me and it's not like she kept it a complete secret either.

So I got a ride home from my roommate/ friend for thanksgiving break One day before break was over I was told that he had went back to school ( 90 minutes away) and I was pretty frustrated because he did not tell me he was leaving. Apparently he had a last minute project he had to work on with a group member. Later on another friend of mine was asking if I would go back home with him for another event and I said idk because I am quite unsure of whether the guy would leave me there again or not My friend said I was overreacting and that there is no way he would ever leave me again and that it was my fault for not letting him know that I wanted to come back with him. The thing is, I have come back with him many times and also let him know that I was coming back with him, so I assumed it would be common sense that the guy would make efforts to reach out to me since he came with me he could at least let me know he was leaving. What makes his even more messed up is not only does he know me very well, we are also roommates. What do you guys think? ACTUALLY PLEASE DISREGARD THAT, HE HAS RARELY EVER BROUGHT ME HOME IN THE PAST. AND WHEN HE DID, I WOULD ALWAYS CALL HIM LIKE A DAY OR TWO BEFORE BREAK WAS OVER AND WE WOULD GO BACK TOGETHER. HE NEVER WENT HOME EXTRA EARLY. THE MAIN PROBLEM IS WE LITERALLY LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE IN SCHOOL

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So, I'm 34, but in high school I was bullied mercilessly by this kid named Donnie. Went on for years. He'd beat the **** out of me, rob me, he'd go through my backpack and tear up my homework just so I'd fail classes. I had to take summer school because of him. And he was on the basketball team so the school let it slide, it was bullshit. So I moved back to my hometown recently, and I looked up Donnies wife on Facebook. I never told her I knew her husband. We chatted, we flirted, it took me a few weeks, but I seduced her, got a motel. It was perfect, I just wanted to have sex with her so I could tell him and ruin his family. I figured he ruined my life in high school, I'll ruin his and we're even steven. I went to Donnies job to confront him, hes an insurance broker, I said, hey, remember me???? I was surprised, he offered me a heartfelt apology and asked for my forgiveness. Didn't see that coming. I was like, I accept your apology. Because I ****** your wife! Now we're even asshole! I gave him a flash drive with all our conversations and pictures she had sent me, he had a nervous breakdown, broke down in tears, it was epic. I was overjoyed at how it went down, until I found out he killed himself that night. And..... I just can't help but feel partially responsible. He started it though, years ago, he did this to himself. Should I attend the funeral, the wake? Send flowers? I kinda want to give a speech and apologize to the family. What would be appropriate?

My 11 year old son has a friend from school (Pete) that is absolutely annoying, overbearing, and very demanding He is constantly inviting himself to our house. His parents have no problem putting us on the spot, asking if their son can stay the night or whatever. My DH and Petes dad are friends. My son made another friend at school (Brady)and he is spending the night tomorrow. My son told me that Pete found out at school that Brady was spending the night. My DH just informed me that Petes dad called him basically inviting Pete to come over too. (yes, Petes dad is ignorant and overbearing as well). I want my son to make other friends and not have to entertain Pete bc he thinks he has to be invited everywhere. Plus, my son is upset bc Pete invited himself. How can I politely tell Pete and his parents to back off?

I am a man over 50 years old. When I was in primary school around 40 years ago, a group of boys grabbed one of my friends - also a boy - and forced him into a washroom, grabbed him, and forcefully dipped his head into the toilet for a few seconds? Why? What was the deal with that?

My female friend and I from high school lost one of our fellow classmates who was bullied a lot. One day while he and I were hanging out after school, one of the students kept messing with him, and even threw a bag of potato chips at his back. So he spit on the student, which understandably caused student to go ballistic at my friend. Despite the fact that I didn't like the fact that he bullied my friend, I was NOT on my friend's side regarding how he handled the situation. Years later after he died, I was on the phone with our female friend. When I told her about that spitting incident, she took our friend's side, which shocked me. FYI, she was bullied a lot since kindergarten, so perhaps she was lashing out due to hatred of bullies. Is she wrong for that opinion?

I have competed in the American Legion Oratorical Contest for three years. During that time, my Department Chairman (the person in charge of the contest for the state) has been extremely supportive. He has flown out to support me in the national competition and has brought me and my parents out to lunch following several other local competitions. I really want to give him something to express my gratitude, but I do not know what. I cannot give him a giftcard because we live in different areas. What can I give him that is thoughtful, but not weird?

I had this mutual friend who... laughed really LOUD and OBNOXIOUSLY in movie theaters. Like, so bad that people look at us when he does it. Simple question: Am I shallow for being... annoyed by this? And how would u feel about it?

I work in an office of 24 people, mostly women like me. We got a new boss and he implemented some unusual work rules. He believed we are more productive if we are comfortable at work so he asked us to wear comfortable clothes to work. Pants are fine for us women if we want to wear them. Before we had to pay part of our health insurance premium. That cost has been eliminated. However, there is a catch. No heals over 1 inch are allowed. By not allowing high heels, he could eliminate the part of the health insurance premium we had to pay. He encouraged us to wear New Balance walking shoes and gave each of us a $150 Norstrom coupon to buy our first pair. Instead of casual Friday as some companies, we now have casual all week. We can now also can get a free massage at noon or after work. Free Weight Watcher meeting are held after work for people want to loose weight. The new boss thinks extra weight causes medical problems and drives up his cost of health insurance. Also, if we enroll in Nutrisystems, the company will pay one half the cost of the food. There is no pressure to do the weight loss things. It is voluntary. I think these are great work place rules. Some of the other women think these rules are too restrictive. What do you think? Is not wearing high heals a good tradeoff for no cost medical insurance? In a time when so many people are unemployed, it just does not seem right to complain when you have a great boss who is also our friend.

new friends i feel fearful. If i was a true friend would she still want me

I attract people I do not want to talk to. In fact I'm so selective about who I talk too, that there's only one person I feel comfortable opening up too at the moment (and that person doesn't really want to talk to me because I admitted I had feelings so they turned cold haha) and feel the urge to talk to and hear from them exclusively. Unfortunately besides one or two people per several years I have absolutely no desire to engage in conversation, or long texts back and forth etc with anyone else. I didn't notice this was weird until I saw a post on snapchat from a girl that said "please talk to me, anybody, I don't care who" that I realized I'm very different. The thought of talking to just anybody seems so foreign to since most people are so unlikable during small talk. I also saw another story emphasizing the importance of talking to other people, even if it's small talk, to keep your mind from going to a dark places, and I thought that was really weird since I go days sometimes even months without speaking to anyone. I feel like would be torture to force yourself to talk to someone you don't want to talk to so I just rater not talk to anyone at all (unless that specific person wants to talk of course - but they have to reach out obviously because I won't be the one too). I just feel like if I can't talk to the people I want to talk to then I rather just not talk to anyone at all. What's wrong with me? HAHA Paul! But I'm not talking, I'm asking for advice maybe a diagnoses haha? I know it's very strange. I was just kind hoping that I wouldn't be alone here, in the whole 'not wanting to talk to anyone except for specific people' thing. I read tons of question that say they 'really want someone to talk too' and people empathizing with the notation of just talking to anyone they can. But what if some one only really wants to talk to certain people AND not just anyone under the sun? Does that person ignore every text, phonecall etc (which I do) expect for the ones I actually want to talk to? Do I get help? What do you think? Why is it odd consider to the example of talking to anyone who want to talk to you? For the record I also wish I had someone to talk to. It's just that I know who that someone is at all times. Could be a specific family member, friend or crush. But I legitimately have no interest in talking to just anybody.... random people that try to engage with you in the street, work, or via text (the worst is when an old college friend or something tries to text you... cmon. go away. guess I'm just alone here on this one hahaha

One woman hits on married men and the other one is trying to break apart my extended family.

She's a coworker of mine. We used to kind of be friends too until this all happened. She also has a close friend who is a supervisor and that supervisor used to try to help out the situation by not putting us together. I've worked really hard to avoid her, ghosted her on social media (most of the time), anything to emphasize that I'm trying to give her space and not be a problem while also avoiding other behaviors that I imagine would come across as creepy. Problem is, not making eye contact is also creepy, and she at least used to think I was leering at her when she didn't notice. I've felt pretty offended by her passive aggressive digs at me. On top of that, sometimes she'll try to talk to me, thinking that will somehow normalize things (which is also tough; half the reason anyone has a thing for her is because of her personality) and it feels more like a strategy (which it is) as opposed to an attempt to actually be friends again. I don't want to try to start talking to her again like when we were friends, because I feel like I wouldn't hold a normal conversation. It would be too aware of what it's trying to be. Thoughts? Also, no, as long as I can keep this job, until I find a better one, I'm not quitting.

Losing my sanity tonight. Very lonely. I don't want to be alone anymore. It surprises me how everyone wants love or sex mixed with love and yet they only seem to find it with those that don't care if they hurt someone or not. So here I am, upset over someone who's upset over his x lying. It's never going to change this cycle. And I'm ready to give up. My life couldn't be any shittier. I'm a pretty girl. I don't understand why I'm not enough to make a man stay faithful. I do everything I possibly can. I'm tired of cat and mouse and I'm tired of trying. It breaks my heart so much that it's breaking my will to live and I just need to vent. God bless everyone.

Like for the most part she just designates me as a normal friend to the public, rarely acknowledging me on social media or anything. She has other public best friends that apparently don't include me. We've have apparently been best friends for 13 years. Our friendship has always been relatively unstable but I figure since it lasted, it was genuine. She'll tell me in private how 'special' I am but I never see that translated to others. What do you think about this?

If you were talking about job interviews and said you don t like the job interview process and someone said: "I don t mind interviews. I m really good at them. Every job I ever interviewed for I got the job." AND If you were talking about your weaknesses and say you sometimes have trouble keeping your priorities straight and you ask: "Do you ever have trouble with that?" And they answer: "No. I ve never had trouble with keeping my priorities straight. But that s just the way I was raised." What would you think? Would yoh say they like to brag?

I had some friends in a group, all were different races. Then they each ditched the group for a new group that had only friends of their race. I don't know if I can be friends with any of their groups because I'm not the same race as them and they don't want me. I'm white and would be friends with someone who is not, but if you are a POC would you be friends with someone who is white? Why/why not and would you make an exception?

I'm 16 and lonely affff I only have a few friends and they're on a much different schedule than I am at the moment. Can y'all just talk to me or just say something that on your mind? :~) i feel like I'm very alone and I don't feel like anyone understands me ( ik that sounds corny lol) I'm also not close with my family so I'm really just focused on friends at the moment, which I need more of.... anyways.... what's up?

In the beginning of the year, I made a group with 7 ppl. Now three of them left, (to different groups, not together) I was annoyed but fine. My other friend in the group, let's call her A, was also pissed at them but fine. Now A has started to ditch the group for a new group. I dont want to stay in the old group with only 3 ppl including me, and the other two always make plans without me. What should I do?

All they do now is wear make-up, take stupid filter selfies, and wear dake nails and use stupid slang like "yes queen" or "ily gurl". What happened to girls?

So for me, I can say something and people will call me a dumbass or a weirdo. I'm in HS and not popular, not many friends. I play baseball though. The most popular kid in the entire school is on the team too. He is the undisputed most popular kid. I have said lots of things that caused people to call me a dumbass or a weirdo. Then, IM NOT EVEN KIDDING YOU, this popular kid has said the exact things as me after I said them then everyone thought it was funny and super cool. FOR EXAMPLE: one of my coaches is a counselor. I asked him AS A JOKE can you change my grades yourself (so I don't have to do the work to fix them.) Everyone who heard me say that called me a dumbass and said wth is wrong with you. My coach gave me this long explaination of why he can't do it. Then a couple weeks later the popular kid said the exact same thing as me and everyone laughed and my coach said dude I so would if I could. WTF? There's many more examples I could give you but I just don't get why people won't respect me

I'm a guy. She is a coworker and says we're friends. I gave her a ride home once when her car broke. And last year she became aware of my anxiety disorders and the fact I take meds cause I had depressing posts. She asks how I'm doinf s lot and says she always there. Whenever I've asked her she never got sick of me or told me to get over it...the one person. My friend and family eventually all got tired of me and stop responding well This friend, I feel like I want to talk to her but what do I say? Do I tell her I'm so depressed I'm having s breakdown and just need someone to talk to? I don't know like she the sweetest person what do I do?