I am a very shy person, and have trouble talking to people in almost every situation. I noticed that I am more outgoing and friendly when I've had a few drinks, but I don't want to fall down that slippery slope of relying on alcohol to help me in social situations. Any suggestions would be appreciated :)

I say.The kids of the upler moddle class-white collar families never accepted me.I also had the best grades.Do you hink the fact that I was a great student made the kids here dislike me?If I was an average student I wouldnt have been ostracised?I also have a high iq.What do you think?

two of my friends have these, weird (sometimes drugged up) fun internet friends that are (for lack of better word) ****** up? I really want one? Where can i/ did you find one? (i dont have many friends irl sorry)

When someone is mean to me, I consider them jealous. I get any man I want but when I dont, I get so mad and hate all men. I dont make friends with gals uglier than me. I dont care about others feeling. I consider myself a perfectionist.

I'm pretty self conscious about the thought of me being a female, 25 and wearing hearing aids. Will people laugh or think I'm disabled lol

My close friend (A) and I share a best friend (M). You would think that this would mean us 3 would all be super close but A gets really mad and possessive over M whenever she's with me. Because of this, I'm not invited to hang-outs because A doesn't want me there because I'm also best friends with M and she doesn't like that. If M sits with me in class, A starts to cry. It's really weird I know, but I don't take it personally because I know she's just insecure and stuff. I know M "likes" me more, but she has a hard time dealing with A s behaviour. The thing is, A is nice to me in person but extremely untrustable and probably bad mouths me to people. I don't really know what to do because it'll ruin the dynamic between our group of friends since we mostly all have mutual close friends. Should I just distance myself from A, or talk to M and tell her I don t want to be close with A anymore?

I've hung out with one of her friends before just for fun to see what her friends are like. Her friend seems really nice but was always kinda of up in your face. She would constantly ask my friend if she was okay like more than twenty times. Her friend constantly complained that she's always broke and has no money. Her friend said she would love to do this but I got no money. She kept repeating herself. She also has no car to drive and I had to drive her home. Her friend also kept leaving us to go to the bathroom and my friend didn't want to wait for her so she wanted to go outside instead. The friend also has no job and doesn't get paid much.

So picture this it was a friday night and me and my friends were in a car. Donny told me to watch his phone while he got money from an atm. We had to drive off cause a friend of ours needed to be picked up and no one wanted to wait. i noticed that my pockets were full and i complained about this so my friend joked around saying to throw it out the window. Long story short i threw it out the window. Everybodys laughing. Then we went back to pick up donny and i tell him i lost his phone. He got pissed and started yelling then i have to buy him a new one. I HAVE TO BUY HIM A NEW ONE. ME! When clearly its his fault for giving it to me in the first place. And how its not my responsibility if it gets lost because its not mine. He's demanding i pay him a new one. It's ridiculous, i told him countless times it would have never gotten lost if he didnt give it to me...

my friend works at a college and is making minimum wage and she always complains that she is bored and constantly texting me. She said a while ago that she's not allowed to invite friends at her job anymore but yet she told me last week she invited a friend to stay with her at her job and my friend still complained that she was bored. She just just got a new raise and a lot of hours to work and they are really good hours but only chooses to work on Monday's. She's also very broke and complains she has no money. I'm not with her all the time when she spends her money.

So my friend just got this new raise and now in July she's only choosing to work on Monday's and that's it. I've had multiple raises at work and I've worked every single day and got really good hours and wanted to take advantage of my new raise and I will be getting more money. But now my friend is finally in that position and getting more money and only choosing to work only on Monday's. How come should doesn't want to work anymore? She used to love working when I first met her now all of a sudden she's becoming lazy. Her job gave her more hours too which I was surprised and now she's not using them. Why all of a sudden is her attitude changing?

I ve been pretty lonely recently, because I moved school over a year ago and went from a state school to a private school, when I first joined everyone was really nice but now everyone just hates me tells me they hate me and say im annoying because im loud and mean. Ever since I lost my grandfather just over 2 years ago I ve just been pretty down and lonely because he was a big part of my life. People like to poke fun at me because my family just scrapes by to send me to private school and I don t go on holiday and do stuff like that and they also make fun of me for having a country accent where as they all speak queens English. Can anyone give me advice?

I have a choir teacher who is a bit of a prima donna at times and that annoys me. He is a great guy, but he can't seem to take criticism well, my mom says that I shouldn't disagree with him or give him any feedback or advice because he is the Choir Meister and has a degree in music. Is that true or not? Because I want to know if after I finish college if that means that I can act like a giant asshole to people who didn't, I mean if he can then I can too in theory

I look at literally everyone's Snapchat my friend my cousins and I always see them go out with there friends having a really good time.... when I get invited to nothing at all and it just makes me feel awful about myself do they even want me to hang out with them I don't know. I just feel plain out awful whenever my friends are excited to go to the movies with there other friends this and that. I just feel bad because I am always left home when my other friends get invited almost everywhere. I always think if something is wrong with me or I don't fit in or something how can I over come it?

I'm in my late 30's and haven't been close to anyone in 3 years. When I was younger I had friends. I still like to go out and do things. I go to the gym a few times a week. I will even go out to bars and meet people. I like to see a game on tv or a band. I like to go out and talk with women. I find it easier when I'm alone. Then with a group of friends. I just like to date and I will be friends with her friends. My past friends all we did was got drunk. I got tired of it. Some I had to cut ties with. I find it better being a loner sometimes.

basically all of my friends have decided they hate me and always have or something and now i have none. i don't get along with anyone else in my classes and i have no old friends. at lunch there is no where to go but outside and in the dinner hall but it's raining at the moment. and once you have food you can't leave the hall so you have to sit down, so instead i just don't eat. i probably shouldn't stop eating because i can't sit with anyone but i have such bad anxiety i can't sit alone.

Has anyone hang out with a former coworker? Is it ok or not to hang out or keep in touch with former employees?

My friend has a habit to squeeze one of her arms with her other hand until it got red when she is anxious. Ex: when she is getting scolded by teachers or when she is nervous. I really want her to stop hurting herself. What can i do?? Ps. Please give advice other than telling her to see a psychiatrist or doctor

I have this friend who I have none since school but our friend ship is now long distance. About a yr ago at one point we stepped in to the more then friends area for a while (we acted like we were together but we weren't). It ended badly with him saying he didn't like me and him ghosting me. We didn't talk for about 6 months when he wanted to be my friend again. We consistently talk and I think I still like him but I also don't want to loose him as a friend. I know it sounds really stupid to y I would still want to be his friend but I sort understand what he did. Our friendship as gotten very complicated but basically I'm asking should we be talking? Should we have set boundaries like not talking everyday? I want to continue being friends I just want it to be the right thing and I wouldn't know how to stop.

These are friends from jr. high/high school. They used to hang out with me a lot, but we're all pretty busy with work nowadays, so we usually try to find time to have lunch or something. But after a while I noticed that they only started coming around to use my apartment as a pit stop (eating, taking a shower, using internet, etc.) or hanging out when messaged first. I've been going through a lot with my anxiety, depression, stress from work and bills, so this was another thing weighing on my mind. I decided that I wouldn't text anyone, and would only go out if they invited me. I hadn't hear from them in 5 months until i saw them all my birthday party that my family organized and invited them all without telling me, and I didn't even know what to say to them. I felt like I was gonna have a panic attack and I spent almost the whole night outside when everybody was inside having fun. Its been about 2 months since then and they still haven't contacted me. I don't know what to do. I keep telling myself that they must be busy, but then I see on Facebook that they're going on trips and hanging out with each other. I keep thinking that it's somehow my fault.

I'm the driver and I take my friend everywhere since she doesn't drive, I take her to work all the time and shopping when we need to. She wanted to go to the cinema so we went and I drove and parked but a month later I got a letter through the post for over staying the ticket hours which results in a £60 fine but am I wrong in thinking we should split it because I'm literally driving her everywhere and I never ask for fuel money off her?

My boyfriend had a male friend who was the same age as my boyfriend and still single at age 32. My boyfriend always wanted to set him up with women and was keen for him to get a girlfriend like he had me. He kept telling me that women were ungrateful not to go out with him because he was a good looking guy. Still this man couldn't get a girlfriend my boyfriend used to go on holiday with this guy often and he would text me and say that they were both sharing a bed together My boyfriend never shared a bed with me the entire time we were together, he said it was best if we sleep in separate rooms until marriage On a separate occasion me and my boyfriend were invited to a wedding. My boyfriend rang me to tell me that he has spent the evening with his male friend and they went out for dinner and they had both decided that at the wedding they would be sharing a hotel room and that I would have a hotel room on my own His reasons for this was because he was worried that his 'friend' would be a third wheel to our relationship that weekend and didn't want to leave him out. He said that he would spend time with me in the day I felt really uncomfortable with this arrangement and I questioned my boyfriend about it and he told me that they wouldn't be sharing a bed and his male friend would sleep on the floor He would often say to me that he was worried his male friend was lonely and he wanted to pay to take him on holiday again Should I be concerned about this friendship?

I have a friend and me and him have only been friends for maybe a month or so but we hang out all the time. We go out to eat and go places but the problem is I know his girlfriend is jealous as hell cause he hangs out with me more then he does with her. Me and him even talked about becoming roommates. He was cool with it and seemed open to it but when his girlfriend found out she was saying "it wasn't a good idea" like she was mad and what not. I know she is jealous of our "bromance" and thought about ending it for good too keep down drama. The problem is every time I try to end the friendship we end up back friends. What do I do?? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

It's hardcore friend zone, and she has no other true friends. I'm the only one that ever texts her willingly even though she's a great girl. She talks about all her other "friends" like they're perfect people and everything anyone could ever want, yet she's never hung out with any of them besides at parties. Only me. Now she's taking me for granted and I'm almost spent. I love her so much and I wish she felt the same. For context, her last text every night is a goodnight sweet dreams text to me. However, she forgets about all of our very few plans if I don't remind her all the time. She's very confusing and I need someone to talk to about it. I'm almost spent in our friendship and I don't know what else to do. Any advice besides "talk it out"? What would make a girl take someone she says means so much to her for granted? I'm thinking she's maybe just very insecure? Sorry this has already been answered in another post. This one was more of a continuation of the last one.

About two years ago I started hanging out with this girl. Her and I slowly became good friends. She didn't have many friends at the time and I had only a few more than she. Over the next few months we started talking more and more, just as friends. Slowly she began to like me and I began to like her. This was after we were already pretty good friends and talked a lot. Keep in mind we were already friends before we liked each other. Time passed by and we liked each other more and more for about a year. That is, until about March-April 2019. I started noticing that she started becoming more distant and she would never open up like she used to. She used to invite me over to hang out at her house multiple times a week, but now I have to beg her to hang out and remind her about our plans. She shifted from talking to me about life and showing interest in mine, to talking about all her other "friends" and how amazing they are. I put that in quotes because I'm her only real friend. She tells me how much her other friends care about her and how much she likes them, but she's never actually hung out with them besides at parties. It bothers me that she never forgets a party but almost always forgets when I want to spend time with her. This truly hurts so much because I care about her. I love her so much, not even romantically because she burned that bridge. She still calls me her best friend and tells me goodnight every night as her very last text. What is happening?

So i have this friend in my classes and i really like him. He doesn't say much but we still talk. He's such a sweet and quiet person. His friend told me something about him that made me mad and i told my friends about it. They apparently told these two boys i've known for a while and they're like brothers to me. When they asked me about it i got emotional and they got the wrong idea and got mad at him. They took it too far. They hurt him. He was gone for a week after it happened and when he came back i tried to talk to him about it but he just ignored me. I feel really bad and i don't want him to be mad at me. How do i fix everything? How do i make things normal between us again? Any advice would be helpful. Thank you

Tried to contact him but didn't work. Why do I feel I need closure? I am slowly giving up but it hurts. Any suggestions for me? What should I do?

He always calls me baby girl or baby (sometimes he calls me by my name) but is Hunty a bad thing to call him ? I know people make jokes about the name Hunty, meaning it is related to c*nt or something like that but I don't want him to think I'm meaning it in that way

Can your best friends be considered your loved ones just like family is?

Okay so I hung out with 2 friends I haven't seen in awhile. It was kind of awkward b/c I had asked one of the girls to hang earlier (let's call her Sharon), and she said she couldn't today because she had dance and was working out. But then she posts on her story with this other friend, and they've apparently been hanging out the whole day. So I was searching the internet on my phone for advice earlier today b/c Sharon has been super shady recently and I feel like she's been using me for rides, etc. which has been making me kind of frustrated. So tonight they ask me to hang out with them (which was already awkward b/c Sharon basically lied to me earlier), and I was driving. Sharon was using my phones Bluetooth to play music in my car. She starts to look for who a song is by, and instead of using her phone she goes into my phones Safari app. I freaked out b/c I didn't want her to know what I had searched, so I just quickly reached over and grabbed my phone from her to exit out of the page that was open, and gave it back. Now I'm super embarrassed and it was really awkward. I'm afraid both of them talked about me after it happened, since they drove home together once I got to my house, and I don't know what to do now

Me and my best friend are in a musical together. We share mutual friends who are also in the show. During rehearsals, he will slowly start to drift and start hanging out with other people. Specifically one person. When I told him about it, he made it seem like he doesn't like that person and that he would rather hang out with me instead. We both feel like we are ignoring each other at rehearsal. However, when we get home a couple hours after rehearsal, he FaceTimes me. I want to hang out with him more at rehearsal instead of over the phone. But I always feel like he doesn't wanna hang out with me or like he slowly drifts away as rehearsal goes on. I also don't wanna be following he around like a dog though, or be clingy. I think I might talk to him about it today! But idk what to do! How do I get him to come up to me and hang out during rehearsal??

Ok so lets say you and your bestie got a close guy friend and yall decide to hang out with some other friends. You got a bf and knows the guy friend got a gf..is it normal for you to be touching the guy's arm(near his bicept/tricept)everytime you talk, laugh or make a joke, and lean on his arm(bicept/triceps) which watching a movie at the theater?is that normal for y'all?what does it mean and why do you ladies do that?