I feel as though my parents care about me too much. How do I make them stop caring about my hobbies, how much I m on my phone, what I m doing, how school is going, who my friends are, what time I go to bed, etc? None of my friends have this problem, and I m jealous of all of them. I understand that they re "just trying to protect me", but it gets very annoying and makes me feel like I have no privacy.

Story: I am a 16 year old boy, I was going outside to test the lock on my gate, when it opened I saw this woman (A young 24 year old) who knew me, she stopped and started to talk to me now I was getting an erection, but was hiding behind the get and talk. Finding the weird she said, "Why are you acting all nervous and hiding?" I didn't respond and slipped away. Scary stuff. Did anything like this ever happened to you, what have you done about it?

when I turned 13 I was trying to plan my own birthday party, and it was about 2 weeks until my birthday. I told them I wanted to see a movie (appropriate movie) with my friends and get a double piercing, because they gave me a choice of a big thing to do on my birthday, either a cooking class or a double piercing. I told them that was exactly what I wanted and reminded them that I didn't like surprises. 1 week before my birthday they told me it was going to be a surprise and I was upset, and I talked to them and told them that I just wanted to do my planned party and I have planned my own parties for quite a while now. They had recently started making a bunch of frusturating new rules and it seems like when I get older they are just making more rules when I should be getting more priveleges. On the day of my birthday, I ended up having a french theme party and I didn't get anything on my birthday list, I got a bunch of random things that I hadn't asked for. when asked them why they didn't just take me to the movie I wanted to watch they said that was ridiculous and would never happen. then later they took me to the cooking class (I chose the double piercing)

I have this friend who i would always invite to hang out and stuff but she never reciprocated in doing so she would tell me stuff like "i need to see how my week goes" or "its too early to tell if i can" i feel its a one sided friendship where im the only one trying and accommodating to her schedule, its exhausting.

 4 years ago, when i was in middle school, i got to know my best friends ever. they changed my life. i had my best moments with them. we use to hang out a lot. till the end of middle school. we use to play football and enjoy our time. but not until i went to high school. i went to a different school alone without them and they went together to another school. ever since then. we,,,, we drifted apart.  2 years of struggling to make friends. although i did but i cannot do things with them like what i did with my old friends. and now i miss them badly. they forgot me, they hangout without me. that really hurt me. i get hurt each time i see an Instagram story of them hanging out without me. i feel worried if i DM them and they ignore me like they did before. i just want a way to get to them back. i am really depressed so please,,, please help.....

I saw a girl from my one of classes at cashier so I briefly chatted with her and when she paid for her items, she said bye, I will see u around! What did she mean?

Hey guys, I would ask you.. I have two best friends. First one is cool, she does not mind anything, etc. but the second one is really cares about me, but sometimes I don´t get it. She tells me to make contact with someone else, but if I do, she is angry becuase I don´t talk to her. And we will go to a school trip and she doesn´t want to go. But I am afraid if I will go without her, then she will stop to talk me, beacuse I ´betrayed´ her. And the first won´t go too, but she is fine with it, and I haven´t talked to the second one yet about it. So should I be okay and go there or be with them?

We have been friends for 3 years however 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 and get.more involved with his other friends. When he does visit I feel it's out of convince or duty since we always try to meet when he comes home for the summer. I have always put more effort into the friendship and even though he says he will try he never emails, calls or texts. I have never been included in birthday celebrations, this year he went on holiday and told me he would message me as soon as we got back so we could hang out and I could give him his gift. That was a month ago, and since then no texts, no calls nothing. Now I think he has gone back to college (in another city) and not told me. I have no idea what to do. I thought I should mention that he began the friendship with me first.

I'm a senior. I know, it's a little late for me to be making friends. I don't have any friends. My college experience was not good. I just feel like I've come across the wrong people. Wrong people, wrong places. How do I make friends with people without forcing it? I'm tired of being lonely. Every time I try to talk to someone , I feel like I'm forcing it. I'm the type of person to want things to happen naturally. But, that hasn't got me anywhere. I'm starting to feel like something is wrong with me.

I'm 21 already and I have lost my "friends" due to always working and not making time for them and ignoring their messages when they wanted to hangout. They probably work more than I do and still have time for their friends. I wish that was me but I just got used to staying at home after work and lose interest in going out. They don't text me anymore or invite me to things and I don't think they'll talk to me again but if it happens it'll happen. I don't want to rely on my old friends to be social but I want to meet new people because I always felt like I wasn't part of the group. I'm just not sure where to start and I'm a guy and I'm awkward so it' take some time for me to get comfortable around new people. Most dating apps never work out so I feel like nothing will work. I'm not searching for friends but I just want some people to hang out with from time to time because I'm getting used to being a couch potato.

I have been friends with this girl for one or two years. She talks a lot about death and the Bible, (which I don't really mind because I love Jesus!) But I do think she talks about it way too much. She talks a lot about how people lost their lives in shootings, like the Texas shooting for example. She also complains about being bullied by rumors freshmen year. I'm sorry, but you can't fix that. I was harassed by boys from elementary to middle school. My "friend" also wants to protect our friendship, which I think is already dead. I never feel truly happy in the relationship. At least not anymore. I start to find her really annoying, constantly getting on my nerves until I'm stressed to the max. She doesn't understand what I try to say. I feel forced into a friendship. I honestly don't even feel the point of saving it. What is your advice for this?

I'm not sure how he did this, but he says it got stuck somehow.

My roommate has been discussing a sleepover, which would be fine but she's been discussing it with other people (girls and guys), in our room, without talking to me first and was hoping I'd leave so she can have it (she made it clear I'm not invited and she doesn't want me in the room either.) She wants me to stay at my bfs place c but I think it's rude to think I'd force myself at his place (especially since he had his own life, and things he does like work, etc.) My roommate isn't one for respecting space and she has her bed lofted so I feel like if she did have this sleepover she'd be letting random people sit on my bed and use my desk space (she's messy and can't even use her desk while, I'm very organized and use my space for art so I don't want anything messed with because one fallen item could lead to a paint cup spilling, etc.) What should I do about the situation? I don't like the idea of her deciding she's going to kick me out, and if I happen to go over to my guys place (sometimes I do so that's what she was banking on) how can I make it so ppl won't be messing with my things? I could easily put my stuff up in my suitcases and lock it but what about my bed? This may sound paranoid, but she's always touching my things or looking at my stuff as is, so she probably has the mindset that if she puts things back I wouldn't notice. I told her that it's rude to invite people before talking to me even if it's not finalized, but idk what else to say. We have a roommate contract about guests, sadly our new RA didn't go over sleepovers but we said we had to earn each other ahead of time and agreed on guests being over from 1-10pm at the latest on wweekends. I want to try talking things out first

Last year I shared a room with a good friend of mine. We purchased a TV (I purchased the TV and she was planning on paying me half later) for our room. We barely used it that year and she hadn't paid me for the other half so we agreed that I would be the sole owner of the TV. Soon after we moved to a new apartment. Now we both have our own rooms and a third roommate. We agreed to put the TV in the living room (rather, it was assumed it would be put there as it made sense) and my roommates use it everyday and all the time even while they are doing homework and such. While I am not annoyed they like to use it so much, I am annoyed that I have never used it and I paid for all of it. I would use it all the time if it was in the privacy of my room as I don't like to watch movies or shows with others around. I wish I had made a point of having it my room since first moving in but I did not know if it would fit then, and I know that it will now. I know that if I move it they will not agree and will probably not be able to afford to replace it. Am I a jerk? I don't want to take away their use of it but I would like to use my own TV and I am just not very comfortable using it in the living space.

So im 22 and my friend is 20 (we are both men) and my friend got really drunk and some other friends that were with us said that i should give him a bath because that helps. So we got home ( we are roomates) and i did what they said, i gave him a bath. That was a bit akward cause i needed to strip him naked and seeing him like that was a bit akward to me and to him haha. So i gave him a bath and after that i help him getting to bed he was still naked haha. If this happen again how can i make this less akward? Does he need to be completely naked or what? Was i a good friend/ did i help him in any way?