Over the summer I had a coworker who's about 17 or 18. And I'm 27 and a guy. Me and her like talking to each other at work. Her older sister wondered why I was talking to her and is she being overprotective?

Is it the honeymoon phase where she doesn't have time for friends anymore? We used to be really close friends. Text often, hangout often. It's her first relationship so I'm not used to never seeing her. I just wonder if her distance will change?

I'm in my Freshmen year of High-School and have a very conflicted "problem". In 6th grade I had lots of friends, just like I've had all through my life- I never really got picked on and tried to be nice to people 'n stuff. In 7th grade I started getting more social anxiety and just quieter. I've always been kind of quiet and good in school but idk, I got wayy more self conscious ig. I had less classes with my friends that year too and started falling off with a few of them, just cause of that. Then I got home-schooled half way through 7th and in the beginning of 8th my best friend of 7 years ditched me because she had "better friends. In reality, that meant friends that would do stupid things with her that I wouldn't. I'm glad we aren't friends anymore looking back on it know though. She does a lot of bad stuff but is very popular, and best of all- friends with my old friends. People just don t text me anymore and never really seem to care. I have realized I like being less social and more alone, but I still sometimes want to have fun with close friends. Everyone at my school is very social though and into set up cliques. Its like you have to hang out all the time with people to be friends and its overwhelming. I do have one close friend and she's cool, but its just...idek tbh. I've always been like- not popular or anything like that just idek, I'm way too much of a people pleaser so a lot of people liked me as a friend, but I never have really connected with anyone myself.  No one around me likes the things I love and am passionate about. I love writing and I would much rather stay in with one person who understands me that I love than go out to a party.(but ofc I like to go out sometimes still) I like to read books like the Hobbit and I compete in gymnastics. I have very deep emotions and am v empathetic, but I have trust issues so I don't show them much. No one around me seems to get any of this or care about me at all. I'm just in a dejected mood. Any advice? Sorry its not v clear what "advice" I'm asking for, I just write to get emotions out and rlly just need someone to get me rn ig and say its normal but no one around me seems to be like this and are all v social 'n stuff. Will it be better in collage? (ik that's kind of far away but I'm already done some of my 9th grade online courses to graduate early :) )

Everything seemed great, then suddenly out of no where my friend seemed different. Quieter, doesn't want to study together, doesn't want to hangout, barely replies to texts, even stopped following me on social media. It's out of nowhere. If we had a fight or something bad happened, I'd understand. But nothing happened. We were literally friends one day and now suddenly he's acting so odd.  That's why I'm beyond confused.  What could this mean? What should someone do in this instance? Is it fair to confront them and just straight up ask what's up, because it isn't fair to leave me in the dark? 

I noticed that most teenagers my age especially on Instagram can be really fake. A lot of my friends and other people I follow can be so rude, bad and spammers on social media but in real life there nice and normal. Why?? It annoys me so much cause it's so unpredictable, why can't people just be themselves and be nice period.

Salty is a better term for how i feel but, for example on minecraft, we usually have one server so me and him can be cheesy and make our own things without his friends joking with him about it, we also have a world that we play with them. But before we can actually get anywhere in just our world, he invites them over and my mood sort of plumits.

So I was friends with this girl last year and she did a lot of really bad things to me.Like she purposely made me and my ex boyfriend break up, spreads rumors about me, talks about me behind my back, ignores me, guilt trips me all the time because I'm too nice to say no, etc.. But I recently told her she isn't allowed to sit with me and my other friends anymore and I wanna know if that makes me fake? I hate her because she is an awful person but at the same time she thinks we are friends and I don't want to hurt her feelings by saying we aren't. Am I a bad person?

My 15 year old daughter likes to have her friends from school sleep over at our house from time to time. The last time she had a sleep over, the girls asked me to answer their questions about boys and sex. I told them they should talk to their parents about that. They told me they COULD NOT talk to their parents about that because it would be too embarrassing. They begged me to tell them about boys and sex. I thought it was better that they know the facts than believe all the stuff they hear at school. I answered all of their questions truthfully but I again told them in the STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS to TALK TO THEIR PARENTS. They wanted to know if they could call me if they had more questions. I told them it would be MUCH BETTER if they talked to their parents but I would VERY RELUCTANTLY answer their questions. Please tell me if I am doing the right thing here. I feel VERY UNCOMFORTABLE doing this as I think it is the parents responsibility but I don't want any pregnant teens either. Is it better they know the facts about their body? Should I talk to their parents and tell them what their children are asking me? I do not want to be known as the neighbor sex educator. I am afraid that it I talk to their parents, they will be afraid to ask me about factual information about their bodies. Teens girls, is it normal not to want to talk to your parents about sex?

They no long chill with the bros and play Xbox and get drunk. They go on nights out with other girls and go to these stupid girl brunches and studies. Like that is boring af. I struggle with this friend because they after transitioning did a 180 and said they no longer have to act male and am free to be me. Idk what that means. Bros help. Bros 

I have a best friend that I don't think is healthy for me but I'm scared to end the relationship for the fear of being alone. The reason I want to end it is I don't think he feels the same way about me. I've caught him lying to me over various things at least 3 or 4 times. He's never actually called me his best friend unless I said it first or asked him if I was and he's never really the one to make plans with. He'll tell me that he's going to call or text me and then doesn't. I'm 95% of the time the one who has to ask to hang out. Its all these little things that pile up that hurt my feelings and makes me feel like if I truly was his best friend, he wouldn't be doing it. We also work together at the same job. Every night I make sure to wait for him to leave so that we can talk real quick and I can say goodnight. If I'm the one late coming out, he's already gotten in his truck and left.   We do spend a lot of time together. We took a road trip together which again was my idea. I've sat him down, particularly when I've caught him lying to me and talked about all this and he says he's sorry and I believe him every time but things never change. I've expressed my feelings and told him I loved him and would do anything for him. I've even told him that if I'm not his best friend or if he wants me to leave him alone to tell me but he always says that he wants me around. I kinda feel like he's just keeping me around till he finds a friend he actually likes or gets a girlfriend?

My friend never really listens to what I have to say and more often than not changes the subject when I've finished talking instead of even acknowledging what I said. I just started a new job and she doesn't even care about that. Every time we meet up she makes up some stupid obvious excuse to leave early.. pretty hard to believe someone's been ill so many weekends in a row. We've been friends for almost ten years and it didn't used to feel like this

no partner no children no friends no family no one to talk to

My online friend is a 17 year old girl and I'm the same age as her. We've FaceTimed and videochatted on Instagram. Her issues are dated as far back as 7th grade and she's a senior now. She never told her parents that she was sexually abused by an older teenager as a 12 year old. Asides from that major factor, my friend also had issues with bullying in middle school. She lives in my local area. In fact, she's so close that I even took summer school at her school one year. I rode the bus back and forth throughout that whole summer — it's about 30 minutes away but still the same school district. And my school's basketball team regularly competes against their team. 

I feel like this girl is forcing me to be her friend in school. I told her I didn't want to be friends anymore and she is like: "Okay, but I still really like you." I swear if she bothers me again I am going to explode and scream my head off. I have been telling her and warning her, and I cannot stress it enough. Somebody please help me before this gets nasty!