I'm in my 20s and don't  have many friends since I woke all the time, but for 5 years I have spoken to this person on and off. I only think of him as a friend but I don't  want to be an annoying person. I wrote him on ig where we only communicate.We live VERY far apart, never met, more then likely never will. Please give me the cold hard truth so I won't try and bother him anymore. I wrote him this on ig:"I remember when we used to talk everyday. It was fun for me, I know that we never met in person but you became important to me. I don't know if you remember what I went through, I don't know if you even care but it meant so much to me. I was so alone and stressed, I felt like I wasn't in control of my life.Here's a photo of what he wrote me back.

I found my friend's mom on Instagram because it recommended me cause of mutual friends with her son,and started chatting with her shes pretty cool. And my friend moved to new York for his job. She seems interested in me and i think shes nice and pretty. But i felt guilty cause thats his mom, so I stopped talking to her and she deleted me on ig a few days later. This was in 2016. Now she messaged me few days ago and said hi. Im casually talking to her again but i don't know her intentions in chatting with me again. Should I ask her to hang out or what do I do?. Btw she doesn't know im friends with her son. Were not close friends or anything just regular high school friends.  Im 25 and I think his mom is 51 or something 

In history class at school, we have desks in lines for each row (if that makes sense?). Today, we were just on Chromebooks and doing work for class. In the corner of my eye, I saw the boy sitting next to me put his hand in his pants near his 'area' and then it was quiet at the start, but as time passed his breath started to get heavier and I heard the noise of his hand moving against his pants. Anytime someone got up to get something or anything like that, he would stop moving his hand, too, but would still keep his hand in his pants. I didn't say anything at the time because,, idk i guess i was too scared to? I'm only in 7th grade. I've told a couple of my friends and I told them who it was, but not to go around telling everyone because that would 1. be embarrassing, and 2, i guess i feel bad for him since he's kind of a loner? He has a couple of friends but not in that class or any classes, as a matter of fact, and we got along pretty well sometimes. ANYWAYS, i haven't told my mom or any kind of school authority or teacher because i feel uncomfortable doing so, since me and my mom dont really talk about THAT but i know she doesnt actually mind talking about it because she's mentioned it in tv shows like "damn why do they have so many sex scenes its so unnecessary."ANYWAYS, should i tell my mom? or just someone in authority in general?

I may have gotten caught in one of the worst, drawn out lies of my life today so I need to know if my cover up story works now..anyway, I was planning on paying a stranger to pose as my friend to impress another friend but I stupidly sent an email that was intended to her to him (the one I am trying to impress)!!! :( so to cover my lie up I told him that the reason that I offered to give her money was due to her having some finanical woes and due to her pride she would not accept the $ so i asked her to help make conversation with me and I would pay her for her time. Does that sound believable that I could be doing that after getting this following message? 10 pts "I would only need your help for an hour but of course, you are welcomed to stay as long as you would like. The longer the better to me...LOL..but if you can only do 1 hour that would be great and I can pay you $70 in cash for your time and I will pay for your food expenses too! By the way, do you by any chance have a paypal account? Anyway, I just wanted to make sure that this all still works for you? It will probably be the easiest thing you have ever done :). I have hired people for this sort of thing before when I went out of town to meet people and it was always a nice night for everyone! :) " is my cover up story believable at all??.please be honest.

I try harder than her and spend so much more time studying, but her grades are ALWAYS A TON better than mine. Now I feel jealous and want to give up on life. I can't get this out of my mind. How can I deal with this, and how will I ever catch up with her on studying? :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:( My friend probably has an iq of 200, my other friends and I have tried studying our entire lives but she only started working hard this year. 

If you and a guy you were dating on an off always cussed his baby mama out "f—- you", f——it", "you are so stupid", etc when angry but never you during an argument what would you think? This guy has shown love but has some substance problems and claims he never cared as much about me but typically you would talk crazy to the people you care less about. He's said he loves me and wants me to be his girlfriend before but has so many problems and is unstable. Thoughts on his language? We've argued and I've demanded answers and he never yelled a cuss word at me even in frustration. Odd. 

I am a fourteen year old freshman girl. I was really close with the boys who live on my street, this year they started to make fun of me but they were messing around. Everyday it got worse and worse. Today as in 12/17/19  on the bus they went to far telling me I am ugly and how I am friends with dumb and I hate to use this word but ret*rded people, and how I am irrelevant; not popular. I tell them to stop and usually they apologize but then they go back to doing the same thing the next day. I told them that the things they say hurts. But they think it's funny. I may be overreacting but its to the point that I don't want to ride the bus. It's a constant everyday thing. I just need help on what to say to them and to show me the respect I deserve from them. Thank you. 

My coworker friend and I were invited to go to the new year's eve party hosted by two of the residents (I work in a hospital). She wants me to go with her to the party. The problem is my bf is coming back from another state (LDR) for the holidays. We can bring people to the party, and he said he doesn't mind going to the party and meeting my coworkers if I want to go. I don't really want to go. I am not really close with the residents and I know my coworker friend only wants to go because she has a crush on one of the resident. And she's kinda guilt-tripping me saying if she wants me to go, will I still say no. I told her I have to think about it, and she looked disappointed, and saying am I really gonna leave her hanging, etc. I don't know what to do. What would you guys do in this situation?

I'm planning on having a New Year's party, and inviting friends I'm very close to and 1 new friend. One of them is coming from out of state, so I really want to be able to spend time her. On the playlist for this party, I put a bunch of songs that are very special to my close friends and I. We love 80's and 60's music, also classic rock. I tried not to put any obscure songs that the new friend wouldn't know, and I also put songs that we all know from this decade and some songs from the new friend's favorite band. I just don't want her to feel left out when she sees my close friends and I singing our hearts out and headbanging. I really struggle with including everyone. I want to make sure she's not left out when we do the gift exchange or watch the ball drop. I don't know her that well, but she's very nice and a little shy.

I'm not mean to people who do nothing to me. In fact, I'm probably more sweeter to strangers than some people I know. I used to be sweet a few years ago and let people or boys walk all over me. Now those same boys and people I see now call me hostile, because I'm very slick and hit them where it hurts(verbally) if they converse with me. My friend says she's worried for me and even I know I have a limit. But it feels so good to be rude. Why is that?

So I'm 15 years old and my brother is 18 years old. My brother has a best friend who is also 18 years old, who I like. I am debating whether or not I should tell my brother that I like his friend. My brother and I both know this friend from church. My older brother and I are really close and tell each other a lot, however, I've never told him anything like this. Recently my brother has been talking to me A LOT about the girl that he likes who is also a friend of mine, which I have absolutely no problem with and I actually enjoy our talks. I guess the one main thing holding me back is what he thinks about me, a 15 year old, liking his 18 year old friend. I'm not sure what he'd think about the age difference, but then again he's said himself before that a person can't control how they feel about someone so I'm not sure. 

I have a friend who at times can be quite the loner. But at the same time sometimes he can be the life of the party. He says that he has a social battery. He can party one night and be super social, extroverted, cracking jokes. But then he needs several days to recharge. I was supposed to go Thailand with a few other friends a couple of months ago. As usual when you plan something it all fell through. But my other friend talked me into going alone. So I went alone, and I was meant to stay for 3 weeks but I only managed to stay for barely 2 weeks. I thought it was boring, difficult to meet people and I didn't know what to do. I feel bad for abandoning my trip. I called him a lot during my trip, and he guided me through what I should do but it was still not for me. I have no idea how he does it. He spent an entire year backpacking in South America and a year around in Asia. Even today he'll go on hikes with his dog and sleep in a tent for days at a time, alone. I've always looked up to him for being able to do that. I can barely do 2 weeks in comfy hotels on a paradise island. But does that mean that he is stronger than I am? He can be alone in a way I could never be. How do you view it?

My gf lives where I go to college so we're separated a month for winter break, 3 months for summer, and a few weeks in between. We hang out with mostly the same people. I have a few friends that I'll play pool with at the bar occasionally, but she's usually asleep since she gets up early for work so she doesn't mind when I go out. She only gets upset if it cuts into our alone time, which I get since it's hard to find time to spend together. I get the same way when I'm away and friends cut into the small amount of time we have to over the phone. I'm home for winter break right now and I mostly sit at home since all of my friends are at college and I can't really make friends here since I'm only here for a short amount of time. It seems like the only time our mutual friends come around to hang is when I'm gone. I know it's not on purpose, that's just usually how it works with everyone's work schedule. I just can't help but to get jealous sometimes. Partly because she gets to hang out with them when I barely get to see them and partly because they take up the small amount of time we get to talk. I obviously want her to have fun hanging out with our friends, but it's hard to not get jealous that she gets to hang with them and also that she's so busy with hanging out that I get ignored. I guess it just sucks not having anyone to hang with and I not only don't get my friends time cause I'm gone, but I don't get her time. How can I stop being jealous? 

She overheard me tell a co-worker friend that I was going to get a car soon. Passed me and said, "no! You shouldn't do that!" Who is she to tell me I shouldn't do that?  Why would she say such a thing? is she planning to lay me off?

I used to hang out with a small group of friends but then they stopped inviting to places. When I worked alot i of course couldnt and that if they had plans to let me know and i can see what i can do. I was really busy back then but now I have time to hang out for some coffee or even a movie. One of my friends who usually plans the meetups knows that I have enough free time. Im always saying let me know and ill let you know. Im always seeing them post on social media of everyone hanging out together at places or someones house and even taking a trip downtown or to events. Last time i hung out with then was in either may or june.  Ive known them for years and it hurts to know they've planned something and didnt invite me or say hey we are going here if you wanna come or can make it. Am i just overthinking things? Im sorry for incorrect punctuations  also i dont want to ask them to invite me somewhere just because i said so. i dont want to say why dont yall invite me anymore and end up getting invitations just because they pity me or now have to because i mentioned it. i want to be invited because they thought of inviting me. 

For years, my mom was my only best friend but I know she's getting old and I really love her. But I know she won't always be here for me and that's the fact. Plus, we are in different stages of life. She's like retirement age while my life hasn't even began yet.

One time I saw my acquaintance at Wal-Mart and wanted to catch up with her, her husband tells me they're really in a hurry but since this was the second time he acted this way towards me I wasn't buying it, I insisted on wanting to catch up with my acquaintance, then her husband tells me I'd better get going before my TV dinners start to melt in a rude, obnoxious tone, i was so shocked and appalled that I had to leave. A month later I saw my acquaintance again (this time she was alone), I asked her if it was just me or are people just not as nice and friendly towards one another anymore like they used to be, her response was she don't know because people seem really nice to her, she didn't seem to feel comfortable with me asking her this question either. Her husband telling me I'd better get going before my TV dinners start to melt gave me a strong reality check that people aren't as nice & friendly towards one another anymore.

When you ask someone about something and they say what about it? Are they being rude when they say that? 

First, course I love her 💞HOWEVER I just think our energies clash. I have nieces in their 20s who are older than her who I genuinely like, never had issues with them. I think with her is because she is sooooooo fast and she's always been this way. And it's like her Dad is just blind to it, she seems so innocent to him. But most importantly her attitude is HORRIBLE. (And no not just because she's at that age... all my other nieces were sweet, and respectful. ) She lies, she responds to grown ups like they're the kids. When you ask her something, or just try to make conversation with her she ususally just acts like she doesn't hear you. She yells, always talking loud, cursing, listening to and singing music which I believe is 100%inappropriate for her age. Tries to dress like she's much older. Her 10 yrs old brother is the exact opposite. He acts just like a kid should, he's always respectful. Many times when I go to the store he wants to go, so I usually try to go before she gets home from school so I won't have to take her 🤫 because of her nasty attitude. Then she wonders why we left her. I used to think I would want a daughter but, no way in Hell I would want a daughter if she's like that. No girls for me lol Give me a boy!