I think when someone finds this out, they don't believe it at first. I am considered attractive. But I am very quiet and hardly speak even when spoken to. I have social anxiety, the effects of which are strengthened due to lacking friends for years now. I dont want a pity party; I realize a lot of this could be said to be my fault because I don't show effort enough or come across as unfriendly. I'm just curious if anyone else is going through this.

Recently, at a sleepover, my friend revealed that she had been cutting herself and showed us the white marks all over her hands and wrists. She has had so many terrible breakdowns since then, including one today over e-mail where she ranted about how her friends and family would all be happier is she died, and how she is retarded (she isn't). I want to help her but she doesn't want my help and I don't want to make her any more mad. I don't really know where it's all coming from. She seemed fine before the sleepover but I guess something inside her just snapped. What should I do?

I've always been treated as the "non threatening" friend that is never as good as the rest of the group.  I got a research position out of state that requires me to go to Australia two months per year to document wildlife behavior.  This is far more competitive and expensive than what my friends have done and I don't want them to be jealous especially since I had always been excited for their travels (as I never thought I'd be able to travel myself and felt lucky to even talk to people who were so well traveled).  Not only is my trip free but I will be getting paid 

My friend's grandmother passed away a week ago. She was extremely close to her and it's a hard loss. Just today she posted to her public FB telling people to not tell her " it gets easier", "time will help heal you" or "You'll be okay". She is adamant that these sentiments are untrue and that these are empty words. I understand where she is coming from but idk that seems like too much. Several people have explained that it's awkward and sometimes we don't know what to say. They're only words meant to comfort, but she insists she has the right to request this.  Do you think it's okay for her to ask this? 

I told my friend that I'd come over to his new house around 6-7 but i couldn't stay because i have to get up early tomorrow. I texted him an hour ago and asked for his address and he hasn't responded. It's almost 6 o'clock now?

How do you not overthink about having friends? And especially if you already have some friends because I overthink it a lot. Actually I overthink a lot of things 

i am 16 and i have been given out to a lot lately over housework and today i was given out to over being smart but i dont think i said anything wrong. i have tried to defend myself in the past but i am told i am being disrespectful and i am beginning to lose it a bit. i know this whole quarantine thing is making them grumpy but this is unbearable. i need to be able to defend myself without making them even more angry. also, when i apologise, they just give out to me even more and there is no way of de-escalating the situation. any ideas on what to do?

This guy said he's obsessed with me.

So I had a best friend in 8th grade and we stayed friends until about senior year. We fell out early in senior year and started having fight after fight so I just assumed that was a sign to end our friendship. And we were even about to go to college so we needed to kinda learn how to separate. Anyways we were so much alike and I told her almost everything about me including all of the guys I've liked. After we had an argument at lunch one day in front of everyone , I found out from one of my other friends that she was gonna tell him all the guys I've liked because it had been a topic of conversation  but the other friend later said she never told him who it was so I guess she felt bad or something. Still was she a bad friend for even bringing that up like that? I would never do that

I know it's reckless and stupid. I was cooking noodles and I forgot because I was in a unexpected zoom meeting. Landlord got mad at me as he should. This was my second time doing this. The first time was 2 months ago and it severed the friendship we had. (There was issues beyond that but I digress). I'm moving out in 2 weeks because of the tension.  I honestly could have stayed upstairs to cook the noodles but being close to him makes me anxious.  I don't know maybe it's an excuse. I do know it's not right what happened today.  I'm just ready to leave to another place where I feel comfortable. 

1 year ago, I joined a website. It was this fictional character roleplay thing, but the website isn't important. After about 3 or 4 months of being on it, I met a 17 year old girl, and we became friends. When she asked me how old I was irl, I panicked. I was 14 at the time (and still am now), and I didn't really want to give away who I was or anything, so I did the dumbest thing I could've possibly done, and I told her I was 22. I had no real reason to do it, but I did it anyway, and I kinda had to stick with it from then on >.> Anyway, not too long later, once we'd become really close friends, I told another lie (yeah). I told her that I had a fiancée, and that she was pregnant, which was just completely stupid of me. I don't know why tf I did it - to impress her? To make it seem like I wasn't boring? I don't know, but it was too late to change if. It's been 7 months or something now, and I still haven't told her the truth D: The lie is getting bigger and bigger, and I have no clue what to do about it, because if I told her the truth now, she would be horrified. And it's even worse, because since I lied to her for the first time, I've gone through a massive stage of my life and figured out that I'm gay and nothing like the me I invented, and soon, the "baby" will be here. I know I should be honest, but... idk what to do, I'm terrified that if I tell her, she'll be furious with me and I'll be in massive trouble, probably even with the police or smth What should I do? :c

My good friend John has a twin sister Jo who is a world class beauty. She is my best buddy. She is all girl on the outside and all guy on the inside. She has a beautiful face and a figure to die for (34F my guess). She wants noting to do with being a girl. She NEVER wears makeup. She doesn't need it to look beautiful. She tells me she have never worn a dress in her whole life. She hates to wear a bra and only does it at school where she has to. She does not like anything that girls usually do and wants to hang out with me and do guy things. She likes to help me work on my car, likes to go horse riding with me and other guy things. She does not know she is a gorgeous girl that is every guys dream date. In her mind it is perfectly normal to change clothes in front of me and expect me not to get a b0ner. She has told me "you don't get a b0ner for your other buddies, why do it for me"? I keep thinking my other buddies are not the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. When I spend the night at John's house the extra bed is in Jo's room. Guys, can you relate to how hard it is (and how hard it got but that's another problem) to sleep a few feet from a beautiful nude girl and not want sex. She has made it clear that she is not going to have sex now. She just wants to be my buddy. Guys, please give me some advice on this. Could you handle a buddy like this?

Im a 23 year old dude, and im friends with my mechanic.  Lately his shop has been closed because of the virus,  so i went to his house 2 days in a row so he could fix my breaks. So my mechanic has a son maybe a little older than me.  His dad introduced us but his son acted like he didn't wanna talk.  He just looks and acts very arrogant.  For some reason he just stares me down and makes me feel uncomfortable.   Why does he act this way??????   I  said something to him,  to nake conversation and he acted like the conversation wasn't with him

Everyone my age is working and in college now with coronavirus no one goes outside. I never see people my age. I have no close friends. Every where I work is all old people. I am 21. I want to make friends and get a girlfriend. Advice??

So I love my friend to death and she is awesome with make up. I want her business to strive but I feel like her brand is too unoriginal for her to ever make it. She is making a make up line and so far she has lip gloss and lip scrubs. The problem is , is her ideas with it don't differ from the stuff already on shelves so it's going to be a lot harder to sell. I want to tell her that because I want the best for the business but I don't want to sound like I'm knocking down her business. Advice? 

Tell me if I'm over reacting here, my boyfriend has to go into work. I believe he does the right thing keeping his distance amongst others but I found out he's having drinks after work with them. I'm really p**sed off it's all good to wind down and do it when it's normal times but he's sitting in a room, maybe enough space apart, for drinking/socialising the way I see it at this stage get your fking work done and go home. Honestly am I over reacting here? Should I just calm down?? 

I am sure this sounds absolutely ridiculous, very stupid, and extremely immature, but I have a friend of 13+ years. She has quite a bit of trouble expressing her emotions because of the environment she grew up in. However, when she's high, she usually (unprompted) tells me how much she loves me, that I'm her best friend, and that there is no better friend than me. "Yeah, duh, she's high" I bet you're saying. I know. Please see again the self-deprecating warning in the beginning. The point is, she isn't doing this anymore, even when high. It's k̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ really concerning me. Have I worn her out?  Come to think of it, she doesn't say much or even seem to want to have anything to do with me when high... (AGAIN, this is new)

So we were all in med school together and are recent graduates we used to be extremely close (as the high stress, close-proximity environment is wont to do), in my second year my mom got very sick and subsequently died...dealing with that and my subsequent depression and struggling to catch up with schoolwork I admit that I became very withdrawn however in our final year I made several overtures that I wanted to hang out with my friends again and we did however they all seem to have moved on, they are in constant communication and I'm just an afterthought...they still talk to me but it feels more out of obligation.  When they organise group outings etc they don't even bother to invite me anymore.  Even during lockdown, none seem to contact me unless I contact them first, thy host group chats and games etc and know I'm just sitting here same as them, and It's hurtful and I don't understand why I don't warrant an invitation, it could merely be an oversight on their part but how do I bring this up without sounding petty and childish, I suppose deep down I'm worried they simply have no interest in socialising with me and are too polite to say it and I don't want to inflict myself on people who don't want my company.