So I've been quarantined home with our children for the past month, my husband has been working (wearing a mask). We've kept our distance from all family/friends this whole time. Today one of my daughter's (age 3) neighborhood friends was riding by our house on her bike on the sidewalk and my daughter wanted to ride with her. So I figured it would be ok if my daughter rode in the street and her friend rode on the sidewalk. But then sure enough they both ended up on the street together and close to each other. Ugh so now I'm paranoid because they got close to each other. Am I overreacting? What is safe for children to do? Ride bikes with a mask? Virtual stuff only? This whole situation has been confused and paranoid on what is ok and what's not.

My school's unlikely to return to session for the rest of the year, and I'm currently unable to see anyone. I was planning on writing letters to my friends and sending them via mail, to make it sentimental, but when would be a good time to do this?

I find it harder to make friends has you get older. I live in a small city and didn't grow up here or went to any school here. I only met people at a job I had or at a bar I would go to. I go to the gym and work out and play ball. I've made friends with allot of people in the past. I've had fake friends and a few decent ones. I now like to keep to myself and have 1 or 2 friends. I thought about dating to meet some women and have lady friends again. I now have a good job, nice car, own place.

Connie

Don't fight back an don't let them know there getting to you! Don't start to cry if you can help it! Just look straight a head an ignore them an they will get board! Mark Kerner an his friends bullies me all the time and have sense we was like 7 years old (I'm 16 now). They hit me an pants me an threaten me an steal my lunch an my coat an my wallet an kick me in the privates an one time filled a water gun with pee an sprayed me in the face! As long as I can help it, I just look straight a head an ignore them! I try real hard not to ball or squall. If I can hold it in, then when I get home an they can't see me I can go in the bathroom an ball an squall an they don't know there bothering me! One time in 5th grade Mark called me a fagit an said he was gonna put a terd in my lunch sack an at lunch make me eat it in front of everyone an I said "no, Mark, I don't want you to do that" an he punched me in the face an kicked me real hard in the worm! I told the principle an I got detention for starting a fight an Mark Kerner got nothing cause the basketball coach said he didn't want Mark getting detention! So I didn't do NOTHING an I was the one that got in trouble! When Marks friend Earnie **** me in the face with the pee water gun, I just wiped the pee off real fast an just sat their an looked straight a head an tried so hard not to cry but their was tears in my eyes but I wasn't ovious about it an he got board an they left me alone for the rest of class! DON'T FIGHT BACK EVER!

Does it seem like we're living in a world that punishes good character? It seems like people who strive to truly be honest, congruent, consistent, and loyal, are oftentimes the ones that are most betrayed. They're backstabbed by people who are supposed to be friends, they get cheated on by their spouse or gf/bf, they're passed up for promotions even though they have worked hard for years to earn a promotion.And these very same people who lie to others and betray them, at the same time despise when others do that to them, but seemingly think nothing of doing the same to others.

In confinement we decided to have a friend chat group to socialize. The girls in group write jokes, opinions, share photos, recipes, etc... Yesterday one of our friends put a photo joke about Trump and one of the girls got mad, because she supports Trump. She became offensive and the joke turned sour. Is this a childish act on her behalf? Why can't she just laugh and move on?  The joke was about Trump's disinfectant injection for COVID19.

Recently I ACCIDENTALLY stepped on my flatmates toe, and it turns out I broke it.  He's not speaking to me at all, I tried to help him with stuff, he just brushes me away. What can I do?

my friend is addicted to drifting. I know this may sound weird and unreal but that's not unusual. My friend is from Saudi Arabia and most of them are psychopath drifters who risk their lives doing these dangerous activities where they go at speed 240km/h and start turning their steering wheel left and right. he was close to dying several times sometimes he could crash into a big truck or flip 200 times in the air as it happened a lot. please help me i dont wanna loose my best friend..

I have a good friend that I met in school. We have been friends for 2 years. While in school we would always hangout and do activities together. We have bonded over our mental health. The thing is he suffers from attachment disorder. To summarize he has a difficult time showing his emotions. Don't get me wrong, he is playful, intelligent and a wonderful person to be around. He would make small tokens to show his gratitude. But since we graduated, he just goes quiet when we are not together. I go to great lengths to make him feel comfortable and always making sure he's alright and not feel alone by calling or texting him (or even planning an outdoor activity we could do). He usually responses/agrees but almost all the time, I am the one initiating it. I do this because I do not have a support system and I don't wish for him to feel the same. I want him to know that he has friends & family who really care about him. I can't help but feel this is a one-way friendship. I am always making sure he is alright, but it doesn't get reciprocated back to me unless I contact him first. I know I should not expect to be treated the way I treat him, but it made me feel insignificant. I am very conflicted. I might never see him again because he might be moving halfway across the globe and it kills me to think that after what we've been through, I am just another person he met along his journey. So, my question would be is this friendship worth saving? Or am I being over dramatic?

I'm moving to a different state by myself during the last week of August 2020 and I can't wait and time is going by so slow and I can't stop thinking about finally moving and having a fresh start and finally moving out of a state that I hate and that makes me very lonely and sad and that no one in this state wants to hangout with me and everyone in this state rejects me and excludes me

I was at a restaurant waiting to be seated for lunch with 3 of my female co workers. Walking out of the restaurant was this gorgeous woman. She had a figure to die for. 36G would be my guess. She was showing a lot of cleavage. She came over to me and gave me a hug and said "It is great to see you again George. How have you been"? We just talked for a few minutes and then we were seated in the restaurant. Just before we parted, she gave me her card and said "let's have lunch some time to catch up on old times". The last thing she said was "We sure had fun in the back seat of your car when we were in high school didn't we"? My co workers immediately said who was that beautiful woman. I told them it was an old high school girlfriend from 20 years ago. They wanted to know what I was doing in the back seat of my car with her. Can someone suggest a answer to their question that would not make me look bad to my friends? I think everyone reading this knows what I was doing in the back seat of my car but I can't tell them that. I thought I might tell them we were reading the bible. Do you think they would believe that?

So I have this very strong urge to reach out to the family member of an old friend who passed away 13 years ago. Here is a brief on the situation... When I was 15 my friend of the same age, moved out of state and passed away a few years later, died in an accident. I got the news at the time on myspace from a friend of a friend, couldn't attend the funeral and never saw her family again. It has been 13 years and have never stopped missing my friend. I came across her moms Facebook and want to send her a message so much. She used to drive me to school and let me hang out at her house. I feel like I need to send a message to her. That I have never forgot about her daughter, that she was an amazing friend and will always be in my heart.  What stops me is that I don't know if that would be okay.  What would you do in this situation, would you message her? Should it be a brief message like saying hi and reintroducing myself or should it be a longer more heartfelt message? Or should I just forget about it and not send a message? Am I over thinking all of this? I could really use some advice right now. Her death is part of what changed my life and and I struggled for a long time. I had to experience that loss by myself because of where I lived and other friends not knowing her. I want to send the message but I am just worried if reaching out could cause her pain. There has been so much time passed. This was in high school and now I am nearly 30.  

I feel so guilty for my parents being good when it seems all my friends have bad parents. I feel like I don't deserve anything because I have a good life. I just feel so guilty I honestly want to off myself. Why is that?

Is my best friend jealous of me because when i talk about what career i want to work in she gives me a bad look and she gives me a fake smile and i can tell she is Faking it. i told her i want to be a model and start my career she never really gives feedback and i feel a bad vibe when i talk about my career. She justs switch it back to her saying how she wants to be a model and actress and i give her encouragnment by saying she is beautiful she can be a model and actress because she is good with acting. She never compliments me on how i can be a model like never, the only time she compliments me is if i compliment her first. she never just makes me feel good or encourage me to start my career, she just gives me dry respones but she wants you to encourage her which i always do but i never get the same energy back. Also i told her when how i was a young girl and everybody used to tell me i can be a model she just skips and says things like oh same here people told me that all the time. And she just brags about how she is beautiful and how shes going to be a celebrity one day she said when she becomes a celebrity she is going to leave everybody behind. I told her we can both model and start our career together because i want us both to succeed. She never does the same she just worries about her self and says how shes going to model but she never includes me and want us to succed together. Its like she wants all the success for herself what to do help ?

Would you say me and my friend are equal in being nice to each other. One thing to note is he has no money.  I have: -Covered for him now and then when we go eat m sometimes. He pays when he can. -invited him to my/my parents house.(we are in college only). He did bring his own food so I wouldn't have to pay for him or anything. -He didn't have place to stay next year on campusso I showed him two apts ok our college campus.(took only 30 min few miles off campus) - me halfway with his dad On my way To college and he came with me to campus.  He has: -helped me with homework bunch of times. Once came straight from class just to help me.  -few times we went to restaurant I got drunk. We came in my car but he drove it back cuz I was drunk. I once left phone at restaurant drunk we went to get it but he drove. -came suit shopping with me.  -I got in fight with my rents he invited me to his place to sleep after oking with his dad. He/his parents gave me food. Even let me sleep in his room cuz there was no guest room.  -drove us back to campus in my car cuz I was really tired. Would u say we're equally nice to each other. He is not from the us and has no money but he helps when he can. When I do cover him that's after he says he doesn't have money so I then offer to pay he says he feels bad I say no big deal. I'm paranoid if I think he bad right? 

We are both girls and me and my friend were very close in middle school but she also hit me a lot and didn't want me hanging out with her and her other friends and started to lie saying she was busy to hangout but really she wasn't but then in middle school we had a fight calling each other mean names and I told her I didn't want to be friends with her anymore. And then she started to cry saying she still wants to be friends but I said I didn't. Then a day later, we made up and still wanted to be friends. But my friend's mom found out about it and banned her from hanging out with me. My friend's mom doesn't like me and doesn't want my friend to hangout with me and prevents her from hanging out with me. It's now 8 years later and we are both 20 but her mom still bans her from hanging out with me and prevents her from hanging out with me and tells her I can't come over since she asked her mom recently if I could come over and she said no and that she can hangout with anyone but me. So I sneak over to my friend's house when her mom isn't there to hangout with her and always leave her house before her mom comes home from work. She doesn't tell her mom that I come over and her mom still holds a grudge even tho we've mature and are older now. I tried sending her a apology letter but she told my friend that she won't read it

I met a guy and thought he liked me but he ignored me for a full week and he's very awkward. Me and my best friend became good friends with his best friend and my friend really liked him. I still really liked this guy but he got so jealous and annoyed very easy because I was talking to his friend about him. He was the one who ignored me and still is for no reason.. due to this his best friend has deleted me off snapchat so we can no longer talk..