I'm a teenage girl that graduated HS about a year ago and I've never felt so alone. Yeah I went out to parties every now and then and had some fun with friends, but I've always been the one most focused on my future more than others like working multiple jobs at the same time. This might've disconnected me from others, especially being depressed about my own dysfunctional family and our financial issues. I used to be that shy girl, the one getting stepped on all over by people, but I'm proud of how far I've come (opening up freely to people and not caring of what they think). But I want to know why one of my good friends doesn't do the same with me? It's almost like they enjoy hearing about what goes on in my life but when I ask them they don't share as much. Like they're more reserved. They're always there for me but idk if it's because they feel pity? They never really invite me out much unless I ask but it can also be because I used to be straight up and say I have no money. Anyways, other than this specific friend I've struggled to reconnect with old ones. I've tried venting to a few childhood friends and getting upset as to why they don't answer my calls or contact me anymore & they just say sorry they're busy & continue going out with their new friends. I even had an old friend tell me he makes his own choices and he just doesn't call me. (it's always like that when he has a new gf, they're always the jealous type.) I miss being young when everything was carefree.

My best friend, Joey (16) texted me (17) saying he was having bicurious thoughts and asked me if I'd try stuff with him. Joey has been my best friend literally since 2nd grade so I don't want to say anything that could jeopardize our friendship. But I also don't wanna do anything with him, considering I'm not into guys and I also don't want to cheat on the girl I'm with, especially with another guy. 

When it comes to relationships or friendships, if it becomes a problem for my mental in any way...I am quick to cut them off. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing.  I have close Bestfriends I've had for years and we've had ups and downs and always handled it as any friends would. So I know I have the ability to have close relationships and solve issues but if it's someone I've dated in the past or a friend who has disrespected me...I am okay with not having them in my life anymore. I forgive them but I realize for myself there energy probably isn't good for me.  I'm not sure if this is a way of protecting myself but is this normal. Like I have a ex's I don't talk to at all anymore, not even as friends despite our history. 

Short back story; my mom has breast cancer and has been battling it for a couple years now. It's always been hard for me knowing she has this and honestly it causes me lots of anxiety and never leaves my mind.  I have a friend, she wasn't super close but we talk regularly and she was aware of my moms situation and how hard it is on me.  On my moms bday, I posted a pic of her on IG and said "happy bday mom, love you!" 2 seconds later, this friend sends me a dm and says " OMG DONT SCARE ME LIKE THAT I SAW YOUR MOMS FACE AND GOT SCARED" ....I said "why??" And she proceeded to say "cause your mom is sickly, I thought it was something bad, my heart dropped. So sorry"  I got really upset and stopped speaking to her that day. I got really in my feelings and all these thoughts I didn't want to think popped in my bed, which then proceeded for me to be very upset with her. I wouldn't ever say something like that to friend who happened to be in my shoes. I would think before I said something insensitive like that.  Am I exaggerating for not speaking to her anymore ? I try not to impulsive but that was a real touchy subject for me  Head* not bed 

When I was in middle school I was laying down on a bed mat under a sleeping bag and the teacher aid pretended to sit on me she didn't actually sit on me she just kind of squatted her butt on me.

my friend told me that she sometimes browsed her crush's parents' social medias, like facebook. she doesn't constantly do this, only to see more photos of him. for some reason I didn't think before I spoke and said "that's creepy!" now she's mad at me... I actually don't realize why I said this bc what she does is probably normal and harmless. anyways she won't speak to me now. I've tried everything...  do you think it's weird that she looks at this? bc on second thought, I think I overreacted. how can I repair our friendship? 

My neighbor's daughter Ann and my daughter have a high school class together. They set side by side in the class. Last week a boy set in front of Ann and he took his back pack off and laid it on the floor in front of Ann. The flap on the back pack flew open and Ann say a gun in the back pack. She immediately took her cell phone and called 911. Then she grabbed the back pack and ran out of the classroom with it. She held on to the back pack until the police arrived in a short time and then she gave it to them. As you can imagine this was a MAJOR interruption at the school. I think Ann was a hero for what she did. She possibly save MANY LIVES. However the school wants to punish Ann because they say they have a zero tolerance if you break the rules. The school claims Ann broke 3 rules. She used her cell phone in class, she left the classroom without permission and she stole the boys back pack. I think this is OUTRAGEOUS. Do you agree with me? Please give me your views on what us parents should to honor Ann, not punish her.

Hi,  so i am a 16 year old girl. this summer i am going to see my friend for the first time since i moved away 2 years ago. anyways i  need some bucket list ideas to do together. neither of us can drive and i don't think her mom will be able to take us anywhere very often. it is a small town but not safe enough to walk everywhere because of the freeway. so things that can be done at home are much appreciated. thank you!!

My friend just bought himself a 'stunt kite' to go fly at the park, by himself or with another kite-flying adult companion. My friend is in his 30's and childless. We do not live near the ocean or a beach of any consequence. It's my feeling that a grown man should NOT be flying a kite without a child unless he's retired and on a sweet-*** beach somewhere. Talk to me, creepers.

I'm 24 (F) and had two really great best girl that I've known for ~4 years.  It all started this February when I got engaged to this very sweet guy that I've known for approx. 2 1/2 years and lived together since sept. He is 23. Still doing his masters in school. He got a full scholarship to pay for school and monthly amount to live on as well, and I work full time at a decent job. We are by no means rich or  but we are not hurting for money either. The first friend didn't even text me back after a couple of days to congratulate me and told me it's a huge mistake, I'm way too young, they think my fiancé is too immature and he doesn't have a job so he can't support me properly (not that I need to be supported), and that I'm "going to get divorced" and should keep searching for other guys. my fiancé and I did break up once for a short period and this was thrown back up in my face (even though it was resolved and mended). This really hurt my feelings and I felt she was super unsupportive. My second friend essentially agreed with everything.  This makes no sense to me. I'm completely in love. We rarely fight - except for that one or two times. And have been so happily engaged for the last couple of months. Who cares if he's still in school? We have had no issues from this. All our other friends, family, and everyone else could not be more happy or supportive or involved.  I deleted them off social media. How can I get them out of my head? 

im 17, a girl, and i'm very lonely. i don't have very many friends that i can talk to. most of them don't know what i'm going through. it's not that i don't trust them, i just find it easier to talk to random people that i might not ever meet.

For example : A roommate , co-worker , live in boyfriend/girlfriend who  we spend time under ( maybe too much time)  Who we see as being annoying , upsetting , irritating or otherwise bothersome On a chronic, long-term basis. Are one of those parties bound to snap one day and seriously hurt the other party ?  Is this more likely to happen if one of the persons involved is mentally ill ? Is this more likely to happen if the angered person does not take measures to distance/isolate himself from the other person who is bothering him?

I've been talking to this guy for about 6 months now and I really started to like him. He's 40 and I'm 35 so we're not too far off in age. Then I found out just from being his friend on instagram/facebook that he has an on again off again relationship with a girl that just turned 23. He met her when she was 20 and within the first month or so of them meeting he flew her to Cali with him to celebrate her 21st birthday, wined and dined her, took her to the palace of fine arts, to a nice dinner, rented a convertible and took her to santa monica pier and had a candlelit beach dinner. I mean he went all out and he had an album dedicated to it on his facebook. Then he told me that they moved in together 2 months after that. Then they broke up 4 months later and he moved home. Since that time in 2018, they have added and deleted each other off of social media 5 or 6x. Hooked up, got back together, broke up again, decided to be friends, stopped talking, got back together etc. (I've known him for 3 years and I've been talking to him the past 6 months so I've seen their public relationship drama online) One month she'd be posting on her public profile that he was a narcissist, that he just used her for her looks, that she needed to be away from him to have a good future. The next month she'd post that he was the best thing to ever happen to her, that he loved her more than anyone, that he was her soulmate. They're still making passive aggressive posts about each other to this day. She ruined his career with their relationship drama as he's a business owner and his public online drama with this girl caused him to lose a lot of clients and business because no one wanted to get involved with a nearly 40 year old mans relationship drama with a girl 17 years younger. If that didnt stop him from going back to her I feel they may be one of those forever on again off again couples that thrives on the push pull dynamic He has no kids, no ex wives. Never married. Rents an apartment, doesn't own a home, works as a personal trainer.

I don't have a dad and it makes me so sad......i just want to feel loved:(

There is this girl i like, she is my friend but she is never open, she is to her self. She is working on it because she told me she doesn't want to make people think she doesn't care, she said she just doesn't know how to show it. I want to help her out, is there anything i can do or say to her that will make her feel better about herself ? She said she can't get close to people because of that, she told me it's hard to open up. She can't even text people back. I'm like her only other friend. I really care about this female, and i know she cares about me too. I just hate seeing her like this. I know she has been through some things. 

I am always confused between love and a crush so I wasn't sure if this is love. I met this guy 5 years ago. I really loved him. I am type of a girl who doesn't initiate conversation or doesn't even make a guy feel important but in his case I don't know why I was doing all these things. I used to literally beg him to make some time for me. Anyway, it didnt last cz he was only after sex. I still hope some day he will realize. Anyway, days passed. I met other guys. Been in relationships. I love those guys while in relationship. But as soon as we break up I cry for a month or so thn I am all good and don't even remember them. But when I am alone I still wish things would just work out with the guy that I met 5 years ago. After every 2 3 months he is on my mind again. I don't even have fantasies with any other guy. But with this guy I have imagined my happy place. It breaks my heart whenever I see him with other girls though it's been 5 years. Whenever I bumped into him we just greet but he avoids eye contact..  Do I really love him? I don't want to admit bcz again he can't be mine and whenever I meet someone new I forget abt him for a while but back in my subconscious mind he is still there. Will I ever be able to forget him? 

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Hey I'm 14 and there's going to be a big post-quarantine party sometime possibly in the summer. The people hosting it are juniors in HS (16-17 yrs old) and they said they won't let me go unless I steal them alcohol. What should I do? Should I do it? If yes, what's advice to do it and not get caught?

We were planning on making a video together for social media. I asked her about it almost a month ago and she said sure. I hadn't received the video yet. So today I texted her 'hi:) how are you' so that I could ask her if her part would be ready soon. But she didn't read my message and she just blocked  me from viewing her story on Instagram. I feel bad, did I make her uncomfortable? What did I do wrong?

I met this guy online and we been talking for a year now. He sent me videos of himself once in a while as well as pictures. It seem that everytime I ask him to video chat he makes up an excuse that he is busy as well as that his xiamoi redmi note 7 phone has problems with video on instragram... I am not sure if he is telling the true or not . What do you think about this situtation ? FYI: He has sent me videos saying my name and saying hello through snapchat and Instrgram but does not want to video chat . Any thoughts why or reasons ?

I know for a fact that I will never be with a guy again. I liked a guy a few years ago and I became so disillusioned that I have kind of stuck to thinking about him for years and I know I will never be with him and I never want to be with anyone else either. The truth is I have never met anyone else who I like or who is eligible. I know its a waste of my life but isn't it better than dating guys you have no interest in

So I had an old friend in high school. We were friends from 8th grade to senior year and were like attached at the hip and everyone knew we were besties  may the end of junior year we had a fight and then made up over the summer and had a couple more at the beginning of senior year and our friendship kinda deteriorated. She threatened to tel our other friends all of the guys i ever liked at our school which was when I lost respect for her.  my gross sister would even tale her side and once we were in art and my sister said hi to her right in front of me, knowing that it pissed me off because she smiled at me after she said it. And I know I'm not not the wrong, she was not a good friend to me and I think it's best we leave our friendship in the past. But was my sister being a *****? My sister continued to be her friend even more so after that and even would talk about her like they were besties almost kike she was holding it in my face. She's done stuff like that before , was she being a *****?

I cheated on my husband what should I do now ? I was in a long distance realtionship with one guy and my husband found about it. What should I do? I was in a very abusive relationship from last 20 years. My husband treated me like a ****. He used to physically, emotionally, verbally abuse me. I gave him three kids through IVF For him I went through 10 IVF cycles because he has health issues. Anyway last July I met a guy on instagram I started talking with him. I liked how he used to talk to me how he was caring for me. I know it Was wrong I shouldnt have done that. But things happened He found out that Im talking to this guy by putting a recording device in my car. I was talking to him one day and everything got recorded. He beat me up like crazy. I was saying sorry to him continously but he didnt listen. I told him I know I did mistake but I havent slept with anyone hes in diffrent country aand I just like talking to him. But he was beating me up and I called police and police took him away. He alsosexually assaulted me very badly that night. Now hesbegging me Everyday to take charges back and hes sorry for what he did. I dont know what to do. I will ask court to give him one chance but I am really scared to go back in abusive realation again with him but same time Zi think about my daughters Am I runing there lives aswell Its the time for them to be happy with mummy and daddy. I dont undestand please help me.