Jackie Asked:

‘How do i know if my guy friend really likes me when he has another female friend?’

- Jackie (Hattiesburg)

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Julie Asked:

“Should I just give up on him? My best friend and I have always been close. We always opened up to each other, and the way we act towards each other is, well, different. But there’s one catch– he’s gay. I decided to tell him I felt, anyways. And guess what! He loves me too, ’so much’, and he couldn’t imagine never talking to me ever again. I’m his best friend.

So I realized he didn’t understand that much yet, so I decided to wait. But then one night came and something happened, he felt like no one loved or cared about him, so I opened up fully to him. I guess my friend talked to him, too, since he told me that she said we should both be together. I replied back telling him whatever he wants to do, it’s his choice. His answer was, “But I have a boyfriend.”

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Danny Asked:

“Ok, where to start….I started talking to this girl 5 months ago but we had been friends for about a year. When I first met her I knew she was girlfriend material so I try and talk to her and hopefully start something but sadly she got a boyfriend 2 weeks after I met her. Now moving on to 10 months later she broke up with her boyfriend(they have broken up at least 4 times by now) because. A) they barely saw eachother B) it was onesided she did everything for the relationship and C) She was moving away in exactly a year so they would have to break up eventually. She said mostly because he was a bad boyfriend though. Ok so now here’s where I come in. We start “talking” and going on dates. I try to move it slowly because she had just gotten out of a relationship around 2 months prior but she ends up kissing me first. We start doing more stuff as weeks pass and than she says she’s leading me on because she doesn’t think she can have a boyfriend because of school starting in 10 months. She will have to move 4 hours away. Anyways we get passed that and we continue dating. we eventually have sex which I feel she egged it on more than I did. But after we had sex she promised me that she would never go back with her ex and she said she really cares about me. This is a girl that is very smart valedictorian, has few friends, and is always busy with homework, family, or work.

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Rob Asked:

“about two months ago, i went out with this girl for few weeks (btw we’re both 19) and it seemed to be going well until she told me she ‘wasn’t ready for a relationship’. so we broke up and sort of drifted apart and stopped speaking. then suddenly, i get a text from her last week asking if i wanted to go out for a drink with her at some point ‘only as friends at the moment’ and i said yes. this has confused me though because by saying ‘at the moment’ it implies that she still wants a relationship with me. thing is, i don’t know how to approach this situation, do i go and just be friendly with her or should i try to let know that i still like her?”

- Rob (19, Birmingham)

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William Asked:

“Well, there’s a girl, I’ve only known her for about a month and we talk everyday during school and after school we text until she falls asleep. There’s never a dull moment between us and we both know eachothers daily routines like it was our own. At first, we just wanted to stay friends but as time went on we got closer and I felt something unique whenever we spoke. I tried asking her out on 3 seperate occasions but I got cold feet and never went through with it. Later on, we were talking and she mentioned her ex-boyfriend and all the problems she had with him. I helped her realize that it wasn’t her fault that he dumped her and she should care what he thinks about her. She was extremly grateful for my advice and kept saying I was a great person and made me promise her I’d never change. (which I have kept so far). About a week ago, during one of our testing sessions she told me that some girl at our school wanted to fight her and she was so scared that I had to convience her to go to school everyday and I walked her to and from school and to and from her classes everyday for about a week. I promised her I’d deal with this girl, so I stopped the girl in the hallway one day and convinced her not to want to fight anymore. I told her that she didn’t have to be afraid of going to school anymore but I didn’t tell her it was because of me because she had made me promise her not to say anything to anyone. (but I felt I had to because it killed me to see her so scared like that, did I do the right thing with that and should I tell her?). Currently, we still talk 24/7 and I haven’t asked her out yet. Reason is, I don’t know if she’s interested or not. Out of all the girls I’ve been with, I only fear rejection from this one and I don’t know why? I suck with body language and all that stuff so if you guys can help me get a clearer picture of this please do so and thank you soooo much.”

- William (16, Chicago, IL)

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Uzzal Asked:

“I loved my best friend since we were 14. She knew it but was afraid to tell me. Me also was afraid if she neglected me. 4 years passed in this way. we were best friends but our love feelings were internal. But something really wrong happened and we got detached though i still love her. She got a Bf and they passed 5 years. In the mean time i was with her as a best friend. one day she cried to me and told me that she really loved me and she wanna go with me because she understood that I am her True love. She could not take this type of pressure anymore. Finally we told each other “I love U”and we found our past feelings. But some times she become quite upset because she couldn’t break up her relation with 1st boyfriend. I told her that if i were not there then everything then be all right. but she starts to cry. then what should i do or She can do? Really it’s causing a great problems in our lives….”

- Uzzal (25, Male, Bangladesh)

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You have developed a friendship with a person of the opposite sex. You might have met them at work. Or maybe you were re-acquainted with them on Facebook after having lost touch with each other over the years. But as time goes on, and your friendship deepens, you might now be asking yourself: “Has this friendship turned into an emotional affair?

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by Maryanne Comaroto

I can remember getting what for me was my first big break in my budding media career. I squealed with delight when the producer called from a popular syndicated radio show asking to interview me. My heart pounded, my mouth went dry ~ I had worked so hard and now it seemed things were about to unfold. I was ecstatic.

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When you think about sustainability, what comes to mind—global warming, going green, doing your part to lessen your carbon footprint? How about relationships? We should compost old relationships and only get involved with organic people? Not exactly, no. Although the concept is intriguing, this would be implausible for most of us, given our cultural proclivity towards big “relationship footprints.”

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My mother told me I was lucky if I could count all my real friends on one hand!

Must have been fifteen or so years ago now, when it occurred to me after a string of disappointing intimate relationships that maybe she was right—again. That it might be wise to invest more time in creating some deep and lasting friendships, as they theoretically seemed to have greater staying power and could be in many ways equally fulfilling, perhaps in some ways even more.

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