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I have gone from younggrandma to just yg. Now,
I am using my real name.
I don't think anyone who knows me will have trouble figuring out who that is!


I have been gone a while dealing with things in my own life. I am back now to help once again. Do not expect answers from me that just tell you what you want to hear. Life is to short for nonsense. :)
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Okay I don't even know what me and my friend were talking about but somehow Tom Green came up and she told me he died?! Is this true? I mean I know he had cancer and stuff but she told me she saw on Drew Barrymore's E Hollywood Story that he was dead. Uhmm can someone clarify this? Please? (link)
He is still alive. He was diagnosed and successfully
treated for testicular cancer in 2000. :)


does anyone know whenever i get my period, i get these horrible cramps where i have to leave school they're so bad. how can i get them to stop? does midol really work? thanks (link)
Menstrual cramps are pretty normal. Midol does work and should get you through the school day alright.

If you are bothered by them at night, a heating pad placed on your abdomen works wonders too. :)


I really want to become a citizen of the United States (before I turn 18), but my dad won't let me, and he is the head of the household so my mom's opinion doesn't count.

I am 16, turning 17 in March. I moved to the USA (California) when I was 6, and lived here and only here ever since. We have a Green card, and are pernament residents of the United States. I love America, and I would really love a dual citizenship (USA and Russia, which I am already a citizen of). I plan to start voting as soon as I turn 18, and I know I will be very active in politics.

Can I become a US citizen even though my dad is completely against it and I'm a minor? He says I can make that choice when I am 18, but then its not free, and I will have to pass a test. And doesn't it get harder to become a citizen once you're an adult?

Please help me, I will rate accordingly.

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I would call the number ygsgirl found for sure.

I don't know if you can become a citizen as a minor
if your parents are not. I know if they become citizens you would automatically.

I am sure it would cost you the same minor or not,
with or without approval from your parents.

If you are interested in politics, I doubt you would have a hard time passing the test given. So even if they tell you that you have to wait until you are 18 to do it on your own start studying for it now. You will breeze through it easily. You could probably even find some sort of site that tells you what to start learning now. They can probably tell you that when you call.

I read it costs about 250 for all the test fees
etc. That won't be hard to save up for. Get a part time job now and you wouldn't have to save for long.

Good luck. :)


Ok, here goes. A new guy (8 months ago) started hanging around with me and my friends. We are a very tight group and have been friends for 13 years. We are actually more like family. He was accepted into out "core" group really quickly which is rare.He constantly says he has never had friends like us before....friends that would do anything for each other. Him and I have gotten very close and up until a week ago spent almost all of our time together. We have a different bond than all the rest of out "group". I started having romantic feelings for him about 4 months ago. We flirt all the time and it so obvious to everyone else that we like/liked each other more than friends. One night I told him how I felt and he said he felt the same but if we didnt work out he knew that our group of friends would kick him out because we have been friends so long. He also said he needed to find himself and that he was scared. He wasnt ready to date and dosent really know how.Hes only been in two relaionships both long term (hes 26). I said ok and I could tell it hurt him to tell me that. I thought he was lying and just didnt want to date me but he told all our other friends the same things and that I am the most awesome person he has ever met. That he has to just keep telling himself I am not an option but sometimes it takes all his stregnth not to just kiss me and when Im not around that he misses me. He says he knows if we dated he would mess something up. He is still flirty but I just recently found out he has started dating(two weeks ago). He didnt want to tell me that and he still hasnt actually told me. Out other friends did. He has never even brought it up to me although he knows I know. I am heartsick over him cause I know he still feels the same. It just feels like we were meant to be together. What can I do I am going crazy? I dont know what to do if he actually brings around some of the women he is dating. Help! (link)
I guess, to be perfectly honest, he values the friends more than he wants to risk them turning on him someday.

It may also be he is telling all of them about feeling as he does to keep them from rejecting him for rejecting you.

I know, not what you wanted to hear. But if he cared about you enough to think there might be
a future, what the friends reaction to a break-up might be wouldn't stop him.

This may be a relationship destined to be a good friendship. If you want to put it to the test, keep your distance from the group for a while. See how much he really misses you. If there are true feelings there, that should bring him running.

Good luck. Hope it works out. :)


Me and my friends have been friends for like ever but I really need a change I mean they are so babish and we argue alot.

I have started to hang out with some other people
and I feel so much better. But I dunno if I should go back to my old friend? (link)
People mature at different times. You should still be friends with her even though you have added new friends. She will catch up soon. :)


ok, all of my friends are hackin hilarious! but i'm not. And when i try to be funny, its normally not. so could you tell me some good jokes.


also, some like little songs or something like this:

from the windooww to the kitchen,
put gravy on my chicken,
mmm this chickens kickin,
mmm gobble gobble gobble.

do you think you guys could tell me some of these things? pppleeasseee!?!?! i am soo sick of not being funny! (link)
Heres one for the little rhymes.

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okay well you answered my question about that but i have one more question... what should we do if i am pregnant? should we wait till he gets off probation to tell everyone? can he still get introuble? ect.
please help.
thank you!


question before...

my boyfriend has been locked up and he had just got out the other week. hes on house arrest for a month && probation for 3. part of his probation is to not have contact with me at all. but the other day we hung out secretly && we had sex. now we think i may be pregnant. im going to take a test/ my first question is IF IM PREGNANT CAN HE GET IN TROUBLE? CAN HE GET LOCKED UP AGAIN? IF SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? and my other question is HOW SOON SHOULD I TAKE THE PREGNANCY TEST? we did it on friday the 23rd. my period starts on the 12th/13th every month. any advice you can give me would be great. please help. i dont want to get him locked up if i am pregnant and if i do keep it. please help.
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Hon, what is he in trouble for? That could make a difference.

How much longer will he be on probation? You will start showing at about 4 months. Prenatal care for
a teen is a must. You will have to let your mom know about it if you are pregnant.

I will just cut to the chase on this one. If he is
in trouble because he is older than you and was caught, he will just be in trouble all over again
even if you wait.

If he is not older than you, and as irresponsible as this was I will guess this is the case, then your best bet will be to admit it and get it over with.Hiding it will just make it harder on him in the long run. I don't say this to be mean either.
The boy is not thinking straight.

I know it will be very hard to do but you need to keep away from him if his probation says to. Sooner or later you will be caught. Someone will drop in on him or listen to a phone conversation
and it won't be pretty. Encourage him to follow the rules, as hard as they may be to live with.

I wish you weren't going through this. This is to much drama for a girl your age! All this worry isn't helping. It can make your period late or
just make you skip one. Take a test a week or so after it should come. Write me back with the results and I will be happy to help you deal with it whatever the outcome. In the meantime, try
not to worry. :)

My email address is on my column if you feel better talking via email. Feel free to write.


So this is kind of a followup on the previous long ass question I left you.

So, we're talking. She admitted today that she still loves me. She said though that when she talks to me that she cant feel hardly anything. I think thats just her natural defenses closing her off to keep her from being hurt somehow.

I dont, however, know how to break through that. Time and attention, maybe? Thats question 1 I guess. Is there anything I can do to work on her emotional defense, suggestions or anything?

So, where we're at, is that she still very much loves me. She agrees that our connection is worth saving. Shes ready to admit to herself that on some level she wants me back, but we agree it has to be a gradual process.

I told her that I was considering moving to where she is now. I have no idea where thats going to go.

I'm not giving up. I'm going to try to make this work. I guess, what we're facing is a protracted "friends" period and then probably getting back together.

Shes still going to sleep with her current fuckbuddy. I think I'm going to continue with mine. We're sexual people and pretty open in that regard so outside some levels of jealousy that I can deal with, I dont think that I'm going to have an issue with that.

Its just hard, knowing that shes in someone elses bed without me. Especially knowing she has feelings for him and she isnt ready to walk away from those feelings yet.

Thats pretty much an update. If youve got any more suggestions or wise words, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks. (link)
I'm kind of worried about her not giving up the
other guy. But then he is there and you aren't.
That could change if you move to where she is.

If you want a chance I think you will have to move
closer to her. Get a job, take it slow. It will
show her you are serious about making it work with her. Right now she may have a "ya right" thing going on. :)

Of course you will be jealous of the other guy. Who
wouldn't be. Just concentrate on getting where she is and winning her back. I look forward to hearing
when it happens for you!


Well I'm 15 now and I first got my period when I was 12. So I don't know when the period starts to become regular??? but mine isn't and I don't know if that's normal or if I'm just over reacting...
Oh and here's my hight and weight if needed:
Hight: 5'5"
Weight: 106lbs (link)
Some women are never regular at all, ever. Nothing to worry about. :)


my boyfriend has been locked up and he had just got out the other week. hes on house arrest for a month && probation for 3. part of his probation is to not have contact with me at all. but the other day we hung out secretly && we had sex. now we think i may be pregnant. im going to take a test/ my first question is IF IM PREGNANT CAN HE GET IN TROUBLE? CAN HE GET LOCKED UP AGAIN? IF SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? and my other question is HOW SOON SHOULD I TAKE THE PREGNANCY TEST? we did it on friday the 23rd. my period starts on the 12th/13th every month. any advice you can give me would be great. please help. i dont want to get him locked up if i am pregnant and if i do keep it. please help. (link)
Yes. If he isn't supposed to be seeing you, he violated probation and would probably be sent back to jail. This is IF he is court ordered not to see you. If it is a parents don't want you seeing him thing he may not go.

Lying about it would do no good since they could do DNA tests to find out who the father is. You are underage so parents would probably allow this.

If you miss your period take a test. That simple.

Now, if he isn't allowed to see you, you need to stay away. If you don't want him locked up, don't help him to break probation. He will not be let out on probation again if he breaks the rules.
Depending on what he is doing time for, he could even get a longer sentence.


Today, my dog bit me. (chihuahua) Really badly on my thumb. Like...where the nail and skin meets, he punctured that part and I could see the hole and blood and stuff. (I don't have good experiences with dogs. I got bit on the leg before)

But anyway,
Blood started gushing out. I was home alone so I didn't know what to do. I let some blood come out before I actually treated the wound (I had to lock my dog up)

I treated it with hydrogen peroxide and iodine and then I carefully wrapped it around in a band-aid. A couple of minutes in, I felt really ligtheaded, I nearly fainted.
I was SOO weak, that I couldn't stand up, I felt like the whole world was closing in on me, eveything got dark and I couldn't feel my legs, I just fell. And started crying/panicking.

I then went over to my bed and felt the same, I crawled under the covers. And I felt SO lightheaded/bad.
What happened to me? Why did this happen? =|
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You did the right thing. No need to let blood gush out. Hold pressure on it until it stops.

You have to loose quite a lot of blood for it to make you loose consciousness. So feeling faint wasn't because of blood loss. It could be the sight of blood did it to you. Not everyone can deal with these kinds of things.

If this is the same person with the dog that doesn't bite anyone but you, I suggest you give the dog away. Acting fearful of dogs can make them bite you.

Maybe get a cat. :)


i am doing masterbution from one i think it get fall me in a illness please give a suggetion about masterbution and my quistion. (link)
No. Masturbation will not cause any illness.
Its about the safest sex you can have.

We will not give masturbation suggestions or tips.
For that you will have to Google. We do have young users on this site and graphic descriptions are just not allowed.

Here is a search for suggestions.

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Alright.

This is long. Its complicated. But Ive seen your advice and I need an answer I probably wont get in the general area.

I'll start from something of the beginning.

I have an ex issue. I'm in my 20s, shes in her teens. In may, she moved in with me. Things were strained a little then, as we'd been working together to keep me in a house. When she moved in, things were good for about a month or two, and started to go downhill.

Problem 1: I wasnt working much. Personal issues abound, and I was pretty worthless for quite a long while. She had her own motivation issues, and so moving in she moved out of her parents house and into mine (terrible idea, I know) after being with me for 2 and a half years. She was stressed about rent, bills, and about neither of us having the motivation to work a whole lot.

I think that this stress put intense strain on our relationship, because she wasnt happy away from her family, and that made her unhappy in general, and that made her "unhappy in our relationship"

Problem 2: I have some anger issues. I wasnt violent towards her, but sometimes she would piss me off, and I would yell, or just go quiet and be pissed for a while, or walk out of the room to cool off. My reactions made her feel like she couldnt talk to me, and communication died between us. Ive improved alot, and towards the end it went from me being angry to her being angry, and she became somewhat verbally abusive towards the end.

Problem 3: She cheated on me. I cant give you exact circumstances, but basically she had an unrequited crush from when she was younger, found out he liked her, and she slept with him. I know her intimately well, and can say that she did that only because of the specific circumstances. But never the less, she did cheat.

We've been broken up for 3 months. We didnt talk for one and a half. We started talking again this week. Conversation has flowed pretty well. Shes even admitted that part of her wishes she had given me another chance.

I am still in love with her. I dont think that I will ever hit a point where I am not in love with her, and I dont think that I will ever hit a point where I am so in love with someone else that I would not leave them in a heartbeat to be with her.

At 23, I know thats probably incredibly stupid and immature of me, but thats where I am. I'm a stupid idealistic fool who believes that something like true love exists. I decided that I wanted her, and only her, for the rest of my life. I cant undo that decision. And to be honest, I cant think of any lengths she could and would go to that would change that.

I want her back. She needs to grow up before thats possible, and I need to get a better handle on myself. But I dont think its healthy for me to still want to be with her. I dont know that we're good for each other. I know that my heart doesnt give a damn about either, it just wants her.

Desperately.

I guess I'm looking for good general advice. Ive put so much time and energy into her... Almost three years I loved her. I taught her to love sex, I showed her what dedication meant, and I never wavered in regards to her. Not once.

I feel like if she and I had both been a few years older when we started dating, we would have done just fine.

Maybe I need a kick in the ass. I just...

My problem right now is that my life is not together. Its as good as its going to get for the moment. She isnt in a place in her life where she can deal with me not being together.

I, on the other hand, can deal with her not being together. I know the core of her. The kindness, the smiles, the love... Its very much still there. And if she were able to be with me I would be willing to stick by her through her growing pains, through her changes, through anything and everything.

I dont know if I should let go. Or just stop talking to her, or bide my time and try again, or what. I talked to her tonight, and flat out told her that I would probably ask her for another chance someday. She didnt say anything about it. Shes the type of person who, if she didnt like the idea, she would head me off at the pass and say "no, thats not going to happen"

I just dont want to feel like shit anymore, and I have no idea which direction to pick that will lead me out of this.

Any thoughts? (link)
Talking is a great start. Talk and be honest.
I don't see any reason why you can't work it
out if you both want to.

You need a good job. You both need to get
motivated to do things that will make your
life together, if that happens, the best it
can be. THAT needs to be your motivation.

Date. Don't move in together until you have
all your ducks in a row. Money issues is the
number one relationship killer. There will always be some issues, just don't make them overwhelming
while starting out.

Cheating is never a good thing but it is forgivable.
Just do your best to get it together so you can
BE together.

Let me know if there is anything more specific
you need help with. Best of luck to you and your
lady. :)

After feedback***

Ah. Well her living so far away would make dating a bit hard.

Are you in school? Do you think if you moved closer it would help the situation any?
Its a thought. Not something you want to do if there isn't a chance with her though. It is something you might want to talk about with her.

If you don't feel there is a chance with her, you
just need to get out there and date others. I know it will be hard and I know you don't think it would work, but it will. I know another who thought like you do that she will always be the only one. Not necessarily true at all.

But if you think there is a chance. Do work on it. :)


can dogs see themselves in a mirror (link)
Well mine likes to bark at himself as if he is a stranger in the mirror. So I would say they can see themselves. :)


Okay, Here's The deal. I Am 15, female and I Am dating A guy who is 16. We go to the same school and he will be leaving in about 4 or so months. We have been together 6 months and still hardly any of my mates like him. Him And I always get abuse from them when we're togther, like they pick on him and stuff or make comments. And even when i'm alone and away from him my mates say things about him that upset me. I now dread lunch and break times in school because he comes to see me and my mates go all funny and block me out. I hate it. I would go with him to his mates but i don't really get on with them and i get shy around them.. I keep thinking about moving schools.. but it would be bad cos i have exams.. then there was dumping him but i don't want to, he makes me happy and i love him. Then there was asking him if we could meet after school but i was worried he would get annoyed cos it would sound like i want to avoid him.. then there was asking for a break in out relationship for a few months but i think i could loose him that way.. The problem is i get affected by what people think of me and i hate it, but i can't seem to stop getting affected. I just don't know what to do anymore. I hate school life.. i like my mates but i love my boyfriend too.. I feel kind of stuck and i get really upset about it.. I just want my mates to be civil to him at least.. then school could be easier. I don't need them to like him, just be nice and keep their thoughts to themselves.. But i can't see that happening.. What can i do? Help needed ASAP.. x (link)
You speak to your mates, either as a group or one on one. You let them know that disrespecting your boyfriend is disrespecting you.

That isn't how true friends behave. They don't have to like him, but being polite isn't going to hurt them any.

If you truly like this guy then don't allow them to run either of you off. Get tough and tell them what you feel. :)


So, tomorrow it's decades day at my school and my class has the 60's.
What did hippies where for shoes? lol, I have my whole outfit together but I don't know what to wear for shoes.
Thanks! (link)
Well the wonderful flower children of the times usually went barefoot. Thats probably not allowed at school so sandals will work I think. :)


Diabetes runs in my family and I want to be extra careful not to get it. What are some precautions I can take? thanks so much (link)
Here is a good site for you. :)

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-prevention.jsp


What do you need to become a paramedic? four year college? extra schooling? What courses should I take in high school? (link)
EMT takes a semester, Paramedic takes a year.
A very hard year I might add. It will be all you do for an entire year. When you aren't in class studying you will be in the field doing clinical's.
Riding in ambulance etc.

I am in no way discouraging you I hope, just know
it will be very time consuming. You have to be very dedicated.

I am an EMT. It can be a very rewarding career. I
would love to be a paramedic but had young kids at that time and just couldn't spend that much time in training.

Any first aid classes will help you out. They aren't required though. You will learn them all. :)


I know everyone is going to tell me i don't know what im talking about but just listen. Thanks.

I had sex a lil over a week ago and 2 days later i bleed for four days. I'm not sure if it was my period or not because every time i have sex i always bleed afterwards. (Usually i have rough sex) Well yesterday and today i have felt sick to my stomach, lightheaded, and felt like i was about to fall over at times.

And i havent had my period in a about 2 months so i cant really go off my missed period if you guys just recommend me taking a test. Am i just sick or are these early early signs of pregnancy? (link)
First thing is you shouldn't be bleeding after you have sex. If you do it wouldn't last for 4 days.
Take a test to be on the safe side. Go ahead and take one now. I think you will find the results are negative.

Use a condom and/or birth control so you aren't worrying in the future. Here is a great site for
all kinds of information.

http://www.coolnurse.com/

*Edit in answer to feedback*

Go ahead and take the test if you want to be certain but I'd think it was your period. You might bleed a little after sex but 4 days would be considered a problem to see a doc about. Missed periods are a sign of pregnancy. Being lightheaded
isn't a real good sign because not every woman gets that symptom. :)


okay this guy asked me to be his girlfriend yesterday and i said yes to him but then i told him it has to be a secret relationship because of my mom. we were okay at first but then we didnt really talk to eachother yesterday and it was really awkward and today he didnt really talk to me and he didnt wait for me after class like he always do and flirt like we used to he also didnt talk to me that much and he was online on yahoo messager he would always talk to me there but this time he stayed for like 5 minutes and he signed off and i dont know whats going on what do you think about this? and does he still counts as my"boyfriend"?
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You will need to talk to him. A lot of guys don't want to date someone if they are going to have a possible problem with the girls parents. Talk to
mom first and see if she will allow you to date. :)




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