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i like this guy and he is like so cute!!!! what do i do? also what do i say if he doesnt like me!!


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If you like this guy, then you should take a chance and talk to him and start hanging out with him. Let him get to know you and he may start developing feelings for you over time. Start flirting with him so he will notice you. If he doesn't like you, then tell him that it's alright and that he may be missing out on someone special.
-Karen

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I want to get fit. I'm currently thin but i'd like a flatter stomach and nicer thighs. I already know what workout routine i want to follow but i have a hard time following it. I just can't get motivated. What are good ways to motivate yourself and exercise everyday?

You can tell yourself that if you don't workout that you will get bigger. That always helps me when I don't want to exercise. Just have someone say something bad about you like "Oh, you need to exercise" or whatever and that you will get you motivated to exercise daily.
-Karen

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heyy, does anyone know any good quote sites? thanks!

Some great quote sites are http://www.hellz-angelz.cjb.net, http://www.quotemania.2ya.com, and http://www.sunkissed.cjb.net.
-Karen

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um well my brother in college just told me that he is suffering from depression but he says hes going to counseling but he lives 600 miles away so its hard to know for sure but like he normally tells me pretty much everything but he wont talk about what is so bad and i dont know what to do, cuz he lives so far away and whatever. any ideas?

You just need to continue talking to him and being there for him and helping him out. If he says he goes to counseling, then he probably does because a brother would never lie about something like this. Tell that if he ever needs to talk to someone that you are there for him and that you will talk to him.
-Karen

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i've been dating my boyfriend for seven months. he lives in the neighborhood next to mine, so i see him almost every day (besides the days he goes to his mom's house in chicago). he's been drifting away from me lately, and he's starting baseball tomorrow and my volleyball's getting more time consuming. how can i let go of him without like losing all interest of our relationship? help! thanx =)

Just talk to him about it and tell him that since you two will be busy for the next few months, you may not see or talk to each other that much and that you don't want your relationship to end. Just start going out to places without him. You will let go of him but you won't lose interest in your relationship.
-Karen

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how effective is ortho tri cyclon low?..its a low form of birth control..

whats the percentage rate that u could get pregnant while on it?

I don't think any of us columnist would actually give you a correct answer. You should try talking to your gynecologist about this and they will give you an answer that is precise and not just guesses and such. You could try going to this pill's website and find out your answer.
-Karen

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okay, me and this guy, robbie, started talking as friends at the beginning of the year, okay, so we became pretty good friends too! but then, my teacher permanatly seperated us because we talked too much! and that was the only class i had with him because he is a senior and im a freshman. so, my sister just came to my school, and is becoming friends with him, and she is always telling him something embarassing about me, or something like.. " becky said you look bad today " you kno? anything that will make him not like me. and so, he completly stopped talking to me, and it really sucks because i had started to like him. and now she came home today and was like.. " hey becky, robbie thinks you hate him!" and i want to yell at her because its her fault.. but i feel bad.. i dont know what to do!! please dont delete.. i need help soo bad!!

You definitely need to talk to this guy somehow and tell him that your sister is making up lies and stuff just to make him think that you hate him. This is the time that you should tell this guy how you feel about him. Tell him that you would never hate him and that he should never believe what your sister says to him and he should talk to you about that. Things will get better.
-Karen

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ok ive had a crush on this guy since school started and we were working on a project togetherand he is always trying to comfort me when im crying and crap.but he was ticking me off so i freaked out and said why do you hate me soo much and he said i dont hate you im tying to help you improve and ive had some bad runin with guys and i wasnt having a good day and having a lot of memories and i toatally freaked out and said you dont want to help me you just want to hurt me.h thinks im a toatal freak what can i do to make him like me again?

You definitely need to talk to him and tell him that you didn't mean to say that to him and that you were having a bad day. Tell him that the memories of other guys were coming back and that him pissing you off made it seem like it was a guy from your past. Talk to him and tell him how you feel. He will like you again if you just talk to him.
-Karen

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My friend is mad at me but I don't know why. She got mad because I got back together with my boyfriend that I broke up with and she said this is all out of hand. Everytime she gets mad and tells me why she is mad I try and solve it and I end up sayign in the end that I am really sorry and I love you so much I don't want anything to come in between our relationship. Each time I say that she really seems not to care and she says you always say that junk. I asked her why she was mad at me and she just said I am okay and that's just to bad. I don't understand I DID NOT do anything to her at all. I want us to still be friends and we get in a lot of fights like maybe 2 or 3 a month and she starts mostly all of them actually all of them. I don't know if it is worth keeping the relationship or not I really want to but you know it might be for the best?? Help!

Sweetie, you DO NOT deserve a friend like your friend who always gets mad at you for little things and that you two fight constantly. A friend should get mad at you and they should care about you and not seem to care about you when you two fight. If you've tried talking to her and that didn't help, then you just need to end this friendship or just stop talking to her because she needs to face the fact that she should be mad at you all the time and always fighting with you. When you apologized to her every time you are in a fight and she doesn't accept them, that shows you that she doesn't care about your friendship that much. If you want to keep this friendship with her, then you just need to ignore these fights and her getting mad at you and get used to them but you shouldn't do that.
-Karen

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Okay well there was this guy I use to like. He was nice and cute ect.. well I was sick one day at school and my best friend (his ex) was like "will you go out with Casia?? she likes you alot" and he was like i dont know.. then she was like "please!! for me?" and he was like sure. When she told me that I was like wow I go out with him?!? then I was like wait.. for you??? I dont want to go out with him because hes only doing it for her.. am I doing the right thing??

In my opinion, yes, you are doing the right thing because no guy should go out with you, just because your friend told him to do it for her. It's like she's sort of making him go out with you. You should talk to her and ask her why she told him to go out with you just because she said told him to do it for her. Tell her that was wrong and she shouldn't have done that. Just because she is his ex-girlfriend, it doesn't mean that she has control over his love life and such.
-Karen

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ok. theres this boy in my 2nd block class and i have never talked to him before, although i think hes waay hott. sometimes whenever the teacher says something funny or they play some weird music on the bulletin, we always turn around and look at each other and laugh. its like we have known each other for a long time and we're friends...but we have never talked before! The other night I dreamt that he talked to me and the next day he actually did talk to me for the first time! i joined in on the conversation he was having with my friend. he didn't say much to me, because I hadn't said very much, but it was a start. i don't know why though me and him look at each other a lot! and we laugh too! we don't even know each other, hes a complete stranger to me, but when he do that and look n laugh, i feel like i've known him forever! my friends think he likes me...is that even possible? i'm terribly sorry this is soo long! i'll rate VERY good i promise! sorry again!

~ Wondering if there's a "connection" ~

Yes, it's possible to feel that you have known someone forever, when you have never talked them before. There is probably a connection between you two because if you two turn around and laugh with each other, that's a sign. You should try getting to know him because if your friends say that he likes you, then you should talk to him and start getting to know him. A lot of relationships start off from things like this. This is not long at all either.
-Karen

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Does anyone know where I can find one of those tshirts that say "I need a hug" or something like that?? Or does anyone know where I can find any other cute tshirts that say cute stuff like that?? I've been looking for them for like forever and I cant find any!! Thanks!!

I have a shirt that says "I need a hug" and I got it from Hot Topic; they have a lot of shirts like that and such. You can also go to American Eagle or Hollister because they have cute shirts with cute sayings on them.
-Karen

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my boyfriend asked me to give him a hand job. what exactly is that? i want to know what it is before i tell him yes or no.

A hand job is when you feel a guy's penis and rub it, you sort of play with it with your hand. It's basically a step below giving a guy oral sex. If you want to do this, then go right ahead.
-Karen

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i know its dumb, but i always get emotional on the last day of school. this year, im graduating 6th grade and im afraid ill cry and look dumb.

It's definitely not dumb for you to get emotional on the last day of school because it's normal. You are just feeling this way because you know that you and your friends will be in different classes and that you might not hang out with them during the summer. If you don't want to cry, then think about something else and you won't look dumb if you do because a lot of girls get emotional on the last day of school, even girls in my grade do and no one really cares. When the time comes to let go of your friends because of the last day of school, keep in touch with them and you'll feel better.
-Karen

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I am 15 and I just cannot get any guys to notice me. Sure, I have plenty of guy friends, but I find it very difficult for guys to look at me as more then a friend. I'm not exactly skinny, but I guess i wouldn't callk myself extremely huge. I am just overweight. I work really hard to lose weight and it usually works, but I always get so depressed when I see all my friends who weigh like 115 pounds and how they always get the guys to notice them. How can i get guys to notice me and really see the real me, not just what is on the outside? How can I make them see the real me? How can I deal with the stress I have, and how can i lose enough weight to make guys want to be with me? PLEASE HELP ME!!!

If guys just look at you and decide not to go out with you, just because you aren't like the other girls, forget about them because they are just mean and retarded for doing that and you don't deserve to be done that to. If you want guys to notice and see the real you, you need to just talk to guys and let them get to know you. Hang out with them and flirt with them once in a while. Dress up differntly and do your hair differently also. To deal with your stress, you need to start think positive and knowing that there are guys out there who wouldn't care about the way you look. Have confidence and that will help you get noticed too. To lose weight, so guys can notice you more, just do three simple things, eat healthy, watch what you eat, and exercise daily. Start eating foods with less carbs and calories and drink water instead of soda. This will help you a lot and your self-esteem will boost up once you start seeing results and knowing that you are losing weight.
-Karen

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I'm a 15 yr old guy and my girlfriend and i were "dumped" by our former bf/gf and now they are together.....she is having a hard time getting over her ex and it's feeling pretty crowded in this relationship to me. Do you think it's normal for her to be really concerned with his pro and his away messages and who he's seeing and what he's sayin to his new gf? How can I help her get over him and concentrate on US?

It's definitely not normal for your girlfriend to be thinking about her ex-boyfriend all the time and always being concerned about his profile and away messages and everything else about his love life. You need to talk to her and tell her that if she truely loves you, then she should stop, obsessing over her ex-boyfriend's love life and she should start concentrating on your relationship. Tell her that she needs to let go of him because she is with you and if she continues to do this, you need to dump her because her feelings for you aren't true, since she still likes her ex-boyfriend and obsesses over him.
-Karen

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Is it normal for a girl who doesn't have her period, but a stomach that hurts for almost no reason? I been doing sit-ups flat on my back and now whenever I stretch my stomach hurts. Its not like I'm hungry, its more like the skin that hurts. Is it normal?

Yes, this is normal. Your abdominals are just being toned and you are now starting to feel and see results so your skin and stomach should hurt. I don't think this has to do with your period because when you are about to get your first period, you start to get discharge a few months or years before you actually get your period. You could try talking to a doctor and you'll find out why this is happening to you.
-Karen

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I'm really scared. I will soon have to have 2 teeth pulled! I was wondering how much it hurts, can you feel them actually pulling the teeth out, and how long it takes for it to stop hurting after you get them pulled. Please help! I'm really scared!!! I rate 5's by the way.

Nope, you can't actually feel your tooth being taken out, well you can but it won't hurt at all, depending on how they numb your gums and such. I think it's different for everyone, for some people, it takes a day or two for the soreness to go away and for some, it doesn't hurt at all. You don't need to be scared, just think about what could happen to you that would be worse.
-Karen

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my lil bro is 7 we share a room and i have a double bed and sometimes he gets scared of thunder cause hes a light sleeper and im not so he gets woken and i dont ANYWAY he got freacked by some thunder and so did i so i didnt object when he hopped in next to me but i got woken up a bit later by him touching my penis and rubbing my leg with his foot neither of us have said anything what should i do

You definitely need to talk to your parents and tell them what happened. Tell them that you don't feel comfortable sharing a room, especially a bed, with your brother. Even though your brother is young, he may be gay, no offense, because a brother wouldn't touch you like that.
-Karen

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what are some good yearbook signatures? its gettin to that time of year and i dont wanna just sign my name!

You can say really anything when you sign someone's year book. Write something along the lines of "Hey (Person's name goes here)! Wow, this year went by so fast. I'm glad that we've talked and became close. I hope you have a great summer and keep in touch over the summer! Call me (Phone number goes here)." Anything like that is alright to write in someone's year book, just change it around and such.
-Karen

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