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Q: tanks for the answer now i know what to do and if they dont listen then its going to be there fault..
exactly good luck. and honestly if they get assholey about it or think you aren't being a good friend, they aren't worth your friendship.

Q: Im 16 and female, A few months ago I split with my boyfriend of 4 months. He had a reputation but he was my first love and I lost my viginity to him and we were really happy, we had issues but what couple doesnt and he could be a prick at times but still we were okay. Then one day we split over something so stupid but it really hurt me. I wanted us to work again although us splitting up was a mutual decision. I asked for us to try again but he refused and I moved on and got over him. Eventually he asked for me back and said he missed me, we got back on it and starting having sex again. But it felt wrong and he wasn't being serious so I dropped it and gave him a chance friends or lovers and he picked friends. Then a few weeks later he comes asking to be friends with benefits and do it one last time, I was over him and trying to get with other guys, but the other guy I wanted to meet up with always left me standing waiting for me to text him to meet up when we'd made arrangements so I'm still talking to him. I felt distressed and agrred to be friends with benefits but I want a relationship, i hope this benfits thing will turn into one again but I know it might not ao I don't know what to do wait for this lad to take me or go off with my ex for friends with benefits, its not what I'd usually do but I'm a teen and confused anyone help? even to tell me what to do about the other guy would help.
this isn't going to result into a relationship. and your guy doesn't miss you, he misses sex. he is using you and knows you will stick around because of the first thing. let the guy go... you're only going to get hurt. and this time when you move on make sure he is cut out of your life...
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Q: I think I'm in love not only with my 'official' boyfriend but also with another guy who turns out to be only a friend of mine,what can I do?please!!I don't wanna cheat on my partner,'cause I do love him very much!!!But why am I feeling that I have a crush with this other guy??no abuse please!!!I need to sort this out!!thanks!
hmmm listen... alot of people can't quite concept this and that's fine. but it is impossible to truely "love" too people like that. i mean if you loved your boyfriend you wouldn't be looking at your "friend" and if you loved your friend you wouldn't be dating your boyfriend.

Q: hi, me and my boyfriend been dating for 2 years and i have just moved in with him. everything is going fine. he addressed me as his girlfriend when he used to introduced me to his friends but now he addressess me as his ''missuss'' when we're meeting his mates. so, my question is, is that a good sign because i have asked him recently if he's going to propose me or not othersiwe i'm just wasting my time and he replied,''you never know'' with his beaming face. so, what does he mean by that as well? thank you all.
from what it sounds like you're his "wifey" the girl that he can see being with for a long time whether it's marriage or not. the guy digs ya alot.

Q: do guys like it when their girlfriends lay on their stomachs? when their girlfriends rub their stomachs?
it honestly all depends on the guy because everyone is different. Some girls don't even like cuddling. so just ask your guy if he minds it.

Q: I have been in a relasionship with this guy since i met him.And i have been the one to dump him 3x in between but we always get back together, untill one day he dumped me because he thought i was cheating on him which i wasnt.He ended up beliving me that i didnt cheat but he said he dosent want a girlfriend anymore but he still loves me so we have been living as friends with benifits, it feels like we are in a reasionship but without the title of going out,because he gets mad if i get of with another guy and i get jealous if he gets with another girl is he using me i dont know? i want to be despratly together with him agian but i just dont see him agreeing.
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anyway
it sounds like he does care about you otherwise he wouldn't be getting jealous of you with other guys so you should honestly just talk to him about it... ask him if there is even a chance of you guys ever being together-together because otherwise dumped the guy

Q: thanks for the answer that really helped me but the reason i said how they act is that they get to wild to loud and they might want to do something like drink or other things and like its taking place in my house if my mom finds out she wont let me have another party and in this case its a pool party/sleepover so what if they want to do something bad thats why i think i should not invite them..
so what should i do?
@imperfection..
you should tell your friends straight up, how you feel. and that you don't want them to do those things and that if they want to do those things, don't come because then at least you had the decency to invite them and they are the ones that make the choice.

Q: Hello : ) . Im a 16 year old girl in highshool (10th grader) me and my boyfriend is the same age except he is in the (11th) & very popular. I am not . We started going out in October of 2011 , everything was good he was like my prince charming. Then on Christmas day are problems started happening . He turned into a person I didn't like .Over Christmas break we had our first real arguments. He broke up with me ,and kept telling me he didn't want to be with me .I still was there for him because I love him & he is my current sex partner . January we got back together , but I didn't trust him because I heard he was cheating. We broke up the end of January and haven't been back together since. But we still act like we're in a relationship. We still have sex every week. Just a couple of weeks ago I found out that every rumor I heard was true ( Him cheating, messing with his ex's, fucking other girls, being an asshole) He tried to justify his reasoning's. & It hurt me so much . I hate to say this but I still mess around with him because I'm "in love" I gave up my friendships and everyone around me to be with him, He has complete control over me . When i try to stick up for myself I'm being a bitch, or acting "below standard". I recently meet this new guy , who isn't like my ex who I'm currently dealing with. The new guy is sweet,caring, book smart , and just better than my ex. Now my ex is trying to change , but he hurt me so many times. I've been unhappy for the past 3 months with him. But i love him . What should I do ?
sweetie, ive been hearing. the asshole ex who cheats, controls, and confuses the fuck out of you but you love them... and you stick around even if it's being a friend or a sex object. But something i learned when i finally found out my "supposed' love was cheating on me... he didn't give a fuck about me. Your guy doesn't care about you. he only cares for himself. and because you're young alot of guys around this age will only care about themselves. The fact that he was cheating even with an ex shows how much he doesn't care about you or your feelings, he uses what you think is "love" to keep you in control. he knows you'll stick around. and he isn't changing, he is just manipulating you so he can keep you around. ditch the guy, kick him out your life. you will only get hurt more as time progresses and believe me it's not going to be easy letting him go because i was there. And don't let the excuse of "love" make you stay because if you think what you had is "love" expect alot of more bad relationships.

Q: Im a 13 year old girl in a really confusing situation with a crush. It's a long story but I had a thought that if I told everyone in my classes that I liked him, maybe he would consider talking to me more. I don't have a full on crush becasue I like to get to know someone a little better but he seems pretty awesome. I know its pretty gutsy and I will hate myself for making me do this but I could if I really wanted to. Would it embarress him too much? He's a popular dude so he doesn't get that embarressed but still... Should I? Thanks.
uhm little girl, this is a NO-NO. Why would you tell everybody else, why not just tell him? Doesn't that seem more direct and if you want to have a relationship and you guys have arguments what are you going to do tell everyone else first...
I would hope not.

Q: Recently I went to a party and saw a boy I used to go to school with years ago there. We didn't really talk at school but we know who each other were. Anyway we both got quite drunk and ended up kissing that night and we spent a lot of the night together just kissing it was really nice. He told me he had only just been dumped by his girlfriend a week ago and he wanted her to leave him alone. He got my number at the end of the night and has texted me a lot since. Anyway we caught up again last weekend and were both drinking, as soon as he saw me gave me a kiss. We hooked up again that night and he was so lovely to me. We ended up going back to my house and sleeping together. He stayed the night and he was so so nice to me the whole time and seemed really interested. He apologized the next day for drinking so much because he was nervous. He has also texted me every day since and he wants to go out drinking again this weekend. Do you think he likes me or is just in it for the sex?
It seems he generally likes you but maybe try hanging outsober and see if he is the same way.

Q: This alway happens to me even if I do stand up and show how angry I am it's like all of that is invisible. On friday at lunch all I got was half a chicken finger and a sip if tea, all the rest of my lunch was stolen by everyone. And they knew I didn't have breakfast and wouldn't be home till 8:00 that night. One of them started bothering me about this random guy that she thinks I like and is embarassing both him and I about it. Im at that age where telling a teacher puts you at the bottom of the food chain a d you look like a complete idiot. How do I deal with this? Thanks.
honestly those aren't your friends, friends wouldnt treat you like that. Talk to them about it otherwise get some new ones sweetie.

Q: my boyfriend and i have been together for a year

weve only started fighting the last couple of months, and its always over the same thing...or the same person i should say.

basically when i first started talking to him before we were dating he was sleeping with his best friend and another girl.

anyway since the day we started dating, neither of these two girls have been happy with the outcome. and for the first couple of months they backed off.

however one of them, the one that used to be his best friend, has been texting him and wanting to meet up with him and stuff....
i dont trust her, shes a very very shady girl. shes in love with my boyfriend and has gone through dozens of guys trying to find what she had with my boyfriend, but nothing compares to him.

ive had NUMEROUS people ring and call me and warn me of this shady girl and her behaviour, but i suspected most of this already. especially since she slept with him 2 days after he got out of a 5 year relationship a year and a half ago. Ive never been able to deal with there friendship because i know its not innocent on her part.

i hate going on facebook and seeing her calling him babe and saying how she misses him and everything when she doesnt even say that to her 'boyfriends'.

then tonight, i log onto facebook to see a picture of her all cuddled up against my boyfriend. way to close for comfort for me. They seriously look like a couple, and he wont even get couple photos with me.
it doesnt help her caption reads " the one that means the most
Honestly, it's not just the girl. I mean like you sound SHE LOVES HIM. So if anything your boyfriend probably knows that and has been taking advantage of her. And i'm telling you right now if he can take a cuddled up picture pose with her and not even one couple pose with you, you have a problem. And if he can't take the time out to think about why they maybe shouldn't be friends, you got a problem. Dump him. it's not even worth it.

Q: I am a Scorpio and it describes me pretty well and explained a lot haha. But I looked at my ex bf's sign and that explained him well to. It seems to fit almost everyone but I just want to make sure because there is this guy I like and our zodiac sign are perfect for each other and his zodiac sign says a lot. DO you know if they are legit or not? Thanks!
You know people say its "bullshit" as the other guy says but how many people actually do relate to their zodiac sign? ALOT. Literally every person i know's sign has their zodiac traits. It's creepy. I study astrology and they go so deep into describing people that sometimes it's like they just know you. Is it true? Who knows. I guess that's only something the stars can tell you.

Q: There is this guy I secretly like but my friend told him I like him and she has no clue that I actually do. She went kinda too far with it though and I feel so bad for him because I haven't been able to talk to him through this period of stuff my friend has done to us. I'm going to apologize to him on Monday but I don't know him well enouhg to say I like him. Is it wise to tell him I want to get to know him better? How should I deal with this? Thanks!
please if anything this is great, use this to your advantage when you got to talk to him simply tell him your friend didn't mean it and she got the assumption because you said that he seemed interesting and you wanted to get to know him. He'll be flattered.

Q: (male,gay)Well,I have a boyfriend,we've been dating for almost two years and a half,but he hasn't presented me to his family as his partner,they do know me,though,but just as any other f***g friend of his,is he ashamed of me?We have been through this like a thousand times but I guess I'm just pretty tired of speaking and speaking all the time without coming to any solution,What can I do?This has already jeopardised our relationship 'cause I'm seriously thinking about dumping him,'cause I'm not a criminal,thanks in advance for your help!
There are many reasons for this... gay relationships and parentals... are ass because there seems to be so many problems unless you have amazing parents. His reasonings could be his parents don't know he's gay, have you ever asked if he told them? His parents could even know but not approve of it or just don't want to believe it He may have just come out to them and he isn't sure how to let you meet them. Or he may have never let his gay lover meet his boyfriend before so it's a big complicated step for him.
Just talk to him about it.

Q: Okay so I made a new friend around November of last year. The day I met her I knew I liked her a lot. Well I never said anything and we just became really close friends, like the entire school thinks were a couple no matter what we say. One of my classmates thinks we just don't want to go public yet. When I heard of this I laughed a lot. Well around January I decided to tell her my feelings for her...well she turned me down no surprise there since she told me she still likes her ex. It became awkward between us and we didnt talk as much for like a week but I guess it just blew over and we even talked more then usual. We started talking on Skype everyday after school. Well just recently I started noticing that she's been asking me if I still like her, now she did this a bit during the awkward phase but said its because she wanted me to get over her. But now she just says "I don't know, just wondering." She has also asked me if I love her, or if I hate her (of course I don't but my feelings for her are not as strong as they use to be). And friday during school I was leaving class and she tapped my should then put her arm through mine and started getting all up and close to me. Enough that I could feel her breasts perfectly. I got nervous but I can control my self so I didn't show any reaction to it. (I tend to do it a lot around her, even when I got drunk). Why all of the sudden is she acting like this? My first though was that she's starting to like me. could it be? I have mixed feelings for her now and her ex is still around but is out of the country til summer but leaves again for another year. She says she still loves him and he loves her back. Im in a really complicated situation.....
honestly just sit her down and talk about this face to face. not through skype or whatever. and not in school either like hang out, just you two. But it sounds like she has feelings for you but is confused because she loves her guy.

Q: I like him. He likes me. We fight like a married couple and play like brother and sister. He asked me what exactly what we are and I don't want to jump out and say I want to be his girlfriend because he has had a million girlfriends. What should I do?
aweee you sound like me and my babe

Q: Is it a bad sign when your boyfriend splits his leisure time between you & his male friends
No if ANYTHING it's a good thing. Just because you have a boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't mean you should stop hanging out with friends. At least that's my view. I like when my guy hangs out with his friends and i like to hang out with mine. It's also just plain old rude not to. Do you know how many girls justify "having a boyfriend" as a reason not to spend time with their friends, and then when they become single they aren't really as connected with their friends as before? ALOT. It's the same with guys. And girls/guys who don't like their partner hanging out with friends are most likely jealous and possessive. Is that you?

Q: My boyfriend was dating this girl for a year and a half and they were broken up for about a month but still talking and saying they were going to fix things WHILE he was seeing me during that month, he was also having sex with a old lover of his while seeing me.. i found out after we were together that he was sleeping with the one girl and telling her that he loves her same with his ex girlfriend. we have been together for four months and live togehter ( weird i know) but it happened, when ever i bring any of them up he avoids it and tells me not to talk about them.. does he actually love me and is he over them? what are some ways to find out if he is over them completely? help please
the guy doesn't seem to be exactly over his ex but in general he really doesn't seem to know what he wants at all. And if you're living together that's pretty big... but just be careful sweetie.

Q: Well,my old friend attempted that he was gay now and it has been a week now. But we are suppose to be fixing our friendship but he ignores me. When I call or text or skype or facebook message or email him. His new friend is always around with him all the time. He wasn't gay til he met his new friend and started hanging around him and I realized i had feelings for him a couple of years ago but he did me wrong and said he didn't want to be friends anymore. I have dreams and thoughts about him everyday and all day. That's all i think about.So I seen him the other day with his friend and they were going to the park and i was following him and i turned around because i didn't realize his friend was with him. What should i do? I want to tell him but i don't want to get rejected. Does it sounded wrong to text or call him like get a friend to call him for me?
i need you to think exactly about what you are saying... and think about what you know about being gay. One of the things about being gay is admitting it. Coming out the closing. Being able to be open and accept yourself. This is so much harder for guys. I mean girls... half the girls in america who don't even like girls mess with them because they just can but for guys. Being gay or bisexual is just plain old insane. especially coming to turns with it. You said he did you wrong before did you ever think it was because he was still coming to terms with his sexuality back then and the reason why he may have just come out is because his friend gave him the confidence to finally admit it. If you want to talk to him, be there for him. Say you didn't know back then and if he ever needs someone to talk too about it or people ever mess with him about it, to call you.

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Hi, thanks for coming to my column.

The name is Diamond but Dia is fine.

20, female, jersey girl at heart. mixed race taurus natured woman.

So...the reason I made this was during the start of my senior year of high school I had reached a point in my life where I didn't want to live anymore. I was tired of fighting and didn't see the reasons to fight. It was a random stranger that made me realize I would be stupid to take my life and to stop fighting.

So if you think I'm going to tell you life gets easier, I'm not. Let's face it, it doesn't get easier. Through pain you get stronger and learn to open your eyes to those things that give you strength to live.

Mine happen to be music, writing, dr. pepper, anime, the color black, the way rain sounds, and an amazing boyfriend. What gives you strength to live?

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