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Q: I am 13 and I'm a female. A few of my guy friends seem to act real nice around me, but when they're around each other, they say bad things about me. I'd like to know if I can trust them.

I asked that question earlier and I forgot to mention that one guy is an ex-boyfriend, one likes me and I think the other likes me too. My ex and the guy who likes me are very good friends and the guy who likes me is good friends with the guy who I think likes me. I hope this will give me more help.

your x is probley just jelouse that some body else likes you and he trys to stop that from happening. I think you can trust the other 2 guys just not your x.
-Manders *Hope I Helped*

Q: I was just wondering if anyone has used the Remington Straightner, the one that straightens wet hair. If so,does it actually work? Is there mcuh damage? Is 25-30 dollars a good price for it? I think I'll be getting the 2 inch one since my hair is longer & it is only 5 dollars more. And how straight does your hair get? Thanks in advance! i rate

i have on of those and it works really well for me.. i usually wait till me hair is a little dry or else it kind of steams it. when i bought mine it was $30 so its a great price. My hair get really really stright and it frizzy and wavy and curly. my hair doesn't seem too damaged but if it starts too then i just use some good conditner and its fine..
-Mander *Hope I helped*

Q: ok so me and my best friend both like a guy and it so happens these guys are best friends but were going into highschool and we dont know if we will end up likeing somebody new..and they want to ask us out but we keep saying we dont know if we want a boyfriend rite now..so should we tell them we want a boyfriend and go out with them or just leave it be and wait for highschool or what?

I think you should wait to highschool and get to know them a litte better. Then if you feel its the right time then ask them out.
-Manders (Hope I Helped)

Q: Okay. Here's a little background info. Okay. Me and this kid named, lets just say "Mark" went out for about 5 months. We talked on the phone everyday, and hung out almost everyday. I was soo in love with him. But then we broke up a couple weeks ago. But I really regret it. We talk sometimes now, but I really want to go back out with him again. I miss him soo much. We went to some party last night, and he told my two best friends that he still liked me. I really want to tell him how I feel, but I don't know. I'm just really shy about telling people how I feel.

Here's my question.

1. Should I tell him how I feel? If yes, what should I say?

I rate high!! But please, I just need advice. Thanksss bunches.

Heart-broken and in love

I think that you should ask he out again. If he told your friends he liked you then he must. Just ask " do u still like me?" and if he does say " i still like you too" and then go from there.
-Manders (hope i helped)

Q: I like someone but I am not sure if he likes me or if i should ask him out?

If yoour friends with him then just talk to him about that.. If you not friends with him then talk to him and become friends first too see if you guys really have a connection.. If you not really a "friend" kind of person then just ask him if he likes you or get a friend too. if he doesn't then be friends with him or still talk to him. Hope I help

-Manders

Q: i know its stupid .. but i need help!! i have never been french kissed before and i think im ready, but i dont know how to do it! do both you and your boyfriend put your tounges in each others mouth or does one just put theirs in the others mouth? and how do you know whos tounge goes on top or bottom? I REALLY NEED HELP!!

Here's How:
1.Set the scene. Make sure that the mood and time are right.

2.Relax! Take a deep breath and let go of any tension in your neck and shoulders.

3.Put your arms around the person you want to kiss.

4.Start off with a normal kiss, not too firm, not too aggressive. Closing your eyes is optional.

5.In mid kiss, gently open your mouth and softly nudge the other persons mouth open using your tongue.

6.Again, not too aggressively, move your tongue inside the other persons mouth and playfully touch their tounge.

7.Read the other persons body language, if they seem tense or start to pull away, stop what you are doing.

8.If they open their mouth more or otherwise indicate they like the kiss, keep on doing what you have been only with a little more passion.

9.As the kissing gets going saliva build up can be a problem, don't forget to swallow.

10.Make sure you keep your tongues relaxed but your lips tight (saliva again), you don't want the kiss to turn messy.

Hope I helped tell me again if you need help on only thing else.

Q: I'm very shy and quiet, and I not a geek or anything but I'm not exactly popular either. There's this guy that I think might like me.. but he is really popular and outgoing, so I'm not sure if he really does like me or if it's just my imagination. Is it possible for a popular, outgoing guy to like a shy, not-so-popular girl? What are the chances? I don't know what to do because of my uncertainty.. should I flirt back or not?? Thanks in advance!! :-)

its totally ok for that to happen. once this girl i know was the same as u are and the guy was the sam. so she flirted a little in math class with him the next day he asked he out. so it is 100% possible. if he likes u then flirt if he get weird about it then he is just a jerk. Hop I helped

Q: Ok..i went sorta on this date last night with this guy i have been chatting on line with. My friend has met him so hes no harm. Well that whole night he would try to talk to me and i just didnt talk much. After the date..i got online and he didnt talk to me at all. My friend called me up a few min later and said i was really boring and didnt show my personality. Do you think this guy should give up? Or do you think he should let me have a second chance?

i think he should give a second chance because you were just nervouse and didn't want to talk much. oh well i do that on my first dates too. if he doesn't give u a second chance then he is wrong for u. hope i help.

Q: my name is amy iam 18 and i recently got out of my three year relationship with my first love david. we had an awesome relationship with no major difficulties. the only pitt fall of us was that early in our relationship i cheated on him, it was nothing serious, but it took a lot for us to get through it, but we did and we were very happy up until now. i was the cause of our breakup because we were both going into our senior year and i felt like some healthy space between us would be good. we both agreed that we didnt want to just be completely done so after about three months of taking things slower and casually dating around we both decided to get back together. a week after this mutual he decided to date erika. she had just broken up with her boyfriend of two years just a couple of days before her and david got together. her brother had recently committed suicide due to steroids that had been supplied to him by erikas boyfriend which promoted her to break up with him. i was mad and hurt when i found out and just gave david all the cliche "i hope you know what your loosing" and "no one can love you the way i can" lines. he only replied with an "iam sorry i will always love you". we didnt talk for two weeks, then he started to randomly call and text message me, while he was still dating erika. i stayed strong and resisted him for a month. over thanksgiving break i finally gave in and answered my phone. we talked for hours about nothing and made plans to go job hunting the next day and try out our new relationship as "friends". although i acted as if nothing was wrong the next day, i was hurting inside so bad. all i wanted to do was say how much i missed him and how i wished he would take me back. but i didnt. i held back my emotions until i was in the privacy of my room. i promised myself then that i was never going to call him first, and i haven't to this day. if he wanted to hang out he could call me. we went a couple of days without talking when he called me one night and asked me to come over to look at something he got for his car. it was late and against my better judgement i went. we ended up getting intimate and we both cried to each other and came to what i thought was the understanding that we both werent ready to be "friends" and to just treat this night as closure and i asked him to not call me anymore. that lasted about a week. since then we have been off and on for five months now, he has intimately cheated on erika countless times with me that she doesnt know about. i know that our relationship is wrong and unhealthy and ive tried to cut it off many times but i always give into him becuase he doesnt listen to me when i tell him not to call. i would always avoid the erika subject around david mostly because i was afraid of what i was going to hear, but i recently got up the courage to ask him if he really loved her. he said that he really did and i told him that i didnt believe him, and i still dont. i told him to leave my room if he really loved her and he quickly changed the subject and stayed the entire night. when i asked him how and why he loved her he said she was really caring, implying that i didnt care about him because of the mistake i made so early on in our relationship. i dont believe that david loves erika not only becuase he cheats on her, but he doesnt even have the decency to tell her about it. i feel as thought david feels obligated to her because of her brther and becuase of how fast she attatched herself to him because of how vulnerable she was. although we have finally stopped telling each other we love each other i know with everything that we still do. he still tells me that he doesn't want to lose me and that he has a lot of feelings for me still. ive told him that that is pretty hard to believe when he has been saying i love to someone else for the past five months and he never says anything back to me. i know iam not being nieve because i can feel how in love we are still when we're together, and not just physically, our best friend connection is still there. ive told him all of this and he doesn't agree or disagree. when i asked him recently why he never responds with anything relevant to what i ask, he said that he didnt want to say something to get my hopes up. i told him that i didnt care what he said to me as long as it was what he truly feels and if he truly feels like hes ready to just walk away from us and be with erika then he needs to say it so i dont sit around thinking something is there when its not. that conversation took place yesterday and he didnt reply and that was the last time we talked. i know the right thing to do would be to just move on and forget about him, but thats so hard to do when everything inside of me knows that we're going to be together and that he truly loves me. we are going to be starting the same college in the fall so it not like its going to end after high school. i dont want to lose my best friend but i cant handle being on his back burner anymore. i know that we could be happy again, and i know that he doesnt love erika. i just really want to know the right words to say to him, and if i should follow my heart and try to be with the one person i have ever loved or if we are just doomed. i want my best friend back. please help me :(

i think he loves you both. He also can't seem to make up his mind about what he wants. It seems from what you said that he calls you when he wants something and needs something and when he never answers you is because he dosen't know what he wants eaither. Also it maybe because if erika ever does break-up with him he feels like your always there and he wouldn't be lonely because he can run back to you but when you guys were dating maybe he did the same thing with another girl and didn't tell you. you should tell erika whats been going on and don't answer the phone if you do don't go with him anywhere anlone. if seems like he is using you for his needs. Hoped i helped. ~-*Amanda*-~

Q: ok so i like this boy and he likes me....we like eachother a lot..and i don't want to be his gf but i do! and he wants to be my bf.. .his friends asked me" so do you want to be "" gf" and i say not yet...but inside i totally want to say yes..then his friends tell him and he aslways sais " its ok ..thats fine..i will just wait" and i think that is sweet and all but ...well i don't know what to do...help fast!

You guys should just be friends first too see how you feel about him with you only. Like go to the movies as friends and see if you really like him and his personally if you think he is changed now with you alone and don't like he then you guys can stay friends if you still like him like him then you should say yes and be his gf. Hoped i helped. ~-*Amanda*-~

Q: I didn't know what to put this under. My mom and I want to help out with the tsunami disaster by sending $, but my mom doesn't think it'll help. Like it won't be enough. What do you think? Should we send the money or no?
Thanks

yeah sent it some money is better then none.

Q: I don't have any guts when it comes to dumping a guy. Well.. OK I must admit this is my first time and we never went out on a date. I just don't want to be in a relationship right now. So, do you think it is ok to write a note to the guy I want to dump and say I don't want to be in a relationship? Or, does anyone know another way where I don't have to talk to him face-to-face. Or, do I have to talk to him like that! PLease help!

i have never dumped a guy my friends did it for me ALWAYS. so i suggest a note or face-to-face which is what i'm doing.but face to face is always better so he know whats going on and why your breaking up.hope i helped

Q: Ok, I like someone and they are a senior in high school. I know that we will never be together, but I can't help getting that funny feeling in my stomach whenever I am around them. Whenever they talk to me I feel like I am on top of the world. I don't want that feeling to go away. When I see them with someone else, I get jealous and I don't like being like that. What should I do?

well maybe you sould talk to him or they or you could write a note. but if he is a senior then he will be gone next year so you'll have to forget him anyways.

Q: Okay well here it goes.I have a friend named Jordyn and she is a girl.Well she tells everyone everything that she hears or what you tell her.It sucks cause i really like her but i have to watch what i say around her or what happens cause she isn't also afraid to change things around and make things worse than it really is.Is this really a good friend to hang around or no?Also is this a true friend?Please help me!!
Love always,
XxshortyxX

she is not a good/true friend at ALL. b/c she cannot keep her mouth shut. i would just forget her and find some one new

Q: my friend alyssa was seeing this guy ryan but they broke up bc she cheated on him. shes in love with this new guy tai they went out brok eup but shes still hooked on him. alyssa doesnt liek ryan any more and says she doesnt care if her friends like him but i feel likeid be betraying her if i did.. me and ryan have been talkin for a few weeks now. just online and on the phone and were making plans to hang out & stuff.. hes such a great guy and has the best personality. do you think its wrong that ryan & i are hanging out and talking??? me and alyssa have been friends for 4 years but she says its ok..i think shes too wrapped up with tai right now but.. i dont want to ruin our friendship at all... what do you advise..??

-kristi

i say " GO for it." he doesn't like him b/c she cheated on him and it seems like he likes you. She said it was ok so just do it.

Q: I need help dumping my b/f of 1 week..I mean he is cool but I don't feel a *spark* when I'm around him or even talking to him! He is one of my friends and I'd like to keep it that way.. but I dont really wanna date him anymore.. can you help me please??

-Molly

Just let him down easy. Like say "I like you but i really don't see a spark betwenn us, but we can still be friends. Can't we?" Hope I Helped

Q: i have been going out with my boyfriend for a little while now.. we were really good friends before we started dating and he is so awesome. he lives down the street from me and comes over alot and my parents like him. but they are really overprotective so i havent told them that i am dating him yet. im really worried about what they would do because i dont want them to stop letting him come over and stuff.. i meet his parents the other day and they think im a good person & his mom want to take us to a movie. but im afraid that when she meets my mom she will tell my mom that i am datin her son. so i dont no if i should tell my parents or not? what do yall think? i will rate 5's

ps. my sister knows that we are goin out but is waiting for me to tell them.

i would tell your parents because they are going to find out someday and the more serets you hide from the the madder they get if they get mad tell them why ya like him. Hope i helped

Q: Ok, i like this guy, lets call him Ryan. And im positive that he likes me back. But i get really nervus around him. I'm not shy to call him but i sound all shaky when i talk because of the nervusness. (sp?) Should i ask him if he wants to go to a movie with me and my friend to get to know him better?

yeah you should aks him to go to a movie with you and your friend to get to know him better or a pizza place so you can talk.

Q: I like this guy, hes my friend, and I wanna know if he likes me back. I wanna kind of ask him out, but not REALLY ask him out.. Like i wanna give him hints and see if maybe he will ask me out or something. I'm afraid that if he finds out I like him or if I ask him out and he rejects me, then things will be akward between us and our friendship will be different. And I couldn't stand it if I wasn't able to talk to him afterwards. So how do I ask him out.. or give him hints.. in a VERY subtle way, so that if he doesn't like me, it will seem like I never liked him in the first place?

well ask " What movie is playing?" or " I Love *Food Place*" to give him so hints or make a group date like bring your friend and him and another guy and see what happen make sure you talk to the guy you like not talkng to your friend. Hope i helped

Q: i need help im a guy and my hair is like out of control its super wavy and when i try to grow it out it compacts and wont go down how can i straighten it out or fix it please?

use gel or use a hair strighter in the stores for about $10.oo it is for girls but you might find it for guys too

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