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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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16/m. my gf has been having trouble. shes monophobic, which means she doesn't like being alone. we live a bit far, and sometimes im not there to be able to talk to her or online or cant be on the phone. sometimes shes at home alone and she doesn't like it cuz she things something bad will happen. what should i do? shes asked me for help and i try to do what i can about it, but is there anything else i can tell her to do or to let her know? she worries a lot too, and she usually does when...you guessed it - when shes alone. is there anything you can think of that i could tell her to help her? (link)
Much as you'd like to be a big help to her, there is no way you can be expected to be there 24/7.

If she really has it to an extreme degree, then she probably needs to check with her doctor about it. He/she can probably put her on medication that would help her out.

So, I think you should probably encourage her to seek medical advice. Let her know that others suffer from the same condition....she isn't alone in feeling that way.

Being overly worried about things is all part of the same condition. :)



can you get any STD's from being fingerd....i didnt cum or anything like that ...but i was fingerd and it was my first time and i worried (link)
No. :)


me and this boy have been dating on and off for over a year now.we're not going out right now though.He's cheated on me and lied to me and somehow he gets off by calling me a liar and a player and i would never do that to him and on halloween me and my friend went to his house and we we're playing around at first and then he started getting serious and he slapped me and my friend just sat there only becuz he said he would beat the f*** out of her too.he is quite abusive and i still like him.do you think i should still like him or should i tell someone that he slapped me? (link)
Never put up with abuse in any form! Ever!

I know you like this guy but things will only get worse. Every time he gets away with it he is going to push it further.

You need to drop him as a boyfriend and if he tries to hurt you again you call the cops. I don't care how old he is.

You deserve better than this creep. Have a little self respect and get rid of him. There is a better guy for you waiting out there. :)


Im 16 and scared! I have been on my period for 28 days (bleeding for 28 days) you only supose to only stay on 5-8 days. I just started using the new Nuva Ring (birthcontrol). I put it in a day after I first came on, could I have been pregnant and not know and killed the baby if there was one? (link)
Any doctors office would have given you a pregnancy test prior to giving you birth control so I don't think you were pregnant.

You should at least call your doctors office and let them know what is going on. It could be the birth control itself. I am not familiar with the one you are on.

I do know ( worked in Dr's office) that girls who use depo provera can have that problem with bleeding constantly. So it may very well be the Nuva Ring.

Call the doctors office. I am sure they will be able to help you more than we can. :)


Hi
Has nayone ever gotten a Pap Smear(sp)? becuase i am going to get one soon and im very scared, like does it hurt? (link)
It doesn't hurt. It is not comfortable but it doesn't hurt. Here is a website that will tell you what will happen. :)

Actually there here are 2 different sites.

http://www.coolnurse.com/papsmears.htm

http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=240&np=299&id=2299


I lost 3 large clots, approx size of a cup coaster (no pain, they just fell out of me when I stood up) in my 11th week of pregnancy and started bleeding after that. I was taken to hospital and scanned and the baby was fine. They kept me in for a few days and scanned me 3 times - each time the baby was fine, steady heartbeat and the foetus was moving around. They gave me a vaginal examination to try and establish where the bleeding had come from but could not find anything.

The bleeding had stopped within 12 hours of starting.

Have you ever heard of this before, and do you think the pregnancy will carry on normally? Do you know what the cause of this could be?

I am very worried that this is going to happen again but with a miscarriage as the end result, and keep checking myself for bleeding and am overly cautious of any aches or pains that occur in my abdomen.
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I have never heard of it before but that doesn't mean a whole lot!

Just keep in touch with your doctor. If they say all is well then you can assume it is.

Never hesitate to call your doctors office and talk to the nurse with any concerns you may have.
If they can't answer your questions they will have the doctor call you back.

If your doctor thought it was something for you to be worried about he would have told you. So I would just carry on as usual. :)


ok so my friend told me it was really kool when you pass out so she shower me how she did it on her bro first then she did it to me i didnt no if it was bad for you or anything and i just wanter to try it once i didnt think it could hurt so when i told a couple of my friedns about it they where like its so bad you could have died and all this stuff so is it really that bad for you? please help i need some answers. (link)
Yes it is. It can kill you. Dare I say...I just saw this on Dr Phil a couple of weeks ago. Some kids get addicted to it for some strange reason. Don't do it again because as your friends said, it is VERY dangerous. :)


What does jiggaelo mean? Its in one of my cheers for cheerleading and i dont know what it means
Please help
I give 5's (link)
Do ya by chance mean gigolo? See if this looks like the correct pronunciation :)

gig·o·lo (jĭg'ə-lō', zhĭg'-)
n., pl. -los.
A man who has a continuing sexual relationship with and receives financial support from a woman.
A man who is hired as an escort or a dancing partner for a woman.


yeah, he says all there is to do in okinawa is work out (gym, pool, basketball) or work like the job....at least he has a tv now though, he didnt in iraq, and he has internet access in his barracks now (link)
Thats great that they have internet access. Makes it som much easier to keep in touch with people.


yeah, i haven't had much luck in the guy department until this kid...hopefully he'll work out better than the past couple guys, lol. he does drink a lot though, which kinda makes me nervous. i dont drink (i'm not looking for someone who doesn't, because the chances of finding a guy my age who doesn't drink are slim to none) and it's not like he's hooking up with other girls when he gets wasted...but it's gonna ruin his health in the long run. i don't think i'm in a position to tell him what to do though, i really don't know him THAT well, and don't wanna seem bossy right off the bat. but yeah he doesn't do drugs, and he's told me several times he doesn't believe in cheating (he said he cant wait to go home and take a girl out in uniform and have all the people in an expensive restaurant say "oh look at the pretty girl with the marine" - those were his words, how cute, right? lol, and he told me about his favorite movie, where the girls "get around quite a bit" and that "pissed him off because it's not right") so i'm not too worried about that... (link)
He sounds great. A lot of guys your age do drink, most grow out of it.

A friend of my daughters just got out of the military ( early 20's). He said he drank a lot while in because there was just nothing else TO DO. So, hopefully that's it. :)



yeah he left the 15th of september, he's been gone a while now, and we've talked since then....when i first started talking to him, which he was in iraq, it was the end of his stay there, and the new guys had already shown up, so he didn't have much to do, just keep himself safe, so we talked a lot then. and then he went to okinawa, and just did some evaluations (no work) before he could go home, so we talked a lot then too....but now that he's back on base and actually has a job, it's hard to talk to him. between his work schedule, my classes, and both of our social lives, and the time difference (14 hrs), it's basically a lot of leaving each other messages...he can't leave an away message up, so i leave messages in my away for him, and he always leaves messages on my away. occasionally he'll call, but he only gets like an hour a week for the phone, so we don't get to talk that way very much. i just sent him a package for halloween, he got it sunday night, which was his monday, and he called that night to say thanks, but i haven't talked to him since then....he hasn't been online though, so it's not like he's just ignoring me, im not worried about that. it's just hard not being able to talk to him. (link)
I bet it is hard.

At least he is a guy with a future,you know he isn't a druggie or a crook. So many guys with problems out there. My daughter is 27 and can't seem to find a guy that even holds down a job.

So, hes definitely one you want to keep in touch with. :)


yeahhh, i'd be waay too scared to just meet some random guy, i'm not really outgoing (although he thinks i am, he told me he wished he could be more outgoing like i am once on the phone....but he seems pretty outgoing to me, he initiated in the first place, and he asked for my s/n, then my phone number, and he was always the one to say "let's do something when i come home" first) he does seem like a nice guy, i just don't know what was up with him not even calling the second time we were supposed to meet up....it's really frustrating! and the other thing is, i fall for guys easily, especially if they pay special attention to me...everyone says i'm crazy for being so interested in this guy i've never even really met, but i feel like i know him because of all the conversations we've had online/ on the phone....do you think that's weird? (link)
No I don't think its weird at all.

I think he may have just made to many plans before he got home. Would have been nice if he had kept the ones he had with you though.

Has he had a chance to contact you since he left? If not give his mom a call and see how hes doing. She seemed talkative...and shes sure to mention to him that you were wondering! :)


haha thanks again, i know he's not married, because my mom knows his family well, she just hasn't talked to them in a while. but at one point he was calling me more often than his mom, so his mom ended up calling my house asking if i had heard from him because she wanted to know that he was ok (that was while he was in iraq). she went on for about an hour about how i was so lucky to have met him, and he was lucky to have met me, and she told me all about how he had gone out with this one girl all through high school, but when he joined the marines, she broke up with him because she didn't want to deal with the distance, and he was really upset. i know he talks to his mom a lot, which is a good thing, and i called his house once while he was home, and she was all excited to hear from me. then he got all excited that i had called and i had left a message with his mom to have him call back when he got home from the party he was at, so he called back....AS SOON AS HE GOT HOME....at 2 in the morning. i was happy to ehar from him, but my roommate wasn't too thrilled, lol. the thing about him not thinking he looked good could make sense, he's sent me several pictures, but not many close-up of his face, i have one where he's flexing and scrunching his whole face up, one with green and black paint all over his face, one of him and his buddies, but you can barely see him because there are so many other people there in camo, they all just blend in together (haha, it really works!) and the best one i have, he has sunglasses on....so that could be it. he doesn't look too bad in the ones i can see though, and i have one from his mom from when he graduated boot camp, ,and he looks awfully good there, haha. well thanks again :) (link)
I'd definatly give him another chance then! I didn't realize your mom knew his family. Kind of takes a little of the fear factor away.

I wish you luck. He sounds like a nice guy from what little I know! :)


hey, you answered my question about the marine guy who didn't come visit me....could you explain what he would be scared of? i understand why i have reason to be scared....meeting a big guy off the internet, you hear scary stories about that sort of thing all the time. but for him to meet a girl, what threat could i possibly pose to him? thanks for the advice, hope you can help again :) (link)
Maybe he thinks he doesn't look good. I doubt he is overweight if he is in the military.

We had a question yesterday...maybe you seen it, where the girl spent a week with a military guy and then she wrote back today having found out he was married. So, that possibility could unfortunately exist too.

I had wondered when she gave him her info but he hadn't given her his.

That's the biggest reason I can think of for him to be scared about. Maybe he just doesn't think you will find him attractive. Guys are weird creatures!

Hope the mention of the married guy didn't upset you. Your situation sounds nothing like that one did. :)


Firstly, I'm a freshman in college right now. Right before school ended this past year, a 20 yr old guy started leaving me messages on myspace. He's a US marine, and he was in Iraq at the time. He said he was from my hometown, and was feeling lonely, just wanted to get to know some new people from the area. So I messaged back and forth for a while. Then we started IMing each other. And right before I left for school, he started calling on the phone. He came home on leave the day I left for school. We had made plans to get together while he was home; he even agreed to drive an hour to see me at school. When it came time for him to come visit the first time, he said sry, I have something to do tomorrow, and since I"m representing the Marines, I wanna look and feel my best, so I"m not gonna come see you (he wouldn't have gotten home till like 2 am) - so that's totally acceptable. He called the next day saying he felt so bad, was I mad at him? don't be mad blahblahblah...but I was fine with that. The next weekend, he was supposed to come up again, it was the day before he was gonna be deployed to OKinawa. He was getting a hotel room with some buddies to party it up before he went back, and said I could join them. I said I really didn't feel comfortable going off campus to a hotel room with a bunch of guys I've really never met before. He said that was understandable, so he'd just come to my dorm and chill for a while, and then I could decide if I wanted to go offcampus with him or not. He said he would call when he got in the area. But he never called. As soon as he got to OKinawa, he called and said he was so sorry, he had flight problems, don't be mad at him, his life has been really stressful, and he can understand why I would be frustrated, but don't be mad at him. I told him I wasn't, and it was all good. He keeps leaving me messages on AIM at night while I"m sleeping (14 hr time difference) and he just called again a coupel nights ago, but other than that, I really haven't talked to him in over a month. He said he's coming home for Christmas (I will be home from school as well) and he wants to get together then. Should I give him the chance after he totally blew me off last time? He really seemed eager to meet me, both last time he was home, and talking about CHristmas, so I can't believe he just didn't feel like it. My mom says maybe he got scared, but I can't imagine what he would have to be scared of...? PLease help, thanks
--18 yr old college freshman (female) (link)
I agree with mom. He may be scared or shy.

You also have to consider that he wasn't home for very long. I'm sure he had family get together's, old friends and having to get ready to go back...he was probably being pulled a hundred different directions. Being a guy of course makes all that hard to admit to!

If you want to give it another chance then by all means do. Should he have made the time? Yes, he should have. But you know what? Most guys aren't real sensitive to those kind of things. Time seems to get away from the easily too.

Good luck. :)


im 14 && my boyfriend of almost 10 months && i broke up about 3 days ago. i know you probably thin im too young for love but i really think that was it. no, i know that was love. i told him everything, not only was he my boyfriend he was my best friend.. but towards the end of this relationship things started to get shakey- im not much of an optimist so i couldnt see the bright in things anymore.. all of my friends basically everyone around me was telling me to break up with him bc i deserved better && he was not worth it. my being my idiotic self acted on impulse && broke up with him. now he wont even talk to me.. he cant even look at me in the halls && it kills me. so im asking you how do you get over someone that youve just spent the last 10 months of your life with?? any good ideas.. it would be greatly appreciated bc i deff. need that right now

thanks (link)
Why should you get over it?

Really, it sounds like you still have feelings for the guy and he must still have feelings for you.

If this is the case then you need to talk to him...if he refuses then write a letter, send an email, whatever it takes. Tell him you made a mistake listening to friends and want to try again.

Letting friends tell you what to do in a relationship, especially at your age, is not always the best thing to do.

Sometimes, they are jealous ( secretly of course), and sometimes they just think they are being helpful. But for whatever reason, its not always best to rely on them for relationship advice.

If there is a problem with the way you were being treated, hes the one you should have talked about it with. He is the only one who could help you change it.

He is probably you age, right? Or pretty close. He has no idea how to treat a girlfriend. So, you need to help him out.

You say he was your best friend. Treat him as one and talk to him. Don't let the fact that hes your boyfriend make you stop talking for fear he will get mad. Communicate.

Go talk. Best of luck :)


Ok, well here is my story. Me and this guy I have known since 8th grade (10th grade now) went out for about a year. We have been "semi-dating" I guess you could say ever since we broke up, but the thing is that after we broke up we still had a relationship and I got pregnant. After he found out that I was pregnant we started to get really close again and it made me want to be with him. Both him and I know that the baby is his, there's no doubt about that. Well, today we were talking and he knows that I still would really like it if we made our dating official, like boyfriend girlfriend again. He knows that I want to be with him, and he said that we would be together. Well here is where the problem comes in, he doesn't want to make it official. To me if it isn't official then does that mean I can be with someone else? I am the type to get jealous and I think that unless we make it official I will continue to feel the way I do and its making me very depressed, what should I do? Would it be right if I just took charge and asked him out or should I just keep giving him hints that I want him to do it? HELP PLEASE

~*ConFuseD*~ (link)
If he doesn't want to make it official you are both free to see who you want to see.

You can ask him out if you like. I think you need to find out where you stand. If he doesn't want anything official then that would tell me I need to find someone else. So, get to the bottom of it now. Don't waste any more time on someone who doesn't want you full time. :)


16//f

im so insecure.. i really wanna change.. what i dont know.. is how to be confident. i really wanna be cause emotionally ill be so much better off and happier. i dont know how to look at me the way other people do. my boyfriend likes confident and im the total opposite.. i need to learn how to be..any suggestions.. at all..please (link)
Check out this website. It might have something on it to help you out. :)

Confidence…
http://www.lovingyou.com/content/advice/dating/content.shtml?ART=moreconfident




Went out earlier tonight and stole as many flowers out of gardens as I posibly could, ended up with quite a lot of differant flowers.
Went to this girls house, who I have been out with at least 6 times, climbed over her apartment fence (questioning my sanity at being there in the middle of the night) scatered the flowers on her lawn and left.
I'm kinda scared that she will think I'm a weirdo stalker or something, but I really hope it makes her happy and special...
I have a idea that she likes me...kinda saw her being jeolous at another woman i was talking to one night (the woman was sweet, but happely married to someone else, and I REALLY like this girl)
anyway the real question for the modern age...would you consider this Romantic or Creepy? (link)
Well it sounds wonderful to a 48 yo female.

Best of luck, shes a lucky girl! :)


ok look it has been about 5 weeks now that i had sex.. well i didnt want to.. wat happended is that my brother had one of his friends coming up and im 13 and the guy was 17.. and wen i went in my room he was on the bed just sitting there and starring at me. he told me to come over and i did well he started to kiss me.. and wen he did all i said is that i just wanted to kiss.. but he started to touch me down there and i was scared i pullrd bak and said dont i just wanna kiss. and he said ok well we started kissing and he did it again he was kinda forcing himself on me well then it lead to ''''sex'''' i dont no if i should tell someody about it i mean i did it but i didny want to... help (link)
Yes you tell someone. Tell your mom.

This boy shouldn't be allowed in your house again.




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