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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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hey is it true that when you sleep you're supposed to take your bra off? (link)
I don't think there is a right or wrong to that question.

I think most prefer not to just because it is more comfortable that way.

IF you are more comfortable wearing a bra to bed though its perfectly okay. :)


does anybody know what foods make your boobs or but grow i think rasberrys make boobs grow but idk (link)
There are no foods that will make your boobs grow. If there were people wouldn't have surgery.

There are no products that work either.

The only way other than mother nature is cosmetic surgery. No good doctor will do surgery unless you are at least 18.

Sorry, hang in there some girls mature faster than others. They will grow. :)


ok i think im a horrible kisser i dont actually know i never asked anyone if i was so im just curious what is hmm how to explain this what is a good way to kiss someone like how would you do it that they would definetly like it and not be a bad kisser?? (link)
I think so long as there is no slobbers and drool involved you are probably doing okay!

There are a couple of websites though if you would like to check them for tips. :)

http://www.links2love.com/teens_kissing.htm

Kissing, is there a right way?

http://www.sxetc.org/index.php?topic=FAQ&sub_topic=Sex&content_id=656


Okay so this kid pretty much took my virginity last year-ish, and we dated for a couple weeks. Since then we've hooked up multiple times, causing him to cheat on his girlfriends at the time, nobody ever found out. Then last summer his girlfriend found out and they stayed together etc, and everything was resolved and they broke up for a while and him and I hooked up. So basically they're back together because he took her virginity too, but I'm the only girl he's ever cheated on her with, and it's not like I'm sprung off him or anything, I don't really even like him like that anymore, we're just friends as far as I'm concerned and we tend to mutally hook up occasionally. So the other day at this thing for school I was having a bad day, and he let me cry on his shoulder and stuff, then we went off to "talk" somewhere and he started kissing me and stuff, I feel really really bad about it for some reason and he's really giving me mixed signals. Is he interested in me again, has he never lost feelings or did he just want a hookup? (link)
He just wants to hookup. If he cared about you he would be dating you.

I hate to say it but he will be "friends" so long as you put out. Cut him off and just see how long he sticks around.

Have a little self respect. You are worth more than the occasional roll in the hay. Find someone who cares for you and respects you.

This guy cheats on girlfriends and uses you whenever he can. He is a loser. :)


i love this girl who is in my class at school but i think she fancies me how do i find out?
i rate 5
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If she smiles at you, if she so much as says hi...go ask her out. She probably likes you.

Doesn't have to be a big fancy date or anything. Go for ice cream or something. Get to know each other. :)


I heard this song on the radio yesterday and I really liked it. It's sort of smooth and old-fashioned and goes something like this: "Unforget-table..." then later on in the song it goes "That's why, darling, it's incredible
that someone unforgettable
thinks that I am
unforgettable too."

Anyone here know it? (link)
Unforgettable

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 12 in 1951-52
-also charted in 1954 by the Dick Hyman Trio (#29)
-also charted in 1959 by Dinah Washington (#17)
-also charted in a 1991 "duet" by Nat and his daughter Natalie Cole.
-Words and Music by Irving Gordon



Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more

Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too



Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too


ok so i like this guy and im afraid to tell my best friend bc last time i told her i liked someone she got involved and it kinda made things confusing but shes my best friend and i think i should tell her but im afraid she will just get involved again like last time its not involved like in a bad way its like trying to help when no1 asked you for help and i really like this guy what should i do tell her or not last time i told her i asked her to not talk to him bc i didnt want her to get involved and she did anyways please someone help me!! thanx so much! (link)
I agree. Friends have no place in another friends romance!

You probably should sit her down and have a talk. Let her know that you want no interference at all. Tell her you are serious!

Just explain that if you want help you will ask. Bring up references of the last time she "helped" if need be.

You can be nice about it but be firm at the same time. :)


Ok, last sunday I went to the scary haunted house hay ride, cornmaze place. Well, while my 2 freinds and I were there, we met these guys. Me and one guy hit it off real fast and we were all over eachother... not makeing out though (just the hands and arms) so, at the end he asked for my number. I gave it to him. Then he came back and sad can I give you my number and I was like my ohone doesn't work.. it really doesnt! I left it out in the rain and the screen doesn't work I can only call people. So i told him that and i thnk it turned him off... anyways I really like him and have been thnking about him since then. I have asked so many people if they know hinm and finally my freind said yes. SO, she's getting his s/n and number for me. Here's my problem do you think I will look desperate? what should I say to him? i really really like him. Where can we go together? we live like 20 min away from eachother. pleas write back with answers and tips for me!!! (link)
I don't think you will look desperate. Just tell him you wanted to keep in touch because you enjoyed his company at the haunted house.

Where you can go really depends on if he has a car and drives. If so 20 minutes is nothing really. You just go to movies, dances...anything fun! :)



I used to energetically enjoy academic pursuits such as writing poetry, writing essays about subjects that interested me, reading literature and philosophy, and participating in philosophical discussions in and outside of the class room. I was not the most well-adjusted college student. I had only a few friends, but at least I cared about what I was studying.

Now, I am a junior at college and I just feel bored to death... I really feel like Estragon from the Beckett play "Waiting for Godot." I'm not excited about anything in my life and I just look for ways to "pass the time."

I don't think this is a good thing. I enjoyed the idea that I was learning and developing my own world view. It's been this way for at least two months now, perhaps consequential to finding out my parent has a terminal illness. My question is...
What should I do to get un-depressed and interested again? (link)
I think finding that a parent has a terminal illness would bring even the most devoted of students to a grinding halt.

I think what you are experiencing is probably a very normal reaction to a difficult situation.

I don't think it would hurt for you to seek some professional audience on this. I have someone in mind for starters. Send one to the inbox of this adviser. I think he has more knowledge on the subject than most of us here, so drop a note in his inbox if he doesn't come across your question.

http://advicenators.com/column.php?u=Dr_Chad


Okay I'm 13 years old and a female. Yesterday I noticed a small bump on my left breast, near the nipple. It sometimes hurts when I touch it but it also looks somewhat like a pimple. I'm really worried that this could be breast cancer. There is no history in my family of having breast cancer. Do you think it's cancer?

Thanks! =]

All advice is appreciated! (link)
Its perfectly normal. If it worries you then have it checked by a doctor to ease your worry. But all girls get them. :)


ok ive been going out with this guy for 3 weeks and like i didnt rly like him at first i used to but then he kept goin out w other girls and so i stopped liking him but then out of no where he asked me out n i syd yes n now i really really like him and i love to be around him and like he tells his best friends he rly likes me but then some of his friends say hes thinking about breaking up w me and like i had a dream that he did and it was horrible. and i just dont want it to come true. wat can i do to make it not come true???
thnks

(oh and im not real clingy or annoying or nehtign liek that so were cool wiht the whole eahcothers space thing) (link)
Never rely on what his friends say. If you haven't heard it from him then don't believe it.

You need to tell him what you've heard and who from. You should also tell him that if hes thinking about breaking up you'd appreciate not hearing it from a friend of his. Your relationship is nobody's business but yours.

Don't worry about the dream. They just got you worried about it and it came out in your dreams.

There isn't anything you can do to make someone care for you. Just try your best to be nice. Sounds like you're doing okay. :)


heyy my name is cate and im 13 and i liek this kid named shaun and hes 13. He likes me too so we both liek each other. Well the last time i went out with him in 7th grade we didnt talk much cuz we were both shy. Then i had to go to cheerleading practice one night while there was a dance. He went to the dance and ended up making out with one of my best friends. We are all still friends though soo.. Anyways i liek him again and i wanna go out with him but i dont kow if i trust him enough. Recently i wen tot eh football game and met up with him there. We walked around around and we held hands and he pu his arm around me and it was really sweet. I wanna go out with him but how do i know he wont cheat on me again or just wanan go out with me to make out. He really nice and super hott. What should i do?

Xoxo

CatieZ (link)
You don't know if he will cheat on you again. There is no way to know that for sure. You need to talk about it before you go out with him again.

If after you talk you trust him then move forward. If you still don't feel you can trust him then don't even bother because if you can't trust him it isn't going to last.

Sometimes you just have to take the chance.

The only way to know for sure he just doesn't want you to "make out", is not to do any making out. Hold him off until you know you are sure of him. If he sticks it out, then he likes you for yourself and not just what he can get from you. :)


I need major help , im 15 f dc and i'm just
confused about my love life. My boyfriend told me that he loves me but now i don't think he means it. The reason why is because i haven't talked him in about 7 weeks. i talked him like twice and all he had to say was whats up and then he would leave out of nowhere with out saying goodbye or what not. It's starting to get fustrating. He didn't tell me he was going on vacation or anything and when ever i try to talk to him its like he has nothing to say. Now im really wondering if he has another girlfriend or something ... i mean could it be true or what?

please i am asking for your advice. please help me. (link)
Sounds like yours is sort of a long distance relationship. Sorry if I am guessing wrong.

I think its time to find someone else. I think you know that already. If this guy cared about you he would make some effort to keep in touch.

I don't know if he has someone else or not. You may be able to salvage your relationship if you have a long honest talk with each other and BOTH make an effort to make it work.

If you are the one doing all the work though, I'm afraid it isn't going to last. Sorry. :)


ok, im a 16 y/o guy, and i've never had a health class (reason i'm asking.) What are some signs that a girl IS NOT pregnant? like, is her period not the same? my girlfriend is 15, and we dunno. we had sex about 3 weeks ago, and we were woried about it. she's on her period right now, but does that mean she is FOR SURE NOT PREGNATE
?
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If she has her period she IS NOT pregnant.

Use protection in the future though because stress of worrying about it could cause her not to get her period. That can lead to all kinds of panic!

So long as she has her period though...anything done before that time cannot make her pregnant.
Just be careful the next time.

Here is a great website to check out for a lot of info on EVERYTHING. If you are worried about it being in your computers history and don't know how to delete it, send me a note to my inbox and I will tell you how to delete it.

http://www.coolnurse.com/


Ok so my friend asked this guys out for me that I really didn't know. He said "Well I really don't know her so not right now". So is he thinking 'No I won't go out with her or was he thinking what he sayed to her? Plz help! I really like this guy! (link)
If you really like him then make the effort to get to know him.

Most people don't date someone they don't know very well, and that is the right way to do it.

I am sure he is thinking exactly what he said. :)


ok
there is this gy and we have gotten really close...
too close.....
i really like himk and he knows this.
but the problem is
he has a girlfriend.........
please send your advice
anything will help..........
;)
kashia (link)
You can spend time getting to know each other better as friends.

So long as he has a girlfriend though you probably don't have much of a chance.

If you are friends though, maybe he will think about you if they ever break up. :)


My ex and i have been broken up now for a year. He jumped in a relationship 1 week after we were supposedly over,(very long story). 5 mos. into their relationship, he was telling me that he still missed what we had, that he loved me and didnt want me to hurt him (being with other guys) that he thinks about me all the time, and dreams about US! i never gave into my feelings to him since our breakup, (because of the fact that he had sex with this 14 yr old the 2nd date, and ive ahd a hard time thinking about being with him) A year later and i still have alot of feelings for him, and i want to let him know, but not be so blunt. Hes still with his gf, and i really dont know how he feels about me since he told me how he felt 5 mos ago. Im not just gonna come out and ask or just pour out my feelings. We're both seniors, and i want to ask him to exchange pictures, but i dont want to do this at school when hes with "her". I want to do this alone, and i also want to get him to open up to me again!

Please no immature advice!!!
Ive been going back and forth on this for a year now and i realize that i want him. I never got involved in another relatinship, but i do have lots of guy friends, but thats all they will ever be to me. It took me 3 yrs to fall in love with my ex, and my heart doesnt want to be with any1 else.

Remember>he has a gf and i need to do this very consciously, and take things slow!!!
Thanks!! (link)
You need to move on.

He has a case of, I don't want her but I don't want anyone else to have her either. That is very unfair to you.

If he was truly that in love with you, he would have broke up with the other girl 5 months ago instead of just talking about it.

Sorry if that sounds harsh but there are guys out there like that. :)

*****edit*******
Then you need to let him know how you feel. Even though its a bad thing to do to some other poor girl. Personally though, he didn't wait long to jump another girl. Not sure I would trust him again.



I have questions about Congenital heart defects
Like how does it affects a child physically and mentally? And how is detected? (link)
Probably came to the wrong site to ask that question!

Heart problems is a very specialized field. I have a link to the wikipedia article on it. It will have links to send you to other various sites for more info.

Hope it helps somewhat with your questions. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_heart_defect


I am kind of scared because one of my friends got sexualy harrassed today, a guy lifted up her shirt in the hallway. One of my friends says that her boyfriend tried to rape her or sexually assalt her in the bathroom, she wont tell me if thats true. What should i do to get her to answer me, and what should i do about her harassment?? (link)
Not sexual harassment its sexual assault. Its against the law.

She should tell someone in charge and get someone thrown in jail.

You should encourage her to do that. When it comes down to it though, it is her responsibility to do so. It is also her right not to tell you anything if she chooses not to.
Even though it would probably make her feel better if she had someone to talk to.


can a girl get pregenent from anal sex
(link)
No. :)




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