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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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ok if i think of a guy 24/7 and i absolutly cant get him out of my head what so ever and i hear his voice and see his face infront of me and i miss him the second i dont see him anymore would you say im in love?

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Could be. If not you certainly have a good start! :)


Ok, this boy at my school was joking around, and kept saying that I liked this boy who is kind of weird. Soo, that was a week ago, and I found out today that people believe him! I didn't think that anyone knew, but apparently, they did. I'm afraid that it will get around to the boy I supposedly like, and that he will ask me out (there were rumors that he liked me). I never know how to say no, because I am afraid that I wil hurt their feelings. I don't like this guy! please answer seriously! thanks in advance! (link)
If he asks you simply say no. There really isn't a nice way to say it. His feelings may get hurt but that is a chance he takes. Just do it as politely as possible. :)


I like this guy and I think that he's funny and in general a really nice and polite gentleman. But I don't know if he likes me, at first I did, but now I'm doubting it. He used to stare at me like all the time, but now I think that it is just wierd. Because whenever one of us are looking around we almost always lock eyes. And then we turn our heads away quickly. It's kind of funny. His sister is one of my good friends also and she invited me to go to church with her this weekend. I'm trying to get to know him more, but it is just hard for me. How can I work up the courage to talk to him? How can I find out if he likes me back? If he doesn't do you think he will one day? How do I become one of his good friends first? I've heard him talk to some people and we happend to have a lot of things in common. He's a sophmore and I'm a freshman and I've never had a BF, so I don't know what to do. This is the first time that I really liked someone that might like me back. I just don't want to be scared from this experience, I want it to be a happy one!! :)
Thanks in advance.
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Talk to him about some of your common intrests. The best way to get to know him is to talk to him. You should be able to tell if he likes you just by the way he acts. Sounds like he probably does. Could be he thinks it would be a little weird to date his sisters friend. Just talk to him every chance you get. Hang out a your friends house and get to know him. He may ask you out one day. If he doesn't then once you get to know him...ask him out. :)


Hmm well maybe I should start like this. I met this girl like 5-6 months ago and she was pretty cool so we became pretty good friends. Now after being with her at school and seeing her here and there after school, I finally figured out I like her a lot. She had a bf though, but he treated her like crap, he wouldnt ever talk to her or do things with her etc. So now she broke up with him and I'm not sure if she likes me or not but I dont want to ask her out because if she doesnt like me our friendship will suffer, and plus I dont usually like to ask people out. (link)
Your friendship won't suffer unless you let it. I think you should ask her out. Just agree from the start that if either of you feel it isn't working out you will call the romantic involvement quits. With no hard feelings. :)


so my friend seem tyo hate me and came up with 170 things they disliked about me i know i should just leave them but my friendship with them has existed for over a year and its hard to make new friends this far in the year so im trying to be better and more normasl but cant they just accept me for what and who i am i think that if i can at least try to keep the friendship in tact then so should they i just want 3 things in life: acceptance friendship and to never be lied to if i have not lied to them unless its really stupid like ive been to mars but honesty i wish theied just accept me
long story short how do i fix the friendships.

Solemnstar (link)
If they have come up with 170 things they dislike about you...forget them. They are not friends of yours and probably never were. Anyone who takes the time to make a list that long is mean and a real jerk. You will be much better off taking the energy it would take to remain friends with these morons and using it to make real friends. :)


OK please tell me if I am wrong or not. This guy used to be my friend and now I hate him. He became obsessed with me but we NEVER talk anymore. He finds out what everything means in my info and talks to everyone about how hes in love with me. His voice annoys me, hes perverted, and theres just something about him I absolutely hate. Well my grandma died.. and in one of my classes I sit in the front of the room and sleep while all my friends go to the back and talk(including the guy). Today he told my best friend to not talk to me because i was upset and I WASNT! i sit infront of the room every day and now since my grandma died im upset? he doesnt know me.. i love my best friend he has no right to tell her not to talk to me. he doesnt know me and i cant stand him. Am i being wrong to be so angry? whats your opinion? (link)
Doesn't seem like he said anything so wrong. He was showing concern. Since he used to be your friend I think you need to tell him to just leave you alone. I don't think you can fault him for being concerned though. :)


I recently asked the question about how my guy friend and his girl broke up and how I wanted to be there for him. Well he asked me to help, and today I tried to talk to him about it. I said do you and her now have an undertanding? he was like yea. I said so are you ok? and he goes it sucks but I'll live.. I have to go. Then leaves. What the hell? Im trying to help like he asked me to and then he leaves? Whats his problem? Should I leave him alone or say something? (link)
I'd give it another chance. Could be that he had to be somewhere. Could be he didn't want to talk about it today. Either way, give it another chance. :)


Hey im a 19yr old who has met this gorgeous girl who has no 1 in her life except she is 4 months pregnant i love this girl i was just looking for some advice on coping wiv not geing the biological father. (link)
I think once you feel the baby move,and just generally share the experience of her pregnancy with her you will do okay with it. If things work into long term the baby will consider you its father. Is the bio dad involved at all? If he isn't of course it would be easier,but even if he is it shouldn't pose a problem.

My son met his wife when her son was 2. He considers my son his dad ( bio dad not involved at all). My son considers him a son. I think you will do okay with it so long as she lets you! If any problems crop up, feel free to ask another question anytime. Good luck with it. :)


Just recently, a man apparently came to my school. I don't really know who he is but they've been calling him Prophet Murphy. He's this guy that predicted the 9/11 fiasco and now he's like, come to my school and talked to the principal. I go to a high school in Vermont and he told the principal that there was going to be a shooting at the school this friday, the 13th of May. I'm a little bit confused because I don't know if the guy even came. It could all be just a rumor that some idot circulated. One of my best friends ex-boyfriend had told her that he planned on shooting up the school. I told her to tell the principal but I don't think she's going to. My other friend told her mom about the rumor and now she's not going to come to school because her mom's not letting her. Kristin's dad doesn't believe her and neither does mine. I just don't really know what to do. Should I take this seriously and cut school or something or is it nothing?

~scared to be shot in the head~ (link)
I think if he came to your school the principl probably contacted the police about it. If someone has said something about shooting uop the school though someone should be told about it. Better to be safe than sorry. It isn't something that a person should joke about these days. :)


how do you give good head.. my boyfriend really likes head but he knows im not going to do it for awhile and hes perfectly fine with that but i really want to do it really good for him cuase he deserves it cause he doesnt pressure me at all or anything and i love himm soooo much also i want to swallow cause i think spitting is kind of pussy but my friend told me u will probably throw up if you swallow the first time. help please!!! also please dont delete this ? i really really want to know. thank youuuu

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experience. not something you can be good at the first time...though he will probably be happy with it regardless.oh yeah, you probably will throw up...or come really close to it. He won't much care about that either. :)


I'm 25/f and i have a 5 week old baby boy. I've been on my own since I was 13. My parents were horrible so I ran away. Because of my parents I started to drink and use drugs. I stopped using a week before I found out I was pregnant. I've been clean for 9 months and 7 weeks. I got this little apartment and I've been working two jobs to support me and my baby. I have been trying soo hard and I love him more than life itself but I can't do it anymore. I'm not being fair to him. I barely have enough money for food. We live in a tiny little apartment. The heat doesn't work half the time and I just feel like I'm not being fair to him.

My question is does anyone know a way that I can make more money to take care of him? Or are adoption agencies good at taking care of babies and finding them GOOD homes where he will taken care of like he deserves to be? (link)
This will sound ridiculous I'm sure but go to
www.drphil.com and look under become a dr phil family or look for a place to ask question on there. He is very good and could help you i'm sure. He has also helped with finding adoptive families in the past should you decide that is the way to go. Let me know if you get any help.

I would love to see you be able to keep your baby. I know it is tough going. Social services may be of help too. :)


I think that my daughter (14) has been using drugs. She hasn't had it easy and I haven't really helped that. A few of my old boyfriends hurt her and violated her. I've stopped dating because of it she doesn't deserve that and I don't want that to ever happen to her again. Recently I've been noticing that she's been coming home after 10 (her curfue is 9) and she acts differently. I've tried talking to her and she says that she isn't doing anything and that she just loses track of time. I don't know what to do. I'm not a great mother but I'm trying as hard as I can. Does anyone know how I could talk to her about this or how I can help her if she really needs it?

I will a rate high to anyone who at least tries thank you ahead of time. (link)
Thank goodness you care about your daughter. It is kind of scarey some of the questions we see from girls whose mom stays with these abusers.

Hopefully she is just acting diffrently because she is a teenager! You can't be to careful these days though. You do need to talk to her. Just sit her down and do it. Talk to her as you would any other adult. If you have to write it all down beforehand so you have something to work from. She will interrupt and get you off the suject at times, this will keep you on track.

You need to cover drugs, boys, birthcontrol, who her friends are, where she's spending so much time, school etc.

Then you need to lay down some rules...and you need to stick to them. Do not let her run over you. You may not believe yourself to be the best mother (not that I believe that) BUT, you are all she has. If she's an hour late coming home...take the hour off tomorrows curfew time. If she ignores it after a couple of days...straight home after school. Meet the friends she hangs out with. Insist on it if she wants to continue seeing them. If you don't like them (and give them a fair chance) forbid her seeing them. Get tough, be strong...she will fight you about it.

Has she had therapy? If not you may want to consider it. Whatever you do... do not let guilt over what happened make you to easy on her. Therapy may do you some good too. It has to have been hard on you as well.

If you think she is really into drugs, take her to a doctor and have her tested. I think you can even get home tests to periodically check her. It is drastic yes but you do what you have to.

Good luck :)


I cheered competativly for 5 years, I don't like cheerleading anymore so I refused to tryout for my middle school squad. My mom and I battled for 2 weeks about this, but I won and its to late now to turn in the forms. Now no one will talk to me in my family, and if they do its some sarcastic or mean remark to make me feel stupid. Sorry for the length but i need help, i dread goin home after school everyday now!! Plz help, I'll rate high :) (link)
They really need to get over it. You aren't living for their amusement. If you didn't want to cheer then you were perfectly within your rights not to. So, don't let them belittle you for it. You are not the stupid one they all are. They need to get a life and leave yours alone. Just ignore them and don't dignify their remarks by arguing with them or anything. Just tell them to get over it already! :)


ive been with my b/f for 2 months. its both of our first relationships. he doenst know too much about girls and i feel were growing apart. his friend likes me and is tryin to get me to dump me my emphasizing what he doesnt do for me. i kinda like him but i wouldnt dump my guy for him cuz he is being greedy. its hard for my bf and i to communicate..were both kinda shy. we really need to have a heart to heart convo but im not sure how to bring up what i need in the relationship. am i taking this too seriously? were both 14. thanks in advanced!~ (link)
Write down what you want to say then give him the letter. Then you can discuss it. This is good because you don't get interrupted as you would during a conversation and can concentrate on what you want to say. Hope it helps. :)


i have a friend with benifits and he keeps saying he wants to go farther but wont tell how much farther.and he is always grounded so i never get to see him and i dont even go to his school.i dont really totally know what he is meaning by farther.we already do much of everything we tried sex once but we cant really get condoms so we decided that was not a good idea.any ideas on what he is meaning? (link)
The friends with benefits has a lot of meanings i'm told. I think it is good that you realize that you need to use condoms. I don't think you should be friends with benefits in any way shape or form. I think if you want benefits of a relationship then you need to be in a relationship with someone who you like and one who cares for you in return. That would include someone who is committed to a long term relationship and is interested in you for more than sex. I think you need to tell this guy to come back and see you when he grows up. :)


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well, i recently broke up with my boyfriend. before we broke up, we told each other that even if we did brake up, we still wanted to be friends. it has been almost a week since we broke up and the jerk won't even talk to me. i have tried talking to him, being as nice as i possibly can under the circumstances. what is up with this? is he taking time and wasting away what we could have or does he not want anything to do with me? thanks in advance.

signed
confused & ready to kill the dude (link)
I think it takes a little time to get over the hurt of a break up before a friendship can be completley renewed. Just give it a little time. :)


I was with a guy named Liam back in December. We were doing great, until my ex boyfriends sister told Liam that I cheated on him with my ex boyfriend. Liam and me split a week afterwards because of that. Now, 5 months later, my friend calls up with him on 3way on the phone with her and him, and now me. He tells me that my ex boyfriend (Richard) had talked to him a few days ago. Richard told Liam that none of what his sister said was true, and that me and Richard were over and did nothing before me and Liam even started going out. Liam told me he felt very bad that he broke up with me over a rumor. We started going out that night, after he heard our song over the phone that I was playing for him, which he asked me out within 10 minutes of the ending of the song. Its been a day and a half, and he already thinks I haven't forgave him about the whole Richard thing, and he already had 2 of his best friends (one being my bestest friend ever, and the other being just a friend of mine) ask me if I would rather be friends with Liam than be with him. I love Liam, but we aren't working so far. What should I do? (link)
It's only been a day and a half. Give it some time if you care for the guy. Relationships need work every single day if you want them to last.You also need to talk to him alone. Tell all the third party messengers very politley to butt out. :)


I really really like this guy named Brian. He's so great and we've been good friends, since 2nd grade. He told me he likes me, but he just wants a break. We danced and hung out at a dance last month, and we had a great time. We started dating then, and we just broke up the other day, because he said he thought of me more as a sister figure and not a girlfriend. I'm totally beat up over the situation, and I'm really not sure what to do. He tells me that he wants to have sex with me (which i wouldn't do, and i think he's joking) he calls me pretty all the time, and tells me he loves me. =( What should I tell him? (link)
He sounds a little confused. Maybe he isn't sure what his feelings are at this point. I think you need to talk. Don't have sex until you are ready and until you have been in a relationship for awhile. Make sure the guy isn't just using you, but has genuine feelings for you first. Easier on the heart. :)


okay so im debating on whether or not i like this guy... like weve talked a lot on the phone recently and hung out alot at school...well he came over yesterday and then called me last night and was like man i wanted to kiss you so bad and i feel stupid for not doing it.. and then he said that if we ever break up he wants me to tell him the reasoning first... well i dont really reccall him askin me or anything... he told me he likes me... but does he think that were already goin out or sumthin?? or if he doesnt... how long do you think it would be before he asked me out?! thanks for your help in advance (link)
Maybe he thinks if you like each other you're automatically going out. I think you should ask him to be sure! :)


the guy i have been telling you about has just broken up with his gf and he told my best friend he wants to go back out with me but i dont know if she told him i liked him or not. and then he told another bunch of my friend that he wants to go back out with me. do you think he really means it or is he just kidding? i know this aint alot to go by but thats all i can think of what happened. sry (link)
I think if he told a bunch of your friends that he likes you it is probably true. He wouldn't have told so many otherwise. I think you can safley let him know how you feel. He has to know how he feels would have gotten back to you. Go have a talk with him about it. :)




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