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ok. i am 13. and just recently i fell in love for the first time with this guy but then he moved a few months ago to like the opposite side of the U.S.A.! Before he moved we went out like 10 times on and off. I was so in love! and after he moved i was very very heartbroken and I still am. and we still talk on msn messenger and AIM all the time. and we are still really good friends. but for a while he has had a gf. since he has moved he has gone out with a few girls but sadly their relationships didnt last that long and now he is really in love with this girl. And even tho i am happy for him it still hurts me and it kinda seems like he still likes me but i cant be sure. i know i still love him but i told him i didnt bcuz i am really trying to get over him. but i cant tell if he likes me or not! and now he is coming bak here to visit in a few weeks and he said hes going to come to visit me. and i dont know whats going 2 happen!!! bcuz i still really like him and he was my first love and i dunno if he likes me or not ne more...i think he probly doesnt but we have never really hung out as friends cuz we were basically always gf and bf. i dont know what to do!!! Plz help!

When he does come to visit, just hang out like you would your best friend. He seems like a really nice guy, and I understand that you still have feelings for him, but, he does have a girlfriend. Maybe he still has feelings for you, maybe he doesn't. I'm sure, after hanging out with him for a while you'll figure it out on your own.

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is it normal for girls 2 masturbate becuz its normal for guys??

yes

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I am really white, but i have freckles on my face so every time i go in the sun my frackles seem to get darker but not my skin! i want to go to a tanning salon but iono how much it is, and i heard you could get cancer. should i just put sunscreen on my face then the freckles wont get darker but then i wont get a tan on my face too, what do i do???

The more sun you get the more freckles you'll get, and the ones you already have will get bigger and darker. Try the sunless tanning spray or lotion.

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Is it true that eating junk food can cause pimples?

NO, it is not true. If you get junk food or greasy food on your skin, then it will cause pimples. So, don't get the junk all over your face and you should be fine.

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coke or pepsi?

Pepsi

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Hey..
I know this is an awkward question..but I just shaved "down there" after receiving advice from others to do so before swimming season..and I was wondering how often u have to shave it? Are there any negatives/positives for doing so? Thanks

Make sure you use lotion, and try putting conditioner on it every day, that really softens the skin and the hairs and make it less painful. It's up to you how often you want to shave. I've never heard of shaving because of swimming, If shaving is too painful then you might want to try to just trim it really short.

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one day i was sitting down and i was kinda tired and my friend looked at me and said that i was mad but i wasn't. then i said I'm not mad!!! then she's like U MY THINK YUR NOT!!!then she walked away and i was so mad...then she's like I'm sorry it's just that i know when ur mad, and i said that i was tired...she's like "oh, sorry". should i forgive her?

That happens to me a lot. I will be in a perfectly good mood, maybe a bit bored, and I have people tend to ask me "whats wrong?" over and over again. When I say "there's nothing wrong, I'm fine" I get a little annoyed and actually do start to get mad.

Don't stay mad at your friend for something so little. She thought you were mad, and denying that you were mad. She did say she was sorry. I would forgive her.

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I have this friend that thinks she sould be invited to everything.She thinks that I can only hang out with her. Everytime she calls to see if I wanna hang out with her, I just cant say no.She flips out when I say no and gos running to her mom, and she comes back saying that I have to hang out with her because her mom says I have to. I really dont wanna hang out with her because she is acts like she is the boss of everything,and we have to do what ever she wants to do. What should I tell her when she calls to hang out and I dont want to?? Please answer!
Thanks...

KeLsEy

Try calmly talking to her and tell her exactly how she makes you feel. Tell her that she tries to boss you around too much. Tell her that you have other plans sometimes and can't ALWAYS hang out with her. Tell her that you still want to be her friend, but you wont be able to handler her if she is too overpowering.

Don't just lie to her and avoid her, just tell her the truth. If she can't get it, then you might have to take a break from hanging out with her at all. She needs to understand that she can't control everything you do.

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ok well this is kinda weird, ok well usually white people try to act black, but my friend shaniqua is black but she tries to act mexican! i am soo serious!! she has only mexican friends (besides me) and she calls herself a beaner and eats tacos and beans all the time, i mean constantly and personally its gross because she farts a lot from the beans, even on her webpage it says im a beaner, and mexican signs n shit, what do i do??????????????

If she's your friend, then you must like the kind of person she is. You shouldn't try to change her now, if she wants to be like that then you should accept it.

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female,20 2 children eldest 2 youngest 7 weeks,differant dads when i drink alchol i get violent not al the time just when im stressed my partner over the past 4 weeks my partener has broken my finger n given me a black eye on both occasions he has said sorry and it will never happen again. he has taken my eldest son on as his own. i dont want to be a single mum with 2 children by differant fathers but i dont want to be a nervous wreck either i feel low in myself he alwys puts me down telling me im ugly and fat i just dont know which way to turn the violence only happens when we are both drunk please give me advice.


this is what my girlfriend wrote.
just to clear a few things up. she used to hit me a lot. after about 5 different incidents a told her that if she didnt seek help i was leaving her. she went to see a shrink once! when she said i broke her finger what actually happened was she hit me so i held her hand so she hit me with the other so i grabbed that hand to so then she butted me in the nose so i butted her back and pushed her off the bed and thats how she broke her finger.
with the black eye we had an argument so i went and got in the spare bed she followed me in a started shouting and went for me and proper scratched my face (which has scared) so i pushed on the bed so she came for me again so i punched her. now i thoroughly regret what i did and the only reason it happened is coz we had both had vodka. i have quit drinking full stop. she on the other hand hasnt. i do really regret what happened but no one out there is perfect. i love her to pieces and i WONT do it again no matter wat u woman say. u woman have said leave him and get a restraining order. would u say that if u were twenty didnt work but looked after the kids while ur boyfriend went out and earned u both £25,000 a year and gave u everything u wanted. gave up his social life and got rid of all his friends to stay in every nite and look after you and the kids. i dont think u would. i know money aint every thing but it does help provide her with a good life style

If you both care about the kids that you are taking care of, then you will either BOTH not just stop drinking, but work on your problems together. BOTH of you need to go to a couple, or a family therapist. Quitting drinking is not going to stop the fighting and violence. I grew up with an abusive step-father. My mother now says that she stayed with him as long as she did because she needed the financial support, she thought she was doing a good thing for her children.

NO, she definately wasn't. Stop thinking about how this is on you, and start thinking about what the kids in the house are going through as they watch you two fight.

My mother and her abusive asshole ex husband quit drinking, they thought that would fix all their problems. It didn't, the problems weren't fixed until she divorced him and never spoke to him again.

She didn't smarten up and leave him until he hit my sister. Don't let it get to this point.

Maybe it's not all your fault, but obviously you two together are not a good match.
Think about the kids, not your own needs.

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Alright well Im 16 yrs old..Soon to be 17 and I've slept with 7 different people. Is that considered a slut? I dont think Im skanky or anything, I just enjoy sex! Is that wrong? Im very open about my sexuality and people think Its wrong to be, Alot of people joke around and say that Im a nympho and shit like that..I need advice and I want people to truthfully tell me what they think. Dont be afraid to tell me the truth..Be straight up!! *Thnks*

It's not wrong to enjoy sex. I think it's healthy for you to enjoy your sexuality. Don't listen to what other people say about you. But don't go overboard with it or anything. It might be ok to enjoy sex, but theres soo many dangers. Make sure you use a condom, and you might as well get on birth control while your at it. Remember that people, especially guys, don't always have symptoms of std's, so you can never be sure if they have one or not. ALWAYS use protection. Guys might say it feels better without condoms, but I've found, that the guys who do say that, only last 1 minute without a condom, compared to the hour or so with one.

So get your fair share of pleasure and stay disease and baby free by using a condom!

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HI Im a 14 year old girl and i told a guy I liked him right before graduation. we aren't very good friends but a friend of mine told me "he didnt want to ruin the friendship" and im pretty sure that is just an easy term for the words "i don't like you" but then at the dance two days after my friend told me the news he wouldn't stop convienently running into me and kept walking up to me like he wanted to dance but then would just say something sweet and walk away then he asked me to dance and kissed my hand. Was he just being sweet? Do I have a chance with this guy in high school? Is there a chance that he is thinking about me? And if so in a good way?

From what you say he seems really sweet and you should go for him. Just wait to see if anything happens. Maybe the first time you told him, he wasn't quite ready, and now that he's had a chance to think about it he's realizing that he likes you also. Just keep hanging out with him and you'll be able to figure out whats going on in his head eventually.

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Ok, this might sound a little weird.. but my vagina keeps breaking out! I don't know what it is.. but there are all these little bumps on it. Sometimes i even get in grown hairs. To top all that off it smells HORRIBLE! My boyfriend went down on me last week and he almost threw up! What should I do?!? HELP!!

shave against the grain of your hair and that will help with the ingrown hairs. use conditioner and lotion every day and that will help with the bumps, which are probably a mixture of razor burn and bumps from in grown hairs.
The smell is something you might have to worry about. It could be nothing, but I would go see a doctor about it.

I know eating lots of fruits can help make a guys cum taste better, maybe that applies to girls to. You could always try that.

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mi best friend just told me that hes gay... and that is rally weird fir me.. i mean.. i should have known.. he is always the one who picks out mi clothes when where at the mall.. but i dont know how to deal with it.. im the only person hes told.. and i know he likes one of his friends.. should i tell his friend? should i act the same around him?

No, you should never go behind his back to tell his friend. He told you that in private. He doesn't want anyone else to know or else he would have already told them. You should let him take it slow and come out in his own time.

Don't act any different than you would before you knew. It shouldn't make any difference to your friendship except now you have a secret between you two that could bring you closer.

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ok well... i have this really good friend...lets say his name is bob.i'm 13 and he's 14 also.we always talk and i flirt with him... a lot! but he just went through a badbreak up with one of my really good friends...i donno if i should tell him i like him... i donno wat my frinds reaction would be if i asked him out and he said yes...
i dont a wanna ruin my relastionsip with my really good friend and bob.wat should i do?
please help me! thanx bunches!!

You should definately talk to your friend before you make a move on him. If she's not cool about it then you need to decide if her friendship is more important than this guy.

If she is cool with it, then I would talk to "bob" but don't come on too hard, he might not be quite ready for another relationship, and coming on too hard right away might just push him away. See how both your good friend and "bob" react to your feelings and figure out what you should do from there.

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this guy wanted me to break up with someone for him.. so i did because i really liked him but when i did he starts pretty much ingoring me.. and doesnt talk about liking me and is in love with this other gurl.. I cant move on that easily because i had been with that guy for 5 months!.. so does anybody have idea on how to move on? thanks so much!

He probably wants to know that your still stuck on him, and that he would be able to go to you if this other girl doesn't work out. He doesn't seem worth your time.

First, stop doing things like breaking up with other guys for him. I know it's not easy, but just ignore him and occupie your life with friends and guys who will actually treat you right and want you to be happy.

Soon you'll realize that five months is really not a long time at all to be together.

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This is a very personal question and i feel weird to ask this but do yalls shave your pubic hairs? Cause some guys don't like it and i was wondering if it was ok if i mowed my lawn? Please Help if you can sorry if my question bothers you :/

I talked to one of my ex's about it. He said that the reason he liked it shaved, or at least trimmed, was so he doesn't get any hairs in his mouth durring oral sex. Using conditioner and lotion on your pubic hairs every day will help stop razor burn. Every day, even when it's a tiny stubble.

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I have a bunch of friends who miraculously happen to be boys. Seriously, a lot. None of them consider me their girlfriend, and I don't consider any of them my boyfriends. We're all just plain old friends.

I also have a lot of girls who are my just plain old friends. They are consistantly telling me that one of them HAS to be my boyfriend, and that it's just not right to have a bunch of guys for friends at the late age of 14 (sarcasim). I mean, sure I love them all like friends, but I don't consider any of them my boyfriends. Is this wrong???

I'm not really sure what the problem is. Is it wrong that your friends with guys? No. Is it wrong that your not going out with one of them? No. Your girlfriends are probably jealous that you get to hang out with the guys. Don't listen to them if they think it's wrong. The more friends the merrier... I guess

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How many people regret their time having sex?

* raises hand *

yup, my first time was horrible. Stupid drunken night with a guy who was much older who I had just met.

Stay away from older men who you don't know.

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I like your advice, so hopefully you can help me. My boyfriend is going to a different school next year...meaning he'll be at public, I'll be stuck at this stupid private school. I really don't like it. (i don't like school in general, but who does?) I have to decide whether I'm going to re-enroll by July. Should I switch schools? At this new school, I would be kind of scared because it's bigger and I don't know very many people. But I would switch just to see him every day. (we don't hardly see each other now) Do you think I should switch schools or is it better if we arent together all the time?

Thats a hard question to answer.
Lets see... I would say you shouldn't base your decision on which school you go to on seeing your boyfriend every day... but then again, I did the same thing. I had the chance to go to a great college, but my boyfriend didn't get accepted. The great college was bigger and scared me, so I went to the smaller one with him. We saw each other ever day, lived in the same dorm and it was great. For a while at least. Seeing each other every day, practically living with each other kind of brings out the really annoying qualities that you think are cute in the beggining... they turn out to be super annoying.
so, the great college, which would have been much better for my career, had more of my friends from high school, and happened to be bigger and scaryer... I chose the small crappy school for my boyfriend.
Well, the boyfriends gone and I'm left with a few thousand dollars in loans from a school that didn't help me with my future. When I look back, I think we would have made it if we weren't always together right out of high school. We should have waited a while.
This is a really long answer, but it's a hard question. How long have you been with him? Do you love him? Does he feel the same about you? You need to find out these things. As much as school sucks, you also need to think about which school is better for you in the long run, unless they're both about the same. Just don't sacrafice anything to drastic for him.
And if you do decide to stay at the private school, don't give up on him. When me and my ex were together, if we spent a week apart, like, if I went back home and he didn't, then after seeing each other again it was like the first month of our relationship. We would be all over each other and actually like each other. :)

hope I helped and didn't make too many mistakes while typing, I'd check but it's too long for me to read right now.

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