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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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Today during school, I realized one of my "Not friend/Not enemy" was wearing a unflattering shirt. It is one of those shirts that mothers wear when they are pregnant, so naturally it made her look pregnant as well. I happen to be sitting in class when I noticed this and said it out loud. I knew people heard me because they laughed when they realized it too. I specifically told one person in the day and she laughed and said hah yeah she does. Later in the day, I found out that person I told, told her. I'm pretty upset. Not like I care if my "Not friend" doesn't like me, I just kinda of hate having people mad at me, you know? Should I be upset? Not RAWR upset, just not happy about it (link)
If you don't want people mad at you don't say rude things about people. You should be not happy if you have a conscious at all. That is what it's for. This could be the start of rumors and that just isn't cool at all.

EDIT: You didn't have to SAY she was pregnant. Have you never played the game gossip? By the time the comment goes through two or three people, it can change dramatically. That's what I meant. :)


hi im 15 and my boyfriends 16. although many adults say that us teens dont know what love is teens know when their in love. i just want peoples opinions (teens and adults) on if teens know what love is and also me and my boyfriend are really in love and its NOT lust. we know it. anyways we decided we were going to have sex (no my boyfriends not like that hes never pushed me into sex ever) but were not having sex for the fun of it we really do love eachother. please give us ur thoughts and please dont be mean thanx!~Kelley (link)
I wouldn't say it is impossible for you to be in love. I think that a lot of people (not just teens) throw the word around a lot when they don't mean it....but being in love is not impossible no.


Hi all i had a misscarriage april last year and ever since we have been trying for a baby but no luck it is a year later now.. i am due my period but am 5 days late i had few cramps that been coming and going and have very sore boobs more then normal but i dont know wat to do i took a test 2 days after i missed but was negative please help me i would like sum advice thankyou..
clairesie. x (link)
Sore boobs can mean your about to start too. Usually get them a week or so before. So, I'd just wait another couple of weeks and then retake the test if you don't start. Waiting is hard isn't it? If you are pregnant see your doctor asap since you have a hx of problems.


Hi all i had a misscarriage april last year and ever since we have been trying for a baby but no luck it is a year later now.. i am due my period but am 5 days late i had few cramps that been coming and going and have very sore boobs more then normal but i dont know wat to do i took a test 2 days after i missed but was negative please help me i would like sum advice thankyou..
clairesie. x (link)
Sore boobs can mean your abouot to start too. Usually get them a week or so before. So, I'd just wait another couple of weeks and then retake the test if you don't start. Waiting is hard isn't it? If you are pregnant see your doctor asap since you have a hx of problems.


I have a friend who recently started taking the antidepressant drug Prozac. The doctor told her she had post dramatic stress disorder and should take this. She didn't want to take it at all but her mom forces her 2 and watches her every move when she takes it. Since she's been taking this medicine(which has been about 3 weeks) she's been having severe chest pains, migraines, constant vomiting, loss of weight (20 pounds), and muscle spasms 2. I think she's going to become addicted to the drug soon if they don't take her off of it and become to the point where her body won't be able to live without it. I don't know what to tell her to do because she's just out of options. Any advice at all would go along way. Thanks (link)
If her doctor put her on prozac for Post traumatic stress disorder then she'd better just remain on it until he tells her diffrent. You need to help her to stay on it and quit schemeing with her to find a way to go against her doctors orders. There are times when the benefits of a drug outweight the side effects. If she's having that many problems then her mom and her need to talk to her doctor and get the med changed. But she will probably just be put on another one. So try and help her see that she needs to let the medication help her, okay?


last month i got my period on the 9th ..it is now the 11th and i still havent gotten it for this month .. is there any way to not get my period after exactly a month ...and is there any way that im still going to get it for this month? (link)
You'll get it. The date doesn't mean a whole lot. If you are just starting out you may skip it all together. So long as you are growing you can miss without it being a big deal.


ok .. this might be a little confusing but im sorry! lets say im lydia and my sister is brittany. There are 3 guys involved in this. Lets say their names are billy, mitch, and john. Well i used to go out wiht john but we broke up like 5 months ago. Long story about us but to make it short, my dad didnt like him adn told him to never talk to me again. So of course he hasnt. Well now my dad said i can talk to john again, and i really want to because i still like him! billy and mitch are both of his friends. Well over last summer, mitch liked my sister, then when me and john broke up, mitch started liking me. Now mitch likes me and my sister. i like mitch, but not as a boyfriend, yet im jealous when he likes other girls. About billy, Billy likes me, but he doesnt know that i like him. The other day one of billy friends called me and said billy liked me and asked if i liked him. I said no even tho i do. Now billy thinks i dont like him, so he said he doesnt want to go out with me. He now says im hott and he likes me but doesnt want to go out with me. (because i said i didnt like him). Its all really confusing but i dont know what to do. Wednesday i am going to try to talk to billy and john but should i tell both of them i like them? I like john way more but i think john has a girlfriend. Please help the best you can. Any advise is welcome!! thanks so much! (link)
well you can like all three of them.Girlfriends or no girlfriends. You date the ones who ask you out. I don't know why you would tell someone that you liked that you didn't like them...it's fixable though, go tell the truth. Tell all that you like them. Go out with the one you want and the others will still be friends.


I have the bestest friends in the world. but i cant help but feel left out sometimes. i know im just been stupid half the time but it really bugs me. I know that having 3 best friends will always be hard but its so awful been left out. Like they will sleep at each others house etc. I told my friends about this and my other friend said sorry i just feel more close to her than i do to you. and that just made me upset becuase i have known them both longer than they have known each other. So i dont know what to do, they will think im trying to split them up or something which im not! so what can i do because i have already told them but they just carry on. thanks
xxxx (link)
Why don't you all get together for a sleepover? 3 is just an odd number and someone will always feel leftout. Maybe they just have more in common with each other. I don't know. Maybe you need to just jump right in and don't let yourself be left out.


This may not sound serious but it is. I was having a nervous break down during math because of this.

I can not stand the phrase "I never knew that." It just drives me insane. Whenever I hear it I either cry or scream. I just hate the phrase. So my question is how can I get over this? I am asking this in all seriousness. My friend who has a column here (she's asking this since I can't get on) has even told me do get help for this. (link)
I think I really would get help if it bothers you to the point of crying or screaming. I think people just use it as a conversation filler more than anything. But, It shouldn't shove you over the edge like that so get some help for it.

You do know you'll hear it hear right?? :)


Me and my boyfriend have been dating for almost two years, and he has a three year old boy named Matty. I don't really have a problem with this, because I love the both of them so much. Matty's mom is the one who has the problem. Alex (boyfriend) doesn't EVER see Matty's mom. EVER. But he does sometimes let Matty see his mom. The only thing is that Matty doesn't seem to like his mother at all. He likes me more, so to speak. Alex hates Matty's mom for trying to take custady of Matty, but she lost the case, so he legaly belongs to Alex, but the problem is that she is telling people that I am ripping her baby away from her. I'm not. Alex was 20 when he had Matty, and he's a really great father to the kid, and Matty's mom is threatening to go to court again but this time with me. I don't want this, I'm not saying I like this girl, but I sometimes feel sorry for her. It must be hard never getting to see your kid and even harder when he doesn't like you. I'm tired of coming home and crying on Alex's shoulder. How do I tell this girl and Matty that there are better ways to solve this?

Thnx.

Sammy (link)
well you really can't. You and Alex have to be real careful what you say about the ex in front of Matty. He's probably picking up on dad's feelings. You guy's need to play up his mom's good points, because she is his mom...even if not a very good one. Don't know what on earth she could take YOU to court for.


My family is know for having a history of skin cancer/moles. I have a mole on my right cheek and i really dont like it.. everybody thinks its really pretty... but i dont see how... should i get it removed? i really wanna ask my mom... but im not sure how... any ideas? or should i leave it? (link)
If it really bothers you then ask your mom about it. I'm sure if she thought it was a problem she would have had it checked out.You just tell her that you have concerns because of the family history.


ok, so i am going shopping and i like sean john but i'm an oero (black on the outside white on the inside) and i was wondering if sean john is a black or white person brand?? (link)
Wear whatever you like. Do they really have clothes designed for diffrent races of people? That is so silly I can't stand it. :)


well i found out a boy likes me and we were talking on aim and he kept saying that im pretty and stuff. . . i am shy and i know how to respond to that but its only nice to say somthign aboutt him back but what should i say, i feel funny :/ (link)
If you like him tell him that. Don't worry about returning compliments...it isn't necessary. :)


Okay so I am inlove with this guy at my school. So much so that it hurts. He is a pretty shy mexican boy. He has been a friend of mine for about 4-5 months, but I only realized about two and a half months ago that I like him as more than just a friend, and ever since I have been falling more and more inlove with him. He and everyone at the school knows I like him. His brother is not at all shy and calls me future sister-inlaw and when other guys are messing around with me he tells them to leave me alone because I am his brothers lady, ect. Most of the mexican girls at my school don't want him to be with me cuz i am white or whatever, neways, at lunch and stuff he walks by me slowly by himself because he knows I will follow him and we talk but never about us in that way. I have two classes with him and one i sit right next to him and we laugh and talk like always have. But still never talk about us. It hurts so much seeing him there right in my grasp but I can't touch him. Loving him but not being able to tell him directly. Wanting him but not having him. I wish he wasn't so shy. All my friends say to make the first move and ask him out, but I dont want to be to eager. I have called him and we talk but my bestfriend was on the line too.(we are all pretty good friends) But I am too shy to call again. I am so confused and sometimes I think to myself what are you doing even trying it will never work, but then I think of how much worse it will hurt if I don't try. I am a very pretty girl and have a lot of friends and all so it isn't like I am a nerd and cant have him. There has never been someone I wanted and couldn't have which makes it even more painful cuz this hasn't happened before. Do you think he likes me and what should I do? I am going to see him tomarrow for the first time in like 4 days. Please tell me what you think I should do. Sorry it was so long


~!^Nat^!~ (link)
It seems he likes you enouogh to talk to you. I think you need to bring the subject up if you want the answer. Leave the ex alone she is nothing to him at the moment so don't make a victim out of her for him to feel sorry for.


ok so ive just had a rumor spread about me. they say that as soon as this girl at my school (that i dont like)and her bf break up (cause he is moving)that i will ask her out. now im not shady and would never do this to my two best friends. i just wanna no if i should kick the kid who started the rumors ass or should i let it pass and what should i do about it please help me (link)
oh how would they know? People can be so stupid sometimes. I think I'd let it pass. You may want to tell the party's involved that it isn't true. Other than that it will just draw more attention to it.


There was a book behind the movie Legally Blonde, the author's first name is Amanda I believe, I've looked it up on Barnes and Noble and stuff, anyway, does anyone know where I can find a copy, besides there and Ebay. I really would like a new one, but I believe they aren't published anymore, so if someone has one that's brand new, that'd be okay too. Thanks! (link)
Most bookstores can order it for you if it is still in print. You'd have to figure out the authors name though. Can't help you with that one. sorry.


Okay, so I played the lead character opposite a guy friend of mine in our school's spring play. The only problem was, we were good friends before, but we had to actually kiss onstage, no stage kissing, no angling it - it was real.
The first time he kissed me, it was during an excercise we were doing for our drama teacher to "develop our characters' relationship," and we both got really into it.
The day after that, he wouldn't look at me, and ever since then our friendship has been...awkward? I mean like, we used to talk about everything, now every conversation we have seems to be awkward and forced, almost as if we're afraid to talk.
The play's over now, and our friendship is sort of going back to normal, but there's still a little...awkwardness to it. I never got a crush on him, but my character definitely liked his character, and his definitely liked mine. But we never liked each other as who we really are...if that makes any sense...Why do you think all the awkwardness happened? I'm just curious to see what you all think. (link)
That is a good question. Why don't you ask him what he thinks it was. Maybe he kinda developed some feelings for you during the whole thing. I'd just ask him.


I am 19 and haven't dated in a year becuase i am tired of going out with people i know will not really mean anything. I recently started hanging out with an old friend, in which we get along great. One night a group of four people were debating and me and her agreed on everything. She is a very sweet girl and we share a strong passion for God. After my last breakup i kinda started to go away from god somewhat, and recently I have been coming back to him, and she really makes me want to countinue strengthening my walk with god. The only probly is, she is 14. (link)
uh oh, Pertty big age gap I'm afraid. You are over 18 so that could become a very big problem if her parents find out. Better to find someone closer to your age if you want a serious relationship. No reason why you can't remain friends though since she is good for your soul.


my boyfriend and me have been going out for a lil over a month and i still dont feel anything for him, hes totally obssesed with me and i dunno what to say to him without hurting him because hes a really good friend of mine! I feel like im just stuck in a bad relationship. Some people keep saying stuff like i cheat on him all the time which i dont, im just a natural flirt and i cant help it!..id really just rather be single for awhile because spring breaks coming up and i dont wanna have to be tied down! Does anybody know what i could say to him that wouldnt hurt his feelings? :( (link)
I think his feeling will be hurt no matter what you say.Just have to do it as nicely as possible


im really happy with the rest of my body, and only my arms are big and flabby. for prom i want to lose the fat on my arms, and tone them up. im a gymnast, and we do TONS of pushups at practice, and it doesnt do anything. i want to lose the fat on my tricep mostly. does anyone know any tricks? we have a formal coming up in a couple of months and i want to look good in my dress. (link)
I don't know of anything myself but have you tried asking your gymnastics coach? Maybe he/she could be of some help. :)




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