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I have gone from younggrandma to just yg. Now,
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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 i know im really skinny, but i cant help it! i eat like a fucking dinosour and i still weigh only 70 pounds at 13! i was wasndering if there is ANYTHING for me to get guys to like me. i think that im to skinny and thats why guys dont like me, but i do like guys and not a single one is interested in me! i think im pretty all but my weight, i have white strieght teeth, blonde hair, no pimples and i have big green eyes, but what the hell is with my weight? i mean is that why guys show no interest?!?! please help me. people who give me nice answers i rate 5s! (link)
I don't think your weight has anything to do with it. A lot of 13 year old boys just aren't ready for girls yet. They'll get there. Girls mature a little faster is all. Nothing wrong with you. Just have to wait for the boy'd to catch up!


i have this boifriend that lives in different part of missouri!!well my cusion lives out there and i see him every weekend!!but he REALLY hot and all these gurls like him!!well he was over his friends house and my boifrinds brother was there and his brother called me and said that my boifrind was askin for lapdances,kissen on all these gurls's neck,and grabbi their boobs!!but my cusion said that i shouldnt trust my boifriends brother cuz hes jealous of me and his relationship and only wants me and him broke up!!should i trust my boifriend and these gurls??even my boifriends mom said i shouldnt trust his brother!!im so0o0o confused!!

xOx cOnFus3d!!
13/f/mo (link)
If everybody says not to trust the brother (even his mom!) Then I'd do as they say. Trust the boyfriend.


ok well here it goes! Last year around this time i told someone who i happened to like.....unfourtunally they told that person. At the time i was REALLY angry and somewhat embarresed...but it comes to find out he liked me too! So we started going out. We dated for all summer, but suddenly my friends kept hasseling me about doing more things with him, then them...and honestly i wasnt! but anyway around september i broke up with him. Now thinkin back on it i was SOO completely stupid because he was the best guy i had ever known....but being my foolish self i took my friends side, and gave up a GREAT guy!! now we pass each other in the hall we exchange a QUICK smile, mostly just a glance. I want him back so bad...but i dont know if he feels the same...i am going to highschool next year and i want it to be great, and i dont want this hanging over my head! Ok well i need someone that gives GOOD advice...thanks sooo much!!! muah im a female and 14 l0l....its says to include that (this is my first time to do this)
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I see no reason why you shouldn't go tell him your feelings. Explain the mistake and see what he has to say. If the worse happens and he doesn't still feel the same, at least you will know and can move on.


(I'm going to try to make this as short as I can)

I met this guy this year. I have liked him all year, and I could be hurt by him really easy. If he went out with a girl I would get all sad, and couldn't look at myself in the mirror for days. Anyways, he went out with this Tiffany girl that was a lot bigger than I and kind of ugly..(not to be mean) and every day I got it rubbed in my face by her. Well, the guy broke up with her (lets call the guy Bob)and asked me out a few weeks later. I told him no because at the time I was going through quite a few family troubles (me and my mom were not getting along at ALL) and so on. So we didn't talk for about two months, I was extremely hurt badly but I also knew that his relationships only lasted about a week. Well, anyway. Later on we were talking and we both admitted we liked each other and so on. He asked me out and since I liked him a lot I told him yes. He told me that I was all he wanted, dreamed of and so on.I was so happy with him, I found my depression going away and I just was...well happy. His family life isn't good however, and one night about a month later he was with his dad and got in this huge fist fight. He signed online and we talked about it for a bit, then he signed off. I was really worried about him. Three hours later he signs back on and tells me he is going under too much stress to date me...so I flip out and so on. He wants to be friends still, and of course I agree because I like him alot and just wants what he wants. So...the next day I was really hurt and he tried to talk to me and I kind of left him hanging by walking off on him. I told my friend what happened, and Bob wanted to skip so he skipped with her and this other guy. My friend asked him why he did it and he told her it was because he didnt want to put any stress on me or put me what he was going though. That he cared about me a lot and he just didn't have time to be with anyone at the moment, and he wanted to spend all of his time with me but he couldnt so it was not fair to me. (hes planning on getting his own place soon.) ...He also said he loved me. He said that he needed to get everything straightened out so he could spend full time with me... Now this sounds stupid, but love to him means a lot and he does not just say it to anyone. Hes only loved one girl (not being me) and that was a while before. Anyways. He said he wanted to get with me later if I would take him back. Okay, well since we broke up hes been skipping which so far has been three days. I have a feeling as if he is avoiding me but I don't know. He use to always IM me (not the two months we stopped talking) but now he does not anymore. I IMed him and he kept the conversation short and signed off without saying bye. I don't know what to do or who to believe. I know hes going through a lot of family problems, but still. I just don't understand. He said he wanted to be here for me and I told him I wanted to be there for him. He told me he cared a lot about me still. He does not know what my friend told me the about him saying he loved me and such. Am I just paranoid? What should I do? I have cried since the night he broke up with me and I just.... I don't know.I know this is long, I'm sorry. I just really need help. (link)
I think you need to give him some time. He's going through some major stuff at home by the sound of it. He's probably pretty upset by it all. Just be there when he wants to talk. I'm sure he will get it all straight soon.


I need help. The other day i met my friend and her boyfreind. And her boyfriend has been trying to get me hooked up with his friend lets call him 'bob' for a while now well a week or so. Me n Bob went out last yr but i dunno it just didnt work out. Now i might be starting to have feelings for him again. N anyways when i met them the other day we went over there house. N my friends bf suggested we go upstairs (me and bob AND him and my friend, in different rooms of corse), so we did. Me and Bob made out, and some other stuff, not that far though, i wouldnt do that, especially cause we're not going out. I think Bob kinda likes me but hes a little hard to talk 2. He asked me to be friends with benefits (fwb) with him but i said i dunno n we just left it at that. I had fwb's before and their ok but right now id rather have a relationship but bob had long relationships before but i guess maybe doesnt want one right now. N i remember saying to him that night "Bob whats gunna happen is this like gunna be it or what" n he said that we cud be friends with benefits n i said theres no point cuz were not gunna go out n he said how do you know. So i think im gunna see him tomorrow and deffinatly over the weekend a few times. What should i do?

14/f `xo ms.confused (link)
I'm older but this is how I see it. Friends with benefits get's you nowhere. You don't know how many others he may have the same relationship with. There are deadly diseases and pregnancy to worry about. I don't see how you can risk all that for a relationship that's going nowhere. There is more bad to gain and no good. You are only 14 but it doesn't really matter the age. Not a good idea. Any satisfactoion you get you can take care of yourself.:)


The other night, I was out with a friend, and we met up with these guys. I guess you could call them 'skaters'. So. The two of us walked around, while they skated around us. They asked us if we'd let them finger us, and we joked around saying yeah. We told them we'd have sex with them in an instant, even though we were kidding, which I guess they didn't realize.
So, we headed for a park by a school, and they got behind a bush and pretty much just pulled it out right there, and they were begging us to come back there and, well jerk them off. I wouldn't do it because quite frankly, I've got a little more self respect than that. I wouldn't let my friend do it even though she was tempted because she has a boyfriend and she knew she'd regret it right after she finished.
So, these guys were telling me I'm a total "downer" and a "prude" and later they told my friend that they really didn't like me, just because I wouldn't give them a handjob.
So, I feel really bad about myself, like I let them down or something, even though I know that they're just huge jerks. For some reason, I can't stop thinking about it and wishing that I had just done it and everything would be fine now.
I'd really like some advice about what I should do. Thanks. (link)
Good for you. You have nothing to feel bad about.
It wasn't real smart going off with guy's you don't know though. You got very lucky.There are some thing's that it's best not to joke about.

You can't stop thinking about it because it was a bad situation. Those guy's could have just as easily have hurt you guys. Please be more careful. But YOU DID NOTHING WRONG.


I was wondering if there's anyway to get rid of a real tan? I went to the lake this past weekend and got wayyyy too tan becasue we were out all of the 3 days. It makes me look so fake and gross. (link)
If it's a real tan I'm sure you look fine.
There is no way to get rid of it though.


My friend and I were making fun of our French teacher in class yesterday. Well, we didn't notice but our teacher was walking by and she kind of stopped for a second. We only thought she heard us but, today she was being extreamly mean to us. And just us. So know we know she heard us. My friend doesn't care that she heard becasue she hates her but I do. I feel really bad about all of it. I don't blame her for being mean and I don't know what to do. Should I just drop it? (link)
No, I think you should go and apologise to her.You hurt her feelings.
She would probably think very highly of you if you did. :)


Hello, sorry I didnt know what category to list it under i think this should be ok.

Well i have a brace and I think it looks really ugly! Im not sure weather boys take intrest in me anymore and I'm really scared incase it ruins my 'love skills' aka kissing etc.

Also how could I kind of "hide" them so people dont notice them so much?

Sarah-lee 13 (link)
Braces shouldn't hurt your love life any! I think you can get those clear invisible braces now (like Tom Cruise), but I don't know if they are right for everybody's problem. You might ask your ortho at your next appointment.:)


I'm currently friends with a 24 year old (man)that smells very bad.I'm not sure how to tell him that he stinks. Him and his mother both smell actually but he is unbearable. He is kinda of an outcast in our town because everyone has smelt him at one time or another which he does not have many friends. He is a really good guy but he constantly smells of cigarette smoke, body Odor, he also is always covered in dog hair. They never open the windows or curtains in the house so it makes the stench just linger. Im also not sure if he washes his clothes or his body on a regular basis. He is very tempermental and i think he will get mad and take it the worng way when i let him know he smells. So my question is how do I tell him he smells without hurting him to bad.

fed up friend (link)
oh man, I really feel for you! When I worked in a Dr's office we had this whole family that was like that.You really couldn't stand to be in small exam rooms with them and the place would have to be sprayed down when they left....horrible!

I don't know if there is a way to tell him without hurting him.The thing is, even if you get him to clean up his act he will still smell just from being in that house.Is there anyone else who can help you out here? Maybe figure out a way to just clean the place up and air it out?

Maybe you could get him to help you... as a surprise for mom or something.You have to talk to him. I'd bet that he already know's why people don't like him because he's probably been teased about it his whole life.Maybe he just doesn't have a clue where to start. Be sure you tell him up front that hurting him is the last thing you are trying to do. I sure wish you good luck>:)


lastnite i was on the fone with my boyfriend and my mom kept coming in saying she needs the phone and i wouldn't get off cause my boyfriend and i were in the middle of a conversation. So... she took my cell phone which in this case my dad bought for me (parents are split up) and i pay for monthly and she only did it to waste my minutes. so when i got off the phone i walked into the living room and there she was on the couch talking on my phone and i got pretty pissed off about it. So... i tried grabbing it from her and told her to give me my damn phone but she pushed me away and slapped my arm and then she finally got off but she wouldn't give it to me and she went and got the home phone so again i tried grabbing for my cell phone and she pushed me into the wall and started choking me and cussing at me and so i called her a fucking bitch and she pushed me onto the couch and punched me in the chest and in the face and slapped me across the face and kept saying what did you just call me and i tried kicking her off me and then i finally got her off me and she goes to my stepdad you wanted her here then you can stay with her and she left..... thats just the background... but my question is what am i supposed to do, I have a HUGE mark on my neck from where she was choking me and now i have worse breathing problems (i have asthma pretty bad) i mean like should i call the poilce or should i call child services i have no idea what to do!! HELP ME PLEASE (link)
I think you should consider living with your dad for one thing. I don't think she should have choked you for crying out loud that is not right at all.

First of all when mom wants the phone...get off.
She pays the bill not you (sound familiar).

next, don't call your mother names and go after her like a crazy person. My daughter would call me what you called her one time.Show some respect.

I think the both of you might benefit from some anger management counseling. If this behavior of her choking you continues then yes i'd call one of those places.Try not to get her going too.I really would consider living with dad. You and mom may be to much alike to live together.


hey do you know what a HIV reaction is like how can u tell you have it besides getting blood taken? (link)
A blood test is really the only way to know for sure. Usually more than one. It can take the body up to 35 months to produce a detectable amount of the virus in your blood.

A lot of the symptoms are a lot like the cold or flu. Please, if you have those kinds of symptoms do not automatically assume you have it. It also causes purplish skin lesions that do not go away.

Blood tests are the only true way to know for sure. I would go into more detail but you don't say how old you are, or if you have even had risky behavior. Like I said earlier I wouldn't want to scare you by telling you something that you might take the wrong way. Feel free to come back if you want to talk about it in more detail, or email me if you'd like to. Address is on my column. :)


Okay:
Put yourself in my position, say you like a girl. But, you have heard they like someone else. You can do one of two things, either keep quiet and stay quiet. Or you can play the risk card and ask her out(You dont give a F if it makes you lok like a total loser) What would you do? In my opinion this girl is absolutly BEAUTIFUL. She is smart, funny,great friend,awsome all-around person. And like I sais absolutely gorgous(sp?)

What Would *You* do? (link)
Go for it. Lot's of girls "like" someone but that doesn't mean much really. I think you take the opportunity and damn the consequences! Good luck:)


My boyfriend of 3 days asked me out over the phone at midnight. He always calls me at ridiculous times, even before we were going out, and always tells me to call him at a specific time the next day. Except, the day after he asked me, when I called him, he didn't answer his phone.
He called me at about 8pm, apologising and saying that he was ill - but that I could come to his house tomorrow if I wanted and I should call him at 11. I called and he didn't pick up.
That was yesterday, and still he hasnt spoken to me.
What should I do?
I rate (link)
Ask him why it is that he's never there when you call at a time he specified. I wouldn't call him at all myself, i'd tell him to call me when he can and just forget calling him. I think you deserve to know whats going on. It's only been 3 day's he should be more attentive i'd think.


ok well i used to go out with this boy im not saying his name tho and well he treated me with respect and he cared about me and he would always see how my day was and cheer me up he was the only guy who could ever make me laugh and smile when i was crying or deprssed and then i dumped him for another guy that i thought was sweet but apparently not becuz he keeps telling me and with alot of force in his tone to give him head and to have sex with him and i reallie miss the guy i dumped becuz he was the closest thing to perfect that i had in my life and when it was just me and him it felt like nothing else existed but me and him and the least i could have done was treated him with respect in return. and this is all my fault!!!

plz help me (link)
Dump the new guy and go see if you can mend it with the old one. If you are honest with him and tell him you made a mistake he may take you back.
You made a mistake. It happens. Don't give up, go have a talk. I would break up with new guy regardless. There are better guy's out there :)


Along with all three of our mothers, my two cousins and I are all really close too (we're all females). One is 2 years older and the other is 2 years younger. Well, we've always done the "hand-me-down" thing and we've always been right around the same size--all three of us, but still. I would be my cousin's clothes and then my other one would get mine. But my two cousins are both now sharing a room (my youngest one is now living with my older one) but the thing is, she rips up all her clothes and sews them up. But every time my older cousin cleans out her closet, the clothes are supposed to go to ME. And even she agrees with that. Because no 1, I'm the next oldest, and no 2, because I'll wear the clothes as is and I won't tear them up. When I'm done with the clothes, she can have them and then rip them or whatever. But lately she'll go through her clothes before I do, and before telling my older cousin and it pisses me off. I'm supposed to get her clothes next, but she just goes through it. She took a really good pair of jeans (my older one just went into the Navy, so she cleaned out her closet). I've always had my eye on this pair of bootleg jeans that she had. Well, my cousin went through it the other day AFTER my older one said she wanted me to go through it first, because she knew I would wear them as is, and they're my type, well my other one took the pair and now she's going to sew them up (she's a "punk") and she'll ruin them!! God, what should I do, because she ALWAYS does this. The clothes aren't even her type--she'll take them and ruin them to fit her. I'm next in line, not her and its always been that way. What should I do?? (link)
1.If the older cousin wanted you to have them then she should have given them to you instead of leaving them for the younger to mess with. Since she didn't she must not have cared who got them.

2.I guess you need to have the older cousin clean her closet when you are there if she wants you to have them.

3.She does have a style of her own. You keep saying she rips everything up. It just doesn't meet with your approval is all.

4.I think you are a little jealous maybe that the younger cousin is living with the older one and getting first crack at clothes you consider yours. I think you both should buy your own clothes and stop worrying about the oldest cousins clothes.


I'm really close to my cousin who is 2 years younger than me (we're both girls). But its the fact that we've been around eachother our whole lives that makes us close. If it wasn't for being related, I would never hang out with her. All her life, she's been a follower and there is absolutley nothing thats unique about her. AT ALL and I'm tired of it. When the whole "skater" thing was in...she pretended to be a skater. Now that the "punk" thing has been in for awhile shes followed that. I know, I know..."some people like it, so let them be". But she's always posting things like "peace" "drop food not bombs" blah blah blah because her older brother does it (he's a punk, but he's been a punk for awhile and he's truly into it). So she's going around posting all this crap, and she has NO CLUE whos running for president. She has NO IDEA on politics whatso ever and here she is posting all this crap. Another thing is her vegetarianism. She became a vegetarian because her brother and all of their punk friends were vegetarians. I asked her why she became one, and she would not answer me because she had nothing to back it up with. Its cool that she doesn't eat meat--I don't either (I don't eat it because of health/personal reasons whereas her brother does it for the animals) and I have no problem sharing that with people. But her on the other hand... yea. And she's embarassing to go places with because of the way she dresses. Her pants are super tight and she'll sew the bottoms for them to look like that and she's not exactly skinny or someone who would look good in those pants. The other day, her pants ripped in the butt area and she was embarrassed. Then she shouldn't wear such tight pants. She can afford regular pair! Thats what she buys at the stores. Its not the fact that shes "punk"...its the fact that its all a stupid little show. And she's such a drama queen too. I'm so sick of her. She hardly takes a shower and she thinks she's the best at everything, I'm not even kidding. She thinks she sings really, really good and everytime I sing in the car really low to a song on the radio, she'll hear me and start trying to sing over my voice (I'm not even singing loud in the first place, so I don't know how she can hear me). Her voice is TERRIBLE. Even my other family members talk about it behind her back. To sum it up...my cousin is so unoriginal its disgusting. I know the world is full of people copying other people, but some things you only see once or twice. But everything on her is like every sellout thing imagined. And she's so self-absorbed. I'm sick and tired of it. But because we're cousins I can't just tell her all of this. How can I tell her in a more polite way to stop living off of what other people do or say and start becoming your own person? (link)
She will when she figures it out. Until then you'll just have to live with her attempts.
Don't worry so much about it. If it bothers you hang out with someone else.


Hey* I am really thin im 5"5 and i weigh 95 pounds and im 14! But i have nO chest (breasts)! What can i do i try everything i never stuffed my self though so dont say that...lol! I feel so left out especially with my friends because they all have breasts and i dont! I mean i cant even wear a decent bathing suit in the summer or clothes that you need to have breasts to wear them! Help me PlEaSe Ty~ =) (link)
Well you'll grow some breast's soon. Don't try and fake them! There isn't anything you can do to hurry them along any, just have to wait. Try looking in some magazines for clothes and swimsuit ideas. A lot of models don't have big boobs either:)



Hi ..theres a school dance on fri. and all my friends have plans to do something before the dance but i dont! my group of friends split in half & basically i was the one left out! ='( Im so sad ..but what do i do? No one really wants me to join their plans ..We cant bring ppl from other towns and everyone like in my school (that i know well) has plans.. hwat do i do? signed, Lonely (link)
Just go to the dance and enjoy yourself. If they don't want to invite you to join them I think that's really rude, but there isn't much you can do about it.Unless you just show up where they will be.


ok im sorry if this is long :(. Well,one day my friend,call her Devon,got mad at me one day.Because she thought i was mad at her.She said i was in a b****** mood all day [[when i never talked to her]]. Shes in my math group and i've said sorry about 5 times. I'm leaving her alone but i dont want to think about how such a good friendship ended like this :(.What do i do?i rate to 5!
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If you've apologized I don't know what else she wants you to do. I think if you just give it a couple of day's she'll get over it.

Don't aplogize any more. You've done it enough. Her turn.:)




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