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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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theres a guy i really like, but he has a gf. i cant stop thinking about him, and its really making me sad. how can i get my mind off of him?
ps-i do a lot of sports and activities, but that doesnt help. any other ideas? (link)
What better way to get your mind off one. Find another one who has no girlfriend! There are lots of good guys out there. Go find yourself one.


how do i get a guy to like me enough to ask me out on a date...what kinds of things should i do or say...i'll rate really high to anyone who gives a good answer. (link)
Put yourself in places where he'll notice you.
Talk to him when you get a chance.Give him the opportunity to get to know you!


how do u get rid of the cellulite on your legs? mine isnt that bad it just bugs me and since swim suit season is coming up i dont want people being like eww look at her! so what kinda of exercises or medicine can get rid of it? thanx a lot! (link)
You can't. They make all these creams they say will work but they don't.I'd try doing some walking and see if that helps.


The last couple of weeks i've been noticing that I have been eating A LOT!! now i'm afraid i'm gonna gain a lot of weight. i eat when i get home from school up till dinner and no matter how hard i try, i can't stop!! does anyone have any suggestions? if u do please help!! (link)
You can eat a lot of times if you want just don't eat big bunches of stuff! Try to stay away from yummy junk food.
Probably won't hurt you if you are staying active.It's when you sit doing nothing that it will catch you.Stay active.


OK. i have been going out with this guy for a month and we are both in love. problem: we never see each other outside of school. Another problem: he is 6'2. i am 4'11. as you can imagine i have a hard time kissing! please help! (link)
Don't kiss standing up!
That shouldn't be that big of a problem.My sons wife is 4'3" he is 6'. They have 5 kids so the height thing is evidently not a problem!
Why is it you don't see each other outside school? That will probably change one of these days. You could invite him over for dinner and a movie.SIT around and smooch!:}


this girl that says im her best friend always talks about my other friends behind their back, so i tell them because i dont think its right for her to do that. The other day she was talking about one of my friends named danielle, and so i told danielle this weekend and dnaielle said that my suppose to best friend called me a spoiled brat and a bitch and said that she doesnt hang out wtih me that much because i act stuck up .. but she is always calling me. I talked to the best friend and she siad she didnt say that, but how do i know because she always talks about everyone else to me. What should i do? i rate high!! (link)
You have much to much talking behind backs here!
Don't repeat to your friends what this other girl is saying. Just stay out of it.Pretty soon everyone is going to be mad at everyone including you! Everybody needs to make an agreement to knock it off.


pretty soon i know my boyfriend and i are going to have sex. OF COURSE we would use a condom, but i am still overly scared of the chance of getting pregnant if the condom breaks. i am trying to figure out what time of the cycle is the best time to Not get pregnant. i know ovulation is the worst time, but what about before, during, and after my period - which is the best time and which is a risky time? i cant find it on any websites and some people tell me different things... please help, im a spaz (link)
There really is no absolutely safe time.
Wish I could tell you diffrently! Ovulation is the Best time if getting preganant is a problem,but, you can get pregnant anytime at all.


Ok, i don't know what to put this under ..
Prom is coming up and i have my dress and all ..
But it shows my shoulders/back .. I brake out on my back SO bad i can only get it cleared during the summer b/c i lay out in the sun/tanning bed ..
Any way to get it clear in like 1 month or less ??
Thanks Bunches !! (link)
If tanning bed help there's an idea!
Might be to cold to go out in the sun, depending on where you are. If those things work for you though that is what i'd stick with.


when i go in a tanning bed, how can i prevent sun burn? (link)
I punched tanning beds into google and found a good website for you.
coolshad.tamu.edu/tbed/tbeds1.htm
has 5 things you should know before using tanning bed plus more.
I would take a good sunscreen along.The people rinning the place should be able to give you the best advice though.


I've been dating my boyfriend for a couple months now and i love him so much and im almost positive he likes me, but he's always flirting with everyone but me, just the other day he was fliritng with 3 girls right in front of me. And this was pretty obivious flirting the were playfully hitting eachother and chasing each other and one of them was like touching his face and holding his chin and then the other girl like kissed his hand. I was so pissed, and when one of my friends tried talking to him about it he denied everything and said he wasnt. Also I wish he 'd show it more that he likes me, he dosent not like me, its just not the normal boyfirend girlfriend relationship. What do you think i should say to him to make him realize what he's doing without him getting offensive? Also can someone please explain why he's acting so shy and unaware around me and no one else. (link)
I don't know why he would treat you diffrently.Sometimes guy's have weird ideas.
You need to gently explain to him that all this attention he is giving these other girls is hurting your feelings.Tell him to give some of that attention to your relationship.Just try not to sound jealous but let him know how you feel.Tell friends not to get involved because that might make him mad!:}


Im on my period right now and i am so angry for some reason and i get pissed off so easily right now and i dont know why? and today this girl told me something and i ended up cussing her out and every one thought i was gonna hit her in the face so please tell me how i can be nicer why im pmsing (link)
Try midol.Usually works wonders!


K so I have a friend that is here(where i live) on weekends and I also have another friend that is here 24-7 and of coure there is me! So my friend that lives here all the time is really mean to my other friend! None of us go to the same school so it's also really hard to have a talk with all of us together. We fight A LOT and talk behind eachothers backs! It's HORRIBLE!!! I think befoe we know it none of us will be friends at all! What am I supposed to do to make this friendship work? (link)
Make an effort to see each other more.
Don't talk behind each others backs.
Thats about all there is to it. Friends do fight sometimes no big deal there.


i'm a senior in high school and i'm going to college next year. i'm a little confused on the whole hour consept, can somebody explain it to me? when they say that a class is three hours, does that mean three hours a day, three hours a week or what? and if you're taking 15 hours a semester, does that mean that you have 15 hours of class every week? i don't get it.
oh, and plese no "i dunno, i have never gone to college, but i think..." answers. (link)
The hours are usually the "credit hours". The classes are usually just an hour long in most cases. There are exceptions of course.Seems you get 3 credit hours for most classes.So 15 credit hours would be 5 hrs of classtime.


one group of my friends drink a lot and i dont really care that much about it. im not against it or anything. my only concern is that i know sometime i will be involved in a situation where i will be asked if i want a drink... the thing is, i have never drank before, i don't want to say no, but i don't want to get the reputation that i always do that stuff. whats your advice?

oooOOhhH PeeER PreSSuuure... lol (link)
Just tell them like you did in your letter.
Theres nothing wrong with not drinking.Just tell them you prefer to be in control.


15/F

While growing up I never had the "two parent home" that most have and I am fine with that. My mother has been great, The only problem was the show of love always bothered me. IE: kissing, hugging, holding hands. I never felt comfortable around that stuff because I never saw it and I didn't know how to act when someone did. Its not that I didn't get effection or anything but I didn't see kissing or love toward another man with my mom so when others did it I thought it was wrong. (just my young childish logic) Fast forward to now, I'm 15 and i guess I have a BF. Well, he likes me. We've kissed/madeout and held hands. We have a date saturday and I'm acually not that nervous for the most part. Its just that I don't know how to tell him my feelings, He said "I love you", I said "I love you" but that just doesn't seem to cut if for me. I don't want to seem clingy and I really don't feel comfortable saying i love you since everyone in my family is seriously screwed with love. I like Ryan and I don't want to get hurt by him or hurt him. (I'm afraid I might make a rash decision and dump him)
So exactly how do I get myself to calm down and just enjoy the fact that he likes me? (link)
You just enjoy the time you spend together.
Will either of you get hurt later? Probably,it happens to everyone.Don't let the future worry you today.Some people are all touchy feely and some are not.It doesn't mean they aren't capable of it whith someone they love.You may not have reached the true love stage yet.That's okay, it isn't always there at the beginning.So enjoy what you have now and it will happen or it won't with this guy.If for some reason it doesn't, it will one day with someone else.


First of all, me and this guy have been best friends for 4 years and have hooked up once. When I first met him, he had a g/f but that only lasted a month, and now he is back with her and they have been together for 4 months. Then me and him are together, we get along so good and I really like him. I think he feels the same way about me too because of how he looks at me at times and how when he talks to me and gentely rest his hand on my when he talks. Its burning me up inside because of how I feel about him and he has a g/f. I wanted your advice whether I should tell him how I feel. But I'm affraid that it might ruin our friendship if I do and he will feel akwared about being around me after. What should I do, just wait and see how things go with them or tell him how I feel and may lose his friendship because of it? I dunno what I should do. I think his relationship now is going pretty good and getting serious. (link)
I think I would continue the friendship without confessing your feelings.You don't want to scare him off.You'll still be there if he and the current gf don't make it.I'd wait.


I have a problem with boys, none of them like me. If one of my friend's tells a boy I like them they pretend to gag and stuff. Well I was at a dance and there was this really hot boy and my friend asked him to dance with me and he said no so my other friend asked him and he said I have a girlfriend as an excuse to not make me feel upset. What can I do to get boys to like me? (link)
Probably just have to get older. Boy's are still pretty immature when they do the gagging thing! They will change when they grow up a little.
Don't have friends ask them how they feel either.You ask or don't ask at all.That could be embarrassing for them and get a bad reaction too.


Ok well i came on a trip to my cuzins house and i met his friend Robie well Robie is very cute and now i am going out wit him.Well that is all good and all for while i am here but ten again i live in California and he lives in Oklahoma. I am afraid that this is not going to work out but i want it to sooooo bad because i hella like him but what should i do i am considering moving back here but idk if i can so please help me!!! (link)
I would enjoy the friendship while you are there.Continue with mail etc. when you go home.I don't think you should make dating him an exclusive thing because no way can you have a social life together at that distance.If you move back ok, go for it.But if not, don't think you'll be happy sitting home while all your friends are out living thier lives. He won't either.


18f

There is this guy that I have been friends with for a little while at school. We went to a frat party together and were dancing and having fun. Yes we were both slighty inebriated but thats besides the point. I kind of like him and when we were dancing he kissed me and we made out for a little bit. I don't know what to think of it because I kind of have feelings for him. We have been hanging out and flirting but haven't kissed again. He did make some comments like, you looked really good tonight but only on AIM. Is he just really shy or do you think it was just a random drunk thing? (link)
you are still seeing each other so he must like you. The drunk thing may keep him from remembering all that went on.I would ask him about it and see what he says.


I have found myself snapping at people calling them complete morons and other such insults. I do it when I am frustrated or even slightly annoyed. I have no patience for anyone it seems. Later on I regret saying such things. I've said these things to friends and family, and even my boyfriend ,whom I adore. But when the moment hits me it seems I can't prevent the waspish comments from bursting out. How do I explain to these people why I say such things? I've hurt their feeling and it really upsets me. I don't mean to be mean. It seems i just can't help it.

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Maybe you should get some help with anger management! You just explain to them why you do it.Hope for the best.You still hurt their feelings after all and some may not put up with it forever.Try to avoid whatever it is that seems to set you off.




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