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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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Okay, well I am in 6th grade. Me and my best friend have been soo close through elementary school and are families are so close and we even own a beach house togehter. Well, see Through out this month we have started to grow apart. She is trying to be like her older sister (preppiesh) and like that but before she started wanting to be like her older sister she hated the way preps were and that they were retarted and stuff. Well, now she has become a prep and is being someone she isn't. She used to hate this one prep and now she is like trying to be her closet friend. I hate the way she is being. I am hopeing it is just a phase but if it isn't I think we will be spilt up and stuff. I wish I could tell her this but since we are growing apart I don't know what to do. I used do everything to be her best friend because she wanted to end the friendship but now it's different I don't know if I would really care to not be her best friend. I have a boyfriend and since this one night I haven't told her really much about him. I don't know why I want to but then there is something stopping me. I need help. She thinks I don't trust her anymore but I don't know if that is true or not?? Please help! (link)
It sounds like your friendship has a few problems.People do change as they get older and it could be her changes just don't include you anymore.You need to talk to her and let her know that if you guys are going to remain friends you need to communicate more.


Over the past few weeks my boyfriend has seemed [for lack of better words] wilted. He isn't happy, around me that is. He just came over so we could study for a test, and he was TOTALLY uniterested in me.. like over and over I asked him if I was that uninteresting, and if I was that unatractive and he said no to both, but that didn't change his mood.. I'm getting mixed singals here. Yes I have talked to him about this but what else can I do? (link)
Maybe he's having a problem at home or something or just in a funk. Leave it alone for a couple of days and ask him about it again then.


Ok well it all started when me and my friend ( chelsea ) was sitting at lunch and matchng people up with good couples she matched me up with this new boy michael in 8th grade ( im in 7th ) i didnt know who he was and when i did find out who he was I LIKED HIM .. ALOT .... and i found out he had a girlfriend in 6 grade but she was cheating on him so I told my friend to ask him out for me and to tell him his girlfriend was cheating on him ... he told my friend he didnt know who I was and he would ask his girlfriend about the cheating thing... so then after that, the next week or so ... my friends dared me to say hi to him and i was really scared but i managed to choke out a fast hay and then the next day ( today ) i got caught throwing food and i went to turn in my tray and he said haha you got caught throwing food and he just smiled and laughed ( i didnt care that he laughed @ me i was just happy he talked to me )then i told my friend to ask him out for me and she said he said he didnt know who I was ( but he really does because i wrote him a note and all saying I like him and blah blah blah ) ... and then today after school my friend said she talked to him and he said im OK looking ... but honestly i dont think he knows who I am because before that he said is she that short fat girl and my friend was all like no she is tall and skinny so he said Ohhh she is ok .... so does he like me r not my friend said he was flirting wid me when he said that thing about me getting caught throwing food signed ~!~ confused ~!~ (link)
If you can't ask him yourself and you're throwing food you are to young to date.Sorry.


i am a freshman in highschool and so is my best friend , there is this guy that is a junior that i have known for a while named chad and i intoduced chad and cat and i started to like chad then i was asked out by another guy i named sam so i went out with sam. then chad and cat went out and i still liked chad but i never said anything about it, now me and sam are broke up and cat and chad are broke up and i like chad but i know cat would be really mad if i went out with chad because sghe said she would be cause i asked but now he aske dme out what do u think should do?

~blundered blonde~ (link)
If you like chad and he likes you I don't see a problem.He is no longer dating your friend so she has no sayso in the matter.She may not like it but to bad.


Hey, so heres my problem, theres this girl. We like each other. But we have(more like she has) made the decision not to date until were like 16. So thats fine i'm willing to wait. But theres a lot of other girls that like me. And i do want to date and she said that she doesn't care if i date while i wait. But.....well i really like her. Like almost love her. Cus we've known each other since like the age of 3. But i moved when i was 8. And now at 14 she shows up at my church. So i'm really confused on what to do. So PLEASE HELP ME!!!

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Date other girls.If she doesn't change her mind out of jealousy she probably doesn't like you as much as you like her.If she isn't ready for the dating thing then respect her wishes and check others out in the meantime.


I used to be a fairly good student. However, this year(I'm in 11th grade) I have a total lack of motivation. I always do my work at the very last minute because it seems impossible to make myself do it earlier. I've had a lot of narrow escapes when it comes to handing in projects late and stuff, but I never seem to learn from it. It's like I've got the Lazy Disease and it can't be cured! But seriously, that's how I feel. I can never concentrate on my work. It's like I don't realize it's important and then I end up stressing out, but my experience doesn't do anything for next time. I really don't know what to do about this, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks! (link)
Hmmm what's changed in you life,anything?
It is probably a normal stage.You've got make yourself get the work done.I'm bad about it myself.I guess I like the stress I don't know.

So long as you do get the work done I wouldn't worry to much about it.If you start just not doing anything...Thats really lazy.


I am a 28 year old male with 2girls 4,and9 been with their mom 10years very happy!!Asked her to marry me she said yes ,things were grate 4 amonth and now she cant stand me for the most part but still afectionate and also head strong on moving out pleas help loves ontheline!!!!! (link)
You two need to get a babysitter.
Go out on a date with each other.
And talk, talk, talk.Something is bothering her and you need to find out what it is.
I've been married since I was a baby I know what i'm talking about here.If she's still affectionate there is still hope so go talk.Ask what is wrong etc.

Hope all works out for you.:}


THIS IS PRETTY LONG AND BORING....
Im 20m and never had a girlfriend!!!I never even hold or kiss a girl before.... It's not that im ugly or gay, although im not the cute or handsome type either. When i was in high school there were a few girls that come up to me but they weren't my type so i refused them all. But the girl that was my type, i never had the courage to ask them out (im very shy around the girl i like). Now that i drop out of college and work fulltime, i dont have the chance of meeting new people. HOW AM I GOING TO GET A GF? I dont hang out that much and i had never step foot in a club before. Here's the weird thing, the older i get the pickier i am about girlfriend. I thought that not having a gf is suppose to make me desperate, but im not, although i do want a gf pretty bad. What make it worse is that i dont like party girls or girls that would go out with someone that just met and thought he is kinda cute, of course there is nothing wrong with that, im just being picky. I would like to get to know the girl a lil bit before i go out with her, but HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT???? (link)
Give some of these girls a chance! Get to know them. Go out to dinner or a movie....Talk. I know it could be hard to do but if you want one thats what you have to do.

Try not to be so picky.You go out and if she isn't the one then you try another one.Sooner or later you will find the one for you.

Good luck :} and don't frown. Being a virgin is not that bad and is admirable.


if you have read the previous post, you'd know how pathethic my love life is (20m never had gf). Anyway, where can i meet a nice girl? And how do i get to know her?

(any nice girl out there?) (link)
You have to go up and talk to girls in order for them to notice you.

School is probably a good place to meet girls or at work.Anyplace nice girls hang out.Church,also through friends maybe.

Keep looking.There is one waiting for you to discover her somewhere out there.


hey there, some of you know that I answered a LOT of questions in this site. My friend doesnt have internet in her house so she asked me to ask for your opinion.
She likes her best guy friend, a lot, she cant stop thinking about him and she always gets upset when hes around other girls. I know he considers her as his sister, HE TOLD ME!
What she wants to do is let him realise she likes him more than a friend but I told her it would screw up everything! things would get awkward and stuff. So what she's asking is, should she tell him? Personally I dont think she should.
And she also asked why he hangs out and fools around with other girls instead of her?
I told her because you dont have the same interests and he thinks youre too calm (he told me). So do you agree with me or do you have another opinion? (link)
Sounds like you got it straight from him.She'd be wise to listen.
I agree with you that she shouldn't tell him.It probably won't change anything and she will probably feel kinda stupid when it gets no results.


Ok my friend picked me up from track and i had her track shoes and put them inside and infront of the car. When we got home, she noticed she only had one. She sorta freaked out and then we had to pay her bro to go bak up to the skool and look for it. We couldnt find it. We got back and she was pissed and didnt want to talk to me. I felt really bad and uncomfterble, she gave me mean looks so i said i had to go home. I have to go back to her house so they can take us to a camp. What do i do?? i feel really bad.
please help i rate high (link)
The shoe probably fell out somewhere.That happens sometimes.Why don't you call her and see if she found it yet? If not it will probably be okay, and she'll probably even get new shoes.She'll forget about it if she is a true friend.


but now he's mad at me :( so now what do i do (link)
I'm sorry.You'll have to tell me who you are,okay?

I'm just not finding a past question that I can be absolutlely certain is your's.so many are similar! I do want to help though.

If he is mad at you, try to find out for sure what for.When you find out, then you can talk to him or have someone else do it for you if he's really stubborn.Try to explain why you did whatever has him hacked off.It will probably blow over sooner or later.If you were friends once you most likely will be again...kinda hard to just up and kick a friend out of your life.

I'm sure I didn't answer really good.I don't mind the long ones so if I can help better send a question or, you can email me at address on my column okay?


i used to have this friend named stephanie and she thinks she's all that so i stop being her friend.i told her that im not her friend but she can still talk to us but she asked if i can stop talking behind back but like i mean we arent friends anymore so i was like why?!?!then she said because it's not nice!i was like your not that nice either so and she said she didnt talk behind my back but i bet she did a million times and i really wAnt her to leave me alone but i dont know how im afraid i might make her cry!wat do i do? (link)
You need to agree not to talk behind her back and she needs to do the same.It's NOT nice.

If you want her to leave you alone simply ignore her.If you argue with her she is just going to keep bugging you.


So there's this boy I used to see at school a lot. Now he works at a grocery store in our town. Only he works early in the morning. I've heard a lot of really good things about him lately. Everyone says how amazingly nice he is. And considering nice guys are hard to find, I want to have a fair chance at this guy. But he also has a girlfriend (so I've heard.. from a boy who likes me..)

So I want a chance at him, but I've never spoken to him before, never had a class with him, and I dont have the slightest idea how to approach him and what to say.

Any help is greatly appreciated. (link)
You have to talk to him if you want to be noticed. Looks like it's time you did some morning grocery shopping.


My parents (my mom mostly) want to move to Ireland. My mom grew up there and most of her family is there. I love it when we go up there because it's so fun. I love my family and I love the times we have when I go there but I don't want to move there.

But, I don't exactly like it here. I mean I like the area I live in but not my school. The people that go there are so...actually, I can't come up with a word for them. There is so much drama and everyone is so fake and they all have such big mouths. I know most high schools are like that but other schools in my district aren't. I have a chance to switch schools because of rezoning but not until the school year after next (I'm a freshman I'll be able to switch after my sophomore year).

Well, my mom wants to move after my sophomore year. I need to convince my mom to let me stay at least one more year than planned so I can see if I like my new school.

And if that doesn't work, I want to try to get her to let me switch schools now (at the end of my freshman year) because I honestly don't know if I can go through another school year at that school.
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What a wonderful opportunity! If they decide to move you'll have to go. Don't get upset about it.
It doesn't sound like you'll be missing that much even in a new school.Change is always difficult but I bet once you get there you will just love it.


My hair is gets all this static in it and it's driving me crazy! It's like when you rub a balloon to your hair and it just sucks! Does anyone know of any hair products that would help with my problem??
♥ Mee! (= (link)
Try rubbing a fabric softner sheet over it.No kidding.


my friend came to school after she had like 2-3 cones (which is NOT much) and she was acting COMPLETELY off her face, and i had to look after her to make sure the teachers didnt catch her.. but 3 hours later she was still acting stoned off her nut.. worst off she kept hitting me calling me a slut and that when i said something to mates.. it was really irritating me because i was looking after her.. she was just acting like a idiot though.. i dont see how only 2-3 cones can give u a buzz for more then an hour with anyone and leave her swaying and acting like a idiot i was just wondering has that happened to anyone before? i really think she was putting it on for attention (link)
Don't cover for her next time.Tell a teacher and let them deal with it.If she was putting on (probably) she didn't pick a very smart way to do it.


Ok, theres this guy i like, hes a really shy guy till he gets to know you and stuff but anyways, theres this pretty girl that knows him pretty well cuz she has known him longer but she ask me if i thought he was cute and if i liked him and i told her i do and she started flirting with him a couple minutes later. like hitting him and giggling and picking on him and stuff. she was so flirting but...

she KNOWS i like him, and i thought she was my friend. how could she do that? what should i do..i dont have the courage to say anything. that and i dont wanna mess up our friendship but i have been trying to get him to like me and it was working so well, he did like me and then she started that and now i dont know. how can i get him to like me over her and get the point across to her that I like him and shes needs to back off without making her mad?

he is shy and so am I so im not sure about just talking to him cuz he like, never ever talks. but if she flirts with him again this wensday what should i do? (link)
It sounds like he likes flirty girls! I know you're shy though so that won't work.

I don't think there is much you can do to get him to like you more than her.You can keep up what you were doing though. I doubt that he dislikes you all of a sudden just because this girl is flirting with him. You did say that he liked you right? Well thats probably not changed.

Don't worry about making her mad.She did the wrong thing not you.I'd ask her why she did it and see what she says.If you don't like her answer then you'll have to decide if you still want to be friends.


Ok my dads been married 4 times...he is still on his fourth marrage. he got married about 7 months ago, when he got married we moved to another house and i had to change schools (i hate my new school so much too) well recently my dad came really close to getting a divorce, and we already found a house near my old school. well the day that my dad got the form for the lease, he started to have regrets about moving, like because the house that were in is my dads dream house, or this would be my dads 4th failed marrage, and the fact that his credit would go back to shit if he does divorce. the only reason i really want to move is so i can be at a better school and have all my old friends back, but at the same time i wanna stay because of my dad...any advice?
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These are really things a kid your age shouldn't have to deal with.Divorce is so easy today that people don't even try to stay married.Thats to bad since it's the kids who usually pay for their stupidity.

There really is nothing you can do about any of this.You stay where your dad is and thats all you can do.The rest of his problems are not your business to deal with. Don't make them your problems.


okay im 13/female. and i have BIGG mood swings. like even when im not on IT. like one sec. i will be all happy and laughing w. my friends. and then the next i will be crying.. or i will be talking to peole online.. and my mom asks me to do something.. and i go totally pissy. and it seems like my parents dont want me to be happy. like every time im happy, they make me pissed off. and i NEED diet coke to keep me hapy. so..here are my questions.. 1) what can i do to prevent these mood swings 2) why do i feel like my parents dont want me to be happy and 3) why do i need diet coke.. and drinking diet coke, can it hurt me? thanks to all who answer this! (link)
1}You could see a doctor and make sure there isn't a reason for them.
2}I'm sure your parents do want you to be happy.You just don't see it that way cause you're being in a mood.3}You don't need diet coke you just think you do.Your addicted to it.




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