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I'm 15 and i've been dating this really amazing guy for a month. Whenever i see him i get really shy. We both want to kiss but i'm too shy... What do i do? (link)
This is completely normal. I was 15 when I had my first kiss and my boyfriend at the time did want to kiss me but I was super shy. Eventually, he got up the courage to kiss me.
So, you just need to try being comfortable around him. Once you guys are comfortable, the kiss with come naturally. It's not something you should stress about.
It's not just your very first kiss that makes you nervous. I dated a couple other guys and each time, that first kiss with him made me nervous.
So just relax and try to be more comfortable with him. It'd make it easier for the both of you.


This the follow up to a question I wrote earlier about the guy I had a crush on that asked me to play basketball with him. Well I asked him if we could play on Saturday but he said maybe but I have a feeling that we won't. And its not like hes going to be busy he said he was just going to stay in the house all day. I don't get it. It was his idea he brought it up about playing not me. Why bring it up if you don't mean it. Why flirt or stare at me but never make a move. I'm confused why do guys do this? (link)
Guys do it because they need to feel better about themselves. It makes their ego feel better. If you do end up hanging out with him, don't act super interested in him. If he starts doing all that again, just act cool about it and make sure he knows that you're not a girl who can be played with.


I'm afard to have my first period at school HELP!
What should I do ?
I will be inbrssed if I have it at school and it bleeds throo my pants HELP ME PLE.AS (link)
I had a few friends who started their first period at school. It's different for each person. Some people bleed a lot their first period and some don't. I bled quite a bit my first time. I didn't have any sign it was coming, like I didn't have cramps or any discomfort, but some people do.
You'll realize if you start at school, you'll feel it. If that happens, make sure you have pads on you or go to the nurses office and get some. It won't bleed through if you get to it in time to put a pad on.
You'll be fine.


Ok so ive been to 2 recent amazing dances and the same guy has asked me to dance at each twice. He and i dance very close and i yhink i might like him a bit. Hes really nice anhilarious and he is super cute. He and i have been frirnds for years and he has dated my best friend. She told me she wouldnt care if we dated but i know another girl who likes him alot. She gets so pissy after i dance with him and idk what to do. Please help!! (link)
The only person you should worry about is your best friend, but she's fine if you two dated. This other girl, she's the one who doesn't matter. I'm assuming you and this girl aren't close enough to call each other friends so honestly, she doesn't matter. Don't be afraid to be happy with a great guy just because some other girl likes him.
Good luck!



K so a few months ago, there was this thing between me and this guy at school. He lead me on and and I initiated some as well. So when he made further plans if we could go on a date and stuff, i of course said yes. But then
when it came closer to the date, a few days before it he cancelled and bailed on me and said that he just couldn't go through with it at the moment cause he still had feelings for this girl that he never went out with. So of course I felt hurt and disappointed , but eventually I moved on and didnt give a crap about him. But then today, he came up to me after weeks of not talking to each other and asked if we could talk. He said that he did a lot of thinking and that he wanted to give us a try again and said that he was really sorry of what happened.
So then he asked if we could go on a date, and of course me not wanting to say no and disappoint him I said yes... It was a spur of the moment kind of thing . So now here after a few hours of thinking I just don't have a good feeling about it.. Like now I just keep doubting that I may not have that same strong feelings for him as before ... Help !
P.s that girl never liked him back in the first place and he supposedly told me that that girl now has a boyfriend and that he and her are now on good terms and are friends (link)
It's ok to have doubting feelings because you don't know how you feel about him. Even though you're doubting it, I'd still go through with the date. Because it's just one date, he didn't ask you to be his girlfriend or anything so just go and enjoy yourself. If you ended up enjoying the date and can see yourself with him, then great. If not, then if he asks again, just explain that you only see him as a friend.
It's not bad to doubt or try new things so I say go and try to enjoy yourself. You don't have to commit to him if you don't want to.


13/f Hi I want to lose about 15-25 lbs before grad in June but I have a very hectic shedule... How can I lose the weight (or any weight) and is Imy goal achievable... (link)
Your goal is definitely achievable.
If you really want it, you can get it. You have a few months so you can focus on losing 1 or 2 pounds every week or every other week. Just don't give up.
Exercise and eat good. Don't starve yourself and make sure you eat each of your meals.
You can have healthy snacks and drink lots of water. Cut down on soda and candy.
Just find some time for some exercise and work at it. Try exercising maybe 3 days a week for 30-1 hour. You'll reach your goal.


I have been dating my boyfriend for almost 5 months. We're both 15. We both believe we are in love with each other. A week ago an issue came up and he questioned me about it and I lied without thinking. He told me he lost trust in me d it absolutely killed me. We are still dating today. But another issue came up where I was talking to a friend and he was right there and he said something and I turned to my friend and said he was weird and I winked and said but I love him and he asked me what I said and I said nothing and he asked again and I said nothing and then he asked again and I said that I said I love him. Then he accused me of lying and has been mad and upset with me ever since. I've prayed and prayed that everything would be okay. I'd fall apart without him. And I just need someone to tell me it's going to be okay. (link)
I don't know what the issues are but if you want this to work out between the two of you, you need to stop lying. Relationships can't work if there is no trust. You don't want him wondering about things you tell him are actually true or not.
You need to work on yourself and give him time to forgive you. You need to start being completely honest. I'm sure things will turn out fine if you start being honest and he gains his trust back.


Hi i'm a 13\F
I just got out of a long distance relationship with my 16 year old now ex, boyfriend.
I didn't really wan to, but he isn't Christian, and i am, which is the reason i broke up with him.
To some of you it may sound silly, but the Bible has a say in that type of relationship.

SO my question is,

How can i keep my mind off him, and deal with this heartbreak easily?
(link)
You should go out and have fun with your friends and try to move on. Take up different hobbies and do some fun things. Of course you're going to think about him for a long time, you really liked him. But eventually it will fade and you'll be liking another boy. You're young and you have so much time so don't worry about dating right now. Just have fun being 13.


15/F
So me and this guy have been talking latley and we really like eachother but im not sure if its a smart idea to date him. He's my bestfriend. i've dated a close friend before but im not sure if i should take this chance. what should i do? (link)
It's all up to you. You can end up with him and odds are, it won't last for years. When I was 15, I wasn't expecting any of my relationships to last forever. I knew I wouldn't be with someone I dated when I was 15 forever. So I never risked dating one of my good friends.
If you want to, you can go for it. But if you can handle not having him around if you guys break up, then go for it.
If you think you don't want to lose him, then stay friends.


I'm 13 and I have started my period but I'm the flattest person in my class!!!!.( other than the boys ) and I wouldn't be caught dead stuffing my bra!!!.......people are teasing me all my friends are B cups I'm a 32 A is there anything I can do about this!!!!? (link)
It may seem like a big deal when you're young but honestly, it's really not.
Guys will like it better when you aren't big. I've heard tons of guys who like them smaller because they aren't in the way.
Anyways, you will be grateful, trust me.


Im 13 and theres this guy, he transferred to my school last semester and is really smart but has a past with criminal stuff and he wants to put that behind him now. He's on house arrest too. But he's really sweet and chill. Anyways we just started talking and he knows I like him and yesterday at school my friend who's best friends with him talked to him and he said I was pretty and that he liked me (we did get to know each other too) but my fiend said he's nervous to ask me out and I'm nervous SOOOO nervous too. I've never asked out a guy and me and this guy sorta live in different worlds. No classes. But I really like him. How do I know if he likes me? I want to make sure. Cause if I am I might and if I don't how do I make him ask me out? (link)
You don't have to ask him out but you should just go and say hi every once in awhile or start talking to him.
If he wants you and likes you, he will get the courage to ask you out.
You can initiate by talking to him and being nice.


okay soo . idated this guy for a year and a month. i broke up with him because we would fight all the time , and he changed dramasticly . he gets very very jealous . even though we broke up he would still call me and say he loves me and i would say it back . but one day he called and i finally told him that we cant do this anymore . i told him we cant tell each other that we love each other , or we will get back togather . and we cant be anything more then friends. then he told me he would always love me no matter what and he had gotten me a birthday present .. and it was this braclet that had my name engraved and had our date on it ..
sooo after he told me all that. we havent talked in while. then i find out he went to the movies with some girl and they kissed .
wooooow . im so heart broken. and i cant stop thinking about him . and i dont want to call himm or text him . but its werid he still has all our picturs on facebook and instgram. i dont know what to do . if he calls i dnt know what to say ? (link)
If he calls, there's nothing to say.
You told him yourself that you guys are nothing more than friends.
Even better, don't answer if he calls. It's time for you to move on.
You're going to think about him after you guys broke up but you can find someone else who is better for you. You need to find someone who you won't fight with.
Who knows what he's thinking on his end. You two are over so he can do what he wants but he's probably just on the rebound. He probably just doesn't know what he wants anymore or he's trying to move on.
Anyways, I think it's best if you try to move on. It'll take awhile but it would be so much better than being in a relationship where you two are always fighting or thinking about him and what he's doing.


I'm 13, and i have a really complicated love problem and really need help on this. So there is this girl, lets call her Susan, that i really like and shes beautiful and really fun to be with. I like her for a long time and then eventually asked her out but she rejected me! Then the next year i fell for two other girls( and people say that if you loved her for 4 months means she you really love her... it happened!) one is... daisy! and the other one is...Vicky! So i really don't know what to do daisy isn't the one people see me with and if i go with her they'll think I'm a freak, but Vicky and Susan then they'll think high of me... please help i don't know what to do!!! (link)
Honestly, you shouldn't care what people think. If you like someone, you like someone.
It is super shallow to not date someone because people will think lower of you.
If Susan doesn't like you, let her go.
If you like Daisy or Vicky, you can try it out but don't go after someone because of what people will think.
You can take your time and think about it. If they are good girls and are nice and friendly and not bad girls, then they can be good for you.
If you really don't know who to go for, don't go for anyone until you figure out who you really have feelings for.


Ok, so im not entierly sure what my question IS, but i really need some help with this. You see, ive had a crush on my best friend for almost a year now, and yeah she knows about it. And as our friendship grows stonger and we grow closer, my crush on her grows, and now i actually think that im IN love with her. But, she isnt lesbian, and has a BF too. I cant even begin to explain how much i like her, and how badly i want to kiss her every day when i see her in our only class together. (PE) the only thing that does keep me from kissing her, is that she told me if I ever did, she would hate me forever and never talk to me again, amd i just cant lose my friendship with her- she means the world to me. But even though she does have a BF, shes always telling me that despite how badly SHE wants to kiss HIM, hes really unromantic and she might as well not even have a boyfriend. Also, even though she is straight, i always seem to feel like shes, maybe flirting with me, or trying to make a move or something? (Ex: Calling me "Sweetie" ,occasionaly saying "love ya!", trying to poke the picture of Harry Styles on my shirt, which just happened to be right near my boob, etc.) I dont know, i just really really really like her and dont know what to do or what to think. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!! (Oh yeah and both me and my crush are girls and 12 years old, almost 13) (link)
If she told you she is straight, then just let it be. You're going to have to move on. I'm sure she's a great friend and you don't want to lose that so don't let your feelings get in the way. She straight up told you how she felt about it so just let it be.
If it helps any, just do other things and don't spend all your time around her. Of course you guys are friends but you can have other friends to hang out with and other things to do.


My parents say I'm too young to have a Facebook while all kids my age already have one? Should I be embarrassed? (link)
Why should you be embarrassed?
Facebook isn't that big of a deal. I'm 18 and I know lots of people who choose not to have a facebook. Honestly, it's a good way to keep in touch with people but most of the time, people just waste time on there doing nothing. It takes up a lot of your time when you could be doing something better.
Your parents probably have good reasoning to why you shouldn't have one yet so just wait until they say it's ok.
There is no reason to be embarrassed.


I'm a 13 year old girl. My boyfriend and I have been dating more than 8 months but less than a year. I'm a naturally shy girl and he is very outgoing, he's the talkative one in this relationship. He gets mad at me for being so shy around him, I'm starting to feel pressured. I tried talking to him about this but he said " you wouldn't feel pressured if you'd just loosen up."If he really cared about me he would be helping me be less shy around him, right? (link)
I was in a relationship like that when I was 14. It seemed like we weren't even together. We normally just sat next to each other and that was it. I've always been a shy person but honestly, it's up to you to change.
Maybe he could be a little nicer about it. He shouldn't get mad over it but obviously if you two switched it around and you were the outgoing one and he was shy, you might get a little irritated if you two have been together for over 8 months and hardly talking.
Just work on yourself and see if you can try talking a little more. If he gets mad, you need to talk to him about that.


It's been almost two weeks and the suspense is killing me!!!.... I'm pretty young and I am not able to go get a pregnancy test... So I'm here wondering if their is a home thing that I can do without my parents finding out????... I really need this so I can get it officially off my mind (link)
Yeah there's nothing really you can do unless you go buy a test from the store.
Unless you want to wait and see if you have your period. But I wouldn't rely on that because there are tons of reasons why you're period could be late other than the fact that you could be pregnant.
So you should just go to the store and take a couple of the tests. Your parents won't have to find out about the tests so you'd be fine in that area.


What do you do when you're in love with someone so much that you you don't ever want to loose them. When you know they can be happier with someone else but they choose you. But when they choose you they choose you with tears in thier eyes. Because they know they could of been happier with someone else but they still choose you. And then you feel as of the whole world has fallen on top of you. Because he chose you with tears in his eyes and not joy. But that person tells you they love you. and you feel as if it's true. That person tells you they will change even tho they have told you that since the beggining. Even tho you've been together for over a year. But yet you still belive them. Even tho they been cheating on you since the start, more then once with multiple different people. Where they got to the point of even having sex. But you still see threw all those flaws and mistakes because you love them. What do you do, when they've hurt you so much even tho you don't deserve it, because you've been faithful to them since the start, because you know you've tried your hardest.. What do you do? Do you let them go to be with someone else.. or do you belive they will change and hopefully start fresh? :'( please help... I'm 17 years old female (link)
If you were older and married for years with this man, then trying to works things out could be an option. But you're still really young. You do love him but you deserve so much better. If he keeps saying he'll change and he doesn't. Why believe him again? Break it off with him and now it's your turn to start fresh. You will find someone else who can make you ten times happier and won't cheat on you. You'll also find someone who will be really happy with you.
It will be really hard to move on, but this is definitely the time to do it.


F/16
My boyfriend for about 7 months and he doesn't seem to be interested as much anymore. He's not affectionate like he used to be, he never really wants to spend time with me, he always used to say "yes" when I had plans for us but now he says "I'll let you know" he never texts me, I used to wake up with good morning texts and he never does that... I text him first every day but he seems like he can't be bothered with me anymore, the way he's texting. I've asked time and time if there's anything at all wrong and he says there's nothing, we have been arguing a lot lately because of this, I say he's changed. I say I'm done, but I come back and ask him for another chance, and it seems like it's my fault, but is it? Then he says keep saying you're done with me, I'm not taking you back. But now after the last time I said it, we sorted it and everything but now it's still totally different, if I say anything about why he's being different, he's going to think I'm causing an argument when I'm not, I've asked him plenty of times and he says there's nothing wrong, but there is, I can feel it in the way we speak. (link)
This kind of things does happen in relationships. I don't think it's your fault the relationship became this way. I don't think it's his either.
I'm sure he does notice what he's doing but since you bring it up to him all the time, he's too stubborn to change it.
My advice is to give him space and don't argue.
I don't know how often you guys hang out. If you hang out every day, only make plans with him once a week unless he brings it up. Don't text him first anymore and eventually he'll realize it and ask you what's up. Don't argue with him but just explain that you're not feeling loved anymore.
Just don't fight or argue with him. Couples shouldn't have to do that. It will happen from time to time but it's definitely not necessary. Keep calm and let him come to you again.


So I had boyfriend and well I really liked him but then a boy that I had a mayjor crush on my 7th and 8th grade year says he likes me deeply to.... And the other guy is a real jerk but a part of wish things would have went better he acts like a little kid and it irratates me :/ he kinda screwed me over in the process I just need some advice on what I should do??? (link)
You don't want to be with someone who is a jerk or screwed you over. Simple as that. Talk to him and figure things out, if he doesn't change, it's time to let him go.
As for the other guy, if you would rather be with him and he's a nice guy then you'd probably be happier.
Take your time and think about it. You'll figure things out.




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