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my name is Nawell, and i am 18 years old. I give people advice all the time, and i just want to help others besides my family and friends. Hope you like my column.
E-mail: nsesay1988@yahoo.co.uk
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Hi i'm 14/f
There is this boy that i absolutely love he is just so nice and great in every single way he really likes me too he even said he loves me in person.
I'm a really like 'good' girl and i'm asian so you know how family is like really important and you can't get a boyfriend you can only get married once your 25 or whatever.
I really want to go out with him and i know this realationship will last but i hate going behind my parents back but i really love him what do i do?
Thank you so so much (link)
it really good that you're in love, but do you see yourself spending the rest of your life with this guy, if yes then tell your mum am sure she will understand, and you don't know, you might need her in time to be there for you if thing don't go right. good luck.


Theres this guy at work that has been confusing me. He's a team lead over cashiers and with me working the sales floor, we had never talked before. One day I was joking around at the service desk with one of my friends who is a cashier. She introduced us and since than him and I have become instant friends.

When I walk by him, he always hollers at me so that I will stop and talk to him. Even when I come in on my off days, he stops whatever he is doing and talks to me.

One of the things that confuses me is that he treats me differently when some people are around. When no one is around he flirts and tells me his plans and things about himself. But if people are around he treats me like a team member, like he wasnt just flirting with me 2 seconds before.

Like the other night, he made me stay past my time to cover a department, so another team member could go to the huddle. After the other team members left, he called me to make sure that I wasnt mad at him.

He is very very serious about keeping his work and personal life separate. He also keeps spouting off the rules to me about how he is not even allowed to hang out with team members only team leads. But than he messages me to come and hang out with him and so on. When I questioned him about how isn't him hanging out with me mixing work and personal life, he responded with that he trusted me not to mess up his work enviroment. He always drops little hints into the conversations about himself and everything.

Another one of the team leads over the cashiers who I am extremely close with told me that they told her that the rules were that they could date and hang with team members as long as it didnt interfere with the job.

The other night I ran into him and his friends at the pool hall and the first thing he said to me was "What took you so long to get here?". After they left him and his friends went to eat and I went home. When I got home I had a message from him asking me why I didnt come eat with them.


He's not a really shy guy, he's actually very outgoing.I've never ever had a boyfriend, any boy that I ever liked has always put me in the friends only category. He is the first guy to even show just interest in me that is maybe a little more than just friends. I think he knows that I like him but I'm not sure. He's told me that work relationships, never work out, not statistically anyway. People at work have noticed and tell me that he treats me different than he does anyone else there. I'm just not sure. Sorry for the long text I really needed to get it off my chest.
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it sounded to me that he likes you, but doesn't want any one to know about it. next time you two are alone ask him why his personality change when someone is around, and ask him to tell you what is going on between you two, because sometimes all a guy need is a little push, and one more thing is don't be disapointed if he just want you as a friend. good luck.


My ex boyfriend is coming back to my neighborhood this summer and all i can think about is whats gonna happen.But also i like someone in my school and my friends say he like me back but whenever it's me and him or getting ready to be just me and him i always get scared and run or stop talking cause i don't wanna get hurt again.so how can i get my ex out of my head and the guts to handle my crush? (link)
Getting over your ex is hard, but you have to try harder, think about what he did to you, why you two broke up in the first place, and i will tell you that he don't deserve you. Handling your crush is not that hard, all that you have to do is relax and say to yourself he likes me and i like him that all that matters, if you're scared that he will hurt you, don't make plans with him for the future, live everyday as it comes and have fun. Good luck


I can't seem to stop comparing myself to my boyfriend's ex-girlfriends and old "crushes." I know he loves me, but I just can't seem to stop thinking, "She's thinner than me," or "Wow, she's so much prettier than I am," and "She's so funny, do I make him laugh as much as she does?" The irritating thing is a lot of them are still his friends, and he sees them when he's away at college. He's completely against cheating, but I still worry that something will spark between him and one of his exes and he'll leave me.

Incase it matters, I'm 19 and female. (link)
It is ok to think the way you do, but also keep in mind that he love YOU, he choose YOU over them, and there is nothing to worry about. And just because this girl/girls is thinner than you does't make her more prettier, and just because she is funny does't make her more fun to be with, so trust your man if he love you, the other girl are nothing more than a friend to him. hope i help.


Heya!

first off, i'm 16/f.
Well, my best friend (23/m) is really sad as his girlfriend broke up with him (almost a year ago, he has trouble getting over things...but that's ok) and well I just wanna show him that I care for him heaps.
I wanted to write him an email but I wanna be a bit creative with it. Like, once he sent one to me using nothing more than quotes out of songs. I wanna do something like that, but obviously not that.
Has anyone got any thoughts on what I could do?

thanks heaps! (link)
write him a poem or a letter, if you don't know any search on the website there are lot of moving on peoms and letters in there. or you could make him a scrapbook reminding him about all the good time he had without her, and all the thing he use to do, how much you care and will alway be there for him. good luck.


[so its the same story as the last one]
I like this guy named ryan,but i think he only likes me as a friend(i think).is there any techniques i can do to flirt with him so he will LIKE me LIKE me? (link)
1. you have to be yourself, boys don't like someone who is a fake or wear too much makeup, guy seen to like a girl that looks nice and makes an effort.
2. if you want to flirt with this, make eye contact, smiling, laughter, conversation, make eye contact with him when you talk, give him a little smile once in while, laugh at his jokes (make sure they are funny), If things seem to be going well - a little light physical contact can't hurt. Touch him on the arm while talking for instance. But don't get too touchy - especially at first. It can freak him out.
3. Guys don't like to have all of the pressure resting on their shoulders. Many suggested that girls should make the first move. Sometimes they are a bit clueless. Help 'em out a bit. maybe he likes you for more than a friend, but just to scared to say it first. so i suggest you ask him out to something that the guy would want to do. For example: If he's been talking about wanting to see the latest action movie - ask him if he'd like to go. But they hate scenes if they say no. If this should happen to you, play it cool. Sure it hurts - but as one guy said "Sometimes things come up and you just can't go. If I say no, but she's really cool about it, I may ask her out next time". best of luck.




First of all, I have been in a very calm, steady & fulfilling relationship. The person I am involved with completes me. I am emotionally dependent. I centered my whole 4 yrs. never cheated, always thoughtful and caring. However, just two days ago, we had a heart to heart talk. We both feel it is time to move on. No 3rd party involved on both our part but I guess we both feel it is time to move on. The hard part is that I want to cling, remain & continue but I know in doing so I will completely lose myself. Right now, I am suffering. Have anxiety attacks & feel like my stomach turns upside down. Part of me died too.

Please don't ask me details why do we have to part ways... All I am saying is that it is time to do it. My question is --- what should i do to feel once more... What should I do to stop the nervous attacks? What should I do to stop being emotionally dependent. I am tearing apart. Anyone??? Please... (link)
moving on from someone you love is not easy, it takes time and lot of it, first you have to feel the pain, because that the only way you can get over it, you will feel that life is not worth living, but you are wrong, you alway have to remmeber that everything happen for a reason. cry if you feel like it, don't hold it back just let it all out, you don't have to move on so quickly, take the time off and think about yourself, and all the other people around you, and once in while tell yourself it okay, you did the right thing and that there is someone out there waiting to meet me, to love and share my pain, and someone i can love in return. like they say "time heals all things".


I have a boyfriend who has already had sex. I think i'm ready to have it and I love him very much.
I want to have sex with him.
But i'm afraid of what will come after,
or when people find out.
And it'll be my first time and I wont know what to do.
And I guess I'm just scared and need to know
what i should do before sex to make sure im protected enough and is it okay to have it if im ready? (link)
having sex for the first time can be scary, because it one of the things you are going to remember for the rest of your life (trust me i know), so you got to make sure that you're ready, and that you love the boy, because you don't want to do it with any boy. use a condom, but because condoms works 95% of the time, make sure you are on pills( just to be on the safe side). good luck.


He says I love you to some other girls but he told me he means it friendly and like he loves a lot of people in general.

I told him about how it kinda annoys me because I'm not used to things like that.

He told me if it bothers me then he'll stop but i don't want to be controling.

I've had trouble in one relationship but controlling him from other girls because I'm kinda jealous easily but not extremely jealous.
its only when he says I love you or when these girls flirt with him because obviously I can tell and i hate it.

Is telling him to stop kinda controlling because its what it feels like to me but I'm not sure.

He can talk to them but i don't like when he says I love you to them or when they flirt because I know he'll do nothing about it

Thanks :] (link)
telling your boyfriend your feeling doesn't make you controlling, you don't have to tell him to stop saying i love u to other girls, just say i don't like it when you tell other girls that you love them, it make me feel jealous, if he care about your feelings he will stop, without you telling him to stop, and about the other girls flirting with him, that u got to work on it, bcoz if your man is handsome, other girls will always be there to steal him away.i hope i help.


it's my mom's birthday in the morning, so this is kinda urgent...
I've found an old photo of my mom from when she was just a toddler and printed it out and made a card out of it. I'm putting $50 in the card for her but inside looks a bit plain. I've jazzed it up with some coloured paper but I'd love to include maybe a poem or something on the blank side of the card. I really need something tonight..like in the next few hours before i go to bed. So does anyone have any good ideas or even know any websites maybe?

thank you SOOOOOO much to those who can help me out. Meanwhile, I'll keep googling! :]

xx (link)
go to google and search for poems for mum, there are lot of poems there for anyone or anything. good luck.


Ok so I know when anybody says "I have a friend who..." they mean themselves. but im really talking about someone else here

so my friend travis and i were talking about taking midterms next week, and he said he heard about people taking chap stick and running it across the little black bars to make all the answers correct. i know it sounds stupid for me to ask this, but is he right? because there IS a possibility, but if its not true i dont want him to fail his exams, because he would have just wrote down random answers and used the chap stick.
please help me out (link)
there is no such thing as chap stick, so advice your friend not to do it, he/she will not only fail, but what it they catches them who knows what they will do.


of course this is about a boy. hes totally adorable and right now i like him so so much. but heres the thing. when im hanging out with him or talking to him online or on the fone, i totally dont like him. but wen we hold hands or watevr, or wen im just thinking about him, i totally like him!! hello whats the deal? why cant i like him all the time? (link)
it seems to me that you like the boy because you think that how your boyfriend should look like, because anytime you see him you like him more. but if you like him like you say u do,talk to him about it or when you two are talking on the phone, talk about something that you are interested in. hope i help.


I need advice on getting a guy.Well, i know things take time and that i need to wait for the "One" and all, but i need an escort to a friends ball. and a date is requed. Is there anything i can do to make a guy a i like like me? i need to know wht kinda stuff guys like.
Oh and i am 14 and a female. (link)
one, you can't make someone likes you if they don't, but if you need an escort to a ball then ask a friend that is a boy of coz,to come along with you, by that you will have a good time and also be yourself. hope i help.


I'm flying for the first time tomorrow night and I'm very scared. Can someone just tell me anything on how to calm my nerves and feel safer about flying?

Thank you. (link)
you just have to think about something else, like listen to music or hold on to someone's hand, but the one that alway works for me is to count from one to ten, and before you know what going on you will be flying. hope i help good luck.


I think I am scared to have a boyfriend. This has happened like two times already, I will really like a guy, he will like me to, we will talk and hang out then when he asks me out, I say no. I don't know why I am scared, but I think one reason is my family. Like I don't want to tell them cause I will be embarassed or something. What should I do? I really need to get over this or I will never have a boyfriend and i will keep hurting the guys I care about! (link)
going out for the first time can be scary, so you want to advoid it by say no to guys. so the next time when someone ask you out, don't think of it like a date, just think of it like you two are just hanging out like you do with your friends. and i know how families can be when you tell them you are going out, they are like oh.. ah, but that what family do they laugh and make jokes, but in a day or two they will forget all about it. hope i help


So my friend and cousin are going out.I helped hook them up.They have only been going out for like almost 4 weeks.My cousin is a straight up player and i tell my friend that.But anyways my friend had sex with my cousin when they have only been going out for 3 weeks.Then she called me right away and texted me just to tell me that she had sex with him.Like she was proud of it.My cousin is almost 18 and shes 15.She will do anything to stay together.So she lies to me about stuff saying she broke up with him then tells my cousin there going out.I cant trust her.So what should i do?Should i be mad at her for this?Please give me advice asap because its sressing me out. (link)
hooking up your friend with your cousin was not a good idea, because he is 18 and your friend is 15, and second you know that he is a player. don't be mad at your friend now because she needs you the most, try talking to her and ask why she lie to you, and tell your friend and your cousin to stop seeing each other because of the age gap between them, and nothing good will come out of their relationship. good luck


I think I'm going through a mid-life crisis. [That is, if I only expect to live `till thirty.] I'm a 15 year old female and it feels like I haven't completly found my place of belonging. I know I'm not the only one who's experiencing these emotions, but I'd rather rid myself of these feelings as soon as I can. I've acknowledged the problem as pushing the ones I wish to get close to away and I'm not sure why I do this. I've led a pretty sheltered life, so it doesn't lead to my past. I think it's because people tend to move on and I fear being replaced. I open up more so than others, but I just shy away from what I need most. How can I allow myself to accept the love of my surrondings? (link)
you are not the only one who feel like once you make friends they have to leave, and you think pushing peope away will save you from getting hurt, but the truth is the more you hide the more you get hurt, running away never helps, so go out and take a change you will find a friend that feels the same way you do, even if someone move on doesn't mean they are gone forever, you can still hold on to them in your heart. i hope everything works out fine.


I am a male, I'm 17. I really like this girl in my grade - I've liked her for over 2 years now, but I've never had the courage to tell her. Just recently, I finally got the courage to ask her to a movie - but I realized that she had plans for the evening so that didn't work out. I phoned her the next day, asking for another movie, but this time I got the answer that she had "plans" I just don't know what to do. How can I find out if shes trying to ditch me, or if shes actually busy. I don't know what to do. Please, if some one can help. I just - I think of her at every moment, I see her eyes all the time, I don't find anyone attractive anymore, I've started to write poetry - What can I possibly do? (link)
i think that it is really sweet of you to like her that much. maybe she is busy or maybe not, so you are going to ask her out again, only this time you ask her what day or night she got free so the two of you can go out. if she didn't respond to you or say "i am a very busy person" than you will know she is ditching you. you will learn to get over her in time, but she regret letting you go because guys like don't come everyday.


alright i really need a little advice here.
thank-you in advance.

Alright well my bestfriend came out and told me that hes liked me for two years. i was very shocked because i would have never guessed. he gave me a list of reasons why he liked me
-im not like other girls
-im cool
-easy to talk to
-good looking
-the only girl that hes liked that has actually paid attention to him
ionno there was a few other things too but i forget. Its all very cute, but there is one problem.... i dont like him back in the way and i told him that i dont want to ruin our friendship if were to date because i value it a lot. and he seemed to get it. Now we talk and its not awkward but he brings up the fact that he likes me. hes always bringing up the fact that he dealt with holding in his emotions for two years and that since i dont want to go out with him he can do it for however longer he has feeling for me. so its all good.... EXCEPT that now im hearing rumours that hes going to ask me out.. and i dont know what to say this time. please help

thanks (link)
i think it is really nice that he like you and all, so you gonna have to make him see the negative part of this like it will ruin your friendship. try talking to him before he ask you out so he won't be disappointed on the day he ask you, or you two can go out as friends, maybe you will like it, if not i am sure he will understand(sure he will act upset for a while but he will come around). hope i help


Please dont send me to any websites.
Okay, I missed my period last month and this month.
I really crave pickles with bagels & cream cheese, pickles and chocolate, pickles and crunchy peanut butter, and soda. And I HATE PICKLES!...
Also ..I weighed like 132 a few weeks ago and now Im like 150...wtf????
I dont know..I took 2 home tests.. but they were only $1.39...and they were really cheap...But they were (-)...My health ins hasnt kicked in so i cant goto the doctor. plus my family would kill me...
what do u think/
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you must have gain weight over the week because you eat a little to much.people miss thier period all the time it sometimes cause by stress so their is nothing to be panic about. i know you don't want to tell your parent so you got save up enough money to buy a good home pregnancy test to know for sure, but if you are pregnant you gonna have to tell you parent before it too late, and don't try to do anything without any professional help. good luck




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