As some of you know, I'm in a long-distance relationship with Alice, and recently, her sister, Betty has started getting very serious with her boyfriend John (talking about marriage and the like). Alice has met and talked to John before on multiple occasions, but remained a less than average leve...

I tend to be relatively successful (I'm a student) compared to my friends, so many times, when my friends tell me about their failures (did poorly on a test, got rejected by a college, etc.), I'm not sure how to reply. I want to let them know that it's really not a big deal and I genuinely still ...

I have been in situation where person X start telling me personal stuff about person Y and judging them for those things. It's plain complaining behind someone's back and I don't even know how much factual it can be. It might change my perspective of person Y. But mostly in this situation when i...

so I have recently acquired parts for my PC build and will soon be building it. I had been building my anticipation with my friends but also with my siblings. Now a friend said he wants to build it with me and I have invited him to come over on the day, remembering my feelings when an older frien...

A few nights ago I was hooking up with a guy I'd been seeing for a few months; I was giving him fellatio back at my place. I'm happy to do this for him and there is mutual consent to the sexual act, but we never discussed whether he could ejaculate in my mouth - which he always wants, and which ...

There is a nice new guy at my job who I have been getting to know more lately and I think he might like me. He sits at the desk next to mine so we often talk when we are alone in the room. We share interests in fitness and healthy lifestyle and I have a vegan recipe blog. He is not vegan but he o...

Not sure where my question went so I'm reposting my question. If you have nothing good to say, then please don't - I don't need more judgmental people right now. So I've been hooking up with a guy that I'd been seeing for a few months; I've been giving him head at my place but nothing further, ...

I have a brother that is 7 years older than me. We normally get along very well, spend ocne or twice a week time with each other because we live in the same town for a couple of month now. Now my problem is that he is VERY straightforward pushing and confrontational. He is a very very sporty per...

Context I'm 19 years old and I live with my mother. I completed an apprenticeship in software engineering earlier this year. I'm now working full time at the company where I finished my apprenticeship to save money for the university. Now, to the topic. I would describe myself as an introvert. ...

This is not about getting someone to seek help, but about not coming across as a bad friend or like I'm minimizing their feelings by doing so. I'd like to think people see me as an open and empathetic person, and this is why my friends come to me when they need to talk about their problems and ...

Please forgive the metaphor and the literary analysis, but we have something of a problem at this site which does remind me of a popular book. In Austin's Sense & Sensibility, the two Dashwood sisters represent opposite positions: Marianne is a romantic, an impulsive optimist willing to risk all ...

For some background into the layout of where this situation takes place, my apartment complex has it's own dog park. Within a few hundred feet of the dog park is a large and spacious public park, surrounded by tall prairie grass. Situation Recently during my nightly visit to the dog park, a you...

A few days ago, I flagged answers in SuperUser as NAA, and got my flag declined. Here is the meta post. One of the moderator quoted the description of NAA flag: This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another que...

Since September I have been volunteering one day a week at a social work non-profit (called NGO here in India) that provides non-clinical counselling services for the general public. I am not involved in the interpersonal aspects of their activities. I am a qualified sociologist and I have been h...

I have a very good friend, let's call him Rick, who I have been acquainted with for the past 5 years. Our relationship was strong enough that he often told me that he was my best friend, and I often reciprocated as well. That being said, there is an "in joke" among my friend group where we tell R...