In general, when should you give a compliment to someone instead of thanking them? I'm thinking of an analogy to Stop Saying “Sorry” And Say “Thank You” Instead like 'Stop Saying “Thank You” And Say “Good Job” Instead'. I think the idea is that saying 'sorry' instead of 'thank you' implies some...

As many of you who spend time on the Meta site know, there are a lot of problems with the main site - lots of bad questions, low quality answers, and argumentative comments. Has there been some initial discussion of whether bringing on board a new diamond moderator could be helpful? If so, ho...

Note- I used the 'United-States' tag, but this takes place on the US-Canada border. TL;DR: There is an event that everyone is excited for but me, and I don't know how to convince people I don't want to go to it. Each member of my friend group wants me to attend for their own reasons, none of whi...

I have a friend who has depression and anxiety, they constantly think that when they do certain things that I suddenly dislike them or have developed a sudden hate even though I understand what they're going through. I can't seem to tell them that they aren't annoying me or getting on my nerves. ...

I am living in a flat with 3 other persons, 2 females and 1 male. I am a 25 year old male too. I have some romantic feelings to one of the female flatmates, Alice, but we never spoke about it nor do I think she knows it. Alice was having a little party yesterday at which I did not attend, howev...

I recently got a new job, and I don't talk with people besides what is needed for work, because I'm in such a life stage that I don't want to interact with strangers if I don't have to. My colleagues sometimes ask me to participate some free time activity. Usually I can make some excuse, like "...

My fiancee and I lived togheter for exactly 4 years as of today. She and I always loved video games, we both own several consoles (PS4, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch etc), we actually met online on one of the official communities of one of these consoles. She never exceeded with video games, for...

Background I'm 18 and I live with my parents. I also have two younger sisters. Since I was younger until now nothing changed in terms of their parenting with me. I have to go to bed at X hours and many other things that takes out my autonomy. (it's kinda embarrasing have to end a conversation wi...

A while ago, someone told me a rumour that stated that "either I wanted a relationship with a girl or she wanted a relationship with me". We were kind of close with that girl, I was not against a relationship but she did not know this and she might have been interested in me. We were part of gro...

Really hard to find a suitable title, if you find a better one, don't hesitate to edit. I don't want to be mean or anything and I don't want to go "Fat shaming" or things like that. Also, I'm not english native speaker so maybe excuse some terms I may use wrongly. Context With my SO and a coupl...