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I just being Used Hello There, She always talks to me nicely at work. Whenever she needs help, she asks me, shares a desk with me, and all that. But outside of work, she usually chooses others\, people who aren't even that kind and can be pretty rude. When we leave the office, she often lies to m...

Hi I don't know much about this app but thought I'd give it go and see if it would help me figure some things out. So I let my friend and her 4 kids move in with me in March of this year. And she has been living with me for free for a couple months now. But I am wanting her to start helping out w...

A popular lunch and dinner always has a queue trailing outside the door. Every time, repeat offenders will queue jump inside the space 10-30 people in front of the end of the queue. The end of the queue people outside don't see what's happening inside. Inside some people see and others are too in...

I have to talk a lot in my job and am generally a confident, capable presenter - I would give many 20+ person presentations a week, a couple of 100+'s a month, and occasionally talk to live audiences as big as 20k. But sometimes, I need to give a speech that's a bit more emotional (a wedding, a f...

I’m a 37-year-old single male with a net worth around $10M. I’ve been in the dating scene for a while and I’m dating with the intention of marriage. Naturally, that brings up questions from dates about long-term stability and the ability to support a family. Since I follow the concept of stealth ...

For context, we're both 17 (I'm male) and we were in the same school, though we barely talked. After 10th grade (sophomore year) we both drifted off and went down different academic paths. I just recently thought about her when my sister mentioned that she met a girl, at the animal shelter she vo...

i know this might sounds crazy but yeah this happened and now idk what to do. for context i met them through this twitter community for a kpop Fandom (boy group btw) and at that time i still thought that im a bi person. until last month i finally came into conclusion that i only like girls. and o...

So I met my friend in my family function and asked him why his elder brother didn't come. He said he is at his friend's home. So I asked whether they would like some food to be packed for him and they for some reason got offended with it. The same friend invited me in his family function(2 days l...

I have a friend (she's 21 years old and I'm 20) who posts on Facebook using Japanese instead of English. Both she and I are bilingual, both Japanese and English. She is from Japan, and speaks both Japanese and English fluently. I am from America, although I have a Japanese name, and my English is...

Trying my best to be succint about that past. When I was 18 months old, my mother cut a part of my right arm with a knife. I still have the scar today at 28 years old. She also hit me with a lot of strength and I had blue wounds all over my body. She got into prison for those acts. After 3 months...

I'm an exchange student (I don't want to doxx myself by saying where, because there are so few of us here) Through other exchange students I started practicing local folk music taught by a nice, old lady, Teacher A. I'm on very good terms with her even outside of music classes. For example she wa...

My girlfriend decided to divorce 2.5-3 months before she met me. She said she was letting go of her ex for over 2 years. I didn’t understand it first but eventually I got to understand that she was having periods where she thought she would divorce and there were periods where she thought she won...

In group meetings, there’s often one person who dominates the conversation, sometimes going off-topic or taking up time that could be better shared among participants. I find it difficult to interject without seeming rude or confrontational. I’ve tried subtle cues like leaning forward, raising my...

My wife likes to ask me to hug/rock her to sleep when she’s struggling with falling asleep. I usually enjoy it a lot—when I’m well rested and it doesn't happen too many times in a week on days where I have to wake up at 6 in the morning. Its hard for me to fall back asleep when I don't have enoug...

A very good friend of mine, whom I’ll call Anna, hired a guy I’ll call Denis (a neighbor of her parents) to renovate an apartment she owns and intends to lease. There was no written contract — just a verbal agreement based on trust, since they’d known each other for years. The deal was that the r...

This specific kind of miscommunication happend to me several times under different contexts. It goes like this: Me: Why can't I find anyone interested in X? Everyone seems interested in Y instead? (alternatively: Where can I find someone else interested in X?) Response: Well some people aren't ...

I'm a researcher in India working on a topic that is somewhat niche, and unfortunately, my assigned university supervisors do not have relevant expertise. As a result, they have not contributed intellectually or practically to any part of my research or the writing of my papers. However, there's ...

My daughter (9) hangs out with neighborhood kids on a regular basis. Most of them are good kids that she wants to hang out with. However, there is one child (let's call him Kenny) that she doesn't enjoy hanging out with. He's a little older than the other neighborhood kids, and he's kind of an as...

Time and again, I find myself in conversations with people whom I was under the impression were actually listening when in reality they were just looking for cues to respond to. I personally refer to these types of people as "Shape Shifters". They appear to pride themselves in inter-personal skil...

A few days ago, I was in a theatre performance, and after it ended, I met a member of the audience and we exchanged a few sentences about the play, the organizers, etc. It went fine, but the guy was in a wheelchair, his eye level was much below mine, and there were no chairs around. At first I in...

Recently I'm spending a little bit too much on SE comment sections. When I answer, comment, or otherwise reply to someone, I occasionally check their profile page to see if there's a self introduction, mainly to understand their background to tailor a response for them (there would be a general s...

I have a coworker who I liked and who I thought liked me. She would sometimes come by my desk just to talk and stuff. On Christmas, we were working in totally different areas of the hospital and she specifically came to my floor to see me and drop off a gift. It really warmed my heart. A couple w...

He says he loses interest if we don't meet up quite often ,but I think it's because he doesn't love me enough. he's 17 so am I.he says he can only maintain the interest if he sees me and have a convo irl. And he asks me to let him kiss or touch me (boobs) but I feel like he only lusts me ,but we ...

A good friend of mine killed himself two days ago. We are all devastated. I absolutely can't think clearly, and I have no idea of what is the proper etiquette in this situation relative to informing other people about it. Should I tell about his death to other good friends of mine, who were 'just...

I need your tips and advice on how to be an authoritative parent without being too tough and controlling. What are some rules that are great for my future children?

I would like to tackle a key issue of all social interaction. The question is: Why are some people more boring while others are less boring? Thank you for your insights. Thank you for your answers.

I am twenty-three years old and I have this deeply-ingrained habit of always smiling or even grinning in the presence of others - I assume this was developed as a conflict-resolution mechanism as well as compensating for what I would later find out is autism. I'm very baby-faced for my age as wel...

So I have this one friend who I’ve helped out a lot — paying for dinners, covering random stuff, and even lending him money. The thing is, he never pays me back unless I directly ask, and when I do, it gets awkward like I’m being petty. I don’t usually set deadlines when I lend money, but I also ...

Please forgive me if this is the wrong location for this question, please correct me if this the wrong place to ask. I have neighbours who moved in last year into the house next to mine. It's a family which is I believe originally from a Middle Eastern country with 3 sons, one of whom (appears to...

What are better excuses to talk to classmates besides saying "do you know what the teacher is saying?" If someone criticizes you for talking to them, you could say I'm trying to help a friend find a study group/tutor or the teacher asked me to survey students so they can figure out what the clas...

It may sound ridiculous, but theres a waxing place, and theres a really pretty girl working there. She has this private salon. I went to wax my private areas there, the experience I got was shocking really. Needless to say, i got aroused and there was no way to hide it. After pulling the hair, s...

How to ask questions to my doctor (or the nurses or tecnicians) about my diagnosis, without being viewed as questioning their competency (without being viewed as second quesing them)? I have had a history with unfortunate incidents and people conjecture I have trust issues and reprehend me. I hav...

Context I am a college undergraduate in a school in New York. I have never dated anyone before and I am sort of an introverted person, however I do put myself out there and socialize. I get scared to get into relationships with people since my parents had a nasty divorce, so I tend to overthink p...

I recently came across the word or lifestyle whatever you wanna call it , POLYMATH . Sounds very interesting and something I would aspire to become. I went through few videos and articles about it and all result I got was basically summarized to "Read and implement".Understood that part pretty we...

I (25M) have trouble dealing with people in general and i'm very self concious about it, here are some of my troubles. when i see someone i know in the street (lets say we're walking in opposite directions towards each other) i don't know when to say hi or wave, should it be when we first make e...

So, we married around 1 year ago. I knew my spouse for 5-6 years before marriage but we were not in a relationship. We were friends and hence, I didn't know about his behaviour in all its details. What I am noticing after marriage is some repeated patterns: Whenever I am bringing up an issue whi...

I am studying at university, I get attached to people I meet quickly, including my professors. Some of them even have phone numbers, I don't call them, I just write them. If that doesn't work, I send an e-mail. If they don't respond, it turns into stress for me, and I start to hate that person. H...

Was there anything in Zelensky's behaviour that a normal u.s. american citizen might have found respectless, like the way he talked or any facial expression? Trump said he behaved respectless, but i can not see anything but deferrence and restraint in the way Zelensky behaved. I am not asking abo...

There are 2 reasons I am asking this question on this website( I beg you to please offer some advice): 1.I cry very much and feel deep sense of shame when I discuss these issues with a therapist and I am not anonymous there!! ( I never tell the therapist all of these things,it takes a lot of time...

I (31M) am a physician assistant. I volunteer with a humanitarian organization that frequently sends me abroad to treat patients in different countries. In this organization, I oftentimes work together with my dear friend and fellow physician assistant, who I usually call by her nickname, Angie (...

In our fast-paced world, finding time for in-depth discussions on complex subjects can be challenging. I'm exploring methods to facilitate meaningful conversations efficiently. One approach I'm considering involves using technology to simulate dialogues, allowing individuals to 'converse' with co...

I'm seventeen years old female. There was a twenty-two-year-old male who used his cell phone to took pictures of me running on a football field. I was so creeped out. I immediately walked up to him, confronted him, and told him to give me his phone. I found that he took not one, not two, not thre...

A young and attractive female colleague recently embarked on a new role as an assistant within a clinical company in Western Europe culture. She noted that there was only one male doctor on the staff, who also happened to be the big boss of the company. Although she has just started work and is v...

I live abroad and occasionally visit my home country to see family. However, my extended family is widely dispersed across multiple provinces, making it difficult to see everyone in one trip due to time and budget constraints. For example, during a recent visit, I prioritized seeing older relativ...

My brother in law started dating a woman about 3 years ago and I did my best to include her even though everyone felt she was narcissistic and annoying. I was warned by many people that she would stab me in the back and she did. We had our ranch name for over 20 years (husband's last name) and ...

My girlfriend and I have been living together for roughly 2 years. Our relationship is not a healthy one and I’m wanting to implement boundaries to help something’s be addressed. One of those boundaries I’d like to implement is her getting in front of the door when we are having a heated conver...

How can I deal with or avoid my family sneering at me when I am trying to explain food safety rules? Whenever I try to explain food safety rules I am met with contempt, ridicule and sneer. They make fun of me even showing me the cooking pans on top of the stove. I am worried about Thawing (we ne...

I have a 2-year-old child. Actually 2 years and 3 months. I was traveling to another city to work and study for an exam. I needed time to focus on my professional engineering PE license exam. I haven't seen my son for four months now, but I'm going to visit him in a couple of weeks. I know it's s...

I moved abroad in 2016 with my family back to my husband's home country (Ireland). At the time, I was only in contact with my mother and my aunt and had never met anyone on my paternal side before. Maybe it's the Irish thinking or the distance, but I found many long-lost relatives on both my moth...

The difference between me and my older brother is 7 years, i know not a small difference. Me and him were close in the young age, but as he entered puberty, sometimes days would pass without us talking to each other(we live in the same house). Time passed, we argued and fight, classic siblings th...