My (21F) boyfriend (20M) and I have been dating for 9 months. He and his friends play video games online pretty regularly. I don’t have a problem with him playing video games all the time since it’s his main social outlet and he has a lot of fun. With that being said, the one thing that makes me super uncomfortable is the fact that one of his friends’ moms plays video games with them regularly and has become a part of their friend group. She calls them by nicknames and joshes around with them as if she were their age. That part is a little weird for me, but I don’t think I would give it much mind if it were just that. What weirds me out is the fact that she makes it a point to get into the music that they listen to, travels to see concerts with them, and attends parties and other social outings with their group of friends. I have told him in the past that I think it’s odd behavior and am surprised that it’s not uncomfortable for him (a college student) to be hanging out with someon...

Like the title says, I have self-esteem issues that comes along with my depression. It's gotten a lot better recently, but I'm finding myself scared to be in relationships because of it. I feel like I'm just too unattractive, too introverted, too awkward, too boring, etc. I just moved into college and when I compare myself to the other, more attractive guys here, I just get discouraged. I've been in plenty of relationships before, and my exes have told me that I'm very attractive and that I was a good boyfriend, but I feel like I wasn't acting like how a good boyfriend should act? I was just very awkward in terms of physical contact and I felt like I was very boring to talk to. So while it would be nice to start a relationship up again, I feel like I'm just too lame for one, and I guess not deserving of one? The obvious answer is to start seeing a therapist and get medicated for my depression, which I am working on doing soon, but I still just feel like I...

I (19M) have a best friend (19F) who is moving away tomorrow and I'm trying to process things emotionally. We've been friends since elementary school (for around 10 years or so) She means a lot to me and her moving away is going to take me a long time to process. This is a friend who has helped me through thick and thin. I had no friends in elementary school and she was the only one who was a real friend to me. She's helped me through so much—she helped me come to terms with being transgender (I'm a trans guy) and with being bisexual. She's helped me through a bad home life and through having transphobic/homophobic parents. She's given me hope when I lost all hope. I struggle with depression and anxiety and she's always been there for me. She is my only friend that I have and I care about her very much. I am happy knowing that she is doing what she wants to do in life. Thank you to everyone who read this. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can cop...

we were together for about two months before we broke up for a while. since, we’ve gotten back together and it’s been almost a year. it’s an amazing, healthy, and happy relationship now, but before we broke up it wasn’t, and the farther away from it we get the more i look back at it and resent him a little. i asked him out in high school because i liked him a lot, and he agreed and we started a relationship. he never paid attention to me, so everyday i’d be just watching him have fun and mess around with everyone in class and never really give me the time of day unless he had to. if i ever asked him about it he told me he was going through a hard time so he was being distant to people, when i was clearly the only one he was being distant with. he rarely texted me and if he did he would barely respond. we would plan dates and then day-of he’d bail. the two dates we went on were only 3 hours long, and the last one we had our first kiss. it was my first kiss ever so at the time it meant...

My ex broke things off in a really harsh way. I was a mess and completely heartbroken. It took a really long time for me to get over it. Recently, my texted me out of the blue asking to talk. I never responded because I didn't think anything good would come of it. He moved to another country to for grad school, so I doubt he'd be asking to get back together, but part of me is going crazy wondering what he wanted to talk about and kicking myself for not responding, but the other part of me knows I can't get sucked back into that and I need to just let him/it go, no matter how much I care for him. Do you guys have any advice? tl;dr: My ex who broke my heart contacted me after moving to another country and I didn't respond. Submitted September 08, 2019 at 11:53PM My ex broke things off in a really harsh way. I was a mess and completely heartbroken. It took a really long time for me to get over it.Recently, my texted me out of the blue asking to talk. I never resp...

Throwaway, also on mobile, yada yada. We’ll call my girlfriend A. A and I moved in together a couple weeks ago after dating for almost 2 years. She has a 100lb dog and a cat. Well behaved, I loved them, and A is typically a responsible and amazing pet owner. The issue I’m posting about is COMPLETELY out of character and I’m so mad I literally don’t know what to do next. I’m pet sitting for 2 weeks and staying at the persons house, which started last night. A got off work around 6, went home to feed the pets and walk the dog, then went to drink at a friend’s house around 7. She got too drunk and sent me a text at 3AM saying she was staying there - totally fine, obviously that’s better than driving drunk. My phone didn’t charge over night and my charger wasn’t working this morning, so around 3PM today, I headed back to our place to get a charger and some other things. In the car, my charger miraculously starts working and I can get my phone to turn on, so I call A and tell her I’m he...

My boyfriend and I have been dating for over a year. He had been asking me to move in since four months of dating, but I started moving in in July. I'm still in the process of transferring things over from my parents. My boyfriend's roommate is also one of his best friends and lives primarily in the basement. The home is owned by my boyfriend. I've noticed that the roommate leaves messes and doesn't clean at all. My boyfriend has complained about this, but I happily clean the house. My boyfriend's roommate has been dating his girlfriend for around 4 months. Over this period, they have had explosive fights...one of which landed him in the ER. They drink frequently and are sometimes up into the morning. The drinking is no problem, but the fights that follow and the mess is not okay. My boyfriend received a text message from his roommate asking if his girlfriend can move in because her current roommate is moving out and otherwise she will have to move back home. He s...