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How to approach and talk to this girl in my spanish class?
Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago
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She's a freshman, I'm a sophomore. I need advice on this, I'm shy and so is she, she barely talks in class and so do I. She sits across the room, sometimes I notice her staring at me and when I stare back she looks away. And even when I look somewhere near her, I can still see her eyes lookin at me. I'm really shy when it comes to approaching girls, It's been 3 years since I had a girl. Sad, I know. I'm not bad looking at all, but it's my shyness that turns girls off. I need some advice on this. Thanks.
Is my girlfriend being rude?
Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago
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YESTERDAY, I asked my girlfriend if she had plans for this afternoon. She said "I don't think I do." So I asked her "I was gonna see if you wanted to come over and watch a movie with me." And she replied "I don't know, I'll see." Well...today went by...and she never texted or called me to let me know. WTF? Is she being rude, or should I not think anything about it? She is 18 and I am 22 btw.
I want this guy. It is not a question. :/..?
Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago
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How do I choose between a job and relationship?
Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago
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Here's the skinny: I have lived my whole life in one place, and then moved somewhere for grad school. My fiance and I have had a long-distance relationship for 5 years (8 hours apart, weekend visits about once a month). She has lived all over growing up and now has a stable job near her family. She has absolutely refused to move away from her family when it comes time for me to find a job. I'm about to get a PhD and want to make sure I take advantage of it. There are job opportunities around the country, but I have not really pursued them so that I can find something near home (we both are from the same area), even though it would be almost a step down from the work I have been doing. I recently found out that there is an opening basically with my name on that would greatly increase my skill set for the future, but it's here at my grad school. I am having to decide if it's worth staying here and working for another couple years with the hope I will be more marketable to get better jobs back home, or to move home without a job lined up so we can re-establish our relationship. Personally, I feel like I would benefit from keeping the job here, but my fiance has been with me for 5 years with the hope that I would be home, and I would feel terrible to lose her after all the loyalty she's shown me. I love her very much, but the career/relationship debate has been nagging us for several years now. Any advice? Thanks!
What does my ex want?
Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago
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Does my ex want me back? We broke up, during a few months before school ended, and it was pretty bad, we ignored each other. Towards the end we were pretty good, but after I asked her to drink with us, and we got into an argument, and argued, and I didn't call her until I sent her a text 3 months later to ask her how everything was. Which she ignored. So we never talked, until she recently got facebook, and she messaged me a few hours right after I added her, and she was trying to keep the conversation going. She was being friendly in the message, asking about me, and when I asked her what's up, she said she just wanted to say hi. And then we talked about stuff, and she brought up stuff from the past, that she remembered I was trying to be the chef, and if my hair was still the same color before. One of my friend who's a friend to her who didn't graduate cause she's 2 years younger, saw her, and they talked. And she said she really missed me, and was sorry about what she said to me, and so she asked my friend for my cell, and if I had text now. What does she really want? It's been a week and a half since I heard the story about her wanting my cell from my friend.
I'm anorexic and my ex best friend is super mad at me. what should I do?
Friends - 6 hours ago
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Girls how tall do you want a guy to be?
Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago
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We all know girls (at least in america) would almost always rather have a taller guy as a mate, and pretty much require they be at least their height, but my question is, is just around an inch and a half enough of a height difference? I mean for outgoing, hot girls that DO have options. I hate being just shy of 5'10" but always ALWAYS go for chicks that are like 5'8", meaning im an average height guy who likes girls quite a bit taller than average (although not runway model tall)... dunno those legs just kill me :) although 5'7" or 5'6" isnt a killer if it was the right girl, but im not sure girls are as forgiving in a guys height, for chicks in that height range, do you/can you find guys between 5'9" and 5'10" attractive? Would you rather date a guy that is 6 ft? 6'2" ?
Family Issues. Help? 10 Points for best answer...Sorry i'm skipping around a lot in my description.?
Family - 7 hours ago
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Ok so i am a 16 year old female and in the 11th grade. My parents have been married for 16 years also. So when i was in the sixth grade my dad called my sister and i upstairs. When we got there we saw my mom crying and i dad then told us that he had an affair with another woman about 5 years before an that we had another sister. I did not cry, my sister did. I thought that he was telling me, my mom, and my sister, but he was only telling us. He had told my mom when it happened. I immediately started to resent my mother. I just could and still can't understand how she can stay with him. It seems like since that day me and my mother have never been the same. I pretty my can't stand her. I just feel like she only wanted to stay with him to make us happy but i would much rather have them divorced and happy than together and arguing. My mother and i get in an argument seriously everyday and i has drained me mentally, and emotionally. When my dad hears her and i arguing he comes and starts yelling at me because he feels like i don't respect her. Everytime my dad goes to see my other sister; my mom gets worried and scared that he will have another affair with my sisters mom, and it makes me sick. He is always explaining to my mom that it is not my sisters fault so she has the right to see her father and also he does not have to pay child support. He always say "if i had to pay child support, we would not have this house and we would not be living the life we do because it would make us struggle even more." out of resentment i always take his side. But now i think i hate the man he has become because he is mean, has anger issues, and always thinks he right, and doesn't allow anyone to voice there opinions, but he swears up and down that he doesn't do that.. theres alot more to it but i don't feel like writing it....the only thing i want is for my mom to understand my feeling and for me to be able to talk to her about anything.
what do i do!? what do i do!?
Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago
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there is this guy i have been best friends with since the seventh grade, cody. we have secretly liked eachother these entire three years and we are now becoming a little flirty. we also have been hanging out at church functions and different things like that together. our friends joke around about how we belong together, and now he is finally asking me to the movies and stuff. everytime he asks im buisy but im thinking of hanging out with him over the thanksgiving break. ANY ADVICE? at all! about future relationship and/or first one on one date with him. anything you desire to type to me. it will help our a bunch. also, do i become completely flirty? will this ruin our friendship if it doesnt work out? AHHHH!
Girls, what do you think of this guy? (PICSSSS)?
Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago
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I really like this guy...he's really sweet and nice...absolutely hilarious...has the best personality...and my friends for the most part think he's really hot. I am just wondering out of pure curiosity what you girls think...I don't stalk him at all or anything lol...but I am just a little curious what you think...the pics on this photobucket are all that I have of him :(. http://s995.photobucket.com/albums/af78/laurr321/ there are several pictures on that photobucket you could scroll through if you want Thanks <333 Sorry I know I already asked this but it says it got delelted and I didn't have a chance to read the responses.

The 11-year-old mother

Posted Mon, Nov 02, 2009

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1. Posted by Wanda on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

wow i was playing with dolls at that age , and sex never even was thought of , i think she should put the baby up for adoption and be a kid again , very sad
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2. Posted by Acevntura on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Yikes!
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3. Posted by bgthompson3@rogers.com on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Typical.
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4. Posted by Wes--Freelancer on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

It's not a culture of motherhood it's a culture of uncontrolled breeding. Just because ignorance is traditional doesn't mean it should continue.
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5. Posted by Dee on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

It's sad to think that she has never really had a chance to be a teenager and enjoy things that young girls should enjoy. I can't believe that a 19 year old could not tell the difference between an 11 year old and a 15 year old.
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6. Posted by ClassicRocksy on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

How is it possible that an 11 year old can even marry?.... I realize these "other" countries & religions have their own rules & regulations but there has to be a limit somewhere. Even though the husband is 19, how can he be charged with having sex with his wife?... Makes absolutely no sense to me. I do agree with Wanda... the baby should be put up for adoption... the marriage annulled ... the girl back in school... the husband sentenced.. perhaps he'll think twice about assuming a young girls age... even if he thought she was 15.... still not old enough to be getting married & having babies.
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7. Posted by mikalamp on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

her 'new toy'... we're talking about a life here-NOT a new toy!! she should HAVE to give the baby up for adoption since she is just a child herself!!
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8. Posted by firebreather on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Why aren't the males receiving some kind of education and why aren't they held in check? Simply: male privilege permeates every culture in the world. It must be CRUSHED.
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9. Posted by Sarah on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

WTF?! That is just crazy!
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10. Posted by CLM on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

How the h*ll did this marriage take place? Didn't anyone ask the girl's age before the wedding...as for the child having a child, yes, her husband should go to prison...this is rape...consenting or not. An 11 year old child is not prepared for physical and mental outcomings of this type of relations
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11. Posted by Tanya C on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

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12. Posted by Bettes on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

So now they're going to put this guy in jail? WTF? HE should stay at home and teach his "wife" how to take care of the baby. So sad...
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13. Posted by zzanzzanzz on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Congrats!! Wish you luck with your baby. (someone's going to report me aren't they?) Most people you know...congragulate others when they get pregnant when it isn't rape.... Anyways, don't you think you guys are being a bit holier then thou? Just because YOUR culture thinks it's wrong, doesn't mean it inherently is. Romeo and Juliet wasn't exactly mature when they were doing their thing, and yet that story is hailed as....something worth studying in grade 10. Stop judging OTHER cultures using the completely different morals of your OWN.
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14. Posted by chp_lisa on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

If this tradition continues in this family, this little girl could be a grandmother at the age of 22. CRAZY!
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15. Posted by Donna on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

A 19 year old "wished" she was 15- he knew better. If "young Motherhood" is a tradition in their country/culture then, the little girl would have known the outcome of having sex and about being pregnant. I don't know what the law is in their area but if charges are being considered I think they should follow through. Poor kid- either one, Mom or Baby.
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16. Posted by chp_lisa on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

If this tradition continues in this family, this little girl could be a grandmother at the age of 22. CRAZY!
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17. Posted by J on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

I believe he's being charged for having sex with a minor, not for having sex with his wife. She was not his wife when she became pregnant.
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18. Posted by BenitoElDio on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Wow, nice Bulgaria, nice.! What a bunch of weirdo, come on people wake up, you should not always follow your parents and grand-parents's steps, espacialy these ones!!!!! LOOSERs
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19. Posted by Thumper on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

dont we call these 'men' pedophiles? i mean, didnt she look young? six years means he'll be out in three...
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20. Posted by loulou on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

wow
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21. Posted by It's me on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

When I was young there was a girl in my neighbourhood who had a baby at 12. The father was 40. They later married and by the time she was 15 she had 3 kids and was thoroughly enjoying being a wife and mother, and was doing a wonderful job of it too. Perhaps it's not right age-wise, but some people can handle responsibility when they have to. Many others can't of course, but you can't paint all 11 year olds with the same brush.
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22. Posted by Nicole on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

I am Bulgarian but giving birth at such a young age is conpletly against everything I believe in! Giving birth at 11 is defenitly not part of the religion! DON'T HATE ON BULGARIANS BECAUSE OF THIS ARTICLE!
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23. Posted by pasquayakj on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

thats sick where are the parents why didnt they notice she was pregnant
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24. Posted by Raven on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

wow... menses didn't even onset for me until I was 13.
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25. Posted by Raven on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

wow... menses didn't even onset for me until I was 13.
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26. Posted by Darryl on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

The welfare of the baby should be most important consideration here. Probably best solution is to let the father out of jail if he is willing to be a responsible care-giver, and provide support and training to the young mother. Sex education and laws may prevent future problems, but it is too late for these people.
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27. Posted by Michele on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Ya, lots of 15 yr old girls play in playgrounds......
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28. Posted by N C on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Its Bulgaria. A third-world country where this type of thing seems to be typical. Quite sad.
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29. Posted by Loosh on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Your understanding of where this girl comes from is laughable. You look at this problem as if she was an American child and wonder why she didn't get sex-ed in school. Research these gypsies more -- these people are barely on the periphery of society, even over there.
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30. Posted by N C on Tue, Nov 03, 2009

Its Bulgaria. A third-world country where this type of thing seems to be typical. Quite sad.
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