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dilemma! should I go on holiday with these friends?

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Me and a few of my friends are planning to travel to France for about 5 days from Scotland around Christmas time. It's my first time going that far away with my friends.

So far our little trip consists of just 4 people where there's two guys and two girls. Both of the guys have feelings for the another girl. Well all 4 of us are friends but then I'm just afraid I'll feel uneasy there. Of course the girl is gonna prefer one guy over another although she's really close with both of them.

I don't want to feel awkward between me and the other guy when we are forced to give the other two some personal space. I know I shouldn't feel like this because we are friends but I don't want him to feel like he is stuck with me just because she chose the other guy. You know?

I want to travel to France so badly though but I'm just scared I will end up not enjoying myself and wasted my money.

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Why would a girl wake me up at 3am in the morning and ask me to have coffee?

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She lives next door to me

Asked awakardly if I wanted to have coffee with her

I rejected her request politely

Felt bad since and today she's noticeably less friendly

What's going on?

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Confused by a girl at work

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So, a girl started at my workplace 2 months ago. We get along well - really friendly girl, always smiling etc, and as a bonus I find her physically attractive too. I like her, got her number last week and did some brief texting, but just about work related stuff.

We were chatting at work today and she told me how how another colleague was sort of attempting to set us up, saying how "lovely" I am. The girl responded, "as a friend". Ouch. It's a kick in the teeth, I'm friend-zoned, okay fair enough then...

But the confusing part of this is that physically we don't have the body language of two people who are just friends. We hugged, had hold of each others hands on more than one occasion when she said that her hands were cold, got physically close more than once, etc.

Why would she be so responsive to things like that if she just considers us friends? Surely she would just pull away/try to avoid it? She doesn't seem like a very flirty person by nature anyway, so I don't know. Part of me thinks I should just try and move on from this girl, but despite what's been said, I don't want to just give up.

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Is she interested?

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Went on a date with a girl I met online a few nights ago - the whole day or two before it I thought she was going to stand me up as her texts weren't very wordy and sometimes she didn't reply for a day. But she actually did show up and we had a really good time - there was no awkward silences, we had quite a lot to talk about.

She said to me in person as we said bye that she had a lovely time and would 'definitely want to do it again'.

I text her about an hour after the date just to say I had a great time - she replied she did too and that she would 'hopefully see me soon'.

Yesterday she was working so I didn't expect her to text me obviously but in the evening I didn't get any text and when I like someone I want to speak to them so I just sent her a 'how was your day' kind of text to which she replied. I sent her another text after that and she didn't respond (though I know she was going out with friends, fair play).

Today I've had nothing from her. I don't want to be the one to text her first again but I'm wondering if maybe she's not keen? Or am I just overthinking it and should get in contact
With her maybe tomorrow to ask for a follow up date?

I'm **** at these 'dating games' etc. when I feel a connection with someone I just want to speak to them and be with them again but I'm confused as to her signals.

Any ideas?

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On Whom

While the marriage was falling apart, I had advice from many people. I confess I had an impression that:
- 90% women had no useful if you were not being a whiney child or a ****.
- 90% of happily married men had no useful if you were not being a whiney child or a ****.
Unhappily married men could offer useful advice. I was left with the impression that a good marriage relies on the woman working hard (typically, raising kids, helping out round the house and not with holding sex) and the man not being useless (i.e. not doing any of that).

If the man is working hard and the woman is pretty good (i.e. only doing one of having a job, helping with housework or having sex), then it is a mediocre marriage.

It seems it is mainly on the woman. But that is the impression from people who have spoken to me. I am here to be corrected.

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It's normal to have set-backs, right?

I just wrote this post on another non-divorce-related forum, sorry for the cut and paste, but I don't think I can do it again :( :

So, I was doing pretty great in terms of the break up stuff. Oddly. lol But really, I was in a lot of ways feeling like my life was a whole lot better than when I was with him. And then the last three weeks or so all of this insane anger and hurt has come rushing back in. I'm not sure what's going on. I think it might be kind of normal??? Not sure, but maybe there's some adrenaline that gets you through the first few months, but then the reality sets in and there's no end to it and you lose momentum? Where I am now is nowhere near as dark as when I was really sad and wanting him to love me (oh, how pathetic I feel about that looking back, ugh), but I feel more anger than I ever would have thought possible. I've been telling him -- and ummmm, I have never even had thoughts like this about anyone before -- that I really wish he were dead, and I MEAN it. :o I think it's the only way I can see being free from him. I have to say, though, I'm not exactly proud of those feelings. And obviously, he is the father of my children and I would hate for them to lose their father, so in that sense I don't mean it.

So, he did this apesh*t crazy thing about three weeks ago. I knew he was lingering in the kitchen, outside my bedroom, for a lot of the night and kind of aware that he was wanting to talk to me. Finally at 11:30, I thought coast was clear and I popped out of my room to make the kids' lunches for school and he popped out of his room and grabbed me. Told me "looks like I have cancer." I felt KICKED in the stomach. My overrideing feeling was intense fear of being the only adult that my children could rely on, and then grief for what they would go through. Then he spent the next five hours crying on my shoulder (from across the room as I don't want to be physically near him) because he believes he has prostate cancer and (1) he will never be able to f*** the other woman; (2) he is planning on spending the night with her on thursday night and afraid that he won't be able to have a good time as he'll be worried about never being able to f*** her; and (3) worried that if she finds out, she will drop him like a hot potato. Over the course of the five hour break down, he tells me gems like, although they have spent on average two nights a week together (he comes home sometime between 7 and 11 am, so we're talking all night here) for the past six months or so, they have never kissed. They had, though, just made a breakthrough... she touched his arm a few days earlier. He thinks he is on the cusp of *something* with her. He hasn't been this happy in 25 years (yes, he said that sh*t to me!). And that he feels like he's cheating on her with me by having this conversation with me. While he was saying this crap, he was crying like the very worst possible thing had happened. I mean, I can't imagine that he'd be this upset if someone very close to him died. He was crying hysterically, punching things, thought he might have broken some bones in his hand. The only time I've ever seen someone this upset, it was ME. I hit walls and a table a couple of times and actually bruised my hand pretty bad when I was going through the worst of things with him a few months back.

So, anyhow, I'm sitting across the room just witnessing this. Looking at him and not feeling any empathy whatsoever, of course, wtf??? Seeing him feeling as bad as I can imagine a person feeling, and just thinking, wow, I think I dodged a bullet! lol This is not a person I want to be with! I certainly don't want to be with him if he's non-funtioning (he was convinced that he was pretty much never going to have another erection, lol) and a basket case, not to mention an *sshole. I mean, there was NOTHING attractive about this display! But I can't say that I felt great about how detached I felt. It really drove home the fact that I don't care about him anymore. :rolleyes: So much so that when I went into my room finally at 5 am and googled his test results and saw that he was just totally manufacturing this fear and there is NO reason to think he has cancer, I was pretty disappointed.

And ever since that night I have just been OFF. At first I thought it was kind of cool to see how unattractive he is as a person. Like wow, no sane person would want to be with him. I should consider myself lucky. But since then, I have felt bad about myself for being so cold (really could care less even when he's feeling as bad as a person could poss feel) and hateful (i.e., feeling disappointed that death was not imminent, lol) and so angry about all of the crappy stuff he said and also hurt at how completely over me and into her he is (I can't get over the idea that the person who knows me best in the world has pronounced me not good enough).
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So, I'm not crazy, right? lol I wish I could just feel like I did a month ago.

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Do breaks work?

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I've been with my boyfriend for 6 months now and am very much in love with him.
He stays at my uni house with me 3 nights a week and is therefore with me 4 days of the week, and I love his company, I really do, but recently I haven't been all that excited about seeing him!
So I suggested that we have a little break of 9 days while I go home for reading week so we have time to clear our heads.

But I'm scared that I'll go back to uni and feel the same way as before!

I really want this to work, and he does too, so I could do with some advise!!


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Waiting - too much of fantasy films or reality?

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It will be our 4th year anniversary of being together in a Long Distant relationship this month.

having been in a long distance relationship, we hardly see eachother. Seeing eachother even once in 3 month = we would consider lucky. Many of our friends are jelous of our relationship, considering us as the perfect example of a perfect couple.

I just turned 21, currently in final year studying biomedical sciences, aspiring to become a doctor. he is 21, turning 22 in a few months, not entered uni yet. He has done courses that are equivalent to A/levels as he came into the country late. He applied for university last year for engineering, had a conditional offer but did not make the entry requirements in summer.
I think that not entering uni is starting to get to him.
As asians, our parents have high expectations of the son in law / daughter in law to be. I.e. educated, decent, good family background etc.

I will be completing my undergrad degree this summer, and so will be classed as a graduate. Whereas, it will take him time to enter uni, start and finish the course he wishes to study. However, studying is not his forte. And he highly doubts the likelyhood of going uni and doing well.

Problem: he is comparing himself as someone that i don't deserve. He is asking for a break.. so he can sort himself out. He said he will come and propose, and ask my hand for marriage to my parents himself when he feels he is ready. And till then, has requested to stay apart.

He is adamant about his decision. Ive talked everything theough with him.. but he refuses to change his mind.

Is staying apart the right decision? Is waiting for (max) 4 years doable? Or is it too filmy

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How do I stop being so paranoid about this?

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So to cut a long story short, a few weeks back I posted a thread asking how I should handle a guy possibly liking me when I not only was not attracted to him, but found him a bit annoying in conversation (I know that sounds horrible and if I wasn't paranoid he liked me, I probably wouldn't take such issue with it). However, I was speaking from a highly paranoid POV, having little experience talking to guys as well as thinking from a worst case scenario perspective. The problem isn't so much I think I'm so damn desirable no guy can help but fancy me, I'm just someone who's always terrified about getting into an awkward situation.

Anyways, fast forward to now; I bought a ticket to this event hosted by the drama society that I was really looking forward to. This guy is also in the drama society so him going to was always a possibility but I didn't want to worry over something so stupid so I bought a ticket. Now today I've found out he is going and I've went over all the bad things that could happen as a result of this-
1. (Unlikely) Because I've kind of been avoiding talking to him (in the most polite way possible), he may ask why or want to catch up or something; this wouldn't be so bad except I'm going alone so I want to try and meet other people; last time I ended up trapped in a conversation (i.e. I felt too scared of being impolite to go and talk to someone else) I really didn't want to be in and wound up not meeting anyone else all evening.
2. (Highly unlikely) He tries to flirt or worse, dance with me (it's WW1 themed and part of the event is teaching people the sort of dances they used to do).
3. (Near impossible) Half the drama society now know I'm a bitch that ignores people.

As said, I am fully aware all of these scenarios are unlikely but I'm seriously considering not going on the fear karma may come back to bite me for being such a mean bitch in the first place. What do I do here?

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"I Don't like you making me wet all the time, it's just a biological reaction"

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So girls often say this, after you text them in a lecture or around family or whatever. It doesn't even have to be that dirty, simply suggestive (i'm certainly not talking about full on sexting!), but the fact THEY get horny is apparently always the guys fault! (even if you say you're in the middle of cooking or out too!)

So guys, is this fair? Girls, do you really believe it's a 'biological reaction' you don't want and have no control over?

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Do you swear in front of your gf/bf?

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My gf and I swear pretty regularly in our day to day conversation and I sometimes wonder if it's a bit much. I don't have zero tolerance to swearing but think it needs to be selectively and skilfully used to add meaning and humour. I'm not a fan of swearing like a trooper, or even like Gordon Ramsay.. I sometimes think that it would be best to just cut it out.

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He likes me but won't get off for stupid reasons

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Guy who used to go to my school is now at Uni and says he's "really tempted" to get off with me, doesn't want a relationship (neither do I) but he described his perfect girl and it's basically me.

However he won't do anything because we've known each other for so long, and I went to his school (apparently from my school are weird)... Any ideas of how I can persuade him otherwise, without being abusive of course?


He comes back next weekend so would be good if it could be before then.
Thanks :)

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Will it work? Is it worth it?

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My GF lives in France, i love in Wales. We met online (instagram), we have been texting and skyping for 4 months now and we are planning to meet next summer for the first time. Do you think it will work? I really like her, she is my princess❤️

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He said he wants to take it slow but he's not?

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Anon because I like keeping certain things about my private life unassociated with my username.

Anyway, so the full detailed story so far is I got with this guy at a club and slept with him. Initially assumed it would be a ONS yet we ended up getting on so well.

At the party a couple days later (first time we saw each other after the first night together), he told me he really liked me but wanted to take things slow. I was taken aback, seeing as even though he was asking to take it slow, this was the first time we'd seen each other since drunken sex. It was like it was suddenly a thing.

Then we had a good date a few days after that, I was on my time of month so he stayed round but no sex. So all is going swimmingly, until for reasons I'd rather not explain even if it is anon, I find out I can't have sex or do anything sexual at all for about 3 weeks. When I told him, he just said it was fine.

I saw him again on Halloween night last night. We flirted around, then I went out while he went to a different club night to me. When I left, I was like "see you later" and he kept asking (half joking) when later was i.e. when was he going to see me again. Later in the night, about 4am he texts me asking to come round and see me. So he literally came round, we chatted while eating drunk food then passed out in my bed because we were both so drunk. Then we spent half the day in bed talking this morning.

He's literally just asked me to go round again to watch a film with him and stay over even though he only left mine a few hours ago.

And sorry, is it just me or is that not taking it slow?

And I'm confused why. The only thing I can think of is that he did want to take it slow, but now he's discovered he wants to be around me so much it's proving rather difficult to do so. Does that sound about right? It's suddenly gone from a supposed ONS to staying at each others houses acting like a couple in quite literally 10 days. For the reason that we can't have sex for now, it means neither of us can have sex at all with anyone else.

I really like him, but the pace is getting a bit scary. Or does it sound like he could still want to take it slow but he just likes spending time with me? He sleeps holding/hugging/spooning me (his choice… nothing forced by me!), almost like he doesn't want to let me go or he likes me being in the bed with him or something.

When he left this morning, my friend smirked at me and said "we're betting on 2 weeks and you'll be official". So it's clearly obvious to all our friends too.

I guess my question is can anyone help me decipher what he's thinking. I don't know.

PS he hints that he talks to his housemates about me all the time - don't think he realises it.

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Developed feelings for best friend. Should I keep quiet?

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I have known my best friend for ten years and we always been very close. However he moved away when we were teenagers and so we have seen each other in person only a handful of times in recent years as a result. Over the years we have seen each other through relationships, bereavements etc and generally he has been a great confidant. It has always been platonic for me, though I knew there was attraction there for him at one point.

But towards the beginning of this year I literally woke up one morning and seemed to see him in a different light. I thought about some of the fools I had been dating in the past and realised this guy had possibly been here under my nose the whole time. However he has a girlfriend and as a result I have said nothing. I have also said nothing because I don't want to wreck the friendship.

At the moment I am living abroad and we keep in touch every week (mostly initiated by him). We send each other very long correspondences (like 1000 words or more usually) - in the last one he expressed his admiration for me as a person, said I was 'beautiful' in the passing and even seemed a little flirty (nothing too overt but this has never been the case before!). Overall there is a deep love and respect there and I do find myself wondering if at some point we should give a relationship a go. We should be in the same place at the same time again soon.

But what can I do realistically? Keep quiet, respect his relationship and simply get on with my life?

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