Hi there. I'm so sorry that you're feeling worried about your body. So, sounds like there are a few things you don't know or misunderstand about your anatomy. I'd like to give you a couple of pieces to read, then how about we meet back here and talk some more about any concerns or questions you stil...

Hi there! I wanted to just let you know that you don’t have to start a sexually exclusive relationship with anyone until or unless you want to. In other words, if something potentially exclusive comes your way, you get to only pursue it if that is actually something you want. You also have the optio...

A lot of what pleasure we feel from sexual activity -- be it alone or with a partner -- often tends to be about how into it we are: how excited, how relaxed, how open. What we're doing or not physically can often matter less when it comes to its physical impact and more when it comes to how we feel ...

Also poking back in to say that I don't think that if ENM options feel like a possibility this has to be about "replacing" someone. Here's the thing: it sounds like as of right now, the only person you're really getting physical touch with is one person. That's a lot for any of us to ask o...

Hi again, latte. You know, I feel like what we might want to do is to first start by talking about your concerns about pornography and your sexual life, since you have brought this up a few times now. How would you feel about us talking about that first? If that sounds okay to you, can you tell me s...

Hello again. :) I think there are a bunch of different ways to experience touch when a central person we usually have that with is, literally, out of reach. I'm just going to toss a bunch at you to see if any of them feel like a fit! You can: • ask friends for more touch than they're giving -- that ...

Thanks for filling in the details.

So, do you want to be back in contact with him? Do you want to be friends again? I can't get a sense of that from your posts.

Lyle. I'm so sorry that this happened to you again. However you feel about it is how you feel about it, and I don't think you're overreacting. Things like being deadnamed -- especially after we ask people not to do it -- not having our identity respected, and just generally being treated poorly hurt...

You know, it sounds to me like you might be a little hung up on the idea that masturbating, or doing so certain ways, is something that you have to like or should like. But they aren't. Generally if something optional just doesn't feel good to us we can and tend to just not do whatever that is. Jaco...

Hi there! I just need to remind you that if it's not legal in your area or at your age to be getting high via whatever way you're doing that, we ask users in the guidelines/use agreement not to post about it publicly here for your own safety as well as for our liability. If you really want to ask ab...

Hey there, ailel. :) I just wanted to follow up by leaving you a link here on the site that talks about these apps and how reliable they are: https://www.scarleteen.com/blog/heather_corinna/2013/12/03/lets_dial_down_some_maybe_ovulation_freakouts I can also add some more to what's there, by just let...

Okay, so with discord, how about you just step away from it right now for a bit then to give yourself that space? This was bad news. Being attached to what you wanted something to be that it wasn't in reality won't make it that thing. You should 500% not go back to this. This is not what healthy dat...

No one but you will know you blocked them, though. When someone blocks you, you don't know they have, you just know they aren't answering you. And when you have set a boundary with someone who won't abide by it, ignoring them is a very valid response. We have a piece I wrote on breakups a while back...

It sounds to me like you have every reason to expect this talk, and these changes, will be a positive experience for both of you!

I'm really glad you let you Mom in on what was going on, and I agree with her: while the way this person is behaving suggests you hurt her and this is the worst thing that ever happened to her, that's not the truth here. You haven't done anything wrong or hurtful here. Their behaviour is a reflectio...

Hi there, mayanna. I'm really glad you've found us. Before anything else, any kind of suicidal ideation -- feeling like you can't live anymore, and saying you wound hang yourself -- isn't something we can help you with here. We just don't have the resources and this just isn't the right space, a sem...

What Jacob said! Also, I'm very sorry this went this way, but I am also not very surprised. Honestly, so far it actually sounds like it's gone better than it certainly could have! It's hard to be the person to end something someone else wanted, for sure, and extra hard when something about the relat...

What sounds most likely to me (particularly since implantation bleeding someone is able to see is very rare, and honestly, were it not for the internet not even a term anyone would know about) is that you're having some spotting from the EC, a very common side effect. The only for-sure assurance som...

Before anything else, I just want to tell you that I was thinking about you this morning, just how impressed I am with how generally insightful and clearly thoughtful you are about and in your relationships, and also how good you seem at asking for help, something so many people have such a hard tim...

Trust your instincts. I think you can! And if tonight feels best, and you can have the support of your friend and your Mom, again, I trust your judgment.

I am afraid I need to peace all the way out for now, though. I'll be rooting for you!

I heave to head out of work for the day, I'm afraid, so I'll leave this response, but then you're probably going to be on your own for the night. I know you said your Mom doesn't expect you to be dating, but please: if things get bad tonight and she has a history of being a good Mom to you, let her ...

Back again. They might be, or they might ask any number of questions. I don't think this sounds like someone who, if you were to say, "Yes, yes you did do a few things, but those things are manipulative and coercive, so I don't feel like talking with you about them while you're actively engagin...

In the middle of doing some grant work, but just wanted to pop back in to agree with Amanda! I think this looks great, and agree that it's probably best to leave that one bit out. I agree with her that they might explain why it won't, or gaslight you -- like by telling you it's not bad, or it's only...

Oh my gosh, I actually feel like people who are not friends with exes are the red flag! I don't know what this is in reference to or is from, but if you're saying you have gotten this impression, I agree with you. I think people being able to be friends with their exes usually shows very positive, h...

Yea, a few days of dating and people saying they love you so much they're crying? Love takes time to build. This isn't love you two are feeling, it's just too soon for that, and love also feels nice and secure when people are sharing it, not desperate and high-drama. That's obsession, and in this ca...