You don't need your mother for this, but it sounds to me like you actually want her in it, ideally. I guess in a nutshell, yeah. On the one hand, I'm thinking there will come a time when I'll deal with taking decisions at the doctor's without parental help, and maybe that time is supposed to have c...

Thank you so much. Yes it reassures me a lot about how such a visit goes. What I meant about not being able to go alone is a combination of things that don't, when I think of it, actually prevent me to go alone. It's just I wish to go to the same doctor I've been a patient to, and already prescribed...

Thank you. This is at least very close to what it boils down to, but I'm afraid there may be very important subtle ways in which this was too synthetic to mirror the real situation. Let me explain what I mean point by point. I don't feel comfortable using condoms. Really, I don't. I'm not sure how t...

So I guess I'm in a very complicated situation that goes in several directions at a time, but as might be unusual, what pushed me to ask for advice regards condom use. I am still a virgin but I have a boyfriend of a year and a half now (I'm midway from 16 to 17) and I've thought about sex since befo...