hi. i just wanted to start off this post by saying thank you to the team of scarleteen for always helping us out when we need it, even the uncomfortable questions and themes that need to be discussed. i’m sure it might be a lot sometimes. so thank you for caring enough about the wellbeing of people ...

He talks a lot regularly but during sex he’s really quiet. It makes me feel like he feels obligated to do it with me. I wanted to talk to him but I don’t know how to bring it up. I guess I just feel kind of embarrassed about it

Well it doesn’t feel natural. We’ve only had sex twice and we’ve done other sexual things before that weren’t awkward. When we talk about it over the phone it feels natural and romantic. But when we’re having sex it’s like he is trying hard to impress me or whatever when he doesn’t have to. He alrea...

Okay. Thank you. Another question. Sex is really. REALLY. REALLY awkward. It feels good but it’s so awkward. We have been together for quite some time now and he is my best friend in the whole world, so I wasn’t expecting us to feel awkward. He makes the experience very loving and caring and whatnot...

My boyfriend and I recently started having sex. We’re both STD/STI free. About a week ago we had unprotected sex (I’m not pregnant, I’ve had a period since) and we used the withdrawal method. We absolutely HATED the risk and danger that came along with it, but we felt closer when he didn’t wear a co...

Update: we’ve talked and said our apologies. We resolved it but we’re having trouble finding ways to prevent these arguments in the future.

Arguments for us usually start as him not thinking something completely through. Or it could be me not understanding his point of view. I’ll ask him why he did what he did and if he understood the harm that it caused. He’ll say yes and we’ll let it go, but the fight starts because he’ll go and do th...

I think that they wont trust us to be alone unless they’re filled in on what’s happening. I said before that his mom and dad are about 15 years older than mine (and many parents of people my age, he was adopted when they were already older) so she feels like she wants to be in the know so she doesn’...

Well, let me start by saying that I love my boyfriend. He is romantic, loving, he would never cheat on me, and he makes me very happy. I’ve asked about him before as well. Well, now we’re having a new issue. We hardly get to spend any time together. We’re extremely unlucky and for multiple reasons w...

I’m worried they’ll find out that we’ve had different types of sex in the past. Or that when I tell them that we’ve actually been dating since we were 15 rather than just a few months ago they’ll never let me see him again or they won’t trust him for lying to them. I dont want them to lose their tru...

I have no clue how to talk to them without making things awkward or weird or breaking their trust in me.

They will just find excuses for stopping ys from being together. For example, we tried to go out to breakfast at our local diner Saturday morning. Which is a very regular date that poses no threats to my virginity or his. But his parents decided that he couldn't go (or rather, they refused to bring ...

The problem with them is that they love us being together, but they just make it weird when we want to be alone. They want us to be open and public with them about everything we do when we rightfully want to keep our relationship private and between us. His parents are the same way. We have tried LI...

Hello. My boyfriend and I are in love, truly. He, (18 Male) I (18, Female) have been through so much together in the three years that we've been dating (more than I can type here, but trust me, its been a lot). We're going to colleges next to each other and we were each others first sexual experienc...