I got in touch with my college and am waiting for a reply on it. My mom was talking to me a little bit later today and we were talking about her art and she started crying because she's having trouble selling it and was talking about how low her self esteem is. And I tried to tell her thats somethin...

The letter sounds like a good place to start. However this morning things have gotten really bad again, she is still really irritated at me, now because I am going to be going to explore a greenhouse with my older brother. She has been really negative about every topic I brought up this morning. But...

Thanks for the response! I haven't had a talk with her yet, our talks about stuff like that usually gets ugly. I get really irritable with her during them because she has a way of phrasing things that is in the form of making assumptions and starting sentences with "well you don't like such and...

Hi there! I've been reading around the site looking for a story close enough to mine, and read the 'parental control' article (super enlightening thank you!), but I think I need some personalized wisdom here. I'd like to say first I'm 19, a girl, currently going to a technical college, which my pare...

Yeah I definitely have a history of being too hard on myself overall in life as well, which is a goal of 2015; be nicer to myself. I keep beating myself up about all the times I got annoyed at him, or was stand offish for no reason. But I am starting to realize that none of that matters, it is past ...

That sounds like it would help, I asked my good friend to come over and crochet with me tomorrow, I don't really have very many friends, but I have found that reading is really helping, I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series and it helps a lot because its a world that I can fall into and just be awa...

Today I feel anxious about all the thoughts I have been having, I feel this constant sickening anxiety, especially every time I think about when we were talking-breaking up- and his face and how he gave me a hug before I left. It feels like giant hole is in my chest and I don't know what I do to cop...

I am letting myself cry when the waves hit me I guess. I talk to my mom about it when the hurt feels to powerful to keep in. I keep replaying things in my head; times when I was a bad girlfriend, when I was good to him, when things felt magical. It hurts so bad it makes me nauseous, and I hope if I ...

That helps so much to hear. Especially the part about your best friend. That is exactly what I hope this becomes, and I think it has great potential to, like you said, since we both care about each other. This was my first real boyfriend and my first real break up, and the first time that I have eve...

Yes we do still get to be friends, I am so so so happy about that. When I got home I sent him a text thanking him for handling all of this the way he did and that he will always be one of my closest best friends. And he responded saying I will be one of his too and to just try and feel better. I am ...

Hey thanks for replying It went better than I ever could have imagined. And yet I feel really horrible. He met me and I was crying and I said Im breaking up with you, and he just hugged me and was telling me its okay and that he kind of figured. He was comforting me because I was a complete wreck, I...

So I have been in a relationship with this guy for a little over a year. When we first started to be friends the lines quickly started to blur and I guess neither of us really verbally said we are now dating we kind of just were suddenly kissing holding hands and acting like we were dating. I regret...