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I am having trouble researching the difference between different titles and careers, they all seem to have different definitions in different places, and mingle together. I know what my skills are and I know what I want to do- I just don't know what it's called.

I'm currently going to school for two majors, side by side: New Media & Communications, and Business Administrations.

I want to use my digital imaging and advertising designing skills, but I also want to use my customer service and business skills. I want to work with Marketing, but I also want to work with Public Relations. I want to handle business accounts and face creative problem solving and plan events, but I also want to design the materials I am promoting for those events. Can these two things be meshed together under one title, and what would that title be? I'm great at, say, coming up with a concept for an advertising campaign, creating the campaign designs, AND promoting it, as opposed to doing either of those things.

I'm very confused! Essentially I am in a position with open doors right now in which I can mold my own title and career. It is not that I'm "looking" for a job opening, I've already created one and begun to gain experience, and I simply do not understand yet what it is. At first I thought it should be called "Media Marketing Consultant" because that ties into communications, but it didn't scream enough "public relations" to me, and I simply can't stick a "PR" in there.

There has got to be a title that fits this skill set?

Usually I don't crave anything but chocolate, and I have a bad habit of eating chocolate at night, just a little, before bed (I get a lot of walking excersize so I haven't been affected too much), but lately I've been craving Green Beans. I can eat an entire, warmed up, can of them, with butter. I heard that when you crave specific things, it means your body is needing something. What could I be missing? What's so special about Green Beans? (if it helps, I've had a few cans of corn for midnight snacks too.... just not nearly as many as the green beans!)

I was in a relationship for three years at a very young age, so when I met this man I'm inlove with now, and a year passed and we have gone through so much and are still so inlove, this thought, these dreams, these urges and everything are so overwhelming that I wonder. He has the same urges because he had once been engaged before and was once expecting a child. So he had already mentally prepared to grow up, very fast. This happened when he was 18. He is going on 22 now. He still has to mature a lot, but he as well as myself, have come a long way in our own lives in the single year we have been with each other. I am 18 right now. I will soon be finishing my first semester of college.

My mother graduated college six months pregnant with me, at 20, and had me by 21.

I'm not saying I want to follow in her footsteps exactly, but I have gone my entire teenage years learning from her mistakes, her stories, and going through so much more than she did and she watched me grow into a young lady she is proud of. She has mixed feelings about this, as do I.

The man I love will be 22 next year shortly before I turn 19.

My plan, if I were to follow through with it, would be to wait until exactly one year from now, once I am 19 1/2, to concieve our baby. We would get married around his 23'rd birthday or sometime around my 19th, and I would finish college at six months pregnant on my 20th birthday. I would have the baby A few months later, a college graduate at 20 years old.

Now this would only go through if he and I can still be together and in love and get through our problems just fine for the next year, and still get married and have completed other goals, such as saving money, hopefully putting a down payment on a house sometime next year, and in almost two years from now this would all set into motion.

Is this a horrible mistake? He and I do have many problems, but we know we must take the right steps to get through them, like counciling, and plain old growing up, to get to where we want to be. I think we can do it, but I know it will be hard.

Do you think taking this next year to grow together and learn about each other, without even getting married for most of that time, and taking this time to finish school and complete our near-future goals... do you think that's enough? I know already, with experience with children and seeing his (he helped an ex raise a baby for six months and he still has seen her, two years old now), that we would both make amazing parents.

The dream, the images in my head of it, thinking about it seeing it everywhere... I know part of it is just hormones, but honestly, if I still feel deep down inside that this is the right thing to do, a year from now, do you think I've thought this through enough?

I'm looking for advice from teen mothers and those who have gotten married young. My mother has married three times and that part also scares me as well.

Please advice?

So I was with this man, whom I grew to love a great deal, for nine months. The last few months of it were filled with financial stress, the mistake of living together, jealousy turning into emotional abuse on both ends, and some actual physical abuse too. I live on my own now and I LOVE it but he's still in my life and I'm not sure what to think or expect now. He has made a few changes lately to control his behavior:

1. He's admitted and been open about some reasons behind the behavior when we were together

2. He calls me to apologize after he's done something hurtful or argued with me on the phone

3. He's been letting his sadness emotion out instead of his anger, and he hasn't been physically abusive in almost a month; his self control has improved a great deal.

4. He wants to be my friend and be there for me, and he's trying to be compassionate and understanding when I want my space, as opposed to the controlling man he was before.

Yet, still, because we are both stressed out (which will never go away I know, life is stressful!) when we get together half the time (which is only every two or three days!) we end up arguing at least a little bit and it gets very tiring.

Is there any use to continue being friends with him? We are both sort of holding onto the idea that maybe we can be together when we both grow up a little bit and learn to control ourselves and better ourselves a little more. There was more to the relationship problems on an entirely different level.... So should I remember that also, and remind myself, that its never going to be more than a friendship?

What would you do? Part of me wants to move on entirely, but a large part of me just can't drop it like that- he's a part of my family now and I am his, and he's just done so much just on his part to make things more peaceful.

Bottom line: we are both extremely unstable people and he has issues so deep that I don't think he will ever fully get past them.

Also the bottom line: we love each other enough to still hold onto the dream that some day, some how, we will have a family together and all will be as we always wanted.

How am I to have this friendship? Am I not doing it properly? Is their not even any use?

Please let me know what you would do in this situation....

So, I am babysitting a cat for a friend. I have had her about a month and discovered she was pregnant (swollen abdoman, meowing more, more affectionate, picky and hungry when it comes to food) and she soon gave birth. She is fairly young and this is her third litter. One was born a stillborn, another didn't make it through the night. Three were left healthy

One of the three isn't so healthy though. It cries constantly, doesn't stop moving, and is skinnier than the others. I have no idea what caused the other kitten to not make it through the night, but I don't think it was crying like this one. This crying, smaller kitten though, has made it four days so far.

So, I assumed (after looking online and talking to a friend who's been through this) that she is malnourished for some reason. I panicked, and tried a few things. I tried holding her up to the mother's nipple for hours on end, and although she clawed violently like she really wanted to find one and to eat, she never latched onto the nipple. Jaw problems were out, because she could yawn and cry. Still, she would not latch on. Once or twice I got her to get it into her mouth and gulp, but other than that... no luck. It's been a few hours now with her acting this way and I feel right now is critical.

Plan two, I got a premature baby bottle and some lactose-free formula. I warmed it, gave her a few drops at a time, and she seems to do okay with that. I've tried it three times thusfar- the second time, she actually started sucking/gulping/swallowing and all was well- she was eating! The other two times, she just let the milk flow down into her mouth, gulped a couple times, but continued crying almost to a rhythm.

So, when she started to lay still and looked like she was napping, I put her down. And this is where I am. She's continued to crawl around by her mother but hasn't cried since I fed her last.

Please tell me what you think, anything is welcome.

Any idea why she could be so... malnourished? Why she's so skinny and crying so much?

The man I love dearly and have been involved with for seven months has been getting worse and worse, although I have seen improvements and so I am not giving up. We argue so much, which is why we are not technically dating anymore. We share responsibility for an apartment and I love living with him- most of the time. Sometimes, he gets violent. He kicked in my bedroom door once, and he likes to get in my face and pin me against the wall. He's broken a few pieces of furniture.

He's never hit me, however, and he's had his buddies stay sometimes or come over when he's had a bad day, to make sure they "knock him out" before he is able to scare me again. He knows it's not okay.

He shared with me recently that he once had a girlfriend who beat him severely on a regular basis, and he never stood up for himself until her father gave him a bus ride home (he had nowhere to go, so he stuck around) and this happened for several months. He has had other bad experiences, and thus acts them out now that he is safe himself.

So, in other words, we are not "together" because he is unstable (and I have my problems too, like trust and dependancy) and he asked me to help him. Sometimes, recently, he is able to stop himself before getting out of control.

The thing is, I love him more and more each day and I want to have children with him some day- he is so amazing to me, better than the crappy guys I've been with before. But there is no way I want to have children with somebody so unstable.

Is there any hope? I don't want to just be f*ck buddie/roommates with somebody I love, who is sometimes a little abusive, if there is no hope if it is not going anywhere. He's cried to me so many times, and to his family, out of guilt for treating me this way.

What can I do to help him? He's been to councilors and done much in the past, because he used to have worse problems, and he doesn't think a councilor will help.

What do you think?? I just want to be as happy with him as I used to be before all of this drama. I want to be able to trust him and feel safe enough with him to have a family some day...

I have been off and on with the man that I love for 7 months. Some time ago, we decided to talk about marriage and kids, just thinking futuristically, because we love eachother and have been through alot. Now, we werent thinking any time soon, but when I get out of college I'd like to have children. He and I were doing great, but he started to have anger problems so we broke up, several times, so he could work on himself and his own problems. Currently, we share an apartment together. We decided to not commit in a relationship, because neither of us are 100% stable, but to still have sex together and to not be with anybody else, to work on our relationship and try to figure it out down the road. We still share the same goals and dreams. He's done a lot for me, and although we are still not "dating" he still understands why I get jealous and I understand why he does. Essentially, we are still in a form of a relationship.

Now, I know for a fact he is not having sex with anybody else. But I know he is hiding something. He is just not being 100% honest about his feelings, and because we have been fighting alot, I understand why he is unsure of his feelings. Either way, the last few days have been good- he has done a lot for me, and likewise. Things were looking up.

Until I decided to do something I shouldn't have. He left for a few days to go visit family, and left his cell phone here. I have major trust issues from my past, and he knows this, but he still wont forgive me for looking through his phone. Besides the point though, I found naked pictures of somebody.

Now, that is still wrong, even though he and I are not technically "committed to eachother" because we still agreed to work on our relationship and not see other people.

I spoke to his cousin, who told me, "I know he's not having sex with anybody else. But he's not being completely honest with you about some things."

And thats where I am.

He will be back in a few days, and I betrayed him by looking through his phone. I discovered that he betrayed me, by having pictures of another woman. Not only that, but I saw he was telling an ex of his that he missed her. And, his cousin admittted hes not being 100% honest with me.

Should I tell him, he needs to either commit to me 100%, or not at all? That is what I feel like I deserve, but we aren't together because we are not stable. So would that ultimatum not be fair?

I am so confused, I don't know how to handle this situation.