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I work at a college newspaper, my boyfriend also works there. We both started as news writers a year ago.

This fall I had a difficult semester, I was dealing with severe depression and anxiety and was in two car accidents. I kept working and making my quota of news stories each week, but I was far from a perfect employee or journalist. At the end of the semester my boyfriend was promoted to an editor position, and I took a job as stringer (a news writer with no quota) so that I could do something different after three semesters of the same job. I now work as an lesser type of editor on the team that does upkeep on the website the university publishes student media on. These are all paid, jobs by the way.

My boyfriend and I were talking about my awful semester and how angry I am because it feels like no matter how hard I try I kept failing. The editor wouldn't give me "big" stories because she didn't trust me.

He said that he got the editor position because he's a good journalist, better than I am.

And it kills me.

I think we are both equally good. But we are different. I pitch stories no one has done before. I can pick up stories that are outside my beat with short notice and produce good product. I have very few sources that I am not on good terms with, even after printing unfavorable pieces about them.

I believe that my boyfriend is a great journalist, but I cannot bear for him to think of us on unequal terms. I just had a bad semester. How do I prove to him I am just as good? Or how do I stop caring about this?

I have had my g. Rosea for about 8 months now, it's been six months since her last molt (confirmed female)The last ccouple of weeks I suspected she was in premolt again.

Today while I was out my step mom noticed her on her back (molting i assume) and flipped her back over. My spider has since been fiddling around with her substrate and hasn't attempted to flip over again.

I know it's dangerous to the spider to move them during molting, and I should have educated my family about this, they thought they were helping. Will she be olay?

I like a guy who I've known for years. I want to date him, to be his girl. He treats me differently than his friends, like I'm on an island, and his friends and possible girlfriends are all on the mainland of his life. I think I'm going to just try to get over him.

We grew up together and dated for a little while about three years ago, but broke up (my choice). Since then we've been good friends. And sometimes during the times when neither of us is dating anyone else we've kissed.

I asked him last week why our lives always ended up like that, with us coming back to each other. And he said "because I always like you"

But if he always likes me why can't I be included among other possible ggirlfriends?

I have a very close friend who had lead me to believe that we believed the same things in regards to religion, but upon closer discussion he said some things that were very inconsistent with one another.

I was upset because I felt I'd been lied to. And because I so desperately wanted to be like minded on the subject of religion with him. Because I was upset I called out his inconsistencies in a very rude way. I have apologized, a lot.

How else can I make it better?

He liked me and I liked him.

We started dating, I got scared and ended it, then we got back together and two months later after a long fight I ended it again. This week we got back together.

When I'm with him I feel like I have to watch what I say and do because if I choose friends over him, or choose to go to bed early instead of hang out he takes it as a personal offense. I constantly feel like I am not showing him enough attention, and he says he is very afraid that I will get mad and leave again.

He likes me a lot, always wants to hang out. I like him too. While we were broken up I missed him. But our relationship stresses me out. I want freedom, but I don't want to break his heart again.

I'm just confused, what should I do?

My family growing up consisted of my mom, dad, two sisters and brother. All four of us were my moms, and only I, the youngest was my dads. My dad treated the others like his own, as their father was not involved much, but he always showed great favortism towards me, his only genetic daughter.

Over the years his favortism ruined my relationships with my brother and sisters. They constantly reminded me of my faults, picking on me in a way that they didnt pick on each other. I find myself constantly seeking their approval, feeling like they didnt like me, and always defensive of my choices in life. How can I repair my relationships with them? Why do you think they have never shown me thier approval?

I've been in a relationship for about a year, we're both seniors in high school. In June my boyfriend is moving to Austin (we're from Houston) with his band, and I'm going to school in Louisiana in August. I love him very much, and he loves me. We are two very different people and we love that about each other. But our goals in life are different. I want to pursue a degree in advertising, and he wants to make it big in the music industry. His plan if his band can't sell any music is start a drum school, something he already has family support for starting up. We're probably not meant to get married, but we love each other, and he's my best friend.

The wise choice, given the upcoming life changes would be to break up.

The other option would be to attempt to stay together, long distance.

How do I go about making this decision? should I quit now, or fight to be with someone I truly love?

What signs in our relationship could I look for that would hint at the real answer?

Many people believe that Christianity is about feeling guilty for sin and being hateful to non beleivers and trying to be perfect and condemning others, when it is really about the fact that we arent perfect and God became human and died so that we dont have to be perfect to live eternally with him. People miss the message because christians dont always live out their faith, myself included and i find this very sad.

I'm going to an open call at this reputable modeling agency/school in Houston TX, I've been photographed before, but I don't own the rights to any of these photos. Is there any chance, assuming i'm great at modeling and would be a perfect candidate to sign with them that hey would contract me before making me go to their 1000 dollar classes?

i lose things all the time. and my parents say the only solution is to carry a purse, which I despise. I dislike carrying a purse for many reasons, one I don't have the money for a stylish one, two I am a student and a purse along with my school bag and gym bag seems like a "bag lady" type thing to do, three I have lost things even when I do carry a purse!

and that last reason is why I am so infuriated! I have carried a purse before, AND I STILL LOST THINGS. so obviously this is not the solution.

is there something fundamentally wrong with me , because I can't keep up with my stuff?

I have medium blonde, thinnish, fine hair. It is nearly to my elbows in length, with long thin fringe(bangs) in the front and a side part. I NEED a change, but layers do not work because my hair is so thin.

I myself, *

I am a high school student,

I love to cook (my hair must always be tied back because it is always falling everywhere)

I run cross country and track,

I was recently an exchange student in europe for a year,

I like to play music,

My personal style is feminine but slightly edgy. I am a bit quirky.

Can y'all find a hairstyle that matches me?

I'm 16, I have a boyfriend but I am from the US and he is from Denmark, I leave here in july. I dont expect our relationship to end up in marriage (we are really young), we have decided to try long distance though.

Anyway, I have always seen myself being married young. Always, like being married from the years of 18-26. Anyone else see this for themselves? Anyone married young and have had a successful marriage?

I speak nearly fluent in Spanish, fluent Danish, and English is my mother tongue. I'm 16 years old. I moved to Denmark 5 months ago and just passed a Danish fluency test. Everyone on here tells me I have the language ear (which to me sounds like a disease). I want to use this skill. What can I do to foster this? I learn languages very fast and I speak them without a strong accent. Should I just start studying more? which languages would be the best to learn next? I didn't know I could do this until I didn't have a choice, it was learn the language or be an outsider.

So, I'm an exchange student in Denmark, and the culture is still very new to me. I'm form the U.S.

What does a kiss mean in Denmark?

In the states you can kiss and kiss all you want and your partner will not expect something more unless you stick your hands down his pants or something. (teenagers! i'm 16)

I was at a Gymnasium fest last weekend, and ended up making out (you know, tongue kissing) with this guy who from what I hear is used to getting any girl he wants. We only kissed, and I was certainly not acting like I wanted to go have sex. But then today at school another girl said "why would you kiss him if you wouldn't have sex with him?"

So what does a kiss mean here? did i just promise my virginity to some dude I thought was hot at a party?

Someone who is Danish, or who also has lived there please answer.

I'm an exchange student in Denmark, I was asked to prepare a typical Texas dinner. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas but I can't call my momma and ask her for help. Here there is no fresh jalapenos, only in cans and there is no catfish or okra to fry and no way to get a good brisket. Does anyone know a good southern/texas recipe that i could make here? With simple ingredients that I would be able to find?

I'm an exchange student in Denmark, from the U.S. I made my host family two loaves of a really moist (and sweet) honey wheat bread. And they kept asking me what are we supposed to eat this with? And what time of the day is this bread (as in to eat it)? things that I have no idea about because in the US bread is not so important its just bread, and i had only made this a few times before back in the US as gifts for people around the holidays, , we, just like them buy our bread most of the time. SO what should I tell these bread-loving Danes (they eat bread alllll the time here) because I lack the finesse to explain honey bread? normally I'd just eat it with jam or peanut butter, but they had it for lunch with meat and cheese (also good). Can you teach me about bread?

OK. I have been running for three years. I love to run, whenever I feel happy I want to run, when I am nervous, anxious, anything, running is my solution. but lately I've been dreading racing. I always start well and run my first mile perfectly on pace (3200) but then I lose my grip and I slow and I end up finishing last. I hate being slow, I can't get out of my head, I can't just pick the pace back up. I don't know what's wrong with me. my coach says I need to fight my own demons, but they keep winning. Help?

People are the same everywhere

Don't let anyone tell you different.

We don’t speak in the same tongues,

We don’t celebrate the same traditions,

But the Earth is round

And we stand on the same ground.

We feel the same love, the same ache

The same hurt, the same joy.

The only difference is the place

Where we each run our race.

Everyone knows the sting when someone trips you on your way,

Everyone knows the happiness when the One you love feels the same,

The only difference is the color of their skin,

And the part of the world they're in.

Perhaps I like sweet summer watermelon and you like hot Moussaka;

Maybe your mama farms and my mama is a teacher.

It doesn’t matter; not really, the differences are what make us the same

It doesn’t matter; not really, the life from which you came.

You be you, I’ll be me; it’s okay that just one thing connects us;

The fact that we are both human is bigger than you think.

This place, this world, this earth, el mundo, Dunia,

We are all one familia.

We have no limits good friend, for the sky is very big;

I’ve not seen too much of it in my few years, but you just know this,

People are the same everywhere

And don't let anyone tell you different.

So Send your love around the planet,

Because there is people who need to catch it.

I am going to be a foreign exchange student to Denmark next year. Originally I wanted to go to a very very strange and culturally different place than the U.S. like Thailand, or Brazil, but because of my age (15) the person in Rotary who chose where I am to go, picked Denmark for me. I know it is different, no place would be the same as where I am from, but if you have traveled a lot, could someone explain some of the biggest differences? If you are from there I apologize for being disappointed to go to your homeland.

I am going to be a an exchange student next school year through Rotary International, and through a Rotary event I met an exchange student from Ecuador. We really hit it off, and have been talking on the phone (calling and texting) in the week since then. I really like him, and he really likes me, and he wants to see me again in a dating type situation.

However, Rotary has a rule against having serious relationships in your host country because it limits the numbers of new people that you meet (which is one of the main purposes of the exchange program) I DO NOT want to be the reason that this boy is sent home. But I also think that we may have something.

How should I proceed? What do you think I should do?