Hi Marsha, I’ve been friends with my best friend for a few years now. All my other friends and myself have always considered “Abby” to be a bit on the immature and naive side when it came to relationships. I was there throughout her first real “heart break” and she eventually got over it....
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Hello Marsha, I am a 7th grader. I love emo music and emo clothes and emo hair, and everything else emo (except the cutting). Except right now, I do not appear at all as if I am emo. I want to modify my appearance, but a certain friend of mine (i’ll call her Rebecca)...
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Marsha, hope that you can help with some advice. My 17-year old son is a senior in high school and is quite popular in school, and for the most part is just a pretty good kid. He is an athlete (one of the best in his school in all sports), and one of the...
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I am seventeen years old and i think i messed things up big time with my best friend. I think hes mad of some of my choices and i dont know how to fix it. Me and and my other friend are also really close and occasionally we smoke weed. Its about twice a...
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Dear Marsha, I dont normally trust advice columnists. Then again, I dont normally trust anyone any more. My problem is twofold. First, I am a freshmen at my highschool and Im finding out the harsh reaility of how much high school sucks. I am constantly bullied by my fellow freshmen mostly. They call me...
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Dear Marsha, I am a 16 year old, gay, junior in High School. I go to an Alternitive Education center due to falling behind in school. The school has less then fifty students whom attened it. I am openly gay, however I do not shove it in people’s faces. Recently we got a new student, I’ll...
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Dear Marsha, I feel like my mom is working herself to death. She is 59 years old and works full-time to support her disabled partner (understandable), and my 23 year old half brother! My brother has never had a job, aside from a paper route he once held for 3 months. He quit school...
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Dear Marsha, Theres this guy that i like.. a lot.. He just spent 2 weeks in Sweden for hockey, when he got back.. I left on vacation with my family, and he couldn’t come with me because he had another hockey tournament in Massachusetts, While he was away we would talk every single night and he...
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Dear Marsha, I have an issue with respecting the people that I love the most. I seem to take out my frustrations on them, almost unconsciously. I don’t lash out at them, but more of just an arrogant, short, demeaning tone. This also includes mood changes toward them in certain circumstances and sometimes coming...
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Dear Marsha, For the past 4 months I’ve had the biggest crush I’ve ever had on one of my friends. A couple of months ago, I gathered up the courage I needed to tell him how I feel, but he replied that he only liked me as a friend. I’ve tried getting over it,...
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