What is the best thing to take when you feel a cold coming on and you want to stop the cold

What is the best thing to take when you feel a cold coming on and…?

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Some believe that zinc and/or echinacea. Best advice though is to drink plenty of liquids and get lots of rest when you feel a cold coming on.

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What do you do when you fall for your best friend?

Q: Liz and I met when we were 15 and became really close right away. We’re both 27 now and are still incredibly close. We’re both females to clear up any confusion….When we were 17 or so, we started being intimate and she ended up living with me for a while. We never had an official commitment but we both had feelings for the other. At the time I knew I liked girls but I was still confused about some feelings so I had a few short relationships and sexually experimented with guys as a way of discovering myself. Liz went through the same thing back then. There was a guy within our group of friends that showed interest in Liz and eventually she started to have feelings for him. They started hanging out a lot and I’d find myself sitting home writing angry poetry, listening to sad songs and giving her the cold shoulder whenever she came back after being with him. Like I said before, we never were committed to eachother so technically I didn’t have a right to feel so betrayed but I did. As the two of them got closer, I put a distance between her and I because I didn’t know how to deal with the jealousy, bitterness, anger and all the other emotions I was going through. She was always telling me she didn’t want to hurt me and she couldn’t help having feelings for him but it didn’t make me feel any better. It got to the point that there was just too much tension so she moved out. We still talked but I felt like I had lost her so I stopped making an effort to keep up the friendship. All of that happened years ago and I still regret that we lost touch for a while because I was jealous and selfish and couldn’t handle her focus being directed to someone else. When I was 20 I started dating my ex, Amanda. She and I were together for 5 years. A year before we broke up, Liz got involved with Kelly, who is now her ex-girlfriend. In that time we both grew up a lot and started to hang out again. I had gotten over the resentment I had from what happened when we were younger. Everything was good again. I didn’t have the feelings for her that I used to. It was just friendship. We went on like that for a while. I moved out of state in November 2006 and Liz and Kelly moved about 2 hours from me a couple of months later. It was almost a year before we all hung out in person. Even when I saw her after such a long time, I didn’t have those feelings from the past. Just friends. I hung out with her and her ex several times. The first time we all hung out I knew they were having problems but I had no interest in “swooping in” once Liz and Kelly split up. Eventually they did break up..Liz started coming to my house on the weekends a few months after she broke up with Kelly. When she first started coming out on the weekends, everything was normal and as it had been. One night we were sitting around talking and drinking wine and I don’t know what happened but something clicked and we realized there was something between us again. Next thing I know she’s kissing me… intensely. We ended up in bed together that night and the next morning I think I tried to blame it on the wine but I knew we had started something that was obvious. The next weekend she came over we talked about the possibility of taking our friendship to another level but we both agreed it was a bad idea. We are too much alike and the friendship and connection that’s always been was too perfect to mess with. She’s in my mind and my soul and vice versa. We truly understand one another. We don’t even have to talk to communicate. I can be thinking something and I don’t have to tell her what it is because she already knows. It’s such an intense friendship and we don’t want to lose that by starting something we know won’t work between us. We are too much alike and instead of balancing, we would pull ourselves down if we tried to take things further. It just wouldn’t work. I know it. She knows it. So I guess you could call it a best friends with benefits situation with a complicated twist.We both have these feelings again and right now it feels like we’re going back and forth between a normal friendship and this intense passion that goes beyond friendship. I’m starting to worry. I like this exciting and flirtatious thing we have between us but the more I talk to her and see her, I am realizing I’m getting caught up in her. She has told me she feels the same. I don’t know what to do. Part of me thinks the best thing for right now would be to put some space between us because the feelings are getting stronger. At the same time though, I hate the thought of not talking to her and not seeing her. We have known eachother for 12 years now and we’ve been through so much. She is my best friend and I couldn’t handle losing her again. It’s really starting to bother me and I don’t have any clue how to go back and undo what was started.

A: I think you’re both looking at the situation the wrong way.You both claim that a real relationship between the two of you wouldn’t work… but how do you know that for sure? You’re a lot alike…so what? You’re opting to not be with her, but it’s apparent that you’re suffering because of it. Obviously, each of you does, at some level, want more from the other than just friendship; otherwise there wouldn’t be any of this insecurity. All of this turmoil has been going on for years, and I think it’s because the both of you are backing away from intimacy out of fear of losing a friendship which, in my opinion, sounds like it should be more. I believe sometimes people come into and leave our lives for a reason – and this woman has been a constant presence not only in your life but in your thoughts. If you two don’t allow yourselves to realize what is right in front of you, you could miss out on your soulmates (each other).That’s right…I said soulmates. I see potential here =].

what to do when you’ve fallen for your best friend….?

Q: Liz and I met when we were 15 and became really close right away. We’re both 27 now and are still incredibly close. We’re both females to clear up any confusion….When we were 17 or so, we started being intimate and she ended up living with me for a while. We never had an official commitment but we both had feelings for the other. At the time I knew I liked girls but I was still confused about some feelings so I had a few short relationships and sexually experimented with guys as a way of discovering myself. Liz went through the same thing back then. There was a guy within our group of friends that showed interest in Liz and eventually she started to have feelings for him. They started hanging out a lot and I’d find myself sitting home writing angry poetry, listening to sad songs and giving her the cold shoulder whenever she came back after being with him. Like I said before, we never were committed to eachother so technically I didn’t have a right to feel so betrayed but I did. As the two of them got closer, I put a distance between her and I because I didn’t know how to deal with the jealousy, bitterness, anger and all the other emotions I was going through. She was always telling me she didn’t want to hurt me and she couldn’t help having feelings for him but it didn’t make me feel any better. It got to the point that there was just too much tension so she moved out. We still talked but I felt like I had lost her so I stopped making an effort to keep up the friendship. All of that happened years ago and I still regret that we lost touch for a while because I was jealous and selfish and couldn’t handle her focus being directed to someone else. When I was 20 I started dating my ex, Amanda. She and I were together for 5 years. A year before we broke up, Liz got involved with Kelly, who is now her ex-girlfriend. In that time we both grew up a lot and started to hang out again. I had gotten over the resentment I had from what happened when we were younger. Everything was good again. I didn’t have the feelings for her that I used to. It was just friendship. We went on like that for a while. I moved out of state in November 2006 and Liz and Kelly moved about 2 hours from me a couple of months later. It was almost a year before we all hung out in person. Even when I saw her after such a long time, I didn’t have those feelings from the past. Just friends. I hung out with her and her ex several times. The first time we all hung out I knew they were having problems but I had no interest in “swooping in” once Liz and Kelly split up. Eventually they did break up..Liz started coming to my house on the weekends a few months after she broke up with Kelly. When she first started coming out on the weekends, everything was normal and as it had been. One night we were sitting around talking and drinking wine and I don’t know what happened but something clicked and we realized there was something between us again. Next thing I know she’s kissing me… intensely. We ended up in bed together that night and the next morning I think I tried to blame it on the wine but I knew we had started something that was obvious. The next weekend she came over we talked about the possibility of taking our friendship to another level but we both agreed it was a bad idea. We are too much alike and the friendship and connection that’s always been was too perfect to mess with. She’s in my mind and my soul and vice versa. We truly understand one another. We don’t even have to talk to communicate. I can be thinking something and I don’t have to tell her what it is because she already knows. It’s such an intense friendship and we don’t want to lose that by starting something we know won’t work between us. We are too much alike and instead of balancing, we would pull ourselves down if we tried to take things further. It just wouldn’t work. I know it. She knows it. So I guess you could call it a best friends with benefits situation with a complicated twist.We both have these feelings again and right now it feels like we’re going back and forth between a normal friendship and this intense passion that goes beyond friendship. I’m starting to worry. I like this exciting and flirtatious thing we have between us but the more I talk to her and see her, I am realizing I’m getting caught up in her. She has told me she feels the same. I don’t know what to do. Part of me thinks the best thing for right now would be to put some space between us because the feelings are getting stronger. At the same time though, I hate the thought of not talking to her and not seeing her. We have known eachother for 12 years now and we’ve been through so much. She is my best friend and I couldn’t handle losing her again. It’s really starting to bother me and I don’t have any clue how to go back and undo what was started.

A: It sounds like you know that your relationship with her is unhealthy and will not amount to anything good. So yes, putting distance between you may be the best idea. It is hard, but it will be harder if you become involved again and go through the pain. Stop it before you are in too deep. Do it nicely of course…maybe just letting her know that you know that things will not go well. Or you can just talk to her less and less.

Am I immature when it comes to love? Do I not really understand how it works?

Q: You see, I never realized that I might be quite immature when it comes to love. The thing about me is I expanded my mind to the leftfield of the arts such as film and music at a very young age and have such matured and had a better understanding of many of the philosophical concepts but the one thing I haven’t matured on yet is love.There are two girls who I think about when it comes to love quite frequently (and those two happen to be best friends forever). I don’t want to mention any names so we just go for girl one and girl two.I went through a lot of **** with girl two last year and it always killed me and she probably hates me for it now but I’ve had a crush on girl one for three years now. After diverting my attention back to her from girl two late last year, I finally confessed my love to her and she told me she wanted to catch up with me but I then found it was only so she let me down easy as she never feel the same way. I reacted very badly to that and was extremely upset but thanks to support from my friends, my brother and marijuana, I’m over it.The thing about the first girl is that she, well, she’s a character. She’s definitely seems to be having too much sex for a girl her age but I don’t consider a slut (probably because I know what REAL sluts are like) and although she seems cold, I’m sure she has feelings too and gets as upset about something as I do (I mean, she was nice enough to let me down easy rather than flat out telling me to **** off).Both times each girl has rejected my advances, I got so depressed I threatened to both girls I was going to commit suicide because I felt so upset by their answer. The second girl took six months before I didn’t feel suicidal anymore but that was a thousand times more complicated. The first girl though only lasted a couple of days before I got a lot of rational reasoning and alternative solutions and so on to stop me from doing something stupid.But thanks to a note I left online, it was vindictive enough for both girls to tell me that I need to move on from them and forget they ever existed. But I don’t want too, I’d rather have them as friends then not know them at all.I really think I’m immature though because I’m confusing sex with love and not realizing it because I want to have sex with the first girl more than any other girl in the world. That and I’m a virgin which obviously isn’t very bad for an 18 year old but causes a lot of stress and sexual tension for me hence me thinking you need love and sex in the same relationship.The second girl however I actually did fall in love with but she fell in love with one of my best friends. They broke up last week but during the time they were together, I was acting immature because I thought she was the only girl that’s worth it and I shouldn’t bother trying to find another anymore.Other ways I think I haven’t matured on the idea of love is that I hate the fact no girls have ever asked me out before (even that isn’t true, I have been asked out by a few girls before, I just was too shy to follow through) and that I think I’m a really ugly person even though I get told by all my peers I’m actually quite attractive.So, if I am immature, how should I approach love now because I want to apologize to the first girl and just be friends from now on because I’d rather be friends than nothing?By the way, sorry this question is long, I can’t ever summarize myself when it comes to these two girls.

A: If neither of them want you in their life… try to respect that and move on. You’re 18, and there are many, many more people out there than just these two girls.I’m more worried about this part: “Both times each girl has rejected my advances, I got so depressed I threatened to both girls I was going to commit suicide because I felt so upset by their answer.” That isn’t a healthy way to cope with rejection. It’s also rather manipulative, though I’m sure you don’t mean for it to be that way. Try seeing if you can’t talk to a counselor about these two girls.