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Dear Carol,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I have a serious problem with my boyfriend of almost 10 months. We used to have a lot of fun together, but at the end of the summer, he told me he loved me while he was under a heavy dose of painkillers due to surgery. I felt awkward and told him I loved him back, but I don\u2019t know if I fully meant my words. Things between us have been super weird since. He doesn\u2019t even want to kiss anymore. My friends and family are all telling me to break up with him, and I honestly don\u2019t think I\u2019d be missing out if I did. Things have simply become so non-communicative and plain boring. I don\u2019t want to be stuck with him for the rest of senior year, but I have no clue how to break up with him (or even if I should). And the time never feels right.<\/strong><\/p>\n -Lost and Confused<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Lost And Confused,<\/p>\n If your BFF told you that she was dating someone, but it was awkward and boring and she felt stuck, what would you tell her? You\u2019d tell her to break up with him and set herself free. Breaking up is hard, but it\u2019s what you need to do. You say the time has never felt right, but the fact is, it never will. Find your courage and get yourself unstuck. How? Try, \u201cHey, there\u2019s something I\u2019ve been wanting to talk to you about and it\u2019s kind of difficult\u2026\u201d He\u2019ll guess where that conversation is going. Then take it there. Say, \u201cYou and I had a good time being each other\u2019s boyfriend and girlfriend, but I think we got serious a little too fast. I think it would be good for us to be on our own before high school ends. I hope we can stay friends.\u201d It seems inevitable that you are going to part ways, so rip off that Band-Aid even if it hurts. Then, avoid mixed messages (like hearting his texts) and don\u2019t let him see you holding anyone else\u2019s hand for a while. The good news: You aren\u2019t lost and confused. You know your mind and just need to summon the strength to speak up.<\/p>\n Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, including Girltalk<\/em>,\u00a0Speed of Life<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava and Pip<\/em>. Follow her on Insta\u00a0@carolwestonnyc<\/a>\u00a0and visit\u00a0carolweston.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n More Dear Carol advice, right this way\u2026<\/strong> Dear Carol,\u00a0 I have a serious problem with my boyfriend of almost 10 months. We used to have a lot of fun together, but at the end of the summer, he told me he loved me while he was under a heavy dose of painkillers due to surgery. I felt awkward and told him I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":315206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,286,284],"tags":[546,150,42,1091,285,9257,1232],"class_list":["post-312644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-crushes","category-dear-carol","tag-boyfriend","tag-crushes","tag-dear-carol","tag-girlfriend","tag-life","tag-relationship-advice","tag-relationships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, My friendship is falling apart\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, I\u2019m exhausted\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, Was I in the wrong?\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"