I've been feeling a little depressed too. My boyfriend goes out on weekends and leaves me here at his house. He comes home around 4:00 am. I trust him ,but he's cheated me before, but It was for different reasons. I don't have any friends that have a car, so we can't really go anywhere to hang out. Most of them bug me a lot to. He's told me I couldn't go out with him because I don't talk to people. I'm sorry I'm a shy person, but I would like to be around him, you know meet other people and see who he's chillin' with. I'm lonley a lot. I wanna do something about it, but I just don't know what. My shcool counselor tells me to break up and to go out there and meet other people. I love my boyfriend a lot. It's been two years. I feel like sometimes that I'm wasting my life away, just sitting there doing nothing. I signed up for hiphop classes to get out of the house. It wasn't fun. So I decided to take oil painting classes. It's ok, but I do water paints at home, when I'm alone and bored. I've completed twelve .5 credits (1/2) this year. I'm tired of feeling lonley.
I need some advice. What would you do?
Thank You,
Lucy

Lucy, you probably don't want to hear this but your boy friend sounds.. well to me he sounds like a jerk. Why is he so worried about what his friends think of you if he loves you? I would take my gf where ever she wanted to go and do whatever she wanted (if I had one! :() and not really give a s**t what my friends thought of her. I think you should try hard to just leave him and find someone else. Good luck, I wish you the best.

I have to agree, he may not be cheating but I'm not so sure he feels the same way as you do about htis relationship. If you don't want to quite break up (although being with someone who's making you sad is just holding you back from the ones that won't) just try not to keep it a priority. It's good that you've done classes, keep it up until you find something you really love. Try meeting people at them and meeting up for coffee or something between classes. Some people end up relying on the people who go out of their way to make things work and take it for granted. Maybe you can both have a night out alone with your friends but try to meet up eventually with them. That way you have people there that you are comfortable with and he doesn't feel like he has to keep you in the conversation. Volunteering is a great way to fill the time, especially with kids (somehow easier to not be selfconscious around them). anyways good luck!