Rachel Simmons

Dear Rachel, I have a big crush on a guy at school, Joe. It started out with me just appreciating his looks, but now, I really like him. Me and him aren't really friends, but we have a lot of...

Dear Rachel, I recently stumbled upon a conversation that my boyfriend had with one of his best friends, totally by accident. Curious, I read on only to find out that my boyfriend's best friend, whom...

When Bianca,* nineteen, and her best friend from high school moved to different colleges a thousand miles apart, they swore to stay close. For a while, they kept in touch with daily phone calls, texts,...

Hi Rachel, I have a strong personality, I love myself more than the ideals of society in that I do not succumb to the belief that all girls have to be stick skinny to be...

Dear Rachel, I really need your help now! I have some friends who are my friends because of me ...and some friends who dislike me for being me. My closest friend Annie told me that...

Dear Rachel, I have a camp friend whom I consider one of my closest friends. During the summer, I used to like him a lot. I spent most of my time with him at the...

Dear Rachel, My name is Kevin and I'm 17 years old. I thought you might have some good insight on an experience I had involving a girl's image of her body. She was a girl...

Dear Rachel, My boyfriend and I just recently broke up cause he thought that I was flirting with some other guy at a party that was actually at my boyfriend's house. He was there. And...

Dear Rachel, I have a problem. My boyfriend broke up with me because he thinks I'm really clingy, and what kinda sucks is that he didn't even tell me about it. He talked to his...

Hi Rachel, I've been talking to a new (very cute) guy lately, and things have been going really well. He seemed a little distant at the beginning but lately we've been talking a lot more,...

Hey Rachel, So I am moving.....out of town....out of state, so to a new school. I don't know what to do because I have NEVER been the new girl, ever. It's all going to be...

Dear Rachel, I've been friends with this girl since the beginning of time. She's also in my class, my bus & completely surrounds me during my day at school. But that is not the...

Hi Rachel, I need some help. I cry a lot. I cry at least once a week, especially when I'm stressed. I know that crying is normal but is it too much? I'm scared I...

Dear Rachel, Hi, I'm 17 and of course, as a teenager, I have guy problems. Well, I have had this guy best friend since we were in our sophomore year. I kinda liked him...

Hi Rachel,So, I dated this really amazing guy for about 10 months, and we had said at the beginning that if we broke up, we would still be best friends like before the relationship. I...

Hey Rachel,There's this guy at my school and I have a HUGE crush on him. I barely know the guy, it's just his looks and the things I hear about him. I found out he...

Dear Rachel,I admit I'm in a clique but truthfully we are not hurtful to other girls but to girls inside our group. These two girls and myself are usually invited everywhere and we exclude...

Hi Rachel. My name is Sydney. I would just like to say that this past weekend I got into my first fight with my boyfriend of almost three weeks over a text. Then we...

Dear Rachel, My best friend and I have been pretty close for about 3 years (that's how long we've been "bffs"). I feel as though she's always off with another one of our other bffs,...

Dear Rachel, So there's this guy at my school that I liked during my freshman year. My friends told him and he didn't like me in the same way so it got REALLY awkward. I...

In the latest episode of her new series on friendship and technology, Rachel talks about how "just kidding" and "no offense" can start drama online....

Dear Rachel, So one of my friends is going out with a guy I like. I've liked him since the previous school year and she only liked him a little bit for 2 weeks...

Hi Rachel, At the beginning of September, we had a 16 year old (good looking) male German international student move into our house because he was going to be spending the year at my school...

In the second episode of her new series, BFF 2.0, Rachel talks about the problem with using Facebook and AIM status updates to deal with friendship problems....