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Mining Your Neighborhood for Friends

Mining Your Neighborhood for Friends

With life being more mobile than ever before, we’re less likely to know our neighbors—missing out on a fertile and convenient source of friendships.

Keeping Friends

Our friendship isn’t the same

One of my best friends has changed dramatically in the past year and it’s making me question our friendship.

Resolving Problems

Adult mean girl who is an angel to everyone else

I have a girlfriend who, over the past couple of years, has begun making subtle and insidious personal attacks on me. She is very sneaky and calculating to me but acts “sweet” to everyone else in our group.

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Handling Breakups

Can a friendship on life support be salvaged?

A friendship on life support may have only a slim chance of survival, especially if the friendship doesn’t have a solid foundation or long history.

Having No Friends

Friendship and aging: Is losing interest in friends an aging thing?

Each of my women friends has — or had — good qualities, but ultimately, the positive didn’t outweigh the negative. Is my laziness in trying to make new (better, more compatible) friends an aging thing?

Other Advice

Losing a best friend who is also your sister

It’s hard losing a best friend but when the person is tied to your history like a sister, you really need to think twice before letting go

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