Category: MAKING FRIENDS
The basics of starting a friendship: Step one
It sounds simple but making eye contact, smiling, saying hello, and acknowledging someone else, by name, are crucial first steps in starting a friendship.
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.
Making friends when you are shy
Feeling shy can make it difficult to meet new people and make friends. Shyness may simply indicate a quiet sensibility, may stem from feeling awkward and not knowing what to do, or perhaps reflect lack of a good self-image.
CBS Sunday Morning looks at the power of friendship
We all know that good friends make us feel good—but even scientists aren’t really sure why. Last weekend, CBS Sunday Morning national correspondent Rita Braver took a look behind the emerging science of friendship.
Making and maintaining online friendships
Just like offline ones, online friendships need to work for both people.
Can men and women just be friends?
After the 1989 blockbuster movie When Harry Met Sally… many were left questioning whether truly platonic relationships are possible. The Friendship Doctor answers the perennial question, “Can men and women just be friends?”
Friendship by the Book: An interview with Shasta Nelson, author of Friendships Just Don’t Happen
Shasta Nelson is a motivational speaker, CEO of GirlfriendCircles.com, and a former preacher! She just wrote a new book on friendship. Check out my interview with Shasta.
Faking it: Is that what it takes to make new friends?
I find it difficult to fake it and that seems to be my issue in not making friends. I don’t like to gossip and don’t care about the girly conversations. I’m not into TV shows and everyone is crazy about fads, favorite movie stars, or songs that I couldn’t really care less about. They are just people: Get over it!
Guest Post: Why introverts have (even more) trouble making friends
Making new friends is difficult, especially for introverts. It’s not that we don’t like people or people don’t like us, it’s just that introverts are solitary by nature, and it can be difficult for us to break out and reach out to other people.
How do I develop friendships as part of a couple?
I am 51 and still trying to find a best friend, as sad as that sounds. Don’t get me wrong I have work acquaintances with whom I have gone out with on occasion but no one I would call for a weekend movie or coffee or to whom I would tell my “darkest secrets.” I only wish.
