Archive for August, 2008

Self-centered friends with hefty needs

Published: August 31, 2008 | Last Updated: April 9, 2016 By | 4 Replies Continue Reading

On dealing with a needy, self-centered friend…

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Mommy Friendships

Published: August 30, 2008 | Last Updated: April 2, 2016 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

My writer friend, Kathy Sena, has an award-winning blog called Parent Talk Today. She recently interviewed me for a post on the topic of mommy friendships. Click here to see the post, which discusses several ways for multi-tasking moms to make new friendships. While "’mommy friendships" can pose challenges, sharing the experience of parenting with […]

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Reader Q&A: Achieving closure after being dumped by a friend at work

Published: August 29, 2008 | Last Updated: November 3, 2012 By | 130 Replies Continue Reading

About three months ago, Anna had met a new friend, “Lisa,” and I felt replaced. Little by little, I felt pushed aside and believe that Lisa had put a rift in the friendship between Anna and me. All of the sudden, Anna and I spent less and less time together as she made more time for Lisa.

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The Friendship Olympics: Which Sex Gets the Gold?

Published: August 21, 2008 | Last Updated: May 17, 2020 By | 3 Replies Continue Reading

What do we know about male friendships, female friendships and the differences between the two?

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Buried treasure: Finding Long Lost Friends

Published: August 17, 2008 | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 By | 4 Replies Continue Reading

Here are some tips for finding a long lost friends—on Long Lost Friends Day or any day of the year!

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Baltimore Jewish Times: We’re friends, our children aren’t

Published: August 15, 2008 | Last Updated: August 16, 2008 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

In this week’s Baltimore Jewish Times, journalist Amy Landsman wrote an article called, We’re friends, our children aren’t. She describes some of the challenges of balancing mom friends and kids friends. It begins: You’re pregnant! And so is your BFF! Instantly, you dream about play dates, outings around town, even vacations that your growing families […]

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Healing Lifestyles & Spas Magazine: Transform your self; Transform your life

Published: August 15, 2008 | Last Updated: April 2, 2016 By | Reply Continue Reading

Freelance journalist Amy Paturel’s life was ‘transformed’ when her surgeon found a three-pount malignant tumor in her abdomen—when she was only 23 years old. In her recent article, Transform your self; Transform your life in the July/August issue of Healing Lifestyles, Amy suggests that transformation need not be inspired by anything as dramatic or life-threatening […]

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Friend Poaching or Social Networking: What’s the Difference?

Published: August 10, 2008 | Last Updated: November 5, 2021 By | 29 Replies Continue Reading

Friend poaching is complicated. The distinctions between friend poaching and social networking can even be murkier.

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Friendship by the Book: Friend or Frenemy?

Published: August 9, 2008 | Last Updated: August 9, 2008 By | Reply Continue Reading

When a new book on friendship came on the scene, I was eager to see where it fit on my already bulging friendship bookshelf. The just-released Friend or Frenemy: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don’t (Harper, 2008) by Andrea Lavinthal & Jessica Rozler is a quick summer read aimed […]

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Reader Q & A: Avoiding entanglements after a break up

Published: August 8, 2008 | Last Updated: August 8, 2008 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

Dear Irene,   I have a long time friend who was a single mother just like me when we first met ten years ago. I knew she was a headstrong and opinionated early on and accepted that. However, I’ve always worried a bit about her. She had a traumatic childhood; she was adopted after her […]

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