Archive for September, 2008
Reader Q & A: Finding a Best Friend
QUESTION: Dear Irene, I am a person who has learned to value my female friendships. I’ve always tended to prefer a one-friend-at-a-time, with a lot of intensity, type of friendship. But it is something I can’t seem to find. Briefly, I had a relationship like the kind I want with a woman who continues to […]
Reader Q & A: Good boundaries make good friendships
Dear Irene: Hi, I have a friend who doesn’t have very good boundaries. I live in a small town. I am a fairly private person who is social but also like my alone time. This friend has stopped by my house when I don’t answer the phone and once she comes over, doesn’t leave until […]
Good News to Share
Using the search term "friendship blog," Fractured Friendships is the Number 1 blog on Google, Thanks for your support and interest! Is one of your friendships getting you down? Do you have any questions I can answer? Send your queries to [email protected]/ I’ll try to answer as many as I can.
Just Friends?
In a recent post on her Psychology Today blog, research psychologist Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out, raises the issue of what it means to be “just friends.” Unlike marriage (and same-sex unions in some States), friends have no legal ties to one another. Unlike siblings, they have no blood ties. Yet one of […]
