Archive for December, 2010

Friendship: When Three’s A Crowd

Published: December 29, 2010 | Last Updated: March 15, 2022 By | Reply Continue Reading
Friendship: When Three’s A Crowd

Sometimes three’s a crowd when it comes to friendships because there are more personalities that need to mesh.

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Housebound, lonely, and craving contact

Published: December 28, 2010 | Last Updated: November 23, 2013 By | 21 Replies Continue Reading

I’m 63, and housebound due to health and mobility problems. My family works so they can’t come every day. I find myself sitting alone in the house day after day.

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UK Mail: Why did my best friend dump me?

Published: December 27, 2010 | Last Updated: December 27, 2010 By | 3 Replies Continue Reading

How the end of friendship is as painful as divorce   By Mandy Francis UK Daily Mail – December 27, 2009   "You’ve bought each other carefully ­chosen Christmas presents for decades, but this year there was no ­beautifully-wrapped gift from your best friend under your tree – and there was a gap on your […]

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UK Mail: Why did my best friend dump me?

Published: December 27, 2010 | Last Updated: December 27, 2010 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

In Sunday’s UK Mail, journalist Mandy Francis wrote about her experience of being dumped by a friend without warning or explanation. Years later, she still feels the hurt. "One consolation is that when I’ve talked to other female friends about my experience, many of them have similar tales to relate," she writes.   Many women […]

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The most wonderful time of the year? Not for everyone

Published: December 23, 2010 | Last Updated: April 2, 2016 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

Blue Christmas services are organized by many houses of worship to provide comfort to people who are grieving, coping with chronic illness, or feeling down or lonely.

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Best friends: Until business does us part

Published: December 21, 2010 | Last Updated: December 21, 2010 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

When a friend banks on your friendship   QUESTION Hi Irene, Our best friends, who have no money, wanted to go into business with us. They asked us for a large sum to open an immersion preschool-3rd grade and we said no, opening a school did not interest us. We both have kids who need […]

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The Friendship Doctor provides Nestpert advice on The Nest

Published: December 20, 2010 | Last Updated: September 26, 2020 By | Reply Continue Reading

How to Deal If You Don’t Like Your Friends Significant Other ‘Cause you’re not really gonna let a guy come between you now, are you?   By Samantha Leal December 13, 2010   You’ve been BFFs since high school, so by now you’re practically sisters. You talk and text multiple times a day and have […]

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Handling a ‘Friend’ Who Doesn’t Get The Message

Published: December 20, 2010 | Last Updated: August 22, 2022 By | 11 Replies Continue Reading
Handling a ‘Friend’ Who Doesn’t Get The Message

It’s awkward and uncomfortable when a friend doesn’t get the message but you deserve to find a gracious way to get out of the friendship.

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Women’s Health – On friends who are health snobs

Published: December 19, 2010 | Last Updated: May 18, 2013 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

Healthy Living Or Health Snobbery? Ever feel judged when you reach for a sweet treat or skip a workout? Or maybe it’s you who has turned into a pushy perfectionist

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Work spouses: An Interview with Dr. Jacqueline Olds

Published: December 16, 2010 | Last Updated: December 17, 2010 By | Reply Continue Reading

With more women entering the workplace, it’s not surprising that many develop extraordinarily close ties with colleagues, both male and female. To learn more about these relationships, I spoke to psychiatrist Dr. Jacqueline Olds. Irene: What is a work spouse? Dr. Olds: A work spouse a person at work with whom you have a special […]

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