Archive for September, 2011
Best Friends: She loves me, she loves me not
QUESTION Hello Irene, I am having a really hard time with my best friend. This whole relationship started out quite differently. She was attracted to me and fell in love with me at the very beginning. I reciprocated these feelings for a while but ultimately realized we weren’t a match, and decided we needed to […]
Not all friendships last forever: I lost my contacts in a NYC taxi cab
QUESTION Hi Irene, Last August, lost my cell phone. I left it in a cab in NYC and to make matters worse had not properly backed up my contacts. In an effort to regain some of those contacts, I sent out messages on Facebook. Some people responded and some did not, which made me […]
Friends who squelch your dreams
QUESTION Hello Irene. I am a 34-year-old man who had a dream. It sounds silly but it was to make a film. When I told my friends about this (which was in March) they were extremely supportive of the idea, which I found surprising as I thought they would laugh at me (I must point […]
Need Help: National TV Show Looking for an Extraordinary Friendship
Friend help you get through a tough time? Did you find yourself in a tough circumstance in life like divorce or job loss and a friend helped you through it? Or were you let down by someone and a friend came out of nowhere to help pick up the pieces? Do you have a story […]
Best Friends: Can there be second chances?
A sense of trust is one of the requisites of a healthy friendship. QUESTION Hi Irene, I was best friends with this girl for about three years. We did everything together, we hung out at school, went out together after school, and then IM-ed each other every day for hours. She was one of […]
Never too old to make new friends
I recently interviewed an 86-year-old blogger named Millie Garfield who is absolutely inspiring! Before speaking to her, I thought I might be the oldest blogger in the world but she has me beat by a mile! 🙂 Millie began blogging in 2003 (In the blogosphere, that is the equivalent of decades ago!) and still […]
National Women’s Friendship Month: 25 Ways to Make Yourself a ‘Keeper’
In celebration of National Women’s Friendship Month, here are 25 Ways to Make Yourself a Keeper
When A Friend Says, It Has Nothing To Do With You~
What a friend says, it has nothing to do with you, what could he or she possibly mean? It has the effect of creating distance.
Washingtonian – Bridesmaid Blues
9/9/11 Is being a wedding-day attendant causing you stress? Take our expert advice on how to handle it-and strengthen your friendship in the process. By Kay Steiger If the popularity of the movie Bridesmaids is any indication, it seems that this duty is a rite of passage for women-and, increasingly, men. And like any […]
Did she cut off our friendship because I’m gay?
We can guess why someone ends a friendship but never really know unless we ask. QUESTION Dear Irene, I am about 30 years old and a friend of 12 years, who was around for all of my major life changes, suddenly cut me off. I thought maybe she figured my wild phase was not […]
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