Archive for March, 2012
I can’t make friends…could it be my voice or my bad relationship with my mother?
QUESTION Hi Irene, I’m trying to understand why I can’t make many friends, especially female ones. It does affect me; sometimes I wish I could share my life with other people. I never had a healthy relationship with my mother, which probably explains why I don’t get close to many female friends. Another reason […]
Cosmopolitan.com – How to Meet New Friends on a Busy Schedule
By Cosmopolitan.com | Work + Money – Fri, Mar 23, 2012 By Molly Triffin Reese Witherspoon recently confessed on Ellen that she has a girl crush on Kate Middleton, saying, "I would like to hang out. I’m not sure she wants to hang out with me…. Call me. Call me anytime." We get where she’s coming from-whether you’ve moved […]
Friendship by the Book: Nine Rubies – by Mahru Ghashghaei, as told to Susan Snyder
Nine Rubies: Broken Silence of a Daughter of Revolutionary Iran is a true story that begins nearly a century ago when Mahru’s prosperous Iranian Azari grandfather escaped the Russian Revolution in 1917, and built a comfortable life for his wife and children in Northern Iran. The early death of her grandfather’s first wife, followed […]
Make It Better–Mothers of Tweens: Remaining Friends When Your Daughters Have Broken-Up
MAR 2012 BY MELANIE KALMAR Traditionally, middle school girls are fickle when it comes to friendship. One day, they are best friends. The next day, they’re enemies. The cycle may end when the girls go their separate ways or continue for a tumultuous time. It’s a roller coaster of emotions and mothers are […]
Fear of Losing All My Friends
Not all friendships last forever: We should always be open to new ones QUESTION Hi Irene, Over the last few months, my best friend, whom I’ll call "L," has grown close to another of my friends, "S." They have done several things together without including me. I’m not interested in some of the […]
Should I try to patch up this online friendship?
The passage of time generally makes it more difficult to clear up misunderstandings, online or off.
Feeling Left Out, Excluded, Rejected
QUESTION Hi Irene, I am 60 years old but am still sensitive about my friends not including me in things. For example, I went to a concert with two of them; I was the driver. While we were together, they talked about trips they were going on together that didn’t include me. I asked about […]
Money and Friends: How to Figure It All Out
by GINA RYDER MARCH 14, 2012 A shared economic value system is one way friends bond. Yet in many chapters of human existence, shifting life phases and new statuses can uproot our finances, and as a result, our relationships. Recent job losses and drastic life style changes throw a monkey wrench into our friendships. "It’s […]
Friendship by the Book – When A Friend Dies
There have been many prior posts on The Friendship Blog about the pain of losing a close friend but the tragedy of losing a friend to suicide is especially haunting. In her new book, The Guardians: An Elegy, award-winning writer Sarah Manguso has crafted a beautiful story to help her understand and better cope […]
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