Archive for May, 2012
An Encore Post – How Being A Mother Can Sabotage Your Friendships
Mother’s Day celebrates motherhood—as well as children, flowers, candy, and greeting cards. But there’s a seedy side to everything—and motherhood is a known friendship-killer. Motherhood can challenge female friendships for a variety of reasons: You are a mother, and your BFF isn’t one and wants to be one. Her fertility problems are making her extremely […]
The downside of getting involved in a friend’s marital problems
It can be tricky for an outsider to get involved in a friend’s marital problems.
What to do with an out-of-sync friendship
QUESTION Hi Irene, "Lance" and I have been friends since third grade, and now we have both graduated school and are getting jobs or attending college. I feel like I’ve left him in the dust, emotionally speaking. Despite his attempts to attend college and hold a part-time job, he is incredibly immature for his age […]
Moving and leaving my best friend behind
Whatever your age, moving away from a best friend or having best friend move away from you is hard.
What does email response time say about a friendship?
Do you procrastinate more than usual before you respond to emails from one particular friend? Is someone consistently very slow to respond to you? A new study suggests that email response time may be one measure of a friendship. Read my latest article on Life Goes Strong.
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