Category: KEEPING FRIENDS
Setting Boundaries With Neighbors
A woman asks about setting boundaries with neighbors who are impinging on her personal time and space.
How to Nurture Friendships on Galentine’s Day
It’s important to nurture friendships because otherwise, these vital ties can easily fray. Even never used muscles can easily atrophy. Here are 15 ideas of how to do that!
Teenage Daughter Keeps Losing Friends in Her School
A mother is pained to see that her teenage daughter keeps losing friends in high school and wants advice about how to help her.
Gay Friend Losing Interest in Our Friendship
A straight woman develops and instant bond with a gay friend that seems to have fizzled out. She wonders why this happened.
Book Club Friendships: We Read, Then Talk
Sandra Nowlan recounts the inspiring story of a book club that’s been meeting for 40 years and the friendships it nurtured.
5 Tips for Handling A Friend Who Talks Incessantly
Have you ever sat down for lunch with a friend who talks non-stop—without giving you the slightest chance to get a word in edgewise? You begin to feel like you turned on a TV set, helplessly trying to interact with a very boring re-run.
A message from the Friendship Doctor on International Friendship Day
This post about International Friendship Day is reprinted from the archives of The Friendship Blog.
Feeling Left Out Of A Group Of Families
A woman winds up feeling left out of a multi-family friendship. While relationships like this one can be fulfilling, they are also far more complicated to maintain than ordinary friendships.
Resolving Tension Between Friends
How do you handle tension between friends? A reader, who has reached her boiling point, asks what to do to resolve the problem.
Handling Pushy Overbearing Friends
A reader asks how to deal with pushy overbearing friends that make her feel like she’s pushed into a corner. QUESTION Hi Dr. Irene,A few years ago, my husband and I met another couple in a community group. We’re not especially close to Jim and Libby but we have enjoyed going out for dinner with […]
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