Category: Creating and maintaining boundaries
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 […]
Feeling Worthless Without Any Friends
If you’re without any friends because you don’t feel friend-worthy, you may need to work on yourself first.
Dealing with a friend in sales who works on commission
How do you handle a friend on commission who seems to have made you part of her “business plan.”
Living and working with a friend: Too much of a good thing?
A young woman living and working with a friend feels guilty about setting boundaries.
When a best friend starts to feel like more than a friend
A young woman doesn’t know how to tell a guy that she likes him more than a friend.
Falling in love with a best friend
A young woman asks about how to handle falling in love with her best friend.
How do I tell a friend that she can’t invite herself?
What do you do when a friend decides to invite herself and you don’t want her there?
When an irresponsible friend asks for money
An irresponsible friend is threatened with losing his home and asks a friend to bail him out. Because he’s helped her in the past, what does she owe him?
I am the needy friend!
A woman is frustrated and feels like “the needy friend” because of the boundaries set by her friend.
When teenage friends become coupled
A young girl asks what to do: Her friends have become coupled and she feels like a third wheel.
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