June 2, 2009
Dear Friends:
If you haven’t had a chance to look at The Friendship Blog during the month of May, the articles below are some of those you may have missed. I hope you’ll have time to catch up on all the posts, information and opinions about female friendships.
Just click on the links; Be sure to check out the interesting reader comments too!
By the way, I received the galleys of my book on female friendship, Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Break-Up With Your Best Friend, which is slated for publication by Overlook Press in September. I’ll be giving talks and interviews in the fall and I’ll be sure to keep you posted on the news.
Warm regards,
Irene
Does a ‘best friendship’ need to be monogamous?
Is it unrealistic to want to have one best friend wrong? Is it wrong to feel like you want to be her one-and-only? Read this Q & A from a reader whose best friend doesn’t want to be monogamous.
The seven-year expiration date on friendships
It’s always exhilarating to make a close friend—a soul mate—someone you understand and who makes you feel understood. When this happens, it feels like the bond will last a lifetime. Yet most friendships, even the best of them, don’t last forever. This article tells about a study that the confirms that the large majority of friendships tend to be fleeting.
A friendship stuck in Dullsville
This reader and her best friend are boring each other to tears. Read my advice about spicing up their relationship.
Seven friendship recovery affirmations
If you are reeling from the loss of a best friend, what should you be telling yourself?
Downgrading a disappointing friendship
Read this post from woman who has a long shared history with her friend that extends to their families. Now her best friend won’t answer her calls. What should she do?
Read the story of the Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, whose picture taken during the Great Depression depicts the strength and resilience of motherhood
May 9, 2009
A misunderstanding with a primadonna
This reader writes about a friendship that reached its breaking point. Disagreements about money complicated the problem.
May 8, 2009
More on Friendship Circles: Sprichst du Deutsch?
Carolina Asuquo-Brown, a psychotherapist in Germany, talks about friendship circles. What are some of the factors at their foundation?
May 6, 2008
A reader writes about feeling “circle envy.” Do most women have a circle of girlfriends like The Girls from Ames?
Category: KEEPING FRIENDS
