The Ottawa Citizen – It’s Over

It can be as tough to break up with a friend as breaking up with a lover

By Joanne Laucius, The Ottawa Citizen April 5, 2012

‘True friends stab you in the front," Oscar Wilde supposedly said.

That could be why it hurts so much when a friend treats you with scorn, ignores calls, or just drifts away.

Breaking up with a friend, either as the breaker or the breakee, can be just as painful as a romantic split, says Irene Levine, a psychologist, friendship blogger at Psychology Today and author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup With Your Best Friend.

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Category: KEEPING FRIENDS