Tag: acquaintances
What’s the Difference Between Friends and Acquaintances?
A reader asks about the difference between friends and acquaintances? What is the distinction?
My family is without real friends
Even with many acquaintances, a woman worries about her family being without real friends.
Middle-Aged Woman Who Has Never Had Friends
A woman realizes she has never had friends and is at a loss to understand why this has happened to her. What can she do?
COUPLE WANTED for close friendship, especially on holidays
A reader discusses the difficulties of finding a couple for a close friendship.
The Sometimes Friend
QUESTION Dear Irene, I’m in my late 30’s and for as long as I can remember (since early childhood), I have always been the "sometimes friend". Usually there are two friends who are inseparable. They are on each other’s speed dial, they shop together, lunch together, and their families spend time together. And only sometimes…will […]
Escaping from a toxic triangle
QUESTION Dear Irene, I’m a 40-year-old woman who feels like she’s back in junior high. I have three kids who are very involved in sports and activities. Over the last four years, my husband and I developed a group of friends with kids the same ages. My closest friend in the group was a woman […]
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