Tag: bad decisions

Hesitant to judge a friend making bad decisions

Published: January 18, 2017 | By | 8 Replies Continue Reading

Good friends need to say something when a friend is making bad decisions.

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Her friends say they’re ‘just not that into him’

Published: August 25, 2010 | Last Updated: August 25, 2010 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

QUESTION Dear Irene, Our best friend has been seeing this guy. She’s really into him so she wanted us to spend some time together to get to know him. Unfortunately, both of us really dislike him. We find him arrogant and narcissistic, to the point of his putting us down to make himself look better. […]

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Watching a good friend make bad decisions

Published: December 12, 2009 | Last Updated: August 25, 2010 By | Reply Continue Reading

QUESTION Dear Irene,   My friend Michelle, whom I’ve known over ten years, was a late relationship bloomer. She broke up with her first serious boyfriend about a year ago; they were together for three years. It destroyed her. But less than two weeks later, she was talking to him again. He didn’t want to […]

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Can I catch my friend before she jumps off a cliff (again)?

Published: October 16, 2009 | Last Updated: October 16, 2009 By | Reply Continue Reading

QUESTION   Dear Irene, I recently spoke with a good friend of almost 20 years with whom I went to high school. Essentially, she wants to get married and have kids. Recently, she met a guy who is twice divorced with two children. That’s a lot of baggage—even my friend will admit that. They met […]

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