Tag: birthday
When Good Friends Forget Your Birthday
A reader asks what to do when your friends forget your birthday; she feels hurt and resentful and wonders if she should say or do something. Here are some tips for handling this situation if it happens to you.
When Exchanging Gifts Feels Awkward
During the pandemic, even exchanging gifts with friends can feel strange when everything else seems to be topsy-turvy.
Is it okay to retract an invitation to a friend?
Retracting an invitation is never easy but friendships and circumstances change–especially in middle school.
Not speaking: Should I wish her a happy birthday?
After two friends have a disagreement, one wonders if she should still send the other birthday greetings.
Parenting and friendship: Teaching kids to do the right thing
A mom worries that her daughter isn’t doing the right thing by disappointing a friend on her birthday.
Walking on eggshells
QUESTION Hi Irene, I haven’t spoken to an old best friend for quite some time. I was the last one to initiate contact after the relationship had become uncomfortable. I decided to stop and see if she would contact me. It wasn’t that I didn’t get a response but I felt like the response was […]
A friend you can count on…well, sometimes
QUESTION Dear Irene: My friend sent me a message on Facebook (a personal message, not where it could be read by everyone). She said: Hey, your birthday is coming up Friday, what do you want to do? She said she wanted us to do something, just her and me. She said her boyfriend didn’t want […]
Four calls before 8AM
As long as I can remember, my mom has called me at 7:46AM on every single birthday. That’s the precise time when I was born. I remember years when I resented her calling as I was rushing to get to work or was taking advantage of a rare chance to sleep in on a weekend. […]
Staying Alive
What a wonderful milestone it is to reach a 95th birthday—but imagine the added pleasure of being able to share your cake with someone you’ve known for 90 years! Edith Brook and Una Kilner were born two days apart in 1917, met on their first day of school at Longley Hall five years later, and […]
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