Tag: boundaries

Dealing with a needy friend when you have cancer

Published: July 16, 2014 | Last Updated: March 21, 2022 By | 3 Replies Continue Reading

When a needy friend tries too hard to be helpful, you may need to set boundaries and take care of yourself.

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Establishing boundaries with a disabled friend

Published: April 21, 2014 | By | 3 Replies Continue Reading

A woman’s blind, disabled friend with Asperger’s keeps demanding more and more of her.

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You can’t always count on workplace friendships

Published: March 15, 2014 | Last Updated: March 15, 2014 By | 10 Replies Continue Reading

Workplace friendships often require boundaries.

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I feel like my friend is using me

Published: February 17, 2014 | By | 13 Replies Continue Reading

If you feel a friend is using you, you probably are allowing her to and need to set boundaries.

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The friendships of military wives

Published: January 12, 2014 | By | 6 Replies Continue Reading

Because of deployments, the friendships of military wives are vulnerable to change.

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Saying No To Friends

Published: September 6, 2013 | Last Updated: April 19, 2023 By | 5 Replies Continue Reading
Saying No To Friends

Saying no to friends is never easy but may be necessary to save a friendship. Friendships should be mutually satisfying.

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Making And Maintaining Online Friendships

Published: March 6, 2013 | Last Updated: August 24, 2022 By | 1 Reply Continue Reading
Making And Maintaining Online Friendships

Online friendships need to be made and tended to with the same honesty and grace as in-person ones.

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5 strategies for handling friends who talk too much

Published: March 3, 2013 | Last Updated: July 14, 2013 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

It’s important to set boundaries with friends who talk too much.

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How can I handle a friend who is clingy and self-absorbed?

Published: June 7, 2012 | Last Updated: March 7, 2013 By | 6 Replies Continue Reading

Clingy friends can be draining. For a relationship to work, friends need to meet each other halfway.  QUESTION Hi, Irene. I suffer from mental health difficulties and I had to quit my job and move back to my parents’ house. My GP referred me to a group for women with similar problems and there I met and became […]

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From the Friendship Forums: Balancing Friend-Time with Me-Time

Published: May 26, 2012 | Last Updated: May 14, 2020 By | 6 Replies Continue Reading

A reader offers pointers that worked for her—for people who tend toward introversion and know they require me-time before and after being with others.

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