Tag: change
Should Friends Be Brutally Truthful With One Another?
While everyone wants authentic, truthful friendships, it can be challenging to find the right balance between honesty and tact
When Close Friends Become Far-Away Friends
What do you do when close friends become far-away friends? it’s always murky to try to define the beginning or end of a friendship.
Moved in with my boyfriend and lost my girlfriends
A divorcee’s friends step away after she moved in with a boyfriend.
On missing old friends
A young woman from Sweden laments missing old friends from whom she’s drifted apart.
Our friendship isn’t the same
One of my best friends has changed dramatically in the past year and it’s making me question our friendship.
Change can challenge friendships
The negative impact of a significant life change (s) on friendship, although challenging, can be overcome with effort.
What to do with an out-of-sync friendship
QUESTION Hi Irene, "Lance" and I have been friends since third grade, and now we have both graduated school and are getting jobs or attending college. I feel like I’ve left him in the dust, emotionally speaking. Despite his attempts to attend college and hold a part-time job, he is incredibly immature for his age […]
Fear of Losing All My Friends
Not all friendships last forever: We should always be open to new ones QUESTION Hi Irene, Over the last few months, my best friend, whom I’ll call "L," has grown close to another of my friends, "S." They have done several things together without including me. I’m not interested in some of the […]
Nervous about my friend moving on
When situations change, friendships may change too. If the bonds are strong, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a friend moving is the end of the friendship.
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