Tag: female friendship
Reader Q & A: Avoiding entanglements after a break up
Dear Irene, I have a long time friend who was a single mother just like me when we first met ten years ago. I knew she was a headstrong and opinionated early on and accepted that. However, I’ve always worried a bit about her. She had a traumatic childhood; she was adopted after her […]
Reader Q & A: I’m stuck! I don’t want to lose my BFF
QUESTION: Dear Irene: I met my friend “Amanda” in high school. I was a junior and she was a freshman, so we’ve been best friends (BFFs) for 9 years. Our friendship over the years has survived a lot. The trouble I am having is deciding whether I should hold on to the friendship or not? […]
Can This Teen Friendship Be Saved?
A teen friendship seems to be fraying and a young woman whether she should end it or try to save the friendship.
The Unexpected Gift
An unexpected gift from a friend can lift spirits and make a rainy day seem sunny.
Best Friends Day: Also a day for ladies-in-waiting
Oops, I blinked and I missed it. I just found out that Sunday, June 8th was Best Friends Day, which completed passed me by. I don’t know how. I didn’t even pause to pay homage to my own Besties on that day. Shame on me! That morning one of my closest friends called while waiting […]
Sex: The Ultimate GNO is Coming to Your Neighborhood
What will you be doing when Sex and The City (SATC) hits the theatres on Friday, May 30th? If you are female and haven’t thought about getting together with friends, you must be living in a cave. The trailers and marketing blitz have reached a feverish pitch. On that evening (and the weeks and months […]
Reader Q & A: Help! My best friend is driving me crazy!
Might it be time to call it quits? QUESTION: My best friend is finally dumping her jerk husband of more than a decade and I’m glad about that but it’s all wearing me to a nub. Her frenzied dating is making me nuts. She talks about her boyfriends constantly, and about how many men are […]
Eat, Pray, Love, and Befriend
I just read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert—finally. In the book, Gilbert translates an Italian phrase un’amica stretta, which means a close friend With her wonderful way with words and analogies, she goes on to say, "…stretta literally means tight, as in clothing, like a tight skirt. So a close friend, in Italian, is […]
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