Tag: intimacy
Can’t Get Close To My Self-Centered Friend
If you are unable to get close to someone, it may be that the person is self-centered and emotionally incapable of focusing on others.
How To Deepen a Friendship
Journalist and guest author Kare Anderson offers advice on how to deepen a friendship. It boils down to: Do unto others as they would have done unto them.
Not good at keeping friends
A woman is concerned that she isn’t keeping friends and is simply moving on to new ones.
Feeling left out from a circle of friends
In every circle of friends, people often form bonds within the group.
No Best Friends But Plenty of Contacts
QUESTION Hi, I have grown up moving around a lot—five middle schools and six elementary schools to be exact. Always being the new kid conditioned me to meet new people. Once I hit a certain point with friends, I find new ones. I guess I get bored or scared. Is it okay to not have […]
Never a Best Friend?
I have a lot of friends that I’m very attached to, and enjoy spending time with….but at no point in my life have I ever been someone’s BEST friend.
Workplace friendships: Betrayed by the gossip girl
In the workplace, it’s particularly important to build friendships slowly before sharing too many intimacies.
Downgrading a disappointing friendship
QUESTION Hello, I have been struggling over this issue for so long and do not know what to do. I am 37 years old and have had a close friendship with a girl since second grade. Since then, we have been BFFs. After 7th grade I moved away, but we stayed connected and visited each […]
The Sometimes Friend
QUESTION Dear Irene, I’m in my late 30’s and for as long as I can remember (since early childhood), I have always been the "sometimes friend". Usually there are two friends who are inseparable. They are on each other’s speed dial, they shop together, lunch together, and their families spend time together. And only sometimes…will […]
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