Tag: judgment

What Do You Consider A ‘Friendship Killer’?

Published: February 27, 2022 | Last Updated: March 1, 2022 By | 5 Replies Continue Reading
What Do You Consider A ‘Friendship Killer’?

When a friend really disappoints or let you down, it can be a friendship killer. There’s no way to forgive or forget

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Hesitant to judge a friend making bad decisions

Published: January 18, 2017 | By | 8 Replies Continue Reading

Good friends need to say something when a friend is making bad decisions.

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Friendship: A Matter of Trust

Published: October 11, 2014 | Last Updated: March 7, 2022 By | 20 Replies Continue Reading

Can you be friends with someone whom you aren’t sure you can trust? Her friend has many nice qualities but vastly different values.

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My best friend is desperate and makes bad choices when it comes to men

Published: March 1, 2014 | Last Updated: March 1, 2014 By | 9 Replies Continue Reading

What do you say when your best friend is desperate she will hook up with anyone?

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At Wit’s End: My friend lives from hand-to-mouth and I always need to bail her out

Published: January 27, 2012 | Last Updated: September 4, 2014 By | 6 Replies Continue Reading

A point can come in a friendship when you’re not only doing a disservice to yourself but also to the other person.

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The Kiss: Do you think her best friend will forgive her?

Published: December 14, 2011 | Last Updated: September 4, 2014 By | 1 Reply Continue Reading

Two friends have a fallout when one of them kisses the other’s ex.

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Friendship: For the sake of the children?

Published: September 8, 2010 | Last Updated: June 12, 2013 By | 6 Replies Continue Reading

Some moms are so eager to make friends for the sake of the children that they don’t exercise sufficient caution,

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Her friends say they’re ‘just not that into him’

Published: August 25, 2010 | Last Updated: August 25, 2010 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

QUESTION Dear Irene, Our best friend has been seeing this guy. She’s really into him so she wanted us to spend some time together to get to know him. Unfortunately, both of us really dislike him. We find him arrogant and narcissistic, to the point of his putting us down to make himself look better. […]

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A friend you can count on…well, sometimes

Published: March 19, 2010 | Last Updated: March 19, 2010 By | 4 Replies Continue Reading

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 […]

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In friends we trust—until they let us down

Published: April 21, 2009 | Last Updated: October 29, 2013 By | 1 Reply Continue Reading

When friends we trust have a lapse in judgment, it can be difficult to get over.

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