Tag: neighbors
Setting Boundaries With Neighbors
A woman asks about setting boundaries with neighbors who are impinging on her personal time and space.
Remaining On Friendly Terms When Neighbors Ask To Borrow Your Stuff
A single woman feels used when her neighbors ask to borrow her expensive snowblower each winter and doesn’t know what to say.
My neighbor makes me feel uncomfortable
A woman feels uncomfortable about her neighbor’s physical contact with her children.
Friendship Etiquette: An Expanding Group of Neighbors
A friendly group of neighbors has gotten so large that logistical problems arise in arranging get-togethers.
In the Media – 6 ways to make friends with your neighbors (Women’s Health)
An article on Women’sHealth.com offers tips on how to make friends with your neighbors.
Mining Your Neighborhood for Friends
With life being more mobile than ever before, we’re less likely to know our neighbors—missing out on a fertile and convenient source of friendships.
No friends: Don’t tell me to join a group
Some people are joiners and others aren’t. There are other ways to meet new people—but you need to discover how and it may take more time and effort. QUESTION Hi Irene, I am a forty-something woman, no kids. I used to have friends, a life, and a career. Then we moved to a rural area for […]
On having neighbors who don’t have to knock
This was a great article by John Leland in the New York Times, in case you didn’t see it. It tells the story of a group of women in their 70s and 80s who live on the same floor, in public housing, in an apartment building in the Washington Heights section of New York. They […]
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