Tag: phone friend

Phone Friends: Headed toward Extinction?

Published: March 23, 2011 | Last Updated: March 23, 2011 By | 10 Replies Continue Reading

Be honest. Do you cringe when the phone rings? Check Caller ID and get annoyed when someone, even your BFF, calls when you’re in the middle of something? Prefer talking when YOU want to rather than when SHE wants to? Do you send a quick text or email with the hopes of avoiding a lengthy […]

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Reader Q & A: Why did she dump me?

Published: November 17, 2008 | Last Updated: November 17, 2008 By | Reply Continue Reading

QUESTION: Hi Irene, I telephoned a girlfriend today for a chat and to see how see was doing and she hit me with a bombshell. She politely told me that she saw no point in continuing our friendship. She said she was making positive changes in her life and I wasn’t included. We have had […]

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Women, friends, and personal crises: An open letter to Friends of Silda Spitzer

Published: March 13, 2008 | Last Updated: March 13, 2008 By | Reply Continue Reading

"She’ll have no shortage of people wanting to be there for her," says one of Silda’s friends quoted in the Washington Post. But will her friends know how to be there for her? When something lousy happens to a friend, it often leaves us at a loss for words. That’s why I’m writing this open […]

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