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Avoiding A One-Sided Friendship

I have an acquaintance at church who is a real sweet gal, and often calls for a chat or asks me to coffee. I can’t call her a friend because it’s a bit of a one-sided friendship.
Why can’t I make friends?
Recognizing a persistent pattern, a reader asks “Why can’t I make friends?”
Brushed aside by my “best friend” at a formal dinner party
QUESTION Hi Irene, Being that a new husband is a good friend — and should be a best friend — how do you handle being abandoned at a formal dinner party? Your partner is right next to you, but ignores you for a good 30 minutes talking to another woman whose husband most likely is […]
A frenemy across the street is too close for comfort
QUESTION: Dear Irene: I have been friends with the most needy, self absorbed, delusional person for nearly eight years. This woman can be absolutely toxic to the point that I have panic attacks when I feel trapped into interacting with her lately. Ours has never been a 50/50 sort of relationship. I tend to […]
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