Tag: toxic friendships

In the Media – Recognizing when friendships become toxic

Published: March 13, 2014 | Last Updated: December 28, 2020 By | Reply Continue Reading
In the Media – Recognizing when friendships become toxic

In PsychCentral.com, Lauren Suval outlines some of the signs of a toxic friendship.

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In the Media – Toxic pals: Behind frenemy lines (CNN)

Published: February 25, 2014 | Last Updated: February 25, 2014 By | Reply Continue Reading
In the Media – Toxic pals: Behind frenemy lines (CNN)

LeTrent interviewed Dr. Irene S. Levine and other experts on the topic of toxic friendships, pointing out some of the characteristics of these relationships and how to end them.

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Friendship by the Book: An interview with Alexa Young, author of Frenemies

Published: June 28, 2008 | Last Updated: November 27, 2012 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

Some of the most painful and unexpected girlfriend breakups occur during the roller-coaster middle-school years. Alexa Young’s engaging new teen novel, Frenemies (HarperTeen, 2008) is a book that moms will want their daughters to read in preparation for this rude awakening. The book tells the story of two eighth-graders and BFFs, Halley Brandon and Avalon Greene, who have always agreed on everything. But after spending a summer apart, they’ve changed—physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually.

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Sticks and Stones: Perversions of the language of friendship

Published: February 16, 2008 | Last Updated: April 2, 2016 By | 8 Replies Continue Reading

I found a new-to-me friendship term in the Urban Dictionary, frienvy. It describes the envious feelings someone has towards a friend who loses weight, gets a promotion, or finds a new love. OK, it’s kind of cute. The dictionary also defines friendwhoring, the verb: stealing someone else’s friends and making them your own. Getting a […]

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Twenty Questions: Spotting a Toxic Friendship

Published: December 4, 2007 | Last Updated: September 17, 2014 By | 9 Replies Continue Reading

Here are 20 questions to help you spot a toxic friendship.

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Friendship by the Book: Songs without Words

Published: November 5, 2007 | Last Updated: November 6, 2007 By | Reply Continue Reading

When a close friendship fades away, the passage of time makes it harder and harder to patch up the divide. In Songs without Words (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), the writing of Ann Packer captures the fragility of female friendships as well as the complexities of repairing friendships when they falter. Lifelong friends Liz and Sarabeth […]

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Toxic Friends: An Interview with Florence Isaacs

Published: August 27, 2007 | Last Updated: May 17, 2020 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

Freelance journalist Florence Isaacs, an expert on relationships, friendship, and effective communication in business and social situations, wrote the groundbreaking book on friendship, Toxic Friends True Friends: How Your Friendships Can Make or Break Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Career (Citadel, 2003). When I decided to write a book about fractured friendships, her book was high on my reading […]

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Friendships that are truly HEART-FELT

Published: July 4, 2007 | Last Updated: December 19, 2014 By | Reply Continue Reading

If you need another excuse for getting out of a fractured friendship, here it is: Stressful friendships may be bad for your heart.

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