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Reader Q & A: What to do about a judgmental friend?

Published: October 19, 2008 | Last Updated: October 19, 2008 By | 4 Replies Continue Reading

QUESTION: Dear Irene, My friend and I have known each other since college, and we were roommates throughout. We were very, very close when we were younger, but as we got older and moved to different places our friendship became more distant, though we remained good friends. I’ve moved to her town for graduate school, […]

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Just Friends?

Published: September 1, 2008 | Last Updated: August 3, 2021 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

In a recent post on her Psychology Today blog, research psychologist Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out, raises the issue of what it means to be “just friends.” Unlike marriage (and same-sex unions in some States), friends have no legal ties to one another. Unlike siblings, they have no blood ties. Yet one of […]

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