When Friendships Aren’t Forever

Published: February 25, 2012 | Last Updated: February 25, 2012 By | Reply Continue Reading

February 24, 2012

By Natasha Burton

 

Google "break-up" and you’ll see, among mentions of the 2006 romcom starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, a slew of websites and articles devoted to getting over an ex-lover. What you won’t easily find, however, is information on a type of split that experts say can be just as devastating, maybe even more so, than the dissolving of a romantic relationship – the best friend break-up…

 


…Losing a girlfriend can be an extremely lonely experience, says Irene S. Levine, Ph.D., author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving A Break-Up With Your Best Friend. "
One of the things that makes [a friend break-up] really difficult is that there is no one to talk to about it. The person you’d most want to talk to is the person you broke up with."

 

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