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Art's Best Frenemies

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Marquez, Stephen King, Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Best Fiend, Van Gogh, Picasso, Banksy, Warner Herzog, Kinski, Art History, Artist Drama, Robbo, Frenemy, Arts News

Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were...

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4 Consequences to Labeling a Friend 'Toxic'

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.27.2011

Do a google search with two words that by definition shouldn't be in the same sentence, "avoid" and "friend," and you'll get a list of 409,000,000 articles helping you figure out which friends to drop.

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Top 10 friendship dilemmas of 2010

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Friendships, even very good ones, typically change over time. But the "rules" or etiquette on how to best adapt to a changed friendship are often murk...

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17 Things Every Women's Magazine Will Tell You (That You Should Ignore)

The Frenemy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Aniston is really hot but she is also very pathetic. We want to have her hairstyle and her arms, but only to carry on her legacy when she dies alone.

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I can't believe she defriended me!

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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This week, I received an email from another writer who reminded me that she had once defriended me on Facebook. We both belong to the same professiona...

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The elephant in the room: My once-BFF

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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QUESTION: Hi Irene, I love your blog and read it all the time; you offer such great advice. Now I have some problems of my own and was wondering if...

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The Frenemy Within

Rachel Bertsche | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rachel Bertsche, How to Make Friends, Friendship Loneliness, Friendship, Female Friendship, Frenemy, Friendships, Making Friends, Relationships, Healthy Living News

In searching for a BFF, it might be helpful to consider what qualities most certainly do not make a friend. Here are some sentences that should never escape the mouth of a BFF.

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Martha and Her: The Best of Friends?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Martha, you had to be hurt when Mariana testified against you at your trial. But writing this book and exposing the intimacies of your longstanding friendship so publicly, was a particularly bitter form of betrayal.

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A breakdown of trust: When long-time friends fight over a guy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

QUESTION Dear Dr. Levine, For the past six to eight months I've had two friendships deteriorate. Jillian had been my friend for about 15 years. We ...

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Five Ways to Improve Your Friendships in 2010

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Are you only hanging on to one or more friendships only because of your reluctance to let go of a shared history? Perhaps you need to let go.

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Five Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Frenemy

Michelle Madhok | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gift Shopping, Holiday, Frenemy, Holiday Shopping, Gifts, Style News

You probably have a "friend" who you don't actually like, but you kind of have to get her a gift anyway. We think you should buy her one of these five things.

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Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?

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She's Just Not That Into You: Six Ways to Know When a Girlfriend's a Frenemy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living News, Trust, Judgmental, Movies, Mercurial, Fractured Friendships, Female Friends, She?S Just Not That Into You, Ambivalence, Inconsistent, Frenemy, Entertainment News, Possessiveness, Girlfriends, He?S Just Not That Into You, Female Friendships, Friendship, Relationships, Healthy Living News

Sometimes it's difficult to decide whether someone is truly a friend or may, instead, be a frenemy.

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'Frenemy' Enters the Friendship Lexicon

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Our friends are often like a second family, so it's inevitable that drama can arise."

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