Female Friendships

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Detox From Toxic Friends

Christine Whelan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Friendship, Female Friends, Cleanse, Toxic-Friends, Toxic Friends, Toxic Friendship, Susan Shapiro Barash, Female Friendships, The Balanced Life, Living News

I admit it: I have a friend that I'm afraid to totally ditch for fear she'll do something nasty to me. OK, now your turn: You have toxic friendships, I know you do. It's time to admit it--and figure out why.

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Five Tips to Mend a Tattered Friendship

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Bff, Apologize, Women, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Tips, Forgive, Relationship News, Living, Mend, Best Friends Forever, Forgiveness, Female Friendships, Apology, Breaking Living News, Irene S. Levine, Tattered, Living News

Harboring resentment towards someone has a way of bouncing back like a boomerang to hurt you (including raising your blood pressure). Let go of the disappointment.

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Jennifer's Body: Best Friends Forever, Covered in Blood

Rachel Simmons | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Diablo Cody, Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox Jennifer's Body, Female Friendships, Entertainment News

It's no accident that every feature film about girls' aggression has been a comedy. To make a real drama about the heartbreak of female intimacy is too dangerous.

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9 Signs Your Friend Is Toxic

wowOwow | Randi Bernfield | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Fractured Friendships, Maintaining Friendships, Friends, Toxic Friendship, Female Friendships, Female Friendship, Happiness, Living News

The colloquial term "frenemy" was coined to describe a complicated relationship wherein a person causes a friend such pain and anguish that there is a...

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What Kind of Girl Power is This?

Rachel Simmons | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Boarding School, Female Friendships, Hazing, Girl Power, Bullying, Living News

Girls grow up in a world that largely depicts female aggression as comedy, and euphemizes their cruelty as a "rite of passage," developmental phase or "girls being girls."

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How To Declutter Your Friendships

Karen Leland | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Self Help, Friends, Idenity, Female Friendships, Relationships, Wellness, Happiness, Lunch, Living News

Elizabeth was the type of friend who was always inviting me out to lunch and then ambushing me with the delivery of her latest disappointments in our ...

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Party Like It's 2009

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 04.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Living, Female Friendships, Personal Health, Bartering, Recession, Books, Book Swap, Bbq, Partying, Parties, Reading, Style News

But what was really in my home on a recent Sunday was a gathering of people laughing and enjoying each others' company as they escaped from their burdens for an afternoon.

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Friendship and Money: Minimizing Losses

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Emma Johnson, Female Friends, Unemployment, Economic Turndown, Friendship and Money, Loans, Firing, Female Friendships, Finances, Recession, Economy, Living News

Blabbing about the nitty-gritty of your income is probably not a great idea, but it's ok to confide in a friend who won't judge you, will give you tough love when needed and, most importantly, listen.

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Friendless in Seattle: Searching for Answers

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Making Friends, Living News, Relationships, Healthy Relationships, No Friends, Stickiness, Female Friendships, Bonding, Prospecting Meeting People, Reader Q & A, Seattle, Friendless, Living News

You may be making bad choices when you choose potential friends. The odds are better that a friendship will "stick" when two people have a common thread, such as a shared interest.

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10 Ways To Make Friends

Therese Borchard | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Companionship, Friendship, Female Friendships, Happiness, Relationships, Living News

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it also takes a village--at best a supportive community, and at the least a few very good friends-...

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Valentine's Day: Not Just for Lovers

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.16.2009 | Living

Read More: The Daily Spy, Friendship, Día Del Amor Y La Amistad, Living News, Esther Howland, Friends, February 14th, Relationships, Valentine’s Day, Female Friendships, Greeting Cards, YstäväNpäIvä, Living News

The first handmade Valentine's Day cards in the 1800s weren't intended only for lovers. They also celebrated affection between friends and relatives.

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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 03.14.2009 | Living

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, Living News

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

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Together We Stand: The Inauguration

Joy Bryant | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

We all stood, friends and strangers, freezing and frozen, laughing and crying, booing and cheering... together. And that's how we'll get through all the mess that our country is in.

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Sophisticated Lady's Friendship Conundrum

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Deprecating, Couple Friends, Living News, Work, Best Friends, No Friends, Nurturing Friendships, Moving, Female Friendships, Women’s Friendships, Reader Q & A, Shyness, Relationships, Living News

Just because two female friends are close doesn't mean that their spouses will feel the same way about one another.

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Obamarella Borrows for the Ball

Alison Owings | Posted 02.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Fashion, Inauguration, Inaugural Ball, Obama Inauguration, Women, Clothing, Female Friendship, Barack Obama Inauguration, Clothes, Dresses, Female Friendships, Style News

For a woman, ball means ballgown. For this woman, "ball" conjures high school formal. I have nothing fitting that ball bill. I can come up with a great slacks and top outfit. It ain't ballgown.

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Cancer is a Bitch: An Interview with Author Gail Konop Baker

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 02.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Living News, Friends, Books, Style News, Female Friendships, Friendship by the Book, Breast Cancer, Declutter, Running, Sisterhood, Midlife, Gail Konop Baker, Cancer Is a Bitch, Cancer, Ductal Carcinoma in Situ, Dcis, Dacapo, Health, Living News

Gail Konop Baker: "Receiving a cancer diagnosis is like being forced to walk through fire. It isn't something you choose. It isn't something you can conjure in your mind."

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Join Me on Ada Lovelace Day

Suw Charman-Anderson | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Linkedin, Twitter, Empowerment, Ada Lovelace, Gender Issues, Technology, Female Friendships, Gender, Living News

Why do women feel less secure in their abilities than most men? Recent research may shed some light: women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones.

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Friendship by the Book: Friday Nights

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fractured Friendships, Women, Relationships, Female Friendship, Friday Nights, Books, Joanna Trollope, Female Friendships, Irene S. Levine, Living News

Through her characters, author Joanna Trollope explores some of the universal emotions that characterize female friendships including love, loyalty, passion, and jealousy.

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A Friendship Too Broken to Fix

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Fractured Friendships, Women, Friends, Living News, Ambivalence, Dumped, Hostility, Female Friendships, Style News, Irene S. Levine, Relationships, Living News

It's exceedingly difficult, usually impossible, to downgrade a romance to a platonic friendship after someone has been dumped.

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Friends Who Are Green with Envy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Living News, Relationships, Envy, Envious, Reciprocity, Self-Esteem, Toxic Friend, Female Friendships, Jealousy, Reader Q & A, Living News

Women with low self-esteem, or who are depressed, tend to focus exclusively on their shortcomings and are bitter about what they perceive as the advantages or good fortune of others.

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The 'Book Babes' List of Books on Female Friendships

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Book Babes, Women, Relationships, Style, Between the Covers, Books, Ellen Heltzel, Margo Hammond, Female Friendships, Da Capo, Living, Irene S. Levine, Female Authors, Female Relationships, Bibliophiles, Female Literature, Feminine Literature, Entertainment News

Female friendships can spring out of a variety of circumstances and show their strengths in many ways. The ten books that follow celebrate the rich bonds that women can forge.

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The Professors' Wives' Club: An interview with Joanne Rendell

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Joanne Rendell, Wives, Manhattan U, Living News, Relationships, The Wednesday Sisters, Work-Life Balance, Female Friendships, Friendship by the Book, Book Review, Novel, The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Professors’ Wives’ Club, University, Intergenerational Friendships, Infidelity, Homosexuality, Washington Square, Faculty, Sisterhood, Homeschooling, Friendship Circles, Nyu, Moms, New York University, Domestic Abuse, Living News

In this breakout first novel, Joanne Rendell creates powerful characters struggling to define their roles as women and an engaging plot that keeps you glued until the end.

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"Girls' Night Out" Takes A Hit with the Economic Downturn

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Living News, Relationships, Girls’ Night Out, Female Friendships, Lipstick Jungle, Girls’ Night In, Friendship, Contest, Potlucks, Unemployment, Jo Gartin, Wall Street, Bailout, Style, Orville Redenbacher, Economy, Weddings, Living News

With the cost of entertainment, transportation and meals skyrocketing, there's a natural tendency to hunker down, cocoon at home, and reduce spending.

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Balancing Motherhood, Marriage and Friendship: An Interview With Allison Winn Scotch

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Allison Winn Scotch, Maintaining Friendships, Time, Living News, Relationships, Infertility, Motherhood, Random House, Female Friendships, Virtual Friends, Isolation, Time of My Life, Friendship by the Book, Marriage, Loneliness, 30-Something, Weinstein Company, Syle, Living News

Time of Your Life tells the story of Jillian -- a thirty-something, married, suburban mother -- who suddenly sees her life playing out a different way than it did seven years ago, jumps to fix it, and takes the reader along for the ride

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Four Calls Before 8 AM

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Women, Aging, Relationships, Mananita, Birthdays, Living, Caregiver, Loss, Female Friendships, Irene S. Levine, Living News

For as long as I can remember, my mom has called me at 7:46 AM on every single birthday. It was well past 8:00 AM and I realized that this was the first time that my mother's call hadn't come.

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