Friendship

In Friends We Trust -- Until They Let Us Down

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Living News, Trust, Relationships, Judgment, Threesome, Disappointment, Female, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Dear Irene, About three or four weeks ago, I broke up amicably with a guy I was dating because the relationship just wasn't growing romanti...

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12 Ways To Recover From An Emotional Affair

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Toxic Relationship, Friendship, Cheating, Sex, Emotional-Affair, Relationships, Recover From an Emotional Affair, Healthy Living News

Jimmy Carter isn't the only one with lust in his heart. I receive a handful of e-mails a day from my readers who are either stuck in an emotional affa...

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Friends Don't Judge -- Or Do They?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Single Moms, Friendship, Friend, Relationships, Judgmental, Controlling, Advice Column, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

As your daughter is only 5 ½, you need to be cautious about the people you expose her to. So if your fiancé is incarcerated for child molestation, that obviously should be a deal-killer.

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From Now on, Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stress, Friendship, Consumerism, Class Warfare, United States, Capitalism, Obesity, Portugal, Sweden, World News

At the end of the failed age of market fundamentalism, the long-suppressed democratic cry for equality is emerging once again.

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Want New Friends? 8 Ways To Make Yourself More Likable

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, How to Make Friends, Friends, Relationships, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Well, no. You can't actually make someone like you. But you can behave in ways that will make it slightly more likely. We all want to feel that oth...

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Scenes from a Greek Restaurant

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Friendship, Housing Prices, Suburbia, Restaurants, Middle Class, Living, Families, Housing Crisis, Recession, Style News

I am wistful not because I miss Georgia's split pea soup (though I truly do), but because I'm expecting that such gleeful times in places like Deities may never occur again.

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You Think For Yourself but You Act Like Your Friends (on homophily)

Auren Hoffman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friends, The Nurture Assumption, Copy Cats, Relationships, Look-a-Likes, Sociology, Judith Rich Harris, Mirroring, Copycats, Sex Differences in Social Behavior, Friendship, Friendly, Alice Eagly, James Fowler, Homophily, NIck Christakis, Miller McPherson, Healthy Living News

Friends have the capacity to affect people's tastes, activities, and their lives overall.

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10 Life-Changing Tips From Top Connectors

Sally Horchow | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Neil Armstrong, Connecting, Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti, Roger Horchow, Lifestyle, Dick Bass, Living With Meaning, Art of Friendship, Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, Connector, Connectors, Relationships, Healthy Living News

Connectors' lives -- both innately and deliberately -- are built around their meaningful connections with other people.

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Phoenix, Band on SNL, Not from Brooklyn

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SNL Musical Guest, Andrea-Chalupa, Andrea Chalupa, Friends, French, Phoenix, Phoenix on SNL, Snl, French Style, Friendship, The French, Always-On, Seth Rogan, Video, Entertainment News

Phoenix looked like they were really relishing being on the SNL stage. This exuberance and gratitude didn't fit the aloof, no-big-deal-ness of a posturing band out of Brooklyn.

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Does Friendship Trump Technology?

Karen Leland | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Google, Friendship, Directions, Driving, Google Map, Technology, Healthy Living News

My morning started out well enough, until the doorbell rang. It was the contractor there to discuss the driveway. This would be the same driveway his ...

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Big Hurts, Little Hurts and Apologies: How to Save a Friendship

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Women, Friendships, Living News, Conflict, Relationships, Apologies, Female, Fights, Apology, Healthy Living News

If your friend is unwilling or unable to forgive you, don't lash out in anger. Step back and learn from the experience.

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How To Fix A Financial Freak-Out

Mona Ackerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Money and Friends, Relationships, Menta Health, Advice, Recession, Healthy Living News

Q: I am really fuming at the moment. Let me tell you what happened. I live in an affluent rural area and my husband and I work very hard to ...

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Who Are Your Rocks? The Recession Sucks, Who Ya Gonna Call?

Kari Henley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Ann Naylor, Kelly Corrigan, Featured Contributor, Recession Fears, Community, Recession, Margaret Wheatley, Cara Barker, Video, Healthy Living News

This is the final column in a three part series exploring the power of community as a much needed and oft forgotten tool for stress, coping and perhap...

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How could my friend and colleague undermine me?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Competition, Betrayal, Boundaries, Friends, Living News, Relationships, Envy, Author, Work, Writer, Undermine, Female, Reader Q & A, Healthy Living News

Dear Irene, I'm an award-winning author with a friendship dilemma. A long time friend told one of my clients that my agent was basically a 'nobody' and that I'm 'just a ghost writer.' Should I confront her?

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The 6 Types Of Love

YourTango | Sarah Harrison | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Mania, Relationships, Love, Six Types of Love, What Type of Love Do You Have, Eros, Banquet, Ludus, Pragma, Storge, Healthy Living News

The quiz shows how much you accept six types of love: Eros, Pragma, Banquet, Mania, Ludus and Storge. Yes, they sound like exotic birds or rivers in G...

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"Eat, Pray, Love" Your Way to Closer Relationships

Kari Henley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Eat, Eat Pray Love, Featured Contributor, Elizabeth Gilbert, Community, Family Gatherings, Dr. Cara Barker, Healthy Living News

Last week, we baked a cake together. The cake was called Community and the ingredients were all the layers of relationships we have in our lives: ours...

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7 Tips For Making New Friends

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Psychology, Relationships, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. Ancient philosophers and scientists agree: strong social ties are the KEY to happiness. You need close, long-term relatio...

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Friendship and Money: She's fired, you're not

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Stress, Emma Johnson, Female Friends, Living News, Unemployment, Relationships, Money, Economic Turndown, Pink Slip, Firing, Finances, Economy, Healthy Living News

Any major life change--including an unexpected job loss can increase the risk of a once-close friendship falling apart. As a result, the global recession is challenging untold numbers of female friendships.

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10 Ways To Make Friends

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Companionship, Friendship, Female Friendships, Happiness, Relationships, Healthy 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 11.17.2011

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, Healthy 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 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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Oxytocin Helps Us Move From Tribe to Community

Susan Kuchinskas | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oxytocin, Tribalism, Trust, Paul Zak, Tribes, Brain Chemical, Friendship, Connection, Community, Building Community, Eye Contact, Handshake, Love, Smile, Openness, Relationships, Healthy Living News

Herein lies the key to becoming a more trusting, more unified society: Practice. We will need to exercise our brains to approach each other with openness to connection.

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Who Wants to be the Goose Anyways?! Why Being Single Doesn't Suck

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Musical Chairs, Friends, Singe, Relationships, Romance, Dating, Love, Baby Names, Duck Duck Goose, Weddings, Family, Socialists, Healthy Living News

Every single one of my friends is married or in a long-term relationship. Every. Single. One. I don't know how this happened. Most of us are not even thirty yet.

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Girlfriends with Pink Slips

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Women, Fired, Depression, Living News, Unemployed, Female Friendship, Economic Crisis, Economy, Termination, Layoff, Washington Post, Pink Slip, Slate, Black Monday, Job Cuts, Healthy Living News

The support of female friends can help a woman get over the traumatic emotional and financial losses associated with being fired or let go. What can friends do?

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Inauguration, Orange

Suz Redfearn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama's Inauguration, Inauguration Day Cold, Hope, Inauguration Day, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Inauguration, Jubilation, Inauguration Day Events, Inauguration Day Stories, Washington DC, Third Street, Barack Obama Inauguration, Purple Inauguration Tickets, Barack Obama, Obama Inauguration Day, Happiness, Joy, Friendship, Virginia, Kids, Arlington Cemetary, Being Cold, Inauguration, Florida, Excitement Obama, Obama Inauguration Tickets, Politics News

I have no capacity for standing out in the cold. I was born in Florida. What was I going to do with my two year-old? All our babysitters either wanted to be home to watch the Inauguration themselves, or try to go.

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