Friendship

Overcoming Loneliness The 'OPA!' Way

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Loneliness, Opa Way, Self Help, Antidote, Opa, Opa Meaning, Opa Word Meaning, Opa Lifestyle, Opa Inspiration, Opa Greek Word, Opa Greece, Opa! Way, Healthy Living News

Despite connecting with new "friends" via online social networking, living in cities with thousands of people and working in large organizations, the incidence of people who say they are lonely keeps rising.

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Having Trouble Making New Friends Stick? 11 Possible Causes

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Making Friends, Friendship, Friend, Friendship Expert, Relationships, Lonely, No Friends, Alone, Friendship Advice, Living, Why No Friends, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

Here are some possible reasons that someone might have difficulty developing close, reciprocal relationships with friends.

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How To Be Friends With Your Ex (Even After The Worst Split In History)

Nina Lorez Collins | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Friendship, Ex Husband, Friends, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Divorce, Relationship Tips, Ex-Husband, Divorce News

Like many of us, I had a truly hideous divorce. Adultery, physical violence, arrests, screaming fights, swimming pools of tears, hundreds of thousands...

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6 Ways To Bring Balance To Your Relationships

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Balanced Life, Friends, Give-and-Take, Friendship Advice, Female Friendships, Friendship, Healthy Relationships, Relationships, Relationships Give and Take, Balancing Relationships, Balancing Friendships, Friendships Advice, Healthy Friendships, Friendship Give and Take, Relationships Balance, Friendships Balance, Healthy Living News

Balance in a relationship means not only that you need to give wisely, but also that you may need to look around to see how you're also receiving more than you might notice.

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When a friend who dumped you suddenly pops back in your life

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Invitation, Couple Friends, Living News, Weddings, Friendship Advice, Boyfriend, Relationships, Best Friend, Husband, Living, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Dear Irene, Recently discovered your column (it's awesome) and hope you can help me gain some perspective. I was introduced to my husband ...

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Friendship Calculus: The Problem of Three

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Three, Odd Woman Out, Move, Friendship Expert, Friend Poaching, Relationships, Conflict, Left Out, Threesome, Friendship Advice, Breaking Living News, Moving, Living, Breaking News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Hi Irene: Three friends never seem to work. One person always gets excluded in one way or another. I just moved to a new town where my husb...

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Rent a Friend: A Tweet From Kilkenny, Ireland

Jane Minogue | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Friendship, Central Statistics Office, Welfare, Irish Film, Friends, Unemployment, RTE.Ie, Kilkenny, Quarterly National Household Survey, Twitter, Ireland, Irish, Minogue, Fas, Entertainment News

Dave Minogue has been out of work for two years. Jobs are scarce in Kilkenny -- and the rest of Ireland. The Central Statistics Office reports that Ir...

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In Friendship, Do You Give More Than You Receive?

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Generosity, Friendship Advice, Adult Friendships, Relationships, Female Friendships, Healthy Living News

If there is one thing I hear all the time from women, it is some variation of the theme: "I'm tired of being the one who gives more than I receive." ...

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Phone Friends: Headed Toward Extinction?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Generation Y, Friendship, Friend, Telephone, Breaking Media News, Pamela Paul, Phone, Phone Friend, Cultural Shift, New York Times, Text, Living, Decline in Phone Use, Breaking News, Communication, Healthy Living News

Aided and abetted by new technologies, phone calls and phone friends are becoming a dying breed. More people are switching to text messaging, which is less intrusive and less time-consuming.

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Love my friend---not her problem child

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Relationships, Children, Discipline, Friendship Advice, Parenting, Breaking News, Denial, Friendship, Couple Friends, Mother, Behavior, Bad Kid, Emotional Problems, Mom, Living, Parents, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Hi, Irene. My husband and I are good friends with a couple and enjoy their company. However, they have a 5-year-old child who is completely...

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What Really Helps Others? An Interview With Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Therapy, Relationships, Mindfulness, Karen Kissel Wegela, Meditation, Buddhism, Compassion, Yoga, Being Present, Thich Nhat Hanh, Friendship, Friendship Advice, Friendship Tips, Healthy Living News

If you were sitting across the table from someone who was suffering right now, how would you approach them and what would you tell them?

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How To Turn A Potential Friend Into A Real Friend

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friendship Advice, Adult Friends, Living News, Women Friends, Friendship Adulthood, Finding Adult Friends, Adult Friendships, Female Friendship, Making Friends, Finding Female Friends, Forming Female Friendships, Finding Friends, Relationships, Women Friendship, Friendships, Healthy Living News

You have never met a friend. But you have most certainly met amazing people you have turned into friends. And you can do it again.

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Grief complicated by the loss of a best friend

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Breakup, Neighbor, Relationships, Rebuffed, Disagreement, Friendship Advice, Forgive, Loss, Apology, Death of Child, Grieving, Breaking News, Friendship, Loss of Child, Grief, Living, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Dear Irene, My best friend and I had a major falling out 4½ years ago shortly after the death of my two-year-old son. At the time I was so...

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The Geography Of Friendship

Rachel Bertsche | Posted 11.17.2011

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

A dinner guest had a fabulous theory for testing out whether a city is generally friendly or not: "You can tell by whether or not other girls talk to you while you wait in line for the restroom." I love this. It's a brilliant barometer.

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Toxic friendship? It takes two

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

QUESTION Hi Dr. Levine, I have read most of your posts about needy friends and overbearing friends and annoying friends. I am in a long-term friends...

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Broke Is the New Rich

Penny Love Hoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Friendship, Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Home Owners, Home Foreclosures, Foreclosure, Community Support, Home Prices, Business News

This week I was the recipient of a Barn Raising, but instead of building a place in which to put my cows, it was more along the lines of preparing the place to try and sell it to avoid foreclosure.

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Losing friends when you get divorced

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Friendship Expert, College Friends, Breaking News, Friendship Advice, Divorce, Group, Co-Parenting, Living, Old Friends, Collateral Damage, Breaking Living News, Second Chance, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Hi Irene, Three and a half years ago I left my husband. We divorced amicably and have a collaborative and supportive co-parenting relatio...

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Friendships Don't Just Happen

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Friendships, Forming Female Friendships, Female Friendship, Finding Female Friends, Finding Friends, Friendship Advice, Finding Adult Friends, Relationships, Adult Friendships, Adult Friends, Making Friends, Women Friends, Friendship Adulthood, Women Friendship, Healthy Living News

We know how many potential friendships haven't been actualized because we dropped the ball. We waited for someone else to pursue. We waited for someone else to "just make it happen."

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Middle school is tough on friendships

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Name-Calling, Friendship, Friend, Mean Girls, Teasing, Preteen, Frenemies, Bully, Bullying, Friendship Advice, Teen, Middle School, Best Friend, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Dear Irene, My best friend and I have been best friends since the first grade. Now we're in middle school. This new charter school opened u...

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Trapped in a friendship: Try being honest

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Boundaries, Relationships, Saying No, Children, Mom Friend, Mom, Honesty, Feeling Trapped, Limits, Friendship Advice, Needy, Breaking News, Friendship, Friendship Expert, Candor, Trapped, Living, Communication, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Hi Irene, I have a certain friend with whom I've grown very close over a relatively short period of time (a little over a year). She is an ...

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When friendship makes you feel like you're walking on eggshells

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Breakup, Relationships, Failed Friendship, Break Up, Facebook, Birthday, Friendship, Stress, Catch-22, Expiration Date, No-Win, Ending a Friendship, Best Friend, Living, Communication, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Hi Irene, I haven't spoken to an old best friend for quite some time. I was the last one to initiate contact after the relationship had bec...

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'Frenemies' And 'Bromances': Who Gendered Friendship?

Nicole Rodgers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Gender Roles, Female Friends, Women, Frenemies, Benefit of Female Friends, Relationships, Female Friendships, Bromance, Female Rivalry, Healthy Living News

Consumers of pop culture will find it hard to argue that there's not a strong undercurrent of formulaic and unflattering portrayals of women's relationships with other women.

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The Perils Of Success

Lisa Haisha | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Success, Meditation, Fame, Work-Life Balance, Social Networking, Spirituality, Family, Self Help, Healthy Living News

While it may seem cliché, the fact is that successful people in any arena have increased challenges than "regular folks."

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Oscar-Winner Lisa Blount Is Remembered... "As Is and Still Loved"

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.25.2011

I stood in the house Lisa built, shared mementos and pictures everywhere, and knew something big had been lost. A life, a future, a friendship and all her brilliant work that was to come.

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7 Tips for saying NO to a friend

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Boundaries, Guilt, Relationships, No, Breaking Living News, Breaking News, Limits, Friendship Advice, Problems, Friendship, Turning Down, Friendship Expert, Saying No, Living, Communication, Healthy Living News

Saying NO can unravel a friendship but sometimes there's no way around it. Many of us have a hard time saying NO to a friend. When someone's a tru...

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