Friendship - Relationships with new and best friends - Mamamia

There's an exact age your friendships will go through a 'splinter era'. Here's how to survive it.

Being the only single friend in your group sucks. It's worse when there's two.

'My best friends are the ones I made as an adult. Here's how I did it.'

From an absent friend, to a complex mother-daughter situation: How to repair any relationship.

'I ghosted my friend after she got the worst news of her life. Here's why.'

'My first girls' trip was a disaster. Here's how we make it work when we all earn different wages.'

'The 'Marilyn Monroe Effect' has helped me make new friends as an introvert.'

'I wondered why making friends is so hard as an adult. Then I learned of the "friendship dip."'

Virginia Tapscott

ASK HOLLY: ‘We don’t want our single, flaky friend to come on our group holiday.’

Holly Wainwright

There's a lot of distressing news right now. Here's how to check in on your friends.

Everyone is suddenly romanticising 'soulmate friendships'. They're bulls**t.

HOLLY WAINWRIGHT: I am a 'soft troll'. So are you. Don't kid yourself that it's kinder.

Holly Wainwright

'Don't f**k it up.' How to not make it worse when your friend is having a hard time.

'There's a fear of rejection.' How to stop being a people pleaser according to the experts.

'Oh that happened to me, too!' Sharing your experiences in conversation is common but sometimes it’s best to just listen.

The Conversation

'We're in the era of 'firing' our friends'. Here's why it needs to stop.'

LEIGH CAMPBELL: My husband is not my true soulmate, my girlfriends are. Here’s why.

'I was confused, happy, angry and sad.' The complex grief of breaking up with your best friend.

Anisha Premawardhana

'My friend is engaged to a man that I think is bad for her. Here is how I'm going to tell her.'

'I've been attracting trauma friendships my whole life and I've figured out why.'

'This morning a Facebook memory popped up. It plunged me into a complicated kind of grief.'

The internet's decided you need 7 types of friends to be fulfilled. But do you really?

'I really hated my colleague. Then she hacked into my Slack account.'

Should friendships have a best-before date?

Shannen Findlay

'My friend went to therapy, then broke up with me. She wrote a letter telling me why.'

'My friend had one fatal flaw. Once I spotted it, I knew it was the end of our friendship.'

How do you make friends as an adult? 11 women share how they make new friends.

22 women on their most brutal friendship breakups, and what they would say to them now.

There are only 2 types of friends everyone needs in their life, according to a psychotherapist.

‘After a disagreement, my best friend deleted me from her life. It was a relief.’

"A cheese platter is a perfectly acceptable meal": 7 women share the best piece of advice they got from their mum.

"I was told I was a 'bad friend' this year. I refuse to apologise for it."

Shannen Findlay

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