Friendship - Relationships with new and best friends - Mamamia

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'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?

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'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.'

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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.’

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

Shannen Findlay

'I spent a year trying to make friends as an adult. Here's how it went.'

Mia Freedman: The hack that saved my friendship.

Having a long distance best friend is hard. But people don't talk enough about the advantages.

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The Mamamia team asked each other 6 questions. Let the oversharing begin.

'I'm 40 and I'm down to one close friend. But I don't want any more.'

When Sophie Cachia started dating women, her friendships suddenly changed.

'I had to hide myself from her a little bit.' Breaking up with my best friend was self care.

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