When You Know They Saw You, but They Didn’t Say Hi
No one likes that feeling of being snubbed or even simply ignored. And we’ve all had it happen, that time when someone you think is your friend, or at least an acquaintance, clearly sees you but don’t...
View ArticleDealing with Someone with Histrionic Personality Disorder
If you have a family member or spouse with Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD), stepping back may not be an option. However you may not have to if you understand how to maintain boundaries and...
View ArticleMano a Mano (a Mano)
When I was a younger man, my childhood best friend would set out on our own versions of an all-American road trip. Limited by parental allowances and money saved from summer gigs, we zigzagged from New...
View ArticleAre We Happier When We Spend More Time With Others?
In 1938, a group of Harvard researchers decided to start a research program to track the lives of a group of young men, in what eventually became one of the longest and most famous longitudinal studies...
View ArticleIf You Want to Kill a Big Dream, Tell It to Small-Minded People!
— “He who robs you of your dreams, robs you of your life”- Virginia Woolf Mark Twain said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great...
View ArticleThe Different Types Of Friends You Need In Your Life
— We all know that one of the keys to happiness is to have beautiful and enduring relationships with other people; strong and intimate friendships that go deeper than social media, sharing an office at...
View ArticleSmoke Gets in Your Eyes
They say good writing is about telling the truth, sometimes I feel it’s more like stretching the truth, not that verity needs more space, but like perfume, a little goes a long way. “Trade what you’ve...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Tell Us How Relationships Are Changing
Calls for Submissions are ongoing — Submit to this link any time! — Could it be that life was much simpler a long long time ago? That we had fewer relationships, and the roles were more clearly...
View Article5 Things That Make Someone a Great Friend
As we get older, it can seem more difficult to really, deeply connect with others and create lasting friendship. Maybe when you were younger, friendship was more about quantity over quality. Having...
View ArticleFriendship and Mobility
— What are your experiences with friendship & mobility? You are a teenage boy who has two male friends whom you dearly love and choose to spend time with above all others. A sudden divorce results...
View ArticleCongruence Is Ultimately What We Crave
I have been thinking about this for a while now and the best way I have found to describe it is that I think there is a spot in everything that is true. Once we have touched or experienced the spot, it...
View ArticleThe 7 Life-Changing Benefits of Treating My Ex-Wife Well After Divorce
The worst day of my life wasn’t the day the divorce was finalized. It wasn’t even the day she packed a suitcase and drove away with our little boy in the backseat while I watched from the kitchen...
View ArticleSupporting Your Friends During These Uncertain Times
— A national pandemic, millions of people being affected, thousands losing their lives, record-high unemployment rates, social distancing, stay at home orders, increased poverty, civil unrest, and an...
View Article8 Things to Do to Strengthen Your Friendships
It does feel like the older you get, the harder it is to make friends and to have friendships that last a long time. There are many reasons that this happens. It can be due to the fact that as you get...
View ArticleRewriting the Book on Male Friendship
There’s a crisis in male friendships, in case you didn’t know. Male loneliness starts in boyhood, and it’s harder for us to make friends than it is for women. Some are even saying our definition of...
View ArticleHow To Stay Positive and Happy in Life: True Happiness
By Georgiana Baileh Happiness is often portrayed as laughter, presents, purchases, true love and being surrounded by people who never upset us. But the reality is, true happiness does not look like...
View ArticleBig Little Lies: The Lessons We Learn
Big Little Lies taught us some interesting and useful lessons by the end of Season 1. The HBO series, with its star-studded cast including Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz and...
View ArticleDoes It Matter That I Don’t Like Your Partner?
“Do you like my boyfriend?” I remember looking at my friend Julie, with her impatient eyes staring a hole through my core. She wanted to know, desperately. She was a heartbeat away from begging, the...
View ArticleMatthew Moments Live Stream, on Friendships and Tribe [Video]
. . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:00 what’s going on everybody if you’re 00:01 joining us right now hey ellie 00:03 if you’re joining us leave us a comment 00:05 uh i want to be able to see...
View ArticleYour Relationships Evolve as You Evolve
By Bryan Wish During my junior year of college, I reached a low point. After spending so long overachieving and trying to prove that I was more than my prior shortcomings, I had to take a hard look...
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