A practical guide for expanding your circle, with advice from sociable people.
Category: Friendship
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Why Do Houseguests Expect Us to Pay for Any Food During Their Visits?
A married couple is unsure how to get guests at their vacation home to pony up for groceries — ideally without being asked.
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How to Make and Keep Friends
Finding friendship and maintaining connections in adulthood is hard. Here’s where to start.
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Our Friend Won’t Stop Talking About Her Daughter’s Boyfriend. Help!
An extended friend group has had it with the boyfriend updates, but apart from oblique jokes, no one is willing to address their friend’s fixation directly.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m 23. He’s 40.’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Will Arnett, Laura Dern and Bradley Cooper: 3 Friends Walk Into a Comedy Club
In many ways, their new relationship tale, “Is This Thing On?,” relies on their shared history over 25 years.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Either a Good Omen or a Nightmare’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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I Think My Good Friend Is Betraying Me, but I’m Not Sure. What Should I Do?
A reader suspects that a friend is divulging her secrets. If not, why do people around town seem to know her personal business?
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Should I Confront My Friend About Her Affair?
We all reside in senior living, and she is carrying on with a man under his disabled wife’s nose.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Ted and I Are Implausible Friends’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Can I Tell My Father That I’m Too Grief-Stricken to Attend His Wedding?
Still mourning the deaths of her mother and stepmother, a reader is unsure whether she would be able to maintain composure during her father’s third wedding ceremony.
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My Good Friend Doesn’t Let Me Get a Word in Edgewise. Help!
A reader’s patience is wearing thin with an otherwise fun and generous friend who leaves much to be desired as a conversational partner.