You know a friend is not very good for you if:
They make you feel about yourself when you speak with them or are around them.
They seem to be more comfortable being your friend when you’re down.
They struggle to be happy for you and view your happiness and your gains as something that they don’t have.
They [...]

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I remember that scene in Sex and The City where Samantha went around NYC taping posters of cheating Richard on lampposts. The female cop warns her that it’s against the law to fly post but Samantha tells her that she caught him going down on another woman and the cop tells her to go ahead. [...]

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I admit that despite vowing never to watch the damn thing again, for three months each year, I find myself compelled to tune into Big Brother (the UK version). It doesn’t matter that I pathologically dislike the bulk of them; there is just something so interesting about watching people who really only desire their one [...]

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I was emailed recently by a reader who wanted to know if she should confront The Other Woman after discovering that her husband had been cheating.
“NML, I feel like my entire life has been shattered. I want to speak to this woman. I want to know why she thinks it’s OK to screw someone else’s [...]

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I have been with my boyfriend for nearly a year and we have been living together for 8 months. He has a close friend who is a women, and she is divorcing her husband who beat and raped her for 5 years. The problem is my boyfriend stays round her house on a Friday night [...]

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Baggage Reclaim is big promoter of sisterhood, that often forgotten stalwart of female friendships and good karma. Due to recent events in the Celebrity Big Brother house (women bitching, bullying, being ignorant, racist and downright nasty), Big Brother’s Big Brain (the show where the psychologists analyse the housemates behaviour) has laid out the type of [...]

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When we were little playing in the sandpit, tussling over Barbies and changing our best friend from one hour to the next, it seemed like an innocent world, but as the years went by, we turned into women that have learnt certain behaviours which will put you into one of two camps: The Chicks Before [...]

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When you have a friend, it’s very easy for you to get attached to them and vice versa. Sometimes, the bonds are so strong that it’s hard for your friend to let go, even though you’ve done everything short of overtly telling them that—chick, it’s over.
Ignoring won’t work with most, because when you ignore someone, [...]

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According to June’s Cosmopolitan, frienvy is defined as the envious feelings that you get when your friend has what you covet. It is fuelled by your friend achieving success in one area of her life where either you were both equal or she was on a lesser level than you were. However, she might get [...]

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These suggestions are on the basis that the demise of your friendship is over a disagreement of some sort, not for when you find out that your friend has been screwing your man behind your back!
Be the better person – I don’t mean that you should follow her around emulating her and exceeding her behaviours [...]

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