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Do we really need to keep screwing around with friendship?

By On April 24, 2013 · 121 Comments

Sometimes I catch myself when I’m about to describe someone as a friend when they’re more of an acquaintance or near close to being a stranger and I correct myself. The mutual relationship between friends has become quite cheap in this day and age when you’ve got people who have one thousand friends [...]

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Are You Being ‘Too Sensitive’?

By On October 31, 2012 · 173 Comments

I’m always wary of people who say and do stuff and then when called on it, they pull the ‘sensitivity card’ especially as I guarantee you that if you were to find their own ‘hot button’ or challenge them on what they’ve said or done, you’ll see how ‘sensitive’ they are. Ironically. Of course they’ll [...]

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When You Experience Conflict In Your Friendships Because Of New Boundaries

By On September 20, 2010 · 29 Comments

One of the most common difficulties I hear about when people make changes such as implementing boundaries and basically treating themselves with love, care, trust, and respect, is that they discover that where they may have lacked boundaries with their relationships, there have also [...]

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Is it so hard to join the sisterhood?

By On August 8, 2007 · 3 Comments

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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