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Can We Be Friends? Shifting From Partnership to Friendship
by EqualityinMarriage.org
It's the dreaded four-word phrase. Can we be friends? It's a classic break-up line, but it's also an issue that must be faced when a relationship hits the rocks. In reality, the questions ought to be should we be friends? And, if so, how will we

Just Friends: A Logical Debate
by Linda Dominique Grosvenor
Can men and women be just friends? Yes! Or so they say. I asked a male friend of mine to elaborate on the theory of "just friend-ship" and while he did admit that when he was younger he tried to befriend the "better looking" ladies at

Kim
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III: More Stories of Life, Love and Learning
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger
The third volume in the Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series gives more love, support and inspiration for the series' loyal teen readers. More and more, life is a struggle for teens. Not just dealing with the tragedies that seem to plague them

He is in love with her & wantes to leave his wife
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
Don has not had a happy marriage. After knowing Sherry for a more than a year, he told her he was in love with her and wanted to leave his wife. Sherry told him to go home -- he had two little boys and a wife. Don did not listen and kept pressing Sherry

An Invitation to a Birthday Party
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Catherine O'Neill Grace, Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
All parents experience pain about their children's social lives. There is no escaping it. A mother agonizes over her child's social dilemmas. A father immediately assesses whether his son or daughter is well received by a group of children.

Helping A Friend Who Is Hurting
by Tony Schirtzinger; ACSW, CICSW
Sometimes we want to be helpful to an adult friend who is feeling bad. How can we offer personal help to a friend? How can we guard against damaging our relationship with them in the process? THREE GUIDING PRINCIPLES: Do you really WANT to help?

Introduction
Teen Love: A Journal on Friendship
by Kimberly Kirberger
There is nothing more precious than friendship, and this is never more true than when you are a teen. Our close friends become our most trusted confidantes. Without them, life would be very scary and incredibly boring.

A Brother's Love
Teen Love: On Friendship
by Kimberly Kirberger
Sometimes we look in all the wrong places and to all the wrong people to get the support we need. It's taken me a while to learn that friendship can be found closer than you think, even in your own home. Growing up, I knew I always had a great friend

The Stranger Within
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger
This latest serving from the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series explores the topics nearest and dearest to teen hearts: love and friendship. Your teen years are challenging-relationships with their family and friends are constantly

The Hunger for Friends
The Friendship Crisis : Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You're Not a Kid Anymore
by Marla Paul
Maybe there are some women who have never felt lonely for friends, but I doubt it. I believe virtually every woman has moments, or months, or years when she feels her dance card is empty, or at least not completely filled.

Part 1
A Friend Is a Gift
by Joanne Davis
A friend is a gift. Whether those words have ever rolled off your tongue or drifted through your head in a quiet moment of deep reflection, the truth is undeniable. Friendship is a gift of enormous value. Providing intimacy, rapport, trust, and affection

Planting the Garden Alone, Split Strawberries
Teen Ink: Friends and Family
by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer
In the third volume of the incredibly popular Teen Ink series, teens share their thoughts on the emotional peaks and valleys of dealing with friends and family. The joys and challenges, highlights and sorrows are all exposed in this diverse collection.

A Good Man's Departure
The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship
by Dave Pelzer
In The Privilege of Youth, Dave Pelzer shares the missing chapter of his life: as a boy on the threshold of adulthood. With sensitivity and insight, he recounts the relentless taunting he endured from bullies; but he also describes the thrill of making

You, Your Child, and Your Child's Friends
The Friendship Factor: Helping Our chldr Navigate Their Social World Why It Matters for Their Success H
by Kenneth H. Rubin, Ph.D., Andrea Thompson
A landmark book on the importance and development of children's social relationships. Based on twenty-five years of research on friendship, Dr. Kenneth H. Rubin reveals the importance of children's social development to their emotional and intellectual

Torch Song
The Friend Who Got Away : Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. The Friend Who Got Away is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave

Father and Son
Comrades
by Stephen E. Ambrose, Ph.D.
I've waited until the end to write about my friendship with my father. The joy of discovering male friendship is clearest in that friendship because it took a lifetime to appreciate it. A father is not a pal - he is the figure of authority and stability.

Making Friends in Middle School
by SAMHSA
As children approach adolescence, friends and fitting in often become very important. Young teens increasingly look to friends and the media for clues on how to behave, and they begin to question adults' values and rules.

Evening Round-Up
by William Crosbie Hunter
You have found a friend who has been so much help and comfort to you. I have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write him a letter like this: This is to You. It is for You. It is about You.

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
Friendship has inspired many of the greatest deeds and many of the noblest poems, and has given us examples of heroic devotion almost passing the love of man for woman. It is not within our purpose to recall these great friendships, but they are familiar

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
by Cicero
The augur Quintus Mucius Scaevola used to recount a number of stories about his father-in-law Galus Laelius, accurately remembered and charmingly told; and whenever he talked about him always gave him the title of 'the wise' without any hesitation.

Advice & Discussions
Roommate and Pessimism
To cut a long story short, about a month ago my girlfriend broke up with me. This lead me into a deep depression, that I've been pulling myself out of thanks to the help of people here at ENA. I've made a lot of changes in myself in order to feel better about myself, and people have noticed.
Best Friends
I was just having a discussion with a friend of mine the other day about best friends. Long story - short, it seems like I have a different definition than him. What's the difference between good friends and best friends? What do you guys think makes someone a best friend? Is it sharing a lot of time together that makes you really close? Is it sharing personal issues? The weird thing is, he and I are dormmates this year in college and I thought we were getting along pretty well.
I want her as a friend
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Emotional
I really need to get my emotions together and not get upset with people about things. Need to control my emotions and not get so upset with friends when they can't spend time with me. When some of my friends can't see me and spend time with me, it terrifies me and makes me feel as though I am going to lose them.

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