friendship
Are you an 'energy vampire'? Here are 6 signs you're sucking the life out of your friends
October 14, 2024 | 7:04pmSome people can just drain your energy — and not because you've had so much🉐 fun together.
Dear Abby: How do I tell my family they can't bring dogs to my house?
October 10, 2024 | 3:00amDEAR ABBY: I own a lake cabin and enjoy hosting friends and relatives. Even though I don't have a pet myself, I like animals and don't mind i🐎f people ask...
Dear Abby: My best friend keeps kissing and sleeping with me and saying it's platonic
October 5, 2024 | 3:00amDEAR ABBY: My "best friend," as he has labeled our relationship, moved in with me eight months agoꦯ. He claims to have no romantic feelings for me. Despite this, he...
I make $80K as a 'do-nothing' friend for rent to lonely people
September 23, 2024 | 11:14amHis knack for d𝓡oing nothing 🅺is doing something to end loneliness.
Gen Alpha kids aren't making friends — new study reveals why
September 18, 2024 | 10:03amThe C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, which surveyed 1,031 parents to children aged 6 to 12, found that one in five parents claimed thꦑeir kids have...
We are 'platonic soulmates' who share a bed — we don't care if people think we're weird
September 10, 2024 | 1:55pm“A loꦆt of people fi𝄹nd it extremely weird and assume we are together. But it’s just like a sleepover with your bestie every night," Estella Kyriacou, 25, said.
Dear Abby: My family doesn't accept my transgender child
August 28, 2024 | 3:00amꦍDear Abby advises a mother struggling because their parents don't a🃏ccept their transgender daughter.
Dear Abby: My friend keeps making me pay for h🐼er pricey dinner with multip🌸le cocktails
August 26, 2024 | 3:00amDear🐲 Abby advises a woman whose friend chooses expensive birthday dinner locations.
ꦐ Dear Abby: My elderly mom only wants to spend time with me and my wife 🉐
August 16, 2024 | 7:24amDear Abby advises a s🔯on who can't get his mother to socialize. ♎
Meet 'Friend' — the new, viral AI ride-or-die that hangs around your neck and costs $99: 'Tamagotchi with a soul'
August 3, 2024 | 9:51amYour friend 'til the end?
🎃 Dear Abby: My ex-boss keeps on contacting me after I resigned -😼- what should I do?
July 27, 2024 | 3:00amDear Abby weighs in on a man left to run a department while his colleagues rai🌸se families and an old friend who is coming on too strong.
Dear Abby: How do I help a friend who lives in the worst conditions I've ever seen?
July 20, 2024 | 3:00amDear Abby counsels someone who has become close to a co-worker that she discovers is living in horrible💮 conditions. How should she offer her help without causing offense? ꦫ
Taylor Swift friendship bracelets fetch as much $5K as luxury designers jꩵump on trend
July 18, 2024 | 5:03pmLuxu💛ry friendship bracelet sales have spiked after Taylor Swift first wore a diamond and gold friendship bracelet at boyfriend Travis Kelce's football game.
Gen Zer calls out massive stigma of struggling to make friends: 'Sick and tired'
July 9, 2024 | 12:17pmIt is no🍨 secret Generation Z is a lonely generation. While they are incredibly connected through social media, they still crave human connection.
Dear Abby: I blocked my overbear❀ing sister and she went to mꦬy in-laws
July 9, 2024 | 3:00amDear Abby weighs in on an overstepping sister and a male/female relationsh🦩ip t♈ested by marriages.
Are you stuck in a 'performative friendship'? Here's why they're awful — and how to escape
July 3, 2024 | 1:20pmIn the digital age of carefully curated content, even friendships can begin t🍃o feel fake.
Dear Abby: My daughter doesn't want anything to do with me
June 28, 2024 | 3:00amDear Abby weighs in on a woman's family drama and helps another woman cut ties 🀅with a bad friend.
'None of us are alone anymore': 5 New Yorkers on how they rid of the loneliness 'virus' and got back out there
June 26, 2024 | 12:49pmThese New Yorkers, tired of being lonely post-pandemic, are some of the many city-side camaraderie curator🅘s who've taken control of their social lives, launching clubs, cliques and even niche apps...
Mille꧟nnial reveals sad reality of being a young person right now in struggle to make friends
June 24, 2024 | 4:26amGrace has been sharing the new thing she’s been trying even though it makes her “nervous” and it ex🔯poses what young people are surprisingly bad at.
Gen Zers and millennials are 'quiet quitting' their friendships — here's why
June 20, 2024 | 3:29pmBest friಌends — but not necessa🌠rily forever.