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This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. Tragedy struck shortly before the start of second grade. My best friend, Ricarda, who ...

Dear Eric: I have two casual friends who long ago moved to different parts of the country, but who have sent me messages every couple of months for many years. These are not friends I would ever visit ...

DEAR ABBY: For the third time in my life, I am being shunned by long-term friends. Over the years, I have expended a great deal of time and effort to stay in touch with them. Back when we lived in the ...

Friendships are invaluable, forming the bedrock of our social lives. But what happens when one person in a platonic pairing starts to feel a pull towards something more? It's not always a sudden, ...

As Australia's social media ban for under-16s just around the corner, children are already worried about losing touch with ...

Rekindling old friendships can be mentally and emotionally beneficial, yet when it comes to that first message to bridge the distance, most of us just can’t hit the send button. Despite wanting to ...

I recently spoke with one of my best friends from childhood. Tom and I met when I was 8 years old, shortly after I’d been adopted from foster care. Back then, all of my worldly possessions were ...