Friendship Advice

How Many Friends Does a Divorce Cost?

Charlotte Friedman | Posted 03.07.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Charlotte Friedman

Friends can feel like the infrastructure of our lives, our sounding board, our pick me up. They can also give us enormous pain when they are lost, like any connected, loving relationship. Take those that stay, say goodbye to those that go, but don't lose sight of your ability to make connections and that sometimes in life, what fits one period, doesn't fit another.

True Friends and False Dichotomies

Kate Harrad | Posted 05.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Kate Harrad

I can't help noticing that a lot of self-help advice is not actually that useful. Being inspirational is all very well, but being told, for example, "stop worrying" and "stop blaming other people for your problems" and "you can't love others till you love yourself" is getting a bit grating.