Conversations About Friendship

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The Planners vs. The Joiners: A Friendship Reality Check
An honest look at effort, roles, and initiator resentment in friendships
 • Nina Badzin
Starting Over Socially (Even If You Didn’t Plan To)
When friendships fall apart and everyone else seems to be thriving
 • Nina Badzin
When a Friend Makes Your Hardest Season About Herself
And yet: The case for confronting a friend when everything in you wants to fade
 • Nina Badzin
Do You Make Yourself Smaller Around Certain Friends?
Choose the friends who are curious about you
 • Nina Badzin
I Keep Showing Up, but I'm Not Making New Friends
Why some friend-making activities are better than others
The Friend Who Can't Commit to Plans
How to show up for friends when advance planning drains you — a reality check for anti-planners.
 • Nina Badzin
The Friend Who Never Commiserates
On not expecting every friend to meet every need.
 • Nina Badzin
My Friend Is Always “The Devil’s Advocate”
When you're exhausted by a contrarian friend
 • Nina Badzin
"What if MY kid is the mean one?"
Parenting the ringleader of the friend group
 • Nina Badzin
"My friend overshares my information"
How to handle the friend who's loose with your news.
 • Nina Badzin
Always the Fringe Friend
Feeling left out and looking for a sense of BELONGING
 • Nina Badzin
"My spouse resents my friend time"
Balancing romantic relationships and friendships
 • Nina Badzin
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