Not Taking Sides When Couples Divorce
Not having to take sides after a divorce comes down to one golden rule—keep your lips sealed! If you chose to remain friends with both parties, becoming a “vault”, where information goes in but it never comes out, is the only way to get both people to trust you and […]

Gossip can spread like wildfire — especially with technology offering the speed for information that it does today. The problem with this speed is that sometimes the gossip can get misconstrued along the way, so it spreads quickly — and with misinformation!
Gossip can be helpful because it is information and if the information is correct […]

What they are:
Arguments are when people disagree and make their disagreements vocal or written or express them in some way that involves engagement.
Why people have them:
Arguments are a way of engagement. People argue because they want to connect. They want their opinion heard by the person they’re arguing with or by someone who will overhear […]

Respect is hard to teach because by the time people realize that they want it, they’ve grown up without it. It’s not impossible to learn, but the reason that most people who don’t have it have grown up without it, is because the people around them have not had it.
Respect and self respect are behavior […]

Six tips for how to be a good friend in hard times and awkward situations — friends divorcing, recovering from miscarriages, death in the family, being fired, etc.
How To Be A Good Friend In Times Of Need

Tip #1: Listen. Don’t judge. Don’t give your opinion. Just listen.
Tip #2: Try and understand. Don’t say what you […]

“It’s better to have loved and lost than to never love at all.”
How many times have you heard that and thought, “ugh, shut up”? Of course, you can argue both sides of it. Yes, you learn from every relationship you’re in; but whether or not you need to go through so many horrible experiences to […]

Ah, the ex-boyfriend or -girlfriend. What on Earth do we do with them, right? Some say, once you tell them sayonara, it’s forever; while others claim you can remain friends even after one or both of you have horribly broken the other’s heart. And me? I stand in the middle camp. I am fully confident that […]

One of the most valuable lessons that parents can impart to their children is socialization — how to behave in public and how to conduct relationships with everyone from strangers to family to friends.
Four Tips for Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Make Friends:
1) Don’t push the child towards a certain person. Sit […]

The best way to keep friends during the tumult of child-rearing years is to not force friendship, but do cultivate what you truly have in common with your friends. For instance, if you both have kids, you’ll find yourselves at birthday parties, PTA meetings and Little League games for years to come. But if one […]

The 3 Stages: Maintaining Friendships with Married Friends.
Your friends got married and things are different. Here’s a quick guide
to dealing with the three stages newly married friends go through:
Stage 1) P.W. (post wedding) altered state: Newly married friends are
often in an altered state for about the first six months of marriage.
Everything looks differently to them. […]