Is it really true that the more you do for others, the closer you will become? [more inside]
posted on May 30, 2008 - 13 answers

How do you turn your homoerotic relationship with your best friend into a full-fledged homosexual affair? [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2008 - 31 answers

Is it possible for the wife of a CEO (me) to be good friends with the wives of my husband's management team spouses? We socialize a few times per year and I always sort of feel guarded with them. I like many of them a lot and would like them as friends. Part of me sees it as not a good idea though? Would it compromise my husbands relationships at work? Might there be trust and confidentiality issues? Maybe it is just about how close I get to them? Keeping boundaries as far as what we talk about? Staying away from talk about the company? Would I be able to share important things going on in my life or will it become company gossip---and spread like wildfire? Anyone here have experience with this?
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 10 answers

Can you recommend books, movies, or essays with good portrayals of friendships or people's social circles? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 30 answers

Help a girl make guy friends with a minimum of misunderstandings. (Despite a history of misunderstandings.) I am female, in my late 20s. I am in a committed relationship that is about to temporarily become long-distance. I am about to enter an environment (MBA program) where male students outnumber females three to one. [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 56 answers

I'm at a point in my life where I have to break off some friendships I've made online and am finding it tough. [more inside]
posted on Aug 15, 2007 - 17 answers

Why do I feel this way? I apologize for the length of this. This is a desperate attempt to get some understanding around a problem that has plagued me for years. What follows is a chronological account of things. The way it looks to me? I simply can't have friends. [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 45 answers

How do you make new friends, when you have no circle of friends? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 22 answers

How involved should I be in my 8-year-old’s friendship woes? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2007 - 31 answers

Ethics and friendship: I lost touch with a fairly close friend about six or seven years ago; he'd gotten married, had a kid, moved, etc. We recently reconnected and have been hanging out. My girlfriend likes his wife, I like his kids, so all this is good. BUT...also about ten years ago, he and I happened to be competing for a pretty prestigious job at a major corporation - one people have heard of. I got the job, he didn't. There didn't seem to be any hard feelings; I gave him some (lucrative) freelance work, maybe a little out of guilt, but mostly because he was really good. He did great work, and continued to do so on freelance projects until I left the job a couple of years later... [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2006 - 34 answers

A close friend has just had a parent die after a long illness. For reasons I won't go into the situation is very, very bad overall, and I want to be as supportive as I possibly can be on the long road of handling something like this. [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2006 - 12 answers

What do you do if you met online, got married, and completely told your close friends how it happened BUT didn't tell other people? In fact, you lied, declaring you were set up by friends. You thought the other people would be passing acquantainces but they became much closer friends..... [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2006 - 25 answers

What's the adult version of "Let's be friends"? [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 33 answers

I can't go a whole day without offending someone. Should I be true to myself or please you? [more inside]
posted on Dec 13, 2005 - 90 answers

So, is it possible for a heterosexual female to meet women on the internet? [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2005 - 26 answers

I have a friend would like to perform a "social intervention" for an acquaintance whose lack of social skills has managed to nearly alienate him from everyone in his social circle. [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2005 - 13 answers

My friend has a popular website that has a lot of technical problems. Frequent downtime, sub-standard performance, inconsistent feature implementation, and large numbers of bugs. The software is all custom-written, and clearly needs a complete re-write. He needs help but won't accept it. What can I do?
posted on Jan 26, 2005 - 15 answers

My girlfriend and I are friends with another couple whom we'd like to become, er, more intimate with. Unfortunately, they, like us, are very reserved, and don't tend to talk about sex, so we have no idea how to begin to broach the subject. The friendship is very important to us, and we don't want to ruin it. What should we do?
posted on Jan 26, 2005 - 38 answers

I'm loooonely. I moved to Panama City, Florida for my dream job. And I love the job - that's no issue at all. But as someone who likes to keep a certain distance from co-workers outside of work hours (I've seen co-workers get people fired for personal reasons before), and without a car to get around, I have no way offhand of making friends. This troubles me greatly - I'm an extroverted, social person and I'm not used to the lack of social contact.

And to make matters worse, no mefites live in my area! It all makes me want to cry. Bah.
posted on Dec 6, 2004 - 21 answers

Friendship with an Ex? (added wrinkle: 17 year age difference, and of course, more inside)
posted on Oct 22, 2004 - 17 answers

Can someone's standing be vitiated by honesty? For example, telling someone they are fat and need to lose weight?
posted on Aug 29, 2004 - 34 answers