There's nothing like a BFF, but what happens when you have a new best friend every couple of years?
By GalTimer Dana Keller
Patricia. Galen. Mary. Cheryl. Myra. Barbara. Kathy. All very, very close friends of mine at one period of time in my life or another to whom I never or rarely speak anymore. I have heard the sayings about some friends being friends for a time and others for a lifetime, but I've never been able to reconcile my heart with my head on that one. That I have somehow managed to lose so many close friends over the years has been a source of pain for me for quite some time.
Breaking up with guys? Got it down. Tossing a toxic gal pal? Not so easy, but it can be done.
After years of experience, I've got breaking up with guys down to a science. (A once useful skill which, now that I'm happily married, I hope I'll never have to use again!) But breaking up with friends? That's a lot tougher to do.
The bonds between you and your bff, what are the limits of female friendships?
Why are female bonds so strong? And why are we so upset when they break, some say even more than a romantic breakup? Generally speaking, you can leave two women who've never met in a busy doctor's waiting room and by the time they're called for their appointments, they know each other's life story and have traded phone numbers. Much of this behavior has to do with female brains and hormones.
The Female Brain
Roland Hinds says, "there are similarities to breaking up and ending a friendship,"
No more are the days when friends end relationship by telephone or writing a note. Imagine sitting at your computer screen and getting an instant message (IM) from your best friend forever (BFF). This is the person who you have shared secrets, spoke about your dreams and expected to grow old together. Sounds like a spouse?
It's Kiss & Make Up Day, and nothing kicks that party off like a good old-fashioned apology. It's the crucial get-down of patching things up. It's the spackle to your relationship wall. Whether you've wronged your man, your BFF, your mama or even your grand-mama, here's how you show them you're sorry, as painlessly and effectively as possible.
Even though she's married to someone else, Hugh Grant is still Liz Hurley's number one man.
Elizabeth Hurley’s husband, millionaire Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, must be a really confident and secure guy because most men probably wouldn’t be so understanding if their wife went around telling people that her ex was still her "No. 1” man. But, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail that’s exactly what the still sultry British actress said in a recent interview.
How to find that perfect set of couple friends for you and your main squeeze.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a happy couple must be in want of another happy couple to be BFFs with for life. Fred and Wilma had their Barney and Betty; Lucy and Ricky had their Ethel and Fred. It seems that for every dynamic couple, there exists an assumed want for a complementary pair of friends, who are also a couple, to bond mutually with.
Is ex-sex OK? Rom-com restraining orders. And obeying your wife.
There are some shows you shouldn't watch while getting it on. A device for oral sex. Making his semen taste like apple pie. Some rom-com heroes are straight up stalkers. You should have ex-sex. Or you shouldn't have ex-sex. Making the BFF to boyfriend leap. Breaking up a happy couple. Sad sack lady bloggers. And A.J. Jacobs did everything his wife said for a whole month.
It's a really good policy to not neglect your friends when starting a new relationship.
Couple skating is the willful act of ignoring friends in favor a new relationship. It's something that we all do and should be somewhat ashamed of. Sure, you're way into each other but you've known these friends since way back when and they deserve not to be neglected. Out dating advice is to follow the bro code and keep the love alive for your BFFs.
She wants more time with her BFF, she's jealous of his lady friend and he is not her boyfriend.
Jealousy, that envious devil, screws with even the strongest relationships. Today we give relationship advice and partially refute the advice of Carolyn Hax, Cary Tennis and Margo regarding a boy-crazy BFF, a guy that likes the platonic company of another woman and what to do when he won't admit you're his girlfriend.
Paris Hilton thinks Benji Madden and the Windsor Princes are cool though.
In an interview, Paris Hilton reveals that most of men she has dated are only in it for the sex. Or money. But mostly fame. Which is strange because she's dated a lot of people that are minor celebrities. Strange. And they've largely been heterosexual men (to our knowledge), so that's weird they've wanted to have sex with her. She says Benji Madden is cool. And the Windsor Princes are gentlemen. And Katie Price is a friend.
