How To Spot Sociopath Women
What are the key characteristics of sociopaths? Dr Jane McGregor explores
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What To Do When A Friend Is Bereaved
Markie Robson Scott offers advice and support about the best way you can offer support to a bereaved friend. Show up, don't shut up.
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Don't Judge Me For Not Getting Drunk With Work Mates
I realised that binge drinking wasn’t for me during my Fresher’s Week at university. This is the infamous time in every young adult’s life which consists of masochistically getting bladdered repeatedly, in the hope of forming some lasting bonds of friendship with a group of petrified fellow students. All so that we could LOL about our collective hangovers and embarrassing hook-ups of the morning after the night before.
Of course the natural antidote to our terror about being alone was to glug as much poison as humanly possible.
Away from home, and far from the...
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How To Become A Better Listener
Our environments have become increasingly and worryingly noisier. We talk and text constantly on mobile phones. It’s the norm to see couples and friends out eating and drinking, and everyone will have their heads down texting or tweeting, even whilst in conversation. So it’s not surprising that as our digital talk increases we’ve steadily become poorer listeners, not better ones. So how does one become a better listener and can you learn to listen well?
We’ve become adept at a type of hearing which processes information through our own personal filters.
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Why Envy is Toxic
Whether between friends, colleagues or siblings, envy impacts many different types of relationships. Understand the root causes of envy to help avoid it
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What I Would Tell the Younger Me
Angela Neustatter contemplates what she would tell her younger self
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What To Do When a Friend Dies
Louise Chunn mourns the loss of an old friend, Guardian journalist Georgina Henry, and wonders what we are supposed to do to mark our sadness when friends die
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What Lena Dunham's Girls Can Teach Us About Female Friendships
In popular culture female friendships have often been portrayed either as giggly gossips or as catty and competitive, while girls (and women) themselves are on a quest for an ideal girlfriend - a soul mate who always understands them, with whom they share all intimate secrets and with whom they never argue.
For giggly, think of the Sex and the City quartet doubled over in wicked laugher at the men they take to bed; for catty, think of Lady Edith doing her best to ruin Lady Mary’s chances for happiness in Downton Abbey, for the ideal, think of sweetness between...
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