Research on emotional disclosure finds wide variation in how comfortable people feel discussing fears, insecurities and ...

Finding out who your real friends are can be an eye-opening experience. It happens in those moments when you truly need someone to lean on. These situations reveal the people who genuinely care about ...

You may want to watch your back. Friendships are built on respect, trust and mutual support. These core values form the foundation of genuine connections, where both people lift each other up and ...

When it comes to friendship, we usually don’t question the people by our side — the ones we share so many meaningful moments with. However, some people aren’t as trustworthy as they seem, and ...

I recently asked my friend Sharon Livingston, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of Get Lost, Girlfriend!: How I Found Myself When My Best Friend Dumped Me, to explain the difference between a good ...

The Japanese have a term, kenzoku, which translated literally means "family." The connotation suggests a bond between people who've made a similar commitment and who possibly therefore share a similar ...

Sometimes friendships don't explode; they just slowly lose their warmth. Think: longer gaps between texts, less emotional ...

Celebrate your bestie with one of these short friendship quotes. You probably know the classic childhood rhyme: “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other, gold.” Even though ...