Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. “I hope we can still be friends.” If you’ve ever experienced a ...

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Being connected to other people is one of the most important aspects of life. In fact, friendship, specifically, is essential not only for our own well-being, but for a long life. But it's not about ...

Friendships are important. Growing up, it seemed easy to make friends. Just about everyone in your classroom became a confidant. As we get older, creating new friendships is tricky. Sometimes, it can ...

In my teens and twenties, I didn’t think much about how important it was to like the people I worked with. At the time, I was working as a waiter at a Toronto diner and being friends with my ...

“Our friendship is perfect and they seem to have grown so much since we broke up. Should we give this another chance?” “Should I tell my current partner that I used to date one of my closest friends?” ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has declared that America is in the grip of a loneliness epidemic. There are many causes for this isolation, but here’s one few seem to have considered: barriers to ...

Literary editor Will Schwalbe is best known for The End of Your Life Book Club, in which he wrote about reading and discussing with his dying mother some of the books that had the greatest impact on ...