“Best friend” can sound like a silly, childish term to many people. It conjures up images of playground arguments between little girls, but it is a term that is dear to my heart. I met Jocelyn in 1974, in Mrs. Ball’s kindergarten class. I was four years old and she was five. Over the course [...]

I believe as we journey here on earth, we will have friends who will enrich our lives placing them in the memory box of our mind for years to come. However, I want to share about a very special type of friend that I call a Safe Friend.  This person is someone who will accept [...]

I’m in high school and I have a friend who is controlling another one of my friends. He doesn’t want her to hang out with anyone else, especially me. My friend doesn’t necessarily approve of the way she is being treated. I was just wondering what to tell her to say to him. Thanks. Advice: [...]

It took years for Stefanie Coutinho to fit in. In elementary school teachers reprimanded her for asking too many questions; fellow students simply avoided her. It was only in high school that she connected with the popular crowd. Suddenly she had four best friends and enjoyed having fun, being popular and dreaming of future success. [...]

I have a friend. I haven’t seen her for a while now. She tends to come and go as she pleases. Every so often, she will drop in, stay a while and leave when she thinks she’s kept me company for long enough. Whenever she’s around, my days need to be re-organized. Hers is a [...]

My husband and I were recently out to dinner with my best friend and her husband. My friend’s husband made a joke that my husband took personally and my husband got angry at him. My friend’s husband was embarrassed and cancelled our plans for the weekend. I told my husband that I thought he was [...]

Comforting friends who have gone through significant hurt or loss is not easy. We want to support and encourage our friends during their time of trial, but often what we say can only make things worse. One of my professors, while teaching a graduate course I took called “Evil & Suffering” (not the most uplifting [...]

Would you pay to hire a friend for an hour? Although there are plenty of online dating sites, RentaFriend.com may be the first to offer a friend-connection service … for a price. It will cost you $10/hour to connect with a friend in your local area. The website describes its services as follows: RentAFriend.com is [...]

This is a story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. I was born in Belgrade, the capitol of Yugoslavia and Serbia, in an average Serbian family. As I can recall it, I had a very happy childhood. My parents (my mom and grandma, as my dad died when I was [...]

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ~ Charles Caleb Colton Your heart is my piñata. ~ Chuck Palahniuk Let’s just be friends A man looking for love dreads no four words in the English language more. The thing that drives me crazy is that a lot of people don’t understand [...]