A person with 31 years of sobriety feels hurt and embarrassed when a lifelong friend shares a story of past addiction and ...

Dear Past: Congratulations on your years of sobriety. Your friend may consciously or subconsciously resent the new life ...

Once-easy conversations feel effortful; laughter delays, silences loom, and shared ease fades into emptiness and polite ...

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie offers advice to a reader who wants to know if a friendship has run its course.

DEAR ANNIE: I am writing about a friendship that has left me hurt and confused. My husband and I have known this couple for ...

All of my relationships live, at least in part, in my phone, where they are forced to share space with everything else that happens there. Lately, the feeling creeping up on me is that the pieces of ...

How long it takes to reach that breaking point may have seemed more like a matter of intuition—but a new survey suggests ...

Dear Tired: Step one would be saying something. She may be so wrapped up in her own problems that she’s not even aware of how ...

Friendships rarely fall apart overnight. It usually starts with smaller shifts, such as plans that no longer include you, ...

Trust erodes through small breaches—shared confidences, broken promises—leaving you wondering if they're still reliable, and ...