Despite women's rep for being great communicators, some make-or-break friendship moments can leave us speechless. Here, five ...

Friends are great—until they’re not. Psychologists say they hear often about so-called toxic friendships, which veer away ...

As a psychologist and expert in human connection, belonging and friendship, I help people recognize the signs of toxic relationships. But as my fellow friendship expert Danielle Bayard-Jackson ...

Journalist Claire Cohen reflects on a toxic friendship from her past, and considers if she has in fact been thinking about the situation all wrong… It all seemed straightforward. As I sat down ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. “They have known me forever, why can’t I be myself around them?” “Why do they ...

I was aware of the irony considering the novel I was writing, Watching Edie: a psychological thriller centring around the mother of all toxic friendships between two women, Heather and Edie ...

Research does indeed show that one of the greatest contributors to a happy life are thriving close relationships. If you ...

Not all friendships are equal. While no one’s perfect, there are certain behaviors from a friend that you should never ...

For most people, the answer is yes. And now let’s apply this to friendships and our friendship circles, and, let’s be honest, how flipping hard these can be. As an adult, I find friendships ...