Dear Julie: Advice About Co-Home Buying and Ending a Friendship
DAME’s Friendkeeper preps a woman for the pitfalls of owning property with pals and tells a woman how to make a clean break from a toxic tie.
Friendship
What Do You Do When Your Kid Loves a Friend You Hate?
Playground relationships aren’t all fun and games. Here, some tips on what to do when you want to give your child's friendship a time out.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Too-Spendy Friend and a Selfish Couch Surfer
DAME’s Friendkeeper makes us feel better about being money-conscious and explains how to lay down house rules with a guest who’s worn out her welcome.
Dear Julie: Advice About Airhead Speak and a Friend’s Questionable Loyalty
DAME’s Friendkeeper gives the go ahead to comment on annoying speech habits (nicely!), and what to do when a friend is still friends with a backstabber.
My Mother Showed Me How to Hit the Jackpot
Our columnist was taught that vacations with friends are the key to a healthy adulthood. What better way to honor her mom’s memory than to go to Vegas with her three BFFs?
Dear Julie: Advice About Ditching Home Sales Parties and Difficult Dinner Guests
DAME’s Friendkeeper has a few words for feeding all those friends with so many food issues, and helps a woman extricate herself from 21st-century Tupperware parties.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Social Media Showoff and a Too-Inclusive Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman understand a nice-IRL pal who goes full brag on the Internet, and tells another how best to request some one-on-one hang time with an invite-happy cohort.
Best Friends Forever? Psssh. TV Finally Discovers the Dark Side of Female Friendship
Blowout fights, unfiltered judgment, and scandalous hook-ups make gripping television, and expose the true complexities of our closest connections.
Dear Julie: Advice About White Lies and Turning Down Invites
DAME’s Friendkeeper saves a woman from insulting her writer friend and helps another just say no to party overload.