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•Loneliness Why it s a Growing Problem
Do you often feel lonely? If you do, you may spend a lot of time wondering what’s wrong with you.
It may seem as if everyone else but you has lots of friends. It may seem like everyone else is always getting invited to go to exciting parties. And it may seem like you’re the only one who is left at home, waiting for the phone to ring, wondering why no one ever calls you to invite you out.
Actually, loneliness is much more common than you might think. There is actually an epidemic of...
•Are You Co dependent
One of the greatest benefits of having close friendships is that our friends can support and help us when things get rough in our lives.
In exchange for the support our friends give us during a crisis, most of us also help our friends when they need it.
In a relationship between two emotionally healthy adults, the roles of giving and receiving help are balanced. Both people offer help and receive help from each other in approximately equal amounts.
However, there are some people who...
•If You Want Other People to Like You Like Yourself First
by: Royane Real
Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited, to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people.
How can we have the confidence to make new friends if we think we don’t have much to offer? How can we believe that...
•What I Learned From Doris
When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. We became very close friends and remained so until her death at the age of eight-two.
When Doris turned seventy-five, she was already widowed. The week she turned seventy-five, Doris threw two birthday parties for herself, one on a Wednesday night, and one on Saturday. Over thirty different people attended each party.
I was the only person invited to both. In all, about seventy of Doris’...
•How to Make More People Like You
When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet?
Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship?
Perhaps you have never thought about this before. And you may even wonder if it’s really important. Does it really matter very much if you like most people when you first meet them, or if you decide to like them much later, after you get to know them...
•How to Make Friends When It Seems That People Don t Like You
Do you feel like no matter how hard you try, other people still don�t like you? Learn what you can do to make friends when it seems as if people don�t like you.
Have you been trying hard to make friends with no good results to show for all of your efforts?
If it seems that you have been trying hard to make friends, but that other people still don�t want to be your friend, you may have come to the conclusion that there�s something wrong with you. That maybe you are basically...
•How to Start a Conversation With Someone You Dond t Know Well
Do you find it easy to make conversation with new people you�ve just met? Or does the thought of trying to make conversation with someone new make you break out in a cold sweat?
If you don�t feel comfortable making casual conversation with new people you have just met, you will find it harder to make new friends.
One of the most common reasons that people have difficulty making conversation with someone they don�t know very well is because they put too much pressure on...
•Create a Social Life For Yourself Don t Wait For Others
When you are faced with the prospect of yet another weekend alone, do you ever take the initiative to call someone you know and suggest a fun activity such as having coffee, or attending a movie? Or do you always take the passive approach and hope someone else will call you? If you spend your whole life waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that someone, somewhere, will call and invite you out to do something, you are giving up control of your social life to everyone else.
Why should...
•Advice For People Who Get Tongue Tied When Talking to Others
Are you one of those people who gets tongue tied when you meet someone new? Do you wonder what to talk about when you don�t know the other person? Do you feel you have to start showing off to impress a new person you have just met? Learn some simple conversation strategies and just be yourself!
When you need to speak with someone new, do you break out in a cold sweat, wondering how you can impress the other person? Do you worry that you babble too much? You�ll actually have a better...
•Fighting For Your Life
Recently the well known American news anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just a few months after he publicly announced that he had the disease and that he was going to fight it with everything he had.
After his death, I read some of the tributes that poured in about the life of Peter Jennings. One of the common themes that appeared in the statements made by his friends and colleagues was that they remembered what a determined, competitive man he was.
They said that he took on his...
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