Friends

Do I give you unsolicited advice on your marriage? Don't comment on my singledom.

It was a one night stand, I don’t have any feelings for him, and she’s not a really close friend. Do I tell my coworker that I slept with her boyfriend?

That's the thing about appearances. They are built on fleeting impressions, like social media posts that we promise to “like” later but forget.

There’s a reason I turn to Friends when I get depressed. Ok, I lied, there are several reasons.

How do you break up with a best friend?

Logically speaking, I fully understood and appreciated the necessity for the shift, but my heart was far less forgiving.

To claim that something is “just politics” is to point out how much privilege you have, either systematically or incidentally.

When I took on this assignment to write about the traumatizing byproduct our polarized political landscape has had on personal relationships — with polls estimating tension is the new normal between family and/or friends for nearly 40% of Americans — I smugly thought this trend didn’t impact me. The important people in my life felt equally horrified at the results of the election.