best friend

My best friend is my ex. He knows I have strong feelings for him, but I don’t know if he still feels the same for me.

Ask Erin: I'm In Love With My Best Friend (Who Is Also My Ex)

My best friend is my ex. He knows I have strong feelings for him, but I don’t know if he still feels the same for me.

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How can I be a supportive of my cheating best friend while not supporting her actions?

Ask Erin: How Can I Help My Cheating Best Friend? 

In short: what's a girl supposed to do? How can I be a supportive of my cheating best friend while not supporting her actions?

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Ask Erin: I'm In Love With My Best Friend, But He Has A Girlfriend; What Do I Do?  

He is the first person I want to tell things to when something happens, and the person I want to hang out with the most. I'm in love with my best friend!

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Despite our skin tones, our realities weren’t that disparate.

My White Childhood Best Friend Was Forbidden to See Me — Until She Found Me 29 Years Later

When her parents picked her up the next day, their eyes bored into ours with disgust. Not only was I black, but my otherwise white cousins were one-quarter Japanese. In my last memory of Brandy, she swam away from me in the unheated pool we shared with the high school next door.

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We are not just women, we are also secret spies with fantastic bullshit detectors.

A Letter To My Friend's Ex-Boyfriend 

“To the man who broke my beautiful friend’s heart…”

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The one person I thought I could trust, the one person I thought would accept me, turned her back on me.  Image: Thinkstock.

I Came Out As Trans To My Best Friend In Middle School — And She Rejected Me

When you have a best friend, you expect to be able to tell them anything and for them to love you unconditionally, without judgment. At least, that’s what I felt about my best friend in sixth grade. She was like an older sister to me; of course she would stick with me.

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The one person I thought I could trust, the one person I thought would accept me, turned her back on me.  Image: Thinkstock.

I Came Out As Trans To My Best Friend In Middle School — And She Rejected Me

When you have a best friend, you expect to be able to tell them anything and for them to love you unconditionally, without judgment. At least, that’s what I felt about my best friend in sixth grade. She was like an older sister to me; of course she would stick with me.

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Watch: "Text Me Merry Christmas" Is Somewhere Between LOL And OMG

I'm not sure I agree with the message of this anti-texting tune. But damn if it isn't catchy.

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