| Edition |
Free Press trade pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
It happens without warning, and it devastates you: your closest girlfriend cuts you off completely. She has decided for whatever reason to move on and has left you to try to make sense of what happened. The experience can be as painful as the death of a loved one and as confusing as an unexpected breakup with a significant other. This book gives voice to this painful, common, yet rarely discussed phenomenon and provides a resource that you can rely on. Relationship expert Liz Pryor has had a number of these breakups herself, so she set out to discover why they were happening. She collected hundreds of stories of friendships gone wrong, and draws on those stories to explore the dynamics of friendship breakups in a candid, intimate way, revealing the patterns, the warning signs, and some ways to put a friendship right or help it change so that it meets your friend's and your changing needs.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Maggie : the loss that redefines us -- Lila : acknowledging the truth of what we feel -- Finding our own way : unexperts and unendings -- Dear Jill : an alternative to avoidance -- The receiver : getting control over the unending -- The initiator : taking control of the ending -- The irony of confronting : can this friendship be saved? -- The etiquette of the ending : to lie or not to lie -- Working : friendships-two sides of the business end -- Gram : the power of regret -- A blessing : reuniting fallen friendship. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Female friendship.
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Friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Christian women -- Religious life.
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Christian women -- Religious life.
(OCoLC)fst00859575
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Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
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Friendship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00935185
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| ISBN |
9781451649659 (paperback) |
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1451649657 (paperback) |
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