Here are 10 real problems commonly faced by people who have no friends, explained without judgment—and with clarity.

They’re not our besties, but they’re more than just acquaintances. How much of ourselves do we owe them? Credit...Photo Illustration by Lauren Peters-Collaer Supported by By Lisa Miller Most of us ...

When you don't have close friends to call when things go wrong, you figure it out yourself. You can't outsource your problems ...

A boogeyman haunts the realm of friendship advice: the friend who vents too much. Although people have surely been complaining since the dawn of language, and getting annoyed at one another about it ...

Problem: I want to have a better year than last. It seems like a lot of things did not work out the way I expected they would. I have a friend and I use the term loosely, who did a lot to remind me of ...

A boogeyman haunts the realm of friendship advice: the friend who vents too much. Although people have surely been complaining since the dawn of language, and getting annoyed at one another about it ...

Ryan, teary-eyed, stared off and said to me, "I think Lisa dumped me because she kept telling her friends I was a jerk. I swear, man, I treated her great. But she and her friends took it way out of ...

I have previously published two posts on the "friend zone"—the area of mismatched romantic or sexual expectations between friends. In the first, I shared some possible techniques to escape the friend ...

Dear Eric: My husband and I are in our early 60s and 70s. We have had some health challenges but we work hard at eating healthy, exercising, stretching, et cetera. We try to keep a positive attitude ...