A best friend is supposed to be someone you can fully trust and rely on when life gets tough. For many, that can be the opposite. People are not always who they seem to be, and that was the case for ...

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So not for a moment did I take for granted my best friend ... cut me out of her wedding pictures? Surely she didn’t still want my face on her mantelpiece. But it’s hard to delete someone ...

A Michigan mother filed a complaint against prosecutors for dropping case against a man who allegedly drugged her son and ...

At my 21st birthday, my guests gushed that I was ‘the best friend ... someone else, that I’d not been invited to her hen do. I admit I was hurt – mostly that she hadn’t felt able to tell ...

"All my life, I dated married men. I preferred it for many reasons. I never wanted to marry, nor did I want them to leave their wife. With a married man, you get the best of everything. Good sex ...

You’re always there to lend an ear and offer comfort—that’s the life of the “therapist friend.” But let me tell you, it’s not ...

As a clinician, I have always had my suspicions, but wanted to get the opinion of someone else ... bothered me to where I feel physical discomfort. As an adolescent, teachers and friends' parents ...

People used to put photos in their albums at home, but now they are posted indiscriminately, and it really bothers me. If I want my photo on social media, I’ll post it. Not someone else.

It made me think, ‘Wow, my life is very weird.’ My little luxury is just someone else’s regular day thing ... my ex-husband and my best friend, followed by dinner with our children.

The next day, he dumped me for someone else. I didn ... of needs. I was my husband’s roommate, financial partner, intimate partner, co-parent, and best friend. And I was supposed to be ...

I’ve never run that fast in my life,” she said. “I felt like I have got to leave or else it could be me next ... via Reuters “She’s my best friend. I just wanted her to know I ...