Friends are often our first line of support, but without boundaries, the role of constant listener can become overwhelming.

Friendships forged during a person's turbulent teenage years lay the essential foundation for their happiness later in life, a new study suggests. Being broadly accepted by peers in early adolescence ...

Your partner should undeniably be one of your favorite people. But can counting them among your best friends affect your friendships? FG Trade via Getty Images They say the best relationships are ...

Trying to maintain friendships as an adult can feel a little tricky, between trying to plan get-togethers months out in advance due to busy schedules or having people ghost at the drop of a hat.

Before the internet, creating a friendship with someone was pretty straightforward. Two people went to the same school, attended the same religious group, or worked together. That shared interest ...

All social classes can experience competitive friendships, as Festinger (1954) first proposed in his Social Comparison Theory, which suggests that people have an innate drive to assess themselves by ...

Friendship in America is in steep decline: We’re more disconnected from each other than ever, and the gulf between us is only growing. Does it matter? It does. We know that friendships are good for us ...

Romantic love may come and go, but finding the Thelma to your Louise is forever. Friends—besties, squads, workplace buddies, college roommates—play a unique role in our lives. They're companions and ...

Friendships forged during a person’s turbulent teenage years lay the essential foundation for their happiness later in life, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Developmental ...

Jealousy, as Madonna would understand it, is an ominous cloud of mean green energy. In the early 2000s, the pop icon released a series of pre-teen books called "The English Roses" which featured a ...