I have recently (six months ago) stopped drinking. I stopped because I am an alcoholic.

In honor of my wonderful friend A’s birthday this week, I decided to ask a question that has kept me up nights for almost a decade.

My friend Catherine (36) and her husband Scot (38) have been married for about a year and a half now. It is her first marriage and his third.

I have been friends with a woman for about 10 years now. I have known her much longer through mutual acquaintances, but we really just started having a personal friendship not that long ago.

This time last year, my husband and I decided to try and get pregnant. For the first few months, we decided to “Not Try Not To Try” (I go off birth control and we see …

I have an awkward friendship question. I have a friend, who I’ve known since elementary school. We are fairly close, talk on the phone regularly, etc., and she is one of my only friends who …

This might be a “friendships have a lifespan” question, but it seems a little more complicated than that, and I could use some perspective.
“C” and I have been friends since college. She is a year …

A few years ago, my best friend, W, met L. I had recently moved away and W was feeling lonely (she’s pretty shy and has a hard time meeting new people), so she was really …

Eight years ago, during college, I became very close friends with a co-worker. She had just graduated from high school and her boyfriend was at boot camp. A few months after we met, they became …

I have an “expired friendship” question. I’ve known this friend (Mark, let’s say) since our first year of college, which was nearly twenty years ago. I considered him one of my closest friends, and he …