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Toxic Friends True Friends: How Your Friendships Can Make or Break Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Career

Everyone expects friendships to be free of the static that frazzles many family relationships. For many women, friends are family. But most people often underestimate how deeply friendships shape their lives, work, and well-being — and how deeply they can hurt them when things go wrong. Because the rules of friendship often remain unspoken, conflicts may take them by surprise.In Toxic Friends, True Friends, Florence Isaacs explores the complex interplay of affection, obligation, and competition that defines friendships. She explains the impact, benefits, and problems of friendship in all key areas of life: at work, in connection with marriage, in connection with parenting, when single, during and after divorce, in retirement and online. Carefully researched and full of lively anecdotes and compelling stories, the book offers advice on nurturing friendships in all areas of life, and on preventing problems before they arise. It also presents real solutions to friendship difficulties, including many complicated situations that are never discussed (e.g. what to do if a friend's husband is having an affair and what kinds of friendship to avoid at the office.) Using insights from experts and vivid, instructive anecdotes, Isaacs shows readers how to avoid friends who threaten their well being and how to keep the true friends who are priceless with advice on:

— Who's a real friend and who's a waste of time or worse

— How to make lasting personal and professional friends and avoid people who hurt through jealousy, manipulation, or self-centeredness

— How to navigate tricky waters ( friendships online, with in-laws, and with the opposite sex)

— How the right friends canimprove single life, marriage, and parenthood

— Includes a quiz to help determine whether individual friends are true or toxic

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 252
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780806524511
  • Genres
  • psychology, relationships
  • Release date
  • 2003