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How do you finally break free from a fair-weather bud who flees the scene as soon as a new guy comes around? How do you know which friends make it into your framily? With tips for making and breaking, maintaining and sustaining your friendships, plus stories from real women, "Friend or Frenemy?" explores how great friends get us through hard times and dishes out advice about dumping the users, losers, and abusers. In this era of instant communication, relationships are not necessarily easier. "Friend or Frenemy?" also looks at how texting, MySpacing, and other modes of instant communication are oh-so-convenient but sometimes make it harder to make meaningful connections.
With tons of wit and loads of charm, Lavinthal and Rozler are sure to get you thinking about friendship as if for the first time--reminding us why our BFFs are often the most important people in our lives.
| Introduction: You Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends | p. xv |
| Friendly Conversation | p. 1 |
| The Friend Commandments | p. 3 |
| Through the Years: A Timeline of Semi-recent Triumphs and Tragedies in Girlfriend History | p. 9 |
| Textual Healing: The New Rules of Digital Engagement | p. 15 |
| Your Buddy List: The People in Your Social Stratosphere | p. 45 |
| We Are Framily: Your Closest Confidantes | p. 47 |
| The Daily Grind: Cubicle Comrades, Worker Bee-otches, and the Other People All Up in Your Office Space | p. 69 |
| Frenemies: The Users, Losers, and Abusers Who You Need to De-MySpace Right Now | p. 91 |
| Like Kissing Your Brother: Boy Friends | p. 117 |
| Because Like Paula Abdul Said, Opposites Attract: Your Unlikely Friendships | p. 137 |
| Outerspace: Lunch Dates, Drinking Buddies, and Various Other Acquaintances | p. 149 |
| That's What Friends Are (and Aren't) For | p. 163 |
| Balancing Friendship and Coupledom | p. 165 |
| Threesomes (And Get Your Head Out of the Gutter Because We're Not Talking Those Kinds of Threesomes): Navigating the Sometimes Murky Waters of a Friendship Trio | p. 183 |
| When the Friendship Sinks: Breaking Up, Making Up, and Moving On | p. 191 |
| Misery Loves Company: The Challenges of Making New Friends | p. 211 |
| Everything You Need to Know About Friendship You Learned in Kindergarten-Right? | p. 225 |
| In closing: Why Friends Are Just as Important as Boyfriends | p. 229 |
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ISBN: 9780061562037
ISBN-10: 0061562033
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 230
Published: 5th August 2008
Dimensions (cm): 20.3 x 13.5
x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.218
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