After abandoning my carefully crafted personas and refusing to fake enthusiasm for wine tastings, weekend bar crawls, and office gossip, I watched 20 out of 25 friendships vanish—and discovered that ...

I became fast friends with Katie in college, but we drifted apart when I got married. After six years of marriage, I realized I wasn't living a life I loved and got a divorce. Katie and I decided to ...

"I don't want to go back," said Katie, my best friend of 20 years, from across a café table in Cape Town. A tear slid down her cheek. We were two single women traveling 8,000 miles from our respective ...