I recently asked my friend Sharon Livingston, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of Get Lost, Girlfriend!: How I Found Myself When My Best Friend Dumped Me, to explain the difference between a good ...

All of my life, I have never had a true ‘best friend,’ one who is with me not just for the good times but the bad ones, too. Three years ago, I became an acquaintance with another woman my age but we ...