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If you're still stuck, here's an article that offers some useful tips. However, sometimes what you get instead is a relationship that constantly drains your energy, leaves you feeling unappreciated, ...

Here are helpful steps you can follow to handle situations like this with friends who are eager to exploit you. Yes, we understand. Friendship shouldn't always be about what you can get. There'll be ...

It’s one of a parent’s worst fears: A child’s friend suddenly seems to have control of their child’s mental health. A once-secure child is discovered crying hysterically in her room, withdraws from ...

Dear Eric: I recently set boundaries with a friend who would vent to me about another friend of theirs, with whom I’m only barely acquainted. I asked them to stop processing this other friendship of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. You know the type—the colleague whose negativity, gossip or ...