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I recently wrote a Well newsletter on how to make friends. Now, I'll focus on deepening friendships that you already have. I asked experts to share inventive ways to connect [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO; Staff VANCOUVER -- At a Middle Eastern restaurant in East Vancouver, a woman confides to her dinner companions about her likely decision to become a solo mother [...]

Most of us maintain an informal mental inventory of our friendships, sorting those closest to us, our intimates, from our acquaintances. My friend R. once went a step further. He [...]

A reader who was made to choose a college based on price is struggling to understand her parents' support of her younger sister at an expensive private school. My younger [...]

If you're like me, you have a staggering number of photos saved to your phone. Does that speak to a tendency to obsessively document even the most mundane moments? Perhaps. [...]

A reader is anxious about the language barrier keeping her from bonding with her partner's friends. A two-week group vacation has ramped up the urgency. My boyfriend and I have [...]

Byline: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Q: I'm currently living with my Dominican parents and generational trauma practically runs the house. My mom denies ever doing anything wrong, while my dad shuts [...]

Byline: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Q: Do you have advice on how to navigate a discussion with immigrant parents who want grandchildren even though you donât want to have kids? I [...]

In Allied Steelrode (Proprietary) Limited v Dreyer, the Supreme Court of Appeal ('SCA') set aside the High Court's order after concluding that an informal loan agreement entered into between the [...]

Despite the adage that friends and money don't mix, the arrangement can have unique benefits -- as long as the boundaries are clear. Eryka Peskin, a friend of mine, recently [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Sep. 11A video about St. Vladimir compiled by Ukrainian teens was the start of a unique online friendship with Catholic school students in Arnold and New Kensington. [...]

Byline: WILLOW FIDDLER; Staff THUNDER BAY -- When Betsy Linklater gets the news that a community member has died, usually via a phone call or an announcement on the local [...]

A reader is anxious about her relationship with a 23-year-old daughter who refuses to accept the man now poised to be her stepfather. Eight years ago, I started dating my [...]

Byline: MARYAM SIDDIQI; Special to The Globe and Mail It took the breakup of a romantic relationship for psychologist Marisa Franco to realize that the love and connection she'd been [...]

A reader eager to have a child before she turns 40 doesn't know what to make of a new love interest's silence when conversation turns to the future. I am [...]

Byline: Catherine Newman 'Same' is the most important word in our vocabulary. It's just a shorthand expression of empathy, I guess, and it means: 'I know how you feel.' It [...]

American men are stuck in a ''friendship recession.'' Here's how to climb out. The Tuesday before every Thanksgiving, Aaron Karo and Matt Ritter, both 43, go out to dinner with [...]

A reader, horrified by the idea of his offspring being sexually active, seeks advice. Our 19-year-old son is staying with us during his college's summer break. While my wife was [...]

Byline: Damon Young I feel like the best way to describe the odyssey of grief I've been on since my mom died nine years ago is that it's like how [...]

From grand gestures to small acts of kindness, there are several ways to show your support. Mette Harrison, a novelist who also works in the financial industry, was blindsided in [...]

Byline: Sydney Page Sasha Yonyak had nearly forgotten about the message in a bottle that he had tossed off the side of a fishing boat in Ocean City, Md., in [...]

Byline: Michelle Christopher Lead For the first time since before the pandemic, I meet a friend for brunch. I furtively text 'en route,' knowing I would be late again. It's [...]

Byline: Lydia Denworth Lead Lydia Denworth's most recent book is Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond. Back at the very beginning of the pandemic, when [...]

A father of three adult children is trying to broker peace after two were excluded from a family milestone. We have three adult children. Our middle son planned to be [...]

Byline: Nancy Burden Lead It's at times like these when I'm rattling around the house that the urge to purge hits me. In truth, it's probably my mind that is [...]