From the latest friendship advice letter: “I understand why my best friend and her new friend are becoming close. They’ve both lost a parent. I can’t even imagine it. But a little part of me is feeling lost, lonely, left out, and jealous.”
Read the whole letter and my answer at the friendship site!
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Nina Badzin hosts the top 1% podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014 and has had friendship advice in NPR, WSJ, Real Simple Magazine, The Daily Skim, The Guardian, The Telegraph UK, Time Magazine, and elsewhere.
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