You don't have to live in the same town or — or even the same country — as your best friend to maintain a strong friendship. Even so, it can be challenging to live far away from your favorite people.

This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. Tragedy struck shortly before the start of second grade. My best friend, Ricarda, who ...

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When Stylist’s Soraya Gaied Chortane watched her closest friends scatter across Asia, she braced herself for the friendships to fade. Instead, she found herself grieving something entirely different ...

He claimed that this habit has completely transformed the friendships he has with people that don't live in the same city as him. As we get older and further into adulthood, one of the things that can ...

I've been drifting apart from two friends over the past few years. In the first instance, I felt abandoned after working hard to maintain a long-distance friendship. When I finally confronted her a ...

While sustaining friendships from afar can be challenging, they may offer unexpected benefits for environmental conservation. A Washington State University-led study, recently published in ...

I’m an 18-year-old girl, and I’ll be starting college this fall — a big, exciting change! But I have a friendship dilemma that’s been weighing on me. Back in 2022, I met a Japanese girl through a ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A Scottish teacher and an Australian writer meeting in an ice bath in Thailand sounds like the setup ...

I live in South Africa, and we don't do daylight savings here — but I always know when the time zones are changing. It's the difference of an extra hour when speaking to my closest friends, all of ...

While sustaining friendships from afar can be challenging, they may offer unexpected benefits for environmental conservation. A new study found that these social ties can positively influence ...

It can be tough to maintain our relationships with old friends. We move cross-country. We have kids. Or maybe one person is better at staying in touch than the other. Despite the challenges, Nina ...