5 Signs a Friendship is Drifting Apart

These warning signs may signal the end of a friendship.

The signs of a floundering friendship can be visceralSource: Getty Images

Feeling nervous and edgy when you're together can be a warning sign of a failing friendship.

The most common reason friendships end is because people drift apart.
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Mothering: 10 Tips and Parenting Lessons for the Parent and Child in Us All

We all play the roles of parent and child

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Mothering: Lessons for the parent and child in us all

No matter who you are or what your life circumstances are or have been, somebody (or many people) mothered you and you mother somebody (or many people). Or fathered. Or parented in some way. It's not the biology, the DNA, the color of the eyes or the color of the skin. It's about being the person or people who do the loving, frustrating, inspiring, reliable, relentless work of parenting and being parented.

We all find ourselves in the role of parent and child. That's the focus of my series of posts collected here.

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Katie Couric shares 'The Best Advice I Ever Got'

Who gave you the best advice? For me, it's always been Mom ('Men should fit like comfy shoes.')

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CBS Anchor Katie Couric shares 'The Best Advice I Ever Got' in her new book. Who gave you great advice? For me, it's my Mom.

Katie Couric, the CBS News anchor, just released a new book, "The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives." It's a compilation of essays, comments, poems and thoughts from super famous people sharing the advice that changed their lives.

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Divorce Diaries: Facebook now a divorce lawyer's best weapon

Divorce lawyer study says Facebook is top choice for evidence in ugly divorces

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Why Facebook is a divorce lawyer's new 'best friend'

What you write, post, Tweet, re-Tweet, blog, Share and Tag can and will be used against you in Divorce Court

In my Valentine's Day post I warned us all about the hottest new marriage-wrecking trend of finding — and being found by — old flames on Facebook. Well, social media and human idiocy have conspired yet again to

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The Divorce Diaries: 15 Tough Truths About Divorce

Even a good divorce takes you to bad places, but you don't have to go with it

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How to do the least harm

     You learn a lot about divorce as a child of it. Can you believe they still call it being "from a broken home"?

You learn a whole lot more as a parent going through it. In the spirit of wishing I knew then what I know now, I thought I'd write a regular series of posts I'm calling 'The Divorce Diaries.' I'm just finding my way through. I hope this helps.

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Kiss & Zutell: Help! I Need Some Questions.

Advice Columnist Asks Readers to Submit Away!

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Kiss & Zutell will even handle the First Lady's Toughest Questions

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

Help! I need more questions for this column.

Kiss and Zutell

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

Don't worry. I'm sure all your readers will submit questions in the comment section below. Remind them that there is no such thing as a stupid question—only stupid answers! Tell them you are looking for questions on a range of subjects—relationships, school, work, love, sex, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, children, teenagers. Anything.

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How to Conquer Your Migraines

Personal soultions to the dreaded menopause-related headache

Migraine headaches are horrible, because they can be so excruciating, and because they remain so mysterious (the official definition: "A common type of headache that may occur with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light. In many people, a throbbing pain is felt only on one side of the head.") Doctors have only a vague understanding of what causes them, and how they can best be relieved, and it varies from person to person.

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Kiss & Zutell: My Daughter Wants A Boob Job!

What to do when the kid you think is perfect has other ideas.

February 28, 2011
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Your perfect daughter wants a boob job.

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

My twenty-two year old daughter wants a boob job. I was shocked when she asked my opinion, so I probably didn't react the way I should have. (I yelled and told her it was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard). I know she's an adult (she makes her own money and lives on her own), so I can't stop her. But still…I'd like to try. I think she's perfect the way she is.

Just a Mom

Dear JAM—

As a former, reluctant Girl Scout, I grew up with the motto, Be Prepared. And never is it more important than when you're a mom.

Read More

So, what DO you say to grieving friends?

Advice for helping (not harming) friends in pain

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Friends need you when they're mourning.

What you SHOULD say to grieving friends

Many of you pointed out that my recent post on how to help grieving friends was actually all about what you SHOULDN'T say to grieving friends. Without seeing it, I left out a key piece of information: What you SHOULD say. Thank you to the readers who commented here and on my Facebook page about this omission. You're right. I only told you what NOT to say and do.

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Advice for our younger and future selves

Since we know how our own story turns out, what lessons should we take forward?

Bo Derek is still a '10'

I've got a birthday looming and that always seems like a good time to peer back down the other side of where I've come from, to pause, reflect and ponder lessons learned, unlearned, never-to-be-learned.

Read More

5 Signs a Friendship is Drifting Apart

These warning signs may signal the end of a friendship.

The signs of a floundering friendship can be visceralSource: Getty Images

Feeling nervous and edgy when you're together can be a warning sign of a failing friendship.

The most common reason friendships end is because people drift apart.
Read More

Mothering: 10 Tips and Parenting Lessons for the Parent and Child in Us All

We all play the roles of parent and child

Source: Getty Images

Mothering: Lessons for the parent and child in us all

No matter who you are or what your life circumstances are or have been, somebody (or many people) mothered you and you mother somebody (or many people). Or fathered. Or parented in some way. It's not the biology, the DNA, the color of the eyes or the color of the skin. It's about being the person or people who do the loving, frustrating, inspiring, reliable, relentless work of parenting and being parented.

We all find ourselves in the role of parent and child. That's the focus of my series of posts collected here.

Read More

Katie Couric shares 'The Best Advice I Ever Got'

Who gave you the best advice? For me, it's always been Mom ('Men should fit like comfy shoes.')

Source: Getty Images

CBS Anchor Katie Couric shares 'The Best Advice I Ever Got' in her new book. Who gave you great advice? For me, it's my Mom.

Katie Couric, the CBS News anchor, just released a new book, "The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives." It's a compilation of essays, comments, poems and thoughts from super famous people sharing the advice that changed their lives.

Read More

Divorce Diaries: Facebook now a divorce lawyer's best weapon

Divorce lawyer study says Facebook is top choice for evidence in ugly divorces

Source: Getty Images

Why Facebook is a divorce lawyer's new 'best friend'

What you write, post, Tweet, re-Tweet, blog, Share and Tag can and will be used against you in Divorce Court

In my Valentine's Day post I warned us all about the hottest new marriage-wrecking trend of finding — and being found by — old flames on Facebook. Well, social media and human idiocy have conspired yet again to

Read More

The Divorce Diaries: 15 Tough Truths About Divorce

Even a good divorce takes you to bad places, but you don't have to go with it

Source: Getty Images

How to do the least harm

     You learn a lot about divorce as a child of it. Can you believe they still call it being "from a broken home"?

You learn a whole lot more as a parent going through it. In the spirit of wishing I knew then what I know now, I thought I'd write a regular series of posts I'm calling 'The Divorce Diaries.' I'm just finding my way through. I hope this helps.

Read More

Kiss & Zutell: Help! I Need Some Questions.

Advice Columnist Asks Readers to Submit Away!

Source: Getty Images

Kiss & Zutell will even handle the First Lady's Toughest Questions

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

Help! I need more questions for this column.

Kiss and Zutell

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

Don't worry. I'm sure all your readers will submit questions in the comment section below. Remind them that there is no such thing as a stupid question—only stupid answers! Tell them you are looking for questions on a range of subjects—relationships, school, work, love, sex, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, children, teenagers. Anything.

Read More

How to Conquer Your Migraines

Personal soultions to the dreaded menopause-related headache

Migraine headaches are horrible, because they can be so excruciating, and because they remain so mysterious (the official definition: "A common type of headache that may occur with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light. In many people, a throbbing pain is felt only on one side of the head.") Doctors have only a vague understanding of what causes them, and how they can best be relieved, and it varies from person to person.

Read More

Kiss & Zutell: My Daughter Wants A Boob Job!

What to do when the kid you think is perfect has other ideas.

February 28, 2011
Source: Getty Images

Your perfect daughter wants a boob job.

Dear Kiss & Zutell—

My twenty-two year old daughter wants a boob job. I was shocked when she asked my opinion, so I probably didn't react the way I should have. (I yelled and told her it was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard). I know she's an adult (she makes her own money and lives on her own), so I can't stop her. But still…I'd like to try. I think she's perfect the way she is.

Just a Mom

Dear JAM—

As a former, reluctant Girl Scout, I grew up with the motto, Be Prepared. And never is it more important than when you're a mom.

Read More

So, what DO you say to grieving friends?

Advice for helping (not harming) friends in pain

Source: Getty Images

Friends need you when they're mourning.

What you SHOULD say to grieving friends

Many of you pointed out that my recent post on how to help grieving friends was actually all about what you SHOULDN'T say to grieving friends. Without seeing it, I left out a key piece of information: What you SHOULD say. Thank you to the readers who commented here and on my Facebook page about this omission. You're right. I only told you what NOT to say and do.

Read More

Advice for our younger and future selves

Since we know how our own story turns out, what lessons should we take forward?

Bo Derek is still a '10'

I've got a birthday looming and that always seems like a good time to peer back down the other side of where I've come from, to pause, reflect and ponder lessons learned, unlearned, never-to-be-learned.

Read More

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