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10 Women On Their Most Wholesome Interaction With A Stranger
Tanyel Mustafa
8 Apr. 2024
Relationships
“We Met Before We Were Born” & Other Slow Burn Love Stories
Tanyel Mustafa
3 Apr. 2024
Friendship
Adult Sleepovers Are Giving Us What Big Nights Out Can’t
Tanyel Mustafa
27 Mar. 2024
Living
Join The Club: The 19 Best Women-Led Communities To Join In Austr...
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Allie Daisy King
Friendship
Bad Friends & What You Can Do About Them
Friendships can be hard to navigate. While most enrich our lives and make us feel great, some can leave us stressed, drained, even emotionally damaged. As
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Eve Warlow
Friendship
Just Because I’m Asexual, It Doesn’t Mean My Life Is ...
Allow me to paint a picture for you. I am sitting at a café with a friend, over an hour into our catch up. Within this hour, they haven’t once asked
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Allie Daisy King
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Living
The Answer To Loneliness? For These Women, It’s Book Clubs
Every month, it seems like more of my friends are joining book clubs — I’ve just joined one too — and they’re going for the social element of the m
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Tanyel Mustafa
Worth More
Birthday Girlies Are Draining Our Accounts And Enough Is Enough
Talking about money benefits all of us — and we need to do it more. Join the conversation with Worth More, our 2024 guide to better finances, from naviga
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Alicia Lansom
Worth More
Why The “F*ck It” Mentality Is Harming Friendships
Talking about money benefits all of us — and we need to do it more. Join the conversation with Worth More, our 2024 guide to better finances, from naviga
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Tanyel Mustafa
Friendship
The Holiday Is Over… And So Is Your Friendship
Some friendships work best in certain contexts: the friend you party with, the friend you walk your dog with, the friend you go to dinner with. It can feel
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Tanyel Mustafa
Friendship
Please Don’t Come Back To Our Friendship After Your Relationship ...
One of my best friends used to routinely disappear from my life when they were loved up, which always made me feel like a backup plan. Then they would slow
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Tanyel Mustafa
Friendship
Why Can’t We Meet Up Without Your Partner Coming Along?
There’s a study from several years ago that’s stayed in my head since I read it: women and men lose two friends on average when they get into a relatio
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Tanyel Mustafa
Living
Being A Good Girlfriend Is A Part-Time Job
Picture this: you’ve been invited to two weddings that fall on the same day. One is your close friend of 10 years, which you’ve known about for seven m
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Maggie Zhou
Homepage
Why Your Casual Friends May Be Just As Important As Your Closest ...
In late 2020, six months into the pandemic, there were a lot of things I was missing. I felt nostalgic for my commute to the office, watching strangers and
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Gyan Yankovich
Friendship
I Think I’m Outgrowing My Friends
Nina and Alicia* had been best friends for eight years. They’d weathered part of their teenage years together — from family dramas to breakups — and
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Daisy Schofield
Friendship
The Problem With Low Maintenance Friendships
Marisa* is Ruby Bennett’s best friend, but Ruby, 18, struggles to feel close to her. They have known each other for years, but Marisa, who didn’t w
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Daisy Schofield
Friendship
Why I Cherish My Superficial Friendships & You Should Too
It’s about 25 minutes before we’re supposed to meet for coffee and my phone pings. It’s my friend Jane. “Sorry, something’s come up. Do you m
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Hazel Davis
Christmas
Feeling Tired? Say No To Festive Plans Like These Women Have
“It’s become a treat to myself to spend Christmas alone, having a couple of days completely to myself,” says Rachel, a 32-year-old nurse. It might so
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Tanyel Mustafa
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Dating Stories
I’m Done Entertaining My Friends In Relationships With My Dating ...
I had barely set foot into my friend’s house party a few months back, when a woman asked: “So, tell me! Been on any fun dates recently?” She’s some
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Tanyel Mustafa
Friendship
There’s Nowhere To Hang Out For Free Anymore & It’s Making Us Lonely
Seeing friends in person is a constant struggle for Natalie, 24, who didn’t want us to use her last name. It’s difficult to find the money to visit fri
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Relationships
I Love You, But I Can’t Afford Your Birthday Trip
One day, you pick up your phone and see you’ve been added to a group chat for one of your friend’s birthday trips. There’s a full-blown a
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Shelby Smith
Friendship
Cringe Your Way Through These 16 Stories Of Text Messages Being S...
There’s a process you go through when you realise you’ve accidentally sent a message to the wrong person. Your stomach drops and your heart lea
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Keryn Donnelly
Friendship
Is She A Fake Friend Or Is She Just A Bit Selfish?
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Friendship
Phubbing Is Ruining Your Friendships & You Might Not Even Know Yo...
You’re sitting outdoors at a riverside pub. Your friend points out how your face is perfectly illuminated by the setting sun, and they whip out their pho
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Izzie Price
Culture
The Pick Me Girl Is Dead: Long Live the Girl’s Girl
Confession: I was once a teenage ‘pick me‘ girl. Some of the blame for this can be attributed to growing up in the 2000s (in fact, growing up
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Shaeden Berry
Living
70 Of The Best Never Have I Ever Questions To Ask Your Friends
If you’ve ever played the infamous game Never Have I Ever, you’ll know just how fun (and funny) it can be. Whether you’re laughing with y
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Refinery29 Austra...
Relationships
Loneliness Defined My 20s But Now I’m Happier Than Ever
It is embarrassing — shameful almost — to admit to being lonely in your 20s. At least that’s how I felt about it at the time. For a significant part
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Friendship
I Feel Like My Friendships Are Becoming More Transactional
I still remember when I made my first-ever friend, at school. It was very simple: I was 5 years old and my teacher assigned me a seat next to this girl in
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Shivani Dubey
Friendship
Is It Wrong To Be Jealous Of My Best Friend’s Other Friends?
I’m not really the jealous type. But a couple of years ago, when my best friend introduced me to one of her friends (who had very quickly gone from a
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Tiffany Forbes
Friendship
How Friendships Change After Having A Kid
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Angela Tafoya
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