6 tips on how to cope with a friendship break-up
Published on Talking Mental Health, November 2022 https://www.talkingmentalhealth.com/post/6-tips-friendship-break-up Friends are the people that make us. They are our crux, our confidantes, our role models, our motivators, and our partners-in-crime. So when we lose a friend, it can leave a particularly prominent hole in our lives. Getting through a friendship breakup is difficult, but not impossible. Hannah Pooley gives her six tips for doing so. The Beatles once sang ‘I get by with a little help from my friends’ and in this hectic and sometimes perplexing world, the phrase still feels as apt as it was in 1967. Friends are an integral part of our lives; they are who we go to for support and advice when times are tough, and they are the people we can be our true selves with. A study conducted in 2006 by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, found that men and women accumulate friends until the age of 25, then the numbers begin to fall rapidly and continue to fall throughout the ...