Plus, how to deal with the stress of group dinners
We’ve written before about the toll the pandemic has taken on our friendships. But it’s not always the pandemic that’s to blame — it’s the burnout, stress and mental health disorders like anxiety and depression that impact our relationships. While we want to see and talk to our friends in theory, the effort involved may feel like too much at times. Horrible world events — like what’s going on right now in Ukraine — only exacerbate those feelings.
If this sounds like you — or you have a friend who may be feeling this way — this story on how to maintain friendships while dealing with anxiety or depression is a good place to start.
As Friend Zone, our series about friendship, comes to a close, I wanted to highlight this story about how to plan trips and dinners with friends of different income levels. Because it’s certainly no fun being the friend who feels like they can’t afford to keep up — or the one who is constantly picking up the tab.
And for your dose of some sexier content — like you may have come to expect from this newsletter in recent weeks — here is a HuffPost Personal account from writer Melissa Duge Spiers about going to a brothel with her boyfriend.
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