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Expecting more. Expecting less. Expecting better.

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‘When you entwine your life with your friends, you begin to take off your mask'

Disco Dishwashing and horizontal hangs: one woman's experience of living in an intentional community

Have you been priced out of living near friends?

Or the one where my boyfriend lived in a boiler room

My parents persuaded 40 friends to go on holiday with them - this is how

The first installment of my investigation into the power of platonic proximity

I tried to write a book

I failed. This is what I learned.

#2 MATE RECOMMENDATIONS: Trenchship, coaching + connection containers

The second instalment of Mate Recommendations - my saves from the friendship internet

#1 MATE RECOMMENDATIONS...the two party rule, jacuzzi friends and the friendship dip

Or what happened when I watched the zeitgeist tapes

‘Later is a gift, a surprise and sometimes...a lie'

In the first of a new interview series, the actor, writer, TV presenter and Substacker Jameela Jamil reflects on the expectation that we have a 'later' with the people we love

Do your friends feature in your goals?

Or why relationship resolutions are worth making

Do you enjoy your friends?

Or finding the time for the people you love

Do you tell your friends you miss them?

And other strategies for staying close while apart