Not such a great friend after all

I used to pride myself on being a really good friend. Then the circumstances of my life changed, and I became less good at keeping in touch with friends. And it got worse and worse when I began to struggle with depression, and picking up the phone started to feel like a climb up the [...]

So this is how grown-ups retreat from friendships? Really?

I’ve just read an article by Lionel Shriver about friendship and what I found most fascinating was how totally opposite her attitude is to mine – she seems absolutely comfortable with friendships just dissolving gradually, she talks as though by the time we’ve become adults we shouldn’t need to resort to the drama of ending [...]