http://working-on.me Self Development Fri, 18 May 2012 02:41:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://working-on.me/friendship/do-virtual-friends-help-our-health-too http://working-on.me/friendship/do-virtual-friends-help-our-health-too#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:31:28 +0000 Self Development http://working-on.me/?p=26 When this New York Times story popped up on my screen yesterday, I was immediately drawn in. The article, a compilation of studies and scientific opinion on how friendships fuel our well-being in marked and sometimes tangible ways, falls right into my own area of interest. I've researched, written, and read with great interest for years about how our social connections help us recover from illnesses, injuries, and trauma. And I've certainly been there, felt the fierce support of my own friends during the toughest of times. But something else struck me about this article, with its 743 comments that streamed down my stream. I was reading it in the news feed of...]]> http://working-on.me/friendship/do-virtual-friends-help-our-health-too/feed 3 http://working-on.me/friendship/how-to-spot-a-frenemy http://working-on.me/friendship/how-to-spot-a-frenemy#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:53 +0000 Self Development http://working-on.me/?p=434 The portmanteau frenemy encapsulates the complexity of modern life - we may want to think all relationships are easily categorized, but sometimes we have trouble discerning a friend from an enemy. Popularized by the 2004 teen flick "Mean Girls," the term frenemy acknowledges the fact that friendships are not always friendly, nor are they as simple as they seem on the surface. While recognizing friend from foe is typically cut and dry, recognizing friend from frenemy is trickier. Let these tips help you figure it out. Step 1 Understand frenemy variations. Frenemies can range from calculatingly callous and manipulative to obliviously selfish and unkind. Just because a person doesn't "mean" to be mean doesn't erase...]]> http://working-on.me/friendship/how-to-spot-a-frenemy/feed 0 http://working-on.me/friendship/use-interpersonal-attraction-to-have-great-relationships http://working-on.me/friendship/use-interpersonal-attraction-to-have-great-relationships#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:19:44 +0000 Self Development http://working-on.me/?p=475 Why do we fall in love with people, like some, and hate others? Interpersonal attraction. It's a major point of psychological study, and there’s really not much hard data on why one person might be attracted to another person and not attracted or even repulsed by someone else. Interpersonal attraction is still a great mystery. There are certain principles at work, of course. It’s believed that people are attracted to people of approximately the same level of physical attractiveness. And that people of the same social background and similar economic situations will experience the interpersonal attraction that draws them together. But also that in some cases, people who are very different in other aspects...]]> http://working-on.me/friendship/use-interpersonal-attraction-to-have-great-relationships/feed 7