We've often heard that loaning money to a friend or family member can make things really awkward – especially if you don't get paid back. Sometimes it's not even something official or a direct ask: ...

Welcome to Asking for a Friend, a monthly advice column dedicated to helping you make sense of your messiest, most complicated friendship moments. Each month, clinical psychologist Miriam Kirmayer, ...

While her friend and her spouse are both working, they are raising half a dozen children, so she always says that money is tight. She has used this excuse through the years to ask Annie for help, and ...

But they should also find time to ask you questions back and remember details about ... what you don't like about other people. If you get a pit in your stomach about all the small things your friend ...