21st January 2024
What Dinner With A Friend Society Tells Us About Friendships… And Dating This academic year, we welcomed the Dinner With a Stranger (DWAS) Society to campus, and I took immediate interest. For those unaware, the gist of it is: friendship blind dating. Members, like myself, complete a monthly questionnaire, and are matched up with one ...
5th January 2024
Is communication the be all and end all of friendship? In recent years, men have been boxed into categories by the media. Men are portrayed as uncommunicative, emotionless, or too laddy. I won’t lie, I have used these terms to describe the behaviour of men in my life. But as a woman, have I been ...
14th October 2023
The day after my first proper breakup, my best friend Louisa came to my house with a bouquet of flowers, the kind wrapped in brown paper with florists’ instructions and a hand-crafted arrangement. It was the first time anyone had brought me flowers that weren’t from Tesco, and while the details of the breakup seem ...
17th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing argues that boundaries in relationships help them to thrive. As an annoying 14-year-old (and net burden on society) I used to declare ad nauseum that “sharing is caring”. I have since dissociated from being that person, such is the perpetual reinvention-of-the-self necessitated by late-teen development, and the phrase now appears, to ...
19th October 2021
Katherine and Genevieve are The Glasgow Guardian’s new agony aunts! I lost a lot of friends during the year because I haven’t been able to keep up with people online. I really miss my friends, but I don’t know how to get better at replying to messages and I feel like I’m always behind with ...
23rd April 2021
Eleanor Harper considers whether it’s a good idea to climb into bed with your friends. Many of us have been there: developing a crush on a friend or engaging in a drunken make-out session with the one person you swore was “bestie vibes only”. Often with a little help from a spirited wingman (a reliable ...
13th February 2021
Is a difference in opinion over the coronavirus pandemic a good enough reason to end a friendship? Our writer Sophie Kernachan thinks so. In a year where political division has become evermore endemic and vicious, you might have thought an event like a widespread pandemic would be one of those instances where everyone comes together ...
13th February 2021
Dorota reviews Dolly Alderton’s much-celebrated memoir about friendship. I thought pinpointing a single book in my entire existence that changed my life would be fairly difficult, but to be honest, there’s one book that’s lived in my head rent-free ever since I read it: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. Thanks to its ...
