The right friendships do more than comfort you through uncertainty. They can help you in achieving your goals and make you honest about the changes you keep postponing.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Actresses Irene Maiorino and Alba Caterina Rohrwacher on the television series "My Brilliant Friend," based on a novel by Elena ...

Dear Annie: I have had a close friend for 44 years. We have been through marriages, children, illnesses, holidays, losses and ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Years ago, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman hit a rocky patch in their friendship. For reasons they couldn’t fully articulate, they ...

Rachel Simmons was raised Catholic and later joined a Presbyterian church, but she told me the closest thing she’s ever had to true religion came from a childhood friendship. When she was in middle ...

Among Gen X women—the first generation raised on the specific promise that friendship and chosen family could substitute for ...

(Amazon Prime Video/Courtesy Everett Collection; Spencer Pazer/A24/Courtesy Everett Collection; Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection) The relationships between friends are an integral part of many ...

One of the artists and co-curators had an idea for an art exhibition about International Friendship Park, a state park on the ...