She Said He SaidWoe Is Me! “How Do I Deal With My Defensive Best Friend?” A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore. By The Swaddle Team
Pyaar Dosti HaiMale Baboons Live Longer if They Have Female Friends: Study Male baboons thrive when they have relationships that don't require fighting for dominance. By Rajvi Desai
portraits of digital intimacyHow Friendship Evolved Under Lockdown Amidst Cathartic Group Chats, Food Parcels Amidst a collective understanding of "everything is f**cked," 21-year-old Sukhnidh Kaur figured out how to be more 'around' for her friends. By The Swaddle Team
Tu Tu Mai MaiWoe Is Me! “My Old Friend Keeps Trying to Horn in On All My New Friendships!” A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore. By The Swaddle Team
Envious For A CauseJealousy Of Our Friends’ New Friends Can Be Good for Friendships, Says Research Jealousy can be beneficial for friendships, as it makes people work harder to keep their friend happy. By Aditi Murti
No YOUR MamaResearch Shows We All Should Absolutely, Relentlessly Roast Our Friends Disparagement humor, the fancy term for your sick burns, acts as a social lubricant, putting people at ease around each other. By Aditi Murti
Long Time No SeeIt’s Okay: to Be Bad at Keeping in Touch There's a limit to how many relationships we can keep going at any given time. By Liesl Goecker
Till Pink Slips Do Us PartThe Pros and Cons of Having a Work Spouse Close friendships with co-workers can help us perform better -- or they can distract and drain us emotionally. By Liesl Goecker
Influenza DramaThe Caroline Calloway‑Natalie Beach Saga Proves Toxic Friendships Have No Winners This brand of female friendship is too familiar -- where one's always in the spotlight and another's in the shadows. By Aditi Murti
Just AskIt’s Time We Start Negotiating Non‑Sexual Consent, As Well The phrase "can I ____?" will take you a long way. By Pallavi Prasad
Bask In The GlowShine Theory Is the Antidote to the Cliché of Female Friendships It's a model for female friendship that minimizes comparison and maximizes confidence. By Liesl Goecker
By My LadyNetflix’s ‘Dead To Me’ is What Happens When Women Write Women Imagine a strong female character without the usual accompanying toxicity. By Rajvi Desai
Idle NecessitiesKitty Parties Were Never About the Gossip; They’re About the Women The monthly tradition serves up social and intellectual stimulation. By Rajvi Desai
BFFsThe Case For Platonic Intimacy Ride-or-die relationships don't have to be romantic. By Nadia Nooreyezdan
Misery Loves CompanyAnxiety, Sadness Can Be the Glue for Some Teenage Friendships A struggling teen isn't necessarily a lonely one. By The Swaddle Team
bollywoodThe SATC Feud and the Myths of Female Friendship I grew up with Sex and The City. There is a generation of us SATC girls who classified ourselves as Mirandas, Charlottes, Carries and Samanthas. We all believed in BFFs and sistas before mistas, and more. And then we grew up, thankfully By Akhila Vijaykumar
adviceFWP: Hello, Narcissa, So Glad You Could Join Us PROBLEM: Okay, so I have a “girl gang” group chat. But one of the girls always has to make it about herself! If she is going on a date, we need to know. If her day is going badly, then we By The Swaddle Team
first world problemsFWP: Why Did She Unfollow Me on Instagram? PROBLEM: A friend of mine has recently shut me out on social media. We’re still friends on Facebook, cordial whenever we speak and we never really had any kind of altercation or falling-out. But why did she unfollow me on Instagram and By The Swaddle Team
