Life Is Friends: A Complete Guide to the Lost Art of Connecting in Person

Written like a romantic relationship guide, this book helps you navigate friendship! Such an important relationship, it's often downplayed in our culture and plagued by contradictory unspoken rules. This book walks you through the most awkward, anxiety-producing friendship skills, like meeting a new friend and seeing if they like you too and want to hang out (including watching out for the dangers of like-at-first-sight... so real!), dinner parties, being a good houseguest and host, friending one-on-one and in groups, and juggling new and longtime friendships when you've changed so much over time. Also tackles stickier situations, like dodging unwanted friendship advances, dealing with a triangulating friend, and helping friends through emergencies. Good stuff here that you won't find in other books on the same topic, containing skills you can apply to all the relationships in your life.