I’m not the only one to have experienced a friendship breakup

Close pals are an important part of our lives and can even improve our health, but staying in touch requires work, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir
I’m not the only one to have experienced a friendship breakup

With true friends, we can be totally ourselves and tell each other anything and everything that’s going on in our lives. Picture: iStock.

Gal pals Laurie, Jaclyn, and Kate in the hit series The White Lotus rewrite the script on how female friendships are typically shown on our screens.

We’ve become accustomed to seeing the likes of Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe cheerfully popping in and out of each other’s apartments and being intimately involved in each other’s lives on Friends. Or Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte confiding in each other over cocktails on Sex and the City.

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