Grown-up Girlfriends Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World

Friends for life You weren?t meant to walk through life alone . . . but how do you find faithful friends who will make the journey with you? Finding new friends to enrich your life isn?t as simple as it may seem. Join Erin Smalley and Carrie Oliver as they explore our God-given longings for friendship and offer practical insights into building strong, rewarding relationships that endure?even during seasons of conflict and change. You?ll learn the secrets of developing healthy ?grown-up? friendships and avoiding volatile, insecure ones. Using personal anecdotes and scriptural principles, Erin and Carrie explain the ten attributes of grown-up friends and offer ideas on how you can develop these qualities in yourself. Grown-Up Girlfriends will help you: identify potential soul-mate friends mentor others set healthy boundaries resolve conflicts constructively support a friend in crisis practice healthy forgiveness and reconciliation let go of destructive friendships . . . or avoid them altogether This candid look at the challenges and rewards of becoming a grown-up girlfriend was written with women like you in mind because Being a grown-up is hard . . . but it?'s easier in the company of friends.Smalley, Erin is the author of 'Grown-up Girlfriends Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World', published 2007 under ISBN 9781414308098 and ISBN 1414308094.