Sometimes, reconnecting might not make sense. “The choice to not reconnect can even be empowering,” one psychologist said.

For anyone that has had an old friend welcome their way back into your life and leave you confused and bewildered as to why they left in the first place, this one's for you. Friends come and go.

To maintain old friends, focus less on what they're doing (or not doing) for the relationship and focus on your own efforts, says Nina Badzin, host of a friendship podcast.

Counselors call it “disenfranchised grief.” Readers tell us how they coped with the loss of an old friend.

Afterward, we encouraged everyone to reach out to an old friend. Only about a third of people in the control group sent a message, consistent with our previous experiments.

Over time, old friends can start to feel like strangers, explains Aknin. That psychological distance is what people report as their main hurdle to reconnecting. You May Also Like.

Since 2003, the non-profit Old Friends has provided a retirement home for aging equines, founded by a former film critic whose love of horses drew him to gamble on a new vocation, which is paying ...

Old Friends invested in a commercial washer and dryer about a year ago to handle it all. “That dryer will do 100 pounds of laundry in less than 30 minutes!” McCannner said.

One wonders what the Broadway maestro would have made of “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” which opened Thursday at the Ahmanson Theatre in preparation for its move to Broadway in the spring.