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    Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships
    Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships
    Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships
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    Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships

    By Susan Shapiro Barash

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    A woman can always count on are her friends—right? But what if those friendships are hurtful, harmful, even toxic? Susan Shapiro Barash explores the ten types of female friends and shows you why and how women get stuck with the worst kinds, the ways to get "unstuck, and how to recognize a true friend." For example:
    • The Leader of the Pack—it's all on her terms
    • The Doormat—and why you're the one paying the price
    • The Misery Lover—she wants to feel your pain. Really.
    • The User—and why you seldom see her coming
    • The Trophy Friend—and what you gain from each other
    Provocative and fascinating, Susan Shapiro Barash looks at the bonds (and bondage) of female friendships in a new light.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9781429984027
    Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships
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    Susan Shapiro Barash

    SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH is an established writer of nonfiction women’s issue books and has written more than a dozen books, including The Nine Phases of Marriage; Toxic Friends; Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets and Tripping the Prom Queen. She teaches gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College. A well-recognized gender expert, she is frequently sought out by newspapers, televisions shows, and radio programs to comment on women’s issues. She also blogs for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She lives in New York City.

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      I received Toxic Friends as a review book for an author’s promo tour, and thought it would be really interesting to get this perspective on friendship after recently reading The Friends We Keep by a Christian author. I figured I’d probably get two very different takes on friends, and I was right – but it was a good thing.Toxic Friends does less philosophizing about women and friendships and more categorizing. I know, I know, that doesn’t sound great at first – why put labels on people? – but in this case it works.Barash spends her time looking at the different types of women there are ‘out there’ and what kind of friends they become, everyone from The Doormat to The Misery Lover to The Leader of the Pack, plus the variations within these groups.I was shocked to discover that I could finally verbalize the actions of certain friends in the past – it wasn’t just me, and it wasn’t just them. They were acting in ways that were typical of certain types of women, and it actually helped me to understand them better. If I ever reconnect with those women – doubtful, but you never know – I’ll be more prepared to communicate with them and relate to them.And, above all, I think this book will help to identify those types of women if they appear in my life in the future. That doesn’t mean I’ll be psychoanalyzing every person I meet… rather, it means that I’ll have a better awareness of my relationship to certain people and which people to politely and gently excuse myself from spending time with. Something I honestly can say I wish I knew a long time ago… I could have avoided a lot of heartache that way.Recommended to women with friends. Yes, that’s a broad recommendation – but I honestly believe the book is helpful… and you may even discover a bit more about yourself and how you relate to your female friends too!

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