Close friendships between women can, in their way, be just as passionate and all-consuming as a marriage, and evoke equally intense emotions such as jealousy, rage, anger, love and hate.
Just as in a marriage, there are critical milestones. The five major stress-points are:

Change of circumstances: one of you gets divorced, remarries or has a baby.
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There are hundreds of occasions when your best friend asks for your honest opinion. She’ll want to know whether you like her new hairstyle, or whether you think she’s put on weight. Most of the time, you can easily gauge exactly how honest she wants you to be. She probably already knows that the red [...]