Conversations About Friendship (by Nina Badzin -- "Dear Nina") dives into the nuanced, gray areas of adult friendship with "warm directness." Examples: changed closeness, uneven effort, group dynamics, hurt feelings, and what to do next.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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An Embarrassing Moment from College I Held onto for Three Decades
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I told the story below in more detail in episode #211 of Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. (And I was lucky to get ’s guidance right on the spot.)
I’m giving you the cliff notes below because I...
“I’m Doing the Friendship Work. Why am I Still Lonely?”
When effort hasn’t yet turned into the closeness you’re craving
In this month’s anonymous letter, I’m answering a letter from a 37-year-old woman who knows how to put herself out there and has already tried many of the things we often talk...
Expecting Friendship From an Acquaintance
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One of the trickiest parts of friendship is the process of moving from acquaintance to friend. It IS a process.
Even if you have instant chemistry with a new potential friend, it takes time to go from acquaintance to fr...
“Obligation” isn’t a dirty word in a friendship
Dear Nina Live 2026!
Showing up to friends’ events —Yes, you should really try to make it there.
It’s been almost a month since 200 people came to a sold-out “Dear Nina Live” in a suburb of Minneapolis to help me celebrate five years of...
Who Taught You How Friendships Are Supposed to Work?
Two late-80s covers of Teen and Seventeen that I definitely would have read in middle school.
Was Seventeen Magazine my guide to how friendship is supposed to work? Was it the Sweet Valley High series? As I’ve written about in the past, I...
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\ud83c\udf99 Host of Dear Nina — a top 1% podcast about friendship. Helping you navigate the friendships that leave you second-guessing yourself. ✍️ Writing about adult friendship since 2014 \ud83d\uddde Seen in WSJ, NPR, Real Simple, & more.
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