Toxic Friends/True Friends: How Your Friends Can Make or Break Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Career

by Florence Isaacs

Book Overview

Isaacs explores the complex interplay of affection, obligation, and competition in women's friendships, showing how these dynamics affect women confronting life's ups and downs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688154425
• ISBN13: 9780688154424
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Know Your True Friends

I used to take friends for granted, but now after moving a number of times, I'm more aware of the fragility of friendships. Friends take effort and nurturing and may not last a lifetime. As your life changes, so will your selection of friends. Some will stay with you over the years even when many miles separate you. This book helps you determine when a friendship isn't working for you any longer. Sometimes it is your needs that have changed and sometimes it is your friend's needs. Some people were never your real friend from the start but it takes awhile to recognize their hidden agenda and how their kind of friendship is hurting you.

Very Insightful

I thought that this book was a very interesting read. How many of us actually take the time to breakdown the different types of friendships we have, how we incorporate them in our lives and how they affect our world. Very insightful and recommended.

Very Informative

This book was a excellent tool in helping me understand who my friends and who are not.I have been struggling with know who is real, why people act the way they do. I wanted to know the dynamics of women friendships. I must say all my questions were answered!!!Go get this book.Mrs.Lee-Jackson

A must read!

I found this book to be extremely definitive. Friends is such a blanket statement and this book brings clarity to the word. If you ever wondered where your 'friends' fit in your life this is the book to have. Not only does it give you guidelines for recognizing friends, it also sheds light on your own behavior. The book is peppered with personal accounts of friendships and even has some valuable information on sibling rivalry and other familial ties. Definitely a book to purchase because it will serve as an excellent reference guide.

enlightening, in-depth info on effects of friendship

Most people might think "relationships are difficult, friends are easy" but such is not always the case. "Toxic Friends, True Friends" is an in-depth discussion of the far-reaching effects friends have on our lives--both good and bad--and what to do about insidiously toxic friendships that may on the surface appear to be normal and healthy. Every woman I've mentioned this book to has wanted to read it; apparently toxic friendships are more common than is generally thought, and the need for healthy friends is a lifelong matter. Married or not, people who don't happen to belong to naturally-occurring job, church, or school groups are as serious about needing and seeking out new friends as they are/were about finding a mate. In general, the book goes way beyond women's magazine platitudes--I'm a psychotherapist, and found "Toxic Friends, True Friends" enlightening on many levels. Good discussion of developing and maintaining on-line friendships as well.