02505cam a2200325 i 4500 615167313 TxAuBib 20230309120000.0 221219s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022039041 9781668009420 HRD 28.00 1668009420 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Tate, Christie, author. B.F.F [BOOK] : a memoir of friendship lost and found / Christie Tate. Best friends forever. First Avid Reader Press edition. New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, 2023. xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won’t commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past. Or so she thought. Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. Meredith, twenty years older and always impeccably accessorized, gives Christie a box of holiday-themed scarves as well as a gentle suggestion: maybe now is the perfect time to examine why friendships give her trouble. “The work never ends, right?” she says with a wink. Christie isn’t so sure, but she soon realizes that the feeling of “apartness” that has plagued her since childhood isn’t magically going away now that she’s in a healthy romantic relationship. With Meredith by her side, she embarks on a brutally honest exploration of her friendships past and present, sorting through the ways that debilitating shame and jealousy have kept the lasting bonds she craves out of reach—and how she can overcome a history of letting go too soon. But when Meredith becomes ill and Christie’s baggage threatens to muddy their final days, she’s forced to face her deepest fears in honor of the woman who finally showed her how to be a friend. Provided by publisher. 20230309. Tate, Christie. Psychotherapy United States Biography. Female friendship. Interpersonal relations. Autobiographies.