Rarer still are the true forever best friends, those who are by your side for decades on end—through jobs, moves, relationships, fights, losses, and life stages—and may even come to feel like family.

We asked experts—and people working to maintain their own long-distance friendships—to share their favorite ways to keep bonds strong.

Friendship expert Kat Vellos shares tips on how to make a new friendship stick, including what to do together, how often to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Actresses Irene Maiorino and Alba Caterina Rohrwacher on the television series "My Brilliant Friend," based on a novel by Elena ...

Finding true friendship is often described as rare, but when it happens, it carries the depth and familiarity of something long-lived. These bonds are built on shared values, trust and intention, and ...

Feeling emotionally exhausted in a friendship? Here are 5 signs you may be in a one-sided friendship and why it can slowly drain your emotional energy.

I used to find letting people go so difficult. As someone who’s experienced a lot of abandonment and struggled with self-worth, I’ve tended to cling to people, as well as over-invest and ...

View the full episode transcript. Leanne Davis, a researcher at Education Northwest, found out her 10-year-old son had made a sad playlist to cope with his best friend moving away. He’d listen to it ...