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This is an excellent how-to book for meeting women when you have moved to a new place or changed your life direction, and managing some of the difficulties that always arise thereafter. She gives a lot of strategies for where and how to meet women, culled from the experience of women who have moved a lot and developed techniques that work...

Creating and Maintaining Relationships That Last
Kathleen A. Brehony
2003
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 Brehony, a psychotherapist, discusses the biological and psychological bases for attachment to others and its importance in our lives. It is well-proven that close relationships are important for a healthy life. She says, "what is not so obvious is what happens when we fail to satisfy our needs for belongingess, when we are unable to find our safe harbor.  A mounting body of evidence has shown that without human contact and connection at critical developmental periods, infants die.  And so do adults… The effects of belongingness are so potent that if they could be bottled, they would need FDA approval."

When you move to a new place, become widowed or divorced, or quit a job where you had close contacts, it can be daunting to meet new people to take the place of the intimate relationships you have lost.

There are three different subjects here—how to meet people you like, how to begin to have regular contact, and how to develop real, “attached-at-the-heart” friendships. This  article is about the first two subjects: how to meet women who might become friends. For an exploration of the deeper psychological aspects of friendship, see Living the Connected Life and Intimacy and Solitude. . .