Happiness & Stress Soothers

Invite your girlfriend and a small group of your mutual friends to join you at a restaurant or for a potluck dinner at your home, suggests relationship expert Janice Hoffman, author of Relationship Rules. Being with those who care will remind your newly divorced friend, as well as everyone else at the dinner, just how much they are loved. During the meal, you might ask each person to tell a story about what it means to love someone, like a parent or child. Sharing in this way is sure to leave everyone “feeling loved and good about the love that they contributed to the group,” Hoffman explains.