Try another Enhanced Search

Results for Autonomy And Control In Friendships

Our search tries its best to match you with stories that fit your request, but results may vary based on keywords and what's available. If you don't find what you're looking for, try a different search.

Listing 134 stories.

A man succumbs to shock as an important friend betrays him, despite the friend not being visible to the human eye.

Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

A woman considers her possible shortcomings when her boyfriend tells her that he doesn’t like some things about her. After a period of reflection, she acknowledges the futility of self-deprecation.

Three young adults who rent a surrogate robot to quell their loneliness find themselves even more alone.

Over dinner, an observer reflects on mothers and their omnipresent prevalence in children’s lives.

A young girl decides to run away with her best friend to a strange city only known in stories with the help of her talking dog after he loses everything in a world where success is scored to determine social status. But can they actually escape the controlling society they're running from?

A man visits his girlfriend in the countryside and begins to realize that she loves someone else.

As she walks alongside the Hudson River with her friend, a woman excitedly explains her intricate vision of what would give her happiness.