Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need
If you’ve ever been tempted to put a sign in your front yard advertising for new friends, scream or sob in frustration over a "friend's" hot and cold behavior, or cringe at the memory of awkward friendship encounters, you can trust Kristen Strong’s decades of experience at constantly relocating and remaking friends to provide both solid hope and practical direction to try again to find the friends you need.

In Desperate Woman Seeks Friends, Kristen Strong offers her two decades of experience as a constantly relocating military spouse and one decade as a settled civilian to address head on the crisis facing women today in startling numbers: an acute loneliness and isolation due to a lack of friends and community.

Often, social media will give you a band-aid to your loneliness, but looking to social media to be your only source of friendship is like relying on breadcrumbs as a steady diet for dinner: it won’t nourish or satisfy. Unless some of those online connections turn into real life ones, they’re no substitute for in-person friendships.

In fact, research shows friends are just as important for our overall welfare as healthy eating habits and getting a good night’s sleep. Kristen gives you a game plan for getting your friendship groove back. Chapters include:

  • Don’t discount the fertilizer seasons
  • Get cozy and comfortable with awkward
  • Boundaries are our friends and our friends’ friends
  • What you can expect will kill friendships
  • Keeping the faith when your community landscape changes for the worse
  • I love my friend to pieces, but I don't like her ____________ (i.e. Politics, Parenting Style, Husband, etc.)
  • When a friendship ends without your say-so
  • Rejection sucks, but don't let it suck you down to a bad place
  • Making friends by opening up
  • Making friends by praying up
  • The friend who never fails in friendships

It’s not just you. Making friends is hard! But it doesn’t have to be impossible. As a longtime military wife who repeatedly learned to create her own community from the ground up, Kristen Strong wants to help you recover from rejection and find your people.

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Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need
If you’ve ever been tempted to put a sign in your front yard advertising for new friends, scream or sob in frustration over a "friend's" hot and cold behavior, or cringe at the memory of awkward friendship encounters, you can trust Kristen Strong’s decades of experience at constantly relocating and remaking friends to provide both solid hope and practical direction to try again to find the friends you need.

In Desperate Woman Seeks Friends, Kristen Strong offers her two decades of experience as a constantly relocating military spouse and one decade as a settled civilian to address head on the crisis facing women today in startling numbers: an acute loneliness and isolation due to a lack of friends and community.

Often, social media will give you a band-aid to your loneliness, but looking to social media to be your only source of friendship is like relying on breadcrumbs as a steady diet for dinner: it won’t nourish or satisfy. Unless some of those online connections turn into real life ones, they’re no substitute for in-person friendships.

In fact, research shows friends are just as important for our overall welfare as healthy eating habits and getting a good night’s sleep. Kristen gives you a game plan for getting your friendship groove back. Chapters include:

  • Don’t discount the fertilizer seasons
  • Get cozy and comfortable with awkward
  • Boundaries are our friends and our friends’ friends
  • What you can expect will kill friendships
  • Keeping the faith when your community landscape changes for the worse
  • I love my friend to pieces, but I don't like her ____________ (i.e. Politics, Parenting Style, Husband, etc.)
  • When a friendship ends without your say-so
  • Rejection sucks, but don't let it suck you down to a bad place
  • Making friends by opening up
  • Making friends by praying up
  • The friend who never fails in friendships

It’s not just you. Making friends is hard! But it doesn’t have to be impossible. As a longtime military wife who repeatedly learned to create her own community from the ground up, Kristen Strong wants to help you recover from rejection and find your people.

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Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need

Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need

by Kristen Strong
Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need

Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk About Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need

by Kristen Strong

Overview

If you’ve ever been tempted to put a sign in your front yard advertising for new friends, scream or sob in frustration over a "friend's" hot and cold behavior, or cringe at the memory of awkward friendship encounters, you can trust Kristen Strong’s decades of experience at constantly relocating and remaking friends to provide both solid hope and practical direction to try again to find the friends you need.

In Desperate Woman Seeks Friends, Kristen Strong offers her two decades of experience as a constantly relocating military spouse and one decade as a settled civilian to address head on the crisis facing women today in startling numbers: an acute loneliness and isolation due to a lack of friends and community.

Often, social media will give you a band-aid to your loneliness, but looking to social media to be your only source of friendship is like relying on breadcrumbs as a steady diet for dinner: it won’t nourish or satisfy. Unless some of those online connections turn into real life ones, they’re no substitute for in-person friendships.

In fact, research shows friends are just as important for our overall welfare as healthy eating habits and getting a good night’s sleep. Kristen gives you a game plan for getting your friendship groove back. Chapters include:

  • Don’t discount the fertilizer seasons
  • Get cozy and comfortable with awkward
  • Boundaries are our friends and our friends’ friends
  • What you can expect will kill friendships
  • Keeping the faith when your community landscape changes for the worse
  • I love my friend to pieces, but I don't like her ____________ (i.e. Politics, Parenting Style, Husband, etc.)
  • When a friendship ends without your say-so
  • Rejection sucks, but don't let it suck you down to a bad place
  • Making friends by opening up
  • Making friends by praying up
  • The friend who never fails in friendships

It’s not just you. Making friends is hard! But it doesn’t have to be impossible. As a longtime military wife who repeatedly learned to create her own community from the ground up, Kristen Strong wants to help you recover from rejection and find your people.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400343904
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 05/13/2025
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kristen Strong, whose authored books include Girl Meets Change and When Change Finds You, also compiled the 90-day devotional, Praying Through Loneliness. She writes as a friend walking alongside you in your lonely season to a more helpful, hopeful destination. She loves sharing laughs, long talks, and meaningful stories with family and friends while holding a cup of strong black tea. She and her US Air Force veteran husband, David, have three beloved adult children. Together this military family zigzagged across the country (and one ocean) several times before settling in Colorado Springs, Colorado. You can find her at kristenstrong.com, DaySpring’s (in)courage, and on Instagram @kristenstrong.

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