Tell Me About It with Claire Cohen

Tell Me About It with Claire Cohen

Do you have more frenemies than you think?

I'm worried that I might - and it's the ambivalence that kills you. PLUS: Angela Rayner's tears

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Claire Cohen
Sep 08, 2025
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‘Watch out for frenemies, there are more than you think.’

That comment was made by a Woman’s Hour listener on a reel about friendship. I had been asked on the programme to talk about how it feels to only have a surface-level connection with your friends and how your friendships change after having a baby (how long have you got?)

I’ve thought a lot about friendship over the past few years (I first started plotting my book in about 2019) but that question still took me by surprise. Was it true? Do I have more frenemies than I think? Do you?

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