What About Your Friends?

I want to talk about friendship, and I want you to join me.

Friendship has always been a fraught topic for me. I’ve grown to have some very robust, healthy and beautiful friendships as I get older, but it wasn’t always like that growing up. I struggled with the idea of feeling worthy of friendship, but always willing to offer it. A big part of it is my still healing wound of perceived abandonment. Then there’s the looming guilt I carried for years thinking I was a bad omen to those I grew closest to. To the point of me swearing off best friends. There’s also the many people who saw my vulnerability and preyed on it even when I was still self aware and could rationalize how unhealthy a thing was, but still had to transcribe that knowledge for my heart to understand.

Do you have a friendship story for the ages that you want to share? Do you want to talk about the things you look for in a friendship? How do you do friendship maintenance or do you audit your friendships? Do you have a story of being told you weren’t a good friend (however that’s interpreted) and you course corrected? Have you been betrayed in friendship? What influenced your ideas about friendship and how have those influenced evolved? Do you want to have a conversation with your best friend?

I want to know it all. Respond to this post via email and let me know if you’re interested in sharing.