Me and (I think) another friend have noticed lately that a close friend of ours is drifting and I'm not exactly sure what I should about it or how to handle it, exactly, since it's been happening gradually, and obviously these things do happen in life and there's only so much one person can do. Basically, she's 4-5 years older than us, she lives thousands of miles away in South-East Asia, so obviously from that distance away there was always a low probability of meeting up or anything like that though we talked about it a bit (BTW we met on an online game and etc, I met her first in Jan 2008 the other friend met her in Mar 09), plus phone calls and text always costed a bomb so we rarely did them, we spoke/speak mostly on Facebook and MSN in trio conversations. She's basically always been a good and supportive friend of ours, kinda like a big sister, like she's been there for most our worst troubles and we met her when she was going through her own troubles at university and with family and stuff.
Since leaving university last year she's got a very busy full-time job, which naturally means she'll be around a lot less anyway, she spends most of her free-time with friends she knows in person and speaking to her boyfriend and stuff like that, it was all okay originally, but I've noticed over the past year she's slowly drifted as I said, she still talks to us every now and again on facebook, comes on MSN once in a blue moon and still likes/makes small comments on things like pictures, but that's as far as it goes. She has beaten all her mental health problems and has stopped self-harming for like 3 years now which is good. Another thing is she seldom replies to our facebook trio convo anymore, she still does, but not as much as he used to, even though she does be on facebook still.
Does this friendship sound like it's dissolving? Is there anything we can/should do? Or do you think it's time to kinda let go, we would prefer not to but yeah. I've sent her a PM on Facebook.
Thanks. xx And sorry for the long message, it's just on my mind.
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