I have been willing to compromise with other friends. I have been the more religious one, in the past who used to pray daily at one point, whilst my other best friend was an openly gay man who I met at a hair salon. That never came between us.

With her it did start to feel like everything had started to become a battle. Even if I wasn’t posting anything political, I would still get messages about X or Y. Look what Z has done. I stopped engaging in those types of messages.

I think our problem was also that we are in different countries. I haven’t physically seen her for close to four years. Everything was online, so there was a hyper focus on instagram and stories to keep track. There was no meeting up and just watching a movie and eating popcorn to diffuse the tension.