[TishaBuv]

It's kinda miraculous, I just reconnected with my best friends. That sounds weird doesn't it? Why should best friends have ever lost touch in the first place?

I met them both when I was in 8th grade and moved to a new town. We were best friends through high school.

After high school, I went to college, E got married, and C went to community college and got close with a different group of friends. So in the pre-Facebook days, out of sight was out of mind.

C and I have had a life-long friendship where I have had to de-friend her for periods of years 'never to speak again' because she is pretty out there, toxic, says whatever she thinks, completely insensitive, cuts to the core. She is the funniest person alive, basically a caring person, but I had to ban her from being around my family because she is so obnoxious.

E is a very nice, sweet person. I really don't know why we stopped being friends once she got married. She did come to my wedding, too. But, I lived an hour away. We had separate lives. Raised our families. And had occasional phone calls over the years. I kept trying to make plans to get together, and she would blow it off. I assumed there was some reason she wouldn't see me.

So, two weeks ago, when I was running away from my husband. I called C and made up with her. We got together that day and called E and she joined us. It was just like old times, instant BFFs, like nothing had changed.

Now, I'll be seeing them this weekend and we are talking about taking a trip together this summer. I am so thankful to have my friends back! Being separated from my husband, I instantly found others to be with.

I'll tread lightly with C, knowing her flaws, I won't give her ammunition.

When a door closes, another one opens.

[Chyialee]

Oh Tisha. This makes me smile so hard my face hurts, haha. Mostly cause I've done the same sort of thing ...Only w/me it was mostly accidental. After my husband passed, the whole world was insane and I didn't know where or how to be. My sister and best friend for life Laenie, had died some years earlier, and. It was disorienting. One day at the market someone spoke to me -- it was our (mine & Laenie's) old friend from yrs before, who had moved away and was now back. WHA?!! 2 days later another friend I'd not seen for years just calmly showed up at my front door whilst I was still in my jammies lol. Suddenly all these folk who had known me since way back when, were all around me again...

And I could not pull any "Isolating" bullcrap with them; they knew me too well and Were. Not. Having. Any of it!

The ground beneath my feet seemed a lot more solid all at once.

They gave me my context back; they know who I am....and when I'm with them, I know that too. Ain't it great?

xxoo

Chyia, Oh yeah!

[s4ndm4n2006]

It's really good that you found people to connect with especially right now when I'm sure there are difficult times ahead related to the separation good to have friends around for those times *hugs*