It’s 2am, and you and your BFF have just arrived home after one of the craziest, fun-nest nights of your life. You pull on your PJs and, as you make tea and toast, giggle over the evening’s shenanigans. It’s hard to imagine you’ll ever be anything but tight. But then she gets a job in another town. At first you take turns travelling to spend every weekend together, but after a while this starts happening less and less. You meet a guy, she meets a guy and before you know it you haven’t caught up properly in six months. So, was the friendship not as solid as you thought it was? Not necessarily. You just need to be realistic.
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What matters here is how you handle your differences. If they’re small things (she’s rocking the new season’s neon; acid green makes you want to barf) you can laugh at each other’s appalling taste and move on. If the issue is more serious – religious, political or racial, say – it might be harder to agree to disagree. Decide whether the issue is a deal-breaker for you. If not, don’t discuss this topic and focus, instead, on the things you do have in common. Of which there are probably loads. |
