“Sometimes, more than coffee, wine, quiet, a vacation or some self-care, what we really need is human connection with good people.”
‘I need a friend,’ she said. That’s all she had to say.’: Woman urges others ‘if you need one, too, tell someone’
‘Check on your ‘strong’ friend, she’s faking it.’: Woman urges ‘let your strong friends know you’re a safe space’
“I’m the strong friend. I meet you for drinks when you’re facing disaster. I bring you dinner, flowers. I’m your sounding board. But you forgot to check on me. You ask me where I’ve been, you say I seem ‘off’ and that you miss my posts. You know what I heard? ‘Why aren’t you playing the role I need you to play?’ But I can’t play that role in life right now. I don’t have it in me.”
‘You know the one thing I feel guilty about?’ I said. ‘Not socializing more.’ I always longed for a BFF. That never happened for me.’: Woman says ‘I don’t have the group of gal pals, but I’m doing OK’
“I can remember longing all of my life for a best friend, the kind you see in movies growing up. The girls who spend hours together, basically connected at the hip. I’m finally learning to just be chill about it.”
Stranger on airplane adopts woman’s newborn son after chance encounter: ‘I felt as if we had been friends for years’
“Unknowingly, I set in motion a chain of events that would eventually secure the future of my child.”
