为什么和闺蜜分手比离婚更难?
I still think of her daily. And it still hurts. Jessica and I had been inseparable since high school. As if we were joined at the hip, we did everything together. We sported matching leather backpacks, and even accidentally got the same haircut and colour done one Saturday afternoon before meeting up for dinner, the two of us laughing hysterically upon discovering our matching bobs with blonde highlights. We'd even unintentionally worn the very same pair of underwear when we'd lost our virginities (same underwear, two different boys, and two different occasions, just to be clear). Where I was, Jessica was. We shared everything: food, clothes, makeup, books. The only thing we didn't share was ex-boyfriends. In our early twenties, although we chose very different paths, we still call every day. When she was travelling for work, I'd sit on the phone with her for hours, which eventually drove a wedge between me and my boyfriend at the time. He said that she was manipulative and possessive. Jessica maintained he was just jealous. Of course, I sided with Jessica. Bye-bye went my boyfriend. After all, if he didn't like my soul sister, then he wasn't my soulmate. Jessica and I weren't without our tiffs. We had plenty. She lived with me on and off throughout our early twenties, and her free-spirited, deal-with-it-later approach made my angry at times. We'd eventually hash it out, our tempers getting the better of us. After a brief period of silence, one of us would call the other, and we'd pick up again, as if our fight had never happened. Our friendship always restarted right where it left off, and our fight would then be filed away in the archives that all long friendships have, never to be spoken of again. But by our mid-twenties, change had come about for both of us. I left my retail job to go to uni, and my newfound education seemed to irritate Jessica. She often made chastising remarks about my student debt, as if to suggest going to study had been a bad decision on my part. Around the same time, she was promoted in her job. |