I do my best to avoid drama in all of my personal relationships, things just work better that way. I seem to be quite adept at capartementalizing things. 3-4 years ago my wife and her friend had a falling out (no details necessary), interestingly enough one of my best friends is married to that friend. We live accross the country so we very rarely see each other. When we do my friend pretends like he has just been far too busy to return my phone calls or emails, while his wife, who not only refuses to even say hello but also looks at us with an expression that lies somewhere in between I want to tear you apart with my bare hands and I just ate a bad chicken nugget.
Normally, I am not forced to think about past friendships but I have a wedding to attend this summer. Undoubtly, I will see my old friend and it will take every ounce of strength in my body not to ask him what the is the deal but I guess that is life. Does everyone have a friend like this? The only reason he still gets under my skin is all he ever needed to say to me is, “hey I don’t think we are trully friends anymore” or “I can’t deal” and all would be good. Instead in a little less than 3 weeks, he will once again say “dude I have been so busy, sorry it has been so long” and I will shrug and think to myself no worries, you are just somebody I used to know (queue Elliott Smith).
