Is It Okay for Best Friends to Grow Apart?
The advent of adulthood and maintaining long-distance friendships
Making friends as an adult is hard.
And making plans with those friends is nearly impossible, because we all have our own lives, jobs, and responsibilities to attend to.
My group of friends and I have to get out our calendars and basically fill out a spreadsheet in order to figure out a time when we’re all available.
But maintaining friendships — new and old — is even harder.
Here’s my story
I’ve had the same best friend since I was in the sixth grade — until recently.
It was the kind of close friendship where you can walk into the other person’s house without knocking (or being invited), and when we hung out, we were content to just coexist in the same room together, doing our own things.
We’d go on trips and adventures together, too. Some of my favorite memories are with her.
That friendship survived a lot of years, a lot of transitions, a lot of life drama. I thought it would be an epic friendship for the ages, lasting the rest of my life.
But it recently fell off the map entirely.
