How to Recover When a Friendship Ends
It’s intensely painful, but there is a silver lining to consider
I’ve always been the type of person to thrive on my friendships.
Not the “I have 1,000 Facebook friends but would recognize 1/4 of them on the street” type of friendship, but the deep and well-nurtured type of friendship that doesn’t come along very often.
I’ve always taken pride in the longevity of some of my friendships, and truly believe good relationships are the best way to invest in yourself and your future. Maybe you’re the same?
For these reasons, the end of a friendship has always hit me hard. Unlike romantic relationships, true friendships are meant to last. They’re meant to grow and prosper and get better over time, not fizzle out suddenly and prematurely.
Like Losing a Limb
For me, the hardest friendships to let go of are the ones where there has been an abundance of shared history. New friendships absolutely have their merit, but there’s a magical, hard-to-replicate quality of an old, been-there-through-everything friendship.
Like the old saying goes, “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold”.
