Lemonada.

Hello, everyone.

I feel like I sound sick. I'm not sick.

Anyway, I'm feeling good.

Today I want to talk about friendships, more specifically ending friendships and all that comes with that. I'm 31 as of this recording, and I have a few really close friendships in my life, very, very, very close friendships.

Like the inseparable, you see them just about every day. You tell them everything. They tell

you everything, like just the really kind of enmeshed friendships. Whatever, when you think

of like a best friend when you're really little, you're like, oh my goodness, they're my best friend

and all the hopes and dreams that you have that come with that friendship of just like being

so, so close and tight-knit and that feeling, that's like what I, what I had with a couple friends to the point where it was kind of,

you know, it was codependent, I would say, for both of them. So both of these people

had actually met when I was like very young teenager, maybe 13, 14 kind of thing, 15 at the most.

And the friendships lasted until my mid-20s.

And then both friendships kind of dissolved in my mid-20s.

And both of them are sweet, lovely people.

I just got to this place.

So one of them was a very kind of misery loves company thing where we would complain a lot.

That was kind of the basis of our friendship.

And I like to think we both, you know, we definitely had a sense of humor about the things that we were experiencing.

We weren't just sitting there like, you know, woe was me on top of what was me.

It was, we'd complain about real-time shit that was happening in our lives in a way that would make us both just crack up.

We'd just laugh so hard.

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