This is on point. I'm Megha Chakrabardi.

She's my best friend in the universe, hands down.

I think that there's many times in my life that I would not have made the healthiest decisions for myself

if she was not there to bounce some of my ideas and things back to me in a way that allowed me to see like a

different angle of what it is that I was going through.

Would that we all had a friend like Mandy Orta has in Reyes-Divore?

They met in Albuquerque, New Mexico, back in 2014, and they've been best friends ever since.

Mandy says the reason their relationship is so lasting, how they communicate.

She's one of the only people in my life that I can talk to about anything without judgment.

And I can honestly say that she and I have not had a fight.

We've had many disagreements.

We're able to talk things out and to not necessarily be so weaponized with our ideas or our perspective.

Reyes is the person Mandy calls when she needs advice, needs some love, or when she just needs to vent.

I think part of the reason why Reyes knows how to have the conversation or hold the space that I need is because we talk about it.

And I say, hey, I need you to just listen.

Or I need you to hear this and tell me that I'm not going crazy. And I need for somebody to hold the

space and could you be that person? And so there is this element to our relationship that is very much

centered on consent, active consent.

And because of that active consent, sometimes that means Reyes says no.

You know what? I'm really hungry and I can't really pay attention. Do you mind if I make a sandwich

real quick? Hey, I'm actually thinking about this email and I don't know if I'm necessarily

going to be able to like read your post. Can you give me 20 minutes? And I think that a lot of times

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