Reconnecting With My Friend Was a Bad Idea!

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The high school friend she found on Facebook has brought nothing but trouble to Pam's life. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Pam, welcome to the program.
0:14.1	Hi.
0:14.2	Thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:16.2	Hi.
0:17.4	So I am calling about a friend, somebody who I reconnected with that I was friends in high school.
0:25.0	I'm 57 years old, so that was quite a while ago that we were in high school.
0:30.1	Okay, back up a little bit.
0:31.6	You were friends with this girl in high school, and then when did you stop being connected?
0:38.3	Pretty much right after high school. We weren't really close friends. We were just more
0:42.9	like mutual friends. Okay, so at about 17, 18, and when and how did you to reconnect?
0:52.5	We reconnected. We were friends on Facebook, and I saw that she had moved back to our
0:57.2	hometown where I lived. So I had reached out to her and asked if she'd like to join me and another
1:05.7	friend in playing pickleball in a league. And so we all joined the league to play pickleball together
1:14.4	and started doing that on a weekly basis
1:17.0	and went out to dinner once.
1:19.8	That was the extent of our connection.
1:24.4	Yeah.
1:25.6	So what's the problem?
1:27.7	Well, she, about two months ago, she messaged me on Facebook and said that another, a third friend, who I'm closer to, was psychotic and started just saying all these negative things about her and I just disregarded
1:46.1	them because I knew them not to be true.
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