Posts about friendship

Anonymous 2026/09/24 My son is a police officer and I've stopped telling people what he does. He's twenty-eight. He's been on four years, in a mid-sized department in a state I'm not going to name. I raised him. I taught him to be decent and he is decent — I want that on the recor…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I used to think emotional affairs were something people invented to make normal friendships sound dramatic until I watched my husband have one. There was no sex that I know of. No hotel room, no kissing, no dating app. Just a woman from work who slowly became …

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m jealous of my best friend’s marriage and I’ve started avoiding her because I don’t like who I become around her. We got married around the same time. Her husband cooks, plans dates, helps with their kids, remembers things without being reminded, and actual…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 My sister is marrying a man I cannot stand, and everybody thinks I’m jealous because she’s getting married before me. I wish it were that simple. He has never hit her, never cheated that I know of, and he’s charming enough around our parents that they love him…

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Anonymous 2026/10/05 I like to make myself appear sad and depressed, just so that I get some type of recognition. I haven't experienced anything too serious in terms of trauma, other than unconsensual groping, and being resented by my family because of something I never did. Maybe…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 My biggest fear isn’t dying, it’s becoming dependent on my children when I’m old. I watched my grandmother spend the last years of her life needing help with everything and it changed how I think about aging. My mother gave up weekends, vacations, sleep and a …

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Anonymous 2026/09/28 I found out my best friend of nineteen years told my husband about my abortion, and I don't know who I'm more angry at, and I've been sitting with that for two weeks. Context: it was before I met him. I was twenty-three. I have never told him, not because I'm …

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Anonymous 2026/09/24 My best friend told me a secret four years ago and asked me never to repeat it. I have kept it. But keeping it changed how I see them, and they have no idea why I slowly pulled away. They think they did something wrong. They did not. I just could not look at t…

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Anonymous 2026/09/23 I laid off my best friend to save my own job and I let him think it was corporate. We were a team of nine. The directive came down in August: cut two heads, I had three weeks, and the list was mine to make. My own position was not technically on the table but …

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