What Signals The End Of A Friendship?
By P.H. James
Friendships don't end. They evolve maybe, but they rarely ever end. Friends who haven't been in touch in decades will still speak well of the other.
However, sometimes feelings get bruised in the evolving, and ending the friendship justified, at least in the offended party's mind.
On the other hand, there is often the natural progression of life that guides a series of events that land two people on opposite sides of it.
In this case, there are no hurt feelings, grudges or regrets, just the wide-eyed desire to explore the newness of life with a different set of people.
Occasionally, circumstances get to be such that two people no longer have anything in common. There may be a substantial age difference or one is married and the other isn't. Whatever the condition, it becomes clear that the two can no longer co-exist as friends.
