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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds awfully melodramatic to me. If you're constantly struggling in your friendships, the issue may be you more than them.[/quote]

Melodramatic? Constantly struggling? Ok then, if you think adult friendships aren't complex then you go ahead with that. It just means that yours are superficial and lack the extent of emotional intimacy that mine do.

Also, this is an undercurrent that rarely surfaces. 90% of the time its fun, laughter, good times, and always positively helping each other out. But if you think that friendships don't require work and that any mention of the difficulties even the best of friendships involve constitutes "melodrama", then I can't help you.[/quote]

I have wonderful friends that I'm very close to, but they don't sound anything like yours. Some have had occasional tensions arise that we need to work through, but we do and then they go back to being easy. Probably because, at the core of it, I like and respect them, and don't feel like I'm constantly doing some dance of trusting them, but not too much, or trying to manage their jealousy and insecurities. I've never had a best friend who I felt hated to see me succeed, that person wouldn't be a friend.

You don't sound nearly as emotionally healthy as you believe yourself to be, maybe try therapy?[/quote]

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