I am still confused by the necessity for the darn article. Writer had a friend who said mean things. Writer feels bad. Writer gets a manicure and pounds out three pages worthy of passive aggressiveness.

Oh thank god. Thank god for you. I scrolled through so many comments agreeing with or engaging with this article before I got to yours.

I mean, I would have totally been here for a super-bitchy rant about friend breakups and how they suck, but this feels somehow worse than that? This is, like, a well-thought-out, sanctimonious story about That Time I was a really, really good friend, and then for No Reason this woman who no one here knows was a huge…

What is with people freaking out when they don’t get a response to a text/message/call if it’s not an emergency? I find it strange how many adults have reached back out after texting me because I haven’t responded. People get distracted, they are busy, they have lives, and sometimes technology even drops the ball.…

Yikes!

You are the only commenter saying the right thing. This story is too personal, and now at least alerts the rest of her “friends” to watch what they say lest she publish personal things about them too.

Her friend might have been an idiot, as is my opinion of namaste type people, but this author was cool with…

It’s even easier to figure out who her husband is and now his humiliation and internal shame has been broadcast to a wide audience. Even if she got his ok to share the message and explain why it was so potent, there’s an obvious element of coercion there in that she got paid to write this so sharing his shame is his…

Yeah, the fact that her response to her spiritual breakthrough and dying friendship was to immediately pitch the story to Jezebel makes me think she is not being her best self in this moment.

Thank you. I didn’t want to be the first one to say it but what was the spiritual awakening exactly? That she likes mauve nail polish? Is the nail polish a metaphor that she can appreciate the new things the friend introduced her to but just like the friendship is temporary? And... she journals? I feel like this is…

But, people must know you and, by extension, know her. Now they know personal things about her. Now I know personal things about her because you chose this platform to share them.