simply because you’ve grown apart, or because you have created a dynamic...that becomes very tedious for both parties.

Please, tell me more about severe psychotic episodes. I’m dying to hear it.

“My issue stems from the fact that almost all of Jen’s social contact now comes from Twitter. If I send her a text, she may not reply for three days, but if I reply to one of her tweets, she answers almost instantly. When we do see each other in person, she’s on her phone and tweets multiple times.”

There’s a real difference between “live up to a lifestyle” and “not give anything back in a friendship”

I like how Cynthia Heimel put it in one of her humor books: “We all know it takes two to tango. A man is allowed one harridan in his early twenties, but after that he’s got to man up and take equal responsibility.”

I’m guessing Jen might be slightly addicted to the “not real but an incredible simulation” feeling Twitter gives. It’s like turning your life into a movie with your selected narration: you’re the director, the star, the editor—it makes it easy to frame and give context to things like ill health, accidents, moods. Very…

I feel like this would play better if it wasn’t in reply to someone who lost a ton of friends due to what used to be called a “multiaxial psychiatric diagnosis,” and who doesn’t harbor resentment toward those friends for not putting up with all the bullshit, and who takes medication every day to keep from fucking…

There’s something about a keyboard and internet connection that make people do weird stuff online that they’d never do in person.

edit: lol I forgot I started this off by replying to another comment... whoops

Not all of us can handle the mental health crises of our friends BEFORE they pull away from us. You are not a shitty friend. 

I have such mixed feelings about this, dating back to the early 2000s when everyone was blogging. I would get together with a dear friend and ask how she was, and she’d say, “Didn’t you read my blog?” No. My time away from you is my time. Just because you wrote a thing doesn’t mean I need to read that thing in order…

Wouldn’t it be easiest if the letter writer just stopped expecting her chronically ill friend to be able to keep up with her non-chronically ill lifestyle? I mean if she wants to keep a friendship with this person whose life is full of shit she doesn’t have to deal with, she should be prepared to meet that person on…

Reading this, I tried to see what the OP was actually getting from the friendship, and it doesn’t seem like much. So codependent! The OP clearly enjoys “helping”, and defines their relationship to their friend in those terms. I’m sure the friend is really tired of it too, and they’ll just drift further and further…

Yeah, as shitty as it is, this might be a good time for the letter writer to make some new friends who’re on the same page with them, communication-wise?

My non-profit works with VISTAS.  Please don’t curse me with her.

I did the National Civilian Community Corps and imagining Jenner in that program is delightful. Thank you for this comment; I am going to be laughing all day. 

Yeeeeahh... When I saw that image, my literal reaction was “What the fuck am I looking at?”

it looks like they broke every bone in their bodies.

Re: Stassie Baby updates:

Guess it’s too late to say it’s PJ Harvey.