"but lonely people usually despise other lonely people" have you read Notes on a a Scandal by Zoe Heller btw? The narrator has a thought of this kind..Book much better than the movie, as per usual. Movie was a bit Sister George.
Barbara is monstrous in the most useful way, because she says the quiet arithmetic out loud. The retirement detail is the one that actually wounds: not a fight, not a betrayal, just the friend who stops adding little inventions to the shared old age until you notice she's quietly withdrawn her future from yours. That's the truest line about how friendships end. Not with a rupture but with someone declining to keep building the imaginary porch. The cheesemonger landing is perfect too. She's spent the whole piece proving she can't keep a friend, then names exactly the kind she wants, which is the most human thing she does.
I fear most female cheesemongers may be lesbians (as they should be)
yes Barbara has a difficult road to hoe ahead of her
Is this how I should be trying to find my wife?
Absolutely; I did not know this was so stereotypical of me.
"but lonely people usually despise other lonely people" have you read Notes on a a Scandal by Zoe Heller btw? The narrator has a thought of this kind..Book much better than the movie, as per usual. Movie was a bit Sister George.
Yikes! So many signs. So many sand traps! Must burrow deeper into covers.
"I don’t think they can ever really respect anyone who isn’t a lesbian" she's not wrong
Barbara is monstrous in the most useful way, because she says the quiet arithmetic out loud. The retirement detail is the one that actually wounds: not a fight, not a betrayal, just the friend who stops adding little inventions to the shared old age until you notice she's quietly withdrawn her future from yours. That's the truest line about how friendships end. Not with a rupture but with someone declining to keep building the imaginary porch. The cheesemonger landing is perfect too. She's spent the whole piece proving she can't keep a friend, then names exactly the kind she wants, which is the most human thing she does.
I just started the book and I love it!
hello, I feel lucky enough to have many good and diverse sorts of friends.
#Richness
I had a a REALLY good close friend break up with me completely, coldly after a terrible turn on a “ fun trip to Sun City AZ “
to share our Newish babies with the older people in the family and soak up some winter sun.
It turned out everything she’s telling me about the Borderline Personality Disorser sister,
that I was restricted from seeing,
for my own protection.
It was a boundary to keep me safe, form her hateful terrible sister was actually had been about her the whole time.