Plus: She’s all hurt after realizing she’s not my best friend.
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Here’s what I want to do every day: Take my daily two-mile morning walk or pedal my bike about 10 miles, swim my laps at the YMCA, take a nap, then spend the next 10 hours writing, reading and catching up with all those long-ago movies and TV series I missed due to 70-hour workweeks and having to learn new jobs for so many years.On the surface, it seems like you can do both. Were you to move into an active retirement community, your wife could scale Everest while you read a book.
Have a frank, honest conversation with your wife about the values each of you places on money. Besides retirement plans, do you have the same dreams? Do you understand money the same way? What is her plan for financial stability? If it’s just your inheritance, does that work for you? Last week my actual best friend of 30+ years, “Kelly,” was in town, and I posted some pics on my socials of me and her.I answered her questions, and she ended up sending me a three-page email about how hurt she was that I was calling Kelly my best friend when I hadn’t even mentioned Kelly to her, and she was the one who was always “there” for me.
I told her I was sorry she was feeling that way. So far, she hasn’t responded and I’m unsure of what else to say or do. I don’t want to hurt her feelings. If it matters, we’re both in our mid-40s.You’re right that best friendship is usually a mutually agreed-upon status. Sure, there are friendships where one person likes the other person more. But Linda’s problem is not that you don’t like her as much as Kelly, it’s that Kelly exists at all. And that’s not really any of Linda’s business.
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