Dear Abby advises a woman who is having a hard time discussing the many challenges she and her family went through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I’m a woman in my late 40s, and since coming out of the isolation of the pandemic , I’ve had a hard time rekindling the friendships I valued before — with my two best girlfriends, in particular. We used to have the type of relationship in which we were very open. We told each other everything and had a lot of fun.
Those challenges completely changed the way our house runs. They dominate my day-to-day life. The thing is, talking about all that feels too heavy. I don’t want to be the friend who always brings down the room. On the other hand, when my friends find out everything that has been going on that I didn’t tell them about, they’re going to be angry that I’ve been hiding things from them, and it’s going to damage our friendship.
Do not feel you must manage their feelings or disclose all of your son’s emotional difficulties. Make sure to devote some time listening to the challengesmay have faced over the last couple of years. True friends try to make the people they care about feel better, not worse. I live with a man who sits around the house all day. If I’m outside doing yardwork, he’ll sit on the porch and watch without offering to help. He’s retired and doesn’t work.
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