Posted by partlycloudy on April 14, 2005, at 16:24:10
In reply to Rekindling old friendships, posted by Miss Honeychurch on April 14, 2005, at 15:12:16
I have been lucky enough to have been able to rekindle one old friendship from my days "up north" - read = first marriage and geographic base. When I divorced, moved, married, and crashed with my ongoing disorder, I fretted about why I no longer heard from my friend, how I had offended her, you name it.
I did initiate contact (via email) and every now and then we talk on the phone. It's as if we had never stopped communicating at all. I was all prepared to be fobbed off and ignored, and this blossom of a friend picked up the phone and said - "I was wondering the same thing!".
I think it depends on the relationship you had in the first place - deep, superficial, work-related, social - and the other person's own issues. I no longer see the silence as a reflection upon Me and what, if anything, they think about me.
(I'd go for it.)
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