Browsing: Friends

I am a girl’s girl — and not because of the statistics I’m about to show you. My friend groups have always consisted of mainly women, and my best friends are smart, strong, beautiful women. I’m proud of that.

If I established a friendship with you in which our dynamic was supporting each other, spending time together and talking all the time — and it was completely platonic — but you get into a relationship, why is it that suddenly the dynamic has to change because you have a partner who doesn’t understand it?

I remember being hesitant to put stickers on my laptop, because I wasn’t sure if people would make fun of me. What if the wrong group of people saw my stickers and gave me a hard time? Eventually, I got past the initial anxiety and went for it.

No matter how far a new life is from an old one, though, military brats never forget a home. Military kids are experts at the balancing act of adjusting to a new life with new friends while holding on to the old ones.

As I stuffed my mouth with pizza, Oreos and queso, I realized there was something I enjoyed more than simply eating and watching football (which is pretty hard to top in both Texas and my native state Oklahoma). The game was made so much more enjoyable being in the company of some of my closest friends.