Ahhh, those friendship altering moments. You know the ones, like when the friend you thought you knew and loved so well totally overreacts and spanks her kid in front of you, is rude to her nanny or one of your other friends. The behavior leaves you so shocked and appalled that you seriously reconsider the friendship.
For Cindy it happened when she asked a friend to watch her child while she ran to the bathroom. She returned to find the friend breast feeding her formula fed daughter. For Ashley, it was when she saw her friend change a really dirty diaper in the middle of a museum instead of walking a few feet to a clean bathroom equipped with a changing table.
We are often so surprised by the behavior that we don’t know what to do, but it changes the way we think about our friend. It could be subtle, along the lines of “I didn’t know she had such a temper” or drastic, along the lines of “I don’t think I’ll be hanging out with her again.”
Has this ever happened to you? What did your friend do and how did you handle it?
I can’t believe she just did that!
Ahhh, those friendship altering moments. You know the ones, like when the friend you thought you knew and loved so well totally overreacts and spanks her kid in front of you, is rude to her nanny or one of your other friends. The behavior leaves you so shocked and appalled that you seriously reconsider the friendship.
We are often so surprised by the behavior that we don’t know what to do, but it changes the way we think about our friend. It could be subtle, along the lines of “I didn’t know she had such a temper” or drastic, along the lines of “I don’t think I’ll be hanging out with her again.”
Has this ever happened to you? What did your friend do and how did you handle it?