My best friend and I have shared some very confidential conversations. As friends who are so much in love with each other, we share and talk a lot. One of these messages her husband saw, and he has instructed her to stop being friends with me. Apparently, I am a bad influence on her.

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My best friend is my namesake. We have only known each other for four good years, but it feels like a lifetime. Now, her husband, whom I was there long before he met her, is the one coming between us. I was there when he was moving heaven and earth to get her to accept his proposal. On her big day, I stood beside her, holding the microphone to her lips as she said, “I do.” We were living and working in the same city before she transferred to join her husband in another city, and he never had a problem with our friendship then. In fact, there were times when he would call me because he could not reach her. If his wife was not picking up her phone, I was the person he came to. We were cool.

I cannot share the contents of the messages, but they caused a serious fight between them and almost tore their marriage apart. That was what triggered the warning.

She told me about it, and although she did not cut me off immediately, I could tell things were changing.

For the longest time, a picture of us locked in a tight hug was her display picture. Now it has been replaced with something else, and although it may seem like a small thing, it was the first sign that things between us were changing.

I miss our gists. I miss our laughter. I miss our random outings and the comfort of knowing she was only a phone call away. I miss us. I really do.

I still have that picture as my display photo. I cannot bring myself to change it.

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Maybe that is because I am still struggling to accept that her husband is asking her to stop being friends with me, as if ending a friendship like ours is something easy to do.

These days, I am learning to sit with this friendship break.

—Angela

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