Listen to your parents, they may pay more attention to your friends then you might!

[sportygirl89]

I told my dad I had a falling out with one of my best friends in the fall. He knew the girl well. She's bipolar and my dad said that it was probably nothing that I did. People with bipolar disorder are such up and down and often very dramatic (which is what my dad picked up on). I also work in a psych ward so have seen it myself. They see who your real friends are before you do. When my dad said this about my ex best friend I was like woah o.o. Mind you I apologized to this girl for any wrong doings I may have done. Most people would at least hear you out. She did not. She walked out on me when I was very sick this summer/fall (had to withdraw from school) and coping with a break up with my "first love".

[daisydook]

Life sometimes has a funny way of teaching you things, not only about your parents, but also your friends, or people who aren't so much your friends.

 

 

I have realized my parents have been right about a lot of things, and Im now even old enough to admit it... I have even admitted it to them! My parents were right because they had been through relationships that didn't work, and had friends who acted poorly, and had to do some weeding in their own lives to find one another.

 

 

As for friends, you also learn they come and go. Bipolar or not, people can be mean and selfish, and you will learn you don't need people like that in your life. Life is hard enough as it is. Keep the goodies and ditch the baddies.

 

 

Also, it doesn't make you a bad person or an evil person because you no longer want to have someone who is toxic in your life. Sometimes those are the friends you feel worse about when you cut them off, because you know they have an excuse for acting in a certain way. Other people can just be *******s.

 

 

Your parents will most likely be right about a lot more. My parents have been right about men in my life and friends in my life. If they didn't like a man, that man didn't last. Even if we didn't end right away, we ended. There were certain friends I had that my parents wish went away sooner. They were patient with me, tried to guide me when they could, were pleased when I came to them for advice, and tried to let me be as free as possible without being put in harms way. I needed to make a few mistakes on my own first though. That didn't mean they didn't have an opinion about it and it didn't mean I didn't hear them.

 

 

Sometimes I didn't realize until years later how right they really were. Keep your parents close.

[sportygirl89]

Life sometimes has a funny way of teaching you things, not only about your parents, but also your friends, or people who aren't so much your friends.

 

 

I have realized my parents have been right about a lot of things, and Im now even old enough to admit it... I have even admitted it to them! My parents were right because they had been through relationships that didn't work, and had friends who acted poorly, and had to do some weeding in their own lives to find one another.

 

 

As for friends, you also learn they come and go. Bipolar or not, people can be mean and selfish, and you will learn you don't need people like that in your life. Life is hard enough as it is. Keep the goodies and ditch the baddies.

 

 

Also, it doesn't make you a bad person or an evil person because you no longer want to have someone who is toxic in your life. Sometimes those are the friends you feel worse about when you cut them off, because you know they have an excuse for acting in a certain way. Other people can just be *******s.

 

 

Your parents will most likely be right about a lot more. My parents have been right about men in my life and friends in my life. If they didn't like a man, that man didn't last. Even if we didn't end right away, we ended. There were certain friends I had that my parents wish went away sooner. They were patient with me, tried to guide me when they could, were pleased when I came to them for advice, and tried to let me be as free as possible without being put in harms way. I needed to make a few mistakes on my own first though. That didn't mean they didn't have an opinion about it and it didn't mean I didn't hear them.

 

 

Sometimes I didn't realize until years later how right they really were. Keep your parents close.

 

Nursing school was hard enough, eventually switched to respiratory therapy. This friend is moving away in late July. I don't expect this friendship of the other thread I posted here lasting.

 

It's sad I'm almost 25 and am having to re create a completely different group of friends.

 

I invited one of my good friends from boarding school up. I was okay with her inviting another girl up. Then somehow this other girl I don't know came up. I've got such little friends I'm willing to give anyone a chance, with caution. She isn't allowed to stay at my place because even the two girls know the girl, I don't want it to become a 3 best friends thing. I've been in that situation before. But not doing it again. It might seem selfish of me to the other people coming. But also have a 25 lb puppy and two cats at my place.