Friendships can be many things: sounding boards, touchstones, shoulders to cry on, partners in crime. All friendships share one thing in common: a mutual sense of necessary relationship. Friends understand (consciously or not) the length and breadth of their mutual devotion. If they don’t, then it’s not truly a friendship. It’s an association with potential. There are those, like my wife, who make friends easily. People like her make quick connections and maintain them over years and miles. She regularly talks/FaceTimes/emails/texts with folks from childhood, college, and her long military service. My wife has the… Read Article →
