#HipHop4Her: Breaking Up With Your BestFriend

Breaking up with your best friend

We all remember those best friend forever bracelets. You had one half of the heart and your best friend had the other.  In our young minds, we believe forever really meant forever, forever ever. As time goes by, you realize you lost that bracelet and ran through about 10 best friends.

When we’re older it’s harder to break up with your best friend when they are no longer suitable for you. It’s quick to compare them to those jeans you can’t pull passed your thighs. Just like those jeans, it’s time to say goodbye.

Of course it will hurt because no breakup is ever easy. But sometimes people grow in opposite directions, instead of growing with one another. The things you guys had in common freshman year of college may not be the same by the time graduation comes around.

If a friendship is not offering stimulation, growth, and support there is no need to keep one another around. Before you notice it, your “best friend” turns into your just your “friend” and then turns into “one of my old friends.”

If you’re just not feeling it anymore, rather than salvaging the relationship, bring some closure to it. Explain why the friendship can’t continue and acknowledge that the relationship has run its course.

M.M. Jordan