Dear Eric: I became friends with one of my oldest and closest friends when we were 9 years old.
In the last three years, it has been nearly impossible to see her. I routinely sent her text messages and voicemails asking if she wanted to get together. I finally resorted to sending her a message on Facebook.
I was very surprised with her response that came several days later. She said that I had not responded to a text a few years ago when she asked if we could get dinner and didn’t think that I valued her friendship, and therefore she wasn’t going to put energy into it, because it was very painful for her.
I was baffled, sent her screenshots of my text messages asking when we could…