I confess; I’m a terrible friend. I never reply emails immediately. I very rarely pick up the phone to call anyone unless I absolutely have to and when I do pick that phone up, I’m on it for a few minutes and then it’s good bye. It’s not that I don’t care about my friends, I do. They mean the world to me but when I call someone I always think they are busy and I’m interrupting them so in my head I tell myself I shouldn’t call in the first place. I actually once spent an hour debating whether to text someone. I know – very pathetic and I ended up not sending the text so that’s an entire hour of my life totally wasted. I will never get it back.
I guess that’s why I could in a way relate to Lisa Whelchel’s “Friendship for Grown-Ups : What I Missed and Learned Along the Way”. I can totally relate with her insecurities when it comes to opening up to friends and I feel her pain when she discusses ending a friendship and the betrayal that comes with knowing a confidante spilled your secrets to everyone with two working ears.
My only beef with this book is that Lisa Whelchel paints herself so much as a whinny victim that it gets down right annoying at times. I have zero tolerance for people who play the victim card and in “Friendship for Grown-Ups: What I Missed and Learned Along the Way”, Lisa uses it excessively. Nevertheless, I did read the whole book from cover to cover and I expected a lot from it honestly but it didn’t quite deliver. It’s an okay effort from a rather smart and strong woman.