Ask Polly – Telegraph

Dear Polly, I am writing because I feel like I'm being a terrible friend, but part of me also doesn't want to be any better. I have had a singular, all-encompassing best friend since freshman year of college. We were a dynamic duo, two for the price of one kind of friendship. I loved having that steadiness, that companionship. We moved to different cities after school, and did our very best to keep up that closeness. But now we're 10 years out, and our friendship just feels very different to me, and I don't…

Ask Polly Dear Polly, I am writing because I feel like I'm being a terrible friend, but part of me also doesn't want to be any better. I have had a singular, all-encompassing best friend since freshman year of college. We were a dynamic duo, two for the price of one kind of friendship. I loved having that steadiness, that companionship. We moved to different cities after school, and did our very best to keep up that closeness. But now we're 10 years out, and our friendship just feels very different to me, and I don't find myself actively needing it like I once used to need it. We are still ver

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