report card 10: how to save a friendship
september 2024: steps i took to overcome my avoidant attachment in friendships, taiwan recs, an updated health routine
This month I’ve learned: miscommunication is the root of all broken relationships, cooking for other people is now a new love language of mine, it’s hard to have fun when you’re sick
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This is the story of my friendship with Egg (she loves fried eggs with her kimchi; hence, this nickname is used to narrate the story without confusing you). We met during our first year of undergrad, 2015, to be specific, but nothing came of it. The extent of our friendship at the time was a hello everytime we saw each other on campus. She started dating my second cousin (who also happened to attend the same university as us), but we didn’t particulary get close until my third year, when I so desperately wanted to leave the roommate situation with 4 other girls in a roach infested 2-bedroom 2-bathroom apartment. I moved in with Egg the summer before my third year in a similar 2 bed, 2 bath apartment. We lived in the same room while two other girls stayed in the other one.