"Earlier this year, her life imploded when her partner left her after cheating on her, and she has been going through a tough custody battle for her kid. I know she is going through a lot. But she doesn't text me back for weeks. When we do make plans, she bails at the last minute because she's tired. I've seen her twice in the last six months."
"She'll even be right by my apartment and tell me about it after the fact. I don't know if I should be more assertive and insist we hang out, just show up at her house, ambush her. I want to have a heart-to-heart about this, but it's like she knows and is avoiding me. Or I guess I can give up and try to make new friends."
A brother-in-law accidentally sent an explicit video of himself and his wife to a relative instead of a vacation clip. The explicit video should be deleted from the phone and memory to prevent embarrassment. A longtime friendship is described in which a friend in her thirties has become distant after a partner's infidelity and a custody battle. The distant friend rarely replies to texts, cancels plans at the last minute, and appears nearby without visiting. The concerned friend contemplates being more assertive, confronting her, or conserving limited social energy and making new friends after prior ghosting.
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