Never Slam Someone’s Family Members or Romantic Partners

The brutal truth can ruin a friendship

Christine Schoenwald
6 min readSep 2, 2022

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Mabel Amber, who will one day from Pixabay

If Marcel’s partner, Ritchie, was only a sloppy drunk, I could have tolerated him.

But drinking to excess turned out to be Ritchie’s most endearing quality.

Ritchie was always dialed up to twenty, loud and obnoxious. He treated Marcel like crap with…

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Christine Schoenwald

Writer for The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Next Avenue, Business Insider, and Your Tango Christineschoenwaldwriter.com