When They Don’t Want to Be Your Friend from the Start

Christine Schoenwald
4 min readJan 23, 2020

It hurts, but it’s not the end of the world.

Photo by Trung Thanh on Unsplash

I’m a great friend and it doesn’t make any sense to me when someone doesn’t want to be friends — at least, not at the beginning, when I’m presenting the best version of myself.

I understand it better when an established friend breaks up with me.

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Christine Schoenwald

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