A reply six days late, a heart emoji, and the two-month experiment that cured me of being everyone’s low-maintenance friend.
Last Thursday, I finally answered a text that had been sitting in my inbox for six days.
It was from Jess. A decade ago, I’d have called her my closest friend without needing to think about it.… Read the rest “I Stopped Being a ‘Low-Maintenance’ Friend and Nearly Lost My Best Friend Over a Heart Emoji”