Great choices! I love the LOreal foundation!

Best friend of 40 years this past Fall ‘94 just totally cut off the friendship. We had been struggling for years. I thought that somehow, even though we weren’t as close as we were when we were younger, that we could still be some form of pleasant friends . . . but no, it just didn’t work. I guess I would have to say I saw warning signs many years ago . . . but, it takes Two to Tango, they say, & we never really learned how to work out our differences. Marriage can make it so you have to work things out but friendships have no contracts; it’s an interesting thing. I’m a very loyal person & I don’t think I’ve still ever met a person who wanted to work things out the way I do. I don’t know if I will ever meet that person on earth. It’s sad to me. The Lord helped me or I would just be destroyed with grief. Sometimes there’s one person or even one family member that seems to take an inordinate amount of time & there are so many other people, they don’t really deserve to absorb your time like that anymore. It’s a hard lesson for some of us.

I’m pretty burnt out from non reciprocated friendships. I had someone who I connected with over a year ago, who is a very kind person and we were becoming friends and had great conversations, then it took her half a year to respond to my text. Yes, half a year no joke. She said I’m sorry but I never responded back. If someone takes half a year to respond back, clearly this is a sign they don’t want to be friends. It definitely hurt but I’m not going to reach out to someone who takes so long. I’m also very saddened about another person I thought I’d become friends with who made so many promises they didn’t keep. They promised we’d go somewhere and we never did. They promised to invite me to a fellowship group, that never happened. They promised to bring me some things when I was going through a tough time and that didn’t happen either. I didn’t ask for anything but it was a big let down when none of their promises came through. It really hurts

Same sis I am done with female friends.NEVER AGAIN 😭

When I was in my 20th, I had men friends, women have to much drama, I do have a best friend from the 90, she stops by once in a while. But I stay to myself at cc age 57😊

Oh no, Oh no, Oh no no no

This happened with my daughter, it’s been 3years and it has taken this long to fully come back to myself. I am stronger and really love myself again.

Dont weep about devils thank God for his grace

You sound very selfish you are married you love each other and have 2 children that love you get over yourself what a disgrace and you put this on a national platform for everyone to see at this point everybody is running away from you

I had a bestie as a teen. I loved her so much. A few years later she had change her mind. I got on a bus to visit her in another city. She said she’d give my long hair a trim. She cut it off so much so I had to wear a scarf to school for awhile. Just broke my heart which was worse than the butcher hair cut. She told me, “never come back again”. I never invested that much closeness and trusting with a girlfriend again and I’m so much better off. What was her problem? Jealousy.

I was ghosted by a friend too. I sent her messages asking if I did anything wrong and apologized if I did, but never heard anything ever again.

I hope you find a really true friend. In the meantime,try to enjoy your life as it is. I spent many years without friends. Some of the people I thought were friends with time, proved not to be. I was happy though with my life the way it was. In my sixties a few women from church decided to meet for lunch once a month to help another lady who was struggling. We formed a bond that has lasted through time and distance. These ladies tell me that my idiosyncrasies are why they love me. They are one of the greatest blessings in my life. There is a book called Loving What Is. It has helped me a lot in this life. Oh, and yes, some of the meanest people I have ever encountered are church people. I can love them if I can keep them at a distance. Sending a prayer up for you tonight.

Getting older i believe is part of this, you just get tired of people after awhile along with other things😊

I feel like "best friend" is a term best left in high school.

You look great. I am a makeup junkie, but I became allergic to almost all brands of cosmetics. Bummer.

My container of Coty airspun powder is so old it still has talc! It is the best for giving a smooth skin, reflects light beautifully and I love the fragrance. My mom and grandmother both used it. When I visit my brother, he always comments “you smell like Mom!”

I have friends at church but not close. The distance is just fine with me. I worked with all men for 23 years and they are so much easier to get along with.

I’ve always been a third wheel and the last one picked for anything. 60 years later, and 2 abusive husbands, I’m so at peace and my own best friend. I don’t need a man anymore. Or buddies hanging around taking what I have and no return at all. I feel great when I’m alone! So Jehovah and I are now best friends…and I’m learning as much as I can. Jesus will be government very soon so I look forward to that! No time left for games and meaningless encounters…….lovely to meet all you ladies! Holding my teacup up to all of yours, cheers ❤

Love your hair❤

I’m 40 yeas old and at 36 my best friend stoped talking to me for stupid reasons and what made it even worse was that we started working together. Till this day she won’t look at me if we cross paths. I was hurt for a while but after some time I just felt indifferent. When I see her and she runs away I just feel sad for her. I’ve moved on from that friendship but obviously she still holds on to something. I don’t care to have close girlfriends or just friends in general most friendships are transactional you rarely find true honest good people which I have one friend that I feel that way about and that’s more valuable than many friends

My ex husband's sister passed away and my best friend called to tell me she would go to the afternoon wake but my family would be going to the evening wake due to work schedules. That evening she called me in tears asking me to come over. She told me she did not know my ex husband's cousin was on her bowling team. When I was living in another state, she was telling the team everything I was sharing in confidence. She cost me thousands of dollars in legal fees in the acromonious divorce and custody by revealing confidential information. Sheriff's had checked my home for bugs and my car because I shared nothing to anyone but her. I love her like a sister but I cannot be in a friendship with her. It was heartbreaking.

Ill be thirty this year and im tired of people. I do my grocery shopping early sundays and generally just wanna be at home playing video games. When i was a kid i had 1 friend, we were gonna camp with her family and i sat by the phone with my backpack, she didnt call, so when i called her she said "im sorry, i forgot". Im okay and will always be for i have me♡

I’ve been ghosted by a “best” friend. Months went by without contact & I commented to my husband that we’ve been unfriended. He swore that couldn’t be true because the last contact was him dropping off Christmas gifts to a smiling “bestie” and their family with promises to get together soon. It drove me crazy that my husband couldn’t take my word for it. So, I reached out to “bestie” & eventually forced an admission that “they’re different people now” & would no longer be speaking to us. In truth, like you mention, I had been blanketed by red flags over the years and chose to ignore them thinking I was overreacting. Bestie was a jealous person with a scarcity complex & that colored everything she said & did. I think these friend issues stem from severe emotional immaturity.

All good points but the reading the notes is distracting for me. Eye contact in camera seems more organic.

Hi Amy, I had a friend I worked with for years and I knew she had issues but I tried to be loyal. Anyway she talked to my boss at work and threw me under the bus. I was fired from a 17 yr job. Over office gossip.

You have a sweet smile. I also love Rimmel face powder , lipsticks, eyebrow pencils. They are great. Hard to find in Texas now.

Sounds like she was a ‘mean girl’ who actually did like you but didn’t have the courage and character to break from the queen bees and their court. That’s the whole problem with the queen bees and wannabees dynamic which is common among women, most of them (if not all of them) actually hate that system but they feel trapped because they consciously or (usually unconsciously) put a very high value on social conformity. You are not an alpha or beta. You are a gamma. Gammas march to the beat of their own drum, don’t have any interest in the social court system which is not a friendship system, it’s more of a formal social system - they need it to learn how to act and behave. Yes, this sounds strange to gammas because we find it so empty which it is, they secretly don’t like it either hence their meanness or dysfunction. I get the feeling this lady did like you but didn’t have the internals to break out of that group. She was too weak to break from the conformity over taste in pop culture. She almost deserves pity for how pathetic she is. But you’re a gamma, which is a smaller percentage of women who are mostly alphas and their beta followers. Nellie was a beta 💯%.

I really like Maybelline age rewind concealer, Elf lash and roll mascara, Wet n wild eyeshadows and Revlon lipsticks.

The second you mentioned Maryland, I knew it would become troubled.

i cant believe you went along with her bullying the others i dont know who is worse you or her

Love your hair today!! Fun Show and Tell

This is helpful. Thank you!

I like to try out new makeup products even though l should throw some of the old ones out...l have a box of graveyard products 😞 Maybelline and Rimmel are my go to because of selection and price

You look especially beautiful today!

I have such mixed feelings about this. My MIL believes that everyone should reach out to her. I don’t understand that thinking because if everyone thought like that no one would reach out. I’m probably somewhere in the middle. I’m not the one always reaching out but I will sometimes reach out. I agree with you that if someone is not getting back to me, I just think I’m not important to them. Now if I happen to cross paths with them in a social situation, I would give them grace and wouldn’t hold it against them. I just wouldn’t keep calling or texting if they don’t get back to me. I think sometimes people have intentions of keeping in touch but life happens. I know I’ve told people we would keep in touch and meant it and then didn’t follow through.

Almay is a good drugstore brand also. Sadly, old staples like Merle Norman, Avon, Mary Kay are history 😢.

❤🎉. Preparation H, can be used to reduced under eye bags, swelling. And most of these expensive miracle treatments are basically ultra refined wax and clay based added to oils. Also, becoming a fruitarian will make a person smell sweet.

I had a friend all through childhood. I put up with some dumb stuff *she* did but one day she was hurt by something I did. HERE'S THE KICKER. SHE REFUSED TO TELL ME WHAT IT WAS I'D DONE and I really didn't know. She did not extend the grace, mercy, or kindness of wanting to talk it out or let me apologize. She was, therefore, to blame. Period. I have to say, for a long time I wondered what I had done, and the rejection could hurt even as a full grown adult. Suddenly this year, out of nowhere I was given the answer (by God) in my mind. I still don't know the details of what I did or didn't do, but I now know the event. Ladies, my brain worked on that from about 1995 - 2024! Some people are not kind. *Some* of us are human. I've done plenty of things that I regret, especially having meant nothing mean in how I word something but having it come out bad. I know how to apologize because I am a work in progress and believr in forgiveness. I have to believe God provided a way not to be in a sour relationship where there was no kindness. Yes, it hurts, but who needs friends like that?

Loneliness can make a lonely mom pick awful, horrible friends. Been there. Best blessing, though painful at the time, was when we stopped being friends.

I have too many reasons. I only wanted to be friend with one twin… 😂 yup I lost there I know… from the jump

You're so cute

I'm happy without people in my life, they complicate & bring drama.

✨there’s nothing more peaceful than connecting with your own soul…it’s the most powerful relationship you will ever have

❤ Thank you for sharing ❤

Mirror 10 X one side, 15 X the other side. Could you add the castor oil to existing mascara? My eyebrows fell out after surgery, and steroids make all hair fall out. 😢

I think v all have gone through all these experiences,I had too many. Being alone has made me wiser,v need to be alone a lot to take stock of the things,v all have different journeys, of course v need friends, relatives to feel connected too❤

I was a military brat, attending some 15 primary and secondary schools. Conversely people on the other side of the family went through the same public schools with other people for years. Some people are nearly sedentary stay at home mothers with an opportunity to socialize with the neighbors. I was a single male widower working and raising a child without a family support system. We are all different in our situations. There is something that I learned along the way. I listen and ask people their opinions, goals, successes, families, education and what they like about their work. It makes people want to be around me. It is an interesting and fun way to build relationships. I don't care that a person doesn't ask me about my own. A few months ago, I went to the big box store and bought a computer. By the time the sale was completed, I knew that the clerk was married, how long he had been in town, where he went to college and his major, what training he had for the job, what he wanted to do in life, his opinion of what was the best computer for me. Incidentally, he asked his manager and obtained an additional discount of $100 on the unit.

Most people are only friends and you are in the same boat.literraly.

I will and am your friend. Although I am not around, I wish you all the things I want for myself 💕. I am thinking that is a friend. 🌞

I recently have. I realese them back. I wish them the best, happiness, love, Heath and wealth. I'm moving on