Just a warning this is a slightly angry post. Read at your our risk. Friend by definition: 1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. 2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony. 3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe? No where in this does it specify restrictions. But people have these ideas about who you can and can't be friends with. Me I say SCREW THE RULES! Why should I have to change friends because I got married? Did my friends suddenly become criminals? It is not their fault that they are single, nor mine. My close friends the people who I'd die for have all been a part of my life for a minimum of 10 years. That's a lot of things to go through together. Tons of happy times and sad times. But I should disregard all of it. The births of children, divorces, ER visits, deaths of family, falling in love and then getting your heart broken, just great talks and laughter. I should throw them out like garbage. Or only speak to them through the occasional email, text or phone call. Or maybe a casual Sunday brunch. But it's wrong for me to go out and let my hair down with the non-married girls. Or somehow after all this time I'm supposed to make an entire new group of friends, do you know how hard it is to find people who can get me? I do have married friends and I enjoy my time with them too. But I will not substitute the people who've held me up when I'm at my lowest and who have cheered me on when I'm at my highest. My next issue is why is it that people think men and women can't be friends? I did not realize that we are so animalistic that if men and women are together it has to be sexual. We are so primal that there could be no other connection. Most girls don't like other girls so it's easier to be friends with the guys. This is not the 1800's where men and women can converse about things and it's OK. I can watch UFC or Basketball and enjoy it too. Not all females do. And why couldn't I be friends with ex's? Some yes I could never be friends with. But some yes. They already know how batshit crazy I am and know my issues and can often give fantastic advise, because they survived and got out alive. And lastly! Why are we expected to have friends just like ourselves? I don't fit into a mold. I am a unique individual as are my people. I have friends of many different races, religions, class, and taste. But I guess I should pick a genre and stick with it. My own family is a blended mess of wonderfulness!!!!

Thank You for those of you who I call Friends. New applications will be accepted.