The best friend's ex "rule"
In his latest blog post titled '2015: closing cycles,' Coelho wrote "Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away." It is 2016 today so I guess everything in 2015 should be in the past at this point, but something has come back to haunt me. One of my closest friends, a girl I have been friends with since my teenage years, dropped a bomb on me. She said I had to choose between our friendship and my friendship with her ex-boyfriend. If you are a guy, you are probably rolling your eyes right now 'cause you don't even understand how this could be an issue. But if you are a girl, you might be thinking "OMG, of course you can't." But this is not high school anymore and life is not black or white. There is a lot of gray. And I believe this is one of those situations. Let me explain. Best friend and X dated for almost 5 years. There were a lot of up and downs, and a million breakups happened before the final br...