Gabriel Mizrahi

So I get that.

But so much of the story is about what it actually takes to accept that someone else just doesn't like you right now, doesn't have positive feelings toward you.

And then what do you do about that?

If you're a healthy person, that's never going to be fun.

That's never going to be pleasant, obviously.

Totally.

The panic might be many things, but one of them I think is probably a very basic feeling of fear and overwhelm at an experience with another person that is foreign to her.

Yeah, we don't know.

That's a great question for her to ask.

But I also wouldn't be surprised if injuries built up in their friendship over time, like I said, and then they fell into certain roles without even realizing it.

One of those roles might be that Stacey is generally right and in charge and our friend here is generally, you know, agreeable and compliant.

And that's probably made it even harder to understand each other and communicate well.

Yeah, totally.

Anyway, I'm with you.

I'm not sure that this friendship makes sense anymore, but I also wonder if our friend's decision to block Stacy was born from this same struggle to be in conflict.

Hard to say.

If Stacey was harassing her by text nonstop for days or something, then maybe it was necessary.

But I also wonder if blocking her was a way of saying something to Stacey that she didn't have the words or the ability to say.

A message, yeah.

And blocking someone, even someone who might deserve it, that is easier than going to them and saying, like you said, Jordan, hey, you've hurt me in these ways and maybe I've made mistakes along the way too and I feel we have some big stuff to talk out.