Friendship

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friendship. I’ve lost several good friends in the last few years due to various conflicts and in every case, they basically stopped talking to me. I find it very hurtful and very strange. One interesting thing about each of them is they have no children, and two of them grew up in families where their father either died young or left the family due to divorce. I wonder if the lack of seeing how conflicts are resolved between people is really what makes the difference in being able to handle and resolve conflict within a frienship or in any relationship for that matter. The other friend is from a family where things seem to have been pretty normal so I am not sure what here excuse would be.

Mostly I fins it strange to lose friends and still care so much about them. I wonder if I am normal to love people as deeply and intensely as I do.