Lazy Afternoon with a Hot Coffee

Tough Spot

Just ended a phone call with a friend (who shall remain unnamed)...

She's a fresh grad this year and a piece of raw meat into the vicious and often cruel world of back-stabbing, name-calling, face-making, finger-pointing and even fist-throwing environment people know as The Workplace.

Lucky for her, her boss is a nice chap and her collegaues didn't perform any of those above-mentioned acts as yet. Still, she's bothered/troubled/frustrated/vexed by one thing people call The Relationship.

The guy, earns enough money, drives a nice car, looks pleasant, and doesn't have any bad habits (in comparison to the majority public). Near-perfect? Maybe to her.

But there's one big problem here. And we've all read about it in the 'Aunt Agony' columns in magazines when we're growing up-- the guy disapproves of friends (some of them, at least).

What would you do if you're like her? Listen to the guy and see less of the friends (which is quite hard because they happen to be colleagues), or leave the guy alone for a cooling period and try to decide for herself if the friends are really that bad/pathetic/shallow/notworthy?

Tough. Very tough.

Women nowadays have to juggle family and work. But before that, I suppose they all have to juggle these-- boyfriend and friends.

Me? I kind of glad I'm happily single who don't have to worry about THAT for now.

posted by A Lone Fighter @ 12:08 AM