I felt so awful
I got an Email from my Best Friend Liz today. We lived together Freshman Year of College and then due to Finacially difficulties resulting from her Father's fourth Divorce she was forced to move home to her mom in New Jersey.
Her father said he was going to foot the bill for Tutition in New Jersey but he failed to hold up his part of the bargain and she scrambled to get a job to pay her own tutition.
Two months from College Graduation working two jobs as it is her mother informs her she is selling the house and moving to Virginia with her boyfriend so Liz was going to have to find an Apartment and fast.
Two months from Graduation pretty muched tossed out on her own with now three jobs to keep all her bills paid.
Her father had gotten remarried a few months before his fifth marriage to a woman our age actually.
Her father is in his late fourties.
She did Graduate but wants to go to Graduate School and become an English Professor so in order to keep her current home and car and the bills she already has paid she is really in a rut she cannot really quit a job for school. And she has a salaried Position with the YMCA as a Supervisor.
Well I didnot call her Christmas Day because I thought surely she would have been at her Fathers or went to Virginia to be with her mother.
Her current boyfriend had to be in Mexico the day before Christmas because his sister named him God Father of her daughter and she was being Christened the day after Christmas.
Well as it turns out her mom did not call and invite her to Virginia to spend the Holidays.
Nor
Did her father call her and invite her to spend them with him and he lives within half an hour of her!!!!!
She said she pretty much invited herself over and felt as if she was imposing while she was there.
So she spent a good part of Christmas Day crying.
I wish I would have known if I had even had a clue Mike and I would have driven the five hours and been there.
I emailed her back and said next year Michael and I are making plans to come get her and bring her here for Christmas.
Even if my mom goes away we can do Christmas right here ourselves.
I told her either she was coming here or we would be there.
No excuses.
Man I felt like such a shitty awful friend.
She has been my best friend for 6+ years and she was CRYING alone on Christmas Day.
It is definitely not as if I had a Betty Crocker Christmas myself but I was with Mike Adrianna my mom and brother.
and she had noone.
Her father said he was going to foot the bill for Tutition in New Jersey but he failed to hold up his part of the bargain and she scrambled to get a job to pay her own tutition.
Two months from College Graduation working two jobs as it is her mother informs her she is selling the house and moving to Virginia with her boyfriend so Liz was going to have to find an Apartment and fast.
Two months from Graduation pretty muched tossed out on her own with now three jobs to keep all her bills paid.
Her father had gotten remarried a few months before his fifth marriage to a woman our age actually.
Her father is in his late fourties.
She did Graduate but wants to go to Graduate School and become an English Professor so in order to keep her current home and car and the bills she already has paid she is really in a rut she cannot really quit a job for school. And she has a salaried Position with the YMCA as a Supervisor.
Well I didnot call her Christmas Day because I thought surely she would have been at her Fathers or went to Virginia to be with her mother.
Her current boyfriend had to be in Mexico the day before Christmas because his sister named him God Father of her daughter and she was being Christened the day after Christmas.
Well as it turns out her mom did not call and invite her to Virginia to spend the Holidays.
Nor
Did her father call her and invite her to spend them with him and he lives within half an hour of her!!!!!
She said she pretty much invited herself over and felt as if she was imposing while she was there.
So she spent a good part of Christmas Day crying.
I wish I would have known if I had even had a clue Mike and I would have driven the five hours and been there.
I emailed her back and said next year Michael and I are making plans to come get her and bring her here for Christmas.
Even if my mom goes away we can do Christmas right here ourselves.
I told her either she was coming here or we would be there.
No excuses.
Man I felt like such a shitty awful friend.
She has been my best friend for 6+ years and she was CRYING alone on Christmas Day.
It is definitely not as if I had a Betty Crocker Christmas myself but I was with Mike Adrianna my mom and brother.
and she had noone.