“You should be pleased he wanted your friendship and stop wasting your energy raging against this perceived slight.”
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Mariella Frostrup, Observer Magazine, 16th August 2009 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/16/dear-mariella-frostrup-relationships)
Oh, Mariella. Generally, I like Mariella: she is also from the ‘don’t be a jerk, to others or yourself’ school of relationship advice that we endorse here in the realm of Himglish and Femalese.
But in responding to this letter in which a woman declares that she’s lost faith in men in general, thanks to a boyfriend about whom she was super keen breaking up with her, telling her that he wants to be friends with her, and then getting together with his flatmate, (who she suspects he was actually having a thing with all along), I think she has missed an important point… (read more: himglishandfemalese)
