It's unfortunate when we become targets for people to misconstrue. The relationships we've built should hold through rain, sleet and snow, yet sometimes the people who are closest to us and know us best have the ability to take a word, event or happenstance and turn it 180 degrees into something that it isn't.
How do we respond to that? Should we give them the space they are subtly asking for? If we give them too much space we obviously don't care about them or the friendship. If we don't give them enough space that makes us controlling and not acknowledging that the friendship needs a break and said hurt party needs time to heal.
As much as we like to think of ourselves as great friends, we don't always know what each of our other friends are thinking. So when there is a rift in the friendship, hopefully both parties are willing to come together and fix the problem. After all, it takes two to tango...
