Comments on: It Teaches You… https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-teaches-you Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Teh Megan https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1761 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:20:23 +0000 https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1761 After all the "seasons" I've had in my life, I've started delegating "best friends" of certain times. I will always have my BEST FRIEND, even if we no longer talk daily, or even once a week, sometimes its not even once a month, but I know that if I called her in 5 minutes she'd make time for me. After joining the Navy, I realized I have more than one best friend. I have a "College Best Friend" who knows about my daily life in college, I have a "VA Beach Best Friend" and a "GTMO Best Friend" from my time there while I've been in the Navy.

Distance has tested all my friendships and I've learned that only true friendship will survive, which helps me feel slightly less guilty when it comes to falling out of touch with folks who I at one point considered myself friends with.

]]> By: Heidi https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1732 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:54:24 +0000 https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1732 I lived in Houston for the first 30 years of my life and also had the same childhood bedroom until I left home (at 21!). Moving to NC was really hard for me the first 6 months. I totally understand all these feelings! Let's meet up soon! Are you free on the 21st?

]]> By: Lindsey https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1731 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:59:26 +0000 https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1731 I was thinking about this the other day. When we were stationed in Hawaii the wives hung out all the time because they guys were gone all the time. So when you wanted to hang out or do something it was easy to find the time. Well now that we're on shore duty, TJ doesn't go to sea and neither do any of the people he works with, so the wives never hang out really. I just feel like the friendship dynamic is so different here. I have no friends basically. I mean, I have a couple, but sometimes we go a month or longer without seeing each other. I just miss having friends. lol

]]> By: Lauren https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1730 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:56:16 +0000 https://www.joeyhodgeswrites.com/2013/09/09/it-teaches-you/#comment-1730 I love that you were set up on a friend date and that it worked out! I hope that those who matter most are teaching you that they are in your life, no matter the distance.

Houston is huge. My dad doesn't live a convenient distance from me and as a result, I think I have seen him twice in the past eight months. It's not okay, but sadly it is just life. I joke when making friends with other Houston bloggers that they have to be "geographically desirable" – either live near me, or at least be willing to meet somewhere near downtown in the middle.

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