I work 50+ hours a week, mostly consisting of five 10 hour days. This means that by the time I get home its already 8pm. As you all currently know, I live with one of my best gal friends, her hubby, and there cutie daughter, Parker. Angie and I have been friends since middle school and nothing has ever really torn us apart. Even now, living together is wonderful! (Especially because she is such a super awesome cook!)

Well, I have been doing a lot of extra hours at work, trying to get things in the store MEGA clean for the cleaning contest in a few months. My store is pretty huge and every tiny little crevice needs to be perfect. So it’s going to take a lot of work on me and my crew to get it looking like brand spanking new (my store was build in 1975, so it’s pretty old school).

Anyways, since I have been getting home pretty late, I head straight to my room and kind of zone out. I will either read for a while and pass our or just watch something on the teley. I’ve been busy like this since Christmas ended and I feel like our friend time has really been cut down on. When I get two days off, I will try to schedule time with my other peeps because I don’t live with them (and therefore, I assume that I am not seeing them as often).

Well, last night Angie and I had a talk and she told me that she felt like we were fading on the communication and hang-out time in our friendship and that its been making her sad.

I had spent so much time with work and making sure the friends I didn’t live with got my attention that I kind of tossed Angie aside, assuming that our living together kept us connected…I was mistaken. However, we had a great chat about it and talked about days were we could have some US time to hang-out. I really wanted to write about this in case there were any of you out there living with your favorite friends and maybe you hadn’t noticed that you had been pushing them aside.

So today, if you’re in the situation I am – living with a friend – make sure you get some hang-out time in with them to keep your friendship open!!

Has this ever happened to you? Were things resolved? If so, how?

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Tags: apartment living, communication, Friendship, hanging out, Relationships, sharing space, time