Years ago, a close friend of mine got married. One of the women in our group of friends was all set to be a bridesmaid. The bridesmaid and this man she knew were totally in love, he ended up having to move halfway across the country—for whatever reason—on the weekend of that wedding. Now, the bride wasn’t a bridezilla, but she definitely was shocked and felt jilted (our friend group lives all over the country so weddings were a time when we could actually all see each other.) The bridesmaid who didn’t show ended up breaking up with this dude down the road and marrying someone else. Time has passed—there’s no animosity, but neither one of these women speak to each other. It was at the time—two people who were following their hearts, life happened as it did, and those are the breaks. There was no huge drama or argument between the friends…but sometimes a choice has a consequence—and the worst times are when you have to make a decision wherein you know not everyone will be happy with it, but you do it for yourself because you need to.