u/catsplants420

So I’ve only played Mario party on the N64 and the switch. I realize there are so many Mario party games I’ve never played and I would love to change that.

What Mario party’s do yall recommend?

Fair warning this is long.

So I have been friends with Alex since I was about 9 years old, I’m now in my mid thirties. I became friends with her sister Julie and their younger cousins. We were really close until about high school, she is a grade older than me and we eventually had different friend groups but we still hung out occasionally. Alex started dating a guy in her junior year? Maybe senior? Well he didn’t like me so she stopped talking to me until they broke up. We rekindled the friendship at this point I was probably 18-19yrs old.

Once again it wasn’t often that we hung out because we both had different friend groups. But we still loved one another dearly. When I turned 21 her mom passed away and that’s kind of when things started changing. Her family started falling apart, her sister was dating a creep, her dad has always been weird. This is important I promise.

We continued to remain good friends but once I started dating my ex we weren’t hanging out very often but we still remained close. My ex was terrible to me, manipulative, lying, cheating, and made it so I didn’t even trust to be away from him. After I finally had enough we broke up, but it took a few weeks to fully separate (we rented a house together) during this time I lived very close to Alex’s cousin Jess. Jess came over and she helped me with my split and I became very close with her again. It was in this time that I found out Alex and Jess were no longer talking, apparently Jess and Julie had a falling out.

When Alex found out I was still friends and hanging out with Jess she AND her dad started texting me. Her dad called me a little bitch and Alex was being awful to me. So we stopped talking.

Many years later I started having dreams about Alex and I did truly care about her so I reached out to let her know I was thinking about her and I did still care.

We eventually started FaceTiming, I live on the east coast now and she was living on the west coast. She started getting really into holistic medicine which is totally fine with me, but it’s not how I live. I found out Alex hasn’t had a job for the last five years because of how bad her health was even though she’d been through a lot of testing and the doctors had mentioned she was healthy.

Our friendship continued and I actually helped her rekindle her relationship with Jess but in secret because her sister and dad would disown her if they knew they were in communications with each other.

Alex began offering me holistic advice even when I wouldn’t ask for it, she got really deep into weird conspiracy theories. Alex still isn’t working and every time we talked it would always be about how bad her life is and how depressed she is and I would try to be there for her but it didn’t seem like the friendship was reciprocated because she didn’t care much about what was going on with me.

At this point I’ve realized we’ve truly grown apart and have nothing in common but I would still see her when I’d go home to visit. The last time I saw her she asked me if my husband and I were still trying to have a baby which I had replied yes. She then told me “I have some things that I think you could change that would increase your chances of getting pregnant” which felt like a slap in the face because she has no idea what our journey has been like and I didn’t ask for her help or advice.

It’s gotten to the point where I don’t post anything on social media when I go back home to visit because I don’t want to feel forced into seeing her, my time with family and friends is very limited as is. I hadn’t talked to her in months and my birthday was earlier this month and I didn’t hear from her so I assumed we had fizzled out.

I was wrong, she text me two days ago saying sorry she didn’t reach out on my birthday because it was her and her bfs anniversary and she had a bad day because they didn’t do anything exciting. Then the next paragraph was to tell me her best friend died. She then sent a follow up text to tell me she hopes I had a special birthday.

At this point I don’t know what to do. Do I just keep going on hoping she realizes we’ve fizzled out or do I tell her? I don’t want to do it right now because she had a friend pass away. But I also don’t want to make it worse for her by having her hold onto our past friendship.

She doesn’t have many friends that I’m aware of, she lives with her bf at her dads house. She is a good person but she hasn’t had to work in over ten years, she only talks about her health and depression or weird conspiracy stuff. We are truly no longer compatible.