Friend Therapy

A friend's girlfriend and I had this idea many, many years ago. For the most part I had forgotten about it until I remembered her and I trying to get a 50lb bag of soil, a plant, and a large ceramic pot up the many stairs to her apartment. I think that was about how it went anyway. There seemed to be some disagreement, though very mild and not a big deal at all, about how to resolve the issues we were having.

One of us proposed that maybe we needed to go to friend therapy.

So up until then I haven't given this idea very much thought, which may account for some of its crappiness here today.

I picture this as less of a regular thing and more of a drop in when you can style therapy. Drop in when the two of you, or the group of you for that matter, are having issues. Friends get into disagreements all the time, or run into the same old issues in regards to planning and hanging out. Wouldn't it be nice if there were somewhere to get some help? Some way in which issues can be even slightly addressed?

Now, of course, the first step is to admit you have a problem. I'm kind of kidding. But it does bring up the fact that going to friend therapy is sort of inherently serious when maybe it shouldn't be. So maybe these meetings could be held at a bar.

Or a baseball game.

I would totally go to friend therapy if it was at a baseball game.