a good friend

It is a good friend who can remind you just how unhappy you were before the breakup.

How you were frustrated and felt taken for granted or under appreciated or not supported before all this shit hit the fan. How you kept sayings, things will get better when x, y or z happens. But those things came and went and there was just more frustration.

How you wanted to change jobs and leave this place so bad before the break up that you were willing to apply to anything that looked decent, even if it meant leaving a career you've worked your whole life for and wanted since you were 13, and how your urgency has changed since the break up to not being urgent at all.

And how it might not be the job or the career or the place that you wanted to leave in the first place.

A very, very good friend indeed.