We used to talk for hours about films and art, but now you just deliver monologues about your boring job, your arthritic toe, and the awful weather.

I’m shocked by how quickly you changed closeness into carefully manipulated distance.

Now you’ve unfriended me. I only wish I’d got there first.

Juliet is an adult education tutor, crafter, and conservation volunteer based in Edinburgh, UK. She blogs at craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com and tweets at @craftygreenpoet.