No...but a real friend tells their friends the truth, even if it may hurt. The truth is that this woman seems addicted to self-destructive behavior and one of her friends needs to point it out and tell her there are better ways to live. After that, if she continues on that path, at least someone loved her enough to throw up warning flags to try and help avoid the ultimate disaster of her dying at the hands of her addiction, even if it didn't do any good.
Friends can use terms like "idiot" because they know it isn't meant in a mean way but merely in trying to make an extreme point.
A good friend once told me something that hurt at the time but it woke me up to something that I thought was only my problem, but was also distressing my friends whenever they were near me. I took her words to heart and changed...made a real effort to change. By doing that she changed my life for the better and I never went back to the self-destructive behavior.
"Idiot" sounds different coming from someone who really loves you than it does from a stranger and it could mean the difference between life and death. In that case, I'll call my friends everything but a white woman to get them to wake up to the dangers of what they do.
Friends can use terms like "idiot" because they know it isn't meant in a mean way but merely in trying to make an extreme point.
A good friend once told me something that hurt at the time but it woke me up to something that I thought was only my problem, but was also distressing my friends whenever they were near me. I took her words to heart and changed...made a real effort to change. By doing that she changed my life for the better and I never went back to the self-destructive behavior.
"Idiot" sounds different coming from someone who really loves you than it does from a stranger and it could mean the difference between life and death. In that case, I'll call my friends everything but a white woman to get them to wake up to the dangers of what they do.