Woman Leaves Friendsgiving With Her Turkey After Realizing Friends Secretly Changed A Dress Code

It's hard to get through the holidays without any stress

But this woman may have even lost her "friends" over Thanksgiving

Many Americans include friends in their Thanksgiving plans

Losing friends is part of life

1. Develop clarity. "Create clarity around what you are committed to in your personal or professional life. When you commit to a new way of being, whether the goals are outward, such as starting a new business, or inward, such as healing from grief, you will need to be clear what the commitment involves, and chances are this means trade-offs involved," she writes. "The trade-off might be less time with your friends or spending less on a vacation. If you are truly committed to these new goals, then you can explain what your focus is and why you are committed to this goal. Also, you know that your trade-off may be less time with certain people. In the end, your authentic friends will find a way to support you because they know your goal commitment involves your well-being. And you will carve out time to speak with these people."
2. Understand that shift happens. "While your success may expand your bandwidth in some areas, we are still given the constriction of twenty-four hours in a day. Chances are with your new goals, you are now dividing your time and energy among new tasks, and this means your priorities shift," Meekhof explains. "You know that you can't create new opportunities by maintaining the status quo, so a shift is necessary. And new projects are often cultivated when new relationships are formed, and this takes time. Again, you are shifting the focus of your waking hours, and this can be met with vacant stares from your friends. Understanding this shift can be painful. However, knowing that not all friends will delight in this as you imagined will help you when you detect a tinge of their jealousy. Early detection can prevent further damage."
3. Affirm your alignment. "Along your journey, it will be important that you consciously solidify your alignment to your goals because there will be things that will threaten your commitment," she says. "This doesn't mean that you aren't flexible with your thinking, but rejection can get ugly. When you are living out your true purpose, it can seem like a test. Doors will close and doors will open. [When my book] ... was sold to a publisher, a very successful businessman told me to keep my 'inner circle' of trusted ones very close, small, and to be choosy about who I selected to be a part of this 'circle.' This piece of advice I didn't follow straightaway, as I didn't think it applied to me, only to people who were considered the elite. In retrospect, I wish I had adopted this approach earlier. My 'inner circle' helps me to put things in perspective when I become overwhelmed."

Many people who read the woman's story said she had every right to leave

Some, however, thought everyone involved could've handled the situation better—including her

And a few even blamed her for the drama