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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

my two best friends started dating (i was the mutual friend) and things were cool. but now there are problems in their relationship and I have a feeling it’s about to go south and i don’t know how to handle being the middleman which I know I’m gonna be.

1. try to avoid being that
2. tell them “i don’t wanna be the middleman”
3. if all else fails, just remember that “middle men” can also be “peacekeepers.” you love both of these girls equally, i assume, and have no agenda. you’re in the unique spot of knowing how both of them actually feel. it’s never good to transmit information from one person to the other – b/c i assume they’ll both ask you to keep everything confidential – but that knowledge can inform the advice that you give your friends when they seek it. if you have to be the middleman, it’s best to be the yoda type of middle man.

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Not once during those years did I get to a Google results page and lament that I couldn’t see my friends’ ideas about the car I should buy or the hotel I ought to book. While my friends are thoughtful and knowledgeable people, their views on the tens of thousands of large and small inquiries that I bring to Google every year are almost always irrelevant. When I’ve got a clogged toilet, I want advice from an expert—a plumber, preferably, but I’ll even take the stranger who wrote this eHow post. What I don’t want to know is which link my boss consulted when his toilet was clogged.
Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine
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