For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 11, 2024

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    Coopersdad  14 days ago

    Hopefully, you will wise up someday!

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    snsurone76  14 days ago

    Liz has a point. Love can easily turn to hate, but platonic friendship just devolves into—indifference.

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    emiesty2  14 days ago

    Fifteen years after being widowed, I married someone who had been a platonic friend since the summer after high school graduation. Romantic love didn’t develop until a couple of years before.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 14 days ago

    Liz is right! I value my women friends, relationships have all ended badly!

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    mywifeslover  14 days ago

    Being the right person is more important than finding the right person

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    Gizmo Cat  14 days ago

    From Lynn’s Comments: This punch line became a title for one of the books. Whenever we released a collection, I’d go thorough the strips that would be included and find a good comment to use on the cover. I was happy to find this one. After choosing a title, it was then a challenge to decide how to draw up the cover illustration!

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    biglar  14 days ago

    Just the other day I read “If you split up and are able to remain friends, you are either still in love or you never were.” I don’t recall exactly where I saw that, but after thinking about it a bit, I believe they may be correct.

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    SquidGamerGal  14 days ago

    Actually, it’s petty jealousy that screws everything up.

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    Wren Fahel  14 days ago

    When I was 14 I liked a boy, Chris. We dated for a short time; we didn’t “click” but decided to stay friends. He was one of my dearest and closest friends all through high school. Since he didn’t have any sisters I filled that role for him. When he met a girl in high school I couldn’t imagine anyone more perfect for him & attended his inevitable engagement party with pride and love. They remained married until he sadly passed away in 2021. His wife & I are still good friends.

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    John Jorgensen  14 days ago

    Elly sure looks thoughtful. She should be relieved that a child Liz’s age has found a way around pointless adolescent drama.

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    Redd Panda  14 days ago

    Ooooh! Friends, with benefits! I like it.

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    gigagrouch  14 days ago

    Actually, it’s usually sex that messes* things up.

    (*pun avoided…)

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    BJDucer  14 days ago

    I’m not sure if I could swallow anything found in a box of cookies call “Choko Chunx”….it just doesn’t sound appetizing.

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    rshive  14 days ago

    No real comment to be made. But thinking WAY back to my high school years, when two who were “going steady” broke up they avoided each other like the plague.

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    wolfgang73  14 days ago

    I sometimes feel the same way Liz

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    JustMe  14 days ago

    SPOILER!!!!!!!!

    I just love their story. Proof that sometimes, everything you need and want has been right there in front of you the whole time. :)

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    lnrokr55  13 days ago

    Ain’t it the truth !

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    patrickab7  13 days ago

    It does, really. Thankfully I’ve grown enough to decide that I don’t NEED a relationship. If something happens, cool, but I wasted too much time bellyaching over being single.

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    mindjob  13 days ago

    Won’t work if your still attracted to them

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    Curiosity Premium Member 13 days ago

    So very true. But it can be worth it, especially in the long run.

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    Jacob Mattingly   13 days ago

    Made a great collection title.

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    Strawberry King  13 days ago

    Try to get through the night without killing him.

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    Jelliqal  13 days ago

    I had friends that wanted to date me. I thought about it and told them our friendship was too special to risk screwing it up. We stayed friends for years until college and careers parted us. Caught up with them years later – had a nice drink and visit – still friends. Priceless

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  12 days ago

    “Love just screws everythjing up”

    First spoken by Zsa Zsa gabor

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