We shared everything — and then I married her brother
have a friend — we’ll call her Sarah — who has been my closest friend since high school. Coming from a city with a tiny frum community, she boarded in my hometown for the last two years of high school and then we went to seminary together.
During all those years, Sarah and I shared a close friendship. We grew together in many ways. Sarah was the first one there for me when each of my grandmothers passed away, and I was by her side through a broken engagement. She got married one year later, and obviously our relationship shifted when she got married; I was single, and we naturally had proper boundaries in place without ever discussing it.
I continued in shidduchim, and no one was more shocked than I when, at age 23, Sarah redt me to her 22-year-old brother. I was soon engaged to him, and three months later married and living a ten-minute-walk away from Sarah and her husband in Lakewood.
And that’s when our entire relationship kind of derailed.
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