It had been a kind of power, being able to say things that only his friends could understand.
The friends understand better now and welcome him into their game, which he's happy to join.
But his friends did not understand, and soon they spoke to him again about it.
Do our friends ever understand what we see in them?
"What even my friends don't understand is that it was really difficult," he said.
He said his friend "understood what this debate was all about."
The quiet answer came that my friend must understand me pretty well.
My legal friends may understand better than I do what that exactly means.
It's especially important that your family and friends understand this.
But then the people who call themselves my friends so often don't understand me at all.