- "For too long I held onto friendships that were toxic, one sided or just weren’t working because I was loyal to my people pleasing ways and ignorant to the fact that friendship breakups are also a normal part of life."
- "We hang on when we should’ve let go years ago. It’s exhausting yet we punish ourselves and rob ourselves of precious time and energy we could spend better elsewhere."
- "Most of us stick at these friendships because we don’t know how to let go and it can feel easier to carry on with a not so great situation rather than deal with it head on."
- Remove your self-worth from your friendships
- "The most important friend you’ll ever have is yourself."
- Put some boundaries in place
- "If you’re anything like me you were brought up with the ethic of ‘you can’t let people down’ as one of your guiding principles. More importantly we need to focus on not letting ourselves down."
- Let the drift take its course
- "Don’t be afraid to go in a different direction and allow friendships to take their natural course."
- "It can be natural for a friendship to end when a job ends or you move to a new city. It’s not uncommon to outgrow friendships either and this doesn’t mean someone has to take the blame."
- "Forcing the unnatural will only exhaust you and leave you feeling overstretched, sometimes even used if you’re the only one making the effort."
- "Letting go can feel really hard in these situations but hanging on to what isn’t working is even harder in the long run."
- "We no longer saw each other constantly, and I made a conscious decision to not always be the first person to reach out. Those one-sided relationships aren’t really relationships at all. Recognizing that I deserve friendships that have an equal share of duty and respect was a big step for me"
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