How to End a Friendship

How to End a Friendship

Nobody can secure friendship from dying away. The fall of your relationship with a friend may be caused by a lot of things, such as difference in your interests and worldviews, deep offence, or you are just tired of each other. 

However, in most cases you still feel tied to your friend. You may be disappointed in him or her, feel tension, pressure, get angry but you still call him or her friend and cannot end your friendship. Mostly, there are 3 main reasons for that:

1.      Affection. You have been friends for a long time, know many things about each other, have a lot of common friends, etc.

2.      Ties with other friends. In some cases instead of losing one friend you may lose even 3 or more friends as some of them are closer to your friend than to you.

3.      Emotional tie. You have warm feelings to each other but, unfortunately, with time your interests and worldviews became too different.

Sooner or later one of you will be tired of being patient, and in a stressful or even aggressive state of mind, you or your friend will want to end friendship. So, if after having thought everything properly, you have decided that the best way is to get separated, some tips on how to end a friendship will be right in time for you.

How to end a friendship: Tip 1

Don’t end your friendship in the heat of the moment. When you are having another quarrel with your friend, it may seem to you that the only way out is to cut all ties and strike your friend out of your life. However, it is not always a good decision, as impulsive actions cause negative effects.

How to end a friendship: Tip 2

If you feel that your friendship is nothing more than being attached to each other, you may minimize your meetings and interaction. Possibly, you will have to be a bit cool but still you need to be polite with your friend. It is impossible to change the past or completely forget the times that you spent together. That is why your friend will hardly disappear from your life forever.

How to end a friendship: Tip 3

If your friend is involved into your job, try to make your relations as official as possible. Try to become more responsible and don’t rely on your friend’s help anymore. In this case you will gradually get rid of your friendly relationship and become more businesslike. If though, you continue friendly relationship but start requiring more from your friend, he or she will think that you exploit him/her for your own purposes which may lead to negative results.

How to end a friendship: Tip 4

If you feel that the person is precious for you but some kind of discomfort is between you because of the different interests, try to adapt to each other. Maybe you will manage to save your friendship by doing this. Perhaps, your friend has got a new hobby which seems crazy to you and even irritates you. If you try to look at the situation from another perspective, maybe you will both feel better.   

In addition, it is not difficult to stop get rid of a friend. The most important thing is to know how to end a friendship. However, it is much more difficult to find a new reliable friend or re-establish friendly relations with your old one. So, always analyze the situation from different angles, otherwise, you may deprive yourself from a real friend!

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