Hey there! Thanks so much for joining me on this edition of The Shaline Show.

My name is Shaline Johnson and I am your host.

Today we'll be talking about how to know if it's time to let go of a friend.

Welcome to The Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author,

celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

So we've all been there, that moment or stage.

When you ask yourself, why am I still friends with this person?

Or should I still be friends with this person? Or why in the world am I still maintaining

a friendship with this person? It's a question we all struggle with.

And one of the reasons why we struggle with it, well there's actually a lot of reasons why

we struggle with it. Sometimes we struggle with that decision because we feel as though

the decision may reflect poorly on us. Does moving away, cutting ties, or letting a friendship

drift apart, does that make you a bad person? Could someone who we care about do the same thing to us?

If you quit on this friendship, does that make you a quitter? Does letting go of this person who

you've been trying to help and make better? Does it mean that you've failed in your quest to help them?

Will other people judge you? Will this person speak negatively about you or put their own twist on

how things went down? Why do we feel so guilty, so conflicted when it comes to friendships,

especially the friendships that come with the history? The universal dictionary definition of

friendship is a state of mutual trust and support. So think about both of those words before we go

much further. Trust and support. You might have your answer right there. But if not, let's go a

little further. Friendships, it's something we all desire. We know it improves our lives. We know

it oftentimes it's the people in our lives that make us better who we can share our greatest

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