A Handful of Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Relationship

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:28.2	I'm going to teach you how you can ruin a perfectly good relationship and then you will be good at it.
0:41.0	What is that reverse psychology?
0:47.7	Okay, going to give you a handful of ways you can ruin a perfectly good friendship. One,
0:55.0	disrespect their time. Late all the time.
0:59.0	Or flaking on plans at the last minute.
1:02.4	Yeah, that happens more than one time.
1:03.1	You're toast.
1:04.5	You should be toast.
1:07.6	My theory is you should be toast.
1:13.5	It's inconsiderate, and it shows you're unre unreliable and who wants to be friends with that.
1:24.7	Failing to show up when somebody needs you. Now you can't always show up in person. I get that. I have that problem too much. Sometimes I have one friend 3,000 miles away. I can't show up,
1:30.1	but I can text, I can call, I can email, I can send a gift, I can do something that shows
1:39.1	when they need me, I'm there. It's not always physical,
1:45.8	they're practical, to show up for physical hugs and comfort,
1:49.8	although I think that's the number one way to show up. But you can't always do that.
1:57.2	Person I care about a lot, just lost her husband. I did talk to her the day after a great length.
2:03.6	This just happened this week. And last night I left an email hug. Not a emoji thingy.
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