Friendship breakups: DBAD style
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Gretchen gets into the messy conversation about friendship breakups that nobody teaches you. Think of her as the honest but protective, blunt BFF.
She discusses toxic friendships, one-sided effort, and that “are we still friends or…?” limbo that can hit harder than a romantic breakup.
She breaks down why it feels so brutal, how to spot when you’re giving way more than you’re getting, and when a friendship doesn’t deserve a big talk or “closure” moment.
Gretchen also calls out the need for grace and direct conversations in adult friendships that are different from college-aged friendships. She shares what to do about subtle digs and gives you simple scripts for calling it out in the moment.
If you’re questioning a friendship, feeling drained, or scared to outgrow someone, this episode will feel like the clarity you’ve been looking for.
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about boundaries and not settling for men in our lives. You also cannot settle for shitty |
| 0:08.0 | fucking friends in your life. Stop being such a fucking victim. Like did you say it to them? Guys, |
| 0:13.5 | do we not understand that that's what they're trying to do? If that conversation does not go well, |
| 0:18.4 | they are not receptive, then ending the friendship doesn't really sound like the worst thing. |
| 0:23.0 | Your life will not continue to get better and better and better if that's how you live. |
| 0:26.4 | Just saying. |
| 0:29.6 | D bad baby. |
| 0:30.7 | That stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. |
| 0:32.7 | And we're not sugar-coating shit. |
| 0:34.2 | So let's get into it, shall we? |
| 0:48.3 | Hi, my gals. Based on my DMs, some of y'all are thick in friendship breakups, toxic friendships, not sure if you should move on from a friend, not sure why someone is treating |
| 0:52.7 | you, XYZ way. So we are going to get into that. |
| 0:56.1 | I've actually done a podcast episode probably like multiple years ago on this, but it's a topic |
| 1:00.8 | I feel very passionate about and I definitely want to get into it. But first, I don't know if any of |
| 1:06.4 | y'all are like me, but I am suckered into this Nancy Guthrie missing kidnapping case. So today is Wednesday. |
| 1:13.4 | Hopefully by the time this airs on Monday, she has been found alive and everything is fine and back |
| 1:19.6 | to normal. If you don't want to listen to this, like true crimeness, just fast forward through this. |
| 1:24.0 | But does anybody else feel like they are watching an absolutely fucking terrible criminal |
| 1:28.6 | minds episode? I feel like it is, and I say this with love and grace, right? Because like, |
| 1:35.0 | if this is a true thing, then this is someone's mother. She's 84 years old. Like, it just |
| 1:41.2 | feels like everyone is a terrible fucking actor and we are just like watching a movie play |
| 1:46.6 | in real time. It's just so much of it is unbelievable. And I know that it might be |
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