When Friendships Run Their Course

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. I want to talk a little bit about friendships. Sometimes, you know, most friendships have an expiration date.
0:41.3	So for those of you, oh, you know, this is so terrible, sometimes it just has an expiration date.
0:51.1	Now, healthy friendships, as I've always talked about, have you be healthier and happier.
0:58.7	How well, however, when it's a poor or conflicted relationship, it's damaging.
1:10.0	So just because somebody's been a friend for five years, three years,
1:14.3	two years, 17 years, 29 years, doesn't mean it's forever. Does it mean it's healthy to still have
1:20.5	and I've gotten so many of calls from so many of you where it's clear. It ran its course.
1:30.0	Now, generally, how do people get together to be friends?
1:33.4	They meet skydiving together.
1:35.8	They have a shared interest.
1:39.5	Running marathons.
1:42.1	I don't know.
1:51.4	Book clubs. Hiking trails. Very often friendships are started because people have shared interests. Now over time, the interest may not be shared
1:58.1	anymore. And one or both of you now has some other interest and has moved away.
2:07.1	That's okay.
2:09.5	You've got to stop taking everything personally that an other individual wishes to do with their lives.
2:18.1	They wish to do this other thing with their lives now, and they're not much
2:22.0	committed to this relationship. I mean, a person has a life. There's all the elements in
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