When Is It Time for New Friends?

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🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:27.8	My little very micro, nano, below micro into nano, commentary this morning to start things off is when it's time for new friends
0:44.6	we get a lot of calls like that with people hanging on to friends simply because.
0:56.8	Turns that I think that one of the prime reasons
1:00.9	friendships run their course
1:07.7	is that people change.
1:11.1	And frankly, human beings don't care a lot for change.
1:16.2	That's where a lot of anxiety develops.
1:21.2	Because change challenges what we know,
1:25.3	causes us to become nervous, defensive, insecure.
1:31.5	So, for example, if you or your friend, it's just gear shifting, I mean, from being
1:39.3	somebody who would talk only to you, now they have friends, somebody who didn't do much
1:46.2	physical, now they're doing a lot of physical things, or the reverse. Or now they're married
1:52.1	and have kids. Change. Change of any kind. It's unnerving, and it requires people to to adapt and not everybody is comfortable with doing that
2:03.3	and sometimes one or the other of you does something that is really light years away from the
2:13.8	morals values principles and ethics that you've always shared.
2:20.5	And that's another reason that relationships run their course.
2:27.6	Friendships run their course.
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