Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining me this week. We are talking about friendships. We're going to talk about unhealthy friendships, toxic friendships,

codependent friendships, friendships that have just kind of reached

that expiration date. This is something that was very highly requested by you guys. You guys

wanted more information on this topic. And so here we go. I personally believe that sometimes

it's easier to end a romantic relationship with either a boyfriend or girlfriend or a romantic

partner than it is to end a friendship sometimes with either a boyfriend or girlfriend or a romantic partner,

then it is to end a friendship sometimes. And there's a variety of reasons for this.

Number one, you could have shared friends. Number two, you could, you know, still have

to see each other fairly often. This person could really be all you have in terms of friends.

And so you've really just been keeping this relationship going kind of like by default.

There's always a fear of confrontation sometimes that people have, a fear of like hurting

this person's feelings by saying that you really don't want to spend time with this person

anymore.

Then of course, there's a guilt that you put on yourself for even feeling that

way. Maybe there was just like this perception that you were going to stay friends forever.

And now that this relationship has changed or you've changed or they've changed or it doesn't

really matter, just that two people are kind of growing apart, there's some feelings, some

uncomfortable feelings that you're

probably going through that you don't know how to deal with.

I think a lot of relationships sometimes can get very codependent.

You can have codependent relationships with people that don't have to be your romantic partners.

And if you're a codependent on them or they're codependent on you or the both of you

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