one-sided friendship

The Friend Who Only Reaches Out When They Need Something: Being Useful Is Not Being Loved

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Friend Only Reaches Out When They Need Something

Some friendships run on a simple, invisible rule: the other person shows up when they need you and goes quiet when they do not. If you have a friend who only reaches out when they need something, the pattern is probably not new to you, even if naming it clearly is. This is not about

One-Sided Friendship: What to Do When the Script Doesn’t Fix It

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One Sided Friendship

The advice on one-sided friendships converges on the same format everywhere you look: name the pattern, use an I-statement, ask for more reciprocity. That conversation is worth having. What most sources do not address is what happens after you have it, when the other person agrees, apologizes, and the next several weeks look exactly like