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

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

Fair-Weather Friend: The Harder Question Is Whether You’ve Ever Been One

Fair Weather Friend

A fair-weather friend is someone who shows up reliably when life is going well and disappears, just as reliably, when it stops. The pattern has been named and recognized for centuries. What most conversations about it skip is the harder question: whether you have ever been that person for someone else. Most people have. This