"If a friendship makes you feel unmotivated, smaller than you are, or downright crappy about yourself, then nobody said it had to be forever," says author Laura Jane Williams.

Breakup with a friend: how to end a friendship

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The size of our social network tends to stay the same at about five close friends, but we have a high turnover in the cast of characters within it

In my book, if you want out of a friendship, then that’s a good enough reason to end it

If a friendship makes you feel unmotivated, smaller than you are, or downright crappy about yourself, then nobody said it had to be forever

Because not all friendships have to last forever.

How to consciously uncouple from a friend, no ghosting required