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What happens when the friend you cut adrift comes to you for help?
”I’ve had an acquaintance for a few years who I met through mutual friends. In her words, she’s never had many female friendships that lasted very long and I now see why — she has a hard time seeing past herself. In the last year we’ve spent less and less time together, which has been a welcome relief.
”But she’s recently gone through a separation and now finds herself very alone. She’s come to me to ask if we can reignite our friendship and start from scratch. I don’t want to and I’d rather just say it upfront since I know I can’t be the kind of friend she wants. I also don’t find much joy in having her as a friend. When do you put your own feelings aside to keep someone from being alone? When is honesty not the best policy?”
Thoughts, ideas, suggested phrasings?
— Carolyn Hax
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