Friendships Have Seasons - Stop Forcing Forever.

We don’t talk enough about the quiet heartbreak of friendships that fade. The way you try to resuscitate something that used to feel like home but now feels…like a group chat you want to mute.

Here’s what is sometimes hard to swallow:
Some people aren’t meant to last forever.
And that doesn’t make you - or them - bad. It makes you human.

We form friendships based on proximity, shared trauma, convenience, chaos, or compatibility. And then we try to stretch them across decades, life phases, values shifts, parenthood, sobriety, divorce, healing, success… as if we’re all evolving in lockstep. Spoiler: we’re not.

The grief of outgrowing a friendship is real. But so is the self-abandonment of keeping one past its expiration date.

From a psychological lens, this is often where attachment theory smacks into reality. You may feel unsafe letting go because you associate disconnection with rejection. Or you may keep performing closeness out of guilt, rather than authenticity. (People-pleasing, party of one? We've been there.)

But here’s the truth:
Just because it was real then doesn’t mean it’s required now.

You’re allowed to honor what the friendship gave you without dragging it into every season of your life like emotional luggage. You can miss them and move on. You can release people with love and block them with boundaries. You can outgrow the version of yourself that needed them - and grow into the version that doesn’t.

And no, you don’t owe anyone a PowerPoint presentation on “why.” Sometimes the why is simple: you changed.

Let it be enough.