Do Nothing? Communicate? Leave?
When it is time to address issues in a friendship, your options come down to the same three potential solutions: do nothing, communicate or leave. Before you explore these options decide: Are you willing to fight for this friendship? Or could you let it go? While we hope for a win/win, we have no power unless we willing to risk losing. What else might you lose by ending this friendship? For example, is this friend part of a larger social circle or community you value? Is it more important in this relationship that you be liked or that you be respected? In friendships this is a double-edged sword: Of course, we want to be liked, but we don’t want to be walked on or feel taken advantage of.