One of the ways people burn out their friendships is by expecting their friends (also applies to partners) to be everything to them.

Your friend is not your therapist, customer, business coach, mentor financial advisor, relationship coach, etc.

It’s important to assess the way we expect people to show up for all of our needs and then label it as loyalty. Your friends are people, they can be there to support you but you must be willing to acknowledge the limitations of that support.

What’s worse is when people get mad at their friends for failing to perform labor that their friends are not emotionally and educationally equipped to do.

We can preserve our friendships when we realize our friends are people with limits too. They cannot be everything to us.