"It’s great to be friends, but you do not need to be friends with everybody, especially not if they treat you badly. Your social life is like a closet. Sometimes, when it gets crowded, you have to throw things out. The first items to go should be the relationships that don’t fit you anymore. You don’t have to punish those people or get revenge on them; you just move on. Conflict is one way to figure out which relationships are working. If you approach a good friend with a conflict, that person will not hate you or try to hurt you. If anything, being honest with each other will make you closer. If not: good news, you just cleared out room for a new friend."
