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  • lack of attention. I have gotten busy and not called friends for weeks and things over time just get more distant. Friendships need attention and care like a puppy. Ignore a friend and they will turn to someone else for what they got from you.
  • Loss of trust Being able to rely on your friend for honesty is an important thing in my opinion.
  • In my experience, it's mostly been due to changing interests and changing values.
  • Unforgiveness, selfishness, and neglectfulness are probably the most common reasons that a friendship breaks down.
  • It could be possible that one changes their interests and points of view of life.If the freind remains the same the freindship would naturally grow apart.Some freindships last for a lifetime because of mutual interests but many are much less long.
  • Letting them borrow money - I let mine borrow 500.00 and that was a laugh on me
  • I had a friendship that broke down because we had become too different and ebcause of it we were always putting eachother down. We still cared about eachother when the friendship ended but the friendship would have never lasted and it ending was best.
  • Betrayal, backstabbing, self-centeredness.
  • There are many reasons but the two reasons i've experienced most are: change of priorities & interests - This is a very good breaker that can end any type of frienship no matter how strong it is. I've seen many a great best friends drawing apart from this. Becoming too much busy/not giving enough time. But most usually its bad time management. You can mostly always take out a little time for your friends. Sometimes it happens that a person (best friend) is with you for suuuuch a long time that you start taking him for granted. You start not giving the person proper attention & stop/reduce caring about his feelings. Many friendships donot usually end immediately. Many small & big things start accumulating & some day it blows up or results in a natural slow process of drawing apart. So you've to take care of small things too. The above statement is also true about all other types of relationships.
  • -lack of communication -not being honest -not trusting the other
  • When that friend puts a boyfriend/girlfriend on a higher priority than your friendship...despite the fact that you've been with them through multiple boy/girlfriends. When the two of you are forced to be in close contact with each other over a period of time, and therefore you learn what the other is REALLY like, and you learn that you two actually don't get along at all. I think if a friendship can survive the boyfriend thing and the annoying the crap out of each other thing, it's pretty much set.
  • communication. but on both parts. a good friendship doens't breakdown just cause one doesn't call the other. it does cause either don't call anymore. i have some very good friends who are a bit flaky. yeah it can hurt my feelings but i still forgive them and bite the bullet and call them myself. and yeah its worth it cause my good friends are like family.
  • lack of communication, trust and disrespecting others boundaries can all result in the breakdown of a good frienship.
  • When they are not honest with you, become untrustworthy, unreliable or seems to lose interest in the things about you that made you friends in the first place.
  • If there's been no incidence of a falling out, I'd say a major factor would be the decline in communication. One of the friends may starts do back off from the friendship and it will probably start by them not returning calls/texts/emails or not calling when they say they will, they'll begin to be flaky and when asked if something's wrong they'll very likely deny it. It might be due to nothing but more often they have been upset about something their friend has done or said but they decide not to discuss it with the friend to resolve the situation and instead choose to end the friendship by trying to make a silent exit. This leaves the friend bewildered as to what's happened. They may not have realised what they've said or done has offended their friend but as soon as they are aware of their friend distancing, they might try and find out only to be met by silence. It's very difficult.
  • my experiences are: that an ex-friend put a boyfriend before her friends she has had for a long time... another is that we just grew apart, i matured more than she did.. she was actually getting annoying. than she would yell at us or put us down and then she would start crying when we told her she does the same damn thing. she just gets frustrated all the time with herself and over a long time you cant handle it anymore.. you get frustrated and give up...
  • Loss of respect would be (and has been) a key factor for me... either they've lost respect for me for some reason or I've lost respect for them... as a result, our friendship just broke down...

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