How Do I End a Friendship?

Video Transcript

"Hello, I am Patti German, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, in New York City. In this clip, we're going to talk about how to end a friendship. Friendships are very, very important in any relationship, whether you're single, or married, and as a relationship is coming to a end, I think the important thing is to understand why. What's happened, so that you feel that the relationship is no longer providing, what it used to provide? and once you explore that yourself, to understand what's underneath it for you, that's not working. It's important to either try to talk about it with the person, so that you can understand that your differences are occurring, or that you're not feeling as close as you used to, or the need for the person, is not the way it used to be, and then I think it's very important, if you learn that you can't really talk to the person about it, to just pace yourself slowly away, that with, in the understanding, that you can't need the person, in the way you used to, and that's the easiest way to end a friendship. This is Patti German, in New York City."