A friendship with a running tab is a tiny business with terrible customer service.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Keeping score inside a friendship turns it into an exchange, and exchanges come with terms, disputes and resentment built in. Closeness runs on different logic, where things even out over years rather than weeks and nobody is checking. Once the ledger appears, the friendship gets managed instead of enjoyed. People feel that long before they can name it.

Notice whether you have been tallying who has done more lately, then ask what you actually want to be different. Say that plainly instead of collecting evidence. A direct request repairs more than a balanced account ever does.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who in your life keeps a tally you can feel?

MORE IN PEACE, BOUNDARIES & INDEPENDENCE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.