If a relationship costs you all your friends, it’s not a relationship. It’s a relocation.

Closeness that steadily removes everyone else from your life has changed into something else. It rarely happens through a demand, more often through a slow accumulation of small preferences, until one day the other connections have gone quiet and there is nobody left to compare notes with. Losing your other people is a cost, however it came about.

Look at who you were close to two years ago and how often you speak now. Restore one of those this week, without making it a statement. A good relationship adds people to your life rather than subtracting them.