Any friendship that needs you to lie to keep it was already costing you more than it gave.

Count what is being paid, not only what is being kept. A connection that only holds while you are covering for somebody, agreeing with things you do not agree with, or managing their version of events is already taking more than it gives back. People stay because leaving feels like failure, when the arrangement quietly stopped being a friendship some time earlier.

You do not have to end anything this week. Try one small piece of honesty instead: say you cannot cover for something, or disagree out loud about something minor. A real friendship absorbs that easily, and whatever does not has told you what it was.