Ask yourself, when you’re alone, which friends you’d still choose if you met them today.

A lot of friendship runs on history rather than fit. You met in fourth grade, you were on the same team, your parents were friends, and the connection kept going because stopping it would have been awkward. None of that makes the friendship bad. It just means you have never actually chosen it.

Run the question quietly, with no plan to act on it. Some names will come back as an easy yes, and that is worth knowing. Where the answer is no, you do not have to end anything, only stop giving that person the first hour of your free weekend.