Age teaches that relationships need maintenance just as surely as property.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
You would not expect a house to hold up with no attention for five years, and relationships work the same way. Without contact, they degrade quietly, and the degradation is not visible until you need something and find the connection has thinned.
Do the maintenance while nothing is wrong. The message with no agenda, the visit for no reason. It takes very little and it is the entire reason some friendships survive decades while others, once just as close, simply stopped.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which friendship have you not tended in over a year?
MORE IN TRUST, LOYALTY & RELATIONSHIPS
- Feeling like a guest in your own house after a remarriage is common. It often fades as new routines settle in.
- Healthy friendships survive a “no.” If one skipped plan makes them go cold, notice that.
- The mentor who answered your text at 10 p.m. wasn’t on the clock. Remember that when it’s your turn.
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