Some friendships don’t end with a fight. They end with nobody sending the next text. Send it.

Most friendships do not break; they stall. Two people each wait for the other to go first, both reading the silence as disinterest, and the gap grows until reaching out feels like an admission of something. Nobody is angry. The whole thing is just an unsent message sitting in two different heads at the same time.

Be the one who breaks the symmetry, and keep it light. No accounting of how long it has been, no apology for the gap, just something ordinary about your week. Most of the time you will find they were waiting too, and the relief on both sides is immediate.