Keep your advice about someone else’s relationship separate from your need to be proved right.

Advice about a friend’s relationship starts as care and quietly acquires a stake. Once you have said what you think, the outcome begins to reflect on your own judgment, and it gets harder to be glad if things improve in a way that contradicts you. Your friend can usually feel this, which is why they stop telling you things.

Give your view once, plainly, and then hand the decision back. If they stay, be a good friend to the life they chose. Being right is a small prize next to being someone they can still talk to.