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The Quiet Relief of Ending a Transactional Friendship Without Drama | The Friendship Project
In this episode of The Friendship Project, host Kari Hearn explores the exhausting dynamic of transactional friendships and offers a compassionate guide on how to end them without drama. If you often feel like you are working for affection, keeping score in relationships, or experiencing an energy drain that feels more like labor than connection, this episode is for you. We define what makes a friendship transactional versus healthy reciprocity, highlighting the difference between fluid mutual support and rigid, conditional exchanges where your value is tied solely to your utility. This…
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