Shedding friends is a painful fact of adulthood. If you haven’t experienced one or a few of these platonic divorces, congratulations – but I assure you, they will happen. Look to the left of you, look to the right of you. One of you will not be here in four years, possibly less.
But if you’re motivated to hasten the process, take a trip with your besties. There’s usually something that one friend can afford that the others can’t, or something that someone wants to do that someone who doesn’t will resent them for doing without them. British performer Savannah Gracey captured this relationship-straining phenomenon in a TikTok that made the rounds last year.
