The Friends Who Need You to Stay Small - Friendship

For the friend who always initiates, always listens, always shows up — and rarely receives the same. This book addresses the most normalized and least examined form of people-pleasing: the imbalanced friendship organized around one person's accommodation. Includes diagnostic tools for identifying structural imbalance, a five-step framework for naming the pattern honestly, eleven scripts for authentic friendship expression, and the positive work of building genuinely reciprocal bonds.