The Friendship That Drains You - Friendship Boundaries

For the person who is a better friend to others than others are to her. Who initiates, listens, shows up, and absorbs — and has been telling herself this is just what friendship looks like. This book provides the diagnostic tools for identifying structural imbalance, maps five specific friendship patterns that need limits, and offers the graduated work of recalibrating existing friendships and releasing the ones that cannot hold genuine reciprocity. Includes twelve scripts and the Friendship Recalibration Conversation framework. For anyone whose social life is full and somehow still lonely.