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Nick Perry suggests a one-week test: stop giving advice, loans, and emotional support to see who stays. Real friends stick around because they value you, not what you do for them. Everyone else will vanish or find someone else to use.

Nick Perry suggests a one-week test: stop giving advice, loans, and emotional support to see who stays. Real friends stick around because they value you, not what you do for them. Everyone else will vanish or find someone else to use.
If you want to know who your real friends are, stop being useful to them. Stop giving advice, stop lending money, stop being their therapist at 2 AM, and watch how fast certain people vanish from your life. Because real ones don't stay for what you provide, they stay for who you are. Everybody else is not your friend, they're your client, and the moment you stop serving them, they'll go find someone who will. So if you want to know who your real friends are, stop being useful to them for just one week.