A very significant part of life for any person becomes his friends. But it is important to know how to competently and as painlessly as possible for another person to stop communicating.
10. Express your opinion
If you directly say that you don’t want to communicate with a person anymore, then he will simply be offended or start a scandal. Therefore, no one needs to say this. To avoid trouble, for starters, just make a complaint about your relationship. If you cannot come up with common topics for conversation, or you have nowhere else to go together, tell this honestly and bluntly. Perhaps a sincere conversation will help you find a way out together, and your friendship will continue. Otherwise, if both of you do not take any steps to spend time together, then the communication itself will eventually come to naught.
9. Listen to what your friend wants to say.
As soon as you say that you are not comfortable, do not leave immediately. Your friend, most likely, will also want to speak out about this, and your duty is to carefully listen to the response claims. Get ready to hear something negative about yourself. Perhaps you will even realize that there is more of your guilt in the elusive friendship, you will analyze your actions, and the friendship will improve. At least, constructive criticism will allow you not to repeat mistakes in communicating with other people in the future.
8. Do not take the initiative
Feelings of guilt and a desire to save friendships may prompt you to constantly call a friend to visit or for a walk, to call and write messages first. But this is not worth doing. To get better, give yourself time and try not to take the initiative. Moreover, it is better to respond to offers to meet from a friend that you are busy and not ready to see you yet. As a result, sooner or later, your friend will also stop contacting you, realizing that you are simply not interested in further communication.
7. Give up empty talk
As soon as your conversation with a friend becomes “empty”, long pauses and awkward silence appear in him, you should immediately stop it. Appreciate your time and be able to refuse others if they want to take this time from you stupidly. It is important to make it clear that if a friend does not have anything important that he could tell you, then the conversation should be finished and no longer return to him. Your friend will think and will no longer call and offer to meet for nothing.
6. Stop drinking together
If you and your friend are in the habit of meeting in a bar or visiting each other with a view to having a drink and talking in a drunken state, you should immediately abandon such events. Alcohol is a great way to unleash the tongue, but it is not able to become the main bond for friendship. Moreover, most often it is alcohol that destroys the strongest relationships - be it family ties or friendships. If a relationship develops only thanks to drinking, it is detrimental not only for communication, but also for health. But be sure to tell your friend directly that you no longer intend to drink strong drinks with him.
5. Gradually stop communicating with this person.
If the person with whom you intend to stop communicating in the past was very close to you, then this method will not work. Such tactics are quite suitable for breaking up with a friend whom you were not close enough with or even met recently. Each time, limit the length of your conversation, answer that you are busy in response to the proposal to spend time together. Gradually, you will inevitably begin to move away from each other, and communication as a result will be reduced to the duty officer, “how are you?” and nothing more.
4. Reduce social activity
The more often the “online” icon is lit opposite your name, the more your friends have a desire to write to you. Therefore, for starters, try to use social networks and instant messengers as little as possible. If you cannot reduce such activity, then just try not to reply to messages that come from a friend with whom you want to stop communicating. After you do not get in touch with him for a couple of days, the person will stop writing, and already one thread connecting with him in the form of social networks will be broken.
3. Avoid aggressive behavior
Aggressive behavior towards any person, even if it is a bored friend, does not honor you. In any situation, common sense and self-control must be maintained. Your openly expressed negative can really hurt a friend in the shower. Aggression can provoke a loss of control, and you, without noticing it, transfer it to other friends who are not guilty of anything. In any relationship, behave with restraint and do not show pronounced negative emotions.
2. Learn to say no
This useful quality is very effective in communicating with everyone around. If you want to break off your relationship with him painlessly for yourself and your comrade, be able to refuse him the initiative shown. Say no in response to an offer to go to the cinema or park if you really don't want to. Thus, you will clearly and directly make it clear to your friend that you no longer want to spend time with him. And in the future, this useful skill of denying people will help you in your relationship with other friends, as well as relatives and work colleagues.
1. Make new friends
Some people are afraid to break off relationships with friends who have long become a burden, due to the fact that they have few other friends. By such a position you humiliate not only your friend, but first of all yourself. Moreover, these relationships can lead to daily bad mood and even depression. Strongly refuse such friendship and look for new friends. Sign up for dancing or an interest club. Among like-minded people it is very easy to meet new interesting friends, with whom there will always be something to talk about.