How To Leave An Expiring Friendship X Sarah Jakes Roberts

Navigating friendship breakups can be as challenging as any romantic split. That’s why SJR is sharing with listeners how to bow out gracefully. Though severing ties with friends can elicit a deep emotional response, there lies an opportunity for personal growth and self-discovery. Remember, letting go is the ultimate act of surrender.

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One of the things that I had to be careful of was not weaponizing my growth, not using my growth as an excuse to down someone else.
Giving someone else the space to be on a different path at a different pace is something that we do not talk about enough.
And while it is true that sometimes people walk away from us and sometimes we have to walk away from people, if we do so, thinking that we are somehow better than them, then we end up just becoming prideful instead of compassionate to where they are in their journey.
The reason why I believe that exercising compassion is important is because at the end of the day, we may be in a situation where we are in the same room where our path is aligning.
And just because we can’t grow together now, doesn’t mean that there won’t be a season in which we can connect again.
And one of the things that I learned is that there were so many instances where I knew that I was growing in a different direction of someone and made the decision to demonize where they were in order to justify us walking away from one another.
And when I demonized where they were, it didn’t make me feel any better.
If you really want to get over, get over, quote, unquote, a friendship that has no longer that no longer has the ability to serve where you are, that might suggest is to leave that friendship with gratitude, to be thankful for the time that you share together to honor the role that that person played in your life.
While also honoring where you are now and you never go wrong with honor.
You do not need to demonize them in order to walk away.
And if you have to demonize them in order to walk away, I think it’s a sign of immaturity within itself.
To be able to say, you know what? I really did need that friendship it helped me survive college.
It helped me get through this.
And that person was a good friend to me then, but for who I am now, that friendship no longer serves me to say goodbye with respect and honor is the greatest gift that we can give that person as an individual and child of god.
While also honoring our growth.