"Divorcing " a friend

Friends come in many categories -best friend, close friend ,casual friend, and ex- friend
  " The ideal of friendship forever 'has replaced that of marriage forever ..And sometimes that ideal turns out to be a myth..
just like couples ,friends can break up ,too.But how do you dump a friend ? In cases of major rifts or betrayals ,being direct but kind once you decide to end the relationship ."Tell you friend what hurt u nd why u need to put the friendship on hold "
while it's cruel to abandon longtime friends without offering any reasons . it's easy to let some friendship fizzle :Don't return calls as quickly ;avoid plans or make them so far ahead that there's time to cancle if u decide u still don't want to get together "Most people"
will start to get the hint
phasing -out friends who have put u down ---or who have let u down--pays others dividends ,"one benefit of pruning "destructive friendship is u'll have more time and energy to invent in positive friendship --and to cultivate new once . if u feel better about ur friends ,you're more likely to feel better about urself