Top Highlights

• they don’t care enough about you to do it all the time, just enough not to lose you. Because, hey! You’re a good friend to them, so of course they don’t want to lose you. But dear reader, you deserve a good friend in return
• Supporting someone can mean remaining connected with a person by staying abreast of his or her life, whether this is via the occasional text or call, or yearly catch-ups with interstate friends.
• a supportive friendship necessitates that someone is actually interested in you and what’s going on in your life. They care to know about developments in your life, they check in after the job interview, they ask how the date went, they want to see you, and they are genuinely interested in how your life is going.
• we put a lot of effort into responding to that person! Why? Because we have placed a high value on the benefit of interacting with them.
• For some people, an interaction with us is sometimes simply not worth their time and effort. They are just not that interested in you.