Do you have friends that you don't want to be friends any more?

I was in a similar situation. I had a close friend whom I'm not so close anymore. We're still friends but we don't hang out as much anymore. And that's because she's always taking advantage of me. She'll ask me to do favours for her, take care of her kids all the time, do errands for her, etc. But when I ask her to do the same for me, she always give me some kind of excuse..busy, sick, etc. She's a really nice girl and we get along good as friends but she's just not someone I can rely on and would consider to be a close, good friend. So, we're just more like acquantainces now. We still see each other in group gatherings and chat once awhile but that's all. I just slowly distanced myself from her.

Well, in life I feel we have or will experience this in our lifetime. Sometimes this is because we tend to grow apart with our friends in our thoughts and feelings as we get older. Sometimes we develop views, or start doing things that make us different and drift apart, or maybe choose other friends that are not Good for the other partied involved, so you loose a Close friend. In reality though I think a lot of times it is when 2 people move away from each other, and then try to remain friends, they end up growing apart, and end up finding they have nothing in common anymore, so it is hard to be a Friend. But when this happens, I feel they need to leave on Good terms, and not let it drag you down to the point you might be afraid to get close to someone else. It should be done with mutual understanding, and hardor No hard feelings if possible.

I try to be as polite as possible with everyone that I know, regardless of how frustrated I am with them and regardless of what friend status I wish to keep them at. I just feel it's right. There are some people however that I'd really like to push away as best as possible and it's hard, but I'll still keep on friendly terms with them, I just try to distance myself from them as best as possible.

I have never had this experience. I would say, being direct is not the best approach. Just slowly distance yourself from them if you really dont wan't to be friends anymore. Or maybe you can try and spend more time with them and discover somethings you can talk about. Suggest things to do or anything that will give you common ground or things that you can talk about before throwing away the friendship, if they are as nice as you say they are. Good-luck.

ya,there r many people in my life whom i dont want to talk but i m forced.......i try to ignore them but then also they dont leave my back.......

i have one friend like that.i always in her side whenever she needed me but on my wedding day she didn't show up nor apologized.so i decided to stop being her friend.but i don't know she's a stupid or what, several months after my wedding she sms me and acted like normal, and this pissed me off even more..so i ignored her calls, didn't reply to her sms, just try to avoid her as best as i can.and it's working, until now i never hear anything from her.