{"id":70238,"date":"2025-01-10T20:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70238"},"modified":"2025-01-10T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:52:53","slug":"when-a-friend-is-struggling-they-need-an-ally-not-an-opinion-11-surprising-habits-that-can-ruin-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/when-a-friend-is-struggling-they-need-an-ally-not-an-opinion-11-surprising-habits-that-can-ruin-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When a friend is struggling, they need an ally, not an opinion\u2019: 11 surprising habits that can ruin friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/women-black.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very British to joke and tease to show affection, but it can tip over into being unhealthy,\u201d says the friendship coach Hannah Carmichael. Her online community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/when-a-friend-is-struggling-they-need-an-ally-not-an-opinion-11-surprising-habits-that-can-ruin-friendships\/ar-BB1reD1k?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0edb7bdf3eec4ccfaad16b9b7c38e350&amp;ei=62\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s very British to joke and tease to show affection, but it can tip over into being unhealthy,\u201d says the friendship coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/late-diner.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70239,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238\/revisions\/70239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}