{"id":82950,"date":"2025-12-30T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82950"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:14:31","slug":"the-three-types-of-friend-you-should-drop-according-to-a-relationship-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/30\/the-three-types-of-friend-you-should-drop-according-to-a-relationship-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"The three types of friend you should drop, according to a relationship expert"},"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><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Td3VC.img?w=534&amp;h=383&amp;m=6&amp;x=241&amp;y=197&amp;s=199&amp;d=199\" alt=\"Dunbar\u2019s research found that the more things you have in common with someone, the stronger the relationship and the longer it will last\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/inews-lifestyle\/school-gates-drop-off-survival-3887878?srsltid=AfmBOoqje_S9P_8PUbtHZ3BfHoQYKwW-uDnpqBb79VLo5VjPuV4u7wZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Robin Dunbar<\/a>\u00a0is a professor of anthropology at the University of\u00a0Oxford, a renowned evolutionary psychologist and author of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/books\/friends-by-robin-dunbar-review-five-real-friends-social-media-929272?srsltid=AfmBOopgb5zGNWUkS5iknsCukkX2w7J3RWp2jIWbVf-2SmnnagCPvyT_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Friends:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/the-three-types-of-friend-you-should-drop-according-to-a-relationship-expert\/ar-AA1Td3VG?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69540aad097a40c28363d4d10ebe16cc&amp;ei=177\">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>Robin Dunbar\u00a0is a professor of anthropology at the University of\u00a0Oxford, a renowned evolutionary psychologist and author of\u00a0Friends: Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82950","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\/2024\/01\/Young-drinking.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82950","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=82950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82951,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82950\/revisions\/82951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}