Being honest and clear about one's intentions in a friendship or professional arrangement is a form of kindness.

“Being honest and clear about how you feel is a form of kindness.”

A friend who cancels on a commitment for a separate, lesser gig without proper communication may lose the trust required for future opportunities.

“There was a girl at the store, right? That I asked her to do Irvine, right? And she says cuz she had a gig, but it was like not as good. And she goes, "I can't do it." Cuz after asking me a lot to do it and I may never use her again.”

Friendships that are consistently unreciprocated and draining should be allowed to fade by reducing effort and energy investment.

“and so you will know when a friendship is no longer worth investing in because you have been feeling this way for a while and you have checked in with said person and there is not something devastating or difficult going on with them such that they need your support”

A true friend will be more happy for one's success than one is for oneself.

“if my success makes you bitter that's a problem because a true friend they will be more happy for you than you are for yourself”

A formal conversation is necessary when one person wants to end a friendship but the other still expects the status quo.

“I think a formal conversation needs to happen whenever one person wants things to end and the other person expects that we're going to maintain the status quo as soon as there's a gap”

Carlos suggests that it is better to be alone than to be in an unhappy or unhealthy relationship.

“I think it's better to be alone than in like a shitty relationship though”

Trisha Paytas believes it is better to maintain professional boundaries and not get too personally close to people one works with.

“I don't like to get too close to anyone because I did that with like a lot of glam people. The ones that I've had for a long time I'm like we're friends. We're so friends. We see each other the most. We tell each other all the secrets but it's not getting too close because then it does like you said”

He avoids setting his friends up on dates because he does not want to deal with the potential awkwardness if the relationship fails.

“I've never wanted to be the person that puts that's the start of the relationship because I don't know. I feel like I have a cuz if I'm putting two people together, that means I'm friends with both people in in in a sense. Right. Right. >> And if this relationship doesn't work out, y'all going to ma”

He prefers dating outsiders rather than people within a shared friend group because it avoids long-term social friction if the relationship ends.

“I like the outsider into the mix because when they break up it's easy to just lose connection with >> and everybody just beef with that person no matter what the other person is.”

He suggests that friends who have known each other since childhood are essentially keepers of each other's memories and should not jeopardize that bond.

“I don't know any family member that knows as much of my life as you do no I know it's fair hey and brother my book half my books burned when you're gone and every time you take a hit of that weed and brain cells go down I lose a little bit of what are you talking about”

She argues that she and Bobby are inherently vulnerable to one another because their shared knowledge of personal secrets keeps them permanently tethered.

“we're both basically tethered so tightly to one another yeah like it we cannot it won't be an easy break it's gonna be like god he has all my secrets he has all of my secrets”

Charlie believes that he and his co-hosts are emotionally close despite living far apart because of their long history of friendship.

“i wanted to um play a little version of the newlywed game for you guys so that you could remember that despite being far apart you're actually very close because of your 20 plus years of friendship”