Lose a Boring Friend in Three Days

So, you don't want to hang out with your boring friend? Break up with them! (in a nice way)

Steps

  1. Don't pretend to be very interested when you are talking. But don't act mean. Just make hints that you're bored.
  2. Reduce the amount of conversation time with them every day. Sooner or later they will get your point and stop trying to talk to you. If you think they are boring, be boring too. Then they will try to get rid of you too, and you won't feel guilty.
  3. Say you don't feel like it today if they ask you to hang out with them, or you're just not in the mood, or you're not allowed. If you continue this behavior, the person should eventually get the point.
  4. Talk about another friend and how great they are. This should help the person to understand he or she is being replaced.

Tips

  • Think about how you would feel if your best friend took the above steps to replace you. Choose carefully.
  • Don't be mean. It will only make things worse.
  • Generally boring people don't bother to read or take interest in anything to converse with and they tend to spout the same old stuff which is boring when one hears it so many times. It is for their enjoyment that they talk on their soapbox as they get a kick out of spouting the comfortable rhetoric they say to anyone and everyone.
  • Generally boring people are lazy, they tend to expect you to keep them entertained as they have nothing to offer and you will probably find the stories they tell are other people's stories or are some convoluted story of yours or some other pained friend.
  • Don't notify or introduce your boring friend to anyone else by trying to help make them be more interesting. They tend to latch on to your friends which won't make you very popular with them.
  • Don't tell your boring friend about groups, societies, events or occasions which you go to, they will go to them (with or without you). This only inflicts them on your type of people which will cause more opportunity for you to meet them out of chance.
  • Suggest things which they don't like, such as if they are going to call over to your home all of the time to bring things such as milk, bottle of wine (if you're old enough) or something, anything which makes them do something which requires some effort from them.
  • Sometimes this might work: pick someone or something such as "I don't like you hanging out with that person (or scene) as it makes me look bad having any connection with you knowing that person (or being in that place)".

Warnings

  • If you have been a good friend to someone and all they do is bore you to death, sap your energy, waste your time, invade your space and bore you to death then you are setting healthy standards and boundaries for yourself by cutting the relationship off. This shows maturity and shows respect for yourself and your friend because you are not enabling them to keep making the same mistake... cruel to be kind.
  • Be nice! They might tell everyone that you're a mean person!
  • Your friend's feelings may easily get hurt.
  • Friends are things you can have in your life, try to keep in touch with them even if you think they are boring.

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