Capricorn

Some friendships end not with a fight but with the slow realization that you have been doing most of the work of keeping them alive. The calls you initiate, the plans you suggest, the check-ins when weeks pass without contact. You notice this pattern the same way you notice that you are always the one who restocks the shared supplies or remembers the group birthday. There is a particular exhaustion that comes from being the person who holds things together, and sometimes the friendship that goes quiet is the one where you finally stopped reaching first. The silence tells you how much of the connection was your own effort.