Virgo

The friendships that have gone quiet are usually the ones where you were doing most of the work of maintaining them. You kept track of birthdays, initiated plans, asked the follow-up questions that kept conversations from dying in politeness. What feels like abandonment might actually be the natural result of stepping back from a dynamic that was never quite balanced. The silence reveals what was always true: some people are used to being reached for rather than reaching. When you stop being the one who calls, you learn who was willing to pick up the phone and who was only willing to answer it.