It comes a point in life where you need to take your own path and to do that you must part with so many things, including people who you have outgrown.
Sometimes it might be because you’ve realized they’re not adding value to your life or you want to focus on yourself. However, we sometimes find ourselves outgrowing people without even realizing it.
So, if you’re experiencing these signs in your relationship or friendship, just know you’re outgrowing the particular person and your path is being defined.
You experience awkward conversations
Pulling a natural conversation suddenly becomes an extreme sport. It starts to feel like you’re two strangers.
Before this, it was so easy and natural to have a conversation, that you rarely ran out of topics to discuss.
If you experience awkwardness, moments of silence, run out of talking points or generally struggle to have a natural conversation, just know you’re outgrowing that person.
You stop hanging out together
Before this awkward phase, you used to frequently hit the movies together, go shopping together, play video games, have drinks or just sit in the house and watch movies.
Then all of a sudden, that comes to a halt. You no longer do any of these things together.
You rarely keep in touch
Before you find yourself in this phase, they were on top of your contact list as the most frequently contacted.
Now you’re at a point where you can go for weeks without talking to them, and you’re comfortable with that
You no longer share news with them
They no longer become the first people you break news to, ask advice or have gossip sessions with.
You act like you’re meeting each other for the first time because you don’t know what’s going on in their lives anymore.
You are simply not interested in telling them what’s going on in your life and you are also not curious about knowing what is going on in their lives either.
Your values suddenly don’t align
Prior to this, you agreed on almost everything. It’s like you were two people in one.
But all of a sudden, differences have started sprouting between the two of you.
You no longer share the same school of thoughts as your opinions are worlds apart.
This is an indication that you’re slowly outgrowing them.