Have you ever outgrown a friendship?

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If you did - did you admit it or let it fade discreetly?

We just drifted....no fall-out, just life events really

My friendships fade usually because the common denominator stopped - kids doing same activity so see them every week due to that and occasionally did social stuff but once the kids stop the friendship isn't strong enough to maintain contact. Or distance - hard to maintain a real friendship if one of you moves away. Work friendships for sure stop once one of you leaves the firm, though I have a good core group of friends I started work with 30 years ago even though none of us have worked together for years.
One or two friendships have drifted off because one or both have just not made the effort. Never had to tell someone that the friendship was over though.

I have only told 1 friend (life long) that i no longer wanted to be friends after she did / said something very hurtful and thoughtless. Only because she tried to half apologise and i didnt think the apology was good enough.
Otherwise, all the others just naturally fade out. No real reason to say anything more? It's called "fizzling out" for a reason.

I think that I've been the one outgrown a few times, through not having had children and also geographical separation. When you consider that these are friendships that started prefacebook and that children usually mean there is between 2 and 4 sets of grandparents for teh children to have a relationships with, who may also be geographically separated, and sometimes siblings and their children living apart new mummy friends, the children's own choice of friends as they grow older and a difference in income (so I couldn't afford the kind of holidays they did and didn't have my own house, just a rented flat for my 20s and 30s) I guess it was kind of inevitable.
one froend sort of dropped me after the DNs were born though, telling me I'd be too involved in them to have time for her kids, which didn't feel great, but her children were at the making their own friends in KS2 stage and getting into hobbies and clubs, so maybe she thought that was nicer than saying that they were too busy to see me. It kind of rankled though - she was saying she thought I was the sort of person who would drop her kids for that reason, which hurt, because I wouldn't have.