I am mid 40s and interested in what others do with long standing friendships that just exist but aren't particularly meaningful at this point.
One for me is a friend I met at Uni and we later became roommates and very close friends for about 10 years. Over time the friendship distanced but we always kept in touch. The frienship has had a couple bumps over the years where things cooled off for awhile and each time we resumed the friendship it was less meaningful. I think we both feel a sense of duty to keep in touch occasionally but the texting has dwindled to every few weeks or more and the content is pretty perfunctory and repetitive. The generic how are you, how's work, how's the family etc. Recently she had a celebratory event in her family and I had reached out to say congrats etc and it was a couple weeks before I received a basic answer back. I think that is just where we are at.
On one level it would be easy to let it go and let the texting slowly fade to nothing but we have years of great memories together, a circle of mutual friends, and I do know that if I ever really needed her, she would still drop everything and come (and vice versa).
Curious as to what others do. There is no ill feelings. Do you keep the occasional contact going or do you let it slowly end?