Amelia Lester

She was talking about her friendship with Cheryl Hines, who was an actor who was in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

She played Larry David's wife and then ex-wife.

She happens to be married to RFK Jr., who is a Trump administration official.

But this is not going to be a discussion about politics.

The nature of Cheryl and Tig's fallout, they were very good friends, they are no longer, was political.

But what Tig said on this podcast about how they fell out, I think will resonate with a lot of people.

It certainly resonated with me.

The internet is now calling the people that Tig describes in this video reply-only friends, and you'll see why.

Let's take a listen.

So the term that the internet is using to describe this kind of person, this kind of friend, is a reply-only friend.

And I got into a really interesting conversation on Reddit about this where people were disagreeing about it.

So a lot of people said that reply-only friends are just something you've got to deal with as you get older.

Like you learn that there are people who are just not going to put in the effort and you just have to decide whether or not you're okay with that.

But then there were other people who were saying that it's wrong to keep score in this way, that if you want to see someone and spend time with someone that you should do that.

Friendship is not about tallies.

It's not about figuring out who's putting in more work at any given time.

And then there was another really interesting point that I hadn't even thought about in defense of the reply-only friend that said that taking that kind of initiative is about executive functioning.

And that is something that some people have more of than others.

And it's wrong to kind of judge or to think that that means that someone doesn't want to be friends with you.

Claire, do you think that the reply only friend phenomenon is real or justified?