{"id":15547,"date":"2026-05-13T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/13\/10-signs-of-a-fake-friend-to-watch-out-for\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:31:15","slug":"10-signs-of-a-fake-friend-to-watch-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=15547","title":{"rendered":"10 signs of a fake friend to watch out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131059365,imgsize-66386.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<p>They only reach out when they need help or a favour from you.<br \/>If you look at your text history and it\u2019s a graveyard of them asking for favours, money, or emotional labour\u2014with zero &#8220;How are you?&#8221; check-ins in between\u2014you\u2019ve got a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The vibe: You feel like a resource, not a person.<\/p>\n<p>The reality: Real friends invest in the relationship during the &#8220;boring&#8221; times. If they only show up when they have a checklist, they aren\u2019t your friend; they\u2019re a client who isn&#8217;t paying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/relationships\/when-friends-become-snakes-in-relationships-10-signs-of-a-fake-friend-to-watch-out-for\/photostory\/131059365.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They only reach out when they need help or a favour from you.If you look at your text history and it\u2019s a graveyard of them asking for favours, money, or emotional labour\u2014with zero &#8220;How are you?&#8221; check-ins in between\u2014you\u2019ve got a problem. The vibe: You feel like a resource, not a person. The reality: Real&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}