What is High Maintenance Friend?
1.
a friend who always has drama in his/her life; who gets pissed at friends over stupid things and is ALWAYS mad and talking shit about someone
S would always be aggravated at one of her friends, keeping them on some sort of "probation".....what a high maintenance friend- that's why I had to drop her
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2.
A friend who requires more maintenance than their contribution to your life is worth.
Matt was always expecting Christina to make him new clothes, remind him of important dates, and schedule her life around his. He very rarely kept appointments they had to get together, and never accepted invitations that she initiated to get together. Things were always on his terms, and in his way, and eventually Christina stopped trying to maintain the friendship, because Matt was way too much of a high maintenance friend.
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