You say a close friend is giving you a bit of a cold shoulder lately? Let's look carefully at the events of the past few weeks and see if we can find a reason. Let's see now… she fed your cats while you were away… covered for you when you forgot the staff meeting and… oh, yes, she helped you hem and haw over new hair colors for 45 minutes while she should have been home working. So what exactly have you done for her lately?

That's right, you did pay for her drink when you locked her purse in your car.

A healthy friendship should be mutual—as in, you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. When you don't scratch, friends get itchy. It sounds like that's what happened to yours.

Even long-term friendships depend on mutual give and take, although the longer you've known each other, the longer you tend to give each other for "repayment."

Even still, you can't forget to scratch.

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