My friend ranks his friendships in a league table – and it worries me
The Guardian -

You need to consider why this bothers you so much and if you should bring it up. Without asking directly, it’s hard to know his motivation• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family-related problem sent in by a readerOver a few drinks, a good friend of mine recently let slip that he keeps a spreadsheet of his friends, which he uses to rank them in tiers. Initially I laughed it off as drunken ramblings, but he then proceeded to show me the actual document, saved on his phone with comments...

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