Acquaintances are low-pressure. You can catch up when you feel like it, but there’s no guilt if you don’t text back for weeks ...

A licensed mental health counselor told Newsweek that comments about weight can have a "deep" impact on people.

But it should serve as a reminder to stop pouring your energy into low value relationships with those people you might think of as acquaintances or, to use the study’s slightly savage parlance ...