It sounds a bit like your line between friend and coworker/business relationship is very thin. I'm probably on the other side of the pendulum but I dont consider any work friends or clients to be my actual friends. They are people who I do business with and some are more pleasant than others. Some are even close to actual friends. But I have known since my first job that often these friendships are tied to a job and/or the mutual benefit we both get from each other.
When that job and mutual benefit is gone then we have very little incentive to keep being friends. My family occasionally asks me for tech support and I've talked to a friend once in a while about a website they are setting up but as soon as it feel like we are moving from me helping them with a quick fix into me doing work for them then I tell them they should find someone who can actually do this work for them because I cant.
When that job and mutual benefit is gone then we have very little incentive to keep being friends. My family occasionally asks me for tech support and I've talked to a friend once in a while about a website they are setting up but as soon as it feel like we are moving from me helping them with a quick fix into me doing work for them then I tell them they should find someone who can actually do this work for them because I cant.
tldr: business relationships !== friends