I don’t think that you should be dishonest. People will appreciate if you are honest. You just have to be tactful and say whatever in a caring, respectful way. Oh, and pick a good time. Good luck! :)

If you’d have to be dishonest to keep them then it’s not friends anyway. That’s what I think. I have pretty high standards for friends and I’ve dumped quite a few, but I only want to spend my time with persons who are worth it and whom I feel really close to.

It’s easy to lose friends if you are honest with them. But should you be dishonest about how you feel to keep a friend?

usually in cases such as these I tend to ask myself: “does it help?” /”What for?” If you think that being honest can help (find a better way, a different solution, whatever) than probably it’s the way to go. Even if in the end it doesn’t actually help, it’s enough that you are convinced that it might.

If you feel the need to be honest just to put things straight, then it’s probably better just to do nothing instead of being honest for its own sake.

Just my opinion, of course.

Actually I think friends are much easily lost when being dishonest, than when being honest ;-}