Whatever kind of lifestyle your friend is living, the issue is how often do they burden you with details. If you have to listen to the details of the relationship. Everybody has a story from some folks have to realize that, and decipher which folks live off the drama of their stories and which folks you just don't blab everything to.
Ever since I was teenager when you really get into the boy-girl relationship, it even bugged the Hell out of me then to listen to, " Bob says he likes me but I don't know if I like him, Jim asked me out but if I go I wonder if Bob will find out, or maybe his sister will tell him and. . . ", never could stand that !