# Leave groups whose purpose has ended

Practice ID: 45
Topic: `relationships` (relationships: Practices that keep communication in service of real human connection.)
Added: 2026-10-04
Journey entry point: `reclaim` (Establish chosen roles, boundaries, and routines for the technology that remains.)
Start with: `habit` (habit)
Supports: `legible-digital-life` (a legible, maintainable digital life; group: `digital-control` / My data and digital setup)

## Pattern

A group made for an event or a season keeps a claim on you after that reason is gone.

## Practice

Leave groups you no longer want to belong to, and groups whose purpose has ended. Keep a membership only while it still has a current reason.

## Start small

Leave one group that was created for a past event.

## Watch out

Some groups still hold a role you have, or records other people rely on. Check before leaving. Move anything that must last out of the group first.

## Builds on

- [Let resolved conversations expire](https://live.freewithtech.com/practices/let-resolved-conversations-expire.md)

## Concepts

- [minimal retention](https://live.freewithtech.com/concepts/minimal-retention.md): Data and digital residue are kept only while they continue to serve a deliberate purpose.

## Continue

- [Browse relationships as practices.](https://live.freewithtech.com/?topic=relationships)
- [Journey](https://live.freewithtech.com/journey.md)
- [Concepts](https://live.freewithtech.com/concepts.md)
- [Complete agent-readable database](https://live.freewithtech.com/llms.txt)