“That Was 17 Years Ago And I Still Don’t Answer Their Calls”: 30 Heartbreaking Things Committed By Close Friends That Broke People’s Trust Forever
InterviewFriendship is one of the most beautiful things in life. There’s something comforting about having a buddy you care for with all your heart, who stays by your side through thick and thin. That’s also what makes ending a friendship so heartbreaking; but the actions of some people leave their friends with no other option than to cut all ties.
This topic was discussed by the ‘Ask Reddit’ community members after the user Titansentinal asked what’s something a close friend has done that instantly made the redditors hate them. The answers covered all kinds of unfortunate situations, from infidelity to betrayals, even physical violence, which burned all the bridges between the former friends.
Bored Panda has reached out to the redditor that started the thread. They were kind enough to provide some comments on the topic, which you will find below.
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After being best friends from age 7 to our mid 20s I had to ghost this chick and our entire friend group, because she was trying to convince my husband to cheat on me with her. There had been several smaller things leading up to this, like telling me my husband was too attractive for me and would be better with her, but it blew my mind when he showed me the texts she sent, topless and telling him I'd never have to know. I ghosted her, then our friends started saying I should just forgive her, that I was choosing "some guy" over our 17yr friendship and that by not talking to her *I* was causing tension in our circle of friends, making them choose sides amongst themselves. So I said I didn't want to cause tension and I resolved the issue by removing myself from the entire circle of friends, they can have her. That was 17yrs ago and I still dont answer their calls and know I made the right decision. My husband and I would have celebrated our 20th last month (he died 5yrs ago tho)
No, her husband refused her and showed her the texts! Horrible friends though.
Load More Replies...What a great husband and true partner you had! You both were too good for that unworthy group of "friends" and cheap trick.
Calling your husband "some guy" says more than enough. Good riddance.
I recently lost my best friend because of something similar. She actually put a move on him in person when I wasn't there. He came straight home and told me, I've never seen him look so uncomfortable before. She then proceeded to send him text messages threatening him that she would get me to believe that he had tried to put a move on her instead if he told me. I've never been so pissed in my entire life.
How stupid to put that in text. She gave him the proof.
Load More Replies...Imagine calling a woman's husband "some guy". Sounds like they never emotionally matured beyond high school.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. OP's life probably turned out better than the rest of the group, particularly her friend's.
Load More Replies...I don't think you had a circle of "friends" at least not one I recognize.
Reading it a second time she did. It was creating division within the group of friends. Which meant at least some of them were decent human beings who didn't like what was going on. Just a pity she had to cut them out at the same time as the rest.
Load More Replies...So sorry for the loss of your husband but not the loss of those horrible people who were supposed to be your friends. That was smart of you!
My best friend brought pizza and her kids over to 'feed' my husband and our kids while I was across the country (lived in CA and was in FL) for my dad's funeral. She also then propositioned him while the kids were playing upstairs. She wanted to comfort him. My husband excused himself to the bathroom and called me in a panic because he had no idea what to do. I told him to give her the phone. We don't speak any longer.
Wow... my god.. what a horrible friend. Glad that your husband was the nice guy.
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She Told my rapist I was going to the police station because she thought he had the right to know
I normally disapprove of certain words (though BP goes too far :) but all I can say is, "well said".
Load More Replies...I hope she reported her 'friend' as well as an accessory after the fact
They do, but Bored Panda would censor it and everyone would get banned
Load More Replies...That "friend" is one of the people I call a BEASTLING in disguise -- yes, as Susie Elle below said it -- "What the (ACTUAL, UNMITIGATED, UNHOLY) F**K."...
I feel like she should be charged in some way, like an accessory after the fact, or hindering a criminal investigation maybe.
Load More Replies...If he did have a "right to know", the police would certainly take care of that.
The Survey Center on American Life revealed that the majority of people in the US (49%) have three or fewer close friends, 36% of them state they have between four and nine. But no matter how many close friends you have, losing one is never easy.
The redditor u/Titansentinal opened up to Bored Panda that they’ve had to cut ties with an old buddy as well. “My old friend was being a real [jerk] to one of my other friends so I ended our friendship,” they said.
And while there is no such thing as a recipe for the perfect companion, the OP added that “a friend should be able to joke around and not get offended about said jokes, a friend should also be able to hold a conversation, along with being just a cool person.”
Lied about being raped by my best friend. I don't know why she did it but she destroyed his entire life with that one lie. He lost his friends, got banned in all clubs in our village, lost his job etc. because who would support a supposed rapist? Poor guy killed himself two months later. And before the question pops up why I know he was innocent. He was with me at that time it happened. About 643km(400miles) away.
THIS OPENS MORE QUESTIONS: Did you testify? Did you speak up? Why were you not believed nor listened to? Why would your best friend be so utterly shunned on one person's testimony when there's you to counteract it? I'm not disbelieving you -- I have questions.
The accusation is enough to ruin someone's life, even if it never makes it to court. From the way it's worded, it sounds more like spreading rumours.
Load More Replies...Disgusting pieces of s**t who falsely accuse men of horrific things like this should receive the same punishment as the man were he convicted. Women like that make me utterly sick and deserve terrible things to happen to them.
False reports should be illegal. You're destroying people's lives and making it harder for real victims to be taken seriously. Anyone who cries wolf on this issue are disgusting, despicable human beings.
i f*****g hate people who falsely accuse people of something as f****d up as rape. I've seen what just SAYING that it happened with little proof can do to someone. my favorite youtuber who is VERY much so private about his face had to REVEAL his face, all to prove that he was innocent. f**k you to everyone who has ever accused someone of this.
I mean anyone over a certain age should be called a piece of sh*t for lying unless under duress
Load More Replies...Woman who cry rape without actually being assaulted p**s me the eff off. As a sexual assault survivor, I want to punch them in the face when they do that. No wonder women rarely come forward! (I'm in no way trying to leave guys out of this as I know they can be victims, too)
Right, it becomes so much worse to even tell someone about it much less report it due to fear of not being believed all thanks to idiots who wants attention. I've only encounter one in the wild and it still pisses me off, the girl pretty much said: "well it made me uncomfortable so I could probably make it sound like r**e with mee2 being a thing and all" Nothing had happened except a drunk guy leaning on her a bit to hard after almost falling down. Like wtf
Load More Replies...The alibi has to be spread around for a start. And bad news tends to spread faster than good. And once someone believes something is true it's actually very difficult to convince them otherwise. https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/09/23/why-do-we-believe-lies-even-after-they-are-proven-wrong
Load More Replies...Knew someone who accused a guy of raping her. She had no after affects what so ever. I didn’t believe her even though he was a scumbag I still think she lied for the attention. She never seemed upset or anything and never had an issue being around him or even being alone with him after wards.
He made a groupchat just for bullying people and invited me into it. I proceeded to watch this thing for a day and then decided to screenshot everything and give it as evidence to the victims. There was no talking to my friend about it anymore, believe me the shit that went down in that chat was that bad. It wasn't even just bullying but also stuff like doxxing. He threatened me but eventually knew he should shut up because he was already on thin fucking ice. Never will I just stay silent when I see bullying happen
I've done the same; I stand up to bullies -it's innate and kneejerk at this point. I was not "popular" in school, but I made sure I was left alone. I didn't WANT the burden of popularity; it meant working at an image that pleased everyone. To me that was shallow and meaningless. There was too much happening at home that I had to hold myself above; then there was school, plus I was an introvert. So if I didn't please everyone, f**k them. But I would fight to keep my dignity and have peace.
Being popular in school is about who you hang out with in most cases. I used to be really introverted but was always really social and have a developed skill of reading people after growing up in a very abusive household. For as long as I can remember I’ve always been with the “popular” group (and I’ve been to a ton of schools). All you have to do is spot the right people that seem nice, slowly easy yourself into their group, be nice and boom, you’re popular. There’s no pretending involved.
Load More Replies...In high school I was the rumor police. This was around the time cell phones were gaining real traction but before the iphone. If A talked bad about B I would pull out the old Nokia and call B and loudly say "Hey A is here and they have something to say to you." And then hold out phone to A, who NEVER takes the phone. I was so known for it that eventually I didn't even have to have the person's number, people just believed I had everyone's number. Lol.
People think bullying general is a school thing, as you get older many overlook bullying. If you think about it bullying starts at higher levels governments/churches/other institutions. It would be great if bullying was made obscene to society but the sad fact is it's baked into what we accept. On a side note you bully me or mine you'll get a very loud and harsh verbal warning, you threaten me or mine you'll be running or one of us will end up on the ground. I don't accept it and will always be hardcore against bullying, while my responses to bullying may seem hypocritical it's a stand I take
Bullying goes on in families and at work places as well.
Load More Replies...Hi, can anyone tell me what “doxxing” means, please? I don’t want to search it in case it’s bad because my parents can see it.
It’s bad but not pornographic or anything. Basically it’s finding and spreading someone’s personal information, usually with the intent of harassing them.
Load More Replies...Bullies are the worse kind of people. I was bullied, not anymore I became strong!
Being bullied doesn’t equal being weak, sometimes you’re just a random target because something about you is slightly “odd”. Things that stand out make easy targets because most people already noticed.
Load More Replies...I had such a bad reputation as a kid and almost all was due to the fact when adults bullied kids, I did not keep my mouth shut. No regrets.
My best friend cheated on his wife. We were all great friends. I was the best man at their wedding. But when it happened, it sickened me and made me see all the other ways he was manipulating us all. My wife and I are still good friends with the one who was cheated on. I haven’t spoken to him in almost 15 years.
The exact same thing happened to me. He did his best trying to convince me that his wife was irrational, and that he was the sane one in their relationship. I told him to get out of my house. That was over 30 years ago, and his exwife is still one of my dearest friends.
Smart choice. If he cheated on his wife and took pleasure from it, he's a narcissist and worse.
A couple friends ghosted me when I needed them most.
I was devastated when my husband of 27 years walked out & I became depressed. Before this I was always a “Life of the party” type who organized most of the fun outings.
Once I was longer a constant source of entertainment for them, they started avoiding me. I admit I wasn’t as much fun to be around, but damn! I’d walked both of them through divorces, their family members severe illnesses (and subsequent deaths), and much more.
Fair weather friends- best to fly away from them as well.
Actual friends will stick with you when you can't be fun. Life is never a constant party, not for anyone.
Ik what you mean. I was in the hospital for 6 months because of a brain infection, and besides a few letters from my one friend, no one ever reached out to check up on me, not even the boy I considered my best best friend. By the time I was out of the hospital, I was starting from ground zero in terms of friends. Also, COVID hit, so yeah. Thanks guys.
I had a group of close friends that I considered almost like family. When I told them that I had PTSD from lifelong emotional abuse by my mom, one of my older friends said, "I believe you, because I know you wouldn't lie about something like that, but your mom is great and I'm not going to stop being friends with her." The others said literally nothing. I don't talk to any of them anymore.
Had this happen to me also. People I had been "dear" friends w for years ghosted me then trashed me behind my back when I became ill and needed 15 surgeries to save myself. They said I was a drama queen amongst other things. Needless to say, I haven't spoken to them in 13 years.
Had a friend through high school and beginning of college. Went to a small college with him. First day of class, we sit down, and theres ~20 people in the room.
Everyone is around the same age, exept for one woman, who was about 60 and finally finishing her degree when she could afford it (we found out later).
My friend turns to me and, in a relativly loud voice, says "why is she even here, she going to die soon anyways."
Immediantly yelled at him and sat on the other side of the room, never spoke to him again. The anger I felt when he said that, holy c**p you guys.
I went to uni with a couple of really amazing older people, one of them was a retired doctor who just always wanted to do Archaeology. He was really nice, really knew his ales and was so passionate about Roman Britain. As Granda Joe would say in terms of the plonker who made the comment : "who put 50p in the edjit?"
Who let the manchild in? It would be ironic if he ,at some point in time, had to be interviewed by her for a job!
I finished my degree at age 46. I had a few classmates my age, but most were younger. I never had any unwarranted comments, but it was definitely different than when I was 18. Still love the fact that I finished. ♥️
It took me a very long time to finish my BA because of money. Thank you for sticking up for your classmate, I truly appreciate it.
In one of my courses, there was an older man, well known in my country, who started the same year as I did. Why was he well known? He was accused of murder over a decade previous, and was back with the intention of studying law to better help himself. I didn't know who he was at first, until I was told his name. Some of my friends and I used to refer to him as Indy whenever we saw him on campus. He wore a hat reminiscent of Indiana Jones. That was 2009. Its still not known who actually committed that murder.
Seriously, you'd been friends with him for years and one obnoxious remark or bad-taste joke (whether it was one or the other) was the end of it? He'd never said anything offensive before? I just find it hard to believe this obnoxious comment came completely out of nowhere after knowing him for several years.
I was 56 when I went back to school, I'm 67 now and have no plans to die anytime soon. Your friend is not only an idiot, but ignorant
Drove 17 hours to have sex with my fiance & mother of my child while I was in the hospital for a brain injury.
They got engaged and he stole my family from me.
6 years later to this very day they ignore me and I barely see my daughter.
She loves me though and I know she will want to see me when she has a choice.
Edit: I just wanted to say thank-you to the mass amount of positivity. This has truly helped me with how I look at the situation... I started becoming desensitized to it all and accepting heart break..
I want everyone to know the one positive silver lining that came from this, and that's me getting to work in Film as an Actor and follow my dreams..
I have been doing small roles and playing small characters for a couple years now and will continue working hard and believing in myself and in my daughter. I am staying positive....but trust me I went through some extremely dark times and I'm lucky to be alive.
I hadn't seen my daughter from 1985, when she was five, until 2008, because of a schizophrenic ex-wife, but I always knew my kid would find me. And in 2008, she found me and called. Found out she was a single mother with three kids, living with her grandmother, and no future. I put her through college and financially took care of her and my three grandkids. In the past fifteen years,, she got her master's degree in Clinical Psychology from ASU, teaches third grade, and we are as close as can be. And now I have three great grandkids! So hang in there buddy. She'll find you when it's time!
Thanks for sharing this, I needed to hear this kind of positivity today!
Load More Replies...I wish the original poster would have said something about a lawyer perhaps? Like did he go to court for visitation? If so, is she not complying? And if not then he needs to because kids need to know you've fought for them.
I mean my opinion it's unsaid.... He lost everything he loved while he was in a very vulnerable position and didn't have the strength to do anything. Once he had the strength he'd probably lost the will (the will to do anything let alone fight the love of his life). It's not a TV episode this is someone sharing something with us
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She abandoned her dog when she moved to a different continent. I liked her, perhaps more than liked, even. But that was the fastest 180 I've ever done in terms of emotional attachment to someone
What does OP mean with abandoned? Was the dog just left in the street or given to other people? It would make a significant difference to me.
some people when moving away will just leave the dog in the house and don't take it with them
Load More Replies...A previous neighbour of mine did this. He moved to the other side of the country and I spotted his cat sitting in my shed though its window. I got a new cat, who was the most friendly and affectionate little due I have ever known (passed away 4 years ago).
I found out after the fact that (fairly close relative) dumped their two cats because they were moving and new apartment would not accept cats. Not to a shelter - just dumped off at random spot and drove away. And they even knew that my current cat is one I found starving (literally) that had been dumped in a similar manner and what I thought of that.
I think this story, out of all of the stories here, would turn me off of a friend forever.
There was a human that literally was stabbed in the back. Don't know if that one takes the cake
Load More Replies...If she gave the dog away to someone, I can understand. Sometimes those animals are kept in quarantine for months when they are transported to a new country or off the continent. That's not fair to an animal that has a short life. Now if she just up and left without finding the dog a new home...yeah...she's a witch.
We have some of the strictest quarantine rules in the world but even here the actual time you'd be away from the pet is very short (10 days). https://www.petrelocation.com/blog/post/dog-travel-to-australia-how-long-is-the-quarantine I wonder if it was more a case of moving there without having a fixed residence lined up. Because it can be difficult to rent places that allow pets, and it can be expensive to move them. And of course she could just be someone who didn't really care about her pet :(
Load More Replies...I had to rehome my 2 cats when I moved from the countryside, with lots of fields and no big roads, to town with a main road right outside my apartment which had huge trucks going by all the time. My cats were used to be out as much as they wanted, killing mice and rats. They would have hated being kept inside all the time and I just couldn't do it. So I contacted the local pet charity and luckily they had a family on a farm who were looking for cats that were good hunters. My cats went to them and they love it there. I miss them a lot as I'm totally alone now but it was for the best.
Good on you for being responsible. You did not abandon your cats, and you went the extra mile to help them find a suitable home.
Load More Replies...I dunno, I'm taking this one with a grain of salt. OP might be blowing it out of proportion since there's no explanation of how the friend "abandoned" their dog. Maybe the friend brought the dog to a shelter and OP disagreed with the decision.
On the one hand yes. But on the other hand, could you leave a pet on a different continent with strangers? If the answer is yes, I'm definitely judging you. I just am
Load More Replies...Methinks OP is projecting. I sense they felt abandoned by this move. But we don't know what happened, so it's all conjecture.
Well did she have her reasons? I had to leave my cat when I moved because of the length of the flight, the amount of stress she would have been in, and other reasons
There is a difference between rehoming a pet and abandoning it! Rehoming to a good family is fine when needing to, abandonment is never okay.
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Facilitated a mutual friend and my girlfriend at the time having a full blown affair behind my back.
Dude would invite me to lunch/dinner/movies/concerts/etc so that I’d be guaranteed to have plans so my girlfriend and the other dude could go on dates without worrying about getting caught.
Dude was my best friend for a decade and an ‘uncle’ to my daughter. Instantly hated him, haven’t spoken to him now in a longer amount of time than I knew him.
Anytime someone you've been good to -- or have done no wrong to -- goes out of their way to do harm to you, there's jealousy involved. No matter how humble you feel about yourself, they're jealous of you and "bringing you down" helps them feel better about their sorry selves. It always ends good for you; bad for them.
I always say that people can put up with an awful lot, but betrayal is the very worst. There is no going back from that, ever!
I had a similar thing happen, one of our circle of friends provided alibis and even her home for my ex-husband of 20 years to see another woman from our group of friends, then told me afterwards about how they laughed at me behind my back. What wonderful people 🙄
She was secretly taking pictures of me in my swimwear and using them to send to guys for money and pretending to me. Apparently she did this for a couple of years, I found out when I was grocery shopping and a random guy told me that he liked my pictures and wanted to hang out. I told him I never sent him pictures because I don't share pictures of myself on the internet, and asked him who was sending them. Apparently she was using a fake number, took me a week after to figure out she was doing it.
But all too common. Otherwise there wouldn't be a TV show about it
Load More Replies...I believe it's wrong but could you be a bit more specific about the felony part?
Load More Replies...Unfortunately she may nit be able to. If it was taken in public (Beach, community pool) its technically not illegal. The "friend's the owner of the pictures and can send them. Immoral but not illegal
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Through sheer incompetence burned our home to the ground...lost our entire lifetime of collections, memorabilia and keepsakes. Everything we had hoped to pass onto children and grandchildren. It's been absolutly brutal going into out twilight years homeless...I worked too dam hard for too long to end up like this.
Yeah. I made a mistake and read the whole thread. It's so sad how this man feels.
Load More Replies...How about the supposed friend (my husband’s best friend). He lost his wife in a horrible traffic accident. We were there through all of it. Helped with meals, helping the kids who were so lost, husband was one of the ushers at her funeral. She was a popular teacher in our community, so her funeral was held in the high school auditorium. Jump a few years later, he’s remarried. Neither hubby or I like her. We lost our home we were literally left homeless, lost one of our dogs, the other one didn’t live more than a couple months after the fire. He NEVER, NEVER, called us. My husband needed him to talk to, badly. He ran into my husband roughly a year later and had the guts to apologize saying he was so busy, he didn’t have time to call. So now he’s an ex friend.
That's awful...I wish you the best in building back -- sans fake friends, this time.
My love and prayers to you. We lost everything, not to a fire but a relative is directly responsible. We have nothing but each other still and that's enough. The stuff hurts, but when your person is with you, in the end, that's what matters. May piece be with you today and always.
just gonna say it, I think the friend can be replaced
Load More Replies...Little more background would be nice. I understand people are incompetent but mistakes happen. Would like to know more before I judge
This happened about 1-year ago. Scared-Technician adds further info on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tqrsdl/comment/i2kkdr5/ It's not good.
Stabbed me in the back... not metaphorically... literally...
Holy s**t... I hope you're okay and your psychopathic "friend" is in jail right now.
Let's not armchair diagnose a-holes. Psychopathy doesn't make someone an assaulter.
Load More Replies...you're lucky to be alive. It's hard to do it through ribs.When it goes below the ribs it hits organs.
The detail provided makes me wonder what line of work you're in
Load More Replies...Bwahahaha!! Trying to kill a mosquito with a butchers knife. That's funny, not funny
Load More Replies...Ouch. My ex tried to literally stab me in the chest but I'm stronger and caught her arm and took the knife way. But even down the road she admits that if she could have she would have killed me. And without getting all "TLDR" no, I absolutely didn't deserve it. She was having a mental health crisis.
Asked for advice how to get away with cheating on their husband....b***h, you don't. You get divorced and move on.
If it's not an open relationship you tell them what you want if they don't agree and you really need to then get a divorce. It's 2023, we're not stuck in a "till death do you fart" anymore. I'm kinda blunt and skip pleasantries
My ex is on husband number 5 and she never jumped ship before she had the next one on the hook. Her current husband is her sister's ex-husband. Like - they had an affair, he divorced the sister and married her. So they kind of deserve each other I guess. The whole thing makes me facepalm because my ex has some serious mental health issues. My excuse is I got fooled / blind sided by it. But he was married to her sister for 17 years and had lots of exposure to the crazy and disfunction and married her anyway. Relatives closer to the source tell me these days they more or less just tolerate each other. I think she has gotten too old / fat / too much baggage (and 10 kids of various ages) to just bat her eyes and pick up a new sugar daddy.
Gee, I don't know. Let me call him and find out what his weaknesses are, okay?
i talked to her because she was new and people picked on her, we actually became really good friends really fast, she was secretly telling lies about me to my other friends to try and get them to hate me/pick her over me. other friends didn’t believe her and told me about it, i confronted her, she flipped out and proceeded to go to the principle and told him i was bullying her/said all this rancid s**t to her (i didn’t). proceeded to try and get me expelled, but luckily i’ve been going to school there for a few years and had a few of the teachers/other students vouch for me. i didn’t talk to her again after that. f*****g a*****e.
Yep. It's happened that I took someone under my wing and because I wasn't part of the "crowd"; she chose the crowd over me. Not my loss, hers. But -- it's taught me not to automatically "trust" someone just because they're a victim. I may stand up for you on principle, doesn't mean we're going to be buddies.
Society would be much better off if we generally had "principles"
Load More Replies...In 5th grade, I went to Chuck E Cheese with a girl from my class. One of the "popular" girls had given me the other half of her "best friend" charm (this was a huge thing back in the day). Well, I was found out for hanging out with a less than popular girl and I was ousted from the friend group and made to return the best friend charm. Guess who they gave it to? Suddenly my Chuck E Cheese buddy couldn't give me the time of day now that she had my previously held spot. Bullying or avoiding people based on "popularity" was never something I did or would feel comfortable doing, so I didn't regret my actions, but it sure didn't feel good to be treated like that and then back-stabbed.
Sounds like one of the many things that happened to me in 3rd grade… Good times.
Load More Replies...I became friends with a kid that had no one and was bullied a lot. 1 year later he became a jerk and a creep
This is why I don’t make new friends. You don’t know who to trust. It takes me a long time to let someone in. I had someone do this to me at a job. Been there 10 years. She had been there 1. She lied about me until I got fired and she got my job. A company car and a raise. Everyone who is still there says no one speaks to her anymore because she is just an evil back stabbing b****. Sleeps with anyone and everyone even though she’s in a “committed “ relationship.
Be careful when you befriend someone because they are lonely. I have found that often you will discover why they are lonely
He doesn't know how I like my coffee. It's simple, I like my coffee, exactly the same way how I liked my wife, without his d**k in it.
Now that line should be used in a book, or movie. DAMN. If you came up with that -- and keep in mind I'm a busy author -- I'll read anything else you write -- at least once. Do us all a favor and write a short story or SOMETHING!
Can you be more specific? I'm not understanding the problem, here? Joking
I think he may have put his d*ck in their coffee, but I'm not suree
Load More Replies...See now after he slept with your wife you should have wanted his d**k in your coffee. Your scalding, boiling coffee...
Yup. I feel that. Shortly after my wife and I got married, I found out she slept with my then best friend while we had been dating. I never speak to him anymore, and I haven't left her yet, as she's fairly codependent. But we're no longer intimate. And she has no clue that I know yet.
Kept making up stories about herself. They were all somewhat believable in themselves (got pickpocketed at the mall, had a rude encounter with a clerk, tiny stuff like that) but weird s**t just kept happening to her like she was in a sketch comedy which made me very suspicious in the long run. Then in the end she refused to come to a concert with me and then broke into a long song and dance for it: They were crossing a busy boulevard and all of a sudden a guy high on weed rammed into them. Her friend bravely pushed her out of the way but got the full hit. With Godlike reflexes, she managed to take a clear picture of this guy's plates (in like 2006. might have been a flip phone) before heroically carrying her friend to the hospital nearby in her arms. The girl had to have one of her lungs removed and the nurses were too busy to care for her friend to like feed her and bathe her so she HAD to stay in the hospital with her. B***h please. If you don't wanna come to a concert with me, just f*****g say so. Pathological liars are the f*****g worst.
I agree with you but the thought of nurses being too busy to do their actual jobs in caring for a patient and leaving it to someone else not affiliated with the hospital is hilarious to me
Load More Replies...I have actually known a lot of people like this. I could never understand the need to make up every aspect of your life.
I had a friend like that in primary school and looking back and connecting dots I did not see as I child I belive she was sexually abused by her father. So she invented entire fantasy world where she was always a hero. Not saying every compulsive liar has some trauma, but just my two cents.
Load More Replies...I grew up with a friend who we found out was a pathological liar. It's just such an odd flex to me. Like I don't care if so and so called you are not. Everything she said was a lie.
I totally understand where you're coming from, this was my life with my MIL and SIL for 30 years. It was exhausting just trying to navigate what was real and that it I needed to know. I had to go NC with them because they were too destructive towards everyone else's lives. It's sad because my kids picked up on it much younger than I thought they would and they're sad that they were that way and just didn't love them like they acted like they did my husband's other sister's daughter. It breaks my heart for them.
Load More Replies...Had a friend in school who would embellish a lot, but we all knew, so we took things from her with a lot of salt. Kept in contact with her -- like, email or Friendster message two or three times a year kind of contact. Then she messaged me that she was in town with her girlfriend, and we should hang out. So of course I picked them up, and we went to Venice for the day. Oh my gods. Before this, I always thought stories about crazy tweakers were exaggerated, but holy s**t. They were trying to point out the FBI agents hiding in the trees and all kinds of insane s**t. The Invisible Task Force was definitely on them like white on rice. Don't do meth, kids. Seriously, just don't. No, REALLY. DON'T.
They have some really crazy stories though. 🤣🤣 The best part is to ask about whatever they told you a few days later. The look on their face is priceless 🤣🤣
I've known two compulsive liars. Absolute pain in the a**e to deal with.
I had a "friend" tell me while he was driving across country when his U-Haul trailer jackknifed when he got cut off and the trailer was totally turned around and going down the highway like a car driving next to him. Then he got out, drop kicked the guys window and ripped him out and beat him up all right there in the middle of highway 80. Damn bro, that's a bad a*s, totally believable story. Lol.
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Helped her get a well paid job at the massive corporate I work at. She then made a group chat of all of our mutual friends and would send photos of me in the office to laugh at my posture/physical attributes etc. I only found out because she messaged the wrong group chat.
Need to contact HR and check policies regarding sharing of workers photos on social media. Might have violated something.
My assumption is that this was a time before work places were shamed and publicly ridiculed for not taking action against bullies
Load More Replies...Can't believe that all those other people would go along with that type of bullying. They're no better than the original offender. Shame on all of them.
I could see someone doing that in a friendly way. Joking around with goofy photos. But, the key thing would be that you'd be in on them. The fact the group chat didn't include the guy says to me that it wasn't about sharing laughs it was about belittling the person.
Please inform your boss. This is harassment. If it doesn't stop go to the police. If the boss doesn't do anything call a lawyer for work harassment
Alot, but one time i asked if we were going to the carnival together with my other friends and she said “no, we are all too busy.” I went by myself with my mom. While there I saw her with my friend group. When she saw me she whispered to the others and they all tried to hide. I walked up and said hi and asked why they were there. Got s**t about it being a last minute thing. She would always do this; leave me out and ostracize me from my other friends
Once when I was in high school my "friends" asked me to go to the mall with them to see a movie. They didn't know that I had overheard them just before talking about how they have to invite me so that my mom would take us, because none of their parents could.
Did you tell them you were busy? Nope, sorry. I have better things to do 😉
Load More Replies...Girls can be so b****y,I went to an all girls school for a year, age 14 -15 , worst year of my entire life
It’s so true. And honestly I blame society… We were either directly or indirectly taught that there’s almost no room for women at the top, hence the fight to be Queen B***h.
Load More Replies...Same thing. I asked my best friend if she wanted to come to a music festival with me. She said she was working so couldn't make it. Not only did she in fact go with other friends from our local pub but also with the man that had sexually assaulted me a few months prior. Needless to say the friendship ended that day. She tried reaching out about 2 years later to apologise because now she knows how I feel and 100% believes what he did as he assaulted her too.
Just the wording on this one is a giveaway. "No, we are all too busy." What? She's the gatekeeper of the *entire* friend group? It sounds to me like the whole group may have been in on thing.
reminds me sooo much of what my former friend group did for halloween
If your other friends bought into that, they weren't your friends either. JHC, no wonder I hated high school.
There's no beating around the bush, I was the ugly friend in my college group. The one guy who was my "closest friend" would crop me out of photos he posted of us on social media. That hurt. That was just the top of the iceberg with him
You're not ugly; I can guarantee that. You're comparing yourself to -- and surrounded by -- the wrong people. Everyone, everyone has some kind of beauty.
They were obviously talking about physical looks and they may very well be ugly on the outside. (I'm saying we don't know one way or the other) It happens, it's not a crime. But cropping them out due to looks shows an ugliness on the inside that is much worse. Also extremely shallow.
Load More Replies...That’s f’cked up. You may not be the ‘prettiest’ or whatever, but you are a person worthy of kindness and respect. Especially from friends! They and he weren’t your friends. Huge a’seholes!
Well, if you had such toxic people around you, you would tend to compare yourselves to unnatural standards Damn, you are not ugly but the people around you surely were
Had a close friend who had wealthy parents. He knew mine was financially struggling
Everytime we had a disagreement abour something, he would start saying things like, "At least my family is not f*cking poor" as well as insults about not being able to afford certain things.
This is how we identify those not deserving of our friendship. We do the best we can... and when we learn more, we move on and do better.
Being poor is neither a crime nor a sin. Only an ignorant fool would ever disparage someone for being poor.
You know the other person knows they're wrong when they start pulling out random c**p to divert attentionv from the point!
Was in high school but it still hurts me to this day when i think about it.
I got my first bf and she was weirdly angry about it because she was the pretty one and i was weird and quiet.
She told our mutual friends that she was going to go out to a party and seduce him and have sex with him just to hurt me.
The fact that she said she just wanted to hurt me made me lose all the love i had for her.
I later attempted to mend the bridge and attempted friendship again, didn’t last long. My prom date and her disappeared for several hours on prom night. Guess she achieved her goal.
For several years I was very close friends with this girl. One morning we were having drinks and one of my guy friends told us all that this girl had invited my ex over and slept with him the night before. She sat there defiantly and told me she did it out of revenge. Because two years ago she liked a guy and he ended up going for me.🤦🏻♀️
I hope you said something along the lines of "He's my ex for a reason honey. You can have him!"
Load More Replies...A lot of girls did this to me in high school. I only found out about it because my very devoted life partner told me that several of them tried to seduce him. Apparently one even said she was prettier than me therefore he must want to have sex with her. F#ck!ng b!+c#e$. I have no female friends anymore. No friends at all really because they all, males and females, were just using me for money and car rides went talking $#!t about me.
My very last male friend I trusted drugged and r*ped me one night, then he and his kids mysteriously moved out while I spent 3 days in bed with the emotional fall out of trusting someone for the first time in many years and then that happening to me. My last female friend 21 years ago had an affair with my husband. When I found out I moved out and he moved in with her. Not had a female friend since and now no male friends either. So 0 friends because I can't trust anyone anymore
Load More Replies...I am the fat but funny one. Had a friend where every time I got a guys attention, or really liked a guy, she would get drunk and try to seduce him. Then tell me all about it. Even if she didn't like the guy. It was weird. Luckily she moved and we quit talking.
That could have become a fun game for you if she was 100% predictable. Tell her you like some guy who is just disgusting and see if she bites.
Load More Replies...I ended up dating my best guy friend and his kid's mother did this to me. Literally tried to have sex with my exes! She didn't succeed but still, get a life!
Drugged me at a rave (without my consent) and left me to die in a parking lot while he stole my laptop, some of my parents’ jewelry, and money from my home. In his defense, crack is expensive. Edit: To rephrase: A crack *habit* is expensive.
I went out on a date with the cutest guy in high school. My vehicle - red flag number 1. We went to the Strip in Ft. Lauderdale. He bought a 6 pack of Budweiser - I was a highly functioning alcoholic - 1 st beer I opened but dumped half out. 2 nd beer he opened and halfway through I was done. I remember bits and pieces until I woke up at home the next day. He drugged me, ra***d me and then drove to HIS house and let me drive myself home. I called him and asked what happened the night before. Oh you don't remember? Nope but if I ever see you again you'll become the first human speed bump. I'm 55 and have never seen or heard from him again. His brother apologized to me. At least there's one decent human in his s family.
So he left you in a parking lot and went back to your house and robbed it? Swine dog.
Yes, let's immediately assume it's mostly OP's fault and comment the most tone-deaf, insulting thing possible.
Load More Replies...He lovingly placed a baby in my wife while I was working.
I'd actually say she is more liable as she made a commitment to him but the so called friend did not. Ergo the so called friend is a dog (they'll take food from anyone) but she is beyond redemption and a disgusting subhuman. What will be funny is the fact that a person who does what she did will eventually do it again (this is why I find it amusing when this happens and thier new partner thinks this person won't cheat on them as if they're m9re special than the last 1 that was cheated on. Lol)
Load More Replies...I can understand falling for someone else. But jeez, just own it and break up before shagging them.
I hope your ex friend, ex wife and their child are content with their life.
Give it tome and she will cheat on this guy as well (it baffles me how a person like his so called firend actually thinks his partner won't cheat because somehow they're better than the last 1. Women and men like her will at all time look for somewhere else better when things appear like rhey may haveto actually make an effort in a relationship)
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Wanted me to stand in his wedding with a dude that assaulted my wife.
Why would you even stay friends with anyone who was friends with the person who did that??
Yes, that's a very slippery slope to navigate. So why?
Load More Replies...I think this story needs more clarification. What sort of assault? And was there some sort of justification? And did the guy know the dude has assaulted the wife before the wedding invite?
I had a friend who grew up from modest means. He was a real nice kid and he worked real hard to make something of himself. He succeeded, got a dream job that made tons of money, and became a complete a*****e in the process. He started acting like he was better than everyone now that he was “rolling” in the dough, to the point where he was rude almost all the time. He could turn any conversation into how he was so rich and everyone else what a poor f*ck. I remember a friend of mine really liked a dining set that would go with her diner, so her husband got them for her for her birthday present. The first thing that came out of this guys mouth was “why’d you get these because they’re cheap as f*ck”
I dated a real nice guy once. It was his (very well-off) mom’s birthday and she loved a certain expensive haircare brand (and I obviously wanted to make a good impression) so I bought her a little gift set of that brand that had some mini bottles of shampoo etc plus a cute little brush with a pretty pattern on it - although I did find it at Winners/Marshall’s. (IYKYK - I was 19 and really broke at the time and I was really proud that I could buy her the brand she liked even if it was super discounted and only cost me like $30) She gave it back to me the next day like “I honestly won’t use this, you might as well keep it…” 😅 my bf was mortified and I was so embarrassed. That was like 10 years ago and I still have the brush though, solid product lmao 👌
Load More Replies...That guy is definitely emotionally insecure. His actions and attitude absolutely prove that the money that he brags about having does not make him happy. He sounds like a miserable person.
No we got them to p**s you off. 🤣🤣 I'm the person that will cut a person like that down to size. Verbally. 🤣🤣
He still feels like a POS inside so he's acting like this to cover up. Still a jerk and l'd def dump him as a friend.
Money makes lots of people pr*cks. I think it's their narrow- minded way of getting back at people they imagine looked down on them when they were poor.
Long story short I helped her out when she got out of jail with somewhere to stay only if she promised to help with rent. 3 months later the police came and arrested her only to find out she was using me to keep her baby’s dad from seeing the child after the court gave them split custody
Edit 1: when she reached out to me about needing a place to stay I didn’t know they had a custody battle going previously but I knew they had drama going on in the relationship. She was also the awful person in the relationships as she was always abusing OTC medication while staying with me and leaving the baby alone at the place when I would go to work so she would mess around with other guys (that’s when I called CPS)
Edit 2: The father was not at all the s****y person here, I could tell because when they arrested her he was happy he had his baby back and told me he’s been trying to get ahold of her but no response and gave me a teary hug
Edit 3: [here’s the article](https://imgur.com/a/yBfvubx)
I'm glad the father regained custody and I'm sorry you got caught in the middle
I wonder if he still has custody! https://www.wkdzradio.com/2023/02/08/two-charged-with-criminal-abuse-in-hopkinsville/news-edge/
Load More Replies...I didn't read the whole story. I'm just glad the father got his child back. God knows what else she was doing that you may not find out for years.
Folks, if you’re going to blot out info., blot it ALL out. Otherwise, people can just use the internet… 🤦🏽♀️ https://lite987whop.com/2023/02/08/two-women-charged-with-criminal-abuse-following-hpd-investigation/
So the original poster was also charged? Because the mother was a horrible person and fooled her into it? God that'd be awful to have to deal with.
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Buddy sent me nude photos of underage girls he was dating. Found out about the underage part a month after on my own and I never asked for the photos.
I think that depends on the ages. If it's an 18 year old dating a 17 year old it's fine. They're close enough in age that it's not problematic. If on the other hand there's a larger gap then yeah should report them. That said, the forwarding of nude pics (underage or not) is always problematic without the girls consent. I'd be letting them know it'd happened so she could take appropriate steps.
Load More Replies...REPORT HIM. Delete these photos with a vengeance. Even having received them without looking at them or asking for them could put you in legal trouble.
Interesting side note: if you receive pics or video of suspected child porn, DO NOT just send it to the police. It is considered "transmission of child pornography"
Yes, you have to physically go to the police station and /or send a message to the police station saying you have information of a paedophile and would like to report it so an officer can visit to get the information.
Load More Replies...Of course, by 'underage girl' you mean 'child' and by 'dating' you mean 'grooming and rape'. I feel sick.
Well that's a long prison sentence. The fact the guy knew they were underage means he is actually pretty evil as he openly went out of his way looking for them (this is called predatory and it's evil). I've seen those who have fallen into a situation (male and female adults) and admitted what they did was wrong even if the teen was comsenting because rhey know its still a child. Nut omg this person is actively hunting for this. What in the actual f..k? The difference between callous (this dude) and wrong mental state is very much a decider on what is evil vs what was wrong. This guy is evil to rhe core
Shared his GFs nudes...
That's next level psychological abuse to girlfriend. Just, why do that??
Unless she knows about it probably not. Not saying it's not wrong to do but it's possible (likely even depending on the person) that's it's an ego thing "My girlfriend is so hot, I'm so lucky" type deal. I'd be telling the GF about it and letting her decide what to do.
Load More Replies...It's amazing to me people send nudes of themselves to others. Maybe I'm just too conservative but I would fear the pictures getting distributed further. Could really mess up a person's life. And never mind if the person sending the nudes is underaged. That equals jail time and having to register as a sex offender.
Yes it’s messed up but NEVER, young pandas, EVER post anything online or in a text you don’t want the entire world to see. That is golden advice.
Why does everybody now feel they must make nude pics of themselves? Invariably, these pics always get shared and/or land in the wrong hands. So why would anybody still do that? Once you sent out a pic, you no longer control it. Then act all surprised when it gets out. Just like celebs who make sex videos and act all surprised when they get leaked to the internet. Dumba*ses.
It actually illegal in many countries do this without consent so I suggest going to the police and let that be the end of his toxic behaviours (when they sue him which will happen as a reult of police investigations he will be homeless and unemployable for most jobs (now that's karma)
This guy Scotty decided to show me all the nudes of every chick he dated or slept with that was in his phone and I knew like 3 of them and was like, you will never ever take nude photos of me because I would die inside if a guy I was intimate with violated me like that.
She was just really homophobic. And at that time I also started to question my sexuality. Well turns out I’m very gay and she did me a favor by not talking to me anymore (without any reason whatsoever) 😂 After that I realized she is just not a good person, probably never was 🤷♀️
You may end up seeing her one day on the other end of the queer aisle -- a lesbian, and just as gay as you are.
I once read an article where they said that some homophobic people might be queer and they don’t accept it and is confused about it and so they’re horrible to others
Load More Replies...I'm happy that you are out and proud. Hopefully you have some true friends that love and appreciate you for who you are. 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈
Ah there is a massive difference between merely not liking it *nobody hasto like evrything) and actually being vitriolic and hateful. Eg I don't like religion and I state this openly. But I also state that as long as thier beliefs aren't forced onto others or used to judge others than its cool, because at rhe end of rhe day what matters is if you try to he kind or not and if you can't be for whatever reason that you simply avoid it (I don't like compulsive liers or those who assume to tell others thier beliefs a more important and as such I avoid those people as best as I can because my tolerance for rhen is minimal and my abilty to tear then to shredswithout effort and with a smile for thier ways is massive (in this world where feelings are most important because your bad if you don't just sit there I can say I'm ok with being a bad person for confronting thier bs but it's also more peaceful t9 avoid them as well)
Ah usually a person who has issue with something g is because the didn't have a brain to think for themselves and thus merely went along and learnt this bad behaviour. Thus by the way isn't to defend her. I grew up when certain things were ridiculed or worse and yet here I am not having those attitudes becausei I have the brain cells to think for myself
Homophobic friends are weird - one of my close friends is sort of like that but she's otherwise great and I don't know how to talk to her. Don't suggest to cut her off because I don't want to do that.
Even if you weren't gay, would you still want a toxic homophobe in your life? I wouldn't. You are better off.
No offense but “homophobic” generally means using slurs and saying people should loose their human rights so please kindly delete this.
Load More Replies...Kept suggesting we should exchange partners for a night because he really wanted to sleep with my wife. Even made advances at her when I wasn't around...
My bestie for 35 years. She has four kids who I love like they’re my own. One of her daughters is gay. Bestie does not like this fact. Bestie talked gay daughter’s bestie into seducing gay daughter’s wife. Marriage imploded; friendships imploded. I’m appalled. She intentionally hurt her daughter to make herself feel better. She feels justified showing gay daughter that her wife would cheat. I just can’t. I’m still close to her kids, tho. Someone had to help pick up the pieces
That's what human garbage looks like. She doesn't deserve to be a mother if she's willing to hurt her children like that.
We were driving somewhere and he nonchalantly threw all of his trash out the window. All my life I wondered what kinda lazy a*****e actually does that and I saw it first hand.
Excellent reason to leave a friendship! I loathe people who litter. Who $hi+$ in their own front yard?!
It's better than shítting in someone else's front yard!
Load More Replies...Hang out in Baltimore Maryland and you see that s**t all of the time. Its mind boggling.
Repeatedly cheated on her partner, then told me in detail about what was going on, but expected me to keep it a secret and lie for her. She promised me it’d stop after she told me, but it didn’t. Her daughter was 5yrs old at the time.
Did she get OFF on telling you and making you her (unwilling) accomplice?
Yep, transferring her guilt, hoping friend would be ok with what she's doing and that would make her feel leas guilty. Had a "friend" like that.
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When i started to talk to her again after having a period of almost zero contact with her due to my family problems, she never really gave me enough attention aur space to state the reasons for my problems clearly and completely.
One day my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer and my friend's response to this news was that I should shut up and stop trying to bore her with UN important information.
I read and re read our text and came to realise that I had stated my problems very clearly and she was the one who took me for granted. She had some how changed from what I originally knew about her.
I blocked and stopped communicating to her all together.
Turns out my grandmother's cancer were actually gallstones that had developed from a very long time.
I ended up keeping my grandmother closer to me and losing one woman who's loss actually made my life easier and mentally healthier
When I told my then best friend that my son died, her response was "MY son was arrested for DUI". F**K HER.
Oh I'm so sorry for your loss 😔 And I'm sorry someone you called your best friend was so insensitive to your pain. Sending love 🩷
Load More Replies...One charming fellow had alienated much of the friend group via his self-centered behavior, constant self-involvement, and superpower for avoiding any responsibility for his own actions. He was on a bit of a 'time out' with me -- you know, when you need to cool down before you can re-engage with someone. Well, one day he decided that his friends hadn't adequately celebrated his birthday, so he let himself into my sister's house and stole a bunch of her stuff. As 'birthday presents'. Aaaanyway, dead to me.
Laughed to me about how he was glad his roommates cat was dead because he hated it. Let me explain, the roommate didn't realize the cat had hopped into the washer and so he turned it on. As you can imagine when he went to take out his clothes he found the cat..erm not alive anymore. He thought it was hilarious, and then said, and I quote "stupid thing always bugged me, f*ck that cat, got what he deserved. Can't believe it drowned, how funny! Now my dog will be happy." To be clear the cat was rarely aloud out of the room as it was a temp situation, which I found to not be fair because it literally did not bother the dog at all. It was a bit too much phyco and lack of empathy for me to deal with.
A little too convenient for me...No one heard the cat yowling; no one heard the washer banging(which it does if the load gets unbalanced). No one looked into the washer BEFORE washing clothes? ODD. Too damned odd.
Some people have their washer in the basement, the garage, a storage room... Not necessarily within hearing distance.
Load More Replies...That’s awful. People who don’t respect animals rarely respect people either.
That’s totally f****d up. Psycho indeed 😳 (& poor pussycat). I hope he gets his just desserts at some point when he least expects it. Animal cruelty makes my blood boil - such people are subhuman scum.
Yeah! Bring him cake and brownies at the pool! (Jokes aside, I absolutely agree)
Load More Replies...His dog got brutally attacked and he left it to suffer
Intolerable! Anyone who abuses an animal in any way should not be allowed anywhere near any animal every again.
She asked me to be her bridesmaid. During the bachelorette party, which was across the country at her family’s lake house, she had the biggest temper tantrum I’ve *ever* seen. She’s surrounded by all her friends, but having this horrible tantrum, insulting everyone, and when she decided it was my turn: “You’re just my California friend.” I don’t don’t travel much, but I didn’t take time off work and sit on a plane for hours to endure something like *this*. She asked my forgiveness the next morning but wouldn’t own what she said to me. I asked her how she wanted me to forgive her if she couldn’t apologize? I didn’t go to the wedding.
I wouldn't even have been around the next morning. CaliforniYAY, here I come!
What exactly is the difference between asking for forgiveness and apologizing?
Often, the words 'I'm sorry.' 🙂 Lots of people avoid apologizing for things but still want to be forgiven. Like the difference between 'I'm sorry' and 'I'm sorry you feel that way'
Load More Replies...Fell through their trampoline net with their sister (aka a hole was ripped) landed on my neck and I was paralyzed for 5mins and had severe bruising in my neck and all they were concerned about was their trampoline and how I ruined it. I was like 12, scared that I would have to buy them a new trampoline over an accident, and felt hurt and betrayed that she hadn't cared that I could have broken my neck. I cut her off completely, my sister was still friends with her sister though. Im glad I moved away from being her friend because she was mean to other kids and I was picking that up. Now shes a frigid b***h who wishes her annorexic sister would die so she wouldn't be embarrassed by her.
“Wishes her annorrexic sister would die so she won’t be embarrassed by her” wtf!?
Frigid b*tch? Sounds like OP isn't much older than 12 while writing the post :(
Dude, I actually have an interesting story, but I'm going to tell it in a super short way. My friend proposed to leave her husband and run away with me, because she thought I was into her. When I said no, that I only saw her as a friend, she went back to her husband (who was also my friend) and said that I had manipulated her. She said a lot of things. Then I lost both their friendship.
Dude, that's a classic Narcissist -- and a toxic relationship. Wait on your buddy...
She flew halfway across the world to get married, the same state, city where I live (where we both grew up). She even flew her small bridal party and family out for the occasion. She didn’t invite me. 17 years of friendship down the drain
Was a high school friend and I have since gained way more life perspective so it doesn't bother me anymore I am an overly analytical type, kinda sorta always have been. Had a close friend in high school who would repeatedly fabricate rumors about me and then would play the "nice guy" and let me know what he heard, etc. It led to annoying moments where I then took extended periods of time or unnecessary head space for these rumors wondering if who I was genuinely rubbed people the wrong way and it made me slightly insecure about who I talk to and how I talk with people. Eventually one of these rumors was about a family friend I saw a ton and it 100% didn't add up so I asked that friend and yeah... never happened. I then talked to other people he brought up and again yeah... same. Never confronted him about it, just cut him tf out and moved on to preparing for college and doing my extracurriculars/after-school job. Later as I became a counsellor in college, basically realized that it was pretty much a textbook example of friendship narcissism.
Brilliant way of dealing with this. Just superbly analyzed and solved.
Not one friend but multiple, smashed my girlfriend all 5 of my friends while we dated, only found out because one of them had gotten her pregnant and she aborted it, I found the email on her phone.
I wish people would stop using such violent metaphors for sex. It sounds terribly rapey.
the girl tripped and fell on 5 of his friends d***s.
Load More Replies...I don't know how to read this without feeling there's so much missing here... Yet, it must suck to be the only principled person among your "friends", to the point that even your "girlfriend" is exactly like them!
I wasn’t allowed to hang out with other people without informing her but she was because “she is her own person and can do what she wants”
And when you replied "I, too, am my own person and can do what I want.", what did she say?
I also had a 'friend ' like this from the age of 14 to 25 , the most selfish, narcissistic person I've ever met
Ugh... sounds a bit like one of the kids in kindergarten my oldest girl misses (she just started pre-school). Whenever he hangs out with my daughter he tells her that she is not allowed to play with anybody else (than him) and when she does anyway he gets so angry that he gets violent and he has (according to my girl) hit her and kicked her and told her some, imo, pretty sick stuff that he hoped would happen to her. She keeps on missing this boy because, in her words: he's fun to play with. I am so scared what he'll eventually turn into but also pretty worried what my daughter may end up accepting in a relationship when she's grown up. 😕 I do my best to let her know that nobody should ever decide who she is/is not allowed to play with (which is hypocritical since I do not want her to play with him). I know the boy comes from a troubled home... but it is not an excuse, imo. I hate that I feel like this about a child. But it makes me angry when he's hurting my girl!!!
I caught my close friend reading my journal once and she didn't even apologise when I walked into the room. Never quite trusted her again after that.
After I had a miscarriage, she said that she wished she'd miscarried her baby
Sure she's not mentally ill? Or, dealing with Postpartum depression? Without more context -- like other sketchy things she's done, this might be a sign of a deeper problem she's experiencing. Though it's a heinous thing to have said.
I'm a guy who was friends with a girl in highschool but we never started hanging out outside of school until the very end of it. A year or two later she was having a house party one night and out of nowhere starts yelling at another girl we were friends with and me about how she knew we were part of a conspiracy to break into her house and clean her carpets while she was out of the country visiting a former foreign exchange student and then she kicked us both out. That walk to my car was one of the most hurt and confused walks I ever had. Even her boyfriend said she went off the deep end that night.
If one of my friends wanted to break into my house and clean my carpets, I'd let them 🤣
I haven't read all of these posts comments section but for the ones I have read, this Valdadedieu person has been very judgemental of the OPs. Calm down, girl, it's the internet. It's not that serious.
ignored me completely until all of her other friends left. Then suddenly I was her BeSt fRiEnD again
Asked for a fairly substantial loan that she wanted me to keep secret from my husband. I don’t mind spotting someone $10 or $20 on occasion — but asking for an amount that was more than my entire monthly paycheck at the time and then asking me to keep that secret from my spouse was not acceptable.
Hmmm. It depends. Was she an abused spouse? Was your husband a friend to her husband? Context is everything. I'll belay judgement here.
You all downvote, but I agreed. We need context. What was the money for? If it was to escape, I would certainly do what I could. If it was for some BS reason though....
Load More Replies...He got a new girlfriend after a string of toxic ones that would try to isolate him from his friends. He ans his gf move to go to the army and I find out later hes blocked every girl in our friend group including me. I contront the gf and she tells me he blocked me for "making a weird face at her" last we met. I called out the b******t and he ended up cutting ties with all of us. Later found out she also cheated and gave him an std before they broke up and she would be jealous of his own mum.
Most of the best friends I’ve had throughout my life were always fun, silly and totally themselves when it was just us hanging out, but as soon as we got in a group, they acted like I was annoying and turned on a whole different persona. It’s actually sad how many times it’s happened and probably explains why my only friend now is my wife
Sounds like they couldn't accept the side of themselves they shared in private with you.
Once has a friend like this, best nicest thing in the world when just us as soon as there was other people it’s like I didn’t exist, went into highschool she comes to the same one but I have no reason to talk to her so I don’t just cut her out. The sad thing is without her the friendgroup I have now wouldn’t exist as she put it together than wanted to be popular and left in a way.
Been there…. Try to just focus on yourself and don’t blame yourself.
Tried to get my parents into a pyramid scheme. Was my best friend since 4th grade, after that happened never spoke to him again. A*****e can go f**k himself.
Several mutual online friends who regularly grilled me over Facebook slipped up and said something suspiciously similar to one another. I reverse-image-searched their pictures and discovered they were all fictional — including my friend's daughter that I never met. The motherf****r had been catfishing me for the better part of a decade, to be as horrid as he wanted without consequence. F**k that guy
So you literally Facebook-friended the same person, over and over again, under his different disguises... If you had never let him know but just taken a break to deal with your feelings; then started to have a bunch of FUN with all his "personalities"; I wouldn't have blamed you...
I saved his marriage by giving him a middle manager job at a Fortune company when he got fired for cause at his old job (I had to pull some serious strings to make it happen). Said job came with a nice middle class income. He repaid me by trying to stab me in the back so that he could get my job.
I hope this post wasn’t written by a ghost
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Told them I considered them my best friend since childhood and they responded with "yeah... well we're no longer children".
Well, that's a reality check. I imagine George Costanza, wryly shrugging his shoulders and saying "That's that." Some things should be "George Costanzaed." (Seinfeld)
f**k my girlfriend and lie to my face about it over and over and go around to our other friends admitting it
we had a monthly card game, nothing crazy, $20 buy in. he'd get loaded but would usually do well. until he went to go p**s and forgot about the stash of extra cards in his seat that he'd been sitting on. a*****e had been cheating. who TF cheats in a friendly game with friends. we just stopped having game nights after that. its been a few years. we still get together occasionally but its not the same. I haven't told him why, i don't think he remembers doing it.
A friend of my dad did this exactly, got caught sitting on cards. First time, they gave him the benefit of the doubt. Second time, see ya. What was sad was he was literally a millionaire. Ostracised himself for about 60 quid.
I have a friend who is a contrarian. Specifically with me though. Now I don’t mind when someone disagrees with me, everyone has different tastes and perspectives, but it seems like this guy just can’t wait to disagree with me just to do it. It’s almost like he can’t get the words out fast enough. It’s the way he does it that makes me believe that he’s targeting me/doing it on purpose. Let’s call him Tim Example: I say “yeah I like the chicken here” Before I can even finish Tim “the chicken is so Mid here” He’s not even really acknowledging my opinion then giving his. It’s more like he’s just letting everyone else in the group know he doesn’t agree with me in the most passive aggressive way possible. And that’ll happen 4 Separate times within the same conversation.
DUDE! He's gaslighting you and putting you down in front of your friends in the group. DROP that guy. Or, conversely, start really f*****g with him. You: "I really like that chicken" Him: "That chicken's really mediocre" - You: "You know what? You're absolutely right. I hate it. " Do that several times in a convo - wink at everybody else and say, solemnly "Thank you for leading me down the path of good taste. What WOULD I DO without you to guide me.?" Guarantee he blows a gasket. People like that also have no sense of humor and, as much as they like making fun of you -- they HATE to feel made fun of and have no defense against it.
I had a friend like that. Took the opposite side of any argument on principle and went out of his way to pick fights and start arguments. He is insanely jealous of anyone who has their life even vaguely together while his contrarian ways (& refusal to back down on anything) has completely messed up his own. Now, in his late 50s, this contrarian behaviour has cost him his house, his marriage, his job, and he has fewer friends as each day passes. He lives back in our hometown in a crappy rented flat and is largely dependent on his family since no one else will give him the time of day. A bitter and resentful old man railing at a world that hasn’t got any time for his b******t.
Contrarian people are major a$$goles to be avoided. Their behavior isn't funny or cute and many of them do escalate to full on gaslighting. The fact that he goes out of his way to disagree with you about literally everything and is putting you down in front of your other friends is a red flag.
I wouldn't say hate, but trying to start a faux relationship with your friend because you need someone to bring home the bacon for you and your unborn child, and then telling said friend to just "die alone" when they politely decline (fully knowing said friend is seriously struggling with bouts of loneliness) doesn't spark joy.
My really good friend basically told me that I was “lucky” that my dad died in comparison to his situation where he disliked his mom and wished she was dead. Never spoke to him again.
I have said something similar, I said "you're lucky you had a good relationship and you can remember your mother with good memories, in contrast to mine". Do you think it's insensitive? 🤔It's difficult for me to imagine how people with good relationships with their parents feel, especially since I know they don't get my situation either.
That's not similar, that's exactly opposite. You may have been slightly insensitive (depending on the timing of that statement) but you were acknowledging a positive with longing but not envy. OP's friend was definitely excessively insensitive, envious, and downright cruel.
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Wouldn’t f*****g pay me back. It was only 100 dollars and I didn’t need it but like bro, we work at the same place. I know your getting money and you live in your moms basement…. It’s not outa your way or an inconvenience. Took him like a year and he thought it was funny. F**k off bruh, I understand it taking a while but like it’s not funny
Had a friend borrow money for a drug debt. 6 months later, I had to threaten to go to his parents and tell them exactly what he owed me money for. Amazing that he could suddenly afford to pay me back.
Had a “friend” who did this to me several times before I finally gave up on them. I tend to be a soft touch for those who are struggling, but to keep doing it? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, bubye..
Stole my 10mm socket
I had the exact same thing happen except I think it was a 1/2 inch socket. Never let the leech borrow anything after that.
I wouldn’t laugh too much. My pastor has a storehouse of crazy people stories. He knew a family that got into a years long feud because of an argument over how to load the dishwasher. He also told me of 2 of his parishioners who got into a fist fight over who was going to answer the phone when Grandma died. People are nuts sometimes.
He added my crush into a group and exposed everything i said about her. Ungrateful prick also ignored whatever i did for him and sent his boyfriend after me who is like 3 years younger than me then proceeds to tell him everything he knew about me.
Had a high school friend that moved to Texas after graduating. Came home for a visit and, as I was driving her around, she makes a comment of "I don't believe in that." I said "Believe in what?" She pointed to a white truck driving by with a black guy behind the wheel and a white girl in the passenger seat. "Black guys dating white girls." My mother and father were divorced at this time and my mother's boyfriend was a very nice older black man that treated me like his own daughter. I said "Well don't say that in front of my mother, because her boyfriend is black." My friend got real quiet the rest of her visit and then ghosted me after that. 25 years later and she asks a mutual friend for my information. Nope. Don't need any racists in my life, tyvm.
I have been too generous and kind -- sounds ridiculous, but it has ended several long friendships. I helped an older friend who lived on Cape Cod by taking care of her dogs for weeks at a time, purchased food, cooked, cleaned her rental unit, etc. Her son's wife, a known liar, convinced her i was taking advantage of her. My friend believed her. I took care of her dogs for free, suddenly she preferred to pay for dog kennel. One dog died. It hurt. Thanks Jen. Another friend lost her thesis word document. I spend three days typing from her working copies while she finished writing. I was accused writing parts of her thesis. It destroyed my credibility and was part of the reason I left grad school. She graduated. Later she asked to visit, nope. I rented places on Cape Cod, a friend assumed she was always welcome but never offered to help. Last time she insisted on coming despite being asked not to. I agreed two days before, then cancelled hours at the last minute. Ghosted after.
If you're in a committed relationship and your other cheats on you, don't go after the man/woman they cheated with, your problem is with your other. They're the one who is supposed to be committed to you and off the market.
My friends never last. I’m always the one who’s not in the pictures, since I’m the one holding the camera. And I’m always the person kicked out first. I don’t talk much (but blabs nonstop online) so I guess I’m just boring
My very best friend of 50 years tried to seduce my husband while i was away. I couldn't understand why she ghosted me; embarrassed that she got a knock back i suppose.
My closest friend was dating a guy who really wanted to be a dad. This friend had jealousy issues and when her boyfriend broke plans because of a legit family emergency, she waited a few days then made up a story that she had been pregnant but had an abortion because she "knew" he was cheating on her. He was beyond devastated and we both cut ties with her immediately. I let him know that it wasn't true so at least he's not out there somewhere, 20 years later, thinking he lost the opportunity to raise that child.
Friend invited me, as usual, to Thanksgiving dinner. I get a call mid-morning that her parents were sick (it was at their place right down the road from friend's house), so, they were going to move it to my friend's house. Sitting their waiting, waiting, waiting. I get tired of waiting, go to return some videos, drive by the house, see them eating dinner through the window (you could see it from the road). So, I go get a crappy turkey dinner from Walmart, which was open back then. They call around 5 and say everything is ready. I went ballistic. Seriously, like I wouldn't notice I was the only one eating and they were leftovers? Not only ditching me on Thanksgiving, but, insulting my intelligence. They also thought everything was fine between us. No. Go away. Only time I've talked to either of them is when they started talking to me and I said "no, leave me the F alone."
Was 13 and my two best friends (my only friends) put a really nasty "poison pen" letter into my blazer pocket. I didn't know it was them at first but was so scared I took it to a member of staff at school. It was physically threatening, and was a list of all the things they hated about me as well as all the things I'd ever said they disagreed with and a whole pile of lies about other people hating me. I realised how serious it was when the adults were visibly shocked reading it. I didn't speak to them again but a couple of years later one of them caused me more trouble, getting others to bully me and spreading lies about me. I never told anyone but the bullying made me suicidal; I prayed every night that I wouldn't wake up.
These were some of the most outlandish stories of betrayal I've ever read.
Had a high school friend that moved to Texas after graduating. Came home for a visit and, as I was driving her around, she makes a comment of "I don't believe in that." I said "Believe in what?" She pointed to a white truck driving by with a black guy behind the wheel and a white girl in the passenger seat. "Black guys dating white girls." My mother and father were divorced at this time and my mother's boyfriend was a very nice older black man that treated me like his own daughter. I said "Well don't say that in front of my mother, because her boyfriend is black." My friend got real quiet the rest of her visit and then ghosted me after that. 25 years later and she asks a mutual friend for my information. Nope. Don't need any racists in my life, tyvm.
I have been too generous and kind -- sounds ridiculous, but it has ended several long friendships. I helped an older friend who lived on Cape Cod by taking care of her dogs for weeks at a time, purchased food, cooked, cleaned her rental unit, etc. Her son's wife, a known liar, convinced her i was taking advantage of her. My friend believed her. I took care of her dogs for free, suddenly she preferred to pay for dog kennel. One dog died. It hurt. Thanks Jen. Another friend lost her thesis word document. I spend three days typing from her working copies while she finished writing. I was accused writing parts of her thesis. It destroyed my credibility and was part of the reason I left grad school. She graduated. Later she asked to visit, nope. I rented places on Cape Cod, a friend assumed she was always welcome but never offered to help. Last time she insisted on coming despite being asked not to. I agreed two days before, then cancelled hours at the last minute. Ghosted after.
If you're in a committed relationship and your other cheats on you, don't go after the man/woman they cheated with, your problem is with your other. They're the one who is supposed to be committed to you and off the market.
My friends never last. I’m always the one who’s not in the pictures, since I’m the one holding the camera. And I’m always the person kicked out first. I don’t talk much (but blabs nonstop online) so I guess I’m just boring
My very best friend of 50 years tried to seduce my husband while i was away. I couldn't understand why she ghosted me; embarrassed that she got a knock back i suppose.
My closest friend was dating a guy who really wanted to be a dad. This friend had jealousy issues and when her boyfriend broke plans because of a legit family emergency, she waited a few days then made up a story that she had been pregnant but had an abortion because she "knew" he was cheating on her. He was beyond devastated and we both cut ties with her immediately. I let him know that it wasn't true so at least he's not out there somewhere, 20 years later, thinking he lost the opportunity to raise that child.
Friend invited me, as usual, to Thanksgiving dinner. I get a call mid-morning that her parents were sick (it was at their place right down the road from friend's house), so, they were going to move it to my friend's house. Sitting their waiting, waiting, waiting. I get tired of waiting, go to return some videos, drive by the house, see them eating dinner through the window (you could see it from the road). So, I go get a crappy turkey dinner from Walmart, which was open back then. They call around 5 and say everything is ready. I went ballistic. Seriously, like I wouldn't notice I was the only one eating and they were leftovers? Not only ditching me on Thanksgiving, but, insulting my intelligence. They also thought everything was fine between us. No. Go away. Only time I've talked to either of them is when they started talking to me and I said "no, leave me the F alone."
Was 13 and my two best friends (my only friends) put a really nasty "poison pen" letter into my blazer pocket. I didn't know it was them at first but was so scared I took it to a member of staff at school. It was physically threatening, and was a list of all the things they hated about me as well as all the things I'd ever said they disagreed with and a whole pile of lies about other people hating me. I realised how serious it was when the adults were visibly shocked reading it. I didn't speak to them again but a couple of years later one of them caused me more trouble, getting others to bully me and spreading lies about me. I never told anyone but the bullying made me suicidal; I prayed every night that I wouldn't wake up.
These were some of the most outlandish stories of betrayal I've ever read.
