Some of your friends are going to be with you forever. Others…not so much. Whether you grow apart naturally or experience a shocking blow, losing friends sucks.
On Reddit, people are sharing the sh**tiest ways they’ve found out that someone they thought was their friend was in fact not worthy of friendship at all.
Whether it happened at a childhood birthday, in the aftermath of an illness, over money, or for seemingly no reason at all, it’s hard to get over feeling betrayed by someone you considered close. Hopefully, though, the loss of a toxic friend just ends up improving your life. Who needs that crap?
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“Ghosted me after 20+ years of friendship. He was my best friend for as long as I can remember but at some point he just stopped saying yes when I suggested getting together. We could have a conversation about anything but the second I brought up doing something it was radio silence. He finally agreed to something then blew me off like an hour beforehand. No raincheck or suggestion we try again. I was depressed for days but that was the day I gave up. He was the best man at my wedding. I loved him like a brother and still hope he’s doing well and happy. But the rejection hurts so much that I just don’t try anymore. I’ve mourned the death of our relationship and am done with it. And I still don’t know why.” — SonicPhoenix
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“Long time ago, but my tenth birthday party. The first time I’d actually tried to have a big group, it was around thirty kids at a park with a t-ball set up, normal picnic stuff, the like. My best friend at the time said he had a surprise for me in one of the fenced walkways leading to the park, where he sucker punched me and his other friend and he took turns jumping on and kicking me. After a few minutes another kid from the party saw, ran them off, and took me back to my ma away from the other kids so I didn’t have to be too embarrassed.” – IUsedTheRandomizer
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“Promised to invite me to a group outing, only to text me one day out of the blue that they already left and ‘oh well.’ From mutual friends who went on the outing, they told me that this friend never told them that I was invited.” — Ahstia
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“My best friend since middle school got me knocked unconscious after starting a confrontation with a large group of guys. Proceeded to tell everyone we worked with that I had started it. Few weeks later I had returned from a holiday to my home country and he had moved one of his friends into my room at the place we were renting. Never talked to him again.” — scratch32
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“After 25 years of friendship…I announced to my best friend that I was moving to the city she was in. I had a great job opportunity and felt like it was an awesome time to make a big life change. I was so excited to tell her, I could hardly wait. She flatly replied with, ‘cool’…and when I asked her what parts of town I should look at to live she stated ‘I can’t help you, you should just figure it out when you get here.’ We never had a fight, had been close for our entire adult lives and I had continually helped her in all aspects of her life without hesitation. To this day, I cannot tell you why she started treating me this way. Long story short, we live in the same city and haven’t seen each other in 6 years. And I’m quite sure we live minutes away from each other. I will prob never know what happened.” — Due-Time-8151
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“This is currently happening. I had a stroke in 2020 (I’m young, 31) and then found out that my kidneys were failing shortly after. I know it’s a pandemic, but not one of my friends have even texted me to check on me, or ask my husband who they’re all also ‘friends with.’ Literally everyone cut me off when I got sick. Can’t drink? Not friends anymore.” — Ok_Eye_3511
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“They called me up and invited me over to play a game with them and their friends. At the time I had only barely started driving, but I decided, yeah, that sounds like fun, so I went over to play. When I arrived I found out that they had volunteered me to pick up the other friends. I was not prepared to do this, but she trapped me because I had already agreed to come play ‘with her friends.’ I was pretty annoyed by this, but I went ahead and drove to three places picking everyone up, and no one was really ready to go when I arrived and one of them also needed me to drop them back on campus to drop off their school assignment. By the time all was said and done it was really late and I needed to get back home because I had to get up in the morning to go to work. Not one of them even said thank you. The friendship didn’t really last much longer after that.” — AnEven7
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“In 8th grade, after I switched schools, a friend of mine called me one night and told me a kid I wanted to be friends with killed himself. 3 months later I visit their graduation ceremony and find out he lied to me and that the kid was still alive.” — A_Jack_of_Herrons
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“Had one friend that bought a bunch of tickets for a midnight movie premiere for myself and our entire friends group (bout 15 of us). Day of the show, he texts me and says he forgot to buy a ticket for me. I ask ‘what do you mean you forgot to buy my ticket? Of the 15 you bought, how is it MY ticket that you decided wasn’t purchased?’ Turns out, he did buy a ticket for me included in the 15 he bought, but he just met a girl the week prior, and decided to give my ticket to her. So our entire friends group went to the movie, minus me. There’s other things he did to me as well. We’re no longer friends.” — alwaysmyfault
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“I had a very close friend in high school, she moves to Alabama for uni after we graduated, but we kept close! When she came back we didn’t talk much, but I still considered her a close friend. We went out for coffee about two years ago, she kept asking me about my life and my goals and I said I was happy where I am (I coach gymnastics) and my boyfriend and I will eventually take over his family farm, and start our own family. She texted me two days later and said ‘hey so my entrepreneur friend is hosting a workshop, do you want me to sign you up?’ I said no but thanks for the offer, she then texted me ‘so clearly we are at two different points in our lives, you have no goals, or ambitions, and I don’t want that kind of negativity in my life. I wish you the best’ and I never spoke to her again.” — chazzieboii