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AIBU to stop making an effort with everyone?

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MilkyCoffeeAndSkinnySyrup · 12/05/2018 10:59

I've come to the point where I have really given up on making an effort with everyone, including my "friends and family".

All my life, I have always been the one to text or ring first (I am not obsessed, I am talking about once a week or maybe longer). My friend is one of them. When she and her fiancé split up for a short period, she asked if she could stay at mine so I said of course she can! She had a baby and I would never say no to her anyway cos she was my friend!

Now she has settled back down with her fiancé, she doesn't bother coming down to my house to see me. I see her car parked outside cos she's seeing a family member that lives near me but she doesn't bother seeing me? I remembered her LO birthday and Christmas so I went to hers both times to give them a present but she didn't buy my LO anything! She rants at me when she's had a shit day, but that's it. Nothing more comes to it! She doesn't ask how my day has been, she never asks how I am feeling... I just feel like cutting my losses with her if I'm honest and just stop texting completely

The same goes to my family. They never message me. They never call me. I just feel like I am in a lonely place right now and all I've got is my DH and DS. Maybe I am starting to realise I'm better off alone? I'm just saying, AIBU (really), to just cut my losses with all of them? Change my number... move the f*ck on without them! Sad I just feel like people have taken me for granted for doing everything I possibly can for them and I am fed up of it.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 12/05/2018 11:07

Yes you need to stop flogging the long dead horse with this friend and when she phones up ranting about her dp tell her you're busy. If she asks why tell her straight that you're not there to be picked up and put down like a toy, and stop fawning over her kids and buying them things yours don't get anything.

HollowTalk · 12/05/2018 11:11

I feel like that with some friends and family, too.

Don't answer the phone to this woman - if you do by mistake, say you're busy and can't talk, then put the phone down. She's using you and it's a horrible thing for you.

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