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To ask what is the most ridiculous reason someone has fallen out with you?

735 replies

Rainbowb · 04/08/2020 07:13

Need a bit of solidarity right now!

OP posts:
Emj86 · 05/08/2020 17:54

My older sister fell out with me because I was pregnant at the same time and this apparently ‘stole her thunder’.

My older brother fell out with me because I bought a house before him and also because he agreed I’d stole my sisters thunder.

My mother fell out with me because she told me to choose between her and my dad (divorces for over 25 years) I chose him as he isn’t a narcissistic control freak.

They all have a lovely relationship (so my gran tells me) as they haven’t spoken to me in 5 years. Which is actually a great relief!

A very good friend once text me to say we couldn’t be friends anymore as she ‘finds friendships stressful’. I was the third friend she had done this to and I was baffled as I thought we were close!

It’s taken a long time for me to realise that it’s not me with the issues!

walker1891 · 05/08/2020 17:56

Because I wouldn't lend her £1000 to go on holiday with.

OhMyDarling · 05/08/2020 17:58

Caught the bouquet.
Apparently her cousin was supposed to catch it.
I had no idea nor would any of the dozens of other women all fighting to catch it.

Lost a group of friends over it as I was “so out of order” and should have known that “Lisa should have caught it because they’ve been together 10 years and she’s waiting for a ring”.

Well Lisa is still waiting for a ring, but I’m not sure how I am to blame for this?!

Wolfgirrl · 05/08/2020 18:04

A friend bragged to me about cheating with my best friend's boyfriend. I told best friend straight away. I had a screaming phone call from the cheating friend calling me a liar and a psychopath Confused best friend got back together with the boyfriend, but I stand by what I did. This was when we were in sixth form though, she chucked him eventually and we are still besties!

Always rat on a cheat is my motto.

Diva66 · 05/08/2020 18:05

Because I became disabled following a brain haemorrhage and was no longer useful as a chauffeur and mug.

NotFrozen · 05/08/2020 18:05

I suggested to a friend that we change plans from a dinner out with partners, and to a girls only night. My friend told me she wouldn’t come at all because she was annoyed that she’d gone to the trouble of arranging childcare but which would not be needed if her partner wasn’t coming. That was the end of the friendship.

I was really upset and felt stuck between a rock and a hardplace. I’d suggested the chang to a girls’ night as my partner was kicking up a fuss about coming and I was trying to find a solution for everyone.

In hindsight I think she was ridiculous and it’s no long term loss.

galaxybuttons · 05/08/2020 18:07

A 'best friend' made my wedding cake deliberately in the wrong colour scheme and if that wasn't bad enough 2 of the 3 layers weren't cooked properly - still quite raw inside. Never thanked her for it and we haven't spoke or seen each other since. 😂

Dogwhistle · 05/08/2020 18:07

these are funny!

I had a friend who fell out with me because our other friend was visiting me, and i text her to say wish you were here too Grin apparently that was really nasty of me.

Another friend had tried unsuccessfully to manipulate me so the friendship was dead and nasty, but amongst other things she accused me of stealing her nice underwear! Shock (spoiler, I most certainly did not!)

Nurgleturtle · 05/08/2020 18:08

group of uni friends i had, i was best friends with 2 of them they were from london and birmingham, the other from rotherham, the two from london and birmingham were a couple and always with me and my ex as we were into the same music and going on the piss etc, we had a seminar and we had to choose an advert for some reason so i chose the bmw one with the wierd chicken if anyone remembers it (i found it hillarious at 19) she was pissed it was the same one as hers, then in a lecture about an hour afterwards we were working in a group the lecturer approached us on the task and asked what we had come up with nobody said anything for a good couple of seconds so i told them this is what (we) had done... she made my life hell for the next two years of uni (the other friends followed her) because apparently i stole her answers when it was a group project the other friends barely spoke to me

DioneTheDiabolist · 05/08/2020 18:08

I lost a friend because my Exbf wouldn't go out with her.Confused He and I had been broken up about 2 years when she asked if I'd mind if they went to a gig together. Told her it didnt bother me at all. They went, she put feelers out, he said no.

After that I she wouldn't answer my calls or call me back. A mutual friend told me the reason.Sad

elenacampana · 05/08/2020 18:12

I said I preferred Harry Potter to the Babysitter books to a friend when I was 11. The friend’s mum rang my dad to tell him about it and told her daughter not to talk to me anymore.

Liverpool52 · 05/08/2020 18:15

Couldn't go to her wedding on a weekday because I was undergoing training in a job I'd started two weeks before and couldn't take leave (think career with large intakes at the same time and very structured training).

Thing is I'd been going through the recruitment process when she'd been booking everything and she'd asked me then what I thought of a weekday wedding and I told her that if the timeline for recruitment worked out I'd me in training for her wedding day so wouldn't be able to attend. So she knew 12 months before that it was a possibility. I was told four months before that I had a place so she knew for definite well in advance.

She still behaved like I'd deliberately chosen a career to avoid her wedding and couldn't even bring herself to congratulate me. No great loss for me, apparently she blanked the entire friendship group throughout the wedding whilst making sure she got around to talk to all the other tables several times each.

Lifeisabeach09 · 05/08/2020 18:37

A former friend was saying things about her H and I to mutual friends. I don't know what exactly was said but I can guess. The thing is, I'd never even been alone with her DH nor had his number! I'm not flirtatious at all and am not one to behave inappropriately with married men!! I truly valued her friendship until I figured out she was nuts!
Since falling out, she was caught hitting on her best friend's partner! She was also one to snog other men behind her H's back so I wonder if it stemmed from that.

GlitterMagicPompom · 05/08/2020 18:45

I introduced a new subject of conversation after an hour talking about my friend’s new boyfriend. She accused me of being a bad friend. Just felt her was nothing left to listen to surely after an hour! Friend flinched off and never spoke to me again. Confused

Madremia2019 · 05/08/2020 18:47

One mum at school that I have to block because I was going through divorce from my husband and apparently she said I was not happy enough and was affecting her child.
Then the same mum when I started working and going to college that I didn’t have time for play dates any more! She was at my house 4 to 5 times a week over the summer and come September she wants play dates when I have to get back to work and college! ( she never mention how my children was doing and the play dates she wants would be at my house) blocked her never to said hello again.
Same mum, told a whatsup group to not to listen to my opinion because I didn’t work at school. The group stay friend with her and I get out of the group because they side with her , they also was CFs.
Another mum ask if her daughter and a friend of her daughter could sleep over at mine on same day as my birthday because apparently She though my birthday was the next day And I wasn’t doing anything , but she was having people over that weekend so need space to cook for her and her friends. Same friend arrange play dates and didn’t bother to turn up or call to cancel night before, saying that she doesn’t have to give satisfaction to no one, when I ask. Leaving my own daughter upset. Block and throw her number away. Another CF mum from school ask if I could pick her daughter every Tuesday and take to school when she has another 3 adults with car at her house. Shout at me because I didn’t answer her phone calls or messages because she need info last minute, this was every week ( this CF was block by a number of others mums at school after that and her daughter kick out of brownies for the same reason).
Family member ask to borrow money by text message on messenger, when I asked how much , said to me to go to the bank to get a loan of 15 grant. Told her hell no! Never heard from her again after she said that she was my sister not a stranger.( that was reason enough to get a loan for her).

Zoejj77 · 05/08/2020 18:51

Because I didn’t invite her boyfriend to my wedding. She’d known him literally a month and had had 4 other boyfriends in the year long we’d been engaged -

Zoejj77 · 05/08/2020 18:52

Because her new boyfriend didn’t like me taking her out and having a life when we were 18! She is divourced from the old control freak now

LovelyIssues · 05/08/2020 18:53

I announced to a very close friend I was expecting a 2nd (very much planned child) I was very excited etc ... Reply from her was pretty much calling me selfish and a cu*t that I was having another child when my eldest was so young Confused my eldest was 3 years old. Still baffled. She blocked me on everything and never spoke to me again

Mags5Bia · 05/08/2020 18:58

Because I said I quite like Bob Dylan's music. I had no idea at the time that friend's abusive ex was a Bob Dylan fan. We sorted it out and I was sorry, but for a while I didn't know what I had done wrong.

Another friend completely blocked me because I said on Facebook that I don't like seeing photos of dead animals on social media. .

workhomesleeprepeat · 05/08/2020 19:01

Her boyfriend accused my ex-partner (we were all living together at the time, big shared house, worst idea ever obvs, but we were all young) of stealing his expensive headphone, quite forcefully, escalating it to a full shouting verbal fight, before going back into their room and finding the headphones under their bed. He didn't apologise (yes he was a dick)

My friend fell out with me because I didn't find it funny that my partner had been accused of theft wrongfully with no apology. She actually said "well how was he supposed to know P didn't steal them? isn't it so funny that they got in a fight though?"

Needless to say it was the start of the end of our friendship and me and ex-P moved out a month later!

Happynow001 · 05/08/2020 19:02

@Diva66

Because I became disabled following a brain haemorrhage and was no longer useful as a chauffeur and mug.

Wow! I mean just really?! You just have to wonder if some people have no empathy but do have a piece of wood where a heart should be. 🌹

Jack80 · 05/08/2020 19:10

My step sister fell out with me over her getting a job. I said to her that I wanted the same career I was having a bad time at my job and it was the same career path as me she just got her break earlier than me. I said congrats when she messaged me and she wanted the world to stop for her that day. I know she was happy but I did congratulate her. She said I was jealous and moody and took me off social media. All because I didn't jump through hoops as I was having a bad time.

Susan1961 · 05/08/2020 19:15

When my three-times divorced mother was unsupportive with me leaving my ex-husband & offended I hadn't told her how much money my late father had left me 😂

Lndnmummy · 05/08/2020 19:23

When I was going through a legal dispute at work and my friend who was also a colleague took offence at me not talking to her about said dispute. I couldn’t!! I was legally prevented from discussing it (had signed an NDA). Hmm

EverythingButTheName · 05/08/2020 19:29

I had a ‘friend’ from my eldest child’s antenatal group. She got most offended when I said to her that myself and DH (then only 22) would likely only be able to afford a house if we had a surprise inheritance as we weren’t in a position to save for a deposit. Clearly this meant that I was hoping all my family would die so I could buy a house!

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