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

[Rainbowb]

Need a bit of solidarity right now!

I have SO many!

1. A close female friend of about 3 years's standing ended our friendship because one day on the phone I forgot to ask about her child's health. She'd told me a few days earlier that he had a cold.

1. Best friend who lived 100 miles away. For 15 years she was a weekend guest in my house at least once a year and mostly twice. I never once stayed at hers as she had nowhere to put anyone up.

Her two children moved out, leaving two empty bedrooms, and then by sheer coincidence I was told I had to go into hospital close to her house. I was relieved to be so close to hers as she could bring me things like food from outside the hospital, and visit me, and put me up for the two weeks convalescence I would need before I could make the journey home.

Soon as I told her she dumped me.

Because I no longer worked with her .
We met when we joined company on the same day me and another friend. We were all good friends for 8 years they were both my dc god parents. Anyway Me & other friend took voluntary redundancy she she didn’t . She was all enthusiastic at the joint leaving doo and half way through the night decided to go to another pub at another leaving group ( quite a lot of us made redundant) and we never heard from her again .
She ignored my messages etc .
I heard through mutual friend that asked why doesn’t she see imnothereforthedrama but she just shrugged it off.
It makes sense though because me and other friend realised while we had known her she had different friends that were flavour of the month .

I've read about a quarter of this thread and it's made me feel so much better.. It's not just me!
In my case I was probably not completely innocent in that I was quite unwell and deeply depressed after a terrible accident and multiple problems after.. If I'm honest I was a bit obsessed with being ill.. I was on a drug that had a side affect of erratic behaviour (I can look back and be a bit embarrassed) She told me that frankly I was not much fun anymore..
This was after supporting her through every crisis she had.. Anyway she dumped me but hates the fact she knows I really don't care..

I think 90% of these stories are tales of the straw that broke the camels back.

I sent a message to all my closed ones with a picture of my baby girl after I had just given birth. Apparently she wondered who had sent it to her and that I had been distant when in fact I had been really unwell with the pregnancy both physically and mentally.

I wouldn't go on strike. That one rumbled on for years!

@Franklyfrost

I think 90% of these stories are tales of the straw that broke the camels back.

Because she heard that we thought her dolls, which she had paid to have transformed into replicas of her favourite TV characters, didn't look anything like them at all.

Because I didn't go to her birthday party because it fell on the same night as my 8 year old daughter's birthday sleepover.

I haven't seen my longest friend for about three years because of her longstanding drinking problem. She screamed at me, texted ugly stuff etc. I did see her recently at her parents' funerals. And am spending a night with her this weekend (she lives in another town.). She has been sober for 9 months. ... Wish me luck! We've been friends for 58 years, so to me, it's worth trying to save.

Asked my best mate for a fag at school. We always used to lend each other one, this time she said no and didn't talk to me for months? We're best friends still to this day but I've never asked her what was wrong that day.

Nearly all of these are about women behaving like utter bitches to other women. So much for female solidarity!

@mermaidsariel

Nearly all of these are about women behaving like utter bitches to other women. So much for female solidarity!

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

Dumped from a great height by long term best friend (many years)

I couldn’t be a mum and therefore did not understand love or life.

This is heartbreaking.

How horrible of her.

You're well rid.

@HelpMeh

I went to a furniture shop without "inviting" someone else . She never spoke to me again 😅

😂😂😂

@katseyes7

My (erstwhile) best friend (l'll refer to her as P) has taken umbrage over someone l went out with 45 years ago.

I was best friends with his sister (M) back then, he (R) was a musician and ended up quite well known, where we live, at least.
I lost touch with his sister (M) years ago, but recently she 'found' me again through a mutual friend. Her brother (R) died a long time ago. Decades ago. (M) were very close when l went out with him, and we've been lucky enough to almost pick up where we left off.

When l mentioned this to my friend (P) and she realised who (R) was, she got quite stroppy. Said he was her 'hero' back then and she couldn't believe l'd gone out with him and 'hadn't told her'.
(R) was twelve years older than me, and l'm twelve years older than (P). So he was 24 years older than her and it was hardly likely he'd have gone out with her, even if he'd met her.
The upshot being, that as l live alone, (P) had suggested last year that I could form a Covid bubble with her and her partner (they're engaged and live together).
Which worked fine, until she found out about (R). Whereupon she announced that "mum's been coming over twice a week so you can't".
(P) is 50 years old. And has, in effect, fallen out with me over someone l went out with in my teens, 40 odd years ago....

I genuinely am baffled with this one

@mermaidsariel

Nearly all of these are about women behaving like utter bitches to other women. So much for female solidarity!

This!

Not necessarily, my best male friend fell out with me when I started dating my ex. Accused me of ignoring him since I'd met my ex, which was a blatant lie, and said he didn't want to have anything to do with me anymore.

Years later I found out he'd been telling people that I was in love with him! A gross act of self-flattery as I never regarded him as any more than a mate but perhaps his ego couldn't deal with the truth 🤷🏻‍♂️

One friend couldn't make my hen do and offered to take me out for dinner another time. I thanked her and said that I was, of course, disappointed but the offer of dinner really wasn't necessary. She came to my wedding but hasn't spoken to me since.

Another friend - boyfriend dumped her and she was getting lots of sympathy from friends. I then got quite unwell and our mutual friends showed concern and support. She stopped communicating with me individually and told our mutual friends lies about me - lies clearly designed to get them to pull back from me (and therefore have more time for her continued woes over her break-up).

And a couple of long term acquaintances more recently who didn't appreciate me pointing out their social media posts were racist 🤷🏽‍♀️

A work colleague used to stop speaking to me every time I beat her in a Fitbit challenge.

I left that job two years ago and she still tries to add me to challenges. I decline every time now. It's just not worth the grief and the snide comments about how I'm "cheating".

I've never known anyone like her. She's nearly 40!

I refused to drive her somewhere she wanted (not needed) to go - I had no need to go there and she took umbrage that I wouldn’t ferry her around. I realised then how one-sided our friendship was and the friendship drifted away.

Some of these reasons for ending a friendship are so lame.

And sorry to those of you going through hard times who found that some friends didn't step up when you needed them?

A lot of the issues seem to be borne of jealousy don't you think?

Went on holiday several years ago with a couple we had been very close friends with for years. They had one son and so did we. It became obvious a few weeks before we went that their relationship was in trouble but it was too late to cancel so it went ahead.
2 days into the holiday, the other couple had a huge blazing row which lasted all night. They wouldn't let us interfere or try and help so we left them to get on with it. They then avoided us as much as possible for the next 10 days and even left on the last day without saying goodbye.
I was so pissed off because it had really put a damper on the whole holiday- which,incidentally, we paid more towards than they did because they were pleading poverty- so I rang the girl friend after we got back to talk to her.
Apparently it was our fault it all happened- if we hadn't been there, their holiday would have been much more relaxed and the argument wouldn't have happened.!!
Never heard from her again, although after her saying that, I wouldn't have spoken to her anyway!!

@Fespital

My SIL fell out with me because I shared my opinion on issues such as Brexit (against), disability rights (for) and racism (against). Apparently I was too serious and political and I should only have shared more lighthearted things.

That was about 5 years ago and I can count on 1 hand the number of conversations I've had with her since.

I have a friend like this. She doesn’t like me talking about anything ‘serious’ either to her or to anyone else in the vicinity. I don’t mind restricting my conversations with her, but I don’t entirely understand why she feels the need to monitor my conversations with other people.

@StuntEgg

Because she heard that we thought her dolls, which she had paid to have transformed into replicas of her favourite TV characters, didn't look anything like them at all.

I have so many questions about this