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AIBU?

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To feel completely used by close friend?

61 replies

fudgetoff · 22/12/2024 23:48

One of my best friends has just completely cut me off since she began a new relationship just under a year ago and now has decided to get back in touch as her partner cheated on her.

She didn't have many friends, she wasn't close with family and I treated her as one of the family.

We helped each other out.

We would see each other at least 3/4 times a week.

She started to act abit strange/ distant towards the end of last year.
When we would meet she would always look at her phone and have to rush back, when before we would spend hours just having a laugh.

Out of the blue in January this year she updated her status to "in a relationship" and posted pics up of her and her new fella.

It was strange as she hadn't even mentioned she was seeing someone to me or our mutual friend and she usually told me everything.

Around February time she blocked us on Facebook, and stopped all contact.

Now her relationship has fallen apart as her partner cheated on her she has text me asking to see me on Christmas Day!

At first I thought maybe she may of been in an abusive relationship and forced to cut contact but this wasn't the case.

She is saying she will be alone on Christmas Day.

Her family don't have anything to do with her and in all the years I have known her has never spent Christmas with them which I find very strange.

AIBU to just tell her it's not my problem as I feel she used me when she had no one.

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ABunchOfBadBitches · 23/12/2024 12:23

I wouldn’t even respond. Rude as fuck

Doliveira · 23/12/2024 12:31

I guess she truly needs you right now. If you have the friendship to give, she probably would really appreciate it and hopefully you two can talk things over and resume having a laugh together. If it were me I’d be assuming she had been in a very strange place to unfriend me on FB. Mental health issues of some kind?

she hasn’t behaved in a balanced way toward you, her behaviour has been unusual to say the least, so it seems she doesn’t quite know what is ok and what isn’t ok. You have to decide how much friendship you can offer!

Katiesaidthat · 23/12/2024 14:34

Why do women accept crap behaviour from friends. Do men do this? All kind of more and more impossible excuses. Bending over backwards to invent new reasons why people treat them like crap. Just read a lot of these pps. People like the OPs friend do it because they are flakey and because they can and most ditched friends will come back for a second helping. I have a friend like this from high school and was taken in a couple of times. Now I´m 50 and wiser I match my energy to hers. When she met her later on dh we ceased to exist. Now it´s all ohhh heard you´re coming back let´s meet. Yeah, that would be nice, and never hear from her and don´t expect to. Yawn, yawn.
OP, do not meet for Xmas, she is no longer family. Maybe will contact in the new year at some time, and leave the ball in her court. With a bit of luck shéll meet some bloke and forget about you.

JumboMumbo3467 · 23/12/2024 19:46

I had a friend like this in my younger days. We were as thick as thieves in our early 20s for a few years. She was from Australia and I met her whilst she was living and working here. I went over to see her when she had returned home and we had a blast. We talked about me getting a working holiday permit so I could stay longer, which back then, I had to apply for from the UK. I had some other bits to do so returned back home and got the permit and 2 months later returned to Oz.
She had made some ‘new friends’ and dropped me like a hot potato. Completely shunned me and avoided me. Now I have always been a confident and outgoing person so I carried on with my working holiday and enjoyed my year abroad and made lots of new friends, but I never forgot the rejection. If the tables had been turned I would have introduced her to my new friends and encouraged her to enjoy the working holiday and her adventure and enjoyed meeting her new friends as well.
Looking back, I realised when she was in the UK she never referred to any female friends from previously in her life (school, childhood, uni etc) apart from ex boyfriends. I didn’t twig at the time how strange that was. But when I met up with her again 10 years later with my husband, she had met her husband to be and arranged to come out with us (as a four). We were travelling so our attire was basic and we met at a pub. They brought a couple of male friends with them, because they were going clubbing afterwards. After that, I never made any contact with her or responded to any messages/posts on Facebook. We are now in our 50s and I get tagged into reminiscing posts and photos with other people we hung out with here in the UK but I never respond.
Some people are just fairly shallow about friendships and you find out the hard way that you aren’t as important to them as they are to you.
Take your self respect and just ignore or politely decline. Don’t bother getting involved again because believe me, it will happen again, and you will get dumped/blocked/let down next time a man comes on the scene.

Pomegranatecarnage · 23/12/2024 19:53

Sadly some people are like that. It always backfires on them eventually. Friendships are so important, and need to be cherished and maintained. I would reply by saying that you no longer consider her a friend after her blocking you and dropping you like a hot brick. Does the mutual friend intend seeing her?

Createausername1970 · 23/12/2024 20:00

I have read your update OP and I agree with you. If this is what she does when she meets someone, then it's pound to a penny she will do it again to you in the future.

In theory, if I enjoyed her company I might be willing to re-establish the friendship, but on a much looser basis than before. But would I in reality? I don't know.

Do what feels appropriate for you.

fiorentina · 23/12/2024 20:09

It’s crap behaviour but could her relationship have been abusive and he prevented her keeping in touch with friends. I’d maybe ask for a chat but be clear how you’ve felt let down by her.

martinisforeveryone · 23/12/2024 20:41

@fiorentina the OP has addressed this in her posts. You can see just her responses and updates by using See All just above and right of the bookmark tab.

Leeds2 · 23/12/2024 20:52

If you don’t respond before Christmas, is there any chance she will just turn up anyway?

Copperoliverbear · 23/12/2024 21:34

My answer would be no sorry I'm done.

scoobysnaxx · 27/12/2024 13:32

Did you respond OP? Or did she contact you again?

Hope you had a lovely Xmas

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