Hello, am sure loads of you have gone through this so any advice would be very welcome...
My DD has always had a difficult time with friendships so making a good friendship at 13 was a life saver. She has been really close with this one friend ever since and they have had a lovely friendship and at school were part of a wider group of girls. However there is one girl in this group who has been trying to break up their friendship for years. She would send my DD horrible texts saying no one liked her, excluded only my DD from events etc. Other parents from kids in the group told me that this child was bullying my DD. However the friendship remained strong until recently. The best friend has started hanging round with the other girl and my DD (who can't believe that her friend would hang round with this girl after seeing what she put her through) has flown off the handle. They have had a huge row and her friend (who has some issues at home, a sick aunt) said she is finding the situation very stressful and is now ignoring my DD and won't talk to or acknowledge her at all spending all her time with this other girl.
My DD is very very sad and although she certainly could of handled the situation differently and is not blameless does not deserve this. She feels the friend will come round but I don't. How can I help her get through this? I too feel really sad that this lovely friendship could have come to an end!!
Luckily she does have other interests outside school and is still part of the wider group of friends - for the moment!
Many thanks!!