Tips for feeling less taken for granted

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Does anyone have any advice? I constantly feel taken for granted by friends, who will often leave messages unanswered, pull out of events and leave me to initiate most things we do. I get angry in my head but when talking to them again forgive them, then it happens again. I stopped contacting people entirely but that made me feel worse as no one really contacted me and I wasn’t being social enough so felt a bit lonely.

Does anyone have any advice?

I didn't want to read and run!

I think everyone feels taken for granted at some point but If it's happening a lot there's something that you need to understand a bit more.

It could be your choice of friends and you need a few more, or perhaps you felt taken for granted when you were younger and so patterns somehow repeat themselves?

There's an article on feeling taken for granted here with some ideas...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/counseling-keys/201503/signs-youre-taken-granted%3famp

Great link lonelyplanet.

Its OK to pull back for a while OP. See what happens with those friendships (they might fade, they might become more casual). Meanwhile use that free time/energy to do some other things ....