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Brutal end to a close friendship...help me get over it

29 replies

Vasilisa19 · 06/07/2018 11:15

Its not so much that my friend has decided she no longer wants to be friends (though this does hurt), I think it was the way she went about it and has left me feeling very low and unable to shake it off.

Friends for about 5 years, clicked and became close friends almost instantly, sharing childcare, nights out, could talk to each other about anything, even went on holiday together.

She moved to a different city last weekend, I sent her a text message with good luck and keep in touch. Totally gobsmacked with the reply which was basically a character assination of me and that she never wants to see me again. Never saw it coming, and was in total shock. Some of what she said was understandable but a total overreaction. Other stuff was completely untrue, not even a hint of truth. I showed the message to another friend who said they didn't recognise me in her assination at all.

Hurts like hell, and I now am questioning my own sanity. Did I say that? Did I do that? Am I so horrible?

DH says I need to just move on and forget about it but I am really struggling to shake it off. I should probably delete her message but I keep reading it over and over and trying to make sense of what had gone wrong.

Any thoughts...

OP posts:
midnightmisssuki · 06/07/2018 20:56

this happened to me - she just cut me off, said there were things about me she didnt like, but didnt want to tell me them.

I should have known she would get bored of me though, everyone i knew warned me about her.

FishingIsNotASport · 06/07/2018 21:18

What a horrible way to end a friendship. If she didn't want to be friends with you anymore she should have just distanced herself and been non-committal "Yeah lets catch up sometime" sort of thing. I've done this with an old neighbour (she thinks we're friends - we're not). She is a complete user and wanted a therapist not a friend (I am a qualified therapist) and someone to dump her daughter and/or dog on ALL THE TIME. I did her sooooo many favours and then I asked her one thing "Could you please put the bin out while we're away?", and she forgot to do it. We've moved and I blocked her number, didn't give her my address even when she asked for it. She contacted my DD so I had to message her. It's dragging on and on and she just won't take a hint! Just how blunt do I need to be to get through to her?

yetmorecrap · 06/07/2018 22:36

And this is why I am very fussy about friendships and don’t have that many, too many needy nutters and if you have a decent looking relatively successful husband, ones who seem to latch on to them .

Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow · 06/07/2018 22:43

She is a bitch. She was moving away anyway, so could have let the friendship go that way.

She wanted to hurt you. That would comfort
Me in a way, as she is clearly unkind

Still hurts though.

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