Have had a tough few months, like lots of people, I know. Am normally the supporter but have really appreciated support myself for plenty of reasons recently. People are aware of this.
A couple of long-standing friends have really let me down - in one case, trying to use me beyond any reasonable level for a free service for something I normally do as a business, and in the other, deliberately deciding to exclude me from their celebratory event (for a very resolvable reason), and letting me know this so I could reassure them I was ok with it. (I wasn't, but stayed dignified)
I'm lucky that I generally have decent friends and haven't really experienced this before - not really since school days, and I actually don't know how best to respond to feeling so hurt. I think I'm quite black and white with friendships- I do loyalty but not drama. My instincts really are to drop each of them.
Do you try and work through this stuff with people, or accept that after a single shitty incident, the friendship has run its course and move on? Is there any good way of getting through this? I really try to be considerate of others and the bit I can't get past is that in both cases I wouldn't dream of behaving in the same way if roles were reversed.