Hi everyone,
Feeling pretty rubbish right now. After making it through most of my 20s without ever falling out with a friend, recently all my friendships are feeling so strained and I can't understand if its my age group (late 20s/early 30s) or what. I've put a few examples below-
-Best friend of 9 yrs: barely makes an effort (with anyone, including me). Will come out if I invite her but never invites me anywhere. Puts me down about new guys I am dating and seems uninterested in my life. Works a lot. Single. I've stopped making an effort now and as a result we barely meet.
-Best friend of 5 yrs: moved abroad and became quite crappy with communication. Got really angry when I raised it was hard to maintain our friendship if she takes weeks to respond sometimes because everything becomes out of date. We've made up now and everything was fine but friendship still not where it was.
-New friend of a year: thought we were really good friends, but last night was the first time I brought a man around. She flirted with him. She also threw me under the bus by asking what I was doing tomorrow night, knowing full well I was going on a date with someone else. As the night went on became the 'me girl' and talking about how single she is to stimulate conversation from the guy I brought along.
I just feel like at this point none of my friends from my 20s are going to come into my 30s with me and I'm really struggling with it. I asked one of my other friends if there was something I was doing, but she said no, I am a great friend.
Is this just normal at this life stage? :( Am i expecting too much from people?
Thank you