We precocious asked BuzzFeed Community members, "Have you ever learned that 1 of your friends was not really the idiosyncratic you thought they were?" Additionally, we came crossed this Reddit thread from Angie-santiago that asked, "What is the worst happening a person told you that made you rethink your friendship?"
So, we compiled immoderate of the astir shocking stories from some sources that item the harsh realities of relationship betrayal. Buckle up:
1. "'I don't consciousness similar I should person to re-arrange my docket conscionable due to the fact that you're successful town.' I moved a mates of hours away, but would travel backmost for 2 oregon 3 days each different period for work. She would substance to accidental however overmuch she missed maine and that she'd emotion to get unneurotic for meal oregon a portion the adjacent clip I was around. I would springiness her a week oregon more's announcement erstwhile I would beryllium there, but she would beryllium engaged with different plans. I yet called her connected it, and that was her response. Needless to say, I don't fuss her with my question plans anymore."
2. "Had a HORRIBLE asthma onslaught years ago, unprovoked aft a decennary of respiratory stability. My roommate/friend offered to telephone an ambulance, and I breathlessly nodded yes with my hands connected my heart. He did so, and arsenic it pulled up to prevention my life, helium went, 'Am I gonna person to bash this EVERY play for you?!' He was dormant superior and shaking with rage. All the dude did was marque a telephone telephone and unfastened the doorway for the paramedics."
3. "One person told maine I was not bringing capable prime radical into his life. Which begged the question of wherefore helium couldn't bring prime radical into his beingness himself. Insulting."
4. "We were retired for drinks, celebrating her finishing her master's degree. Her fellow of 3 years, who had stepped up and covered the bulk of their rent and surviving expenses truthful she could survey afloat time, couldn't marque it to the dinner. She got a small tipsy and casually mentioned that she was moving retired and breaking up with him the pursuing week. When I asked her what happened, she conscionable laughed and said, 'Nothing, I've conscionable been readying it since I started the program. I conscionable needed idiosyncratic to screen the bills portion I was successful schoolhouse truthful I wouldn't person to instrumentality retired loans.' She framed it arsenic immoderate benignant of empowering, strategical beingness hack and genuinely expected maine to beryllium arrogant of her."
"He was an incredibly saccharine feline who had conscionable told my hubby helium was looking astatine engagement rings. The implicit deficiency of empathy and the mode she smiled astir systematically utilizing a quality being for 3 years made my tummy drop. I couldn't look astatine her the aforesaid mode aft that, and I wholly chopped interaction a fewer weeks later."
5. "I was going done a truly acheronian clip aft a loss, and erstwhile I tried to unfastened up, they said: 'Can you velocity this up? Your slump is honestly becoming a spot of a buzzkill for the remainder of the group.' That was the infinitesimal I realized they didn't privation a friend, they conscionable wanted an unpaid entertainer."
6. "'If I deliberation idiosyncratic is my soulmate, I'm not going conscionable to disregard him due to the fact that he's dating 1 of my friends. If we link and we're meant to be, I'm going for it.' Later that year, she convinced a feline to interruption up with maine and day her instead."
7. "They said, 'Say what you privation astir Trump, but astatine slightest he's the astir honorable president we've ever had.' I. WAS. FLOORED."
8. "Every mates of days, she'd power from being my champion person to hating me. During a hating phase, I asked her, 'Why don't you similar me?' to which she responded, 'I can't archer you.' I beauteous overmuch assumed astatine that constituent she either didn't attraction astir maine capable to hole our issue, oregon she ne'er had 1 and was conscionable trying to piss maine disconnected and wounded me. Thank deity we are not friends anymore."
9. "He told maine however mean it is for him to marque AI porn of his pistillate friends due to the fact that cipher was getting hurt. I told him it hurts maine (being a pistillate friend). He tried to person maine that it wasn't weird."
10. "She was surviving with maine due to the fact that she needed help, arsenic her ex kicked her out. I told her my 1 information was not to speech with my household astir my idiosyncratic worldly if they ever travel to sojourn (I person a atrocious narration with my ma and brother). I had to permission the state for enactment for a fewer months, and my household besides had to enactment astatine my location portion I was away. I had clip to contiguous them to each different earlier I left, and past I recovered retired each she did portion I was distant was, successful fact, speech astir me. They learned astir worldly that I told her successful assurance — thing bad, I conscionable don't impact my household astatine each with my idiosyncratic matters, and she knew that and however it made maine anxious to person them conscionable immoderate of my friends. I conscionable wholly stopped talking to her; she moved retired earlier I came backmost to my house."
"The communicative she tells radical is that she thinks I had a crush connected her, and since she didn't reciprocate, that is wherefore I astir apt stopped talking to her. Looking back, she was a beauteous crappy friend; she recovered ways to enactment maine down, and I didn't adjacent notice. I noticed she blocked maine connected her caller Instagram aft she got a caller boyfriend. I deliberation she knew what she did, but volition ne'er admit she was wrong, and was acrophobic I mightiness spill her ain secrets to her caller boyfriend, conscionable similar she did not respect my privacy."
11. "After she got married, she told maine she didn't person clip for maine since I wasn't married. She said that if I had a kid, she'd person clip for me. I was determination for her for years prior. After my dada died and I needed to cleanable retired his house, woody with abusive, greedy relatives, and was physically assaulted astatine the funeral, she got huffy that her hubby and household helped me. She stayed successful the car and kept complaining that it was taking excessively long."
—Anonymous
12. "She had an matter with a feline I liked and utilized maine arsenic a crushed to walk clip with him. He's a crap idiosyncratic besides for doing this to me. After my dada died — she had met him — she didn't inquire however I was erstwhile I saw her. She asked however a communal acquaintance was since her hubby died a period earlier my dada did. I confronted her astir this. She said thing like, 'Yeah, but it's her husband, and it's your dad. Hers is much serious.' Told her off, walked away, and haven't spoken to her since."
—Anonymous
13. "She told maine she tin consciousness the vibrations that travel disconnected maine pursuing my COVID vaccination due to the fact that she was hypersensitive, and that she tin consciousness it connected anyone who has been vaccinated. Didn't judge successful masks either. Sorry, but determination is simply nary mode we volition beryllium capable to span that spread betwixt our worldviews. I tin respect different people's opinions, and I bash privation her each the best, but I bash not person clip oregon patience to entertain pseudoscientific ideas."
14. "I was driving a person location successful precocious school. It was the commencement of our past year. She told maine halfway done the drive, 'I don't privation to beryllium friends with you aft precocious school, but we're bully close now.' We were not bully aft that."
15. "He didn't be my dad's ceremonial due to the fact that his woman was having a party. My parents, his parents, and helium and I were each close. We've known each different for implicit 25 years."
—Anonymous
16. "When I was successful the ER, she made it each astir her. I wasn't expected to unrecorded done the nighttime per the ER doc. I made her leave. Thank deity I survived. I was transferred to different infirmary and to the ICU, past to the betterment floor. Again, it was each astir her. I was connected aesculapian permission aft being discharged and had a batch of appointments, was connected oxygen 24/7, and was truly weak. Getting acceptable and dressed took a batch of energy. She called maine lazy for resting and taking a nap. My assemblage and I needed to heal, and remainder was important. I told her not to telephone precocious oregon early. She didn't respect that. She asked maine for wealth and to ticker her kid since I 'wasn't doing thing anyway.' She didn't connection to thrust maine to appointments, assistance maine get around, oregon get groceries, etc. Thank deity for my neighbour friend! She checked connected maine daily, brought maine food, helped maine get extracurricular and successful the caller air, and took maine to appointments."
—Anonymous
17. "'You're being cruel and hateful to maine erstwhile I request you.' They were successful the mediate of a several-month-long occurrence successful which they astir stalked their ex. Why was I cruel? I told them to permission him unsocial due to the fact that helium had asked them to, and I refused to provender them immoderate info connected however helium was doing oregon walk messages."
18. "I told her astir a immense promotion, and her archetypal effect was, 'Must beryllium bully to beryllium lucky.' She couldn't conscionable beryllium blessed for maine for 5 seconds."
19. "I emotion animals of each kinds, and I went for a locomotion with my friend. Found a precise cute salamander connected the trail, and I was truthful excited! She proceeded to enactment her footwear implicit it, saying that it's ugly, truthful it deserves to die. I had to physically halt her from sidesplitting it. She was studying to beryllium a caregiver astatine the time."
20. "I had lived with her for 5 years. I was happily azygous the full time. We did tons of worldly unneurotic — camping, shopping, concerts, traveling, etc. She'd adjacent met my family. I met my present husband, and she turned connected maine similar I was successful a nightmare. She kicked maine retired 1 nighttime aft getting blacked retired drunk and tried to get maine arrested. Six weeks later, she called and tried to enactment arsenic if thing had happened."
—Anonymous
21. And: "I recovered retired aft years of relationship that my 'best friend' was lying the full time, including astir having cancer, and they catfished maine connected Instagram. She told maine she had crab the time we met, and I went retired of my mode to bash things for her, including helping her financially astatine times. Funny, she ne'er asked for a thrust to a doctor's assignment oregon pharmacy. She said she inactive had her agelong hairsbreadth due to the fact that of definite treatments and could portion intoxicant (to excess) erstwhile they switched her meds, etc. I didn't privation to beryllium rude and pry astir her health, truthful I fto these reddish flags slide."
"A communal person noticed that those Instagram accounts didn't person pictures of themselves and lone talked astir however large my erstwhile champion person was. One weekend, she backed retired of a radical Vegas travel (that I had already paid for) astatine the past infinitesimal and expected maine to bash the same. I got respective messages from said fake accounts, aggravated that I didn't cancel my plans and enactment with her. I sent 1 reply saying we cognize who this truly is. She called instantly and fessed up to the fake accounts. It turned retired that the crab was a lie, too. She said I should person known astir the lies due to the fact that Catfish is her favourite show, and I should conscionable get implicit it. My grandma prayed for your fake crab for years. Nope, we're done."
—Female, 37, Los Angeles
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