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Reddit idiosyncratic Only-Carpenter-6689 precocious asked, "What broke the camel's backmost successful a relationship/friendship?" The stories of imploding friendships were adjacent much shocking and dicey than the failed narration tales, truthful we rounded up immoderate of the astir unbelievable. Here's what radical revealed:
1. "He tried to slumber with each woman I had. He adjacent tried to slumber with my ex-wife arsenic we separated."
2. "They went from being okay, if somewhat uncomfortable, with maine being bisexual (but they enactment successful a batch of effort to flooded that and were ace chill to each my aforesaid enactment partners), past a mates of years later, they moved distant and got ace super anti trans. It became his full personality. I tried to speech astir however everything helium was sharing was lies, and I was blessed to speech astir worldly with him if helium wanted to learn. He went connected a elephantine rant astir LGBTQ+ radical and trans people, and I conscionable blocked him and moved connected with my life. It sucks due to the fact that this is idiosyncratic I utilized to crippled with similar 4 times a week and talked to a lot, but I'm not putting up with that shit."
3. "I broke disconnected a relationship with a mates I had been friends with since precocious school. I got diagnosed with signifier 4 cancer, fto them know, and I ne'er got a effect from them astatine all. I addressed the information that they ne'er responded, and they fundamentally ghosted me. I conjecture they thought I was going to die??? Either way, fuck them. I lived."
4. "They were an aged person of mine, and we fundamentally called each different siblings. He went afloat anti-vax and different associated beliefs, and the timing was mediocre due to the fact that my nephew had conscionable died from COVID. I might've recovered my ain mode of inactive being his person if it weren't for that, but instead, I chopped them out. I deliberation I'm ousted from the remainder of the person group, arsenic I person lone seen them erstwhile since then. But...what tin ya do?"
5. "I had this person who stayed ace stuck successful the past and would perpetually dredge up traumas from galore years ago, expecting maine to play therapist. I felt for her, but it was a LOT. I yet mislaid each patience erstwhile she came implicit for Christmas and spent the full time virtually talking astir the breakdown of her matrimony 15+ years prior. Like girl, it's CHRISTMAS. Eat your turkey and unopen up astir your ex-husband. She's done worse, but the absurdity of it was my breaking point."
6. "She was ever ace flakey, would cancel astatine the past minute, citing each sorts of dramas. I was already astatine my end. The last straw was that she had asked to drawback up connected my birthday. Had rather a fewer radical wanting to drawback up, but I carved retired clip for her. She cancelled a fewer hours before, with yet different ridiculous excuse. I conscionable ghosted her."
7. "A person and I went connected a play travel together. They were stingy erstwhile it came to splitting the outgo of the house, which I didn't attraction astir astatine the time. I had the money. But earlier we went, I said straight to him that if helium blacked retired similar helium ever did, helium amended anticipation helium knew the codification to the doorway due to the fact that I was not babysitting. We are successful our precocious 30s. It happened the archetypal night, and it astir ruined the trip. It was a radical trip, and helium was the lone 1 who couldn't support it together."
"The adjacent morning, helium woke up similar thing happened and was successful a sour temper for astir of the day, portion the remainder of america had fun. Whatever. It happened the 2nd night, and I knew from that infinitesimal that this relationship had tally its course.
We haven't spoken since, and I don't miss the relationship astatine all. I similar drinking and having fun, but his dependency connected some friends and intoxicant was thing I nary longer wanted successful my life."
8. "I had a puerility person determination states without telling the person group... So that beauteous overmuch said each that needed to beryllium said."
9. "One of my longtime champion friends (we're talking from puerility days into adulthood) tried to enlistee maine for his MLM coaching thing. Again. He changed truthful overmuch arsenic a idiosyncratic during that time. Went from a funny, outgoing feline with a alternatively silly consciousness of wit to this man-bun wearing esoteric bro who made videos wherever helium talked astir uncovering one's chakras and mostly seemed to instrumentality himself mode excessively seriously."
10. "She would perpetually enactment maine down oregon azygous maine retired astir dumb shit. 'Oh wow, those pants are ace purple. Purple pants, wow, okay. You're wearing similar suuuuuuper purple pants…' Like?? Okay?? Other things similar that, wherever she'd accidental small digs and past laughter similar we were each having fun, but she was truly being mean to maine and maine only."
11. "I was precise overweight for astir of my life. I yet got successful shape, and my champion person astatine the clip wholly flipped however helium treated me. I realized that helium astir apt enjoyed the powerfulness imbalance betwixt us. When I started looking and feeling amended and expressed that successful however I carried myself, helium abruptly became threatened by that."
12. "I had a bully person for astir 15 years who progressively saw maine much and much arsenic a therapist and a tampon arsenic opposed to an equal. I tried explaining that I'm going done my ain hardships, but it didn't resonate. Eventually, I conscionable didn't respond to a azygous freak-out text, and present I haven't heard from them for astatine slightest 3 years."
13. "He'd helped done my slump successful precocious school, but past ne'er truly fto maine 'forget' it. Everything helium said and did was framed with, 'Oh, but you're depressed, so…', and this started extending to invites to bent retired and spell to events. 'You're depressed. I didn't deliberation you'd privation to go.' It was my 21st day erstwhile I invited him retired to a barroom with immoderate caller friends I had made, but helium said helium was engaged watching his grandma, who had precocious had a stroke. We ran into him, blackout drunk, astatine a diner astatine 2 a.m. He was truthful blacked retired that helium didn't remember. Never spoke to him again."
14. "Politics. I had a person successful the military. He knew I tended liberal, and I knew helium tended conservative. But helium fell down the MAGA hole. Any clip I criticized Trump, helium would telephone maine a liar. He wasn't susceptible of proceeding immoderate dissenting thoughts, and eventually, the lone clip helium ever adjacent tried to speech to maine was to insult maine for criticizing Trump. So I chopped him off."
15. "I told him face-to-face that my dada had conscionable died. He said thing astir it, not adjacent an acknowledgement of the quality oregon an 'I'm atrocious to perceive that,' and instantly started complaining to maine astir immoderate petty idiosyncratic play that helium had. I was successful shock. I didn't expect him to bash immoderate superior affectional labour for me, but to instrumentality successful that quality and instantly request affectional labour FROM maine was unbelievable. Then I realized this was a large taxable of our dynamic, wherever helium was perpetually successful situation and perpetually needing maine to assistance him prime up the pieces. He lone ever reached retired if helium wanted maine to play therapist for him. I dilatory faded retired of that relationship and consciousness a batch amended now."
16. "He slept done a friend's wedding helium had RSVP'd for. This was aft a agelong drawstring of being perpetually unavailable, flaking, and a large displacement successful personality. I conscionable couldn't support dragging him into being friends with maine anymore, and I knew that if helium could miss a wedding similar that, thing was each that important to him anymore, but his vocation and relationship. I didn't adjacent formally 'end' the friendship. I stopped including him erstwhile I made plans. I haven't seen oregon heard from him successful years."
17. "One week to the time aft my ma passed away, she got furious astatine maine for cancelling plans successful favour of staying with my dada and grieving. For 15 years, she had seemed mostly normal, too."
18. "I had a person who would prevarication ALL the clip to family, friends, and adjacent me, who was her champion friend. It became truthful atrocious that I was keeping secrets astir her cheating connected semipermanent partners. I couldn't grip the guilt due to the fact that her partners were really bully radical who didn't merit that. She would bargain clothes, perfume, and money. Oh, and past she decided to commencement a concealed narration with idiosyncratic adjacent to me, and successful the end, she gaslighted everyone, making it look arsenic though she had ne'er done thing wrong. Safe to say, I americium traumatized by her!"
19. "My lifelong person was 1 of those guys you conscionable enactment up with. Anyway. Father's Day rolls around, and we're texting. He's talking astir his kids, and I'm talking astir excavation (one bio, 1 adopted). For immoderate reason, helium goes connected this rant astir however bio kids are truthful overmuch amended than adopted kids. No shit. That's atrocious enough, but connected Father's Day too? I hung up and haven't responded since. Good riddance."
20. "My champion person since precocious schoolhouse (13 years of relationship astatine the time) decided to popular up astatine my location portion I'm astatine enactment to bring my woman something. The time beforehand, I installed cameras successful my surviving country and overheard them mocking maine astir my value nonaccomplishment successful beforehand of my sons. When confronted, they some denied that helium was astatine my home. Nothing carnal happened that day, but based connected the agreed denial and hurtful comments, thing inappropriate was decidedly happening. I ended up cutting him off, moved to the suburbs, I'm successful the process of divorcing my wife, and I'm presently successful the champion presumption of my life...and I mislaid 100 pounds."
21. "When a adjacent person mentioned she wanted to telephone ICE connected her migrant ex truthful she could support his dog."
22. "She ne'er checked connected maine for the period my ma was successful hospice. I made clip for her 2 days aft my ma was transferred to hospice to thrust implicit an hr to her location and scrub her disgusting bathroom. Not a azygous peep until I posted connected societal media that my ma had passed. I had ever felt the relationship was much one-sided, but I knew it then."
23. "He kept borrowing worldly that helium wouldn't return. I ever had to inquire for my worldly backmost until I decided it was clip to determination on. He inactive hasn't returned a toolbox that helium borrowed 3 months ago, and honestly, I don't fuss anymore. He tin support it arsenic agelong arsenic helium doesn't inquire maine for thing else. I bought a caller toolbox."
24. "My person inherited a bully stack of currency (north of $80k) and proceeded to stroke it each distant portion simultaneously quitting their occupation and traveling the world. Once the wealth ran out, they blamed everything but themselves. If idiosyncratic they knew had made a large purchase, similar a car, they'd spell connected astir however the strategy is 'rigged' against them. The last straw was erstwhile I upgraded my reef vessel and was told successful my ain surviving country that, contempt moving 20 hours other a week implicit a fewer months to get the indispensable items, it was 'blind luck,' not a elemental budget/math problem. It became tiring and I conscionable benignant of chopped interaction aft that."
25. "He got weirdly jealous astir maine dating a girl. He claimed helium had 'dibs' due to the fact that helium talked to her first. No, I'm not kidding. She didn't person immoderate feelings for him and conscionable assumed they were friends. He told maine I should dump her and spell backmost to my ex. Now, 20 years and 2 kids later, I'm inactive with that girl, and I haven't heard from him astatine all."
26. And: "Right present I'm dealing with giving myself region with 1 of my adjacent friends. She had ne'er truly had a fellow before, and past year, she yet got one. However, she was precise needy, and helium ended up breaking up with her. When we would bent out, she would permission due to the fact that she had a telephone telephone scheduled with her boyfriend, adjacent though they lived unneurotic for a tiny clip erstwhile helium was broke and needed a place. Now she's desperately trying to date, and she recovered idiosyncratic long-distance portion she was connected vacation. He separated from his woman and has 2 kids, and had chlamydia erstwhile they met. Long communicative short, she won a escaped nighttime astatine a edifice and invited me. We had planned this for 3 months, and a mates of weeks ago, she messaged maine saying that she wanted to invitation the caller feline alternatively of me."
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