The thread quickly filled with stories of heartbreak, betrayal, and backstabbing.
Here’s what people shared about their worst friendshipbreakups:
1.
“I had a whole friend group who hated me (I didn’t know that, obviously).
One year, they all said they were coming to my birthday party.
I kept getting texts from these friends individually, saying things like, ‘On my way!’
and, ‘Be there soon.’
u/bvstvrdChild
2.
“She tried playing footsie with my other best friend’s husband under the table at a nice dinner.
She was visiting me for a week, and this was their first meeting.
I didn’t find out until about a week after she’d left.
u/slytherins
3.
They seemed understanding when I told them I wasn’t comfortable attending four months before their big day.
Clearly, that was not the case.”
u/ChodieFlopster
4.
What’s worse is I had called her that day.
My car broke down, and I needed her help.
She said she would contact me when she was back in town.
Not only did she not call or text, she messaged my boyfriend to hang out with her.
I told her off the second I found out, and it still hurts me to this day.
She called it a ‘misunderstanding.’
I was very close with her entire family.
u/Strong-Discussion564
5.
Only he and I knew where the key was since we shared a room.”
u/humancanvas79
6.
“Being a single mom, I hadnt seen my good friend in months.
She went into the bedroom with him and closed the door.
I heard giggling and laughing.
u/Reasonable-Sky8391
7.
“He made a pass at my wife.
I chinned him and haven’t spoken to him in almost three years.”
u/string1986
8.
“I lent him $10k over time.
He promised to pay me back, but it’s been three years.
Hard lesson learned.”
u/Daddyslilcumdump_
9.
“We were close and did everything together, even when I got pregnant.
Then I had my son, and she never came and met him.
I thought maybe she was busy.
Six weeks later, I ran into her at the mall while I had my son with me.
She talked to me for about five minutes and didn’t even acknowledge my son.
I knew then that we were done.
I haven’t spoken to her since.”
u/Alternative-Fun9365
10.
It was wild, and we haven’t spoken since.
u/Meatloafisdisgusting
11. u/matcha-eclair
12.
“My then-girlfriend and I were going through a rough patch.
My best friend (at the time) was acting as the go-between, keeping things civil between us.
u/BackgroundTourist692
13.
“She knew I was struggling to afford everything to be in her destination wedding.
It ended up being the last time I talked to her.”
u/bitternutmeg
14.
“She would regularly lie and manipulate me.
She told me the guy I was in love with liked me back, which was not the case.
She ended up dating him.
Needless to say, I cut off contact as soon as I could.
They dated for about four years.
When I learned they broke up, I almost bought a bottle of champagne.”
u/ExtremeMeasurement
15.
“After a breakup, she went to a church that recruits.
u/occultexplorer
16.
She actually asked me to proofread the breakup email she was going to send him.”
u/Strong_Department716
17.
“She was a friend for 20 years, and we lived together for almost a decade.
She lied about everything for years.
I asked what he meant.
We went down the rabbit hole.
She had been lying to me about him and lying to him about me.
It was like pulling a thread on a sweater, and boy did it unravel.
u/abcde9090
18.
“I made my son’s middle name his last name.
I considered him more like a brother to me than my own brothers for over 14 years.
Needless to say, I got my son’s middle name legally changed after that.”
u/TheSneakyFingerSlip
19.
“He stole from me on my birthday.
I put all the money people gifted me that day in one place.
u/Drogovich
20.
The whole thing was gross, but I’m glad I saw her true colors.
Sometimes you just outgrow people, and it sucks.”
u/blancseing
21.
“He showed me lewd pictures of the girl who I’d just broken up with.
She sent it to him in an attempt to make me jealous.
He kept asking for more.
So, her plan worked.
I was jealous at the time, but I never talked to either of them again.”
u/Handymantwo
22.
“She texted me that she wasn’t coming to my wedding the morning of because her sitter canceled.
I’m not sure why her husband couldn’t watch the kids for a couple of hours.
Why was she in town, you ask?
For a wedding.”
u/radrax
23.
“We had been best friends for five years.
We met while traveling and lived together, worked together, adventured together, and endured lockdown together.
I’m still healing.
My friend ignored me for months.
She was aware of everything I was going through.”
When we next spoke two months later, she told me my stress was bringing her down.
We haven’t spoken since.
The disappointment has been as heartbreaking as my breakup, and I’m still reeling from her callousness.
It has devastated me.”
u/riarum
24. u/throat_g0at
25.
That started to put a lot of things in perspective for me.”
u/Fun-Scallion-5575
26.
“I always put the effort in, both in initiating conversation and trying to make plans.
I’d often see them read my messages, but it would take hours or even days to reply.
It happened about two weeks later when they asked me for a lift to work.
u/-Vanimar-
27.
“She was my maid of honor.
They belittled me, called me ‘whipped,’ and grilled me while everyone in the room weighed in.
Eventually, we had a friend breakup.”
u/TheshizAlt
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