Recently, wewrote aboutwhy friend groups fell apart, and members of theBuzzFeed Communitysubmitted their own examples.
- Here are more shocking and heartbreaking reasons friend groups imploded.
*We also used some answers from theoriginal Reddit thread.
Half of us immediately cut the guy off and went total no contact with him.
u/HereticHousewife
2.
Like, he led us on for maybe an hour.
Some of us already knew he was full of shit, and the other half was scared to death.
u/LazorFrog
3.
“A good friend of ours was behind a string of armed robberies in a very affluent suburb.
u/Head-Direction-5038
4.
One friend of mine, who I’ll call C, decided to take him up on the offer.
C was the only one to agree.
I knew J never took any safety courses for guns because we were just talking about it weeks before.
His parents thought he was mature and intelligent, but he’s still an idiot to this day.
They went shooting on a Friday.
99% of the group completely cut off J and completely shunned him.
C was the only one to continue talking to him because it was an accident.
J was never taught.
u/LadyRogue92
5.
As adults, we had a group chat and talked daily.
I leaned heavily on the group to get through those horrible days.
Well, soon after that, our friend Sara started talking about this guy she met.”
“She told our group chat how amazing he was and how good he was in bed.
So I said, ‘My best friend Sara???
The one that held me when I cried after the s*** you did?!’
I was so shattered.
That was the only reason his focus shifted from tormenting me because she decided to get with the monster.
She never brought up my kids' father once.
Is this the first time, or has it been happening since we were neighbors?'
She didn’t respond and hung her head in shame.
Then I threw money on the table and left.
We all drifted a little after that, and Sara and my ex didn’t last long.
Then, years later, she slept with my current boyfriend.
Trust is not something I have anymore for anyone.”
Anonymous
6.
He was one of my husband’s closest friends.
It’s been a year and a half, and Bagel still won’t take accountability for his actions.
He complains about why nobody talks to him.
He never once apologized to his ex-wife but somehow blames her.
u/HolographicFlamingos
7.
I came into school the following Monday, and everyone knew."
I went into therapy for three and a half years and stopped going to school for two years.
I lost all my friends except one.
u/pinkyarn23
8.
“My husband had a guy friend (John) from high school.
My husband and John had a group of friends with whom we still all hung out when we could.
I had a girlfriend (Michelle) from college.
I was at lunch with Michelle, and we ran into John.
John and Michelle had never met before and were both single.
John texted me after I left lunch with Michelle and asked for her number.
They dated for five months, and Michelle broke it off.
He absolutely thought she was the one.
John texted me and asked if Michelle got back with her ex.
I told him she had.
Two months later, John killed himself.”
“The high school friend group was rocked.
Nine months after his suicide, we all went camping.
My husband and I decided to leave early because it wasn’t going well, and I felt awful.
They also said my marriage sucked and that they couldn’t be in a marriage like mine.
Years later, I got an apology, but the damage was done.
You know the saying: believe someone when they show you who they are…yeah.
In the end, Michelle married her ex.”
It’s been nearly a decade, and we still talk about it and keep tabs on the creep.
u/3V1LB4RD
10.
“I had a good friend we’ll call Bob, who I spent a lot of time with.
Bob was one of the smartest and kindest people I knew.
He was an EMT and volunteered constantly in our small community.
He was very sensitive and would give you the shirt off his back.
Bob was a little awkward and not good with women, but he desperately wanted a romantic relationship.
The kid has major permanent brain damage.
If he did it, he deserves it.
Since then, none of us have been as close as we once were.”
u/TimothyPyro
11.
“I (28F) introduced my best friend (27F) to her new boyfriend (28M).
I was friends with the new boyfriend.
The guy ended up getting blackout drunk and sexually assaulted me.
Another friend witnessed this, and together, we reported it to the police, etc.
My best friend decided to stay with her boyfriend.”
“She was so upset when we wouldn’t stop calling him an assaulter.
She’d get so angry with me for trying to stop him from coming to group hangouts.
Friends in our group started taking sides; it tore everything apart.
It turned out, he sexually assaulted and raped multiple women and still does.
They are engaged to be married currently.
Some of my old friends are going to attend the wedding.”
u/al-dente-noods
12.
Apparently, he doused someone with gasoline and set them on fire.
We didn’t know about the reward until after he was caught.
We all agreed we would have turned him in.
He got 30 years."
u/crunchyburrito2
13.
I’ll never forget that call that woke me up.
It’s always made me sick, to be honest."
u/tellmewhyitsspicy
14.
It’s unlikely that they had sex, but it was 100% romantic.
He lost his job, his wife, his two small kids, and his friends."
u/NiteGard
15.
She started making everyone feel bad for her to the point where friends started doing things for her.
She ended up moving schools."
u/randomality999
16.
“We had a lovely couple who were like family to us.
When we had a horrific tragedy, they were supportive, generous, and kind.
All of a sudden, we were pariahs, absolutely frozen out of their lives.
My husband still hears from and (very rarely) meets up with my former friend’s husband.
The saddest part to me is that they knew our adult child is queer.”
Sally confessed her feelings for me.
and always having her hands on me.
I thought she might’ve been trying to be funny with that gay comment as well.
I got a boyfriend.
She freaked the fuck out.
So, I sent the screenshots to those friends.
They were all on my side after that, but the event split us up for the most part.
I do feel bad for her."
u/ColoredParanoia
18.
“A friend got cheated on badly with another friend from our friend group.
I caught them the night it happened, and it apparently had been going on for a while.
She hates me because of it, and it has ruined our entire group of friends.
I haven’t talked to any of them since.
He was truly an asshole, though, anyway.”
u/CptCrispyLips
19.
“I had a friend from age eight until around our mid-20s (I’m 32 now).
We were inseparable in jr. high/high school.
Her family was like my second family.
I thought we knew each other inside and out.
Then, she lied about having a traumatic brain injury.
There’s a lot of detail that I won’t go into, but yes.
She fully lied about having a TBI.”
emmaporter3
20.
“I had a great group of work friends.
She also started telling me she loved me at the end of phone calls.
I’m married and have fallen victim to codependent coworkers in the past, so I cut off contact.
I do not play those games.
Shortly after that, the friend group totally fizzled.
I guess that means I broke it up.”
“As a junior in high school, I started dating Jay.
His boy group and my girlfriends started to merge into one happy group.
We were four girls and four boys and got along splendidly.
Right before the summer break, my boyfriend broke up with me, and I was devastated.
Over the summer, no one had reached out to me.
My best friend Gina was supposed to go on a holiday with my family and me but ghosted me.
So I began my senior year pushed out of the group and pretty friendless.”
mellie06
22.
From that point on hasn’t called or taken any of our calls in the last year.
We’ve been mates since high school."
u/Altruistic-Ad-8505
23.
“I had a very small and tight-knit group of friends since middle school/high school.
We just never hung out together again.
The whole thing was just weird.
And yes, my two friends most certainly connected in ways lovers do, and half-siblings NEVER should.”
u/Witty-Ant-6225
25.
I think everyone drove away by Sunday afternoon.
u/LatinBizMan83
26.
“I was with my ex for almost ten years.
During COVID, I moved in with him.
… We had a pretty big friend group of about 15 close friends.
and included their significant others as well.
We all got along great.
I was hurt but thought, ‘Hey, it happens.’
A week later, I found out that another couple in our group had also broken up.
“We were best friends since the age of 16. and drive her wherever she wanted.
If she drove, I had to pay her gas money to go anywhere not on her ‘list.’
… Then she had to borrow $400, or she would get evicted.
She promised she would pay me back that Friday.
Friday came; no money.
I had bills on autopay and overdrafted.
It cost me about a thousand that I did not have.
I had to borrow from my mother to pay my own rent.
I won the computer in the divorce and found hidden files with pictures of her in them.
Apparently, her husband likes to watch her with other men my ex being one of them.”
We’re both Catholic; she has three children with a divorced man that she wasn’t married to.
I called her out on her hypocrisy, and she blocked me.
It turns out her small wedding had almost 100 guests.
“My friends called her out on it, so she blocked them too.
I thank God every day for taking her toxic presence out of my life.”
anamarif
29.
So I walked away, blocked her on social media, and moved on.”
xunniemariee
30.
“I was friends with this girl for many years.
It wasn’t very serious, but I liked him a lot.
She knew that because I would talk to her about him all the time.
One day, he just ghosted me.
Like, fine, I guess.
She’s his girlfriend now.”
Now, I couldn’t care less about the dude, but I was flabbergasted at my friend."
Zero accountability after all those years.
Spoiler alert: he cheated on her."
coppergazelle87
31.
My friend and I worked together in the morning, so we said goodbyes and went home.
The next day, she didnt show up for work.
She and her boyfriend did not pick up or respond to texts.
Finally, distraught, I left and went to her house to discover them both in bed hungover.
They saw the calls/texts but ignored them.
I was livid, especially after my friend went missing.
She never came back to work, and we never spoke again."
u/Nomad-Orion
Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.
