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"The bride acted as if nothing had happened, as sweet as could be. After the wedding, I wrote her a letter to apologize and explain my perspective. She wrote a nasty letter back to me, accusing me of things that I had done to her, none of which were true. We never spoke after that, and we've never seen them again. They got divorced, and I have no idea where she is now. Honestly, I just feel sorry for her."

"She arrived late one night and spent the next three days sitting on my couch, under a blanket with the air conditioning blasting, drinking anything she could get her hands on. My partner went out of his way to cook her a nice dinner, and her only comment was that the meat tasted 'cheap.' The final straw came one afternoon when I got home from work and let the puppy into the house. He ran over to greet her, and she screamed at me to get him away, or she would kick him. I was mortified and didn’t know how to react. I took my puppy outside and broke down crying. After pulling myself together, I went upstairs to talk to her and clear the air, only to be screamed at again for my puppy being 'aggressive.' I was stunned. The following day was my birthday. We got through an incredibly awkward lunch with a group of my friends, and she left early to go to a hotel because she had a headache. We’ve barely spoken since, and I couldn’t care less if I never see her again."

"The fifth! Oh, she sent me so, so, SO many emails letting me know that she was 'in agony' and 'practically in the poorhouse' over the money I hadn't paid yet. She kept asking me why I hadn't paid her back yet, only two weeks after the prom. I didn't like being in debt already, but she made it a thousand times worse. Which was ironic, because she was the loudest of the five who suggested I still go and pay the friend group back later. It stressed me out so much that I went around doing every odd job under the sun to pay her off first. After graduation, I stopped talking to her. By the fall, all my debt to all five friends was paid off. I still talk to the other four friends to this day. None of us knows where the fifth one went. I never even told the other four about what had happened between her and me until two decades later, when we were all getting together, and someone asked if any of us had ever heard from her. Then, I told them everything."

"After this revaluation, I took a step back from the friendship, but I didn't fully step away from it. Over the next several years, we would still occasionally message each other and catch up for coffee or drinks. Even after the distance, I was her shoulder to cry on when she got divorced, and I was there at the funeral when her boyfriend, after that, passed away. I even helped her organize her going-away party when she moved out of State. My husband and I ended up visiting some family in the state she moved to, and when she found out, she was super upset that I didn't make an extra 6-hour drive to go see her. I tried to make it up to her by sending her a care package for her birthday. I wanted her to know that I still loved and cared about her, even though our lives were completely different at that point. I never even received a 'thank you,' or even an acknowledgement. A few months later, my birthday rolled around, and she never called, messaged, or even posted a simple birthday wish on my Facebook wall. It may have been petty, but after everything, that's what finally did it for me. After that birthday, I blocked her everywhere."

"Around 2 years ago, my boyfriend all of a sudden 'got busy' with his family. Turns out, my friend was calling them and talking to my boyfriend for hours at a time. He ended up leaving me for her, and leaving his next girlfriend for her again a year later. To this day, she still reaches out occasionally, but I’m just so very done with her antics, and don’t respond."

"It was stressful and started affecting my health. Eventually, I couldn’t handle her negativity anymore, so I stopped reaching out. It took weeks before she finally texted me, and even then, it wasn’t very kind. I was done. There were issues before COVID-19 as well, but everything combined became too much."

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