Have you ever had to let a friendship go?

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We'd been workmates and close friends for 8 years. She married an Exclusive Brethren person. I moved in with a new partner (who I later married). She immediately informed me that I could no longer visit her home or talk to her children. I was very sad at the time, very good friends are rare.

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Did they? I never look at thumbs. They're so facebook.

@kewpie said
Did they? I never look at thumbs. They're so facebook.

Dive loves Facebook.

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She must have thumb away installed.

@trev33 said
She must have thumb away installed.

LOL@ trev.

-VR

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I have cut off several former friends.

Why do you ask?

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It could easily be said that your OP was your nose in everyone else's business.

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Having had major roots-down stints in three different countries before the advent of things like Facebook, I have had several good friends in those geographical contexts that have slipped off the radar.

One good friend from my Japan years I kind of had to "let go" when he seemed 100% preoccupied with talking to me as if he were Alex Jones and seemingly nothing else.

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I once offered to spend 2 hours of each day of my weeks holiday cleaning up the home of a depressed friend. When she recovered I rang to ask if she could have my son for a few hours one day as I needed to get a sick relative to A&E but …… she was far too busy doing her own important thing. So, I didn’t bother turning up for the next event she wanted help with. Days later I rang her and as soon as I heard her voice on the phone I lost it!

Her reaction? “Right, I’m calling round tomorrow to collect my dress (that she asked me to collect from the dry cleaners) and I’m bringing your electric fire with me (the one I’d lent her). The next day her 14 year old son knocked my door (she was hiding beyond my garden wall) and I had my sister calmly hand over the dress.

I’ve never looked back - Some people are just takers.

@woodgirl said
I once offered to spend 2 hours of each day of my weeks holiday cleaning up the home of a depressed friend. When she recovered I rang to ask if she could have my son for a few hours one day as I needed to get a sick relative to A&E but …… she was far too busy doing her own important thing. So, I didn’t bother turning up for the next event she wanted help with. Days later I r ...[text shortened]... had my sister calmly hand over the dress.

I’ve never looked back - Some people are just takers.

Yes and not just “friends”.👍