People Explain Why They Broke Up With Their Best Friend

You Open Up, And They Turn Away

"I opened up to him about my mental health issues, and after a day or two he messaged me saying he couldn't have that kind of negativity in his life."

"This was literally the first and only time I told anyone about it."- ESPete2018

Gone Without A Word

"He moved house in the middle of the night."

"We were kids and it was the 90s, he didn't leave a forwarding address and I don't think he knew he was about to move."- ktfan67

You Can Only Give Your Best Advice

"She got mad because I told her it wasn't a good idea to move to a new state with a guy she met online for less than three months."

"It's been over a year and I haven't heard from her."
"At this point I don't care to find her (I know she's still alive) because our relationship was toxic as hell."- demoncafe

Expecting The Wingman Treatment But Getting Nothing

"When I was a teenager, I couldn't talk to girls."

"I'd just lock up around any girl that I thought was remotely cool, and not say anything until the situation had passed."

"One of my best friends at the time had started hanging out with a group of people from a local college."

"He told me that there was a girl in that group that I would hit it off with."

"He said he had talked to her about me, and she wanted to meet me and hang out."

"I agree to meet him and this group of friends at a restaurant."

"I get there, he introduces me to her, and it is immediately apparent that he never said a word to her about me."

"This is the first time she has ever heard my name, and the look she gives me is one I would at best describe as disinterest."

"We sit there for an hour, I of course say absolutely nothing, she leaves, and everyone proceeds to laugh about it; that went well, great job, etc."

"It really felt like he set me up just so his new friends could get a laugh at my expense."

"I've never wanted to beat the crap out of someone more in my entire life."

"That was about 20 years ago."

"I haven't spoken to him since, and I never intend to again."- theonethatwas5

Hurts At First, But Then You Move On

"She slept with my, then, boyfriend."

"I eventually forgave her years later."- zodiacorsomething

Five Minutes And Infinite Away

"We had been friends from high school and she met some people that saw her sexually for the first time."

"She got into a relationship with a really sh-tty person who cut her off from her friends."

"I tried to hang on but he didn't like any of her friends."

"Eventually she got heavy into alcohol, and her boyfriend was abusive, emotional, mental and physical, which made her even more dependent on alcohol and that became her life."

"She would always say she wanted to change but she never followed through."

"I truly believe she said those things because she felt that's what she was SUPPOSED to say not what she really felt."

"We drifted apart and I only heard from her when she thought her online boyfriend was cheating on her with me because we had similar phone numbers."

"We live literally five minutes away from each other and we don't talk anymore."- domi_sade

Calling You Out On Your Birthday

"On my birthday, while I was celebrating it with my family, after two really stressful weeks at university studying for the most important exam of my career, my friend decided that was a good moment to send me a couple of DMs on Twitter b*tching about the fact that I hadn't paid enough attention to her and the game we were playing with at that moment,."

"We used to roleplay a lot with some characters we created before."

"To this day I don't know what got into her to have such a stupid ourbust."

"And even though a friend that we had in common and myself tried to explain to her about my exam she didn't seem to get it and actually I've never got an apology from her."

"That was all that took for me to end our friendship of years and I don't regret it, she was a selfish person after all."- redluscinia

Uteruses Before Dude-eruses

"He took the 'bros before hoes' phrase and flipped it."- M-o-e

I Keep Changing, They Stay The Same

"I went into the Army.'

"We had Christmas Exodus - leave during Christmas and New Year's - and in the days leading up to that, our 1SG told us the following:'

"'When you go home, you're going to meet up with your old friends, and it won't take long before you think to yourself, "huh, they really changed."'"

"'Wrong.'"

"'You changed, they stayed the same.'"

"And he was right! "

"My friends, hey, they're great guys, but I wasn't super close to them before, I definitely wasn't close after just a couple months of basic training."

"I think everyone in my platoon felt the same, even if they kept it to themselves."

"Everyone was just a little wonky that first week back, and it wasn't just because everyone got dog-sick on vacation, too."- Wasnbo

As Long As The Thread Lasts

"Was a cop wife for twenty years."

"When you divorce you not only lose your cop family, you evidently lose your best friend who is married to a cop."

"I learned a valuable lesson."

"Friendships built on a common thread last only as long as that thread remains."

"Heartbreaking."- TrustMeIaLawyer

Help From An Absent Friend

"It slowly fell apart."

"She moved to live with her partner and we slowly stopped talking as often until rarely talking at all."

"I knew I was done when she asked me to help find someone to film her wedding-that I was not invited to."

"But she's happy with how her life is and who am I to judge for that?"- MaineSoxGuy93

It's Never Worth The Time Of Getting Nothing In Return

"He got busy with his own life and I got busy with mine, and as much as I tried to keep in touch, he never did the same."

"I hear from him once in a blue moon, but whenever I try to make plans, he dodges me."

"I just finally came to the realization that a friendship isn't worth my time if I'm putting in all the effort and getting absolutely nothing back."

"It's sad, this is a guy I spent most of my young and teenage years with, practically lived at his house."

"We spent every waking minute together and had so many awesome times."

"I guess life just had different paths for us both."

"I don't begrudge him for anything, I don't think he has intentionally cut me out, I think he's just caught up in his own journey."

"Maybe one day life will bring us back to the same place and we will spend time together again, but maybe not."- JohnOctober

"If you don't grow together, you grow apart."

"We lived together during our early university years."

"I was not in a good place when we became friends."

"A couple years later, I picked myself up, got into really good shape, was accepted into the degree program I wanted and found an extremely awesome job."

"She said she couldn't continue being friends with me because I didn't need her."

"If you don't grow together, you grow apart."

"Years later we were still Facebook 'friends'."

"She deleted me when I got engaged."

"I noticed and asked her why, she said she didn't care anymore about anything in my life."

"It took me a long time to get over that last part"

". No one needs that in their life."- Nursewholovedyou

They Move On To Other Things

"When I was young, it was because my best friend grew out of playing with dolls before I did."

"All she wanted to do was wear make up, and so she got new friends who all wore make up."

"It's been twenty years since I saw her last, but I'll never forget that."

"Young me was heartbroken."- badgersinatrenchcoat

A Misunderstanding From Nothing

"My husband and I went on vacation with her and her husband."

"My husband and I did some gambling and won a decent amount of money."

"They did not gamble at all."

"When we got back I found out they had told everyone how much of a b-tch I was because I had not offered to pay for their half of the vacation with my gambling winnings."

"When I confronted her she did not deny it."

"I didn't want to be friends with someone that thought money played into our friendship or that talked like that behind my back."- amelia_egghart217

And Sometimes, There's No Explanation...

"We were friends for almost 10 years."

"Every once in a while, we'd have small arguments, but always come around and told each other everything."

"Over a year ago, we went to a party."

"I didn't drink, but he did."

"He got extremely moody, wouldn't talk to me and kept disappearing to a room to be alone."

"Kept brushing me off every time I asked if he was okay."

"He left the party early without telling me, and I sent him a pissed off text because we had agreed earlier to cab home together."

"The next day I call and text."

"No answer."

"A week passes."

"More texts, still no answer."

"I go to his house."

"His roommate says he won't speak to me."

"He deletes and blocks me on all social media."

"I call and text him more, saying I'm sorry for whatever it is I must have done, still no answer."

"I message his friends, asking what I could have done and they have no idea, all he's saying is he doesn't want to see me."

"At one point I fell into a depression."

"Am I such an uncaring person that I couldn't even know that I did something wrong?"

"Or was our friendship even that great if he was willing to drop me so suddenly without explanation or goodbye? "

"It's a weird, scary thought when someone who knows more about you than anyone refuses to even speak to you ever again."

"It's been over a year and still no word."

"I went to a party the other day that I heard he'd be at."

"The host told me that as soon as he heard I was coming, he decided not to come."

"It's probably one of the biggest heartbreaks of my life."-surejan94

Ghosting

"I was going to watch a concert with a best friend (A)."

"Another best friend (B) that usually joins us is still debating whether to come or not."

"Me and A, which can attend the concert, decides to just go to the concert no matter if B can make it or not."

"B throws a tantrum for supposedly 'leaving her behind'."

"I tell B she is childish if she thinks me and A cant hangout with just the two of us, besides we're just waiting for her to decide whether she will attend or not."

"A thinks B is childish too."

"I leave B alone for a couple of days and not try to initiate convo to give her space, while still maintaining good relationship with A."

"Suddenly one day A cancels all future hangouts with me, including the concert."

"Then I realize, me and my BF has been blocked and ghosted by both A and B."

"My mind says good riddance because I don't need friends that ghost me but my BPD has been making it hard to cope with."

"Sigh."- melonlupi

​Brok a cardinal rule of friendship, without realizing it.

"I accidentally received a blowjob from his sister."

"I know how bad it sounds so I'll just tell my story."

"So it was summer of 2018, school ended 2 weeks then, my close friend who I'll name Mani to keep him anonymous, had a younger sister by a year, 19, and he never told me much about her except for that she's his sister."

"Take note that I have never been over at his house despite being his best friend for 2 years."

"I ask Mani about his gym that he goes to, LA Fitness, so we could workout together and I signed up to workout with him every 2 days of the week, Tuesday and Thursday."

"Sometimes he would cancel out since his work schedule was random."

"So around the end of July, he cancels out on me last minute so I go alone and then I meet this cute girl and we sorta exchange eye contact several times and then I would finish and go home, do the exact same thing next time."

"We kept this going for say like 1.5 to 2-ish weeks, at this point, Mani gave up on Gym and I didn't really want to bother him since he seemed very tired to come to gym after work,"

" I started going to the gym more because of her and one day I decided to go up and strike up a conversation with her while she was working out."

"We hit it off pretty well and have been hanging out outside of the gym not soon after."

"This should be around Mid-August, she invites me to go clubbing with her downtown."

"I accept and we go there with her friends and we just chilled and danced for like an hour or 2 before leaving."

"As we were leaving, I decided to take this girl home, but she said that she 'has a very special reward for her'."

"Bingo, it's game time."

"We got into my car and she started to suck me off right then and there."

"We continue but end it off there and I take her back to her house and she kissed me goodnight."

"Then not a week goes by, Mani invites me over to his house to finish the summer off with a bang."

"So he give me directions to his house, right when I saw the address, I froze up, quickly called him to say that i had a family event i had to go to, and I avoided his calls, texts and all that cause I was too distraught by the fact that I was with his sister and didn't know."

"I deleted my insta, snap and pretty much slowly, but surely, I disappeared from his life, as for his sister, she has tried to text me and I told her that we just can't be together and called it off."

"I deeply hate how things have turned out."

"I still wonder what would have happened if I kept going, if I didn't do his sister, but just a random girl."- MileaukeeBucktees

Not who they appear to be

"She had an affair with my manipulative boyfriend at the time and later revealed to me that her friendly and encouraging text she'd sent me during that time were all meant to mock me."

"Two years later I have her a chance and we became a part of each other's lives again."

"The friendship ended the second time when she got jealous at my education."

"Like literally forced me to pick between my future or her and generally acted like I had been the biggest bitch on the planet for having other priorities than her."

"I still miss her."

"I only talked about the reasons why the friendship ended here so of course she's gonna look like a horrible person, but there was a lot of great things about her too and I still love her in spite of her selfish and cruel actions toward me."

"I'm glad she was my friend and I'm glad that she isn't anymore."

"She's one of the biggest heart breaks of my life because it was all so unnecessary but I believe we are better apart."- rhsbdkt

It just wasn't meant to be.

"Not my best friend, but a close one."

"Former friend (FF) of mine used me as their agony aunt and kept telling me what bad friends two of our mutual friends were."

"FF constantly put me in an uncomfortable situation because I knew she had some serious issues going on and I tried to be understanding and supportive."

"But when she said that one of my best friends, who often gets to go on concerts for free because her dad has connections, was an awful friend because she didn't take FF to any concerts, she did take some other friends of hers, and how she deserved that because she was such a good friend, I felt that there was something really wrong with her perception of friendship."

"Then FF started complaining that she didn't get a surprise birthday party thrown when she turned 18, and told me that she broke up with her boyfriend of 1 week or so for snatching the blanket, out of fun, when he was staying over."

"At that point it had become really uncomfortable listening to her and spending time with her alone, but as i was trying to see the positive parts of our friendship, like hanging out at her place with some other friends was fun and if she was in a good mood you could really enjoy spending time or partying with her."

"I didn't want to cut ties."

"But then she did something that made me 'break up' with her."

"We had a trip of five days planned."

"We were going to attend a camp with about 1500 people, and as there were many people there I didn't know, I was glad to have her as my companion and thought maybe we could sort things out there."

"But at the day of our departure she canceled on me, 2 hours before we wanted to catch our train, because we got into a fight over the departure time."

"I wanted to go early, she wanted to go late when the program there would have started already because she 'wanted to sleep in" that day'."

"she texted me something like 'you got me that far that i'm staying home now, I don't deserve to be treated like this and that way i can leave for vacation earlier, my other friends are waiting for me there anyway'."

"I was devastated because i get really anxious around strangers when i'm alone but i ended up going alone anyway and had a great time!"

"I told her I didn't want contact to her anymore, but she didn't take it serious and acted like everything was normal."

"But when i texted her about how i felt, all I received back from her was a notification that she screen shotted my text so i think i'm better off without her now."- pr0fessionalfailure

You've got to know when to hold 'em, fold 'em and when to walk away!