It was toxic and not worth going back to, no matter how many good times we had." It felt like I was stuck in a bubble and if I ever tried to leave, they would 'punish' me by not reaching out. "I constantly felt like they didn’t care (never asking about my life or what was going on), and were constantly speaking ill of others. "I have personally experienced losing a friend and contemplated reconciling, but what stops me is remembering how I felt around them," Katelyn, 24, tells Bustle. I'm not the only one who has pined to get a friend back only to realize that maybe, they didn't want her back after all. But when I told other people about it, they usually said, "It sounds like you didn't do anything wrong" or "she doesn't sound like the greatest friend anyway." I'd been so wrapped up in trying to fix my own supposed shortcomings, I hadn't seen her's. She was, after all, the one who got mad at me. I'd always blamed myself for the falling out. I spent the following three years brainstorming ways to get her back - until it occurred to me that maybe, this friend breakup was for the better. Three years ago, I went through one of the hardest "breakups" of my life: One of my best friends decided we part ways.
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