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I did it, I cut off a group of friends who were really toxic and have been treating me like shit for years. It was a bit hard because one of them was my “best friend” of almost 10 years..but I just couldn’t take it anymore, the YEARS of emotional and mental abuse I’ve had to endure, the betrayals, my vulnerable moments being weaponized, I was their punching bag, and I allowed that for way too long. My other “friends” in that group weren’t any better they saw me as an accessory to my bsf and not as my own person…I tried so hard to keep our friendship alive, I would even blame myself.. “maybe if I hadn’t switched to homeschool” “I just need to be more social” “don’t miss this hangout or they’ll forget about you” I did everything I could and it didn’t feel like enough. But how was I to know? They were all I had…until I met them, my real friends, the group I didn’t have to hide myself from, where I can be myself, where I can be vulnerable and not have it weaponized, where I can finally breathe. Then I realized that THIS was true friendship, not the other “friends” that I’ve had to deal with for years…and now they’re gone, out of my life. The weird thing is that I didn’t cry for long, it was more from the shock at the fact that someone I cared for betrayed me in such a way, but after that I’ve just been…disappointed, like all of this was for nothing, that in the end they just replaced me with a new “punching bag” I see their new person, and I hope the best for them, maybe they won’t repeat the same mistake with this one.