Friends can abuse you just as much as partners, if not worse. The manipulation, the double standards, the abuse of your kindness, the one-sided energy, the entitlement. Absolutely horrid.

And they’re harder to leave because you genuinely start to believe that’s just how friendships are supposed to be, when actually no. You’re being taken for a mook. If the friendship isn’t mutually beneficial, run.

You’ll be trying to explain it to someone else and they’ll just think you’re being difficult or you’re lying, simply because they don’t understand. And so then, you start to question yourself because maybe you’re the bad guy. Maybe you deserve it. Which you don’t and aren’t, btw.

And these are the kinds of friends who will pretend to be the most amazing friends and say ‘I never wrong anyone blah blah’ meanwhile they’re taking you for Hovis bread. It’s the cheek for me. A real slap in the face.

And the gaslighting?????? Don’t even get me started on that part. Everything to make you look like a liar. Hm. Certain ‘friends’ can be beyond wicked.

Worst part is they know you’re probably the best friend they’ve ever had. They’ll even tell you once in a while how grateful they are for you. And when you try to end the friendship, they’ll find ways to manipulate you into feeling like you have to stay. I promise you, you don’t.

Friends can really ruin your life, man. I don’t think it’s spoken about enough.

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