People who've had friends stab you in the back. What's the story?

Made plans to go see a movie with my friends for my 16th birthday and planned it weeks in advance.

Everyone bailed the day before or on the day, but I decided to go and see the movie anyway.

Ran into my whole group of friends leaving the movie theater while buying popcorn.

I confronted them. Yeah, a lot of hemming and hoaring,

with no real explanation and no apology. Still went to see my movie, Underworld, and learned a

valuable lesson about people and friends. Sucked at the time, but eventually that lesson was a

great birthday gift. It started the process of not showing up for a majority of things and only

making brief appearances for a month or so.

Then I got to play D&D with some people from jazz band and never really looked back.

Best friend stopped talking to me after my dad died. Took the whole friend group with him. Apparently,

I was too emotional. I was 13. Having my entire friend group walk away from me when I was in such a

crappy place stuck with me forever. This was similar to my experience as well. I lost my father

at nine years old and all but one of my friends ditched me because they didn't know how to deal

with a person in grief. I'm still close with the friend that stayed 21 years later. I hope everything

is going well for you now.

I asked two of my friends if they wanted to live together in college. Then one of them asked

another person in our friend group if he wanted to join in as well. Then they asked another and

another. And then once there were too many friends for one apartment, they dropped me out of it,

no longer friends with any of them.

Was kind of a wake-up call, though, because I definitely gave way too much of myself to those

people, not knowing I was the most expendable one. It really taught me not to put others on a

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