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My best friend sabotaged my wedding, so I cut her off for good.

Not your best friend anymore.

I, 30 female, have been really good friends with someone will call Ali 30 female over the last four years. We met in our second degrees at university and became good friends. We didn't have much in common, but we had a similar sense of humor and being able to have a good laugh bonded us. Ali is simply a fun person to be around. By the way, this comes from

Glum Value 4743, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R slash OK Storytime Subbridit. I'm Sophia. I'm Carly. And I'm Keon. And we're here to give good advice goofily, but we don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do. So let us know what you would do in the comments. As time progressed, Allie told me more about her life and her struggles with mental health.

I also struggle with mental health. what you would do in the comments. As time progressed, Allie told me more about her life and her

struggles with mental health. I also struggle with mental health and have worked in the field

so I felt comfortable discussing this. I really liked Allie and we had become such good friends

that of course I didn't mind being there for her. There were many nights where she would call

me, usually intoxicated because she had had a hard time talking about feelings, to discuss whatever was bothering her.

I found it stressful sometimes since often she would call when it wasn't convenient.

But she was my good friend and I cared about her.

So I would always put whatever I was doing on hold to talk.

Over time, I noticed that when something was bothering me and I wanted to talk, she wouldn't make the same kind of time for me. If I brought anything up that was going on with me, she would quickly change the conversation after a few minutes. But I chalked it up to her having a hard time talking about emotions. I justified it by thinking it wasn't because she didn't care. She just didn't know what to say. When I was getting married to my

partner of eight years, Allie and I had become such good friends. I asked her to be my bridesmaid. I'm still a student, so money is tight and I'm super busy, but I tried to make being a bridesmaid as simple and stress-free as possible. The only thing I asked of my bridesmaades was to buy their own dress, but they could choose

the style as long as it was any shade of the particular color we were going with. Beyond this,

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