BFFs: best friends forever. Sadly, not all friendships last forever. We drift apart from our companions for all sorts of reasons -- changing interests, new relationships, geography, inconvenience. But sometimes the reasons are more than incidental. Sometimes a person you considered a close friend, practically a sibling, sticks a knife in your back and twists it.
These folks from around the world recently went online to share stories of friends who betrayed them, destroying their bond forever. We hope these things never happen to you!
47. We gave him a gift and he stole
We (my husband and I) had a friend that we helped get back on his feet. Paid off some tickets he had. Got his license reinstated. Hooked him up with a solid connection for a reasonable, well running car to replace his beater... AND gave him a place to live and a job (automotive repair).
He decided it was a better choice to tell all our customers we were overcharging them (spoiler: we weren’t) and he’d do the jobs cheaper if they’d bring it to him at his house. (This was a short time after he moved out of our house, after never repaying anything he owed us., not that we’d asked.)
Broke my heart. He still stops by our shop occasionally like nothing ever happened, but we're not friends anymore. It’s been years now... but some wounds never heal right.
46. More than friends
My wife said she needed some time for herself so she went to stay at her mom’s for a while. One day I went to pick up my kids and walked in on her and my best friend hooking up.
Turns out it had been going on for a while and she knew him before she knew me (which I had no clue about).
When I said the affair had been going on for a while, I mean for several months before I found out. This was after my 2nd son was born. I have no doubts as to whether my kids are actually mine or not.
Yes, they are now my EX wife and EX best friend.
This happened nearly 16 years ago now. It was a very dark period in my life, but I’m great now. I got 2 great kids out of the relationship. I wouldn’t have met my current wife if this hadn’t happened. Also I believe I’m a stronger person having gone through the whole ordeal.
Just know that if you’re going through something horrible in life and your heart and mind are broken, there is hope for things to get better. It just takes time.
45. Slippery stairs
I had a best friend that I knew for 16 yrs. She got pregnant and her parents tried to kick her out. Her parents wanted her to end the pregnancy but she refused.
One of our high school friends told me someone should push her down a flight of stairs so she can miscarry. I told her that's a very bad idea and defended my best friend.
The next day, the principal came by my class to ask me if I could attend a meeting about something important. If I didn't attend, I was going to be expelled. When I arrived to the meeting, our shared friend claimed I was going to shove my best friend down flights of stairs so she could miscarry. My best friend believed her.
We stopped talking after that.
44. Unfriended
Friend told me they weren’t doing anything for their birthday.
On the day of their birthday, photos appeared on Facebook of them out with the rest of our friends.
They’re not my friends anymore.
43. Doctors can't heal their relationships
Years ago when I did a health sciences undergraduate degree, most of the cohort was determined to get into medical school. Our medical school program mainly accepted students from only our competitive undergraduate course, due to subject prerequisites. We all knew each other and were friendly, hanging out together and forming study groups.
Many of my friends were great - we shared tips, resources, practiced exams and interviews together. But there were a handful who really wanted to get into medical school, and since the program ranks applicants mainly based on undergraduate results, the better your friends perform, the lower your ranking is for selection.
So near application time, some of us would head off to the university library to borrow out textbooks to find chapters or page numbers that the lecturer mentioned would be on the exam.
And they would be ripped out. You'd go and find another library copy of the textbook, and that page would be ripped out too. All of them, totally removed in a hurry.
I didn't believe that someone from our cohort did it, until interview practice began. Students began obtaining copies of the questions from previous years and lying when others asked if they had it. I saw someone give a terrible, awful interview answer and the other student would give them glowing feedback and inform them they should say that, word-for-word, during the interview. It was a mess and a lot of relationships fell apart, or were never the same again.
42. Betrayed on your birthday
41. They weren't mine
The problem is that the closeness you have to the person blinds you to the idea they could do anything so terrible. Love makes fools of us all, I guess.
40. You're supposed to be so much more than that
39. A higher power
38. Kicked out of your own apartment
37. You're sad, peace out
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36. What kind of sicko does that?
35. The village gossip
34. Bullies and bystanders
33. New friends AND new pants
32. No one in your corner
One time I got beat up in school and nobody cared. In fact, these kids were literally cheering I got beat up in the classroom and we had an idiotic substitute that wasn't doing anything. I told the principal about it, and she called some of the other students into her office. They all either denied it or said I was the one who beat up the other kid.
So I told the principal to call my only friend in from that classroom but then he ended up saying nothing and making fun of me for getting suspended.
Unfortunately, this incident has happened more than once. I don't associate with those friends anymore.
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31. Unforgivable
30. Jealousy and controlling
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29. "Dude, it's just a joke"
28. "I refuse to be around or speak to her"
27. The first time I stood up for myself
26. Not too sick to party
25. Love is an art
26. Cousin stole my girl
25. You did nothing wrong
24. Can you keep a secret?
23. They deserve each other
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22. Just letting it happen
21. Profiting off your friendship
20. Destroyed my sandwich
19. Betrayed in family court
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18. You stole my secret
When I was around 16 I came out to my best friend as bisexual. I have been attracted to women since a very young age amd was ready to open myself to a same sex relationship. A week later all of our friends were being particularly nasty to me and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out my "best friend" had told everyone SHE was bisexual and that I hated her because of it.
17. "He was apologetic from the start; she was mean and manipulative"
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16. It's the kids who always suffer
14. Friends don't ruin friends' credit
13. The missing Charizard
12. One ill turn deserves another
11. Stealing from a single mom on her kid's birthday
9. The poacher
1. Not being honest is the worst crime
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