Is this true for you?

No, am neurodivergent man. Rest is true though.

This seems needlessly gender specific.

I had a really close friend, we met through exes, and she was pleasantly surprised that I wanted to keep in touch (she’s straight, I’m not). We were there for each other through the worst stuff, cheaters, suicide attempts, miscarriage, abortion, parental divorce etc. even though we both now lived far apart. I was visiting and she introduced me to her new bf, he was very nice, but soon after she moved for a dream job and we did lose touch. It turned out her new bf was extremely abusive and she had been in and out of hospital. I only found out a year later when she replied to a birthday message that she had escaped him. She’s now getting married to a new guy who seems really nice.

TLDR; I think it’s worth trying to stay in touch even when you don’t hear back for a while, sometimes they just can’t rn

Some things are just human experiences, touch grass y'all

I had a best friend who fell into this strange religion where they believed they'd be reincarnated on a planet on the other side of the universe after death..... With faeries and magick and all that good stuff.

I made the mistake of telling hir she was never going "Home", what she called that place... and she unfriended me forever, I still miss you PeachClover... I'll never get over losing you.

My mom's best friend of several decades wound up passing away in her sleep one night. No warning signs, no history, no buildup. One morning, she was simply gone.

Don't be afraid to embrace the people closest to you. You don't know when you can't anymore

I haven't had any friendships end abruptly that I'm aware of. But many friendships where I eventually realised I was the only one making an effort to maintain the friendship, and subsequently stopped bothering.

Oh kick to the stomach.

I think that my ex-fiance was one. I didn't read between the lines, I'm not the brightest bulb. We dated for three months, and well a hug later went our separate ways. One night she calls me and asks me if she can stay the night as she has no where to go, family stuff. I say okay. One night turns to a week.

Of course I make a move, it's college, it was just a kiss and it went on from there. And anyone that wants to judge me; she could have easily stayed with her sister, or well any of the twenty other people of her family (I went to a family reunion later on), so yeah we ended up living together for the next five or more years. We went our separate ways because I didn't want to have kids at the time. Still have the phone with all the rings she looked up for us. It's a bit sad but at that point I got the general picture that it won't work.

Suddenly just stopped responding to messages. Moved cities and just ghosted me. Shit happens I guess. Still, one of the best friendships I had and it just went up in smoke. It's a shame. Still don't really know why although I was being a lot more negative at the time while actively trying to hide how bad my chronic pain issues, depression and suicidality had gotten. She probably picked up a real bad vibe and bounced. Honestly, I get it.

What was yours? Assuming you're comfortable sharing.

No and no, except if you count in death.

Not a woman and I've had this happen.

No, I am not that social. I did have someone I thought was my friend who was just pretending, and I do still feel the pain of that.

I've left a lot of friends behind over the years because I rarely put in the effort to maintain a friendship when my effort obviously isn't being reciprocated, but shout out my best friend from when I was 15 to when I was 25 for ghosting me because he was beefing with someone else entirely and he wanted a clean break from that person.

For about three days before he came back acting like nothing was fucking wrong.

I don't think about him much anymore, which I suppose is healing. But if his name comes up, I will drop some salt

Imagine we have a post

Every Black person I know has had at least one bad experience with the cops

And there’s comments of “I’m white, but I’ve had a bad experience with the cops too”. Like why are you here commenting that on this post bro, without adding anything to the discussion?

Tell us, what was your experience, that you feel it is still relevant or interesting, probably you can still contribute something on topic to the conversation, literally anything at all other than waving around your cis white manhood for us.

Your post is tiny, insignificant, and does nothing for me, the only ones who lap it up are those with their own little cis white manhoods they want to waggle in public

When I left my wife, my brother chose her instead of his own sister. I feel the hole he left behind every single day