Help with online friend group conflict
I’m apart of a big online friend group and recently we had someone who left join back(as only back within a few hours of me writing this).
Due to several past events, I am not close with this person and frankly, part of me wishes that they had permanently left the friend group due to these incidents. Part of me is annoyed at seeing everyone get out their ‘welcome back’ messages for someone who left without a word and I know I don’t have to get along with the but at the very least I have to tolerate them.
The problem is I don’t know how to tolerate them without being mean and so I choose not to say anything to them at all which I think makes everything worse. My biggest fear(?) right now is that they’re going to join one of the friend group servers they’re not currently in which I see as a break from them. I fear they’re going to join that too and then I’ll be stuck dealing with them.
I have them blocked but would it be too blunt to dm them straight up saying/explaining why I don’t want to interact with them anymore? Any advice?
Also preferably, I’d rather not any answers like ‘talk it out’ given I tried that and it didn’t work.
It is hard to deal with someone that you can't avoid. It's up to you really. I usually just block and refuse to interact further.
I guess if you do engage to be straightforward, just be prepared for the response, it might not be handled well.
I would keep it short, if I reached out, something like. We do not see eye to eye and that's fine with me. We have had our differences. I just want to say this for the last time and then we no longer have to communicate..
Whatever you decide hopefully you'll feel unburdened :)
