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I am a part of a toxic friend group

User Profile: sympatheticShip4086
sympatheticShip4086 October 20th, 2021

I have been friends with these people (group of 8-10 individuals) for around 8 years now. I constantly feel like an outsider. They would always plan secret hangouts and never invite me. I also live in the west side of the city while they live in the north, but I also drive so I’m not sure why they don’t invite me to anything. I only find out once I see it on their social media. I also put a lot of effort into the friendship and they just accept whatever I give them. They never reciprocate it back. They never really care how I feel or how I’m doing. I made mistakes in the past and those are long stories ahhah but I feel as if they hold on to my past mistakes and use it against me even when I’m trying to be a new person and change the way I am. For example I feel awkward tension whenever I’m around them like they’re holding themselves back. This made me think whether it was my doing because I made them drift away from me but I’m honestly now sure anymore. I’ve known them for so long it’s kinda hard for me to drift away or leave them. I am close with around 3 people in that group now but before I was close with all of them. I’m not sure what I should do and it hurts me inside and I can’t tell them because they will just talk about it one day and then forget about it in the future. Thanks for reading this.

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User Profile: selfdisciplinedMango2473
selfdisciplinedMango2473 October 21st, 2021

I'm really sorry that you are going through this. I've had toxic friends before and my best decision I ever dod was getting rid of those toxic friends. You said they don't Carr how you are doing or feeling. Then maybr uou shouldn't care about them. If they was your true friends they wouldn't be treating you differently because of mistakes that you made in the past. You deserve to have friends who don't judge you on your past or bring it up or treat you differently because of it. They don't sound like good friends to have if they would only tell everyone in group about what you said that's not a true friend.


I hope things get better for you. And hope this helps.