• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    His last communication was a Facebook post to the world about how he only had room for supportive people in his life, not people who wanted to tear him down.

    Guess he got tired of me saying mean things like “You should be paying your debt down, not buying things you can’t afford” “Your wife is right and you shouldn’t fight her on this” and “I understand that the universe rewards positive though with positive destiny but you also need a plan”.

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    In 2016, when I voted Bernie Sanders.

    I lost two friends that year, because they wanted Clinton.

    Welp, we knew who voted for the right person back then.

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    My own dumb actions.

    I deserved it. We are on speaking terms now years later at least.

    I was weak and lonely and easily susceptible to her boyfriend’s advances. We were quite young, early teens.

    Joke was on all 3 of us… he hadn’t figured out yet that he was gay. Neither had she for that matter. They’re both infinitely more happy now. And I’m happy for them.

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    Worst example is friend who, after being hospitalized for accident while car surfing, died car surfing again. I wasn’t present for either event.

    Second worst is dude with head injury (unrelated) started talking about crystals and toxins and juice fasting. Called him out one day, and it was catastrophic. This one is still alive, at least AFAIK.

    Third, divorce. You will find out who your real friends are when you get divorced.

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      Third, divorce. You will find out who your real friends are when you get divorced.

      When my ex- and I were going through a divorce, they didn’t want me to say anything publicly at all. They were insistent that it wasn’t anyone else’s business, and since I was trying to make the process as painless as possible, I assumed that this was a good-faith request.

      I was wrong.

      I was being silent, and they were telling everyone a load of horseshit about me, and bad-mouthing me in public to every single one of our mutual friends. I lost all but one of our mutual friends; my silence was assumed to be an admission of guilt.

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        I’m so sorry. I strongly suspect this happened to me as well. To this day I’ve never mentioned the evidence I had of her infidelity to anyone, because I’m a better person that she is. My former friends likely discovered this for themselves in due course.

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    I ordered some supplements for him, $24 in value. We should have meet when he returns from the trip. He just ghosted me instead. We were friends since 1997. I didn’t even planned to ask him for money… Yes, he is still alive.

  • s3rvant@lemmy.ml
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    Friend moved and changed his cell number at same time… I didn’t yet have his email so lost contact.

    Found him years later at a random shop, got his new contact info and still besties today :)

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    Considering that the last person I knew online was a “friend” (something I’m really not sure, because I guess I’m not even sure what friendship is?), the person accused me of using AI to talk to her, because I often seem cold and emotionless (even though I’m just numb due to events that has been happening throughout my entire existence, and I guess that’s different from not being able to feel emotions).

    Speaking of offline people, the last person I knew (also not sure whether it was friendship or not) betrayed my trust, they did a thing behind my back, a thing that I became aware of, but the same person continued to hide it from me and insisted of referring to me as “friend”.

    Well, maybe I never had friends at all, and I guess I won’t as I’m now in my 30s. It’s okay, as I often mentally repeat to myself, every coffin can only hold a single body anyways (apologies for this memento mori).

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    I don’t think there’s a reason, which I think is the saddest reason. Growing up and drifting apart. Tried many times to fire up conversations but don’t know where to start.

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      If that’s the case, my gut feeling is you may have been friends out of convenience. For friends I haven’t talked to in decades; we pick up like no time has passed at all.

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    Cocaine laced with fentanyl. OD’d in the bathtub. Wasn’t even (remotely) a regular user; just having a little extra fun on New Years. Was about to finalize the adoption of his and his wife’s baby girl too

    Another one from alcohol, fell asleep in the bath

    Another one from an undiagnosed heart condition

    Another from a peritoneal infection from peritoneal dialysis (they had sickle cell)

    My sister from benzos and falling asleep in the bath

    All of them in their 30’s. Been a difficult few years of losing friends/family for me, ngl