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November 15, 2017 at 8:48 am #178161
Bismahanwar
ParticipantI had an argument with my two best friends because i felt like they were treating me unfairly. I bottle up a lot of my feelings which i know is wrong but they kept doing small stuff that was adding up. So i eventually just exploded. One best friend kept asking me for a favour which was to lend her my ID to access my university which she knew i wasnt comfortable with and after i accepted to do that favour after a week or so i still wasnt comfortable so i said no, she started saying stuff like you should support me and then i told her that she was unappreciative and selfish for saying this. I did not speak to her for a while and i know i should not have said those things to her but i felt really upset that she was not trying to understand my situation. My other best friend knew about this and said she wont get involved which made me feel really bad because i would not say something like that to her if sje had an issue with my best friend and i would try to help them be friends. This friend gets really moody at my friend over the littlest things and sometimes i do feel like i have to walk on eggshells so she doesnt get annoyed. I would also advise them to not do something that may harm them and instead they get annoyed at me and try to justify what theyre doing and it really hurts because i feel a lot of what people go through and if theyre stressed i will feel stressed too so it rly does drain my energy. I wrote a pragraph to them a week ago about how when im with them, they do not listen to my issues and i feel like i cant speak to them because ot feels like they’re not there. I spoke about how i get bad vibes from them and how they do not appreicate me and make me feel very bad. I basically wrote about everything i felt that day because i was really upset. They both got really annoyed at me when they replied and said stuff like how theyre not going to chase me. Which is not what i expect but i expect them to ne more understanding. I deleted them off snapchat because i needed space. Few days ago i really wanted to patch things up because i do not like holding onto grudges because it feels really horrible for me however one friend just constantly kept criticising me saying how i reacted over such a small thing and made things worse. She said she will not move on until i say sorry and i did say sorry for bottling things up but after the conversation i could not stop crying because it made me feel really horrible. I did not feel any relief and i know i said sorry to make peace with thigs. Also i have another best friend who i told this problem too and one of them said j should not have told her but she went and told her other friend about the problem. To me it seemed a bit hypocritical because i was told that im not allowed to tell my friend but she can go ahead and tell her friend because ‘i started it’ everyone else in my life who ive spoken to say that they are not good friends because i try a lot from my end.
November 15, 2017 at 9:33 am #178167Anonymous
GuestDear Bismahanwar:
Better deal with a small thing and resolve it instead of adding it to other small things and eventually explode.
First small thing (maybe not small) is your ID, when the friend asked you to let her use it, and you felt uncomfortable to do so, better tell her as soon as possible: “No, I feel uncomfortable doing so”. If she argues with you, you repeat: “No, I feel uncomfortable”. You can add: “I hope you find access in another way.”
Second small thing: when the other friend said she doesn’t want to get involved, it is her right and it reads reasonable to me, fair. Just because you would have gotten involved in a similar situation, doesn’t mean it is the right thing to do and that she should too. It is similar to this: maybe the friend in the paragraph above, maybe she is comfortable to let another person use her ID card. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t feel uncomfortable about her using your card, does it?
The first friend has the right to feel comfortable and you have the right to feel uncomfortable. Same thing with the second friend: she has the right to feel and think that she doesn’t want to get involved.
Let me know what you think about my input so far.
anita
November 15, 2017 at 9:46 am #178175Bismahanwar
ParticipantI did tell her that i was uncomfortable from the start. She just kept making me feel bad so i did say yes. Im not one to just say no Because i dont want to be a bad friend. I understand that we have different rights. But i guess its just the fact that i would want my friends to understand what i’m like or try to fix things between us like i would.
November 15, 2017 at 9:53 am #178179Anonymous
GuestDear Bismahanwar:
I didn’t understand that you did tell her that you felt uncomfortable right from the start. The fact that she insisted, that she didn’t respect your assertion means she cared about using your card but did not care about how you felt about it. When a friend does not care about how you feel, she is not a true friend.
What about the second friend: how do you think she should have gotten involved?
anita
November 15, 2017 at 9:58 am #178187Bismahanwar
ParticipantYes to me it felt like she was just taking advantage and when i eventually had the guts to say no she got annoyed with me for saying no and calling her unappreciative. I would’ve expected her to say something along the lines of ‘you both are my bestfriends and i want you both to speak to each other anout your problems’ but instead she did not respond properly and said she was not going to get involved. Which felt like she did not care about what happened.
November 15, 2017 at 10:01 am #178193Bismahanwar
ParticipantLike this one friend also has said stuff like ‘i do not want to listen to anything sad right now, i want to have a good time’ or she just doesnt respond at all which is why i dont really open up to them and things tend to be bottled up
November 15, 2017 at 10:03 am #178195Bismahanwar
ParticipantWhen someone tries to open up ^
November 15, 2017 at 10:10 am #178199Anonymous
GuestDear Bismahanwar:
You wrote before that you told the first friend that you felt uncomfortable “right from the start”- wasn’t there a “no” when you said you were uncomfortable, right from the start?
I ask, because in a later post you wrote: “when I eventually had the guts to say no”- that reads to me like you did not say no right away.
So which one is it?
anita
November 15, 2017 at 10:14 am #178209Bismahanwar
ParticipantI said to her ‘no i do not feel comfortable giving you because i might get into trouble’ i wasnt sure then but she did keep asking so i thought i should just give her
November 15, 2017 at 10:25 am #178219Anonymous
GuestDear Bismahanwar:
I believe that you need to be clear, say your No and stick with it, make your No be No and your Yes be Yes, not in between, not giving double messages.
If you are not sure at any one time about saying Yes or No, say: I need to think about it and will get back to you. Then take your time and figure your answer. Let her then know if it is a Yes or a No.
anita
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