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we often stop having a friend and end up with someone who constantly asks for our advice, and then disappears to prioritize their romantic relationship. We only see them when their relationship is going south or when they’re single; we get excited, then it happens again, and they fall head over heels for someone they’ve known for two weeks, tops.

22-year-old Woman is Exhausted by Friend’s Relationship-Hopping Tendencies: ‘With Every Relationship, There's Always Plans on Moving in Together in an Entirely Different State Qith No Real Savings on Her End at Least’

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Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

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Ticket buyer keeps $40 apology voucher for himself after cancelled comedy show, refunds friends for their $80 tickets, then one friend demands a cut and he refuses: 'I took the financial risk'

If we’re giving therapy sessions, we should start charging for them We should keep this in mind: not everyone in our lives is our friend. With some people, we share far more time than we should, but once we see that, we can’t unsee it, and we have to act.

Woman realizes her ‘best friend’ is using her as an emotional dump but never shares anything important about her life: ‘Worse, she treats her actual life like a classified secret. Whenever I have good news or interviews, I share them openly’

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Entitled woman suggest friend makes 10 hour roundtrip journey for a 30 minute coffee, doesn't understand why friend refuses

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Many important life events are just coincidences that happen because you were in the right place at the right time I often think about it; maybe your mom and dad met at a concert that one of them wasn’t going to, and their friends made them go. Maybe you stop a random girl in the street to ask for the time, and she ends up being the love of your life. I mean, what are the odds? But it happens.

‘What's the Smallest Decision You've Ever Made That Ended Up Changing Your Life?’: People Share Minor Choices that Significantly Altered Their Life Paths

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Wealthy girl refuses to pay back her roommate after her parents cut her off, roommate takes revenge by stealing her mattress: 'She's been sleeping on the couch for the last two days'

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Mom of 2 offers to babysit her friend's kids full time, only to have her friend tell her she needs to cut down her paycheck to half: 'I would have never agreed to this'

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Sometimes we shouldn’t even wonder if we’re being mean; just move on with our lives Some people will take advantage of what we give to them. To accept a gift once is one thing, but to continue using and abusing the same thing over and over without ever asking again is a whole other story.

Man revokes his friend’s rooftop access: ‘[He] admitted he’d been bringing dates there because the rooftop had become his “secret weapon”’

A man wearing a trilby strokes his beard while browsing in a clothing store.

Friend persuades employee to let him use employee discount, protests when he bans him from letting others use it too: 'I'm not turning my employee account into a group coupon'

In what universe is cutting pages from a book you borrowed normal behavior? People say you shouldn’t expect books you lend to even come back, but nobody said anything about them coming back with fewer pages. If we had to explain the most basic,

Woman lends cookbook to friend, and she cuts the pages she likes to keep them: ‘She says I never specifically told her not to remove pages’

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Someone wanted to have an espresso every morning And that’s okay. Everybody is allowed their own little luxury; the thing is, if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t try to drag everyone around you to help you get it.

Woman buys a $349 espresso machine without consulting her roommate, who then refuses to pay her share: ‘She said I’d end up using the machine, so I’d be getting it for free, and that you can’t opt out of something that is already in the apartment’

A nail technician files the nails of a client with a shelf of nail polish in the background.

Woman chastises friend for getting nails done at newly opened salon, protesting when there's no friends and family discount: 'It's $12 cheaper than my normal salon'

There is no way this was done with good intent Or maybe it was done with good intentions, but intentions aren’t what counts. Concrete actions count, and these actions are rather questionable.

Woman hides inside her house when 2 friends show up with a third person she specifically told them she had cut off: ‘I feel guilty at hiding as if I wasn't home but felt the other two keep disrespecting my feelings about the 3rd one’

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25-year-old copies everything about her friend, even lying about having the same rare disease as her: 'Watch the movie Single White Female, and then stop being friends with her.'

Sometimes you’re NTA on paper, but you kinda are in real life. I think the man who’s telling this story is bringing an old grudge into it, and I can’t pinpoint exactly why. It’s something about how he describes the other dude’s food preferences,

‘if he wants to order off the kids' menu because he's scared of a little bone, he can pay for his own nuggets’: 25-year-old man refuses to eat regular chicken and orders extra plates on his teammate’s check