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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.'

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

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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Friend decides to tell best friend’s boyfriend that her 20-year-old girlfriend soft-cheated on him after she didn't tell him herself, now they are back together: 'Her boyfriend said she doesn’t trust me anymore, that’s fine'

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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”’

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’

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’

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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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Friend lends car to long-time friend, and he gets an $85 fine, after the car owner asks for the money back, he hits back with a $22 request for the gas tank he filled: ‘I never ONCE asked him to put gas in that car’

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

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Desperate times call for desperate measures I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but when you suddenly need money, everything becomes an opportunity to get it. That jacket that’s been sitting in your closet for ages? Fair enough, it’s time to (desperately) sell it. That present you didn’t like

Woman can't return a birthday present from a friend, so she makes a last-ditch effort: ‘Her message said "any chance you could just send me the cash instead?" She put the receipt total in there as well, $63.48, and she followed up again on Sunday’

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Friend agrees to dog sit for 2 weeks for $500, friend sends her $170 and then ghosts her ahead of her wedding: 'She could afford to pay you - she just chose not to'

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Guest brings cupcakes to friend's yard party, friend gets annoyed when she offers them to people without asking: 'She asked if I could buy more'

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I’m starting to notice that being friendly isn’t a positive thing anymore I was on /askreddit today, and I stumbled upon this post. Obviously, I was intrigued and wanted to read it to see if I could find tips on improving my selection process and start distinguishing who is trustworthy from who isn’t.

‘What harmless thing instantly makes you think, "I don't trust this person"?’: Reddit debate about small, seemingly harmless traits that immediately signal a person is untrustworthy

We have to accept it, sometimes, we have oddly specific things that we consider deal breakers that not only are way too niche, but are also a bit frivolous. I’m not sure if everyone has these standards or just these people on Reddit, but of course they have the right to hold them.

‘What completely superficial thing makes you not want to be friends with someone?’: Frivolous or irrational reasons that are a deal breaker for a friendship