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Some people are treating their thirties like they were their fifties; I really don’t get it. I’m not against an early night; I never was and never will be, but is it really that we’re more tired, or have we gotten more proactive in rejecting plans we never actually wanted to do in the first place? As I get older, I haven’t necessarily no

Woman reaches 30 and notices a shift in the way her long-time friends act towards friendships in general: ‘In a years time you won’t miss not being in bed by a certain time but have memories and pictures from a night out with your mates!’

’m sure it’s not easy to break up with a friend, but that difficulty can’t be the excuse to lead a double life and exclude said friend from every group while pretending to get along. Of course, one can take matters into one’s hands and realize one’s being left out, but when you live under the belief that those are your friend

22-year-old woman secretly looks at best friend's phone and finds a group chat without her: ‘I have been friends with these girls for 10, eight, and five years. I know that this group chat of theirs isn't solely being used for events that I can't attend’

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This hits close to home because I had a similar falling-out with a friend last week, and I was in the wrong, so I can understand the feeling of being betrayed when nothing is really happening, but there is still no excuse. What surprised me about this story is that the angry friend hasn’t taken any steps back yet, but well, that might

Woman invites a friend to a concert for her birthday and her other friend is left feeling betrayed: 'She sent me a long message denying any of it, calling my feelings "strange" and "shady," and somehow made herself out to be the victim'

Sometimes a person doesn’t know how to express admiration. Complimenting somebody might be the most difficult thing for some people, and they end up bullying you in a naive way that doesn’t cease to be annoying. It starts getting weird when it becomes a habit, and you are forced to discuss a topic time a

Man keeps making strange comments at coworker after he told him he goes to the gym: ‘It’s literally every time he walks by he says some weird remark’

Once upon a time, we all benefited from going to therapy. It was a perfect time when people were actually working on themselves and not trying to learn buzzwords to throw at other people's faces when they were frustrated about something. Therapy has now become a place to absolve oneself of responsibility and lear

25-year-old man offers food to friend, and she declines only to later text him saying she was upset he didn’t insist: ‘She said I should have known she didn't actually mean "no" and that a real friend would've insisted, ordered the food anyway'

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Woman wonders if it was wrong to tell her problematic best friend that she is a pick-me and an attention seeker: ‘She hated I complimented someone other than her’

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Bride expects her BFF and her husband to cancel a prepaid San Diego birthday trip and pay for childcare after rescheduling her 3-day wedding with less than 6 days' notice and uninviting their baby: 'If they were truly friends…'

People react to not having money in the most random ways. Sometimes it’s easier to have a fight with someone than for them to admit they don’t want to pay you back because it’s too much money for them, and not because of some rationalization about a cat’s health, lol. Either way, when someone pushes back t

21-year-old woman drives her friend’s pet to a vet appointment at 4am, pays for it, and her friend says she isn’t going to pay her back: ‘ She thinks we should split the bill because I made a financial decision on his medicine that she didn’t agree to’

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I don’t think this revenge went as well as this Redditor thinks it did, but as I always say: The revenge is for the avenger’s pleasure, nothing more. We should always remember to keep it silly so we don’t hurt anybody. Either way, this avenger reestablished the balance of the universe by doing this, and we’re all v

‘Before she could take it, I turned around and tossed it about five feet away. I turned back to her and sternly said “go pick it up”’: Man remembers his petty revenge on an entitled middle-school classmate

Insecurity is a double-edged sword. When a wound is so open like that, people tend to look for quick, effective ways to soothe its pain, but nothing quick really works, so it s

Man pays an exaggerated compliment to an insecure friend and now regrets it: ‘Now, whenever she gets the chance, she puts other women down by using that comment’

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‘[He] texted me saying he was done with me’: Fifteen-year friendship ends abruptly after one friend throws false accusations against the other without giving a chance to explain

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It’s the same as living together; one thing is to be friends with somebody, but making routines and habits work together peacefully is another. Living together has its own downside because you can’t just ‘go home’ and escape the situation; the situation is quite literally inside your home, but travelling is pretty much the sam

‘She’d get anxious over what we should do. Once we did choose something, she’d try to one up the plans we’d already made’: Woman insists on going on second trip with friend while she looks for a way to reject her

This is by far the weirdest fight I've ever heard in a roommate situation, so much so that I started creating theories in my mind to determine why I don’t think this friend is being truthful about her motives to keep her friend outside her workplace. Even if we give her the benefit of the doubt, all the problems she presents are solvable, so why not try that? I don’t think she is in a position to discuss much, but let’s see.

Woman refuses to allow roomie to work in the same restaurant as her: 'I want to take the job is because we just spent the last six hours after I worked eight hours trying to come up with the rest of the money needed that you were supposed to make’

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Woman gets upset at the guy she's dating because he acts nice when they are alone but condescending when he's with his friends, now she doubts if he's sincere: 'Am I blowing his banter out of proportion?'

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The unavoidable friend I don’t think this is a matter of how social this friend is, really. I know that’s a plausible theory, but some attitudes point to other underlying reasons for this friend’s intrusiveness. Some people can’t see t

Woman wonders how to stop overly social friend from inserting herself into every plan she makes with other people: ‘Sometimes she’ll even message the other person directly or show up after getting the details from me’

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about when it’s the right time to express ourselves. Sometimes, a problem arises, and we speak too quickly, at a time when everyone involved is defensive and nobody understands what’s really going on. Other times, we decide to speak when it’s too late, and we hurt someone for a long time with our sile

Woman abruptly ends a friendship over a comment from social media. After some time, the friend wonders why she never spoke to her about it: ‘I just accepted that we had become more casual friends. But instead of saying that, I made up some dumb excuse.’