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That fine line between admiration and copying every single thing you do There is something definitely uncanny about watching somebody you love, little by little, turn themselves into you. It’s worthy of a horror film. At first, it might feel flattering, but if it progresses, it very quickly becomes unsettling.

‘My best friend has this exhausting habit of constantly copying me’: Woman cuts off her friend for copying her every decision

Heartbreak and unrequited feelings also happen in friendships It’s a peculiar kind of heartbreak. One day you find out you’re not as important as you thought you were in your friend’s life, and it’s terrible. You might have been living in a fantasy, just like it happened with some of your adolescent romances. It’s okay; we’ve all been there.

Woman finds out her best friend got engaged through Instagram Stories: ‘I've watched her from afar on Instagram - with her posting her accomplishments with multiple graduate degrees, and refining her art and her career’

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Dad refuses to let Mom buy Halloween costumes for his 2 daughters, but buys himself a Halloween costume: 'What I do with my money is my business, and I don't have to explain what I do with it.'

Friendship news: Not every misunderstanding deserves a trial, and not every incompatibility is fixable I had a very old friend who once got offended because I didn’t respond to a meme she sent, and she made that incident about how I didn’t care about her or her needs, and that I needed to pay special attention to those things; otherwise, she would feel abandoned.

Woman stops putting effort into maintaining friendships and realizes she was the only one keeping them alive: ‘I used to be the one checking in, starting conversations, making plans, and making sure everyone was okay’

‘It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, It’s me’: I’m the type of person who never confirms plans, and I can tell you what goes on in my mind I don’t intend this to be a defense of flaky friends; I just want to explain what is possibly going on in the mind of someone who’s flaky, ok?

Woman Wonders What Goes on Inside the Mind of Their Friend Who Always Cancels Plans at the Last Minute: ‘If I didn’t know better I’d say she’s trying to get rid of me as a friend, but she still mails me a birthday and Christmas present every year’

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Girlfriend emails ex-boyfriend's boss snitching on him for skipping work after he lies, manipulates, and cheats on her: ‘I felt completely blindsided, humiliated, and disrespected’

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Girlfriend uses his boyfriend's card to order food, even though he told her to delete the card from her phone, she orders $30 worth of food almost every day: 'She’s saying I’m being unreasonable and that I can just pay the minimum payment'

When the friend group starts feeling like an HR department What happens when we start managing our friendships instead of actually experiencing them? We’ve got to a point where all the Instagram infographics have taught us different gibberish to validate our shortcomings.

Woman says therapy speak has ruined her friend group: ‘Any confronting text or conversation to talk about what happened was met with sterile therapy speak and almost corporate HR problem management’

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Sometimes giving a gift becomes a way of establishing an obligation on another person I’m not saying this behavior is a conscious choice; in fact, I believe it mostly never is. But regardless of whether it’s conscious or not, it still happens, and I think we should all start being wary of it.

22-year-old woman cooks for friend and then takes home the groceries they both paid for: ‘She then proceeds to split every single item in half, regardless if, for my portion; she, for example, used 1 slice of cheese from the 14 bought’

We should all upgrade our notion of what normal relationships look like It seems like we’re afraid of exes. In a way, we think it’s impossible to get along with an ex if we don’t want to get back together. I’m here to tell you it is completely possible.

Woman invites her ex-husband and his current partner to a family trip: ‘I got into a huge argument with my family over this because they said it’s not normal and I shouldn’t be okay with it’

This employee not only experiences her coworker’s attitude as annoying, but also as a threat to the boundaries of her identity There is a difference between borrowing something from you and claiming a relationship with you that you haven't consented to. If, let’s say, a coworker buys the same top as you, that’d be inoffensive imitation;

[She] said, 'I want to be you'. She corrected herself: "No, I want to be like you”’ Woman rants about a coworker who seems way too interested in her

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Are the youngest generations bad at making friends, or do we just not understand them? There are a couple of reasons why Gen Z might seem worse at relationships than previous generations. By now, we’ve all realized that social media has created new forms of intimacy that have reshaped how we think about relationships.

Woman reflects on why Gen Z is so bad at friendship: ‘There is a huge need for belonging, but very little tolerance for other people's mistakes’

Only if we were raised by someone who taught us to watch how our love interests handle finances can we escape what happened to the woman who wrote this story. Honestly, that would be pretty clever advice, but sadly, very few people actually get it.

33-year-old woman regrets “badly misjudging” her husband and trusting him with finances: ‘I’m divorcing him and having our finances investigated, but I’m really struggling to reconcile his behavior with the person I thought I married’

If you look back all the time, you’ll miss what lies ahead Grief is a complicated thing. If you have ever gone through an important loss, like the one the woman who wrote this story went through, you will understand me.

Woman leaves her corporate job to deal with grief and now regrets her decision: ‘[Boyfriend] said that everyone goes through grief yet still shows up for work’

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Actions speak louder than words The woman from this story has discovered that her boyfriend was actually capable of noticing that someone deserved a special gesture, imagining what would make them feel cared for, spending time and money to do it, and following through. Sadly, that someone wasn’t her.

Woman realizes her boyfriend was always capable of being attentive, just not toward her: ‘He was late getting home because he was buying flowers and cake for a student from some other discipline on their last day’

I think we’ve all liked a friend at some point in our lives, and we can all agree it always gets very confusing. When we like someone a lot, we naturally don’t want to lose them, so we will likely say yes to keeping them as a friend even though we want more.

Woman shares “unpopular advice” for dealing with a friend who has a crush on you: ‘They'll usually lie about their feelings going away, because they want continued access (even if it hurts them). And they WILL resent you’