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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever dropped a long time friend [View all]MadrasT
(7,237 posts)44. Yep.
The person had become abusive, manipulative, toxic, and was a champion of emotional blackmail. I drew clear boundaries with this person in an attempt to try to preserve some type of amicable relationship, and they violated those boundaries repeatedly.
I don't care if we've been "friends" since 1981; I do not need that shit in my life. Boundaries are established for a reason -- once it is clear that they won't even attempt to respect them, WHOOSH, EJECTION SEAT OUT OF MY LIFE.
Crappy treatment, condescending attitude, whiny manipulation, and on top of it, they turned into a bigoted conservative jerkoff sometime during Bush's second term. The fucker spouts Rush Limbaugh as if it were gospel.
(Sorry about your butterfly.)
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I have recently had to drop the man who I've considered my best friend for almost 40 years.
cliffordu
Jul 2013
#14
I can count my true friends with one hand and still have some fingers left over.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2013
#30
Me, too; must be a Navy thing (not really). In '02 I had found a web-ring of my shipmates
UTUSN
Jul 2013
#41
Better to have fewer friends/family than to be in a toxic relationship especially if
PufPuf23
Jul 2013
#43