Have you ever had a really good friendship that ruined you for future friendships?

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answer:Yes, I had two friends whom I invested in too much that I just forgot everything else around me, and worse still, I later found out the friendships were not worth investing. The first one was a classmate from high school. She texted me that she wanted to sit next to me the day before the new school year started. I had virtually no friend at that time so of course I couldn’t turn down the offer. She was very intelligent and perceptive, and she knew about my problem with getting on with the class. She said that I just had some “bad habit” and I just needed to change a little amd everyone would love me. When you are desperate and someone point to you a solution and is willing to guide you, can you resist? But as time went on I noticed something was wrong: she was always criticizing me, and she seemed to want me to be like her. She was also very bossy and easily offended too. I had to back out when I couldn’t take it anymore. And as soon as I ended my friendship she began to spread the word to all of my high school classmates. She told them a lot of horrible things about me like I was inconsiderate, a liar and a user. Luckily I didn’t have any feeling for the classmates so I didn’t risk losing any friend. The second one was from college. She became friends with me on my first day at school. She was like your friend: shared some common thing with me, could carry good conversation… I was so into her that I forgot to get to know other students. Then one day she broke up with me just as sudden as when she appeared. She never gave me a good reason for her leaving other than a plain “we clashed too much”. I heard from her friend recently that she didn’t want to hurt both her and my feeling so she had to cut me off. I still don’t forgive her for cutting off so abruptly and cruelly like that and I want her to tell me her reason directly instead of through a friend, if she is still that conscentious. I’m sorry for what you had to go through. I’ve had a lot of friendship ruined and most of the time it was just because I had chosen the wrong person in the first place. Maybe he wasn’t the real friend you wanted. A normal friend, or at least a conscentious person, doesn’t “push buttons”, even after a breakup. You shouldn’t be sad because at least he showed his true color after the breakup and you were no longer involved. You deserve better friends than that.

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