- Date posted
- 1y
Can't get over people who were terrible to me
So for context, I was part of a friend group for about three years and it felt like I had finally found my people, the sort of friends who would be with me through thick and thin, friends I could rely on. Then one day I said something gross and embarrassing that made me leave our group chat in shame, wanting to cool off and just come back later. In my absence it turns out that most of my supposed friends actually found me annoying for various reasons (venting too much, oversharing, acting entitled, saying weird things sometimes or not reading the room) and so they decided to just not let me back in. I was also told that me leaving was an overreaction and treated like I had done something horrible by basically running out of the room crying. Ostensibly I was told that I could come back in about a week or two but I did not take this well at all, as I felt like a huge part of my life that I had been building for three years was just being ripped away from me. I periodically sent apologies to the various people involved, in one case needing to ask one of the people who would even talk to me to relay it as one of them unfriended me as soon as I left. After a while of the situation not improving I ended up sending "Well forget all of you, I hope you have good lives without me" messages that I very much regret as that just played into their perception of me, but I was just in such constant pain over the situation I wasn't thinking straight. As a result of those messages, I was called immature, self immolating, impossible to deal with, told that it was a relief when I left and they were happier without me there, and told I was spitting in the face of one friend whose way of talking to me after leaving I called cold. After a couple of weeks just letting it be because I was so tired of hurting (not that it really made it go away) I sent a level headed message showing understanding of how I made people uncomfortable and that I was very willing to improve, only to be told by the person I sent it to that there was no chance and he never even really considered me a friend, more on the level of a coworker or schoolmate who you only hang out with cause they're there. After this I stopped even trying and decided to make a separate group of the people who would still talk to me. Unfortunately I screwed up royally by telling one of them that I clearly was not as good of friends with those people as I thought, which lead him to ask why I would lead with that, noting that this was the only thing I had talked about with him for the past month (which is fair), and to keep their names out of my mouth around him because they are his best friends. So now here I am, three months after that last bit, still feeling the pain whenever I see or hear anything that reminds me of anyone from that group and I'm extremely tired of it. I've been ruminating over it a lot today and even messaged some of the people from the group to see if we could be friends outside of that group context, to which I either got silence or "lol lmao" followed by being blocked. Regardless, the whole point of this is, this has caused me to have extreme trust issues because I thought I could trust these people completely and that was absolutely not true in the slightest. Do y'all have any thoughts on how I can try and put this behind me despite how deeply I've been wounded by it? Sorry if this ended up being too long, I just felt the context was necessary.