Whats your story of a friendship betrayal?

[Anonymous]

They say the lowest circle of hell is reserved for the worst offenders, and among them belong friends who betray trust.

Do you have a story to share?

[FunkyMonkee]

At least one!
5th or 6th grade, I'm walking home from school with a guy I considered my best friend, Chris Sinnico. We're not even a block away from the school grounds and these other two guys I know to be bullies are following us. I hear one of them call to Chris. He falls behind me for a few seconds. I can kinda figure what's gonna happen ain't gonna be good! Why I didn't speed up or run, I don't know. I guess, because I had nowhere to go. My house was a mile away. Next thing I know, Chris jumps on my back like a little monkey, holding my arms so I can't fight back while the other two come in front of me and start beating me up. When they're done, they all run of and leave me in a pile on the sidewalk.
Chris got his a few months later. He was riding his mini bike back and forth across Center Ave. on 4th Street, 4 blocks from where I got beat up, when a car coming down Center, a fairly steep hill, couldn't stop in time, as Chris came darting out from the blind corner, and the car hit and killed Chris. Karma's a bitch!!
At the moment, I'm dealing with another sort of betrayal. My girlfriend, someone I love VERY dearly, has tossed me to the curb because I made A JOKE a few days ago!!! It had NOTHING to do with her!!!
My previous ex-fiance from 25 years ago betrayed me by pretending to be my fiance for the latter half of our 10 years together, while she was cheating on me with another guy. She finally told me that they were getting married but, a year later, she broke up with him over something very petty, too!! I thought women were supposed to be more loving than guys! Looks like that bubble just burst AGAIN!!
My best friend (although we WERE lovers for a few months in `83 and tried to give it another shot 8 years ago) got REALLY pissed at me because I wouldn't give her my last 58c so she could buy cat food for a stray cat that started coming round a few weeks before!! At that point, I was living on the loose change I could pick up at the drive-thru windows at the mall every night!! NO WAY IN HELL am I giving up my life's savings to feed a damn CAT!!! Most likely, it already gets loads of hand-outs from others that take pity on it AND the food it eats at home from its owner!!
2 years later, a guy I was friends with in high school came to the house to look it over because he was a real estate agent of some sort so, I happily gave him a tour of the house. He took a number of pictures of the inside, but ONLY the few places that looked a bit cluttered focusing ONLY on the clutter!! He never bothered taking shots of the rest of the house that were clean and orderly!! A few weeks later, in court, he lied to the judge and showed those pictures, making it look like the whole house was a huge mess inside when it was really only a couple small areas and half of it wasn't even my stuff!! Instead of saying or doing something, my "lawyer" just sat there like a huge, fat lump and did NOTHING!! Well, at one point, he DID lean and whispered to me, "I didn't think your house was a mess." When I was ordered to leave the house, and I took as much of my stuff as I could from the house by Dec. 18th, I asked him if I could come back and get the rest. He said he'd set up a time that I could do that. He never did!! Next thing I know, there's a crew going through the house and throwing everything else I owned into dumpsters!!! I probably lost over a million dollars in collectibles and memorabilia!!!
And, my ex-sisters claimed that mom's last Will was illegal because she wrote a sloppy signature (because her muscles had atrophied and she could barely hold the pen! Plus, she was trying to write with her bad arm, the one damaged by the stroke she had a few years before!) and they claimed she was under morphine when she signed and that I forced her to sign it!!

[BCRanger10]

I was friends (or so I thought) with a guy a few years ago. We'd been trying to start a band for several years, but didn't have much luck. He was in and out of jail, constantly moving from one job to the next, often didn't have a car, and other issues. I was very often having to give him rides or I'd be lending him money that he never paid back (and often wasn't able to anyway).

Things finally started moving in a good direction with starting our band, but that was also right around the time I got engaged and was extremely busy with work and had an unpredictable schedule because of all the overtime. I was working Monday through Friday and he wanted band practice on both Saturday and Sunday. I couldn't and wouldn't do that. I needed a break.

So one night he texts me to ask if I would commit to Sundays, to which I said "no". So he kicked me out of the band and keep going on about how bad he felt. I said we should talk about it and asked of he wanted to hear what I had to say or not. He said "I can't" and then more rambling about feeling bad. I didn't read the rest of the text. So I went down to where he was living at the time to get my guitar stuff. And that was it. I haven't seen or spoken to him since. That was early 2019. After all I'd done for him (being an Uber and an ATM), after being a friend to him (the only one who allegedly stuck with him during his legal issues) and all, he "couldn't" give me the time of day for me to explain my situation. And the thing is this wasn't the first time he'd thrown me under the bus either!

He'd tried for about two or three years to reestablish contact. Earlier on, I ignored him. Later, I was just too busy. Every so often, I think about reaching out to talk. But I don't know.

[alli-112]

One of my best friends was a guy, let's just say I found out what kind of person he actually was when I become involved with another guy we knew. Dude went around like lying to our friends about me, gaslighting, trying to guilt trip me over random bullshit.

Literally ending up going to therapy to learn about emotional abuse in platonic relationships. Really hope that guy has learned better since, because you know that's some self-sabotaging bs and he's just going to keep blaming everyone around him when his self-sabotage does indeed sabotage.

[DishLady]

I do, but it's deeply personal and I also still only have 75% of the story. The rest was lost to gaslighting.

[Anonymous]

My friend used me for free food , clothing and childcare and then exposed everyone to Covid.