People Reveal What Made Them Throw In The Towel On Their Relationship
“Bad relationships are like a bad investment. No matter how much you put into it you’ll never get anything out of it”—Sonya Parker.
She isn’t wrong. Bad relationships and friendships can be draining. They may not always start out bad, and sometimes, just how bad they’ve become isn’t obvious to the parties involved.
There are moments in our lives when we notice that a relationship or a friendship isn’t working anymore. Those moments are a wakeup call so that we can get out of a relationship or friendship that isn’t good for us.
Over at Reddit, hundreds of users have shared tales of the moment when they realized it was time to get out of a friendship or relationship.
Luckily, with their insight, maybe we can learn something that’ll be helpful in our own relationships. Here are the 26 times people knew it was time to throw in the towel on a relationship or friendship.
26. Bad Phone Calls
When I saw their name pop up on my phone, and my immediate reaction was dread rather than excitement.
It's one thing to occasionally feel that a friend is being needy, it's another when literally every communication leads to you wondering, "Oh God, what is it this time?"
25. I Don’t Like Me Better When I’m With You
When I realized I didn't like myself when I'm with them.
24. It’s Not Complicated
I had a group of friends in high school, and we stayed friends until I was about 21.
I stopped hanging out with them when I realized that I wasn't the same person as I was in high school, but they are never going to see anybody but the person they knew when they look at me.
Attempts at self improvement are always met with something like "Why are you faking? That's not what you're like."
Like they want to keep me stagnant as the 16-year-old girl they first made friends with. Things are better now. I'll give an example. There was a girl none of us liked in high school for various reasons.
A prank was played against her involving some ketchup several years before, and one of them mentioned how they had seen her at a restaurant or something.
She didn't say anything, but placed a ketchup packet on their table as she passed by. I thought it was the funniest thing on the planet, but they were all furious that she would dare do something like that.
I told them it sounded harmless and they kept insisting that I was supposed to hate her more than any one of them for some reason.
I said I didn't and they kept insisting I that I should because she was someone I disliked six years ago. They just wouldn't let anyone else in the group grow.
23. Relationship of Convenience
When I realized our friendship was at her convenience and if she didn't need emotional support she would prefer I didn't exist.
I'm willing to bet good money that she hasn't thought about me once since we stopped talking, despite her constant claims of how "important" I was.
I've learned some seriously important lessons about people from it all, though, so I guess it isn't all bad.
