"My best friend cheats on her husband and asks me to pretend she doesn't have a husband and kids when we go out."

If you must know, I based my entire personality on Seasons 2-5 of "Girls," and I'm a huge gamer.

"I didn’t call him back, and he immediately proceeded to call, FaceTime, and text me and leave voicemails telling me to call him back, and I better not have this baby!"

"On New Year’s Eve, after expressing to him how difficult the pregnancy has been, he continued with the negative comments and told me that having my baby would be a mistake because then I can’t hang out with him when he wants to. I cursed him out, wished him a happy New Year, and blocked him. After 15 years of friendship, I walked away. I look back now and realize just how selfish a person he truly was."

"I got right out of there and left her ranting and raging by herself. A few months after the wedding, I found out they were getting divorced because she got drunk and hit her husband. The woman has problems and refuses to get help. I don't need that."

"Eventually, one of the best girls in our group got involved in a very loving relationship with a co-worker of the toxic friend. They moved in together, we all loved them as a couple, and we foresaw an engagement on the horizon."

"One day, out of absolutely nowhere, the guy walked out on our friends, claiming he no longer felt the way he did before. Our friend was completely blindsided and could barely get out of bed for two weeks; she was completely devastated. Some investigating through friends of friends revealed that the toxic friend had been so jealous of the successful relationship that she spread a rumor at work that our good friend didn't want children, which was completely untrue. Instead of confronting our good friend, the guy just up and left because he believed, 'What else is she hiding?' We collectively cut off toxic friends after that."

"Then this past year, I got sick for about two months, had Covid pretty severely, and had a horrific miscarriage, and not once did they check in. And most recently, my grandmother passed away, and I was really going through it — STILL no check in. When I would reach out, they would call me out. I had to remind them I had no missed messages from them. Took me a while, but I'm done."

"But the affair was too much for me to explain away. It made me realise that she didn’t know, or didn’t care about, the difference between right and wrong. This was also during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, so she also broke the law to meet up with this guy, and exposed her father, who was shielding. The moment she told me (without shame or concern about my reaction), I knew it was over. I told her what I thought, and we haven’t spoken since."

"Two, I had a longtime friend that ran an account for her very popular dog on Instagram. My friend had started earning money from that page through advertising. Mary stole photos of my friend's dog and posted them to her page, pretending that they were her own. She just saw a popular dog on the internet, swiped the pictures, and gave the dog a fake name.

My friend that owned the dog was made aware of the posts, and when she noticed I knew Mary, [she] asked me to tell Mary to take the photos down. So I did, and I was embarrassed to be associated with Mary. Mary didn't take it well, and she started a huge argument about all the grievances she had with me, all while pretending this dog was her dad's. I reverse-image-searched the image, sent her proof that she stole it, and blocked her. I am thankful to not be that young and dumb anymore."

"That was it for me. I told him goodbye. I ran into him months later on the subway, and he started yelling at me so much that my boyfriend had to intervene. I knew I was smart to cut him out of my life."

"It took several more years to extricate myself completely from that friendship, but that was when I realized that, in all the years we had been friends, she had never once asked me how I was feeling. Even when she knew I was going through something really difficult, she only reached out when she wanted emotional support from me. I also realized she would constantly say, 'You're my best friend, and I know if anything happened you would be on the next plane for me.' But she never said she would do the same."

"I started to ignore them after that. Then, recently, told me to chill the fuck out and asked me why I was being so cold to them, and I told them about that day. They still denied they did that. Then, when they must’ve thought I couldn’t hear them, they told about a third of the class half the story and made them laugh, including two of my actual friends."

"At that point, it was too much, and I went to the bathroom and broke down. When I got back to class, it was obvious that I’d been crying, and the way they giggled and gawked at me didn’t help. I just ignore them now." 

"I finally said, 'Sorry, I won't get to see you then.' and left it at that. After the wedding, lo and behold, she was suddenly free to meet up. I just said I wasn't available. Her story to mutual friends is that I 'blew her off' and purposefully 'didn't make time for her.'"

"She was essentially forcing me to choose between her and MY TWIN during her WEDDING. Of course, she would lose."

""She came to visit in Philadelphia and requested avoiding anything related to the American Revolution since it brought about the modern version of democracy (... wtf)."

She was personally more unkind during the visit. And then, right before the invasion, she posted that Ukrainians were nazis. I had had enough and don't regret cutting her out. I cannot justify being friends with someone who is okay with that."

"He denies doing this, but I heard him say it! I told him he needed to stop, or we wouldn't be friends and hang out anymore. The final straw came one night, after I hadn't seen him for about a week. He took it personally. I was a bit annoyed. Then he started asking if I'd been 'chatting to that guy', who I knew from a bar."

"I said no, and he called me a liar and said he 'knows someone on the estate who knows him and knows I've been chatting to him.' He then started acting like I'd done something wrong because I don't fancy him. Then got angry, saying he'd 'done so much for me' and he stormed off.

That was the last time I ever saw him. He tried texting to apologize, but I was done by then. He had crossed the line too many times, disrespected me, ignored my requests to back off, and made me out to be the bad guy. I'm not interested in reconciling with someone like that, and I would never feel comfortable with him again."

"We eventually found her a few hotels away, completely out of it. She'd micro-dosed on acid that morning and conveniently forgot to mention it to the group. Safe to say, the minute we were back in our hometown, I told her we would no longer be friends."

"After that trip, I distanced myself from her and pulled the plug on our friendship two years later when she kept bringing up a guy I used to talk to (who she mocked all the time), asked for his government name among other details, and got offended when I asked if she liked him. Now, I wonder which 'friend' she complains to about me, and when they'll learn that she's the common denominator in all her friendship breakups."

"It took me another few months to finally bring the hammer down, but looking back at it, that was the moment I knew I was done. Cutting her out of my life is one of the best things I've ever done for myself."

"They exploded and sent me a five-paragraph-long text about how I was a terrible friend and only helped them when it was convenient to me, how I had no compassion or empathy, and how they knew I’d be abusive from the beginning. I told them to get out of my apartment and that I never wanted to hear from them again."

"I always thought it was nice to have a friend who didn't share my interests but who could introduce me to new things, but I noticed this was happening all the time."

"Finally, in January 2020, my father-in-law was diagnosed with cancer. I shared the news with her. She sent me a list...A LIST of anime to watch to 'cheer' myself up and let her know what I thought of them. No condolences, comfort, nothing. Just what felt like HOMEWORK I didn't want. At that moment, I was like 'Fuck this.' I instantly thought about what she said about her old friend blocking and deleting her because of her interests. I don't think it was her interests so much as her unwillingness to expand her world; she preferred friends who lived in her comfort zone."

"It was suffocating. And out of all the 16 people that were in the room the day we met, she picked me to be friends with — half asian with asian features. Like, I was a safe bet to cater to her aesthetics. Still makes me cringe. But, with that said, I have NOTHING against K-pop, anime, and manga, just one-sided friendships."

"She eventually did the favor, but in the back of my mind, I was so heartbroken that I just kinda pushed those feelings down. When I got back home I was so excited to see her but every time I was around her I was so angry. I couldn’t quite figure out what the hell was going on."

"When I finally figured it out and approached her about why I had been so mad, she brushed it off like it wasn’t a big deal. I didn’t realize it at the time, but after things started to fall apart and I started thinking back, I realized this was the thing that started the end."

"We drifted apart, and we no longer speak. Not in a bad way, it just kinda fizzled away. After my family realized we weren’t friends anymore, they were all so happy because apparently, none of them ever liked her."

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