Is a friend someone you have known for 20 years?
Is a friend someone you might not talk to for awhile but when you do, you talk like you’ve been talking every day?
Is a friend someone who never forgets your child’s birthday and always buys him a gift?
Is a friend someone who buys you a gift and likes your mom so much that they buy her one too?
Is a friend someone who was there for you when no one else was?
Is a friend someone who listens when you just need someone to talk to?
I always thought I knew what a friend was. I thought I was a good friend and could identify the same. It appears I was naive. And mistaken.
Very, very mistaken.
I understand that things happen in life and people make decisions to protect themselves. But when a friend becomes an ambulance chaser it leaves me wondering what the friendship was based upon to begin with. It makes me sad. It makes me distrustful. And it makes me angry.
I sit here torn between forgiving as the Bible tells me to and praying that she will one day get what is coming to her.
Karma.
What goes around, comes around.
I also wonder how she sleeps at night. What is the character of a person who can look at a friend and see dollar signs? What is the character of her parents who I admired and cared for as they support her decision?
I guess you can put a price on friendship.
And laugh all the way to the bank.
After paying your attorney 1/3 of it.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Everything you said about friendship is so true!
I hope that you realize that there are friends for you like that in the world.
I haven’t known you for very long, but I love you and I’m always here for you.
HUGGLES!! <3
Its really sad that you discover a betrayal especially with the person you considered a friend. Well, i think she’s not a friend indeed and she’s not worth for keeping for 20 years or so. Move on and i hope you will find someone that you can consider as friend.
That’s sad. Happened to me before. Tough times can make people do things that seem out of character. I hope this is the case with your friend. You are right to put distance between you. Hopefully, she’ll wake up and see she has no friends left and work to regain your trust.
I think these types of things are thrown into our lives to test us. Just because some else, someone we trusted as a friend betrays us does not mean we can do the same. You need to pray for her.
Sounds like someone really back stabbed you. That is sooo sad :( Friends are suppose to be there for one another through thick and thin, no matter what. But then again, GOOD TRUE friends are very hard to find!! I hope that greedy individual gets what is coming to her/him!!!
I know how you feel. I sometimes ask myself the same thing when it comes to “friends”
Wow! I totally understand your frustration! Some people are just fake and greedy. Real friends are the ones that realize that a true (real) friendship is worth more than anything in the world!!! Especially money!
((hugs)) Kim!
That’s horrible. I know how painful it is… but I hope you don’t let her keep you from trusting in and developing new friendships. Don’t give her that satisfaction.
Oh Kim, sadly I know exactly how you feel. I was naive too… in 2008 I found out my best friend was having an affair with my (now ex) husband. Talk about shocked. I just thought we were all “friends.” And like Rachel said, it is hard to trust anyone now.
It’s been over 3 years, and I still mourn the loss of the friendship. I thought about her just today, and miss what we had.
People take friendship for granted. Sorry you had to learn that some people truly – at their core – just suck.
Wow. I’m sorry you had to go through that. How horrible to find out that someone you thought you were friends with, is not really your friend. The worst part is that now you feel unable to trust anyone.