r/lostafriend • • 3h ago

I don’t know why I considered her to be my best friend

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I lost my best friend of two years and I really don’t understand why she couldn’t give me a closure at all.
We both connected so naturally, shared similar interests and I was vulnerable with her. I had told her about my deepest fears etc. we used to debate for hours. All together I had wonderful time and wonderful memories with her.

She stopped replying to my messages all of a sudden, she moved in with her boy friend. I thought she was busy because of that. Then I realised that she has blocked me everywhere. I became completely heart broken and couldn’t believe what happened.

I have been sailing through grief which one of my close friends noticed and they have been with me since then. He called her and asked why this happened and why there was no closure.

She said that I had become emotionally overwhelming and just cos she cares doesn’t mean that she can take all these emotional messages. She also said that she is always a happy person and I’m immature and childish.
She also told that I’m not exclusive and my behavior is extremely childish. Even made fun of my beliefs!
I’m here still sitting with a lot of grief. I really thought she got me… may be not


r/lostafriend • • 4h ago

Advice Friend is struggling alone. Please read

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19(M)

please read?I feel like this is a safe space to talk about something I am going through.

I have a friend(19F) she has been by my side through every single trouble and problem in my life, and I have been for her.

but now, she is going through the worst time of her life and she is pushing me away because she feels like she is hurting me by doing what she is (she blocks and unblocks me because of her BF who btw is not a good person. I don't talk to her about him for obvious reasons but i personally don't like him and she WANTS to break-up but she doesn't have anyone else rn and has too much peer pressure to leave. And she thinks because she blocks me, she's hurting me which she is not. She might be hurting herself but not me), even though she is not(this is not a biased opinion. even my other friends who know my situation thoroughly think she is not hurting me at all) Idk what to do. I don't want to help her. i just want her to know I am by her side whatever happens because she is going to lose her identity and self like this and she has noone else to rely on. she doesn't even tell the others the truth which she told me (that she wants to break up but can't) before pushing me away, she doesn't tell them because she's scared they will judge her or leave her for it. it's sad and disgusting and I am sorry for being vague.

what should I do? and please, don't tell me to let go. I would have let go if this was any other friend, or if she wanted to break this friendship because she didn't want it. but I won't leave for this reason where she feels she doesn't deserve my friendship or whatever. (and no, there are no romantic feelings involved. What we have is entirely platonic albeit we are extremely good friends. But that is all we are.). please. need help.

You can ask for more info if you want


r/lostafriend • • 45m ago

close guy friend pulled away

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r/lostafriend • • 1h ago

Support Still have thoughts of a friendship breakup and need support.

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Hey ya, I just want to vent and in need of some support.

You see almost 3 years ago, one of my friend, who was a girl, decided to end our friendship with me. Now we first meet at an Intentional Community for Episcopal Service Corps program in Boston, in which we lived together. We had fun memories watching TV shows, movies, and playing board games, in which she leads me for this to be a hobby of mine. She eventually left to go to Harvard Law School, while I stay a second year in the program. She told me that our friendship would end month after she left. This has led me to have trauma because of it and I have thoughts and worry that I will not get a true (friend or romantic). She even unfollow me on Instagram, a month after she told me, probably because I posted on Instagram stories that I feel hurt that I lost a friendship relationship. Yet she would still be friends with people in that Intentional Community and even one person was living with me. Now, we have talked in parties in respectable ways to each other, after the relationship, but the feelings still hurts. I am also worry, because I am autistic, that I might be a shitty person, due to the fact that I have been bully, as well as hard time forming long relationship. Right now, I have been going to therapy for about a year, and while it has help, the thoughts sometimes still pop.

So yeah, any advice, and support would be appreciated.


r/lostafriend • • 1h ago

My life has improved so much, but I'm still in love with the girl I lost months ago. How do I move on when I don't even want someone else?

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r/lostafriend • • 18h ago

Advice My entire friend group randomly ghosted me with no warning

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I’m honestly not really sure how to describe this, because I’m at a loss for words. I never thought something like this would ever happen. My whole friend group has just gone radio silent on me, with no explanation why. Our group Discord servers went completely silent, and no one was answering my DMs when I reached out. Then this morning, I looked to find that three of them have blocked me on Tumblr. I messaged each person again, asking what had happened and if I had done anything wrong. Again, silence. It’s like I have completely disappeared from their lives.

I’m honestly broken. These people have been my friends for over two years now. They were my main source of friendship in college. I have always struggled making friends, and these people felt like I had finally found a good group. They all knew that I had horrible anxieties over being abandoned, and they swore up and down that they would never drop me without telling me why. I can’t figure out why they would do something like this. I don’t know how I’ll move forward and bring myself to trust new people again. I’m honestly just heartbroken.


r/lostafriend • • 7h ago

Discussion I still wish to fix things…but I know it’s time to move on

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Yeah so recently my friend and I had a fallout that I still think it could have been avoided had we just communicated. However, this fallout is probably for the best because it’s a clear example of how our relationship works. Whenever we hang out, I am always walking on eggshells thinking of not trying to say the wrong thing. But even when I don’t say the wrong thing, they usually blow up at me and ends up not talking to me for days to sometimes weeks at a time.

It was getting old and I still want the friendship for the good times but the fights outweigh them.


r/lostafriend • • 3h ago

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r/lostafriend • • 11h ago

Complicated Mix of Emotions Heartbroken over what feels like the slow loss of my best friend

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I met S when I was a teenager, but we reconnected just before the pandemic.

Everything went into lockdown, and we had each other. We would talk every day, sometimes for hours and hours. We’d write all these wonderful words together. I’d tell him everything going on in my life. I thought he’d tell me everything going on in his.

I was clear to S that I’d had a best friendship like this before. That I’d loved someone deeply like this before; before I’d been sidelined and left behind, because that person was ready to move on to more IRL friends and seeking out a romantic relationship. And he swore he’d never do that to me. He swore. He said he was my soulmate, like I’d told him I was his. And I showed him all the different parts of me.

Things got a little slower this past year or two. I’ve had mental health problems for most of my life. When I get depressed, I’m not the most compelling person to talk to, but I do try my best. But I think this was my fault. I was tired and uninteresting. Wasn’t there as much as I should have been. But I thought I was safe. I thought he’d understand.

He ended up in a relationship this year. I didn’t freak out on him, but on my side, I had a total meltdown. Thought I was going to lose him. He said no, I’d always be his number one. I started trying to soothe myself by looking up things about soulmates, how they could be platonic, how things didn’t necessarily have to change.

They changed almost immediately. If he wasn’t over at his partner’s house, his partner was over at his. He’d disappear for a whole day at a time, barely around. The dread grew. I told him a few times that I was struggling with what was happening. He said he’d try harder. Nothing changed. I felt myself withdrawing. I tried not to, but I didn’t have the energy to pretend that I was doing okay when I wasn’t. I knew things were happening that he wasn’t telling me about. I was no longer “his person.”

I tried to get to know his partner. Tried to arrange a zoom call, that fell through. Tried to arrange that he come to a concert with us, my friend said “you don’t have to force it just because you think i want that.” Tried to explain i was trying to get to know him because he was important to my friend. Didn’t change.

Had a fight last week. Agreed to take some time apart. Concert cancelled. I know he’ll be bringing his partner now instead. The thought makes me ache.

He told me he’s been having a hard time with this too, because I’ve not really been there the way a best friend should be. I know that. I hate that. I hate myself. But what am I supposed to do? The alternative is lying and pretending, is that better? Do I just let us drift apart?

I loved him more than I’ve ever loved anyone my whole life, and he left me behind. I don’t know what to do with this pain.


r/lostafriend • • 4h ago

Support Guys please give me some advice on this

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r/lostafriend • • 5h ago

Advice pls respond

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I had a best friend for 5+ years and recently our friendship ended in August.

She was upset at me because of me for ignoring her on the phone and not listening to her problems.
The next day she seemed pissed off about a situation with her and her talking stage and came off harsh on the phone. I let her know that I will give her space as she has these relationship problems but I was just shocked myself because she never acts like this around me.

She said she was sorry she came off harsh she just felt like she was ignored. However, I didn’t tolerate it as I have started to notice whenever she is in a relationship she will spend time with her friends but divert most of her attention to the relationship and she has been on a break with her talking stage and they haven’t been speaking as much.
But I did tell her to leave the relationship because I told her to know her standards and during that break there was other guys who were showing more love and attention consistently whereas, the talking stage it felt like it was on and off, he was active and then he would ghost because of personal problems.

She got offended because I made my comment but each to their own and apologised if it didn’t seem that way but then again everyone has their own opinion and I did give her the space.
However, I have started to notice something I am kind of excluded and just something is not right or whenever we made plans with each other we only got to see each other one in a while (this is the part I will get to later in the story). After this she said “I see how you are moving, I am just not going to go back and forth with you”.

Fast forward I reposted a tiktok about people who get into relationships and ghost people and she thought this was intended to her which was not and things that I post are either factual or other people been through it and she messaged me at 1am in the morning on tiktok. Then I responded back saying this has nothing to do with her and that I already apologised and gave her space so that she can do what she needs to do plus I was going through some personal problems because she was annoyed that I deactivated my account to cover up and act victim then I never heard from her but she was active on social media reposting, however a couple days I took the time to rectify my message after I went to the gym around 8pm/9pm and got left on delivered for almost a day. She said she had a night shift and that she didn’t respond back until 9am when she was on her break, however I downloaded my data on snapchat and saw that I was the one who blocked her on the 24th August but I also removed her on the 20th August around 2pm because she never responded back to my message since I sent it and I did wake up midday to see she still hadn’t responded.
Also around 10:15am I did see she put her phone on dnd so that no one would contact her and also she did post on her snapchat the night before.

She said she responded back after her break and I didn’t see not one message come thru that she sent.

Fast forward also she planned to come to my graduation which was in September, she told me the day after my graduation that she had an appointment at the hospital because she has been complaining about her health, I didn’t dismiss that she was coming and the day after she had an appointment. She sent me the money to buy the train tickets and this was before we stopped talking and also she also brought herself the tickets for the seating of my graduation.
I told her give me the email for the tickets to be sent to you, I have various of proof that she has used that email and that 2 years ago when i sent her a recording of a situation that happened and she also confirmed got the email of the tickets with the pdf file.

The same app I used which was trainpal was the same that I used to get everyone else tickets. She said the reason why she didn’t come is because everyone was blocked and I blocked her bare in mind her mum and my mum were in contact with each other from time when I went to hospital while back and she said she still had plans to go and that she was very ill during that period and was in hospital.
She said everyone contacted me and thats when I asked who and sent all my call log, from august coming up to September. No one called me and actually I got two no caller id’s call me that was it but nothing else during the week.

She said, you keep finding alternative routes to reach out but I shouldn’t have to go different routes to get through to you which you just did. Also, I already knew she had plans to go hospital from after so regardless if any circumstances she could of have not made it, I would of reimbursed her if anything she could of sent me a doctor’s note and she would of got her money back but she never said anything to me and held the resentment.

She also said I blocked everyone the same day but when I downloaded my data, everyone got blocked different dates and I have visible proof of it.
She said she was on call with people and that those people were blocked but yet she couldn’t name those people who got blocked when I tried to mention it to her.

Then she said clearly everyone that was blocked (but you can name people because you are defending for them) and she then next mentioned she wasn’t going to give out my number to people I see as strangers but then again if I was the one to leak both of her two numbers to people now I would be classified as problematic?

She also mentioned that she never went to people who was mutuals with her and that knew me about the situation but yet one of people just blocked me last night.

Then she mentioned that people can add you on snap but you might not add back and when people text you
and they ain’t your friend it won’t come up on your friend’s chat. Someone correct me or am I bugging because I posted on my public profile on the day of my graduation and I know the people who responded back to my story on the day and only 3 people who wasn’t added back on my snap which I had from long time ago removed me because they saw I was on their subscription.

Also as well, she said congratulations to me but she was already but I swear you can watch someone’s story when they are blocked but not respond to their chat because you are blocked and that goes the same thing when you are removed or not added back, so no one did add me.

She thought also that I was comfortable running away with her money but yet again there is two people out there who owe her more than £1.3k and yet they haven’t paid back and single penny and not once did it cross my mind like yeah you could get your money if you had said something.

Also we was meant to go young thug’s concert in amsterdam, I got the tickets for both of us she sent her half, regardless she never turn up for my graduation so now i am meant to stop my life to not go to the concert and plus those who were there know that thug only performed for 30 minutes and everyone wants their money back? Bare in mind this trip was not mandatory it was completely optional same thing with my graduation, it was never by force to come she had the option.

She already knew she made her cut with me when she said “I didn’t cut you hun if anything I cut you first”.

Also majority of her other problems have to do with family and other things but realistically anything to do with family that is not my business because I don’t even get involved in anything to do with my family business and neither do I involve her in my family business.

There was also a time were she was upset because I wasn’t spending time with her when I was gone and majority of her people were gone to uni up in the Midlands, comes to find out she saw a lot of people around her and spent time with them but when it was someone like me I only saw her once in a blue moon and she been saying she will come up and see me when she had time and 3 years had past and never once saw me up in the midlands unless I came back down to London.
Especially when she was in a relationship, I barely saw her and it would only ever be once in a while or whenever it was my birthday.

Also bare in mind I never went to anybody else about this situation but yet she did?

Do you think she should get her money back?


r/lostafriend • • 15h ago

I know online isn’t reality but still 😿

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we met almost 10 years ago, I started having feelings for no reason. I talked too much to them. I need to stop messaging them. Last time they said ”I hope you have an awesome week too” and I did not reply because my life is sad at the moment. So… will see. they are not into me and I am afraid of validation. So yeah I don’t think they care much so they won’t talk back to me or initiate. When they do though it’s rare and they just say ”hey what’s up” which does not feel genuine enough for me. It has been 10 days. Maybe not a lot but still, enough for me to know it’s over. Thanks if ever someone read me. Best wishes to everyone here as well ❤️😿 You think people care but they don’t. You are just an online acquaintance and that’s it.

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r/lostafriend • • 5h ago

So there's a girl who's literally making my life miserable!

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Backstory - This girl was my bestfriend for like 3 years but her company wasn't the best she was very oriented towards boys and didn't have her own damn life so I maintained distance with her and eventually found new good friends(we are in same class). And i guess it's quite fine right because she found new friends too. But she started spreading lies about me like I've 3-4 bfs I'm awake till 2-3am because I talk to guys (god forbid I've isnomia😭) and I don't seem to care about her but listening about what she says about me is a pain in ass for real. And just so you I've bubbly personality but she was literally telling others that I'm overreacting and always seeking for attention. I try my best to make sure they don't affect me because i always read philosophical thoughts like if you don't give it power to affect you, then it won't. But I feel sad even though after knowing their assumptions about me doesn't define me!!


r/lostafriend • • 20h ago

Advice I spent the last 10 years cultivating the wrong friendships. How do I process this and move on?

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I (34F) recently had to cut ties with my best friend of over 13 years because her mental health struggles led her to be emotionally and verbally abusive, and she refused to hear me out or get help. I also cut off another incredibly close friend of 10+ years, because he cheated on my childhood friend and I'm absolutely disgusted with him.

We were all part of the same core friend group, and slowly over time I've realized this group of friends just isn't it for me. They like to judge people, are incredibly negative, and are incredibly absorbed in their own lives they barely show up in a way that I can feel a genuine connection with them. I always show up when they are having a hard time, check in on them, show genuine interest in their hobbies/interests and try to cheerlead... but I also don't feel like it's reciprocated to the same degree.

I opted to stop talking to this friend group for a set period of time and so far my mental health has significantly improved. I don't feel left out or ignored anymore, and I definitely don't feel weighed down by the problems they share or the gossip that blooms.

I have other friends, but everyone is drowning in their own problems. I'm constantly listening to them vent, offering advice, or offering help - but I just don't receive the same in return either. I also am learning that a surprising large number of them are either problematic (Transphobic, pick me's, etc.) or bystanders (people who will never speak up or stand up for others if they see them being mistreated, they hyper focus on self preservation). All of which goes against my own values.

I'm already struggling with losing my best friend, who was my soulmate and the one person who understood me best. It's an additional blow to realize the remaining friends I have are people I don't feel I can depend on to show up or build a community with.

What do I do? How do I move on? I'm already dealing with anxiety and depression, and I know the general advice is to get into hobbies and volunteering to meet like minded people but I just don't have the confidence that I will connect with good people anymore.


r/lostafriend • • 7h ago

It Takes Time I miss my friend

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My story is long, complex and can make me tie myself into an emotional tangle so I'll keep it simple.

I met my ex best friend a year and half ago at work, I had felt this wierd,unexpected, unexplainable pull towards her. We didn't truly begin our friendship until August of 2026. It started out great. Then I admitted I had a crush on her... She liked me back.... It changed how we talked but I didn't mind. She's really good at flirting and giving compliments. We decided to explore a relationship.Our relationship was short lived but fun. She broke up with me over text. I was pissed at first but I got to tell her how it made me feel. We stayed friends, but it wasn't the same. Something was broken but we both couldn't see it. We went to comic con together had a blast and I thought everything was settling down a bit. Oh boy was I wrong... We had a bad fight. I spent 3 and 1/2 days crying my eyes out because I didn't even know if she was alive. She was getting the help she needed and my worry and guilt was for nothing.

We used to work in the same classroom. We are both in the education field. It was fun for a while until she said things that made the situation fall apart. She works across the hall now. Now, she's cold, and distant.

But she can't seem to stop staring at me. She's really good at reading my body language to. I've been pretending to be cold and distant but she sees right through me. My co-worker who is friends with my ex bestie as well keeps telling me that she'll talk to me eventually. She needs time. I agree with my co-worker but at the same time I can't be in the same room as my ex bestie because she basically hates me right now.

I would appreciate any advice, supportive words to help me through the silence.

Edit: There is more layers to the story of course. They've been left out on purpose to protect my ex bestie identity and also keep my identity safe.


r/lostafriend • • 11h ago

Support My childhood friend of 20 years was arrested

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He served 2 years before for what he said was a woman lying about her age. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, I was happy when he was out. Today he was sentenced to 15 years for graphic material which also included toddlers/infants. I seriously can't believe it.

I had 2 people who were my childhood friends. After I moved away, one of them essentially forgot about me and my family which really hurt. Now with this one who I still was more in contact with and closer, ends up getting this insane charge. Really hurts not having anyone now, always thought we'd all be friends for life. Now it's just me.

As for my friend, I wish I knew what compelled him to do this, especially after already serving time you'd think he would do everything to stay out. He will go in, and his family with age, siblings get married, have kids, have birthdays. So many things will be missed, and the world will move on... But he'll be sitting in that cell.

He deserves it, but a part of me really hurts. Knowing this is it for him... that I'll never have close childhood friends now, thinking of how things used to be. You always read about stuff like this, but when it happens to you it's so surreal and painful.


r/lostafriend • • 10h ago

Mi amiga de vóley dejó de aparecer de un momento a otro y hay algo de todo esto que no logro sacarme de la cabeza...

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No sé exactamente cómo explicar esta situación, pero llevo semanas pensando en ella y necesitaba escribirlo en algún lugar. Quizá para algunas personas no sea nada extraño, quizá tenga una explicación completamente normal, pero para mí se siente muy raro porque conozco a esta persona desde hace tiempo y nunca imaginé que terminaría preguntándome qué pasó con ella.

Todo comenzó con algo tan cotidiano como ir a clases de vóley.

Yo tengo dos amigas con las que suelo pasar mucho tiempo durante los entrenamientos. Una se llama Jimena y la otra es Luciana, aunque nosotros la llamamos Luci. Éramos prácticamente inseparables. Siempre que llegaba el momento de hacer equipos de tres al final de las clases, terminábamos juntas. Era nuestra pequeña costumbre, algo que ya hacíamos casi automáticamente.

Luci no era simplemente alguien con quien compartía una actividad. Era una parte importante de nuestro grupo. Nos llevábamos bien, nos reíamos juntas y teníamos esa confianza que aparece cuando compartes muchas tardes con las mismas personas.

Nuestras clases eran los lunes, miércoles y viernes, desde las 5:10 hasta las 6:30 de la tarde. Luci solía ser muy puntual. Normalmente llegaba a tiempo y, si alguna de nosotras faltaba, se notaba inmediatamente porque ya no estábamos las tres.

Además, yo tenía un pequeño emprendimiento de productos K-pop y Luci solía comprarme photocards los días que coincidíamos en la academia. Era algo habitual entre nosotras, así que verla durante los entrenamientos y hablar con ella se había convertido en parte de mi rutina.

Todo parecía normal.

Hasta que dejó de serlo.

Unas semanas antes de que yo faltara a las clases, ocurrió algo que en ese momento no me pareció importante.

Estaba enseñándole a Luci una compra que iba a hacer su abuela cuando nos regañaron por estar utilizando el celular durante el descanso. Su abuelita nos llamó la atención delante de Luci y nos dijo que debíamos practicar en lugar de estar con el teléfono.

Fue una situación incómoda, pero tampoco fue algo extraordinario. Estábamos en el descanso y, después de aquello, Luci siguió comportándose normalmente con nosotras. Estaba feliz, hablaba con nosotras y no parecía molesta por lo sucedido.

Por eso nunca pensé que aquel momento pudiera tener alguna importancia después.

Más adelante, Luci comentó que llevaría su celular para intercambiar números de WhatsApp con nosotras. No recuerdo todos los detalles de aquella conversación, pero sí recuerdo que lo mencionó y que volvió a decirlo cuando yo no estaba presente.

Eso significa que no fue solamente algo que yo escuché mal una vez. Mi amiga también sabía que Luci tenía pensado llevar su teléfono.

La idea era que finalmente pudiéramos hablar fuera de la academia, enviarnos mensajes y mantener el contacto incluso cuando no tuviéramos clases.

Sin embargo, nunca llegamos a intercambiar nuestros números.

Y después ocurrió algo que cambió por completo nuestra rutina.

Durante septiembre, Jimena dejó de asistir durante una o dos semanas porque tenía exámenes. Me lo había comentado, así que sabía que su ausencia era temporal y que tenía una razón concreta.

Poco después, yo también tuve que dejar de asistir durante una semana porque estuve hospitalizada.

Mientras estaba fuera, no podía ir a los entrenamientos ni compartir las tardes con mis amigas. Pensaba que, cuando regresara, todo volvería a la normalidad. Volvería a la academia, encontraría a las chicas y podríamos seguir jugando como siempre.

No sabía que, cuando regresara, una parte de nuestra rutina ya no estaría ahí.

El 12 de octubre volví a las clases.

Llegué y solamente estaba Jimena. Luci no había aparecido.

Al principio pensamos que quizá llegaría tarde. No era extraño que alguien se retrasara alguna vez, así que esperamos mientras avanzaba el entrenamiento.

Pero el tiempo pasó.

Llegó la hora en que normalmente terminábamos y Luci no apareció.

No hubo ningún mensaje suyo porque no teníamos su número. Tampoco recibimos una explicación de algún familiar. Simplemente no estuvo ahí.

Lo más extraño era que Luci acostumbraba llegar puntualmente. No era alguien que faltara constantemente ni alguien cuya ausencia pasara desapercibida.

Por eso me resultó tan difícil entender lo que estaba ocurriendo.

Al principio pensé que quizá se había perdido algunas clases por motivos escolares o familiares. Mi amiga Jimena también había faltado anteriormente por sus exámenes, así que no parecía imposible que Luci tuviera algún motivo parecido.

Pero fueron pasando los días y continuó sin aparecer.

La última vez que Jimena recuerda haberla visto fue un viernes antes de que comenzara octubre.

Desde entonces, por lo que sabemos, no hemos vuelto a verla en los entrenamientos.

Lo que más me desconcertó ocurrió cuando decidí preguntarle al profesor por ella.

Esperaba una respuesta sencilla, algo como que estaba faltando durante unos días o que regresaría la siguiente semana.

Pero el profesor me dijo que Luci ya no estaba inscrita en vóley.

Esa respuesta me dejó confundida.

¿Cómo que ya no estaba inscrita?

Yo no sabía que hubiera decidido abandonar las clases. No recuerdo que nos hubiera contado que iba a dejar de asistir definitivamente. Tampoco recuerdo que se hubiera despedido de nosotras ni que nos hubiera dicho que no volvería.

Para mí, simplemente había dejado de aparecer.

Cuando le comenté lo que el profesor me había dicho a Jimena, ella no tenía una explicación que pudiera confirmar. Pensaba que quizá Luci seguía inscrita y que podía estar de vacaciones, pero eso era solamente una posibilidad.

No sabíamos si había dejado la academia, si su familia había tomado alguna decisión o si existía algún otro motivo.

Y lo peor es que tampoco teníamos una manera sencilla de averiguarlo.

No teníamos su número de WhatsApp. No sabíamos dónde vivía y nunca habíamos hablado directamente con su madre o su abuelita sobre la posibilidad de que dejara las clases.

Todo lo que teníamos eran recuerdos, unas cuantas conversaciones y la información contradictoria que habíamos recibido.

Fue entonces cuando empecé a recordar aquella conversación sobre el celular.

Luci había dicho que lo llevaría al día siguiente para intercambiar números.

Después no llegamos a hacerlo.

Y, con el paso del tiempo, dejó de asistir.

No puedo afirmar que estas cosas estén relacionadas, pero ahora me cuesta evitar pensar en ello.

También recuerdo lo de su abuelita. Aquel día nos regañó delante de Luci por utilizar el teléfono. Sé que eso no demuestra nada, pero me hizo pensar que quizá en su familia fueran estrictos con ese tipo de cosas.

Tal vez Luci no pudo llevar el celular.

Tal vez tuvo algún problema con sus horarios.

Tal vez sus familiares decidieron que dejara de asistir a vóley.

O quizá todo esto no tenga absolutamente ninguna relación entre sí.

No tengo pruebas para defender ninguna de esas explicaciones.

Lo extraño es que, cuando recuerdo cómo se comportaba Luci antes de faltar, no encuentro ninguna señal evidente de que estuviera enfadada con nosotras. Después de lo ocurrido con su abuelita, siguió feliz. No recuerdo ninguna discusión entre las tres ni ningún momento en el que pareciera querer alejarse de nuestro grupo.

Por eso me cuesta entender que haya dejado de aparecer sin que nos enteráramos de lo que estaba pasando.

Hay algo bastante inquietante en acostumbrarte a ver a una persona en el mismo lugar durante meses y, de repente, dejar de verla sin tener una explicación.

Al principio esperas que llegue tarde.

Después piensas que quizá faltará solamente ese día.

Luego vuelves a la siguiente clase y miras de nuevo hacia la entrada, casi por costumbre, esperando verla llegar con su familia.

Pero la clase comienza, el entrenamiento continúa y ella no aparece.

Cuando llega el momento de formar los equipos de tres, ya no somos las mismas tres personas de siempre.

Es una ausencia pequeña para alguien que no la conoce, pero para nosotras cambia completamente la dinámica de las clases.

Yo extraño a Luci. Jimena también formaba parte de ese trío y ahora tenemos que acostumbrarnos a que falta alguien con quien compartíamos todos esos momentos.

Lo que más me duele es no saber si algún día volveremos a jugar juntas.

No sé si Luci sigue yendo a alguna otra academia. No sé si está de vacaciones. No sé si dejó el vóley por decisión propia o si sucedió algo en su familia. Ni siquiera sé si ella sabe que seguimos preguntándonos por su ausencia.

Y no quiero inventarme una historia terrible solamente porque no tengo respuestas.

Sin embargo, cada vez que recuerdo que iba a llevar su celular para intercambiar números con nosotras y que después dejó de aparecer, siento esa extraña necesidad de encontrar una explicación que conecte todas las piezas.

Quizá, dentro de unos días, vuelva a verla entrar por la puerta de la academia acompañada de su abuelita, como si no hubiera pasado nada. Quizá nos explique que tuvo que dejar las clases durante un tiempo y que finalmente podrá regresar.

O quizá no vuelva.

Por ahora, no sé cuál de esas posibilidades es la verdadera.

No estoy diciendo que haya ocurrido algo sobrenatural ni que le haya pasado algo malo. No tengo ninguna evidencia para afirmar algo así. Lo único que sé es que una amiga que formaba parte de nuestra rutina dejó de asistir, que el profesor dijo que ya no estaba inscrita y que nosotras seguimos sin conocer el motivo.

Y quizá eso sea lo que hace que la situación se sienta tan extraña: no ocurrió nada que podamos señalar como el momento exacto en que todo cambió. No hubo una despedida que recuerde, una explicación que pudiera conservar ni un último mensaje que nos permitiera entender lo sucedido.

Solamente estábamos acostumbradas a verla llegar.

Y un día dejamos de verla.

Desde entonces, cada entrenamiento continúa sin ella, mientras nosotras seguimos intentando entender qué pasó con nuestra tercera integrante.

Ojalá algún día pueda volver a jugar con nosotras. Por ahora, lo único que me queda es recordar los partidos que compartimos y esperar que esté bien, donde quiera que se encuentre.


r/lostafriend • • 11h ago

Advice Trying to find old freind

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r/lostafriend • • 11h ago

After two years reconnected with high school friend.

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r/lostafriend • • 18h ago

Advice I'm 20, in my third year of college, and I suddenly realised I haven't talked to my school friends in almost 3 years.

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I'm 20, in my third year of college, and recently I've been missing my school friends a lot.

I realised I haven't talked to some of them in almost 3 years. We used to meet every day, sit together in class, travel on the school bus, and laugh about the most random things.

Now, I don't even know what's happening in their lives.

I'm not on Instagram or Snapchat, and over time, I just lost touch with almost everyone. I still have some of their numbers, but I can't bring myself to message them. I don't know why it feels so difficult.

I regret not staying in touch. I genuinely miss those people and wish I could talk to them again.

Has anyone reconnected with old school friends after years of silence? How did you start the conversation?


r/lostafriend • • 1d ago

How It Ended I ended a friendship with someone who is constantly complaining

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I met him a couple of years ago while playing a game. We were good friends at first, talking about strategy and tips, but the longer we stayed friends, the more he started complaining.

This is all through discord by the way. He lived far away. He would have what I’d called ‘depression episodes’ where he would talk about depressing stuff in his past and his pain. I would say stuff that made him feel better, and it worked at first, but the episodes would come back later.

The more we got to know each other, the more often he would complain. I recommended him counseling, therapy, and life coaches and he wouldn’t take any of them. It got to the point where he would call me in the middle of the night to complain. It would became a daily occurrence of him talking about depressing stuff and me trying to cheer him up. It was exhausting.

Then one day, during one of his depression episode I think, he said he didn’t want to be friends anymore. All I asked was “are you sure?” and he replied “yes”. I ended it with “fine, goodbye”, and I actually felt relief. It all ended with his final words “You gave up so easily. Why didn’t you try harder!?”. I sometimes still think about it.


r/lostafriend • • 14h ago

Should I respond? 6 year gap

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6 years ago I had so many unresolved problems in myself that made me lash out to my closest friend group. Genuinely lash out with anger for no particular reason.

I left in a bad way but then 6 years passed nobody contacted me, and I dont blame them so I accepted a year later I saw that they all attended a friend's wedding and it kinda stung but I said to myself its what they wanted.

Now suddenly I get a text from the main person I burned and i dont know how to feel about this.

It doesnt regress my development or bring bad feeling its just why now? I left during covid so I understand why it was so easy for us to just not communicate but so many years passed after that. Im not resentful or hateful to them, its just that I accepted that It just happened. And I cant blame myself too hard I genuinely am a completely different person than I was, I understand myself more and why I did that. I just never apologized for it since they never reached out so I just accepted it.

6 years is so long thwt I genuinely dont feel guilty about anymore but it does just seem strange.


r/lostafriend • • 21h ago

How to Cope?

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Lost a friend of 4 years today. He got offended to what I said. I apologized as I chose my words poorly. He blocked me.

I just want to ask how to cope?

I dont think it is a loss for me for him to be gone but I still feel sad.


r/lostafriend • • 15h ago

Starting to hate my friend and the resentment is eating me away

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I have a close friend group of 4 people. I’ve been friends with them since middle school and I love them all dearly. We are all in our twenties rn and 3/4 are in uni. the other one didnt get admitted to the master program she was aiming but tbh her family is hella rich (like RICH rich) so I don’t think its a big issue - we’re gonna call her emily.

i love emily very much and I thought I knew her well, in the sense that she’d always been straight forward about herself, how she likes things, how she feels, what the thinks about certain topics etc… also out of the whole friend group, her and I we have a lot in common, we relate a lot to each other (or I thought we did).

one thing about Emily is that she’s a very dynamic texter, a very sweet talker. she’s the kind to get all “awwww ilysm you’re my favorite person” “omg lets do this and that and this and that” “when are we seeing each other ??” (in reality she’s less pickme sounding than that it’s just to give you an idea)
but she does have these big speeches about how we mean the word to her and how we are very precious to her

and for a big portion of our friendship I believed very hard to all of this talk (one big reason for this was that we spent a big portion of our friendship in lockdown (teenagers during Covid), so obviously, i could only take her words for facts because well… I’d never get to SEE her committing to them since we couldn’t even see each other )

anyway

time has passed and the sugar coating started to wear off a little bit so when we (as a friend group) really started committing to our “let’s live together“ running gag, I thought I knew what I was getting into

i knew how pretentious she can get

i knew how most of her “omg lets do that” never happens at all

one thing that hurt the most to realize was how I started to only be DMed either for stupid shit or for a favor, one time we spent over 6 months without having a real conversation - for at least 6 months (I stopped counting after that) I’ve been sending the first message every time. then she’d end the conversation 3 texts later.

I kid you not, she sent me a dm asking if I could help her move appartement (in our case that would mean, me going to her city by train then packing her stuff then we both take the train again and settle her in then I take another train to go back home - so probably 3 days minimum of work for me and up to 130$ on train tickets alone) AND SINCE IM A GOOD FRIEND AND I KEEP REPEATING TO MYSELF THAT THE PRICE OF COMMUNITY IS INCONVENIENCE AND THAT IF IT WERE ME IN HER PLACE SHE WOULDN’T HESITATE I SAID “YEEEESSS OF COURSE I WOULD!!!”

AND THAT IS AFTER ESSENTIALLY FORGETTING MY EXISTENCE FOR MORE THAN SIX MONTHSSSS

maybe I’m just dumb at this point

“what happened to the dynamic sweet talker?” you ask,

she’s got a girlfriend and now we don’t exist no more

this is the moment where you start to believe I have a crush on my friend and im just jealous.

let me tell you : I wish it was jealousy

jealousy is much more manageable and easier to bear than whatever I’m feeling

I’m being torned between feeling angry about how she behaves and guilty for being mad at my literal best friend

she’s gotten so so much worse lately it’s literally driving me crazy. I’m talking -if she continues to chew so loudly Ill get sent to jail.

shes so behind on all of the house chores, she barely does any, then complains about the tiniest thing.

that’s one thing that drives me mad : we’d do something for the group, like make an appointment, get cardboard boxes for moving day, etc… and she’d complain about how the lady for the appointment was useless or how pricey the boxes were (they were 0.80$) (she’s hella rich) (and she DIDNT BOUGHT ANNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY)

she never talked to the appointment lady, never bought the boxes never never never

but complains all. The. Time.

her gf has been staying with us for like a week too ( we’re 5 people in a 1 bedroom apartment waiting to move btw) (she didn’t do a single thing to help move btw) (her gf hasnt paid for groceries btw) (when another friend‘s sister stayed for the night it was asked of her to give 10$ for the food btw)

it was decided that emily gets to have the biggest room in our new apartment (for arbitrary reasons such as “I’m gonna buy a bigger bed”…dont?)

said apartment for which she didnt help get at all (just as a reminder)

its literally driving me crazy I’ve spent 4 nights barely sleeping cause when I stop distracting myself I just get angry about her behavior, I’m about to explode in her face if she doesn’t change her attitude I swear

and for the love of god don’t ask me “well did you try telling her about how you feel ?”
shes 22, shes an adult, she’s been living with roommates (not us) for 2 years now, AND she’s the FIRST bitch to talk about equality and fairness DONT ASK ME IF IVE TALKED TO HER ABOUT THE SITUATION SHE SHOULD FUCKING KNOW

She should know that I can’t be the only one taking out the trash

she should know that when I come home from a 8am to 7pm day of class I cannot be asked to do the dishes

she should know she has to help us move

she should know her girlfriend should pay when staying for an extended period of time

she should know that it is not her place to complain when she did literally NOTHING to help

she should fucking know that she’s being disgustingly obnoxious

and you wanna know what makes me boil even more? in times like this when i feel like she should make herself little and almost disappear,… she loves ragebating me.

she keeps bugging me like it’s all fun and games when I’m lowkey starting to hate her.

also the gf… omg… i could kll her if it weren’t for the soothing medicine I’ve been taking.


r/lostafriend • • 15h ago

I haven’t been on here for awhile and would like to talk about something

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