#1
Im 15 and a boy, I was friends with this guy. He was pretty clingy outside of school always wanting to meet up. He's an only child and I guessed that was why.
He came round my house as we sometimes would however he never mentioned a sleep over. He made up some b******t to stay round the night. In the night he went downstairs, stole my mums credit card and bought £2000 worth of stuff online.
Now the p***k has 7 months community service and everyone at school knows.
#2
I had it listed on various sites for around $1,800 (which was a fair asking price for the model at the time), and had gotten a few bites, nothing concrete.
A (then) friend of mine asked if he could buy it, and he asked if I could do a mates rates deal for him. Being a good friend, I obliged, and sold it to him for $1,500. It was a little less than I wanted but hey, its only money and I was happy to see it go to a friend.
Not 2 weeks later I ask him how his new iMac is going, and he tells me that he sold it for $1,850, making a cool $350 profit.
When I asked him why he sold it after asking for mates rates, he said 'yeah, but I never said I was going to keep it.'
Total s*****g. I later learned he's the kind of person who'd sell his own mother for a 10% discount.
#3
She also told a whole heap of other seriously f****d up lies over the years, but this one took the cake.
In fact, betrayal and backstabbing have accompanied humanity since the earliest centuries of history. Biblical heroes and characters from the Mahabharata, ancient mighty warriors, described by Homer, and majestic Norse gods all betrayed each other. If you take any even slightly significant figure in world culture, you can be sure that betrayal will feature in their story.
But why does this actually happen? Why do people who have stood by our side for so long, for years and decades, supporting us and always offering good advice, suddenly do a 180 and leave us speechless at the very least? Well, in this collection of stories, we will try to figure this out.
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Skip ahead 2 years, I have to go pick up said friend from the airport and wife says of course that I am to BE NICE! Really, be nice to that c**t?
Well, I pick her up, I'm extra nice, and we actually have a good time just alking and hanging out, finally I'm starting to see that maybe things could turn around and no drama....boy was I wrong....
My expectation was that she and I would get along and she would tell my girlfriend what a nice good guy I was if she even said anything.
She goes to my girlfriend now wife and says I was flirting with her - I had NO f*****g interest in flirting with that c**t, I just did what the gf said and was nice. Active immediatley after that, no longer welcome in my d**n house! You say a bunch of lies and contrived s**t about me first - then I'm extra nice to the piece of s**t and she thinks I'm flirting with her.
Somedays I think I should have become a monk!
#6
Like, the roaches were trying to eat her at night bad. No way I could let her stay there, let alone bring a newborn there, so we made a deal. I needed someone to watch my kids while I was at work, keep the house picked up, make sure the kids were fed etc etc. She came to live with me and my two kids with the understanding that she would take care of the kids and the house while me and SO were working full time.
I bought everything the baby needed, was there when he was born, helped teach her how to take care of him, got her clothes and everything she needed. Far above and beyond our deal. It wasn't long at all before she wasn't doing any of the things she was supposed to. She'd cook for herself and leave my kids to fend for themselves while she laid in her room and watched Netflix. She'd trash the house and never clean it. I, of course, got sick of it and gave her a month and a half notice to find a job, somewhere else to live, and get out.
Needless to say, she never bothered to look for a job. She seemed surprised when I did indeed kick her a*s out right before Christmas (which I had bought her kid presents for). She ended up going to stay with her grandparents.
Almost six months later, after refusing to talk to me all that time, she got ahold of me to tell me to gather up her things because she was going to have a couple men I'd never met come to my house and get them.
B***h, what things!? Aside from your clothes, that you took with you, and the baby things that I BOUGHT for your kid that you also took with you, you don't have s**t! Anything that could have possibly been hers was long gone, my home is not a storage locker. She blocked me on everything and bad mouthed me to a few people but everyone was already aware of how worthless she was so. ..hmm. I think I'm still a little bitter.
Let’s start with the fact that history, as usual, is written by the victors. So what we consider a famous historical betrayal could well have gone down in history from a completely different angle. Take, for example, Julius Caesar and Brutus, who orchestrated and carried out a conspiracy against his former friend. Brutus is forever etched in world history as the epitome of a traitor.
But everything could’ve turned out differently if Brutus, rather than Caesar’s lieutenants, had won the civil war that erupted in Rome following the conspiracy. Then historians would undoubtedly write that Brutus simply rid Rome of a cruel tyrant (and they would be partly right), and the traitor would become a hero.
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We begged a spare mattress from friends, gave her clothes, paid for food and cigarettes, didn't ask for rent or utility money, bought toys for her two kids. She said that when she was evicted, she pretty much lost everything.
About the same time, my oldest dog was diagnosed with bone cancer. She was too old to go the amputation/chemo route, so the decision was made to give her pain pills to keep her comfortable until the end.
Fast forward two months. I go to give my dog her evening dose of meds, and the bottle of 120 pills I'd picked up at the vet 10 days earlier was empty. Took about five minutes to realize that my good friend who was living rent and expenses free, was stealing my d**ng dog's pain meds. About ten minutes after that, she was out on the sidewalk.
As we can see, people encounter betrayal everywhere in their lives. But why are people prone to backstabbing others? Well, this dedicated study, published at Psychology Today, explains that the issue lies in our trust in people who can intentionally harm us. At the same time, we often overestimate how well others treat us, not expecting any kind of betrayal.
As a result, the violation of friendship expectations sharply impacts our self-esteem and sense of security, ultimately lowering our overall level of trust in people. Betrayal by those closest to us is especially traumatic. The authors of this study at PubMed Central show a direct correlation between the closeness of the traitor and the traumatic nature of the incident.
#10
Well, the cops came to my house in the middle of the f*****g night. They pretty much knew she was lying but still had to confirm that I was...me. Needless to say, I don't speak to her anymore.
#11
They're married now, and have two kids.
#12
The next year another girl enrolled with a similar skin color .
I noticed that she didn't invite me over any more, and only talked to me in group discussions in class. When I asked why she didn't want to hang out anymore she told me "because I found someone more like me.".
Betrayal is often explained by “rational” and pragmatic motives. That is, when choosing between a “losing” course of action, while still being loyal to a friend, and a clearly “winning” one, a person often picks selfishness over loyalty. However, the reactions of betrayal victims can also be rather pragmatic.
For example, this study, published at UCLA Newsroom, shows that people tend not to automatically judge a betrayer as completely untrustworthy if the act ultimately benefits or does no harm. In other words, we, too, tend to perceive betrayal through personal gain and consequences. After all, we’re only human.
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I'm glad to be rid of them both.
Okay, in any case, the main thing in any collection of stories is not the explanation of why people act one way or another, but the stories themselves. So now, our dear readers, please feel free to read this list to the very end, and maybe add your own similar tales in the comments, in case you've also faced something like this in your lives.
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Edit: About a year later I asked one of the girls who defended her if she had really taken the art and she said "Oh yeah it was hanging on her bedroom wall the whole time." :/.
#20
F*****g w***e.