53 Toxic Friends Who Hurt People In Ways They Never Saw Coming

We were completely inseparable through middle and high school and had always planned to stay together through college. She didn't get into my choice schools, so (being an extremely dumb and anxious teenager) I foolishly agreed to attend a second-rate school with her instead... as not to be alone.

Shortly before the start of our freshman year of college she informed me she was no longer going to school with me and was instead moving to NYC to live with a guy she met on the internet. She'd known this for months but neglected to tell me until it was too late to do anything about it.

My friend Ben started dating a girl named Lindsey. Lindsey and I hit it off and soon became great friends as well. Months later, Ben started acting weirdly flirty and inappropriate toward me, and I soon learned that he was in fact cheating on Lindsey with several (!) other girls. I didn't want to rat on a friend, but I also couldn't sit idly by, so I tried to explain all this to poor Lindsey. She responded by accusing me of trying to steal Ben from her and retaliated by hooking up with my then-fiance out of spite. B*tch.

Good riddance to that toxic trio.

He taught me about bartending when I was hired at a restaurant. He had been there for a few years and was their only FT bartender. Years later, my brother and I open a place and I hire him to work for us after the restaurant he trained me at closed.
After working for me for 2 weeks, security tapes show him stealing liquor and cash as well.

Hooked up with my then girlfriend. It was my first serious girlfriend and he played it off like I should just forget about it. It was almost like he was proud that he at least hooked up with a girl.

Physically attacked me because they thought I was attracted to them and they had to prove they weren’t gay. I was not attracted to them, never thought of them that way once.

I flew to Japan to meet up with them and they ghosted me.

Repeatedly made d**d mom jokes, knowing my mom had passed away. Also saying things like “Well MY mom is still alive, so you can just go be president of the d**d mom’s club.”.

I was friends with her for 4 years, all through high school. Towards the end I realized she is an extremely manipulative person, and slowly began to distance myself away (no confrontation or anything, but I stopped making an effort to hang out with her in a gradual effort to remove her from my life). She realized what was happening, started calling me "pest", told the entire school about my deepest secrets and the skeletons in my closet that I had trusted her with, and kept referring to our spat as "there is a war going on. The pest will not win." She was certifiably crazy.

Threw me aside like yesterday’s trash just because I stood up to him and told him to rethink making choices that hurt other people.

In HS, there were plenty of people who’d pretend to be a “friend” only to turn around and make fun of me with their clique. I don’t think about those.

Then there’s one who flounced out of my life, then didn’t like that I turned away her “apology” and blocked her and sent me a nasty message from a fake profile. Then proceeded to stalk my web activity. I’m waiting for the phone calls from weird numbers because that’s the pattern that got her a restraining order once already. Will gladly deliver another one.

One of my ‘friends’ found out I was out of town with my family for a weekend and proceeded to rob my house by breaking a window in back to get in. I was with him when we discovered the broken window and he acted all shocked and tried to help me figure out who did it. Years later after he told people about I found out it was him. We hadn’t been friends for awhile at that point, but it’s weird thinking back on how he was there when I found it and acted all shocked knowing he did it. Haven’t seen him in years, but I always tell myself when I do I’m gonna kick his a*s even to this day makes me mad.

R***d me. And then kept calling me late at night saying he was going to come by my apartment because he wanted to see me again.

Might want to add a trigger warning on this one.

Not that bad but friends you haven’t seen for years suddenly ask you out. Only found out that askyou to join MLM, buy insurance, amway and etc.
Never contacted again afterward.

My best friend fell in love with a guy at work. She decided to run away with him but changed her mind. To cover up her actions she told her husband that I talked her into running away with me because at the time I was getting a divorce.
She told him I said we should both start over In a new city.

Needless to say she went back to him and he thought I was a d*****t from then on.

She died recently at 58 years old and though I visited her irregularly, I didn’t go to her funeral because of the awkwardness.

Started dating my boyfriend less than a week after we broke up. I'd been with him for three years and had been best friends with her for four. Friendship ended after that.

The sad thing is, to this day I have never found anyone that I've clicked with as well as her, and it's been three years since it happened. She's a very special person and I still miss her very much.

None of them came to my mother's funeral. It was months before any of them even acknowledged the event and that was only because i ran into them in public.

Several of them have lost a parent since (we were all 21 at the time, we are all turning forty soon) and i have gone to every one i could, in spite of their non attendance and my own mental and emotional issues.

In high school, a lot of people suspected I (shy chubby girl) had a crush on my closest friend (athletic, charismatic guy) which I totally did, but one day he told another guy that he would never date me because I'm fat. The worst part is the guy he told was a mean, very spoiled kid that usually made fun of me to begin with.

The person that I confided in to everything and had long, deep conversation with regularly hurt me in the worst way I think I'd ever been hurt as a kid. It led to escalating a lot of my existing self esteem issues and anxiety. Even now, 3 years later it's hard to trust people and be confident with myself.

Introduced her to the guy I was super interested in and she knew I was. The worst part is she would force me to be the 3rd wheel on her dates cuz she was "too shy" to hang out with him. Then she took his virginity on my couch after a night of drinks. They're now married and have 5 kids. She already had 3.

I had 4 friends rough me up, hold me down, and beat on my stomach until i told them were i hid my warcraft 3 CD keys. Later in life, or earlier in life, or around the same time. They also stole all my amazon's gear in diablo 2, i think i had a couple SoJ's and a ballista.

This is really mild, and probably isn't the worst thing someone has done (that would probably be a roommate who mooched off me for years, but not an interesting story), but my friends basically made me pay for my own birthday cake on my 18th birthday.

We went to Olive Garden, and they were bugging the waitress to see if they did the whole embarrassing singing, birthday dessert thing. The waitress said they didn't, but they did have a mini four-person birthday cake you could order for about $8. My friends kind of looked at me, and they kind of said something like, "Let's just do it! It's your 18th!" I was fully assuming they would be paying for it since it would have been like $2.60 a person (hell, I would have thrown in and made it $2). And then the waitress asked who's check it would go on, and they said mine. After she left, I just looked at them stunned and said I couldn't afford an $8 cake, we were just high schoolers after all! My whole meal didn't cost $8 since all I had was the soup, salad, and breadsticks and it was a $5 lunch special!

Their big excuse was that I could just use my dad's credit card. A credit card which I repeatedly told them was only for emergencies. They were constantly doing s**t like that though, so I don't know what I expected. They had seen me use it a couple times on school trips to buy lunch and stuff (which my dad had approved of obviously), so they were always pressuring me into using it for other s**t. They were truly awful friends.

We had been best friends since 6th grade, (we are seniors now) and just these last 3 months I have invited him over, invited him to play basketball etc. and he has responded with “can’t” or “nah” I asked him what was up or if I did anything wrong and he responded with “nah” I still don’t know what I did.. he was my best friend and we were basically brothers. I never understood why.