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ex friend reaches out

im in my final year of high school and earlier in the year my sister's friends were horrible to her and so she broke friends with them, but i was really close with one of them and in turn the girl completely cut me off left me on opened ignored me so i did the same and it really hurt a lot but now she's randomly sent me a reel of something we used to laugh at and i don't know what to think about it help plsss
There are a few sides of this to unpack:

If this is a girl who has hurt your sister and cut you off without a thought for a period of time, is this someone you want to be friends with?

Has your sister forgiven the girls for what they did? Do you think it’s fair that she has/hasn’t?

Would you be friends with her if she’d treated you in the way she treated your sister?

Why did you like her and do those reasons hold up in be light if the last year?


Losing a friend can be awful, so I’m so sorry it happened. But taking her back as a friend won’t cancel all that it, you’ll have to be friends in the light of everything, which means you’ll have to forgive her and try to forget it all, which may not be possible. It’s completely fine to decide that this friendship isn’t for you, and that you wanted new/different relationships. Deciding not to reconnect doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means you’re looking after yourself the best way you can. For giving her also doesn’t mean that you have to go back to being besties, it just means that you don’t want to hold onto that anger. From there you can choose whether or not to be friends with her.
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There are a few sides of this to unpack:

If this is a girl who has hurt your sister and cut you off without a thought for a period of time, is this someone you want to be friends with?

Has your sister forgiven the girls for what they did? Do you think it’s fair that she has/hasn’t?

Would you be friends with her if she’d treated you in the way she treated your sister?

Why did you like her and do those reasons hold up in be light if the last year?


Losing a friend can be awful, so I’m so sorry it happened. But taking her back as a friend won’t cancel all that it, you’ll have to be friends in the light of everything, which means you’ll have to forgive her and try to forget it all, which may not be possible. It’s completely fine to decide that this friendship isn’t for you, and that you wanted new/different relationships. Deciding not to reconnect doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means you’re looking after yourself the best way you can. For giving her also doesn’t mean that you have to go back to being besties, it just means that you don’t want to hold onto that anger. From there you can choose whether or not to be friends with her.

thank you so much for this

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