43 Real-Life Stories of the Worst Betrayals of Best Friends

For some people, making friends is a difficult task, while others quickly strike up a conversation with strangers wherever they go. Either way, trusting someone, feeling safe and accepted with someone, only to get betrayed by them? Those wounds tend to sting for a really long time.

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Betrayal from a friend hurts more because people least expect their close ones to do something hurtful. Some people on Reddit shared how their best friends betrayed them when they least expected it.

Comments have been edited for clarity and grammar.

1. My Friend Chose His Girlfriend

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u/KMApok: I moved in with a childhood friend (10-year history). We signed a lease on his parent's rental house.

Five months into our lease, he meets a girl and proposes in less than two weeks. She accepts. They decided to get married with four months left on our lease. She and I absolutely hate each other.

My friend informed me that either they would move out with four months left, but I would have to move out when my lease ends, or I could break the lease with no penalties granted.

I didn't have anywhere else to go. I made it work, but the issue was I had about five weeks to figure out a new living arrangement when I thought I had almost half a year. Our friendship never recovered.

2. She Changed Her Mind

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u/tapirsaurusrex: My best friend had recently moved to Prague and invited me over from the U.S. It was a big deal, and we had planned it for months.

I planned to hang with her and stay in her apartment. Two days in, she kicked me out into the city with my suitcase, saying she changed her mind.

I didn't know anyone and couldn't read signs. My phone was dead. It was heartbreaking and terrifying.

Eventually, I found a cheap hotel and spent the remaining six days of the trip exploring independently. It was okay towards the end, but I'm never talking to her again.

3. My Best Friend Ghosted Me

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u/RevenanceSLC: I used to have a friend who I did everything with. We played video games, went out to eat or to movies, and cheered each other up through thick and thin.

I helped him through his divorce and went out of my way to help him transition to a single life. Things were great! I told him he was the brother I never had but always wanted.

When I got engaged, I wanted him to be my best man. I was so excited to ask him and assembled a groomsman box with all his favorite things. He accepted the box and its contents.

The next day, he told me he couldn't do it. He sounded so depressed. I told him I may be getting married, but he would always be my brother, and we would never drift apart. He seemed much better.

The day of my wedding came, and he didn't show up. I called him a dozen times and left a bunch of text messages. No response.

Our mutual friends came by and asked where he was. I covered him, making up a convenient lie. He never came.

Besides that, he ghosted me. I didn't hear from him for almost a year. It broke my heart in a way I can't describe. I struggle with forgiving him.

I want so desperately to reach out to him and reconnect. I want to ask him why and what he was doing that day that was so important that he couldn't be there.

I want to tell him how betrayed I felt, not to hurt him but so he'll know how painful his absence had been.

To this day, he's only responded to a few of my texts. I haven't seen him in person for almost five years. I still miss him.

4. Things Took an Unexpected Turn

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u/Hristix: I'm posting this for a friend who happens to be sitting right here beside me but doesn't have a Reddit account or reliable access to the internet.

One night, I was at a bar with my best friend and some girls we worked with. I was flirting with the server a little because he was cute, we were drinking, and he was obviously interested in men.

My best friend didn't notice his sexual orientation even though he had told us when we had been there before. We had also seen him at a local club with his boyfriend.

Anyway, she starts talking about how I always get the hot guys. Jokingly at first, but I slowly realized that she may not be joking.

She is on a five-minute-long monologue. She raises her voice so much that the other tables get quiet and start to look. This kind of thing happens occasionally in bars, so people don't pay it much mind after it ends.

The monologue ends. I apologize because now I'm seriously reevaluating my actions and trying to ensure I wasn't hogging all the male attention or anything like that.

I wasn't, but I was kind of teary-eyed right then and trying to think it over. My best friend goes to the bar for another drink. She wants to get away. That is okay.

That is what she does when mad. She distances herself, works it out in her head, and everything is alright. I didn't know that she went to the bar to get a mug and hurt me with it.

She then ran out of the bar before anyone could grab her. From eyewitness accounts, she went from hurting me to leaving the bar in about one second.

I woke up in the hospital with a severe concussion. My family and OTHER friends were great, but there was still no sign of ex-bestie.

I cried for hours and was released from the hospital the next day. I was told that I needed to return if I blacked out, had seizures, etc. The police came and took a report. I gave them all the information that they wanted.

I found out they impounded my car because it had been stolen and practically destroyed. Someone had busted all tires, bent all rims, broken the transmission, redlined the engine, broken the back and front windows, and left dents.

The car was totaled, and the police department wanted money to get it out. My best friend attended school for another two weeks until the end of the semester before she returned to Florida.

The police refused to lift a finger to arrest her until she returned to Florida, at which time they said that she could be anywhere and there was nothing they could do.

Finally, two years later, she was found at her parents' house in Florida and arrested. Because her father was a lawyer, she got off with nothing but probation.

I know this because I got summoned to Florida to testify several days before finals started. Being unable to show up without failing all my classes meant no case against her, and none of the charges went through. The only thing I did against her was get her to pay all the medical bills and pay for my car.

5. My Best Friend Didn't Care

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u/Mymothersmokes: I was generous enough to let my roommate/friend of 15+ years use my car. They destroyed it, found a girlfriend, and moved out without notice, and I have hardly heard from them since.

Not that I want to. They made it abundantly clear that they couldn't care less about walking all over me. I see them from time to time, but I refuse to make eye contact.

6. The Promotion

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u/vurplesun: We were both up for the same promotion. She started sleeping with one of the people involved in deciding who gets said promotion.

She broke into the files where our performance was tracked (that's not hard because our company is very low-tech in some ways, and it was an Excel spreadsheet) and changed my records to make it look like I was terrible at my job and had many errors.

She then told all of our mutual friends that I hated them and was convincing enough that I suddenly stopped being able to hang out with them.

She got the promotion, then ended up with an even better promotion within the company, and my career has sort of stagnated as a result of the lies she told (including outrageous stuff, like that I threatened her or was completely emotionally unstable, which, of course, never happened).

The worst thing about this is that it all hit me out of left field. I didn't realize she was doing this until it was too late.

I didn't know she was turning all our friends against me, and I didn't understand why I was suddenly removed from several committees at work, even though I had not done a thing.

I'm pretty sure, in retrospect, that she is a bit of a psychopath. Fortunately, she lives in another state now, but the damage was done.

I recently got a promotion, but it was about three years (and a change in management) later than it would have been otherwise.

7. My High School Best Friend

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u/halpiee: When I was a freshman in high school, my best friend and I (let's call her Alex) were inseparable.

We spent every weekend sleeping at each other's houses. We made the maid of honor pact, etc. Then, she met a girl (let's call her Becca) in driver's ed.

She and Becca got close, and for a while, she and I got along really well, even hanging out solo a few times.

Then, Becca told Alex these crazy things about me, like I was getting intimate with her boyfriend and calling her terrible things behind her back.

Alex was outraged, but Becca warned her not to talk to me about it and told her the best course of action was to use my peanut allergy against me.

Becca told Alex to pour peanut oil on my pillow the next time she came for a sleepover. Alex planned to do it until her boyfriend (who I was also very close with) told me everything.

8. Watch over Our Dog, Please!

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u/lil_bit: My ex and I were moving to Miami and spent three weeks there. We hired a friend to watch over our dog and our house.

Fast forward three weeks later, we came home to our dog in his cage covered in his urine and feces, not to mention our house also covered in it.

Also, there were two random turtles on the counter in a bowl. We tried contacting that friend for days with no response. Ten years later, my dog is deeply disturbed by his cage, and I own two random turtles!

9. Our Divorce

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u/jack_skellington: I was undergoing a divorce, and everyone in my Bible study decided to side with my ex.

Initially, they had sided with me, and I had begged them to stop that and be decent to us both. However, they saw divorce as evil and had to hold someone responsible.

At first, they blamed my ex for having affairs. Then, when it came out that we had willingly gotten intimate together with other people, they said, "As the head of the home, your leadership was morally corrupt. This is just the fruit of your corruption. Be gone, sinner."

So, I lost my wife, home, and job, and not one of those who had been friends for a decade would return calls.

I was dead to them. It's incredible to think that ten years of friendship with multiple people can be shut off, cold.

I have better friends now. In fact, I'm sitting in a friend's house, celebrating that I finally just got a new job.

Until my first paycheck, I have people who will put me up for the night. None of these friends are from my life with my ex. Having to start over entirely from scratch at age 38 is not something I had hoped to experience.

10. I Was Helping My Friend

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u/ihaveapurpose: I had a friend who divorced and started dating the girl he was cheating with on his wife. She got overbearing and crazy, so he didn't want to deal with her anymore.

As I was friends with her, he asked for help convincing her she would be better off with someone else.

I met her for lunch one day in a public place and almost convinced her to take a date with another guy she had been talking to and that my friend wasn't worth it if he wasn't going to return the affection.

My buddy found out I had lunch with her and accused me of trying to get with her. When he confronted her, she said I said terrible things about him.

He knew I would try to manipulate her into thinking he wasn't worth it anymore to get her off his back.

He calls me at 2 a.m., intoxicated, and says he doesn't know what to believe and will cut off ties with both of us. I haven't spoken to him since.

I'm sure his story would be different and make me out to be the betrayer, but that's how it went down, and after I tried to help him, he betrayed me by "unfriending" me in real life... as well as Facebook.

It has been about 18 months since we last spoke. But I did find him on Facebook one day, and he is now happily dating the girl he wanted me to get rid of for him.

11. This Was Unexpected

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u/MistressLiliana: My husband and I went on vacation with some friends. One friend that couldn't go was to watch our house and animals (we had many of them back then: four cats, a dog, a ferret, two hamsters, a chinchilla, a cockatiel, and two doves).

We had issues with our heating, so we gave him a lot of money to get oil delivered. He took that money and instead used it all on himself.

When the oil ran out, he used space heaters that ran on kerosene. Somehow, the kerosene tank he filled them with accidentally had gasoline.

He burned down our entire house. Out of all the animals, only two cats, the dog, and the chinchilla survived.

We found out when we were at Disney World and still had three days of vacation left. It was hard to enjoy ourselves, but coming home early would have cost a lot, and we couldn't do anything anyway.

12. My Friends in Third Grade

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u/SmoochyDaisy52: This incident happened in the third grade and has disturbed me for a long time. (I'm 23 now.)

I was always a lonely child. I was not good at making friends or being in social situations. My brothers made fun of me a lot, and my parents never did anything to stop them, so I had low self-esteem.

Somehow, I managed to be a part of a group of 4 girls. We were the best of friends, or so I thought. We all lived in the same general area, one of the friends living in a house behind mine.

Being the socially awkward and oblivious third grader that I was, I remember calling my friend in the house behind mine every day after school, wanting to hang out. Yes, I was clingy, which was a bit much, but I thought that's what friends did.

We all walked to school together and would meet at the friend who lived behind my house. We would stand outside and wait for her and her sister to be ready to leave, and off we'd go on our merry little way.

One morning, I arrived and was waiting on the porch. Another friend showed up to wait, and I tried to greet her. She didn't respond and looked away from me with this smug grin.

For some reason, I thought we were playing a "Who Can Stay Quietest The Longest Game." I happily joined in.

Soon, the other friends arrived. The girl and her sister were ready to go, so off we went. Then something strange happened. Everybody else started speaking to each other and joking around, and whenever I said something, they'd ignore me.

I tried my hardest to get their attention, but no one would look at me, let alone respond. I started getting really upset. I realized they intentionally ignored me, but I didn't understand why.

The entire way to school, I followed behind them and begged them to tell me what I had done to make them hate me. Finally, they explained.

Apparently, the day before, I had said something bad about a friend who lived in the house behind mine. No such thing had ever happened! I loved my friends. Why would I insult one of them like that?!

I insisted I didn't do it, but they didn't believe me. I switched tactics and started apologizing profusely, saying it was an accident, and I didn't mean to do it, even though I knew I had never done such a thing!

That's the part that hurts the most today: apologizing for something I didn't do because I was so desperate for human interaction.

My friend's sister had been listening to all of this and came to my defense. "Maybe she really didn't do it! She seems so upset!"

My friends told her to shut up because she didn't know what she was saying. We got to school, and all the children would wait outside until they opened the doors and it was time to report to class.

They told everyone what I had done and what a horrible person I was. So, from third grade to sixth grade, I had no friends.

Everybody made fun of me and was cruel to me. No one believed that I didn't do it. People who didn't even attend that school for third grade also hated me.

I'm an adult now, but every time a friend/boyfriend/relative starts acting weird, I freak out because I think they're trying to get rid of me like the little girls back in third grade.

13. She Called the Cops on Me

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u/OriginalZombie: I had a close friend who was making a (what I thought was) rash decision to move to New York.

She asked my opinion on the topic, and I tried to be honest with her and tell her I thought it was a bad idea. She started screaming at me and told me not to talk about it anymore.

Back then, I was a fool and tried to continue the conversation. My friend told me she was never talking to me again and started running away.

I followed her, trying to prove I was a good, caring friend and concerned about her. She got in her car, and I sat on the hood of it so she couldn't leave.

Granted, I was being unreasonable, but my heart was in the right place. She called the cops on me. They showed up and told us we were both idiots, essentially. I was stupid and have learned a lot from that experience, but I still think she was terrible.

14. I Gave Money to My Friend

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u/clutch_944: I got a ticket while driving overnight to a girlfriend's place. I was 16 and still on a learner's permit, past legal curfew, and out of state.

Fortunately, NJ lets you pay for tickets online, so I sold some stuff (Xbox and other expensive kid things).

I gave the money to a friend from CHURCH so he could use his debit card and pay for it. He took the money and paid for his things. This is not the worst thing, but it made me lose faith in humanity.

15. The Fighter

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u/questionator514: My good buddy was known to fight a lot and had a reputation in high school for fighting all his close friends. And up until then, I was one of the few friends he didn't fight.

We got into a fight at a club (on the same side), and it ended up with him fighting another guy one-on-one.

They fight, and he gets destroyed in a few hits. Everyone breaks it up, and we go on our merry way. We get into his car, and he starts accusing me of letting him get attacked.

He called his "gangster" friends and tried to make up as many lies as possible to hurt me. All this to save face.

16. The Girl I Liked

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u/turkeypants: While on tour, I met this girl at a concert. Long hair, short miniskirt—you know the type. I asked her what her name was, but I couldn't even focus on what she was saying because her appearance distracted me.

I asked her if she had a boyfriend, and she said no, just a "friend." Well, whatever, nothing wrong with that. I just took her word for it. I really liked her, so I didn't let some non-boyfriend friend get in my way.

Anyway, what's-her-name adored me. We spent a lot of time together and built up a relationship. Things were just incredible. Little did I know what was to come.

She returned to school after the tour, and I called her every day to see how she was doing. But every time I called her, it seemed like something was up.

I called this one time, and a guy answered. I was shocked and just hung up, but I called right back. This time, she answered, and I asked her who was on the phone before. She said it was that "friend" she had mentioned a while back. What? Just a friend, eh?

So I decided to surprise her with a little visit because I was suspicious and wanted to see her. I knew she was there, so I had somebody direct me to her dorm room.

I went up and just opened the door to surprise her. Guess what I saw? Some guy was getting intimate with my girlfriend. It was the "friend." I was in shock, and my heart just sank.

So take my advice, guys. Don't ever believe a girl who says she just has a "friend." She had what I needed and said he was just a friend. She said he was just a friend.

17. I Lost My Best Friend

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u/eose: When I was 14, I was a very active writer, a 'graffiti artist.' Let's call my best friend at that time Pieur because he was a Frenchman.

I had interested him in graffiti many years before, so by now, we were very active. So, one night, we went to see a movie downtown.

When we returned, this abandoned building was on a main street with a fresh canvas awaiting. I was always cautious and didn't want to risk it yet.

It was only 10 p.m. We could have come back later and hit it, but Pieur insisted we try out this new pen he made. So he throws a throwup, then I do, and a police car rolls up.

We split in opposite directions, but unluckily, I was the one the cops ran after. So I turned the corner and entered a store, hoping no one saw me.

Well, they did. So, I got called out and talked to the police. They put cuffs on, etc. About 20 minutes into being 'examined,' Pieur was being hauled up in front of me by an officer asking if this was the kid I was with.

We had made a pact years ago never to rat each other out, so I said I had never seen him before. They let him go.

Since I was young, they called my parents instead of arresting me. They gave them the option to punish me or have me arrested. After long thought, I was not arrested.

I was a 4.0 student attending a magnet school, so I was lucky not to have ruined my life. Anyway, Pieur went home and told his mom it was all my fault and that I forced him to write when he didn't want to.

When the cops were involved, he told them the same story, while I saved him to go home and lied to everyone about how it was all my fault. That day, my best friend of many years became someone I despised.

18. My Sixteenth Birthday

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u/withtheking: One time, I tried inviting friends to do stuff on my 16th birthday. They hung out with me for about an hour.

Later, I found their Snapchat stories where they were at another friend's place. This friend didn't come to spend time with me, and they were having a hot tub party without me.

Oh, and my best friend at that time also sent my boyfriend a message saying she was better than me in bed. So that was also terrible.

19. My Wedding

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u/jasminea12: A friend emailed me after my wedding telling me how disappointed she was that she didn't get ready with me on my wedding day.

Mind you, I didn't have bridesmaids. The only people who got ready with me were my family and friends since back in college (people I had known for 10+ years vs. Knowing this "friend" for four years).

Besides that, I had asked this friend to give a speech at my wedding, which she declined. After I posted all my wedding photos, she only "liked" a single one.

The one of me with the women I got ready with. I know it sounds stupid, but I know she was being petty. I ended our friendship.

20. My Church Friends

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u/aubreyrg: I grew up in the church and had a big friend group. I wasn't popular at school, but that didn't matter much.

When I was 19, I got pregnant out of wedlock (OMG, I know, how horrible ~heavy sarcasm~). Lo and behold, everyone from my church friend group completely abandoned me. They wouldn't talk to me, hang out, support me, or anything.

One day, I was in my room (still living with my family), and my "supposed best friend" came over and hung out with my BROTHER the entire time!

I was chilling in my room reading or something, and my dad came in and asked why my friend wasn't hanging with me. I said she didn't come over to see me.

He then proceeded to my brother's room and told her she wasn't welcome in our house if she didn't come to see me. My dad was my hero that day!

Needless to say, we were no longer friends from that point on. There has been one person from my "church" life whom I've remained friends with.

We met when we were 10 (now we're 38) and are still besties. We're kindred spirits, and nothing will ever break that bond. I thank God for her every day!

21. I Felt Left Out

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u/Wanderlustskies: I realized a huge part of why I was so angry and sad and isolated myself so much was because of my friends. I always felt left out.

For some, it was because they thought I was some prude, so they never told me anything about dating. They never invited me to parties.

One specific time was in an airport before we left for back home in high school. I was watching someone's bags, and they went to see where everyone was.

Someone else left their bags with me then, too. I sat there the whole time, considering I couldn't go, and they returned right before boarding. They had eaten dinner. I was so angry.

Another time, my friend liked this guy, and we were all in the marching band. On the way to the competitions, she always sat with him, when before, she had always sat with me.

I just wanted her to sit with me to the state finals. She did not. It was the most depressing bus ride I've had. She also didn't tell me anything about him, but I know about six months later, she hated him.

22. I Didn't Exist

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u/Throne-Eins: I had a planned brain surgery and told everyone where I was and whatnot in case they wanted to visit.

I didn't expect anyone to come, but I knew I'd have plenty of time to chat with people as I recovered. I was there for eight days. Nobody visited, and I didn't get a message from anyone.

It was like I didn't exist to them. I think dealing with that betrayal was harder than the physical recovery.

23. An Old Friend

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u/WomanLady: An old friend reached out to me. I was so excited to reconnect that I invited her to my wedding and cried about sad family times.

Then, she hit me with the pyramid scheme investment opportunity. All along, I was just her multilevel marketing target. I think about her still sometimes. Last I heard, she started a wedding DJ business.

24. I Pity Her

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u/Shleepytimes: I don't know what happened, but my friend and I were super close, and she was super sweet for a while.

I would do anything she asked for, but eventually, she started making the guys I had crushes on fall for her and hate me.

At first, I thought I was crazy, so I confided in a friend about it, who confronted her. About a week later, I found out she was telling everyone I was a psycho with an ego issue (thankfully, I have good friends, so no one believes her).

I pity her in a way. She wanted attention so badly that she was willing to put someone who genuinely wanted to be there for her through the wringer.

Jokes on her, though. She and some of her friends got busted for drug abuse, and she has dropped out of our college.

25. She Lied to My Potential Employer

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u/joshuagrah4m: My friend told a potential employer I'd stolen money earlier to decrease my chances of getting the job.

It was at Starbucks, and she had some vendetta against them. She disapproved of me wanting to work there and confessed a few weeks later.

26. The Eye-Opening Argument

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u/Slick_01: I had a huge argument one night at a party with my two best friends. We were arguing over one of them wanting to get back with an ex.

Anyway, I had my 2 cents and one of them turned around and told me they only invite me when they go to parties, so they have a higher chance of pulling men because I'm the fat nerdy one.

I had known these women for over five years and went through a lot with them. Neither of them said sorry. In hindsight, I'm glad it happened. It was a good eye-opener. I got along better with men, anyway.

27. My Best Friend's Birthday

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u/fatderbsonly: I spent $100+ on presents for an ex-best friend. I asked to pick her up on her birthday for plans we had made previously (and give her the gifts).

She ghosted me and let me find out through other social media she was with the girls she used to backbite to me about.

28. The Rude Guy

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u/harleys_mom: This one guy was very rude, demeaning, and downright trying to manipulate me in plain view while I was in school.

He would actively insult me in public, then slide into my DMs and ask for help with homework, to come hang out, etc. He made me extremely uncomfortable.

My friends acknowledged that he was doing this, and many of them still stayed friends with him. I understand not taking sides in every argument your acquaintances have, but this just felt ridiculous.

The first day I met him, he cut me off DURING MY PRESENTATION TO THE CLASS (I transferred two weeks into the year) to ask the teacher if he could start working on his assignment instead.

He also wouldn't talk to me at any parties, and even other guys noticed how badly he was treating me for NO reason.

Many guys took my side, but it hurt me that the girls sided with him just because they thought he was cute.

29. We Had to Move In Together

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u/IdkIdkIdk24: Oh yes! My best friend and I planned on moving in together once our lease ended. She randomly mentioned in passing one day that she was moving in with her other "best friend," whom she'd only known for 1-2 months.

I ended up not saying anything then, but a few weeks later, I couldn't contain my emotions anymore, and I told her how terrible she was.

We got in a huge fight, and things have never been the same between us since. We are on good terms, but I don't think I have genuinely laughed or felt I could be myself around her.

The good news is that my boyfriend at the time asked if I wanted to move in with him shortly after all of this happened. He is now my husband, and we have three beautiful kids together! I'm very happy with my decision to move in with him!

30. The One-Sided Friendship

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u/jessw4983: I was told I couldn't have children after years of wanting nothing more than to be a mother.

Even with this knowledge, my former best friend told me one day that I could never know what love really was because I didn't have kids.

I realized that day just how toxic, abusive, and one-sided our friendship had always been, and I cut her from my life.

It turns out the doctors were wrong, and I'm currently five months pregnant with my first child at 40. So yay for happy endings!

31. She Was the Bigger Fan

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u/IEatBobbyFlaysAss: My 16-year-old sister got me tickets to the Harry Potter exhibit in New York City when I was 13. She spent her own money on it for two tickets. Me and her.

My best friend found out and threw a fit in front of her mother, saying, "She should be going because she is a bigger fan."

Her mother messaged my sister, telling her to give her ticket to her daughter because "It's the right thing to do." My sister refused and informed me immediately.

32. Her Personal Therapist

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u/CrazySnekGirl: I didn't realize that slowly, over twenty years, my best friend would turn me into her personal therapist.

Every day, almost 24/7, she'd call and text, expecting me to sort out every single one of her problems and validate her hurtful behavior.

Then, one day at the end of last year, I got into an accident that hospitalized me. While I was mostly fine functionally, I had a lot of scarring and was told that I might need skin graft surgery later, depending on how it healed.

And my best friend since we were 11 didn't even ask how I was. Not once, not for two whole months. She only acknowledged that I was injured when she said, "That's a bad way to start the morning," when I told her I was in A&E.

She just didn't care. Walking away was easy once I realized that. I haven't missed her at all. It was the best decision I ever made.

33. The Last Straw

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u/Leesh_26: I went on a mini vacation to NJ (it was supposed to be four days) with my best friend in 2021. She brought her (then) 8-year-old son, and I went with my (then) 4-year-old daughter.

Her son was disrespectful, swearing, nasty, and mean to my daughter the entire trip. The last straw was when he ripped a cereal box from my daughter's hand on the morning of the third day.

She started crying, and he slapped her across her head. I tried disciplining him, and my friend blew up at me and proceeded to DEFEND her son, as she called my daughter a "whiny baby."

We started arguing, and I packed our bags and said we were leaving. I drove four hours home without saying a single word to her or her son. I got to her house, threw her bags on her front lawn, and peeled out of her driveway.

34. My Old Friend

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u/Orion43410: Since elementary school, my old friend slowly pushed his political and religious views onto me as we got older. He was a Christian conservative. I was an agnostic independent.

Eventually, he gave me an ultimatum: either fully agree with him, join his church, or be considered his enemy. So, I ended the friendship. Religion and politics can ruin any friendship, no matter how great.

35. Someone Broke into Our House

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u/JustSayGGBro: It was my last year in a country I previously lived in, and at the time, it was during summer vacation, which we usually spend in our home country.

We had to cut our vacation short because we got a phone call telling us that our house had gotten broken into and robbed.

We came back. On that day, my best friend was talking to me, telling me he saw cops by our house and he hoped everything was OK. It was horrible, with everything stolen, furniture destroyed, closets torn down, and fully emptied.

My family decided to accelerate the transfer from that country, and there was that. He sent me a long email a year later explaining how sorry he was. He confessed he was responsible for it, and his friends were the perpetrators.

He said he knew who did it but didn't want to expose them. When we showed the police the e-mail, and they questioned him, it turned out he was part of that group as well.

36. He Was a Different Guy

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u/Woahboah: We were childhood friends and grew up together since first grade, so I thought we would have similar morals and standards.

However, right after having his second kid at 19, he became emotionally abusive and eventually physically abusive towards them for some time.

Eventually, he was arrested for domestic violence, and his girlfriend was hospitalized. I felt so guilty that I didn't notice any of the abuse when I was over.

It was a shame that he was my closest friend, which still bothers me years later. The story has a relatively happy ending. His ex became my new best friend; now I call her my wife.

37. The Bachelorette Party

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u/AnxiousBlob8: She told me I was her best friend but didn't put me in her wedding party. She continued to ask me for wedding styling advice for her bridesmaids. It all stung, but I got over it.

She also told me she needed me at her bachelorette, and I was helping her brainstorm ideas. We talked daily.

One morning, we talked like usual, and that evening, I saw posts of her on her bachelorette. We had been best friends since high school.

She had a girl she had only known for six months on the trip with her. Her response when I asked about it? "Oh, someone surprised me with it. I'm sorry that you're upset."

38. Hurry Up with the Money!

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u/icanmakeyoufamous: My best friend asked to borrow money (~$3000) and told me not to ask for what, not because they needed help and trusted me but because I "had a decent job and could spare some."

They badgered me that I needed to send this money within 24 hours and repeatedly asked when the money was ready.

I was worried it was a medical emergency, so I insisted they tell me why. No response except for "hurry up with the money."

It turns out they got scammed, but that ended our friendship really quickly. Money ruins relationships fast.

39. They Left

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u/MiJo1987: My best friend got a girlfriend, so he had less time for me. After a few years, I got home and saw them moving stuff out (We lived in the same apartment on different floors).

They never said anything to me at all, no hint. They just left, not even a card or an invitation. That was the end of the friendship.

40. The Little Things

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u/alwaysmyfault: Many little things eventually made me angry enough to where I told my best friend to go away.

For example, 7-8 years ago, he bought 15 tickets for a midnight premiere of Jurassic World for our entire friend group to attend.

On the day of the show, he texted me to tell me that he had forgotten to buy "my" ticket, saying I couldn't go. Out of the 15 he bought, how did he decide it was "my" ticket that he didn't buy?

It turns out he gave my ticket to a girl he met the week prior so he could take her with him instead. That was just one of many things where he made me angry.

It's all just minor stuff like that, but when you have 100 little things, it becomes clear that they aren't your friend anymore.

41. Double betrayal

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Deleted user: I'm standing next to the guy I've been hopelessly in love with for 5 years when I heard him say, "I love you." Me (with a trembling voice): "Wh..What? You mean me?" He: "I love you, Caitlin."My world shattered. I dropped to my knees and broke down in tears.

He wasn't speaking to me but on the phone to Caitlin, my best friend. Two months later, she asked me to be her maid of honor at their wedding. I agreed.The wedding began, and she betrayed me once again.

She: "Before we begin, I'd like to say a few words about my maid of honor."(Everyone groaned.) She (with a smirk): "Thanks, witch, my husband is now knows that you've been in love with him for years. He told me he never loved you and only used you to get to know me." I burst into tears and ran out of the wedding.

42. Betrayal at the party

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Deleted user: At a party, my buddy introduced me to one of his female friends. We went on what I believed was a fantastic date.The next day, my buddy called to inform me that she wasn't interested and didn't know how to let me down gently, so she had asked him to relay the message that I should cut all contact.

Two months later, while in a tipsy state, I decided to call herand inquire about her sudden change ofheart. She told me the truth about my buddy, and my jaw dropped.

It turned out that my buddy had feelings for her and had told her that I wasn't interested in pursuing anything further with her. He had deliberately sabotaged my chances with her out of jealousy.

Feeling betrayed, I confronted him about it. Our friendship was strained after that, but the truth was out. She and I tried to rekindle things, but the trust was already broken.

43. Karma hits back

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Deleted user: I live on the streets because I don't have parents. I saved up for a long time to buy a winter jacket. A rich friend from school helped me pick one out. He told me the jacket I liked wasn't good and that I'd be laughed at for wearing it, so I didn't buy it.

The next day, he came to school wearing that exact jacket and said to me, "Your parents are dead, no one's got your back, loser." MY REVENGE WAS BRUTAL. The next day, a Rolls Royce pulled up next to me on the street, and his father stepped out.

He approaches me and says, "I saw the security footage from the store. My son was out of line, and I won't tolerate such behavior." He handed me a brand new jacket, even better than the one I had wanted, and added, "I'm making him return his and apologize to you.

No one deserves to be treated that way, especially not by my family." As his Rolls Royce drove away, I could see his son's embarrassed face looking back, and I felt a rush of vindication.

44. "Best Friend"

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Deleted user: My best friend was the godmother of my 6-year-old son. That day, she took him to the amusement park, and they were in an accident where she was the only survivor.

My wife blamed me for everything and left. A year later, I married this ‘best friend’. She helped me through my grief and once said, "We can always make one of our own."

20 years later, we were packing up our daughter's things,and I froze. I saw clothes that were worn by my son on that day.Me: How did you say you survived?

She: I told you, I remained inside the car. Me (in rage): THEN CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THIS HAS my son's clothes from that day?

Her face drained of color, and she was silent for a moment before the truth spilled out. She hadn't caused my son's death, but she had hidden crucial details about the accident.

She confessed that in the chaos, she saw an opportunity to be closer to me, having secretly loved me for years. Her plan, twisted by grief and unrequited love, was to marry me in the aftermath.

As her confession ended, I stood there, heartbroken and betrayed, the pieces of a life built on lies crumbling around me.

These people shared what it felt like to be betrayed by their best friends. Many didn't expect they would eventually have to part ways with their closest friends. Have you ever experienced the loss of a best friend after betrayal? Was it your childhood friend or someone you met as an adult? We would love to hear your story.