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- A woman wrote on Mumsnet that her friend stopped speaking to her for not being “excited” enough about their new home
- “She has repeatedly given me a list of her expectations from me,” the woman said of the friendship
- Commenters suggested the woman end the friendship
A woman has been ghosted by her friend after they told her that she wasn’t “excited” enough about their new house.
In an “Am I Being Unreasonable?” forum on Mumsnet, a woman said that her friend of 30 years stopped speaking to her because she was not enthusiastic enough about moving into her new home.
“She recently told me that I have not been sufficiently excited about her new house to meet her expectations,” the woman wrote.
“I am being ghosted at the moment for something — not quite sure yet — as she hasn’t informed me what I have done wrong yet,” she explained.
The woman, who described herself as a former “people pleaser,” said that her ex-pal is “a terrible friend,” who is “constantly critical” of her.
“Thing is — amongst her constantly telling me how I am not meeting her friend expectations, she’s been a terrible friend to me,” the woman continued. “Constantly critical of my life, my parenting, the things I do.”
She accused her former friend of building their friendship solely on their “expectations” of her, without ever acknowledging how she feels.
“She has repeatedly given me a list of her expectations from me [and] is always telling me what she thinks friendship should be,” she said, noting that her friend “makes me feel s— about myself.”
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Readers in the comment section urged the woman to end the friendship.
“She brings nothing to your life other than grief so let her go,” one person wrote.
Someone else suggested that the woman was ghosted by her friend as “a control and manipulation technique” and that she should “walk away.”
“Block her and let it go. This is not a friendship,” a third said. “But before doing that, I don’t think I could resist messaging and telling her what I thought of her behavior, her demands, her selfishness. She doesn’t seem to bother about your feelings after all.”
“You need to be a friend to yourself and stop bothering with her,” another added.
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