I know that feeling. </3

Unfortunately...I know that too well. And unfortunately for them, I always know...

I understand that all too well.

Something I'm worried I might be going through rn :(

It is always sad if such things happen... and they should not happen...
If everyone would just be honest with one another things would be much easier...

Sure some conversations would hurt... and some friendships would end then and there...
But at least you could look at each other eye to eye... instead of living in fear and stress of it coming out and the fallout that would inevitably happen afterwards, hurting and destroying much more, than if one would have been honest in the first place...

Been there, done that...
I feel with you!

Well, I hear that.

I've been there... walking away from those people was the best thing that I ever did.

yep...

This happened to me recently, and seeing that you used animals parallel to their fursona's makes this piece hit extra hard for me ToT

That's right, me too

That feeling is way too great lately

Been there. And it does suck in the worst way. Hugs.

Sadly I feel this as an autistic person. I’m sorry.

Hmmmm.....

pretty sure i been there way long ago, during high school. i dont really remember the feeling but yea.

it reminds me of an episode of Married with children
Kellys girlfriends are talking smack about one girl who went to the bathroom.. she comes back and ANOTHER girl goes to the bathroom... they talk smack about HER!

Hugs.

I feel like I experience this in small pockets of people I’ve come to know. No one will admit to it of course but I have big suspicions.
Though I did get informed recently that some of these suspicions in one circle I’m a part of is true, and while I try to use it as a life lesson and move on…..it still hurts and makes me feel as lonely as ever.
…At least I know some people in my life are there for me and honest with me without a doubt. It just sucks when you suspect or know for sure your secretly hated by someone and they just put on a mask around you to avoid admitting the truth.

Somebody in my circle started a rumor than I had an STD. Luckily, it came to nothing in the end, but that is something no one is going to ask about to clarify whether it was true.

Been there, and it's frustrating. Definitely makes it hard to open up with people.

Truly the worst :(

Always been skeptical of people who try to rumor me into hating somebody or something... if I can't discern some better faith intentions along the way.

Seen plenty of selfish people who jealously do some ugly stuff to manipulate social groups before those people recognize the bad faith - and plenty of conflict avoidant people who will do some wild crap to drive away anyone who might expect them to own any portion of the damage in their wake.

All we can do is hope to enjoy other people for as long as we reasonably can until we outgrow them or vice versa

Been exactly here.

You...poor thing. I am sorry you've had to endure that

This is why I never make any deep relationships with people anymore. I feel getting stabbed in the back is an inevitable, unavoidable probability that cannot be evaded.

False friends are one of my biggest fears. People that act nice and friendly to your face, but actually hate you. The worst part is that it makes me paranoid about all my friends, not being able to be sure which ones are actually my friends and which ones aren't.

Been there. Went through. And did continue. It is amazing what a decade can do with a group of friends. Some will go away, some will change, some stay. And some came back after years of silence, happy to be together again.

awww *hug*

somethin like this happened to a friend of mine before. I feel like trust is somethin that needs to be worked for and earned mostly. But in the end its mostly a leap of faith, and sometimes things go wrong...

Had this very thing happen to me, though in my case it was one person poisoning the rest of the group.

Used to play DnD in person with a group of friends. They were all decent people, and I only fault the one who ended up causing the break. I lived pretty far from the meeting site, and was fairly poor at the time, so I had to take the bus, which sometimes delayed the sessions. I would also sometimes ask someone to cover me for mealtime, always paying them back each time.

Eventually this one person, who was a real piece of work (even those people who broke from me in the group revile him at this point) started talking about how poor I was, and making people think I was just somehow taking advantage of them. It came to a head when one person offered to come pick me up instead of waiting for me to arrive on the buss, only for that person to talk them into 'testing' me. They started talking about going out to play paintball someplace far away from where we were even meeting and it 'only costing a couple hundred dollars a person'. When I said I probably couldn't go, we had a 'talk' about my lack of income and struggle to get around, ending in them telling me they thought it best if we stopped meeting up.

It was all the one person's fault, and in later years, I learned from the others, who I still kept in touch with because I still saw them as friends, that he had been poisoning the well due to a combination of personal dislike, racism, and just generally being a jerk.

This...... <///3

be it true or not, how you feel about it is.

To trust is to make yourself vulnerable to be betrayed. To forgive is to decide to trust even after you have been betrayed. Closing yourself off means you are no longer able to be betrayed again, but you also close yourself off from belonging and growth.

Do not pick your friends. Let them show themselves through their actions. Forgive those who show growth and give them another chance to grow with you. Beware those who are inable or refuse to change. They'll most likely drag you down with them.

Cheers