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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was talking about this with a friend of mine recently. Turns out we both had friends who at some point just literally stopped talking to his/her friends. A former friend of mine did this after she quit the place where we both worked. On her last day of work (after working there for two years, becoming friends with a few of us, getting drinks after work, attending events with us) she didn't even say goodbye to people-- she just walked out. That night, I tried to call her and she didn't return any calls. Another coworker reached out-- same thing. She just vanished and seemed to want nothing to do with anyone. It was so strange because I honestly thought we were good friends, and so did others. No one could say what happened, if they had a fallout with her or anything. Everyone thought they were on good terms, and then, poof, gone.

Same time happened with someone in college. On the last day of school she just got really quiet, wouldn't look at anyone and pretty much just disappeared after the last day of classes. I saw her at graduation, where she just gave me a weird smile and looked down, and that was it. This one girl who seemed to be her closest friend was really offended afterward and couldn't pinpoint anything that would have made this person just stop talking to her.

What's the deal with people who do this? One moment you're best friends, the next, they don't even want to acknowledge yo/ [/quote]

I did this. She kept talking about her husband, who had never told his mom he married her, and how they argued about that - when was he going to tell his mom? It was just obvious how this would play out - but she didn't want help, she just complained and complained. I felt totally drained spending time with her. She wasn't interested in anything I had to say, she wasn't interested in my life. One day I said enough and stopped talking to her. Her last message was her husband divorced her. I didn't want to get into that.  So maybe you think they're best friends but obviously they weren't. [/quote]

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