Should I reach out?
Hi guys.
One of the friends I'm having issues IRL is someone I know since we were kids. Let's call her Mel. We meet when we were 9 yo (were share the same year) and we became "BFF's" by the age of 14.
Mel and I have a very strange friendship. I always considered her a soul sister, and she used to claim the same for me, even tho she have a blood sister. I always thought our friendship was special, so the loyalty I had to her I never have to anyone else up to this day. First crush, first bra, first period, all the changes we were there for each other. I actually broke up two relationships because I knew she was in love with the guys and honestly I didn't care about them at the time anyway so felt like a favor to everybody. She never asked me to, I just saw them flirting when we went out and on social media too. Before we're BFF's she hook up with a guy I was hooking up first. She cried, I didn't care. He was a dog, she did me a favor. I was no saint either. I once hook up with someone she liked, but I'm my defense I asked for permission and she granted. 🤷🏻♀️ But nowadays she forgot that part, and she forgot what she did to me. A lot of history.
Anyway, I was always the one reaching to hang out, I pay for travels and amusement parks because I wanted to share those kind of memories with her and she couldn't afford at the time. I loaned her money when she needed to treat her dog and never asked back (and I never will). I was always there when someone broke up with her, when she had family issues and because all the bullying she suffered at school. Yet, when she got a job, she just forget about me. I see all the partying with whomever and just stop replying my messages. It happened a lot when we were growing up but around ten years ago she ghosted be for about six or seven years, and out of nowhere she reply a message I sent years prior. She accused me of setting her up to cheat her boyfriend. Like, she said she thought I talked to a guy to hit on her so she would cheat her BF. I was like "whaaaaat... I don't even have a reason for that". Anyway, she apologize but at that point I started with an amazing psychoanalyst and begin questioning all my friendships and that was a red flag for me. But I'm very needy for family and deep connection, so I experiment new boundaries for us because I never had that kind of connection before nor after her. She really was my sister... Then it all started again, she's just ghosting me. I see her interacting with people but my messages are ignored. I know she's not my friend, never was. I'm ready to let her go despise my hurt and not having anything to replace this relationship.
My question is: should I reach her to have some answers, or it will only open a door for fighting? Because we never actually fought before, she just disappears. I was thinking on asking if I did or said something offensive to her or something like that, because I never understand why she keeps doing that to me...
Thank you in advance.
SaddyMary 🌻
I'm sorry that your relationship with her is strained. I sort of get what you feel. You want to reach out but she hasn't been the one to initiate the conversation all these years. It's the risk to get hurt again to have some answer from her. If you really feel it in your heart to reach out, maybe you should. You've considered it might have lead into a fight with her and you've known she likes to disappear. Maybe she's avoidant, and sometimes people grow apart. If the only connection you have with her is the past, maybe it's time to let her go because you've tried and didn't see results. We can still love people from afar. But I'm only a stranger here, I don't know what you're facing and what you really want
Hi enchanting. I hope you're doing great.
Sorry taking so long to see your reply.
I guess it's time to let go of her and others similar relationships... I was avoiding that because once I do that I'll be completely isolated from people and relationships were always important to me but I'm too tired to keep trying and getting the same outcomes. But they don't serve me any good as well so I have nothing to lose at this point...
Thank you very much for your reply, time and effort to help me. I really appreciate it.🌻