Friendship

People who have been stabbed in the back by a 'friend' share their stories of betrayal.

Friends are the people you&#39;re supposed to be able to count on, no matter what&mdash;which is why being let down, lied to or abandoned by a friend is a particularly painful form of betrayal. Just ask Julius Caesar, may he R.I.P.People who&#39;ve been stabbed in the back by a &quot;friend&quot; are sharing their stories on Reddit. Here are 28 stories of people who&#39;ve been betrayed by the ones they trusted most.With friends like these, who needs enemies?!?!?!?!1.) From Sweetzombjesus: Made plans to go see a movie with my friends for my 16th birthday and planned it weeks in advance. Everybody bailed the day before/of but I decided to still go see the movie. Ran into my whole group of friends leaving the movie theater while buying popcorn. 2.) From genericname619: Best friend stopped talking to me after my dad died. Took the whole friend group with him. Apparently I was &ldquo;too emotional&rdquo; I was 13. Having my entire friend group walk away from me when I was in such a shitty place stuck with me forever. 3.) From Sighborgninja: Asked two of my friends if they wanted to live together in college. Then one of them asked another person in our friend group if he wanted to join in as well. Then they asked another...and another. And then once there were too many people for one apartment, they dropped me out of it. No longer &quot;friends&quot; with any of them. Was kinda a wake up call though because I definitely gave way too much of myself to those people not knowing that I was the most expendable one. It really taught me not to put others on a pedestal and respect myself more and has since led to me developing far more healthy relationships that bring me a lot of happiness. 4.) From uglymoz: She slept with my boyfriend because she thought she was in love with ME? Wackest shit I ever did hear 5.) From ArishaSmile: I had one friend. I was bullied by everyone at elementary school. Because my friend would be bullied too when they hung out with me at school, we only played outside of school. One day a popular kid asked to play with me during recess. I was ecstatic! Until after a while they said &quot;You&#39;re not as bad as &#39;friend&#39; said you are&quot;. And that&#39;s how I learned WHY I was bullied. 6.) From tallavery: My mother told me she was sick of being with dad. She told me a bunch of things he&#39;d done which made her afraid of him. She asked me to tell a few of her close friends about how she was being treated, because she wanted them to understand why she was leaving. Then she decided to stay with him. So she told her friends that she had no idea what was wrong with me, but they should pray for me because it looked like I was going through something. My own mother stabbed me in the back. 7.) From niC00L: Been very good friends for over 2 years. Their roommate moved out and they asked me if I want to move into their spare room. I was very happy to live with my good friends and I did everything I could to be the best roommate possible. After 3 weeks they found another source of income and kicked me out. First, they offered to help me find another accomodation but the next day they changed their mind and just told me to leave by the end of the month (it was 7 days until the end of the month). They didn&#39;t spoke to me ever since. When we met somewhere in town they acted like they never seen me before. I have no fucking idea what I did wrong. 8.) From DJaay11: He accused me of sexually assaulting his younger sister who was basically my little sister too, at the time. It&rsquo;s completely false and it&rsquo;s the most mind boggling thing that&rsquo;s ever happened to me. 9.) From J-Bad: My friends told me to &ldquo;grieve better&rdquo; after my boyfriend died 10.) From maaadchillbro: I had one friend who honestly wasn&#39;t my favorite person because she was really manipulative, but I never said anything bad about her. I found out that she had been shit talking me to all of our mutual friends and telling them all that I did horrible things that I never did. Ended up essentially being pushed out of that entire friend group and it ruined a lot of my high school experience. 11.) From elizzzzzabethqq: A &lsquo;quiet&rsquo; girl I made &lsquo;friends&rsquo; with would only sit with me in class just so she can go snitch about me to my ex friends. She would literally sit next to me for one or two classes(randomly) then go sit with them(later). I called her out on it after she came to sit next to me and told her &ldquo;why do you even bother sitting with me, when we both know you&rsquo;re just trying to get shit to talk about me with Them. When I come back from the bathroom you better go sit somewhere else.&rdquo; I was usually very quiet and that was the first time I stood up for myself. 12.) From usagi1288: I had a best friend that I knew for 16 yrs. She got pregnant and her parents tried to kick her out. Her parents wanted her to get an abortion but she refused. One of our HS friends told me someone should push her down a flight of stairs so she can miscarry. I told her that&#39;s a very bad idea and defended my best friend. The next day, the principal came by my class to ask me if I could attend a meeting about something important. If I didn&#39;t attend, I was going to be expelled. When I arrived to the meeting, our shared friend claimed I was going to shove my best friend down flights of stairs so she can miscarry. My best friend believed her. We stopped talking after that. 13.) From LonesomeHebrew: My wife said she needed some time for herself so she went to stay at her mom&rsquo;s for a while. One day I went to pick up my kids and walked in on her and my best friend having sex. Turns out it had been going on for a while and she knew him before she knew me (which I had no clue about). 14.) From NakedKittyAlucard: We (my husband and I) had a friend that we helped get back on his feet. Paid off some tickets he had. Got his license reinstated. Hooked him up with a solid connection for a reasonable, well running car to replace his beater...AND gave him a place to live and a job (automotive repair)....he decided it was a better choice to tell all our customers we were overcharging them (spoiler: we weren&rsquo;t) and he&rsquo;d do the jobs cheaper if they&rsquo;d bring it to him at his house (this was a short time after he moved out of our house, after never repaying anything he owed us. Not that we&rsquo;d asked). Broke my heart.... 15.) From manlikerealities: Years ago when I did a health sciences undergraduate degree, most of the cohort was determined to get into medical school. Our medical school program mainly accepted students from only our competitive undergraduate course, due to subject prerequisites. We all knew each other and were friendly, hanging out together and forming study groups. Many of my friends were great - we shared tips, resources, practiced exams and interviews together. But there were a handful who really wanted to get into medical school, and since the program ranks applicants mainly based on undergraduate results, the better your friends perform, the lower your ranking is for selection. So near application time, some of us would head off to the university library to borrow out textbooks to find chapters or page numbers that the lecturer mentioned would be on the exam. And they would be ripped out. You&#39;d go and find another library copy of the textbook, and that page would be ripped out too. All of them, totally removed in a hurry. I didn&#39;t believe that someone from our cohort did it, until interview practice began. Students began obtaining copies of the questions from previous years and lying when others asked if they had it. I saw someone give a terrible, awful interview answer and the other student would give them glowing feedback and inform them they should say that, word-for-word, during the interview. It was a shitshow and a lot of relationships fell apart, or were never the same again. 16.) From Nephilimelohim: Had a good bud of mine, who&#39;s the godfather of my son, living with me and my wife. I travel a lot for work, and was out of the country for about 6 months in the Middle East. Came back and found out she was pregnant, with twins, and that they weren&#39;t mine. 17.) From bjrni: I booked a table for 6 people to watch a sports event at a bar. I tell them so. All 5 friends say OK we will be there. No one shows up or even has the decency call or text that they were not coming. 18.) From sugargrasses: Friend only listened to me to tell all of my secrets and spread rumors about me. fun times. 19.) From Dio_Dragon: Friend told me they weren&rsquo;t doing anything for their birthday. On the day of their birthday, photos appeared on Facebook of them out with the rest of our friends. They&rsquo;re not my friends anymore. 20.) From friklfrakl: A woman I thought was my friend (we worked together for years, our kids were friends, I helped her and her husband out when he was having mental health problems, she was in my sister&#39;s wedding party) appeared in court as a witness for my ex-wife in her bid to gain full custody. THANKFULLY she failed and I now have custody of my kids. I haven&#39;t spoken to my &quot;friend&quot; since. 21.) From flypaperhat: A guy who seemed like a good mate when it was just us, and then as soon as there was someone else, or a group, he took the piss out of me and tried to make me the butt of all jokes. Even worse if there were girls around. After a while, I called him out on it, and he was just like &quot;dude, it&#39;s just a joke&quot;, but I was done with him after that. I saw him randomly earlier this year, after years of no contact, and it was amicable, and we caught up a bit on how we&#39;re getting on with our lives, and while he has grown up and become a bit more grounded, there&#39;s been no intention of rebuilding a bridge. I think if I ever met someone who has that side to their personality, I&#39;d drop them like a hot potato. 22.) From CarmenSanDiego00: Grew up going to the same church and met my friend and her family when I was 14. We grew up together, hung out and our families would be together all the time. Fast forward many years and I am dating a guy that I fell in love with for almost 3 years at the time. He went to ND to the oil fields for work. I went to visit him and could tell something was off a bit, took the train from my town to Williston 22 hours to get there. Visited him for 5 days and on the last day he gets up and goes to shower, I grab his phone ( we had an open policy with each other that either could be on each others phones) I found the e-mails between my &quot;friend&quot; and him. My family still hangs out with her family and her. I refuse to be around or speak to her. 23.) From rayrayyy213: My best friend since fourth grade, called her my soul sister. I genuinely was so grateful to have what I thought our friendship was. She fell on hard times, got weirdly religious, and stopped working while going to a private uni. I was always there for her, shoulder to cry on, visited her all the time because she didn&rsquo;t have any friends and I knew she was lonely, helped her with groceries and rent, helped her family out. One day she came over and after buying her groceries, she told me a higher power has been telling her to cut me off for two years and she had to listen. Now she wants to be friends again. Issa hard nope from me dawg. 24.) From MiryahDawn: In 2014 I woke up Jan. 1st in horrible pain. I ended up needing an emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. I was a single mom to 2 kids under 5 and had just moved back to my home town after living out of state. We&#39;d had to leave a really shitting living situation and had only been back about a month and I had not found a job at that point. I had had a really close family friend who had been living with me before I had moved back and he ended up homeless so I bought him an $80 bus ticket and got him back to our hometown and let him stay with me a few days. He quickly found another place to stay but we had invited him to my youngest sons 2nd birthday, which is the 6th of Jan. I was like 4 days out from surgery at this point and could barely make it down my stairs at this point so he offered to go and pick up the pizza and cake for my son for me. We didnt have a huge party or anything. I was on food stamps and had cash assistance since my sons dad was not involved at all and did not pay child support. Even so I offered for him to get himself a small pizza to take back to the girl he was staying with since her and her kids couldn&#39;t make it over. So party goes great, everyone has a good time, especially both my kids. A few days later my grandma was going to go grocery shopping for me so I go to get my card and realize it&#39;s not there. I never got it back from the guy, and I forgot he even had it since I was all doped up on pain meds from surgery. I tried calling him like 5 times and he didnt answer, so I get onto my account online to check my balance and he took everything. I had like $600 in cash( paid my rent and bought my kids the things they needed), and then I had like $750 in food stamps. All of it was gone. He let the girl he was staying with convince him to steal my money from me. I&#39;d only used the money to buy the bus ticket, and the pizza and cake for my son since I&#39;d been in the hospital for the first 4 days of the year and only home for 2 after that. It is still to this day the most intentionally fucked up thing anyone has ever done to me, mostly because it was such a huge fuck you to my kids. Like who steals from a single mom recovering from a life saving surgery, on her kids birthday? Especially after I helped him! Like holy shit. 25.) From Rulermax: I had some &quot;friends&quot; who were always talking crap about me (found out from another good friend) and one day a came to school in my brand new jeans that costed around &euro;150 and they put glue on my chair while I was in the bathroom. I sat on it. I asked which one of them did it, none of them said a word. We went to the principal&#39;s office and these pos had the BALLS to say that I put it there to get them in trouble. Their parents where called and I earned around &euro;200 and a new pair of jeans. 26.) From topcheesehead: Told a friend a secret in high school &#39;I suffer from major depression and social anxiety, dont tell anyone, Im seeing a therapist&#39;. That took a lot for me to say. I was making progress. Friend procceded to tell the entire class. People thought I was crazy. Thats highschool. I stopped being friends with the few friends I had. I was more alone. I graduated highschool with zero friends. Thanks. Dont worry though, in college I blossomed into a bearded man with no fears. Life has been swell ever since 27.) From itsheatheragain: Im late but whatever. My &quot;best friend&quot; and I worked together for 3 years at a restaurant. I was the night manager and was really cool with all of the employees, but especially her. We hung out outside of work all the time, she went with me to the beach and carnivals with my kids, who adored her. She started dating this guy at work who was slowly becoming a drug addict. I could see it (my crackhead aunt made it easy to spot) but no one else could. After he fucked up for the 10th time in a week and started nodding out at the sink, he was fired by my boss on a Saturday. The following Monday night, at closing time, he came in the backdoor wearing a ski mask. I was walking towards the front door to lock it when I was grabbed from behind and felt something cold against my neck. It took me a second to realize it was a knife. He said &quot;get me the money&quot; but I couldn&#39;t move. I was literally paralyzed with fear. My brain was screaming at me to move towards the register but my feet just wouldn&#39;t move. He screamed &quot;give me the money&quot; again but I was frozen. He then drug me to the register, made me open it, grabbed a fistful of 20&#39;s and ran out the back. My best friend at the time this whole thing went down? Conveniently, in the bathroom. I was still in shock trying to explain to the police on the phone what had just happened. When I hung up the phone, she asked what had happened and I told her I had just been robbed at fucking knifepoint. Her exact response was &quot;I hope no one thinks I had anything to do with this&quot; Ummmm what? So long story short, they find the guy (I told them I recognized his voice) and he rats her out on the set up (the &quot;set up&quot; was her texting him an all clear when only she and I were in the building) He didnt have to though, she quit the next day. And stopped replying to my texts. When I found out I was heartbroken. This is someone who was around my kids regularly. I was diagnosed with extreme anxiety and PTSD after being robbed and still have flashbacks randomly. If someone comes up behind me and startles me I panic. The amount of money my life was worth to them? $440 The punishment they received? He got 2 years in jail, 50 years suspended. 1 year of probation. She got 1 year probation. I had to quit the job I had over a decade because I couldn&#39;t stand being in there anymore.   Tl;dr: A year and a half ago, My best friend at the time set me up to be robbed at knifepoint.   28.) ​​​​​​​From leelo84: This all starts out poorly by me following my boyfriend to the same college he went to (he was a year older; still don&#39;t regret it after all as I loved my school and everything else a out those 4 years). We were a bit off again, on again first semester I was there (again, red flags!). My new across the hall-mate in my dorm became my &quot;best friend.&quot; She and boyfriend didn&#39;t really like each other but it wasn&#39;t a huge deal; just a personality clash and she didn&#39;t like how he treated me with the on/off crap. Our school had a winter term in January. Boyfriend lived off campus so he was there and best friend was taking a class; I was home. Best friend was lonely and didn&#39;t know many other people on campus for winter term so I told her to hang out with the boys in my boyfriend&#39;s [frat]house, whom she had friendly-ish with. So they all start hanging out. And by that, of course I mean they start hooking up. I get back to school and I immediately can tell things are weird with best friend (unbeknownst to me at the time, boyfriend has had basically our entire relationship to practice covering his tracks and is a smooth and practiced liar by this point). Within a couple weeks, it all comes out that they&#39;d been hooking up and best friend actually tells me &quot;you know how much I&#39;ve wanted a boyfriend; if you were a good friend, you&#39;d let me have him.&quot; (Why I still wanted to date him at this point is beyond many many MANY people&#39;s comprehension, including mine, but it did involve a dog that I was beyond attached to). I do fault them both equally, and did at the time too - I don&#39;t remember being mad at either of them as much as I was just devastated. He was apologetic from the start; she was mean and manipulative (again, not trying to say it was &quot;the other woman&#39;s fault&quot; - just explaining how it all went down). It totally sucked and I felt so betrayed by both of them. Unsurprisingly, I have had a lot of trust and loyalty issues since. 

Friends are the people you&#39;re supposed to be able to count on, no matter what&mdash;which is why being let down, lied to or abandoned by a friend is a particularly painful form of betrayal. Just ask Julius Caesar, may he R.I.P.  People...