Dealing with a friend you know you’d be better off without? You’re not alone. Here, one woman tells AnnieLord8 the story of the toxic friendship she can’t walk away from.
When Bonnie and I met at school aged 12, we instantly became inseparable. We did everything together, spending hours out cycling on our bikes and watchingover and over. We told each other everything: about boys, our first periods and every insecurity, which for me revolved around my eating disorders and body dysmorphia. It felt like she was always there for me, but looking back there were cracks in our friendship early on.
Throughout our 20s and into our 30s, we’ve been part of the same wider friendship group. It’s the main reason why I’ve never properly called Bonnie out, even though I’ve wanted to. I worry about her turning mutual friends against me – I’ve seen her do it to other people throughout our lives. However, friends outside our circle struggle to understand why I haven’t cut her out as she’s such a terrible friend.
I own a successful marketing business and Bonnie works as a make-up artist. Since she has realised that I can be useful to her professionally, she has made constant demands of me, such as insisting on freebie tickets to concerts, where she then ignores me. When I called her out on this behaviour, she denied it and made me feel paranoid. In fact, any time I confront her, she either turns it around or is so nice to me that I then feel guilty and drop it.
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