User blog comment:Diexilius/I just lost a bit of hope in humanity/@comment-4849011-20160812012712

I had someone who I thought was my friend, but then she broke off our friendship, which had lasted a number of years, over a completely imagined wrong, spewing false and hurtful accusations as she did so. Her version of events is so far removed from reality that it's scary (I told another friend that and he replied, "Don't you just love it when that happens?" implying that he'd had a similar experience). I might write my own blog someday. Looking back, she was abusive toward me. People talk about abusive spouses and such, but never abusive "friends". I think that's because people laugh it off. If a woman is abusive to one of her female friends people laugh and say, "Oh, they're just being catty!" If a man is abusive to one of his male friends people laugh and say, "Oh, they're just playing around!" If the abusive friend is a different gender than the person being abused people laugh and say, "Get a room!" They act like having an abusive friend isn't a serious situation, but let me tell you, it is.

Really, I'm much better without her. It hurt at the time, but she did me a favor by severing ties with me. I'm a shy person, but I now have friends (in real life and on-line) that are sincere and kind. It's never fun losing a friend, but things will work out. At least you have weirdos like us to commiserate with.