Anonymous #1 4d

I feel like my friend in the program isn’t really interested in wanting to get to know me for me and really only drags me along whenever she is trying to get over some guy. What frustrates me is that I’m just someone who naturally wants to get closer to people and build that level of emotional depth whereas she has this wall between us that I truly don’t know why. She invites me to her big get togethers like her Christmas party and Friendsgiving which makes me happy but she cares on the surface

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Anonymous #1 4d

I guess I just feel like I’m not a friendship worth fighting for. My conversations with her have pretty much been hi how are you and I tried to talk to one of our mutual friends about this and she claims that I didn’t say or do anything to make anyone uncomfortable and that my friend supposedly does care about me a lot but she just keeps me in a cage and I feel like she doesn’t trust me

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Anonymous OP 4d

Have you talked to the friend directly about this?

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Anonymous OP 4d

Granted I only know as much about your friendship as what has been commented, she sounds like what I like to call a “friend of convenience”. As someone going through a similar friendship rn, a friend of convenience” is really only there when they/you need someone and has no one else available. This friendship lacks the emotional depth that other friends might have and your friendship is literally formed because it happens to be convenient for one or more parties. 1

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Anonymous #1 4d

2. To me it sounds like she isn’t interested in putting the effort to get to know you, however there could be lots of reasons as to why maybe she hasn’t opened up to you yet. If you are okay with how your friendship is, accept that she is only ever going to be a friend when it’s convenient to you/her. If not, I really recommend communicating with her about your desire to get to know eachother more. Ask if she wants to get coffee and make time to just chat one on one. Some people also just take

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Anonymous #1 2d

So update she pretty much messaged me on Christmas saying how she was distant because of me having feelings for her. According to her the reason why she doesn’t ever want to like hang out with me whenever I ask is because she is “genuinely busy”. She claims that I’ve never done anything wrong or said anything to upset her and really values our friendship but tbh I don’t even know how to feel about it anymore. I did have feelings for her I’m not going to lie about it

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Anonymous OP 2d

Ive been on the other end of a friend catching feelings more than once, and it’s a little awkward. You dont want to do anything that makes moving on harder for them or could lead to them feeling led on. Not your fault but it may take some time

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Anonymous OP 2d

But I’m also the type of person who is not going to just throw away a friendship I built with someone because I want to like hook up with them. She thought being distant from me is her way of protecting our bond but I feel like the fact she chose to be distant in the first place is why I have such an issue. In any friendship or relationship you have in general you should feel like you are comfortable with the bond you built and I just felt like the level of closeness I had with her isn’t there

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Anonymous #2 2d

I mean I just don’t feel like I can trust the friendship I built with her and to be honest I didn’t even want to have the conversation with her. Those feelings I had with her she openly said that they weren’t affecting anyone. Maybe those feelings would’ve amplified maybe they would’ve just died down naturally i genuinely don’t know but all i do know is that conversation just left me confused with where i even stand with her now. She says we’re all good but that conversation is always lingering

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Anonymous OP 2d

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wished she just treated me normally as she did before this whole fiasco. Cause the distance and just the vibes I got after everything just made me feel extremely uncomfortable

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