Anyone have someone go from your best friend to someone you want absolutely nothing to do with? What happened?

Yes, I had a really close friend. He had mental health issues since before I knew him. Late in the friendship he had some serious job-related stress and vented to me over the course of about four months. Along the way it started to change from venting to me to directing it at me. It escalated to a point I could never have imagined. After four months I couldn't take it any more decided to terminate the friendship in another four months, after the big job project he had that was the catalyst for the explosions.

During the four months after that decision I let him rage and rage at me daily in emails and texts because I cared enough to know he needed somebody to serve that role until the project was done, and better me than his mom or fiancee or whoever. The day after the project was done I cut off all contact permanently, have not spoken since, and never will. Wish I could have done more for him but at some point you have to prioritize your own mental health over someone else's.

They became a SIMP

Yes when my friend decided he hates Trump so much that he wants the corona virus and associated cancellations to serve as punishment for society because Trump became President. Real deep TDS stuff.

The reverse happened to me. Me and another guy were tight as could be all the way through college. We were roommates all 5 years, did everything together, ran together, even our girlfriends were friends.

Following graduation I briefly moved to another country, and during that time I see that this friend, --we'll call him Steve-- has posted a photo on Instagram. He's never been out of the country, but upon looking closer at the photo, I recognize some local landmarks and realize he's actually in my european city, just a couple kilomaters away.

He was wearing a school sweater in the photo and posted the caption "Bringing Nebraska pride to (Spanish city)". Clearly a shot at me, as there's no way he'd forgotten about me moving there just months earlier. Anyway, our group of friends was always drama free, so this was super strange. A few days later was his birthday, and I sent him a PM... "Hey man, we haven't spoken in a while, hope everything is alright, let's catch up soon." His response: "Yeah, that was actually intentional." So I left it at that and as of today we haven't spoken in three years. Strange, and I never found out why it happened, but it does make me rather sad thinking back on it now.

A former coworker who I once considered more of a friend than a coworker left the company. A couple months later we're out catching up and he said he wanted to watch his wife with another man, she was an attractive older lady so I said sure. [removed details here]. Did this a few times, then one day they completely cut off contact, my texts/calls when unanswered. No idea what happened.

This is a running forum, so I will share my experience with a falling out with my previous running friend. I was 25 and a few years out of college. She was 34, tall, skinny and beautiful. We lived in the same apartment building and became friends/training partners. We spent a ton of time together and some people probably thought we were dating.

Our falling out occurred because she disappointed me and I realized she was holding me back. Scene: early March trail race where she ran the trail 10-mile and I ran the trail 20. In the last 2 miles of the race, the heavens opened up with a cold wet rain. I broke away from the front runners and soloed the last mile for the win and course record. At the finish line she was waiting for me with an umbrella and towel. I crossed the line covered in mud and we embraced and kissed in the rain. I was ecstatic... until the award ceremony. She won her age group, but got 4th place overall. I knew I would never reach my running potential with her. My lease at the apartment was up anyway, so I ghosted her and moved to another town.

I saw her at a race about 10 years later. She looked EXACTLY the same.

Count me in as having gone through this. I had a special friend I cherished for a very long time . Could be classified as a childhood friend that developed into someone very special. Someone that I considered untouchable.....meaning no amount of distance between us or time lapse in communication would diminish the bond.....until it was diminished.

After my friend had what I would consider a sort of mental breakdown, then an accident, I was not able to be there for her to offer love, care, or support. Not by my own choice.....by hers. I suppose I found out that my special friend didn't think the same way about me.

Funny, as a poster above me wrote, there was no romantic involvement, but the love was absolutely there. That's kind of what made it unique. Still getting over it even as an older adult. Really weird......

In my case most ended friendships come from a slow evolution of change in interests, e.g. I take up running, and my friend watches tv all day. I want to go bicycling. my friend wants to drive around in a car I spend weekends at the pool. My friend spends it at the bar. Now we're both happy and no longer friends. No animosity, too.

"realize he's actually in my european city, just a couple kilomaters away."

Why didn't you both agree to go to Spain? Or why didn't you ask him or him tell you he wanted to go rather than to what appears stalk you. What kind of friend would do that? Bizzare.

I had one "friend" like that. We became friends in college. After graduating he ran a ski tour business and I would manage several trips for him to help him out. As part of the effort to build clientele he then decided to build a portable/moveable volleyball court he could set up in the street where he lived for client/neighbor block parties. He helped him set it up (getting used tires, concrete mix and threaded pipes for the bases). After going to about six such events over three months, all very successful, he told me was stopping the parties because they were too much work. I also stopped being invited to visit him at his home because his first child was a lot of work.

About three months later i learned from someone who I previously met running a ski trip for the friend, and told him it was a shame the block parties did not work out. This guy said, nope, the block parties were every week and they were a blast. He hadn't missed a single one in over two months.

I was age 30 when the above happened and I stop speaking with the "friend". It seemed to be no loss on his part as he never contacted me again. ... To end the story, 25 years later on (now at age 55), this guy someone finds me and leaves me a message asking me if I remember him and out "great" long-lost friendship. That was a year ago and I did not call him back. And never called again.