📝 What should I do?

By So-whathappened • Score: 1 • April 8, 2025 10:11 AM


My (21f) best friend (21f) and I have an amazing friendship. I met Carly my freshman year of college. We were both apart of this friend group and Carly also happened to be close with one of my childhood friends Tori, so some might refer to it as fate. In the first few years of knowing her we were not that close but after the friend group fell apart I decided to reach out. I took Carly to dinner for her birthday and I think it meant a lot to her considering I was the only one there. After that we were thick as thieves. Anytime I went somewhere I invited her to come with me and anytime se wanted to do something she always included me. About 7 months ago she mentioned to me she considers me to be her best friend and I told her I feel the same way. Being friends with Carly is like no other friendship I ever had. It’s like we have the same brain she knows exactly what I am thinking and she makes me feel like I’ll always have her by my side. Carly is very friendly it seems like every semester she has found a new group of friends for us to hang with. I like that about her because she is open to meeting new people and I am as well but I tend to keep people at a distance. I am a very cautious person when it comes to new people because of a previous bad experience. In recent months Carly has meet yet another group of friends. She has become especially close to Liz. I myself have spent time with Liz and the rest of the group and they were really nice as far as I knew. I’ve been to parties with them, dinners, study sessions, etc. and everything seemed fine. One day about 6 months ago we all decided to go out to this bar. I had to beg Carly to go because she had a date later that night. She agreed to go but she made it clear that she would leave early to go on her date. I was hoping that we go to the bar she would have so much fun with us that she wouldn’t want to leave but that’s not what happened. After a while Carly wanted to leave and I started to get upset . I will admit I had no right to be upset because she made it clear ahead of time that she would leave early but I hadn’t seen her for a while because we both have very busy schedules. It was clear to everyone that I was upset by my tone of voice. Carly left but me, Liz and a couple of other people stayed behind. I started talking to Liz about the situation and in a moment of weakness I was vulnerable with her. I told her that “I shouldn’t have blown up at Carly that it’s just I feel she will always choose I guy over me”. I felt this way because something similar happened before. Me and Carly used to watch tv shows together every Sunday. It was a little tradition for us because we rarely saw each other because of our hectic schedules. One Sunday she told me we might have to cut this Sunday short because she has a date. I held my tongue but it hurt me especially considering when the roles were reversed she expressed that she would not be okay with that. Fast forward to about 6 weeks ago, me and Carly go into an argument. The argument was petty I’m stubborn and she’s stubborn and I’ll leave at it that. After about two days we reconciled. We went back to texting and talking on the phone everything was fine for about a week. About 3 weeks ago Liz spent the night with Carly and ever since then Carly has been ignoring most of my calls and my text. I have spent time with Carly but only in a group setting and she refuses to talk to anyone when I’m around. At first I wasn’t taking it personal, I thought maybe something happened with her that she didn’t wanna talk about so one day I brought her some of her favorite things with a hand written letter tell her that I was there for her and I loved her. We talking a lot that day. It was the first time she talking to me that much in a week but I still felt that our chemistry was off and as the weeks went by she talked to me less and less. I reached out to her multiple times expressing how I feel. I started to think she was depressed until I talked to our mutual friends and said they have been talking to her. So I decided to talk to my friend Emily about it. Me, Emily, and Tori have been friends for over 10 years so when I told Emily about what was happening she called Tori. Tori told her that Someone told Carly about what I said 6 months ago and made it sound like I was being catty. At that moment I knew it was Liz. Emily told me not to confront Carly or Liz because it could jeopardize Carly and Tori’s friendship as well as Emily and Tori’s. I love my friends but this drama is becoming too much. What should I do?

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