AITA for wanting to cut off my friends?
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I (19F) have 2 high school friends I’ll call them Amy (19F) and Mary (18F). We recently went off to college but I tried to stay in contact.
Amy and Mary are both studying in the same city, while I went to a school out of state. My birthday is today and everyone but them wished me a happy birthday. Amy had also had a birthday a bit ago and Mary made a whole post for her exactly at midnight, but neither of them have congratulated me.
This might be petty but there’s been a lot that’s been leading me to want to cut them off. Throughout high school they were always hanging out without me, I tried to make plans but they always fell through. When I made my choice to go to an out of state school, I told them to let me know when they are free so we can set up a time to hang out. They never texted me and even when I double texted our group chat, they ignored me. I was very hurt but tried not to make a huge deal out of it since I was moving soon. They also made plans in front of me and when we did eventually hang out, they would make inside jokes about their hangouts without me. I constantly defended Mary when she had a falling out with her best friend (who I also was in a bigger friend group with), and lost many friends because I stood by her alongside Amy. I regret defending her because now thinking about it, I think Mary was jealous that our friend was having the high school relationship Mary wanted while she never had a boyfriend. I honestly think it stemmed from jealousy. I did apologize for defending Mary to our friend and we ended up reconciling.
I don’t know if I am being dramatic, I honestly probably am. I had expressed to them many times how I wanted to hang out with them as much as possible before I left but again, they would rather hang out with each other. I think I feel more hurt because I also had a bad experience with another trio and had told them before about how much it hurts to be left out. Now that I am thinking about it they don’t know much about me because they never asked.
So, AITA for wanting to cut off my friends because they constantly forget about me?
Posted Oct 2, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC
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