AIO for wanting to cut my friend of almost 10 years due to addiction

’m 28F and my friend is 41F. For the last 2-3 years she has struggled with addiction issues (alcohol). I feel bad for her truly and I hope she gets better but she went to rehab 15 times last year. It’s gotten to the point where she got her kids taken away almost 2 years ago. It’s to a point that I can text her just fine on a Monday and won’t hear from her for the rest of the week cause she’s in rehab. Not only that but she is extremely ungrateful which upsets me. She calls her parents every name in the book yet they’ve spent easily 20K a month to out her in the best rehab. When she’s in rehab or needs money- they always foot the bill. Same with her boyfriend (ex addict been clean for over 10 years) she can treat him like shit and he’ll coddle her. For example, her car got flooded and he put money down on a luxury suv for her and she remains ungrateful. If it were me- my parents would not be rescuing me.

What made me keep my distance a bit was when she told me to text her parents (that she no longer talks to) that she died. I told her I wand t comfortable with that and I didn’t do it. I’m not going to strain a relationship with her parents.

AIO For wanting to slowly cut her off? Maybe I’m just being insensitive because I don’t understand addiction and I’m grateful I’ve never dealt with it or have anyone in my family suffer from it.

Posted Jul 11, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

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