What's the fastest way you've ever lost a friend?

I fell in love with this girl the summer after high school, head over heels in love. She was perfect and we totally hit it off. My best friend since kindergarten and I would hang out with her and her friends all the time. I committed to going to school in Florida and he had committed to going to a school in Connecticut. It turns out that the girl that I had fallen in love with and started hooking up with was going to that school too. What I didn't know was that this scumbag was sending her dirty texts and shit all summer behind my back, while she was hooking up with me and he was hooking up with her best friend.

The night I was leaving for Florida apparently right after he dropped me off at home, he went over to her place to hang out with all of them and they hooked up. I didn't find this out that night though. I found out a month later when the girl I fell in love with told me that they were dating and had been since they got to school.

Fucking scumbag knew how I felt about her. We hung out literally every day. I stayed over his house almost every night that summer because we were doing so much shit together. He had been in the room when her and I were hooking up a bunch of times.

I don't know who is more fucked in that situation, him or her. What kind of girl hooks up with two best friends? Well, I found out because they didn't last more than a few months, she spent the next 8 months texting and calling me all the time apologizing and trying to get with me, and by the time summer came around and we were hanging out again I fell for it. 4 and a half years later and I realized she was a fucking cunt, I fucked up and wasted so much time with her, and nothing had changed for her. She was a psycho who had to always have a back up boyfriend that she could text all the time. She deserved a scumbag like him. Unfortunately I was the best guy she had ever met and I gave her a psychotic level of control over me, so it took a lot for me to tell her to leave when she threatened to break up with me that final time over something stupid.

All I got out of it was a warped perception on relationship dynamics and a fear of commitment because I'm scared the next chick I date will turn out like her. It's been 3 years and I haven't even hung out with a girl more than two times.

As far as my friend went, he was a total pussy about the whole thing. She was the one who told me because she was so unhappy with him and felt like she made a mistake. Apparently he was a self absorbed asshole who wouldn't do anything for her, was terrified of her family, and was too socially inept to even go out for a night of fun. When I told him I knew about them I never heard back from him.

I ran into him a few years later at one of our mutual friends graduation party. My girlfriend and I were together, and this idiot was there at night with sunglasses on and a blazer. It was july and 85 degrees in the middle of the night. I'll never forget how stupid he looked around everyone in tanks and t shirts. I saw him before he saw me and I took the opportunity to tell him what a low life scumbag he was for doing that and if he wasn't such a weak pussy I would have punched him in the mouth. I also made sure to kiss her where he could see because fuck him. He never apologized, even now and it's been almost 7 years. He ended up moving out west and hasn't come back.

I don't trust anyone anymore. I really hate her though. It was bullshit what she did to me then, and what she did over the course of 4+ years afterward in our relationship.

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