‘She said she didn’t need me in her life anymore.’ How do you cope when a friend ends the relationship? lifewithliz shares her insights…
Have you been dumped by a friend? Or perhaps done the dumping? The loss of a friendship can be just as painful - if not more - than breakups with romantic partners, but society doesn’t have the same protocols or expectations around the end of those relationships.
Being dumped by a friend can still be a taboo subject and carries shame for a lot of people, especially those who’ve been dumped. Several Woman’s Hour listeners got in touch to share their stories as part of this year’s Listener Week, so we set out to explore what to do when you are the friend who’s been broken up with.
“Our friendships with other women are the defining relationships of our lives in many respects. They run incredibly deep. People tend to assume that our romantic relationships are our most significant in our lives, so when our friendships end it's underestimated how much they can affect us.” “We'd been close friends for over a decade, through the last years of university, the start of our careers, we'd been bridesmaid to each other and had our first boys within months of one another. The issue started a couple of years after, we thought about having a second child. It sounds as if we were married to each other, but we were that close as friends.
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