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Input: To be up front about this, I’m still frustrated by this situation. Due to this, I’m genuinely not sure whose at fault here. 

Context: I’ve been friends with this girl for a little over a year now. We met at the local community college. She’s becoming one of my closest friends. We agreed If either of us needed to talk day or night, we could call one another. 

What happened: I’ve been having a really rough weekend. There was a lot of family drama and it wore me out. I needed to talk/vent it out with someone. I texted her asking if she could talk sometime tonight. She said she was going to crash tonight after work. So I texted another friend to see if they could talk. Sadly, they couldn’t. Since those were the two people I felt comfortable talking about this kinda thing with, I decided to cry it out and go to bed. 

I get a text from her wanting to know if I’m okay before she goes to bed. I answer no. We text back and forth for a couple minutes. She seeming distant at best. Since we agreed we could call and talk to eachother at any time if needed, I texted her asking to talk on the phone. I explained how alone I felt, how I needed to talk to someone and no one was available, and that I was crying. She responded with “I’m sorry. I’m going to bed.” 

My opinion: This honestly makes me upset. If she needed to talk to me, I would’ve called her right then. In the moment, I needed someone to tell me everything will be okay. We didn’t have talk for hours. Ten minutes would hav been fine. Yet, she refused and made me feel even more alone. I understand if she wasn’t in the best place to handle this kinda conversation, but why communicate that? This honestly hurt my feeling a lot. 

TLDR: Friend and I agreed if either of us needs to talk day or night, we can always call one another. I legitimately need to talk to her because of how alone I’m feeling. She, fully aware of how I felt, won’t talk to me. 

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