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Input: I’ll refer to my best friend as “M” and her other best friend as “V”. 

M and I are extremely close. She’s always there for me when I’m struggling as I’m always there for her. M and I are really similar in personality, we’re both extremely empathetic and selfless because we had similar childhoods where we had to take on a lot of responsibilities at a young age. I really appreciate M and she’s probably the only person in my life I’d consider a real good friend who’d probably still be with me when we’re old grandmas. 

There’s been this problem bugging M for about a year now, and it’s gotten to a point where it started affecting me as well. Her other “best friend” V, makes everything really complicated. I don’t even know where to begin because there’s just so much going on with her. For one, V just seems like she uses M. Like if her other friends are not there and she’s all alone, she’ll come running to M acting like they’re besties. She treats M like a substitute and it pisses me off. And it’s not just me noticing this or making an assumption that she is using her as a replacement to not look like a loner, but M feels this way as well. She confided in me multiple times telling me how V makes her uncomfortable and how she feels that she’s only using her. 

Second of all, what really annoys me, is that V seems to lack basic consideration for other people. V recently moved, so she had to transfer to another school. We’re seniors in high school, so it was our last homecoming and M and I were planning on making the most out of it with just us two going out to eat together and enjoying the time. Our school has guest forms to invite students from other schools to our homecoming, and V asked M at the last minute to guest her and eat dinner with her, even though she knew that M and I already had plans together. It was kind of infuriating because they had literally gone to every dance together in the past years and she can’t even let me spend one dance with M? 

You’re probably wondering why we can’t just go all together, but it’s really awkward and uncomfortable. I don’t really know how to explain it, but I keep getting these vibes off of V like she’s jealous of how close M and I have been getting because whenever I’m with M, she’ll start acting overly clingy to M and keeps calling her “my number one best friend” while glancing back at me. 

V also had a pretty fucked up childhood because her dad sexually abused her, and I feel really terrible about that. She struggles with depression and had bad problems with cutting . So when V asks to hang out, M always feels like she can’t say no because she doesn’t want to hurt V’s feelings. I’m also afraid of hurting V’s feelings so I have never said anything of what I feel towards her. I’ve always been really nice to her but I feel bad that I’m being fake in that way when I truly don’t like her at all. 

These days M has been really stressed out not knowing how to deal with V because their friendship is honestly just super toxic. V calls her best friend, but she really doesn’t treat her like one at all. M has been asking me for advice on what to do, and I told her to just start distancing herself from V. But I know that’s gonna be really hard because we’re both scared of hurting V since she’s so sensitive, and we don’t want to make her fall into an even deeper depression. She may not be the best person, but we still care about her. She’s gone through a lot worse things than M and I could ever imagine. But I don’t want M being friends with her just out of pity. AITA for telling her to distance herself from V? 

telling my best friend to distance herself from her other "best friend?"