People Break Down The Real Reason They Stopped Liking Someone But Never Told Them

Not every relationship is a forever deal.

Sometimes it's best to just let people go.

This is especially true when you start to realize that certain people are not the people you thought they were.

Lies are always exposed.

The truth will always come out.

Once you see a person for who they really are, there is no going back.

The best thing to do is save yourself.

Redditor OkEagle160 wanted everyone to reveal why they had to let someone go from their lives, so they asked:

"What’s a reason you slowly stopped liking someone but never told them?"

Tuned Out

"They whined too much. If they weren't complaining about something in their own life, it was something in their neighbor's life, or something in the news. I just increasingly tuned them out."

- LucyVialli

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I Gotta Be ME

"I stopped liking them when I realized I couldn't be myself around them anymore. Like I was filtering everything I talked, what I wore, even my laugh. And honestly, that's the loneliest kind of connection."

- cutebogi

"Agreed. I had friends like that; you feel like you can’t be yourself, but you have to put on a mask for them, or else you are judged, made fun of, etc. I hated it and then resented them; they had a whole host of other problems as well. Hope you found better people to spend your time with now."

- TheHoodedWonder

Pinnochio

"Their fibs or embellishments to stories they’d tell just got bigger and bigger until they were outright lies. So bad that neither she nor I could even tell what stories were real or fake."

- advgman

"There's no person I can't stand more than the ones that you can't tell if you've ever met the real person. They're always doing some kind of bit, or worse, just straight-up lying or making stuff up, often just to f*ck with you. I just don't interact with those people anymore, instead of trying to understand them."

- BoysNGrlsNAmerica

"Exactly! I just dropped one of my best friends because she cared SO much about what other people thought about her that her life was an entire lie. Because of that, she was obviously so miserable since she isn’t doing stuff she genuinely likes, and nobody knows the real her. So annoying."

- Sure-Context1647

She had to GO!

"She only talked about herself."

- Tryna_TGS

"Same. And when I quit playing into it, we stopped talking. Became real clear that she was only interested in talking if we were talking about her."

- Gloomy_Ad5020

"Exact same, ended a friendship over this last year because I realized she wasn't matching my effort at all, and only talked about how great she was all the time. I stopped reaching out, and she just never reached out to me again."

- ThrowRA362665

SAY WHAT?!

"When I talk about things that interest me, and they have a look on their face like it’s dumb or weird. They don’t have to be interested in it, but they don’t have to try to make me feel stupid for having an interest."

- PNelley

"I went to visit a friend after she moved into her boyfriend's. I was talking about a band I liked, and she started kind of making fun of me/talking crap about the band. It was only because her boyfriend didn't like it and she wanted to score points with him, or something. I dunno. "

" Funny thing was, she was the one who introduced me to the band a few years before. Like, you might not like them as much anymore, but you used to listen to them all the time. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean you get to sh*t on me for still liking them."

- Dbahnsai

TOXIC

"They were a miserable person. And they wanted everyone around them to be just as miserable all the time."

- StreetAppropriate825

"Misery loves company! I used to work at a homeless shelter, and I saw a lot of trauma bonding and the like, and it never works out, just drags each other down."

- More_Raisin_2894

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They're AMAZING!

"Always bragging for no reason."

- AdmirableSwimming298

"We have one of these jacka**es at work, and I'll never forget the day he was bragging about being able to finance another piece of crap he didn't need, and my other coworker goes, 'Why do you think he gives a sh*t? He's rich,' and the guy finally realized what that expression had been on my face every time. Amused condescension."

- InletUnstart

BYE!

"Well, we got divorced, so telling them is irrelevant. But I first started feeling like I hated him when I realized he didn't even see me as a friend.'

"It was one thing to lose love (people drift apart, I could have understood that eventually). I will never, ever, forgive the person who I considered to be my best friend for just... not caring about me at all that whole time, apparently? It was such systematic lying, and it made every happy memory I'd ever had with them for a decade into some sort of elaborate rug pull where I was the fool for being stupid enough to believe them."

"Really messed with my brain for a while. Oh well, life goes on."

- cloistered_around

Real Old

"Their entire personality and life revolved around getting high. Couldn't do anything without having to smoke first, no matter what. Gets real old, real quick."

- Iama_Kokiri_AMA

"Me with my ex but drinking instead. Legit wanted to drink with his friends every weekend and every day, even when he was with me, nothing but constant comments about how he wanted to get so fu**ed uppp and sh*t."

- RoseToyFan123

OMG!

"Insincere. Everyone was her very best bestie (including people she barely knew), and her response to everything was, 'Omg, SOOO gorgeous, I love you soooooooo much,' but with no sincerity attached to it whatsoever. She also exaggerated a lot and lied about her son’s level of severity regarding his diagnosis, which my son also has, and I can spot those lies from parents like that from a mile away. 20 plus years, and you pick up on the inconsistencies from these parents very quickly."

- Ecstatic_Coast_6702

Senseless...

"They spoke about how much they hated someone and how they're the worst. And then when they're around them, they're the best of friends and talk sh*t about others. Make it make sense.'

- yeah_confucius_1609

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The Main Issue

"One is the people you meet who seem like they're having some difficult breaks in life, and once you get to know them, you realize they are the cause of 95% of their own problems. They may be really good people, too, but I will distance myself once that becomes obvious. Life is hard enough without creating all your own problems, and I got my own to deal with."

- WillBrink

INSECURE

"Sometimes I'm attracted to men who seem very confident and assertive. After a while, though, I often realize that this confidence isn't genuine, but rather a strong need for recognition. Often, these men are actually quite insecure at their core, which wouldn't be so bad in itself – but trying to mask it with boasting usually makes me uncomfortable after some time."

- laralacex

A Sad Poistion

"When I found out she was not the person she had portrayed herself to be. She appeared to be super kind and in a sad position because her daughter had died, and she was suddenly raising her two young granddaughters. So I was very happy to step up and help them out in any way I could. But I discovered she was an accomplished grifter, and she didn’t care about her granddaughters; she was using her situation to get everything she could from everyone willing to help."

- No_Response8442

The Flake

"Kept flaking on hanging out with me because she'd smoke/get high and just completely not acknowledge that we were supposed to do things like game together."

- CountlessStories

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Those are all valid ghosting reasons.

The truth is, is that most of the people on this list will probably never even notice the absence of the relationship.

It was always about them.

They'll never acknowledge blame, they'll never apologize.

They will just move on to other people.

That is what a succubus does.

They take all they can.

When the well dries up, they slither along to another.

Everyone is better off for walking away.