Has anyone here ever abruptly ended a personal relationship with someone or even an entire group of friends, simply because you found their behavior or way of being distasteful?
I’m not talking about a massive dramatic argument, but rather a sudden realization that their attitude or actions were just entirely… “off putting”… or that they revealed something fundamental about who they are
went very low contact with my belittling, hyper critical, manipulative, insecure-in-an-outwardly-lashing-and-damaging way parent earlier this year after one too many blowout fights. im sure it seemed like just another scuffle to the rest of my family, but from my POV it was a long time coming.
the relationship just didnt pass the “would i tolerate this behavior from a friend, partner, or acquaintance” sniff test, and is just a necessary step for me to reach a peaceful, healed relationship with myself and for me to show up in my other relationships the way i want to show up. it does suck, i do feel grief around it, but this parent also isn’t someone i would trust to know how to repair a relationship (or to even necessarily want to do that in a good faith way), so idk, i don’t really see a path forward for the foreseeable future. mostly at peace with it.