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Is it wrong or am I suppose to spell it out. This maybe the wrong section, but I need advice.
I posted a question a week or so ago asking if it was a phase I was going through by not wanting to be around my old friends. I have been going to church for years, but I recently got really serious about my relationship with god, and that on top of turning 28, I just am at this point where I don't want to be bothered with my friends who are stagnant or have moved on with their life in a different direction. I had such a crappy past that I would get 2 or 3 really close friends and identify myself with them, and only them, but I am no longer in that place. Because I can identify myself now, I don't really need or rely on them anymore which makes me appear distant which in reality I am. Now I have the gf who has been stagnant for 5 years now, and I am just at a point where I don't want to here about it because she is not going to do anything different.
I don't answer my phone when she calls now, and she just keeps calling. Now you are probably saying, why don't I tell her, but that brings me to my question, am I wrong for not answering my phone because if it was me, and you did not answer, I would stop calling or am I suppose to spell it out by saying, I don’t want to talk to you because you have not grown in 5 years? She’s stuck in a dead in relationship, and has been for 8 years. She is just 26 years old, and says her and her boyfriend are roommates, and when she calls me, it’s only for me to update her with my life. What would you do? I don’t think I am better then her or she is not worth my conversation because that would be mean, but I want to grow, and I want to surround myself with people who wants that for themselves as well.
My friends are not the problem, I am. I found freindships that kept me in a place where I could wollow in my past hurt and pain, and I am no longer there because I don't want to be, and my freinds are still there, and I don't know anyone who would tell someone, I don't want to talk to you because you refuse to grow, and no me noy answering her calls don't make he know why I am not answering, but is it so wrong to look out for me?
brianwv64 answer is what I am trying to say.
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's selfish to assume your friend should get the hint and stop calling. You owe her the courtesy of being honest with her. Otherwise, you haven't grown at all.
If it were me, and I was calling a friend and she never answered... the idea that she was dumping me would never cross my mind. I would be worried something happened to her, fearful she was in an abusive relationship, getting ready to call her parents or the police.
Grow up, take her call, and tell her the truth. Practice it in your head before you say it. It isn't wrong to outgrow your friends, but it is wrong to blow them off and hope they get the hint.
- brianwv64Lv 41 decade ago
Try and get her to come to Church with you and maybe she will find what you have found. As for the old friend invite them to Church also. Once you make the invite , you've done your part. The ball sin thier court.
It's not unusual to part ways with old friends when you get a closer relationship with God. If the friends don't stick with you, you probably should not be around them anyway. God has a way of moving people out of your life that you don't need to associate with. He also will bring you to more people that you should be around.
Remember the Bible says "A companion of fools will be destroyed".
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You are wrong for not answering your phone. You owe it to her to break off the relationship and not just keep her wondering what is going on. Talk to her. Tell her why. You are correct in that relationships need to move forward otherwise you will be in the same place 10 years from now.
- GeorgeLv 51 decade ago
i understand what you are going through, sometimes we grow in our walk with God, and those around us at the time don't, and some times we do have to move on with out them, it is not easy to do but can be important in our spiritual growth, i have had to do the same thing in my own life, you will meet new people on your level as you grow in you spiritual life, it does not mean anything bad towards your old friends, it just means you are moving in a different direction, keep growing in God and keep moving forward, God Bless
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- EquinoxLv 61 decade ago
You have issues on your own as well. Seems like you turned your back on friends just because they're "stagnant" and can't be of any help to your advancement. Maybe try to assess why you feel like this towards your friends. Either that - try meeting new people.
- that judiLv 61 decade ago
You have every right to move on but do not just ignore people....tell them you are moving on for YOU, and it is not reflection of them. You do sound somewhat righteous, but that comes with the whole "finding myself" territory and will meelow with time. If you do indeed have God in your life now, love and accept all of His creation - this does not mean you have to wallow in old ways tho. Move on, but with compassion.
- 1 decade ago
I think you're being selfish. Friends from all walks of life are the best-- true friends love each other upside down and right side up. You sound very condescending, which is NOT very Christian. Instead of abandoning them, why not try to persuade them onto your path? and if not, just let them enjoy where they are at. But don't abandon your friends. You need God, but not only God.
- goldthorpeLv 45 years ago
that's ok and regular to advance away out of your acquaintances and to circulate directly to new ones yet I could desire to declare the way you're going approximately that's carefully thoughtless and feels like what women did in severe college! only talk on your buddy and tell her your concerns and thoughts, considering she is making an attempt to nevertheless save up a correspondence with you. to easily forget approximately approximately her is infantile. and in line with threat your buddy is "stagnant" yet perhaps she desires a buddy, a real buddy. And easily genuine acquaintances do no longer only unload somebody using fact they impulsively grow to be bored of them. undergo in concepts that they have got been there once you needed acquaintances to place self belief in - and that's the way you take care of those human beings? you recognize you have new acquaintances jointly as nevertheless keeping in touch with the previous. while you're making an attempt to easily save up a correspondence in specific circumstances that should recommend the international to somebody. i've got had acquaintances who circulate by "acquaintances" as though they have been a fad and by no potential save any long-time era buddy relationships. If that's what they elect advantageous yet i chanced on you have have the two long-time era friendships and new acquaintances. that's only area of being a mature person. i assume the caveat is that if those acquaintances are no longer good human beings and have been keeping you in difficulty then you definately could desire to circulate directly to those who won't drag you down, yet tell them which you may desire to circulate on on your individual good (or which you have have been given moved to distinctive places). looking out for your self is nice yet do no longer walk throughout somebody who does not deserve it to get there.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You need to be honest and tell her goodby