Why do people think that they can get away with treating me badly?

I can relate to your question quite well, Jamal.

These people are NOT your "friends." Find some new ones.

I have learned over the years that people treat us the way we ALLOW them to treat us. If you don't set some boundaries, people will walk all over you for the rest of your life.

Without boundaries and a strong voice to enforce them, we ENCOURAGE people to abuse and disrespect us.

If you want your world to change, stand up for yourself instead of repressing your sadness over their remarks and behavior toward you. Set appropriate boundaries and enforce them!

Please learn this lesson now, and it will spare you from the exploitation and abuse in the future.

You're doing something that is causing the others to not respect you. You are either choosing crappy friends who don't even respect their own parents, much less any friends... or you're just not demanding much respect for yourself.

Also, you might not be clear as to what the definition of a "true friend" really is. You even have "friends" in quotation marks as if they're not REAL friends. If they're not real friends, then they are only rude people, as far as I can see... users. This is really a simple question to answer- REFUSE TO BE USED. Once you learn to say, "no" once in a while.. and stuff like, "Hey, who do you think I am, Wells Fargo Bank??" and "OH. I see how it is... you don't have a problem borrowing money from me... but when I ask you for a small favor you wanna trip out and dis me! That's kool- I'll remember THAT."

You need to be more assertive and demand respect. Once you do, the others will stop hen pecking you and will start respecting you, actually admiring YOU! LOL! There's a difference between being RUDE and being ASSERTIVE, though.

Good luck and happy hen pecking of your own.

Hate to tell you this but it sounds like you're weak and passive. Sometime u gotta play "tough guy" even with friends. I'm not talking about being mean and nasty but at the same making it very clear that u have limits, especially if u notice you're being used. Be nice and everything but at the same time don't tolerate no nonsense.

Because in some way, whether you realize it or not, you have allowed them to in the past.

Well those people are just plain jerks!

You deserve to be treated kindly.

Just to those people to shut their asses up

Because their wrong.

you need to make real friends.

i have the same type of friends, and i tell them off when they do that.

ITs not fair to you..

because you let them. tell them no and you will see who your friends are.