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Should I cut ties with my friend?
I met a girl online several months ago, and we hit it off very well, to the point where we had exchanged several Skype calls and were planning to meet up. A few days ago, she told me about how her mother had at points in the past been a drug addict, the cause of her and her daughter's homelessness, abusive, and even suicidal/homicidal towards my friend. I reacted with disgust, the thought of it making me sick. I was honest with her that I had a negative opinion of her mother now, and her response was to completely cease communication for a few days, then come back making excuses for her mom, being an abuse apologist, and getting angry with me for 'judging when I haven't even met her' and basically blaming me for having any ill feelings as a result of what she told me.
I am bewildered and hurt by this response, and it makes me sick and angry whenever I think of both the things her mom did and the way my friend treated me - as if I was the bad guy and she needed to somehow defend her mother's image from me. I just don't know if I can handle being friends with an abuse apologist... but before all this, I SWORE I would never turn around and walk out. I promised to never abandon her.
What is your opinion on what I should do?
5 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
I don't understand why you would be angry? She didn't do anything. She needs your help. She obviously feels comfortable enough to share these things with you, because I am sure it wasn't easy. I probably wouldn't meet up just yet- give her a few more calls and chat.
- 8 years ago
Basically, you never talked to her mom... so you only heard one side of the story. You should always keep an open mind... because you can never really know what the truth is. It is also possible she said those things to test you... see how you would react. If you reacted violently, then you are probably a violent person.
It's also possible this lady is married and has kids. I have read stories of married pretending to be single and meeting foreigners.. If the foreigner decides to come meet her.. the husband will go away so the two of them would have time to be alone.. of course he would give her gifts..and she would even spend all of her time with him. When the foreigner leaves.. the husband comes back and the cycle repeats itself with another person.
I read a story of a man from the USA who met a woman from Singapore. He fell in love with her.. and ended up sending her about $50,000. After she received the money, she stopped talking to him so he reported her and somehow.. someway... she got arrested or something.. don't remember the full story.. not sure if he got any of this money back...
I'm not saying she is like that.. just suggesting that you keep an open mind... if you truly like and have feelings for you.. and if she feels the same way... then it shouldn't make any difference what her past/history is.. or what her mom may have or have not done.
Just let it go... any negative feelings.. If she told you the truth... then you hurt her by reacting the way you did. Now you have presented yourself as being someone who reacts negatively to things.. and she may now even be afraid to tell you anything else that's personal or embarrassing to her... even if you two become married... since she now knows how you might react.
- Anonymous4 years ago
i think of that it is definitley an suitable rationalization for slicing ties with a buddy, a buddy is meant to be there for u no rely what. That grow to be so incorrect how she dealt with the placement. while one in each and every of my pals got here out to me and instructed me that she grow to be bisexual, in the start i grow to be stunned yet then i presumed, i'm no longer gonna supply up being her buddy by way of fact of that. I mean, that doesn't be authentic by way of fact she's nevertheless a similar humorous, magnificent, and funky buddy that she grow to be formerly she instructed me. So why might desire to that fluctuate something? If she grow to be fairly your buddy she does not have betrayed your have confidence like that by utilising telling persons, the two.
- 8 years ago
Well look at it this way: my mom pretty much disowned me and my sister. But I won't let other people talk bad about her, we all have our problems and you shouldn't judge her just because of her mom and if you do have an opinion like that its usually best to just keep it to yourself you shouldn't abandon your friend who you a) swore to stick with and b) stuck your nose into something of hers and expressed an unwelcome opinion of yours at it
Tl;dr it's her mom not yours keep your opinion to yourself stick with your friend
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Don't abandon her, help her through it. She obviously needs it.