Man Regrets Helping Out Friend Who Refuses To Pay Him Back Despite Flaunting Money Online, Mutual Friend Terms Him An AH

"He didn't keep his promise and used me as a meal ticket"

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• October 31, 2023

Having supportive and comforting relationships can help you feel better about yourself and improve your mental health. However, positive friendships are necessary for life improvement.

Friends can help in a variety of ways, such as providing care when you're unwell, giving consoling words or company after a difficult day, or a spare bedroom when you need to get away. Close friends help to promote wholesome behaviors, exchange knowledge assistance, and keep each other company.

They're usually team players, as they've got each other covered. It may be necessary for you to gently terminate this chapter of your life if a friendship is no longer beneficial to you.

Friendships that are one-sided might leave you wounded and perplexed. You show that you care about their welfare, but until you actively seek them out, they don't seem to care much about you or your needs.

They come straight to you when they need anything. However, you just can't seem to get through to them when you're in need, and this is exactly what the OP of today's story passed through.

The OP lent his friend some money—over $100—when he was having hard times. He had no food or a job, so the OP thought he needed help, even though the OP was also less fortunate.

This friend turned out to be one ungrateful person as he refused to pay the OP back despite flaunting money online. Read the full story as you scroll down below.

The OP writes down the headline

OP's friend posted pictures of himself flashing hundreds of dollars bills and new shoes, consoles and food selfies

This same ungrateful friend came back pleading for the OP to buy him some food again because he was now broke

OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the a-hole:

My actions were distancing myself from a friend I knew for years and trusted and helped throughout many of his rough upcomings but I decided to stop assisting him in any way and stopped treating him as if he were a friend to me because he broke his word of being there for me in my time of need the same way I was there for him during his time of need.

The Reddit post got close to a thousand comments and here are a bunch of the most upvoted ones

This Redditor would go ahead and expose him online

OP's mutual friend can go ahead and foot the bills

The OP should cut his losses and block that guy

The OP is never going to get his money back

Accepting the money as the fee for losing a bad friend

Does the other friend know the full story?

This Redditor would cut such a person off

Mentioning it everytime the OP sees them

Solid friendships are built on mutual assistance. So when you identify unhealthy friendships, you can prevent them from depleting you, especially if the relationships seem off.

When you are on the verge of going without food for days, lending someone $50 is both excessively considerate and incredibly foolish. Many Redditors attested to this, but still, the OP was declared not the AH in the story.

Maryjane