Goodbye Haru

This post is unfinished. I published it anyway because I believe it still has some value. On the bright side, it'll probably be short! 😇
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I had to break up with a friend of nearly 15 years because of the person they became and how they’d been treating me recently.

There’s multiple different types of classic manipulation techniques you’ve mentioned using against your spouse here. You’re using a few on me now too. I don’t think I deserve that. I don’t think she does either. I don’t think either of us should be expected to tolerate that treatment.

It’s interesting how all your excuses are reasons and everyone else’s reasons are excuses.

You talk a lot about taking personal responsibility for things, yet you blame everyone else for when you lose control of your emotions. For when you feel insecure. Fo r when you feel isolated while simultaneously pushing us away.

You talk a lot about getting stronger. About hard work. But you don’t want to learn new communication skills to express yourself more kindly and clearly. Instead, everyone else has to figure you out while you berate them for not being good enough to you. While you lie about who you are and what you’ve been through, so it’s hard to know which parts are true.

You expect others to enjoy what you enjoy, but you don’t want to open your mind to things other people invite you into in their worlds. And you get indignant when they don’t share your interests.

You claim no one ever encourages you, and you know that’s a lie.

So, like you said you were to me not long ago today, I’m done too.
Me, to a former friend (8/14/2025)