How To Get Over A Friendship Breakup

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Friendships are so underrated. And romance is overrated. And I'm not even aromantic!

[@lonesomeriver]

I've had a friendship break up about a year ago, and a few months ago, I thought I was finally over that, but it hit me again, so hard. It's just not fair that people don't take it seriously

[@danisito.5]

me too, its been hitting so hard lately, and i thought i was already over it. time heals everything, we gotta feel everything we feel, and appreciate the good moments we had with that person, even if it ended bad. i think it´s the best thing we can do.

[@lonesomeriver]

@sr.whitehead_0440 Yes, exactly. It gets better. Keep it going love💖

[@DaSuTro]

I'm fortunate that I haven't experienced any friendship breakups in my life, but I can tell you this much...people come into your life for either a time, a reason, or a season, and from time to time we have to ask ourselves three questions: 1) Is the time up? 2) Is the reason gone? 3) Has the season changed? If the answer to any or all of those questions is yes, then that friendship will not last.

[@riverchampeimont]

As an aroace I totally relate to the fact that friendship breakups can be hard. Thank you for all the advice!

[@Benni777]

I’ve had a “friend” breakup last year, and I’m just getting over a newer one that happened, which I initiated, which honestly made it worse, bc I knew it had to happen, but I didn’t want to be the one who did it. Actually, how I let this newer person go was way more mature than how I let go the other one(I just ghosted them and deleted all of their contacts, which is a super immature thing to do, in my opinion).

[@hanagara1907]

I love "feel your feelings". Not just friend breakups, but basically anything that upsets is, pretty much the go-to response is "don't cry" and please don't misunderstand, I KNOW the people who say that don't mean anything bad and have the best intentions, but I try to be aware not to say that and it's not to be mean. Offering comfort in other ways is important, but there's times people just need to cry and that's not an inherently bad thing

[@Kotifilosofi]

Imo recognizing the validity and importance of platonic friendships as a type of relationship in the society is the most important thing. After that literally most everything about platonic friendships goes the same way as romantic ones: finding out your compability, needs and boundaries, putting in the effort to keep the relationship alive, responsibilities towards a person etc. However, since the validity of friendships is not still widely recognized, also healing from a platonic breakup can still also be very difficult. Your heartbreak might not be taken seriously, or your feelings may be minimized or told they're wrong (many people expect that kind of negative feelings to be valid only in a romantic relationship) etc. Many friendships never even get recognized as existing, meaningful relationships in the first place, so when they end, everything related to healing from that is also excepted to be non-existent.

[@UmbraStarWolf]

Ive had multiple friendships breakups in the past few years A few that were my fault and one that is very recent as well as my fault. A lot of them were due to impulsively saying or doinc things that were bad.

[@AyyRalphy]

Such a sweet video the worst part is seeing so ex friend with their friends on social media as if nothing happened between you two. Came back from a trip to London buying Christmas gifts for all my friends and the best one never reached out, checked in, nothing anymore. Constantly reached out in hopes of finding out what happened and nope nada. Now what I despise is excuses with ‘ohhh im going through a rough time ohhh im depressed’ - - well um, TALK about it. We’re not mind readers. Ugh. But whatever

[@arwynna.4715]

This is absolute perfect timing for me, I haven't watched it yet but thank you in advance :)

[@alachingada3563]

Hi! new here..just ended a friendship because i confronted to them about they make me feel and it took me such great courage to do so. The friendship was getting toxic. In the end it wasnt taken well and im very sad because me and this friend werent in a romantic relantionship but a platonic one (What i think at least was) and im so glad i watched this video :(

[@liamodonovan6610]

I never bothered with friends friendship is overrated i never met you but i see you as a close friend proud of you lynn you are a very strong person you are a loving lovable relatable person i trust you

[@facthunt2facthunt245]

If you don't bother with friends who do you talk to? Don't you hang out with anyone?

[@liamodonovan6610]

@@facthunt2facthunt245 don't really want to hang out with anyone people like lynn are friend's to me real life friend's are not worth the effort

[@Orech-the-Nut]

I would add - even if grieving is painful, falling in the trap of quickly replacing lost friendship by another one so you replace grief with hope and excitement immediately isn’t a good option anyway. I was allways prone to pick even less suitable friends as a replacement of the lost friendship, because societal norm pressed me to suck it up quckly and just go on. I was afraid of looking silly, so I didn’t take my time to grieve and reflect, so in a short time, I was facing one more additional friendship breakup!

[@missnaomi613]

Good stuff, Lynn! 💜

[@alimitlive9890]

I had hard time getting over my friendship breakup i had with my childhood friend in elementary school and all Middle school and hivh school i had repetitive dreams about us making up again and getting along and it stops when i saw her when we both found each other in the military, we were in the same unit and i saw how different she was so i let it go…

[@fizzyturtle304]

Love your content as an aroace person. ❤

[@lynnsaga1397]

Thank you so much!

[@NagisaP]

I’ve been waiting for this video, thank you Lynn! 💖

[@felix22649]

Thank you for that video… it‘s very helpful 🙏

[@rickstarz]

I genuinely don't know why there aren't many songs about friendship breakups as opposed to romantic breakups, but I guess I'm biased. But yeah, it's awful especially when it's a full blown falling-out.

[@Teutobrasileira]

I had one almost 1 year ago, I cried soooooo much and I am still kinda sad, This was so awful So, she just said"yeah, ONCE you didn't understand what I was saying so we can't be friends anymore " I'm sorry but I hate her

[@FoxGameCZ]

this would have been useful for me few years back 😭

[@alijahmwenyo2159]

Ive had a friendship break up half a year ago we kept on fighting and we had like an all girls group and we fought there then me and my other friend decided to make a group without her bc we were so mad, it was called 'All girls group without---bc she's annoying' Ik it was such a dumb thing to do and now I regret it and then we blocked eachother and then a few months later my other friend made a group and added her and we became friends again but then one day I fought with the creator of the group and she defended me and then the creator (My best friend) send her screen shots of the group I made with my other friend when we were mad and I tried explaining to her why I made it and she was not having it so then she blocked me and the girl that send the screen shots kept apologizing but idk if we should still be friends and the next day my friend told me that the girl i fought with is trying to encourage my other friends to not be friends with me so then I completely lost it,my friend added me to the group the girl I fought with and I said Alot of mean stuff (I deeply regret it) bc I was mad and her mom got involved and yeah and ever since the I can't stop thinking about her bc she was an amazing friend and I messed up badly

[@thepigeongenerator]

CAT IN VIDEO!!! 🎉🎉

[@GalaxyPenguin99]

Bro my notafacations were dallayed. how dare they keep me from a new lynn saga vid. -a random non binary penguin.