Best Friend Cuts Contact, Then Asks for Job for Fiancé | Reddit Relationship Stories

Friendship Tested by Sudden Reappearance

• 💔 OP's best friend, Sarah, who had been ignoring her for a year, suddenly reappeared asking OP to get her fiancé, Joe, a job as a TV writer.
• 💬 Sarah's message lacked any congratulations or inquiry about OP's well-being, focusing solely on her request.
• 💡 OP describes Sarah as a great friend when single but believes she transforms negatively when in a relationship, often picking disrespectful partners.

Analysis of the Friendship Dynamic

• 🧠 Commenters suggest Sarah's behavior might stem from controlling boyfriends isolating her, or a pattern of prioritizing new relationships over existing friendships.
• 🎭 One perspective posits that OP was a surrogate friend until a more compatible option (a boyfriend) came along, leading OP to feel used.
• 📧 OP decides to send Sarah an email detailing her hurt from being cut off, questioning the toxicity of her relationship with Joe, and expressing concern, while also stating the friendship is over for now.

Unexpected Friend Reunion and Escalation

• 📞 OP's call to Sarah's mom reveals the mom also feels she's lost her daughter.
• 🤝 OP receives a surprise visit from an old college friend, Lily, who later posts a picture with OP and a mutual actor crush of Sarah's.
• 😠 Sarah texts OP accusingly about hanging out with the actor and being too much of a celebrity to respond, escalating the conflict.

A Manipulative Relationship Test

• 🚩 A new story features OP dating Sam for 3 months, whose friends engage in a bizarre test by badmouthing Sam to OP to gauge her loyalty.
• 🤫 Sam reveals this is a deliberate test for all his girlfriends; if they speak ill of him, he dumps them.
• 💔 OP finds this manipulative and breaks up with Sam, stating he failed her test.

Family Crisis and Misunderstandings

• 🏠 OP's brother moves in secretly after his wife admits to potentially cheating and their youngest child might not be his.
• 📞 OP's mother mistakenly believes OP is having an affair due to seeing her brother briefly through a window during a video call.
• ⚖️ The brother's wife confesses everything to OP's mother, leading to a family talk and reconciliation, and a paternity test confirms the child is his.
• ❤️ Despite the paternity test results, the wife attempts self-harm, and the brother moves back home with the children, with plans for therapy for everyone involved.