friends

Philippines
August 6, 2008 7:01pm CST
How do you react to online friends who have been so close and open to you for quite some time then suddenly acts as if they are avoiding you. Like you see them online, you buzz them, they go offline. You send them messages and comments then they don't comment back. When you ask them what's wrong then they say nothing.....i just don't understand.
7 responses
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Aug 08
This feels sad! I hardly go too intimate and for this reason alone for you never know. But then he/she could have his/her problems. We should not be judgmental. Having said this, he/she could have confded in you the matter. That's where I am stuck. Pls do not lose heart and try to concentrateon other good things on earth. *smiles*
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Aug 08
Don't be upset sweetie, pls don't. Okay here's one teaser for you: If I were you and you were me, who would have been a monkey... laughs.
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
Sure is. Yeah, that is what i ish for....that they lt me know what's the matter. But, i will never lose heart just kind of sad and disappointed.Thanks a lot.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
7 Aug 08
The situation which you have described, if happens with me, could be quite disturbing for me because I have very good relations with my dear friends here and if any one of them start avoiding me without any apparanent reasons, it will be difficult for me to bear it. However, luckily this has not happened so far with me. I keep my friends in good humour and always try to remain in touch with them. If they are busy and not responding, I send them mails/PMs to know their actual position and they all are kind enough to let me know about their preoccupation and actual position. Actually, maintaining friendship is normally a two way traffic, but as an exception to this rule, sometimes one of the friends is required to take more initiative than the other one. Please do not feel disappointed if you feel that any of your friends is avoiding you, may be he/she is too busy to respond to you or have some other important tasks to attend or may be he/she is off-line most of the time.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
7 Aug 08
YOu are always welcome dear! Friend are here for your support and encouragement and make you feel glad, so am I. Keep your spirits high and keep smiling! Dpk
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
Thank you so much for that heart warming response. That's exactly what i am doing, giving them time to respond back to me. I just have to let out of the feelings i am feeling right now. But you have help me a lot, thanks again.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
20 Nov 08
Hi sweetie I would try to give benefit of doubt to the person. He/She must be having his/her reasons. But if he/she does it all the time then its but obvious that he/she doesn't want the friendship. At the end of the day no can figure out what's going on inside someone. Its hard but I will try to move on. Life is short and we must live it happily, no matter what. Happy living.
@jammyt (2818)
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
I have been in the same situation for quite some time no. This friend was really close. Even if he was in the province already we'd talk and like you said, one day nothing. I attempted everything, still no word from her. I finally gave up. I think I don't want to stress myself over something that might be nothing. Maybe one day we'd bump into each other again. Sometimes, I feel bad because she was close to me but I guess there are really things in life that one cannot explain.
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
Yeah, but it is just so dissapointing espesially if you really have grown so close to that friend...thanks for the response.
@chenmeiyi (972)
• China
7 Aug 08
i think i just keep respectful distance with online friends. we can tell our secrets to them ,but we should not always rely on them cause we have never seen each other before,we havent understood each other,so we need time to learn about each other. if the friend is worthing making,then i'll be close to them. take care.
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
Thanks, yes, they are worth making and keeping. But i just don't know what happened, i wish thy let me know and not leave me in the dark wondering......take care also.
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
Then if that's the case, let them do what they want and keep searching for new friends online. Remember, even friends you see in real, you may have some problem together and they leave, how much more with online friends? And the thing is they don't bond with you face to face so if they meet someone more interesting online tendency is they leave you. It is more on how you see this friendship online, how you accept its consequences.
• Philippines
7 Aug 08
I guess you are right on that, but i have treasured the friendship we have had. so i just kind of affected by these problems, if ever there are. I just wish that they let me know of their status, even just once in a while. I would appreciate it very much if they did.
• Philippines
8 Aug 08
I understand how you feel, I'd been there many times, they come and go. Dear just keep going, good people you befriended online didn't really forget you, they're just preoccupied. I have a friend oline for 6 years now, we rarely find time to see each other here because we're both too busy with our own lives, but if we do, we really talk, fool each other, sometimes make each other feel too bad but the end of it we still remain friends, I think its because we learned to appreciate each other's personality even if we didn't meet in person.
@Zezlol (409)
• United Arab Emirates
3 Nov 08
It's only happened to me once and the guy was a jerk. We'd get really close and then he'd do something to make me almost hate him. It happened two or three times until I had it and finally decided to end our up and down relationship. It's not like I was giving up on it, I tried talking to him about it but he was the type of guy who really is an idiot and wouldn't face change. I'd say it hurts. It hurts to have someone you considered close to suddenly change and treat you differently. =\