Is it true that your best friend can also be your worst enemy?

It is the ones closest to us that we hurt the most. I think that a best friend can be a worst enemy sometimes without them not even knowing it. Sometimes you have a friend that just likes gossiping when they think they have a juicy story. These are the people that you have to watch out for because these people act like they do not know they are betraying a trust. My sister is like that. It is not that she wants to dump your business every where she just trusts the wrong people with important information. Everyone has thier secerts your worse enemy just happens to know yours

The problem is you might have thought they were your best friend, and told them all your secrets. Or they might really have been, but you did something that really upset them. They think you hate them, and that you'll tell all the nasty things about them. So they want to do it first. There is a very thin line between love and hate. You can love a person, but if they hurt you, you want to hurt them back in a most basic way. How better than to tell their secrets? People change. If best friends have a falling out, there will be a lot of pain. Just like in a marriage. It happens.

You have a point there inkyuboz. I consider the phrase 'best friend' very sacred. Till date, i haven't used it for any of my friends. i have relly close friends... but that's what I refer to them as. Best friend or true friend would never do such a thing.

I think it depends on the person. I true friend even if you are fighting would not tell your secrets. Plus if they promised they could keep a secret then got mad at someone then told the secret , everyone would not tell them anything because they would be afaid the same thing would happen to them. You should have more integrety then to tell someones personal business regaurdless of the situation anyway. I do think that best friends can make the worst enemies. It seems like the falling out with your best friends are always worse when it happnes. Plus if you read comic books it seems like the villans always start out being the heroes best friend. I know it sounds corny but it is true.

Many things change and so do people around us. So, your bestfriend today can be your worst enemy tomorrow. The problem is they know all your deepest, darkest secrets. If ever you have misunderstanding with a bestfriend and the two of you haven`t made a move to reconcile fast, the next possible scenario would be you hanging out with another friend or another set of friends. The next thing you know he`ll find another friend too and if he thinks that you are spreading his ``precious secrets``, he would also do the same. Lucky are those who found a true bestfriend! Keep them well, they`re more precious than gems!

yes they can be because those who hurt you the most are those close to you and sometimes s##¤¤ happens and when it does its messed up when they are at the center of it!

Well, I believe that best friend can turn into worst enemy because of the reason (scenario) you had discuss above . We can't always say that our best friend will always be our best friend forever. We always need to think of possibilities in life, the unexpected happenings. Sometimes, no matter we don't like things will happen it will just happen. Like for example, you and your best friend had a big fight and no matter how much you try to solve it the anger and pain was already there and its impossible to heal already. Revenge is always the way to make yourself in peace and express the anger and pain that people had felt. So, even though he/she don't want to do it he/she don't have a choice because the other side of them are more supreme than the person you know. And because of this, friendship end and your best friend became one of your mortal enemy..

I think this statement could be true. Our best friends are the people who know us very well. If they want to turn to be our enemy,I think they are the most suitable candidate. If they want to sabotage us,I think we won't be able to figure out until we are trapped. So my advice is never trust a person too deeply until you let her or him knows all your secrets especially weaknesses.

I've used this phrase before, the old saying is "With friends like that who needs enemies". I tend to just walk away from people like this. If they are doing things to me that someone who wasn't my friend would do, then they aren't much of a friend and I don't keep that friendship. I do try to speak with them first about the issues, but if they don't see what they are doing, or won't change I walk away. Namaste-Anora

That's right.Sometimes my best friend will be my worst enemy.Because he will know my living habit even my bank account and password clearly.So when he is against me,I will have no policy to deal with.That's terrible.So getting along well with my friend is important.

i believe in that statements, best friends is still a human, they can envy to you when they see you success, sometimes they mad at you, but all of it depends on their nature

I really think that this statement is true. Your best friend know everything about you and that person can easily use these informations to destroy your reputation. that person can easily bring you down. We may never know when this will happen, there are instances that were shown in TV about best friends fighting over a guy or something.

yes our best friend can sometimes be our worst enemies, if envy and jealousy comes on your way as friends. but i still believe that if god is the center of your friendship then that thing won't ever happen. :)

i believe that saying is true.. but more on the trust issue.. when a trust is broken between two best friends, it really is hard to bring back that friendship again.. idk about ex-best friends blackmailing but you see, when you broke the trust of someone, that someone will feel very hurt.. really hurt.. not just a typical hurt since he/she did not expect you to do that to her.. and that hurt can turn into hatred.. kinda like the same level of love your bestfriend had for u before but now, it turned into hatred.. since he/she felt so betrayed, he/she feels he/she has the right to retaliate.. and that's when your bestfriend becomes your worst enemy..

if your best friend will be your worst enemy maybe he was not really your best friend at all and that your relationship with him was not that strong in the beginning. i don't think a true friend will want to treat you like an enemy in the end.

I guess when best friends are fighting (you can expect fights to happen in the span of a friendship, esp between friends who've been together since childhood) the worst enemy bit will apply. Friends usually make up when they fight though, just watch "Gossip Girl", lol.

I think part of it is the fact that a "best friend" does have all the information and secrets that you keep close to you. But I also think it involves the fact that you let this person you consider your "best friend" close to you emotionally. They have a special place in your heart, so if they do something that hurts you, it's going to hurt you more because of the trust and faith you have put in this person.

I think the idea behind the saying is that we should choose carefully who our friends are, because our friends know so many details about our lives that it can be dangerous! My best friend and I have had falling outs over the years and I lived in terror of what she could do to me with all that she knew about me. But, she never did use what she knows about me against me. So, I guess she is a true friend after all. Haha.

I agree with you.If a friend become enemy how he become a best friend.A true friend who understand you and always want to make sacrifice for you.Than where the question of enmity arises.

I had a true friend that turned into an enemy. We had been friends since I was about 9 and she was 8. We shared everything both ways I knew things about Her and She about me. And we both backed eachother up in everything. Then after 25 years of friendship one betrayal changed everything. I think she was my best friend but that it can change.