Have you or someone you know been betrayed by a group of friends?

When I was in the sixth grade, there was a group of girls who would pretend they were my friends one minute then do cruel things the next. Once when wee had a substitute these girls were making multiple trips to the pencil sharpener, just so they could pop me in the back of the head. At one point they even screamed that there was a mouse in the back of the room just to torture me more. I felt like I could not stand up to them because of the numbers, but one day a boy who had had enough, stood up for me and they did not mess with me again.
This left scars for awhile but eventually I realized they were just jealous of me because I was prettier!:)

I’m a long-time activist, and a community and union organizer. The group for which I am the spokesperson is a direct action organization; we work within the law where possible, and outside it where necessary. I went out one night with a pair of bolt-cutters to engage in a bit of social justice and discovered the police had a surveillance team waiting for me. I was arrested, faced up to 12 years in prison, and spent 6 days locked up while fighting their bail conditions.

The charges against me were eventually dropped after I launched a constitutional challenge, but as part of the disclosure we received from the police of their evidence, we discovered that they knew I was coming because there was an informer in our organization. That hurt, a lot. You know intellectually, as an activist, that the security apparatus has snitches, spies, and moles in your organizations, but these are people you rely on, people who struggle beside you, and to whom you turn for support when all the world is against you and everything seems bleak and oppressive. To discover one of them has been snitching on you to the police is heartbreaking.

More than once we have developed a group of friends, invited another friend to meet them, and that other friend basically took over and pushed us out of the group. This has been with different people. I don’t get it.

-Why did they betray you? Insecurities or for their own self-benefit.
-How did you react to the situation? PO’d, hurt, etc.
-Did they apologize in the future? No, they just played it off as if they “had every right”; self-righteously. Abandoned all responsibility and claimed the victim seat.
-Did this incident leave you with scars? Yes and no. Yes, lesson learned, I’m a little sharper around the edges and I’ve learned to “trim the dead limbs” off of my friendship tree. No, because, I dont let it get me down or prohibit myself from succeeding in life.

it’s too painful to think about.
BETRAYAL SUCKS!!!!!!

@SmashTheState Can I know what your organization does? and what it represents etc?

I had 5 loving sisters betray me and it brought me to my knees , they left me out of my fathers Will . Now that cuts like a knife , I went into shock and I’m still in shock to this day . The pain runs like a river that never stops flowing.

They were my best friends growing up as well as sisters

So sorry @Pattijo that would be rough:( I hope bigger blessings come your way soon.

@Pattijo Sorry to hear that. Probably one of the worst stories of betrayal I have heard of.