Is it easy for you to walk away from friends once you realize they only use you?

yes. friendship should be a two way street. those that take but never give are not your friends.

All relationships are built upon trust. That you will hold the deepest of my secrets and I will the hold the deepest of yours. As trust builds, so does respect. One cannot be in a relationship if the other person is merely using you as an ends to a mean.

A twelve year friendship I had recently ended because I felt the same way. It wasn’t easy though. The writing was on the wall for years. I just had to get to a breaking point where I knew it just wasn’t worth it anymore.

I still miss him/them (it was a couple) sometimes like on holidays and when I feel like I have no one to talk to. But I know that I won’t ever let myself go backwards.

Not sure.

I do the using

You’re not a fool, you’re just too nice. I used to be the same way but eventually it wore me down and I realized I had to do what’s best for me.

I am in the exact same position you are in. It is very hard for me to give up on people and walk away. I just see the good in people and ignore the bad which in the end hurts me and others just walk away from me like it is the easiest thing to do and it doesn’t hurt them at all it breaks my heart.

While it doesn’t make you a fool- your time, feelings and effort are better invested with deserving people. If you can’t trust or depend on them then they’re not friends -only acquaintances. So there is nothing cruel in becoming less attached and getting some distance to these people while networking and expand your social circle.

You are not a fool. You are a good person, and the sort of person that I dearly wish I had for a friend.

I feel as though I am constantly used too. It’s a horrible feeling. My father was always in the same situation and now he has nothing. But I know that he always did what he thought was right, and I intend to do the same, even if I end up in the same situation, purely because you should always do what is right.

Very easy. I don’t look back.