Her Friend Bullied Her Over Her Weight Years Ago, But She’s Not Ready To Forgive And Forget
A 21-year-old woman has a friend the same age as her that she has known since they were back in the 5th grade together.
They were friends from middle school until they graduated high school. Although this girl was her friend growing up, she was also her bully.
“I was pretty overweight and my “friend” thought it would be funny to always make fun of my weight almost daily, she called me ugly so many times, she’d also make fun of my height,” she explained.
“It progressed to making fun about…like not plucking my eyebrows well or if she saw a tiny little facial hair she’d make fun of me for it.”
Every morning at school, her friend would make fun of her and be rude to her for just wanting to see if she was alright.
Her friend frequently came to school looking upset, and she was concerned for her friend. After she would ask her friend how she was doing, her friend would be rude to her before smiling away and chatting with other classmates of theirs.
She decided to stop speaking to all of the friends in this group and walk alongside them through the halls in silence.
She figured if she said nothing or did nothing her bully of a friend would stop being so cruel to her, though she was wrong.
Even if she sat in silence, her friend continued to relentlessly torment her about her weight and about how “ugly” she was too.
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Her friend was out of control with her heartbreaking comments, and she never said anything or fought back against those tormenting ways.
If all of this doesn’t make you sad enough for her, at one point, a teacher of hers even tormented her about her weight, and then her friend began laughing.
Her friend never stood up for her. Her friend never stopped being mean to her. Her friend never stopped to consider her feelings.
“I did lose the weight before our senior year and it was all compliments from then on, even from her,” she said.
“I later confronted her about what she said and she apologized but she didn’t know I was getting hurt, as I was pretending to be emotionless (I didn’t want to show my hurt in fear of people knowing what hurts me and use it against me) and that I made fun of her too (I made fun of her SOMETIMES only when she made fun of me but never that bad).”
It’s been years since this all happened of course since she’s now 21, but she’s not ready to forgive and forget what her friend did to her because it caused her so much pain.
She’s wondering if she’s wrong for “still holding a grudge” after all of this time. What do you think?
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