His Best Friend Just Revealed That She’s Spent Years Sleeping With A Mannequin And He Isn’t Sure How To Get Her Help
A guy has a best female friend that he has known for quite some time now. They have a long-distance friendship, and they have never met one another in real life.
Despite that, their friendship kind of evolved into something more, but several years back, they chose to go back to being strictly friends, and that transition worked out well for them.
In the aftermath of downgrading their relationship back to friends, everything has gone great.
They’re super close to one another, and they talk about everything. They chat about events in their lives; they gossip, they vent; she really is his best friend, and he knows she feels the same about him…
…But she expects more out of their relationship.
He has mentioned to her that he’s not interested in them being more than friends again, and he doesn’t want a relationship, and he thought she took the news well, though she will occasionally say things that negate her understanding of his position on things.
He doesn’t want to do anything to compromise or destroy their friendship, and he’s confident that at the end of the day, she feels the same.
This all really isn’t the issue, though here; there’s something else going on with his friend that he thinks is alarming.
“In a couple of messages, she mentioned a mannequin,” he explained. “I wasn’t exactly sure how to respond to it, and I figured it was just a weird turn of phrase or something. It was not a turn of phrase, and I don’t know what to do now.”
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“She sleeps with this mannequin. She mentioned waking up with her hand on his mannequin junk as some kind of coping mechanism or relief from loneliness. She was in a relationship with another guy before, and she said she just put the mannequin in the closet until the relationship was going bad, at which point she was openly sleeping with the said mannequin in some kind of jealousy ploy.”
“We were talking tonight, and I brought it up. Quite honestly, I was thinking I misunderstood or something. I was not misunderstanding, and it was all exactly as I heard.”
Knowing this was way over his head in terms of something he could help her deal with, he suggested to his friend that she contact a therapist to help her with this.
He believes that was the best advice he could have given her, as she does need to deal with this mannequin thing, though he can’t help her.
As their conversation continued last night, he wound up telling her that he really had to go since he wasn’t sure what else to say to her. He cares deeply for his friend and knows she needs serious help, but he isn’t sure that she will reach out to a therapist quickly.
He’s left wondering if there’s any more than he can do for his friend. Do you think so?
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