She Lost A Five-Year Friendship After She Bought The Same Kind Of Bracelet Her Friend Had And Got Accused Of Copying Her
Have you ever been accused of “copying” your friend because you purchased the same thing as them, like a shirt or bag?
A woman went viral on TikTok after recalling the time her friend decided to end their friendship because she bought the same kind of bracelet as her.
Amanda Talijan (@amandatalijan) is a content creator, life coach, and mother whose video on her friendship debacle received over 3 million likes after she posted it.
A while back, before she became a mom, Amanda had a friend of five years. Her friend gifted her a beautiful hand chain bracelet for her birthday.
Her friend was thrilled to give it to her, telling her it was a collector’s item and that she had the same one so they could match.
“I was so impressed and actually shocked that she got it for me,” recalls Amanda.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve always admired it on you,’ [and] she’s like, ‘I know, you complimented me on it before.'”
Amanda loved the hand chain so much and believed it was so pretty that she decided to buy two more for herself.
Later, after wearing the hand chains faithfully, Amanda had to participate in a photo shoot for a business she was starting. When she told her friend about it, her friend volunteered to do her hair and makeup alongside her sister.
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“Around 30 minutes into the shoot, I felt like the vibe had changed, and they were being really weird,” says Amanda.
“They were whispering a lot and talking a lot, but they were kind of working together to do my makeup. I thought maybe they were just talking about the work they were doing with the makeup.”
However, a few days after the photoshoot, she noticed her friend stopped answering her texts. When her friend finally did text her back, she acknowledged her silence and told Amanda they needed to talk on the phone.
During their conversation, Amanda was surprised to learn that her friend became shady during the photoshoot because she noticed she had three hand chains.
Amanda’s friend told her she was “offended” that she bought two more hand chains “without her permission.”
Amanda apologized and told her friend she didn’t think she’d need permission to buy additional hand chains, and she also figured she wouldn’t be mad if she started wearing more, considering how excited she was about matching.
After going back and forth for a while, Amanda decided she would stop wearing the hand chains around her friend, and that would be that.
The conversation was a bit unsettling, and after a few more days, Amanda reached out to her friend to tell her she didn’t like the way things went down.
That’s when she found out that her friend didn’t want her to just quit wearing the hand chains around her; she wanted her to avoid wearing them entirely because she was “copying” her.
Amanda was appalled by her friend’s behavior and insisted they have another phone call to hash things out.
When she was able to get on the phone with her friend again, she could hear her friend opening a notebook in the background, getting to recite a whole lot of opinions and feelings.
“She starts going off, reading line by line over our five-year friendship, recalls Amanda.
“[Recalling] all the times that I [made her mad]. I hear pages literally turning, and she’s getting louder and louder and louder.”
Anytime Amanda tried to speak or defend herself, her friend would yell at her and order her not to interrupt. Her friend told her all she does is “copy and paste” her life and accused her of wanting to be her.
Amanda realized the situation had gotten too out of hand, and her friend’s behavior was so bizarre that she simply informed her that she wouldn’t change who she was and what she loved to please her.
Then, Amanda’s friend informed her their five-year friendship was over and proceeded to block her on all platforms. Amanda didn’t hear from her friend until a little over a year later after she had already become a mom and had different priorities.
Her ex-friend emailed her, saying she was a different person and wanted to hash things out with her, as they both needed to take responsibility for their actions.
“I was like, ‘No, you’re not going to tell me what I need to take responsibility for,'” says Amanda.
“So that was a clue to me that I’m going to [need to] walk away.”
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