Hi, my problem is this. I am a child, most of my relatives and cousins are abroad or live in another city. As a child, I was very attached to friendship. I did my best for my friends, helped them in difficult times, gave them advice and accepted their pain and suffering as my own. But whenever I get close to a girl and build a stable friendship, a third person appears in our relationship and ruins everything. This is what happened to one of my best friends three years ago. We were like sisters, sharing joy and sorrow, but a third girl appeared and we gradually moved away. In the end, we just stopped all contact with her without any words or explanations, we ended our friendship and we still don't talk. Naturally, I experienced it very hard. Then I started dating my best childhood friend, we renewed our relationship with her and became very close as before. This continued until this year, until a third person reappeared, namely one of her cousins, who is 3 years younger than us. We started calling her to go out with us and she permanently interfered in our relationship. We didn't go out much this summer, but they were always together or watching a movie or going out without calling me. Sometimes all three of us went out, but I felt like we were moving away and we couldn't share as before because my cousin was with us all the time. I became very irritated and jealous because she imposed her opinion on her and influenced her in this way. I have the feeling that he wants to separate her from me so that they can be both, so I feel superfluous. I understand they are second cousins, but still she is smaller than us and why not just find friends her age? She imposes her opinion not only on my best friend, but also on me. It has often happened that he takes advantage of me when he has a benefit, and when he doesn't, he doesn't think of me at all. Please give me some advice. I don't want to break up with my girlfriend like I did the previous one. Does friendship really not exist and is there for a while? Or are people together as long as they benefit from it and then separate for no reason? I used to believe in friendship, but now that word means almost nothing to me. I'm tired of people leaving my life and a third person to blame. This weighs a lot on me because I don't have brothers and sisters, and my cousins are far away and I'm alone.
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I am one to one with you. I am also an only child. And to me, all my friendships so far have ended in the same way as yours - a third person appears, who obviously seems "more interesting" to those who called me friends, and our relationship ends slowly. , no quarrels and no explanations. Obviously I can't give you adequate advice, because I'm on the same page, I just wanted you to know that you're not the only one. Maybe most people prefer big and noisy companies (friendships for fun), and I like a more closed type of friendships - I can only have one close person, but to be able to do all sorts of things together, to share, to support each other in difficult moments. Probably that's where the contradiction comes from.