If you ever have friends, who talk about you behind your back......?

@tuyakiki (3016)
India
August 17, 2009 3:27am CST
Its hard to understand human mind.There are people,who pretends to be a good friend but prefer talking about you behind your back. This sucks!! Honestly speaking I do come across this type of people,and usually they are my friends. How will you handle this situation??? If you ever have this type of friends,who are stabbing on your back but are actually in front,pretend to be your close friends..... Please share your opinions..
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26 responses
@advokatku (4033)
• Indonesia
18 Aug 09
I am very hate with this type. Like you, this very suck. I am ever have friend this type and I has leave it
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• United States
18 Aug 09
I won't know. Sometimes a friend would make a snippy comment and it would make me wonder if she talks behind my back. I've never knew if any of my friends did though I tried finding out. I guess if I can't know, it's better not to be obsessing over it.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
17 Aug 09
Hi kiki! If I come to know that any of friends is back stabing, I would like to confront him/her head on and would like to know why s/he is doing so. If s/he has any problem with me or my conduct, s/he can talk to me directly, I'll be much glad to clarify the matter. If I find that any of my friends is persisting with back stabbing, I'll start ignoring him/her and would not like to continue with him/her.
@tuyakiki (3016)
• India
21 Aug 09
Thanks for sharing.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
21 Aug 09
It is my pleasure!
@arkansos (545)
• India
17 Aug 09
Well ninety percent of your friends are like that and by you i mean everyone. Have you noticed how you might slip a crazy word about your friend to another friend sometimes. "She thinks he likes him, he's waaaay out of his league) or she is so controlling, she's got no reason to be. He thinks he is a casanova. Stuff like that just to vent sometimes. We have so many friends. Its natural to say a thing about one or the other. Same thing goes for your friends. They do it all the time. Only some o it a lot more. They stick with you and b*ch about you all the time, betray your secrets. These are bad ppl. I had one like that. I didn't find out until much later ofcourse, but he told off a lot of stuff about me. He now sleeps with the fishes. Kidding!
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• United States
18 Aug 09
Unfortunately, that is human nature...It happens more with the youth,and in high school, but when you get older it's not as bad, people mature, adults have less friends, and those they have don't usually know each other, and adults realize that everyone has problems, so their less quick to run to someone to discuss someone else. But, to be the subject of someones conversation in great lengths isn't right whether your young or an adult. But I don't find those things important anymore...if they want to talk about me, they can go ahead.
• United States
18 Aug 09
I agree Sweetchariot! If someone wants to talk about me they have that right. You're definitely right about how things change when you get older. My best friend and I were topic of many discussions in high school... now we're 25 and we've become blissfully invisible.
• United States
18 Aug 09
Personally I have had the same best ever since we were 11-years-old, and now we are 25!! We both talk about each other all the time... but it isn't necessarily bad talk. Sometimes people just don't have anything else to talk about I guess. If your friend or friends are all you've got and what they do is the only thing going on then of course you're going to end up talking about it. We're only human after all. The species that loves to talk and be social. No one in this world is completely innocent. We've all said something about someone else behind their back. Whether it's family or friends or people we just met, or even people you just see on the street and don't know anything about. We're all opinionated and most of us are guilty of speaking our minds. The reason I still have the same best friend is because no matter we're up front with each other. I don't say anything about her behind her back that she doesn't already know I would say. If she trips going up the stairs in the movie theater I giggle and say, "now I've got a story to tell" lol. Same goes for me... if I trip over my own feet walking down the sidewalk and sprain my ankle she laughs and says she can't wait to tell everyone what they missed. It's healthy to be able to laugh at yourself, and push through life taking all the good and the bad for what it is and accepting it. If you think someone is talking bad about you... don't spend time with them or tell them anything you wouldn't want other people to know. It's that simple. The best thing to do is look them right in the eye and tell them you know they've talked crap about you; then you'll find out how they react under pressure. If they fidget around and act nervous you know two things: 1- they are guilty AND 2- they feel bad. If they apologize, take it for whatever it's worth and just be careful what you do or say around them in the future.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
7 Sep 09
yes you are right. it is not possible that we will just say all good things about our friend. there will be times that we will share or talk to some one about our friends. but that does not mean that the friend is trying to destroy our reputation. but if that does happy a lot and so very often then i think that the friend is really trying to spread rumor and is slandering already. and we should leave that kind of friend.
@Margajoe (4709)
• Germany
18 Aug 09
That mostly happens when people are jealous. They need you, because by being your friend they look important. At the same time they try to belittle you, so they look good. So they think. I have had this happen to me in the past too, and still it happens. I just ignore them and figure they have nothing better to do. Pathetic people. If they had more self respect they would not be so stupid.
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
I had many friends and acquaintances who are like that. But when they face me, they're all smiles and all. I don't mind them though. I continue to treat them nice. they'll just get bored backbiting anyway
@Jenaisle (14079)
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
Yes, that's quite frustrating, especially if you have learned to trust them absolutely with everything that you are. When other people betray you, it's okay but friends betraying you is too painful to contemplate. So if they do, then they are not truly your true friends because true and loyal friends would never betray your trust, so select your friends well and stick to them.
• China
18 Aug 09
almost everyone,you know some people are gossip persons in nature.but they would not talk about me in too mean way,sometimes i talk about them with my other bunch of friends so i will not make a great deal out of this kind of thing
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
17 Aug 09
I have run across people like that many times. A good sign to look out for id if they talk about other people to you when they are not around. Chances are they are doing it to you as well. I don't know what it is that makes them do it. I don't like it either and often times the first time they talk about someone else in my presence, I realize they are probably not my friend either.
@tuyakiki (3016)
• India
17 Aug 09
Yes!! You are absolutely right..That is the only way to point these people out from a group..Its better to ignore them,when they are coming to us for talking about someone behind their back. Thanks for sharing.
@peace001 (726)
• China
18 Aug 09
i am in this instance several times.first I am so sad,but now i will not care about it.I know those person who hurt you because you are better than them,so just forget it,your real frieds will not hurt you.so it is not worthy cring for those people.
• United States
20 Aug 09
Hi tuyakiki.....Yes I had a friend a few years ago that I thought was a good friend and I found out that they were talking about me bhind my back. Yes it hurts to think that someone you call friend could do this to you. She would be just as nice as pie to my face and then when she would get with other girls she would talk about me and tear me down to the ground. Needless to say I do not need friends like that.
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
friends who talk behind your back are as common as the grass that grows in our lawns. it is indeed very painful to know that people we consider friends are the ones who make as feel bad. when a friend would talk behind my back, it is important for me to talk that person and confront him/her. if he doesn't have a good explanation for doing so then he/she is not worth keeping..
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
18 Aug 09
I have had friends in the past that were like this. I really don't like people that claim to be your friends and then talk about you behind your back. That is really immature to me.
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
18 Aug 09
people llike this are certainly not real friends. When I run into someone like this, first, I will confront them about the issue. I take into account who I heard about ir from, and try to get both people together so whoever is really lying to me has to come clean. Then, I make it very clear that I won't put up with it. If it happens again after that, I simple disclude that person from my life. The last thing in my life that I need is someone who wants to constantly start something and cause unneeded drama in my life.
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
I do trust my friends , should I learned however that they're talking about me behind my back. I would confront them and listen to their explanation. If I think they don't mean what they did fine however if 't's true perhaps I won't talk to them for a while and won't see them the way I used to do.
@angelajoy (1825)
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
If I find out that my friends are stabbing me in the back, then I would stop being friends with them. They are nothing more than hypocrites who are not worth my time and effort. I'd be better off trying to find some real friends. And even if I don't find new friends quickly, I won't regret losing my old so-called friends.
• Philippines
18 Aug 09
We should expect it especially from our friends, they are the ones who knew us that is why they have the guts to talk about us in public..But, even if they are doing it, I really don't care, as long as I did not do anything that will harm them then there is no problem..we have this people that talking about behind someone 's back is their hobby..haha, and we can't control them, we shall just make them realize that it is not good by simply, doing things that will reflects their actions and probably will make them realize or think that doing that kind of thing is not healthy for them because someday they will also experience that..karma is always there..hehe
@dbabcook (388)
• United States
18 Aug 09
Well, first of all if they were really your friend then they wouldn't talk about you behind your back. That just isn't a true friend. I have had people who have done that to me and I just eliminate letting them know things that I would never want to be repeated or I have at times confronted them about it. There are even times when I have just pulled myself out of those types of situations as those people aren't worth it afterall.