Did you get tired of being a friend?

Philippines
January 15, 2009 6:00am CST
With all honesty did you feel tired sometimes with your friends? I have a lot of friends. Sometimes I got tired to their demands. I just distant myself for a short period of time to breath. Then go on with my friendship with them again. I have no intentions of getting away from them. Just take a break and be friends again.
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
15 Jan 09
Hi izathewzia! Yes, I do need some time off when I feel that they start to be so demanding. I usually give in to favors but there are those times that I just can't take it anymore. However, I am so glad that my two best friends are not demanding. We respect each other's space and just be happy for what we can give and share such as the limited time we all have to spend with each other. Hi skysuccess! Take care and have a nice day! lovelots..faith210
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
Hi margajoe! haha..I guess, it is just normal to feel this way sometimes..Nice to see you here dear! Take care always and keep smiling! lovelots..faith210
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
Same here. Hi, too faith210!
@Margajoe (4709)
• Germany
15 Jan 09
Hi Faith, I am so glad this topic has been started. I thought I was the only one trying to avoid demanding people. Seems I am not alone. hahaha! Take care.
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@artaucan (97)
• United States
15 Jan 09
well, sometimes we need our space, and even thought friends are very important, there are times when you want to put your thoughts together and concentrate in your own goals, that doesn´t mean you don´t want to hang out with them, it just means you deserve some quietness to better yourself as a person and therefore you´ll be a better friend.
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• Philippines
16 Jan 09
This is very true!
@Margajoe (4709)
• Germany
15 Jan 09
Nicely put.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
15 Jan 09
[i]Hi iza, I am not tried of my friends but I have one close friend who recently always bothering me about money, she wants to borrow from me and she knows that I am not working,,,,I didn't like it so, I am like putting a wall for her to be too much comfortable with me! I used to do this when I was single and working and I know she pays me back and she is responsible but this time, I am not working and I am married...So, I love and care for her, but I just need to draw a line so that she will also realized that I am not single anymore and I cannot just do things right there and then![/i]
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• Philippines
15 Jan 09
That is the right thing to do. Let the person know things are not the same anymore.
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@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
15 Jan 09
there is a few i get tried of, and i can't spend lot of time with because they get on my nerves, and these are the ones i tell this too. i am like ok time for you to leave cya..
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• Philippines
16 Jan 09
It is different inded when they get into our nerves already.
@Ya_its_Me (118)
• India
15 Jan 09
No way i get tired of being a friend, i love to be in and out with my friends, day by day i posses to have more friends, i love to talk with them, share everything with them, Sometimes if i be with my friends for a long time, i too get bored
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• Philippines
15 Jan 09
That is so good of you.
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@siomaiii (238)
• Philippines
15 Jan 09
I think friendship is the only relationship that requires no obligation. You do them a favor, you are there whenever a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, you inspire them when they lose hope, and being there for them, you do all these things because you want to and not because you have to. But sometimes, some people get to dependent on their friends. They tend to forget that their friends have a life too, they have their own problems to attend to. Sometimes they can't make decision for themselves. Now that's a problem. And i think that makes a friend tiring. Anyway, just be honest. Have a heart to heart talk with your friend. Whatever happens, real friends understands you.
@Margajoe (4709)
• Germany
15 Jan 09
Yes, I think so too.
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
This is a good idea and the right thing to do.
• India
16 Jan 09
Well, it never happend with me. I have many friends but all of them are working at different places. So we rarely meet, i miss collage days it was so much fun. Even when i was in collage it never happened, i always had fun with my friends.
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
Yah, college days are the best! I also missing my friends.
• India
16 Jan 09
Certainly. I have lot of friends. Some of them are good and they won't allow me to be tired. But some friends... They indeed make me so tired. I can't fulfill their requirements, in this especially girl friends. Now a days I am really scare to meet and talk to them. However, we have been friends for long. How can I avoid them??
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
If you can no lnger stand them, slowly distant yourself. Knowing the fact that they are your long time friends.
@regal_aeros (2605)
• Singapore
16 Jan 09
oh yes, i do. Like you, i get tired of all their demands. Some group of friends are so happening that every other day we're out doing some gathering. Other individual friends just bolt me down with their never-ending and re-occurring problems. Therefore, i tend to "lie" to them so that i can get some private space at home.
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
I understand. Staying alone recharges us.
@kissie34 (2294)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
Same with you, I have so many friends.. Yes, I sometimes get tired also being their friends because some behavior and attitude that I always need to accept and understand.. I know that getting tired being their friends is wrong since true friends never get tired with each other and never get tired of being understanding to them.. However, my patient isn't that big for me to always understand and accept what their behavior are and how their attitude contradict with out friendship.. Well, I'm not saying that I don't want to be their friends anymore.. All I'm saying is that I just need space to breath and have some fresh mind.. If they need me I'm always there for me anytime.. They know how to contact me.. Of course, it doesn't mean that I need space they must not bother me at all.. They were still my friends and no matter how I felt for them it won't change our friendship and I'm always be there for them no matter what happen for as long as they need me and they still consider me as a friend..
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
Once a friend will always be a friend. But we can put them in categories. And treat them differently. But the fact remains, all of them are our friends.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
15 Jan 09
I did this recently. My friend was getting on my nerves. I ignored her for two weeks. It made her angry but she was over it as soon as we had a five minute telephone conversation when i called her.
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• Philippines
16 Jan 09
That is good.
• China
16 Jan 09
To be honest, yes, sometimes. I got tired sometimes. For example, one afternoon, one of my friend asked me to help her doing something with one photo by using photoshop, I said OK I will, please waiting a moment, because I just learnt the software only about one month, I can't use it prefectly, but she still said quickly quickly. :( The thing was not the end, the most worse thing is another friend of mine gave me a call, asked me to come to her office upstair, I said I have something to do now, but she just said, I don't care, just coming here as quickly as you can and then finished the call. So sad, at that moment, I feel tired. In the most time, friends are best choose for oneself, chatting with them about your happiness, your sadness. Anyhow, when I feel tired I will just have a little break, and think about the help they gave me. *^_^*
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
That is a positive reaction. Thinking all the good things they have done for us.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Yes. It's fine to take a break from them. If they don't want to be friends again afterwards, that's their loss. A real friend realizes when the other just needs some alone time. We all need that. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
I agree with you.
@sara007 (134)
• China
16 Jan 09
never.in my life,friends are the one of the most important part in my life
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• Philippines
17 Jan 09
I see. That is good for you.
@surveygrrl (1270)
• United States
15 Jan 09
I have had a couple friends who I needed to take a break from. One we never went back to being friends. I think people arein your life for a reason and if you don't need each other anymore then you just stop getting together. It isn't a bad thing, it just happens over your lifetime. If friends get too needy it tires me out and I have too much on my own to worry about then to always be supportive to them and never get the support back.
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• Philippines
15 Jan 09
Yah, I believe that people are in our lives because of reasons.
@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
15 Jan 09
Looks like you are very popular. An overdose of anything is bad, so what you are doing is just right. When you feel pushed in a corner with their demands, you must distance yourself and give some time to yourself. Its a must. You must have time for yourself and your family. Guess your friends know you by now and dont mind. Great going. Cheers.
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• Philippines
15 Jan 09
Not really. Maybe I am just that friendly that I gain friends. Thanks for kind words.
@Margajoe (4709)
• Germany
15 Jan 09
Hahaha, I know that feeling. I have a friend who just does not now when to leave me alone. Always complaining, always needing some favor. I love to help, but I need some time away from her. I just get tired of hanging on the telephone, because she feels lonely again. She used to get angry because she could not contact me. (I just did not pick up the phone, hahaha!) I hate that, it was like we had a relationship or something. I am my own boss, I like to do what I want. I don't like it when I have to be available all the time. I have a boy friend, that is enough, hahaha! But like you, after I have had my time, I will come back. But I like my freedom too. Take care.
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• Philippines
16 Jan 09
I understand how you feel.
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