How do you deal with friends that avoid you when you are broke
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@augusta123 (9541)
April 12, 2026 11:16pm CST
Sometimes life can throw financial challenges at you unexpectedly. You were helpful to friends but this same friends avoid you when you are broke. I have experienced this and at a time I was really frustrated. But they came back as if nothing happened when I was able to pull through. I decided to pull back from them and they were like I'm not handling the situation well as it wasn't their fault. Do you think keeping such friends I worth it no matter their excuses?
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@Ineeddentures (30215)
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14 Apr
Never let money matters into a friendship
Never borrow money from anyone
Never lend money to anyone
Doing these things will eventually mean friendships end
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@augusta123 (9541)
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14 Apr
What if you are down or you need money for something urgent?
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@Ineeddentures (30215)
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14 Apr
@augusta123
I still wouldn't borrow it from a friend.
And I would not lend a friend money either
Depending on who it was and what the money was for, and what amount was involved I might gift the money
But I will not ever lend anyone any money
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@augusta123 (9541)
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13 Apr
I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore.
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@rakski (152649)
• Philippines
13 Apr
@augusta123 and that is okay after what you experience from them
@toniganzon (76804)
• Philippines
13 Apr
It's not worth keeping those friends at all. I got rid of all of them.
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@MarieCoyle (57648)
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14 Apr
Real true friends don't base friendship on how much money you have. If they are avoiding you because of your income, or lack of income--they are not friends at all.
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@augusta123 (9541)
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14 Apr
When you have money you have friends, when you don't longer have money friends would disappear
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@MarieCoyle (57648)
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14 Apr
@augusta123
I don't consider people who do that to be real friends.
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