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[–]Feather 41 insightful - 2 fun41 insightful - 1 fun42 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm so sorry. Losing a beloved friend is definitely heartbreaking.

Even if you know you're right, that doesn't make it hurt less. It can even make it more confusing. Relationships that end based on something that doesn't make sense to the point where your ex (including ex-friends) was delusional... it's hard to ever feel a sense of closure about that.

You're less alone than she is. She's bought into a fake ideology and her friends in that ideology are fake, just the way friends in a cult are fake; if you leave the cult the relationships are over. There are no friendships in cults. The only friend is the ideology.

I'm so sorry you are experiencing this pain though.

[–]SameOldBS 21 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, the cult where everyone is ready to denounce everyone else. What a hellhole that must be.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone's got a gun to the other's head. I always think of this article when people point out that fear: https://www.autostraddle.com/kin-aesthetics-excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice-386640/