Saw a reddit post today about a girl who was upset that her childhood best friend replaced a photo of the two of them in his wallet with one of him and his girlfriend. And while yeah, she was being unreasonable with a lot of what she was saying, I totally understand the sadness of a friend “replacing” you with someone they have romantic feelings for. Makes it worse when the top comment is this
Every single comment on this post is about how family and romantic relationships always take precedence over friendships. I don’t have anything more to say to this aside from the fact that… this is why it’s hard for aroaces to imagine futures for themselves. Society drills it into your head that you’re going to live in a world where you are no one’s priority if you don’t have romantic relationships and it fucking sucks
god stuff like this makes me unbelivably angy
slightly off-topic but another similar thing to this i noticed on some people is like. they realize the person the have romatic feelings on won’t/can’t reciprocate those feeling and they. just stop being friends with them even if they were really good friends? like wtf? why would you throw away a perfectly good friendship like that
