Stages You Go Through When a Friend Lets You Down

The experience of being let down by a friend
You have known your friend for the longest time. Maybe from childhood, or from the challenges you have faced and overcame together. You have been teammates, backing up one another through difficult times. You have trusted one another, proving it through significant trials along the way. Your friend might even know you than you know yourself. Yet through all this, there have come the time when this very same friend, whose friendship and sincerity you have already proven, have let you down. This has taken you aback. You have been through highs and lows together, so how can this be?
Now you begin to experience of being let down by a friend, which usually starts with denial. There must be a reason for this, which will take time for you to accept. The time you learn acceptance will be the time you come up with resolution. So, let us explore these stages you go through when a friend lets you down.
Denial
Being with that friend for a long time somehow have helped built a mutual set of rules in your friendship that both of you abide in. Both of you have voluntarily and even wholeheartedly agreed to this because you are friends. When behaviors do not meet such expectations, the friendship can be tarnished. So, you are that type of person to do anything just to keep the friendship intact. Yet somehow your good friend begins to have behaviors that rocks your friendship boat. This may come either as gradual as the light rain, or as unexpected as a bullet in the knee. You just wake up one day asking, “Hey, has my friend let me down?” As you analyze the situation, you begin to suspect your friend might have used your streng...