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It's hard to find a good place to start. I guess it's probably a good idea to start with my sophomore year of highschool. I used to have this friend, Bob, who used to talk to me about all of his personal problems and I happily listened and tried to give advice for him believing this would help with his so called depression. This relationship took a turn for the worse when I started to be convinced that he was manipulating me by my other friend who Im going to call Frank. Many complicated things happened and I ended up torn between the two relationships. It turned into witnessing a plethora of screenshots in which he admitted to faking his depression and manipulating me the whole time. When it came time for me to confront him about it, all he had to say was that I was just a game to him the whole time. This made me develop an irrational fear of being manipulated. Forward time to the second semester of my junior year and Frank is pushing me to take nude pictures of my body and send them his friend who is a girl and also kept pushing. I eventually sent a pretty tame picture of my midriff. A little more time passes and frank is pushing me to start an account on a mature website and share naked pictures on there which he had access to. The pictures on there were all pretty tame and still I was extremely uncomfortable with posting them. Seeing the messages made me sick but frank kept pushing for me to post certain pictures. After about a couple months I decided to give it up. This isn't without consequence though because a guy who was begging me to share my Instagram with him finally convinced me. This is the part that stresses me out and makes me paranoid. This guy only texts me when frank is able to text and when he does text me, he pressures me into sending him pictures. I recently looked into his account to find that all of his followers and people he's following are almost all followed by frank. He somehow encourages me to share personal pictures with this guy for money which I happen to find extremely strange. Just recently, I was asked by one of my peers who is known to be flirty to draw him a couple of shirt designs. I told Frank about this and his reaction was to talk badly about this guy. He kept telling me not to get involved with him because he's rumored to have STDs. This is the first time I've heard of this rumor which is weird because i would normally hear of this stuff before this guy ever asked me about the shirt designs. I find it strange that it would suddenly come up now. Frank is showing some weird signs of insecurity, making me promise not to abandon him and it's obviously because of my peer who asked for help. Forward to a couple days later and the guy from my mature profile texts me. I tell frank about this and he automatically knows who I'm talking about without me having to specify. I'm worried that he's been manipulating me from the start but I've no way to really prove it other than the red flags I'm being shown. He's my best friend and I want to trust him. He does so much for me.he wastes his money on me and drives me home and many other things that it's difficult not to trust him. Theres also the fact that if I do drop him I know I'll be overwhelmed with guilt because I'll never know for sure if he really has ulterior motives to mess with me or if this is all just a weird coincidence. Anyway I just wanted to get this off my chest because it's been stressing me out the past couple of days.
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