What should you do if your best friend betrays you?

Answer 1

Find a new best friend.

Answer 2

Confront your best friend with the betrayal, including that you can no longer trust him/her, and that you feel the relationship you once had with him/her is no longer possible because of that. Not knowing the situation, it's hard to advise you. Some "betrayals" can be deliberate and malicious, some can be accidental and the result of not thinking before speaking/acting. The former should be treated differently than the latter. Depending on your best friend's response, you can decide if you want to drop him/her from your list of friends altogether, lower his/her status to "just a casual friend", or forgive him/her and give him/her another chance. Your friend may be feeling really bad about the incident, and if you value him/her, it's worth putting the incident behind you. Everyone screws up sometime.

Answer 3

If she betrayed you, then she wasn't a very good friend. I know it's hard to think that, but if she didn't have your best interests at mind, then she wasn't a friend at all. You should just try to know people and don't think to yourself "they wouldn't do that" because the hard truth is that certain people would. I am sorry that I even have to give you this advice :( but I hope I gave you some kind of help

Answer 4

depends on why they did, and depends on what they did. If your best friend slept with your boyfriend that could be down to attraction taking over rationality. If it was something like spreading rumours about you then then thats calculated. What can you do, you can 'get the person back' revenge is supposed to be good, but forgiving the person could be better and bigger. It also depends on what kind of person you are some people stay mad for a long time, others cool off quickly.

Answer 5

Give it time, make sure you are accusing her correctly, who knows, she might have done it in good intentions. If you are positive she betrayed you, talk to her, you should not have one best friend, then it makes you more vulnerable, have a couple of close friends. Good Luck, think before you speak! Your friend could end up being a life-long friend!

Answer 6

i think it depends. most likely you won't be as close anymore, but i think the friendship would still remian, just not as close. then again remember... like i said, it depends. most of the time in friendships, when one betrays another, they don't speak for a while and somehow make it up and put the past behind...only because their friendship was very strong and connecting. but sometimes, people don't forget what their friend has done to them because they've put so much trust into them. and when the trust is broken, it really hurts them. i think that you should tell your friend that you are very disappointed and that you thought you could trust her and apparently, you can't. if she tries to cover it up, well i guess you should just let the friendship go..at least for now.

Answer 7

Wish we had more information, but I had a friend who betrayed me. We were friends for 20+ years, but once I knew for a fact what she did, I let her go. You have to weigh and measure everthing. Is your friend truly sorry? Do the positive aspects of your friend out weigh the negative or vice versa? Think of what would be lost and what would be gained my letting this person go and by keeping her. After all this contemplation, you will know your answer.

Answer 8

! nothing much. its sad. just have to let her go. But at least you can ask your best friend why he/she did it. if you know the real reason, then its so much easier to cope with it. If its you fault somewhere, then you can at least apologise for causing the betrayal and work things out that is if you really want to get back together.

Answer 9

Make a mental note that they are not a "best friend" and don't deal with them anymore.

Dishonesty and lack of loyalty are not one time happenings.

Answer 10

Tell them they are demoted to your second best friend until further notice and pick someone they hate to be your new best friend.