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I think my best friend is taking advantage of me.
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The most impressive skill involves their ability to critique generosity while simultaneously demanding more of it. They treat free favors like subpar restaurant service, offering feedback on homemade soup while expecting continued meal delivery. These friendship leeches understand exactly which boundaries to push and when to deploy guilt tactics, operating with calculated precision while maintaining plausible deniability about their exploitation. They sprinkle just enough occasional generosity to prevent complete abandonment, like feeding pigeons to keep them coming back.
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The psychology of enabling creates perfect storms where generous people mistake boundaries for meanness while users mistake kindness for stupidity. Our long-suffering friend learned that eight years of emotional connection doesn't justify financial servitude, discovering that some relationships require auditing rather than nurturing.
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‘I feel that I am always expected to put my card down’: 21-year-old Guy realizes 8-year best friend treats him like a personal ATM, uses his car, but never pays him back, decides enough is enough
Some people possess an unmatched ability to transform friendship into a one-way toll road where they receive unlimited benefits while somehow never managing to locate their wallet when the bill arrives. These emotional freeloaders operate under the delusion that shared trauma creates permanent payment exemptions, treating childhood bonding as lifetime meal tickets and genuine connections as all-access passes to other people's resources.
The financially parasitic friend has mastered the art of strategic helplessness, developing convenient blind spots about money while maintaining perfect vision for personal benefits. They approach adult responsibilities like optional side quests, genuinely baffled by concepts like reciprocity and advance planning. These creatures possess supernatural timing abilities, always discovering their empty bank accounts precisely when payment becomes due. They've weaponized their difficult backgrounds into permanent victim status, using shared hardships as eternal get-out-of-paying cards while positioning themselves as misunderstood rather than exploitative.
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