I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else out there. Where one day you are an important part of someone's life, and the next day, you are important anymore. When you go from talking all the time with someone, to all of a sudden barely hearing anything from them... Going from feeling like people care about you and you belong to all of a sudden be back on your own and solo, with another chunk of you missing? All because you just aren't as important anymore because that person has found a boyfriend or girlfriend? That's me, all the time. All to often, I find a new friend, mostly female, and things are good. We talk about everything, share secrets, help each other out, things friends do together. It goes on for a few months, or sometimes even years, and then they get into a relationship. They are so happy and ecstatic. You get to hear all about this guy, and how great they are, and what they are like, and sometimes you even get to see a picture of them. And then... and then they start withdrawing. All of a sudden, you go from talking with them all the time to barely managing to get them to say hello. All you can do is sit there and watch as they are happy with their new man, and forget all about you. You just become background noise. You aren't important anymore. You're expendable. You are just the one people need to be their friend until their next relationship, and then you are worthless to them. Has this happened to anyone else, or is this my curse alone? :'( This has happened to me all my life, and it's happened again 3 times in the past week. Everything is going so nicely, and now I'm by myself again. Conversations become so much harder, because now they are distracted, and I can barely have conversations with them, because I hardly get any response. It's hard to do when you receive one word answers... And when they finally talk to me, it's about how good things are going, and how happy they are with their boyfriend/girlfriend, and all I can really say is lucky you, because I am so jealous of them. Everyone's always telling me I will find a nice girl and be happy, but nobody wants to be that girl. I once asked out a girl and I got rejected because she was worried that if we didn't work out, it would ruin our friendship, and we haven't even talked in a couple of years now. Is that all I am destined to be? The convenient best friend until you can find your significant other? Just a helping hand when someone needs it until they find their feet? I don't know what to do anymore... I feel like I am losing friends left, right and center. I don't know what the point is anymore... Someone help :'(