Equations and relationships are built on how you work through the differences.
You can only be sorry for what you do – not what they do. If they can’t honestly understand you, there’s not much you can do.
As you grow some people aren’t going to like the changes. That’s okay, you're the one who’s changed, not them.
A mutual acceptance of boundaries is necessary – if you can’t accept theirs, you ask yourself why not, and if need be, discuss and/or move on.
Some people enjoy conflict and aggression in their personal relationships and thrive on it. You don’t. You carefully go about them. You’d prefer to just agree to disagree, and neither has to be right
But With some people, even though they’ve said that they’ll be there for you( as you’ve been there for them countless times over the years) when things go wrong, you have not seen them for dust. That’s okay, you got fooled. You won’t allow it to happen again.
Understand, they’re welcome to their opinion of you, but they shouldn’t expect you to take it on board as your truth. If they find others to collude in their opinion, it doesn’t make it any truer, and says more about them than it ever will do about you.
Their behaviour is their business. You are not going to continue to try to work things, it’s too draining.
Don’t be the type to run after and try and fix everything.
It really hurt you to realise almost all of your personal relationships were anything but trivial and in the absence of healing, you’ve let them go so they won’t get the chance to affect you again.
Sometimes things are just a misunderstanding and easily resolved, but sometimes a line gets crossed and there’s no going back.