- Date posted
- 33w
Scared I groomed ex friend
OK, this has been something that has been bothering me for a while. Growing up, due to how I grew up and I’m assuming how I was raised, I developed very bad control issues. Especially with my peers. I was very toxic, controlling, and even sometimes manipulative. I remember having this friend who was about two years younger than me, well two grades below me. We met in middle school, and we were friends with the same people. We ended up getting closer and I guess best friends down the line. In the beginning of our friendship, the very beginning, I had made inappropriate sexual flirtatious comments to her, which she did go along with, but obviously she was a little, taken a back by the nature of the comments. I don’t recall anymore those comments continuing throughout the friendship, only stuff like compliments when we would hype each other up on social media. Throughout the beginning of our friendship, I would like to say the first half, these negative behaviors were more prominent. Me and her were in drama a lot, whether it was her being fake to me, me being fake to her, us talking mess about each other, her going behind my back and doing fake stuff, so I do remember being rude to her quite often or sometimes being like do you wanna fight? If I felt that she crossed the boundary. We trusted each other with a lot of our personal business and trauma, confiding in each other. As our friendship went on, these negative behaviors stopped, but obviously, since she is a little bit younger than me, it took her a little longer to mature, so I had to cut her off eventually due to her doing something that actually crossed my boundaries. Looking back on it now, I get scared that I groomed her. I asked ChatGPT, and it said that some of the things I did fall under the criteria of grooming, but I did not directly or intentionally groom her. If I am a groomer, I would like to know. I feel like that is irredeemable. I hope I am explaining all of this. Well, I am not trying to put too much blame on her as I am trying to take accountability for things I did in the friendship.