If you're mad at someone close to you and they don't realize, is it better to just give it space and hope they figure it out or to confront them out of the blue about it? Especially if you've gotten into a fight about the same thing, previously? I just don't want to pick a fight and us to stop being friends but I'm getting tired of this behavior on their end.
>>18628898
Confront 100% of the time. But don't be dickish and use ad-hominem, just be stern and say that you don't appreciate X action because *insert your reasons here* and it needs to stop
>>18628898
Context please?
>>18628923
My on-and-off best friend is just giving me the cold shoulder again, like they do about every 6 months. Known this person for about 6 years, and when our friendship started, it wasn't like this. But it keeps coming to this. I'm always the one initiating conversations, trying to make plans to hang out, and so forth. Then, when I get tired of putting in all the effort, there is silence until either something major happens in their life, like a breakup without anyone else to talk to, or I get so frustrated that they seem to care so little that I finally pipe up.
Once I say something, they usually apologize, blaming life just being hectic, and for a few weeks after seem to put a genuine effort into our friendship again, before it begins to cycle back through. And I'm just tired of this cycle. I care deeply about this person, for the longest time there was no one I was closer with, and I still want them to be a part of my life, but at a certain point this just needs to stop.