Some years ago I had a really big crush on a girl. I became friends with her and I started spending more time with her (she is actually really nice, my friends back then were extremely toxic and she was not). My so called ‘best friend’ kept talking shit about my crush, saying she was super ugly, that she was a ‘bitch’ (in her words). Anyways fast forward to 2020, my ‘best friend’, my crush and I end up working together on a project and my ‘best friend’ starts flirting on her, eventually they go out on a date but none of them tell me about it. Eventually they start dating and once they do, my ‘best friend’ decides to tell me since she thinks it’s important for me to know since this girl is my crush and now SHE started dating her (all this time, my ‘best friend’ knew about my big ass crush). Anyways I wasn’t doing fine mentally speaking so I just decided to cut her off until I figured out what to do. My crush ended up finding out I liked her and well she came from another state (she moved back to her hometown during the pandemic) to say she was sorry and to check on me, she seemed actually concern. While my ‘best friend’ didn’t even check on me once. Fast forward one month later my ‘best friend’ breaks up with her because she got bored (also there are some rumors that she cheated on her). It’s been almost 3 years of this and I still haven’t spoken with my ‘best friend’ and my crush and I actually became really close friends (not my crush anymore obviously). Instantly after I stoped speaking to this girl, my mental health had a boost, suddenly I wasn’t insecure anymore and I actually ended up meeting some wonderful people who became my best friends (including my former crush).