Hello everyone. I have been friends with my "best" friend for about 17 years. We met the first day of kindergarten, and other than a few years in public school where we didn't see eachother much, we have been friends ever since.

Especially all through high school and since then, we have been best friends. We would talk several times a day, see eachother several times a week, talk about anything etc. Whenever we fought, which was not often, it would last about an hour before one of us would apologize and we would laugh about it saying there was no point in holding a grudge since we would just make up anyways.

Last summer, I went through a tough time, and she was really there for me. In the fall, I met my current boyfriend, and we began spending a lot of time together. In my previous relationship, my ex and I would hang out with my best friend all the time, and it was not an issue.

But for a reason I'm still not sure of, my best friend completely changed when I started seeing my boyfriend, and has been completely unsupportive of anything I have done ever since, in relation to my relationship or not. She honestly has seemed to have a hate on for my boyfriend ever since the beginning, even though she refused to get to know him.

For the past seven months, our friendship has deteriorated. She has been so hurtful to me and degrading, and just plain mean for no reason at all. She gets mad at me for everything, and has been completely immature. She hasn't supported a single thing I have done the past several months, including moving into my first apartment, which she hasn't asked about or shown any interest in coming to see, and I've been there for about a month.

She has had me in tears countless times the past several months, and after speaking to mutual friends and my mother about it, I have decided I cannot continue to be friends with her, at least not right now. One of our mutual friends, who my best friend has spoken to about me several times, agrees that she has just been downright mean to me for no reason. Her, my mother, and my boyfriend all told me they think she's jelous that I am doing well in my job and life and that I have been so happy.

I know she doesn't want to not be friends with me anymore, but I just cannot deal with her anymore, as hard as that is. And I think if we were ever to be friends again, I would need her to, on her own, apologize for how she has been treating me without me having to explain all the ways she has hurt me.

Has anyone else had to deal with losing a best friend in this way? Even though I think its for the best and I haven't done anything to deserve the treatment I have been getting, I still feel a bit guilty as we've been friends for so long.