no offense to the OP, but they have clearly never had a friend breakup with a really close friend.

they are messy and rough and most people around you won’t get why it seems like you got dumped by a significant other based on your reaction.

platonic soulmates are awesome, but friendships can be just as messy and heartbreaking and disastrous as romantic relationships - sometimes even moreso.

Friendship divorces suck.

Yes, you weren’t in love with them, but you loved them. So you’re grieving but you can’t say it like that, because they’re not dead, for all that they’re not in your life anymore. And you can’t call it a break up, because you two weren’t in love.

You’re full of stupid details about someone and nowhere to put it, you have to set your life back and fill a space where someone else used to be before them and you don’t even remember how that was, and you will have people act as if it was nothing, maybe you two will get back to being friends and no you won’t, this was Big, End-of-the-Universe, Big Bang, Stars collapsed kind of big or you two would still be friends…

… but you don’t even have a WORD to describe it, and make people understand that just because you weren’t in love with them, doesn’t mean that this loss is any less greater than if you had been.

^this

Ive been through friend Divorce before. It is terrible and heartbreaking.

I always mention it like a divorce. Cause its the only way to express the pain and hurt you go through.