My friend stole from me

3 weeks ago 12

I'll explain the situation and how I reacted and I guess I just want you guys to tell me where I should go from here please.

Sometime last year, I let my friend borrow my Playstation 4. I had just bought a house that we decided to make a ton of changes to and I didn't have time to be online gaming anyway. I really wanted her son to be able to play games throughout the summer and on his breaks from school. Fast forward to February of this year. I'm visiting her after a surgery to check on her and take her some yummy dessert my granny made for her to cheer her up. Somehow we started talking about gaming and I asked her if her son was enjoying the Playstation. She said, "oh, that got traded." I'm not sure what the look on my face was. I'd have to guess it wasn't one that was pleasant. I said, "what?" She explained that she traded it toward a Playstation 5. I couldn't think of anything to say except, "you had best let me break that news to my husband." Then I quickly wrapped up my visit and got my granny ready to leave. Went home and stewed about this for awhile. I've not said anything about the ps4 to her since then. I've continued to check on her and be the same friend I always have been.

My issue is that I'm not over it and I don't know how much I can even trust her now. It isn't about the money. It just feels like betrayal to me. I let her borrow my property out of the goodness of my heart and now I no longer have that property because she traded it. My husband and I had not bought Playstation 5s for ourselves, we had no intention of trading our ps4s to do so. We have tons of games for the Playstation 4 so we intended to keep our consoles. I'm not sure if she wiped the information off of the ps4 before she traded it so my personal information may not have been safe on there for months until she told me and I went online and signed out of all consoles then changed my password just in case.

I'm actually incredibly angry but I don't want to ruin a friendship over something that sounds so stupid. We're in our 40s and I shouldn't be upset about a gaming console. I don't think it's about that, though. I trusted her with my property and she broke my trust. She has a key to my house and I don't really know what she's capable of now. I don't know how comfortable I am with that and I'm thinking of changing all of my locks. The thing is, I really love her kids. They are my godchildren. They haven't done anything wrong. And I think if I say anything, the friendship will be over. That's an assumption but I think it's a fair one.

Very few people in my life know this story because I haven't wanted to make her look bad. But one of the people who knows brought it up this past weekend and it's really been on my mind about how I want to handle this. I think I shouldn't stay quiet and then when I think about how to handle it, I just don't know how to or what to do.

What do you guys think? How should I proceed? Should I still trust her? Do I need to change my locks? I've never asked advice online before and I'm really nervous about it so I'm going to take a nap. It's almost 5am and I haven't slept yet. I was stressing about the bathroom I'm remodeling and looking up things about that most of the night and then I read a post about friends that treat you wrong and it just came flooding into my mind so I posted it here on a whim.

Let me know what you think please? I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Have a good day.

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