Have you been betrayed by someone you helped in a big way and thought was a friend? How did you deal with it?

Let me count the ways. It took me a long time to realize as long as I did the right thing, for the right reason (just helping someone with no strings attached), then I was the better people of the two, and that alone is my satisfaction.

I'm sorry someone took advantage of your kindness.

I was betrayed, yes, by a very close friend, emotionally. I did completely trust him to put my guard down, welcome him into the real me and spilled all that was to know about me, good or bad. Just later, this person couldn't keep the trust and ridiculed all that we shared.
Initially i couldn't deal with it, it was a giant betrayal of thoughts and faith. With time i realised its not worth it, i made a mistake of not recognising a person so i paid the repercussion but for how long i can hold it against myself. It was a learning experience and it was time it was buried for good.
But overall, yes, it has hardened me more as a person, that i will say.

I wasn't actually betrayed but I was hurt in a big way by a dear friend who felt more like a sister than a friend. We didn't talk for several years but with a lot of hard work on both our parts we mended the friendship and are now as clase as every. You just have to be open to being a forgiving person. To hold on to your anger only hurts you and not the other person.

Yes. I told him what I thought of him.It didn't cure him, so I left.

I had a friend who always chose the worst men and so was always calling me (even in the middle of the night) crying, needing help, wanting to talk about how they were treating her so badly. The calls lasted for hours and hours and I did because she was my friend. I had my baby and had horrendous PPD and was really struggling (there is no support here) and she was all of a sudden too busy to answer my calls. She could travel every weekend to see her abusive-boyfriend-of-the-moment but couldn't come to visit me because I lived too far away. I had more than enough to deal with in my life so I had no extra energy to worry about a non-friend. And so our friendship ended. I was a little sad about how it had ended but I didn't feel too bad about it, it was more like a relief. Guess it wasn't meant to be. Life goes on.

Yes indeed I have, No way to deal but to let it go and move on. Picturing her falling off a big f**king cliff helps though.