5 Times Your Friends Gave You Horrible Relationship Advice

Friends are the unpaid therapists of our lives.
They hype you up when you’re heartbroken, help you block your toxic ex, and sometimes… accidentally sabotage your love life. 🤡

Because while their hearts are in the right place, sometimes their relationship advice is one-way traffic to Emotional Damage City.

Let’s unpack some classic friend-advice disasters you should avoid like that third shot of vodka at your ex’s wedding.

1. “Just Block Him, Yaar.”

Ah yes, the modern solution to every emotional problem:
Yeet him off your social media.

While cutting off contact can be necessary in toxic cases, sometimes friends push you to block someone even when you need closure or an honest conversation.

Blind blocking without emotional clarity = unfinished business that festers.

Better version of this advice:
"Protect your peace, but first, protect your closure."

2. “Make Him Jealous. Post Hot Insta Stories.”

If he’s too dumb to realize your worth, clearly a thirst trap will fix everything, right? (LOL.)

Playing games might feel satisfying in the short run, but long-term?
You’re just inviting drama and miscommunication.

Better version of this advice:
"Glow up for yourself. Not for revenge views."

3. “Get Into a Rebound. Date Someone New Immediately.”

Translation: "Distract yourself with a fresh emotional car crash."

Rebounds sound glamorous — until you realize you’re dragging old wounds into new dynamics.

No one deserves to be your emotional band-aid.

Better version of this advice:
"Heal before you deal."

4. “Shaadi Kar Lo, Sab Theek Ho Jayega.”

Classic desi advice, brought to you by "log kya kahenge" culture.
Newsflash:
Marriage doesn’t fix loneliness.
It doesn’t fix insecurity.
It definitely doesn’t fix emotional unavailability.

Better version of this advice:
"Marry when healed, not when pressured."

5. “Change Yourself So They’ll Stay.”

Maybe if you text less, act less emotional, wear less eyeliner, and laugh less loudly, they’ll finally love you?

Spoiler:
If someone’s love depends on shrinking who you are,
it’s not love. It’s conditional approval.

Better version of this advice:
"If you have to become a stranger to yourself to be loved, walk away."

Finally

Your friends adore you —but they aren't professional relationship counselors (unless they actually are, and even then, red flag alert 🚩).

Take advice lovingly, but critically. Hold your gut instinct higher than your group chat's consensus.

Because healing isn't loud. It isn't always glamorous. And it sure as hell doesn't happen in a comment section.

Trust yourself. You're smarter than the drunk girl in the club bathroom who yelled, "Girl, you deserve better!" (Even though, tbh, she wasn't wrong.)