We’ve all had the experience of being The One excluded from our friend groups, and it’s so painful. Most of us like to think that now that we’ve graduated from junior high, we’re much less likely to be intentionally excluded by those closest to us, but that’s not always the case. One of my best friends lived abroad for a year and returned to find that her six best friends had all created a group chat without her called «The Sixers,» refusing to even take a picture with her upon her arrival home. These were literally adult women! The way I see it, if you decide to cut off a friend like that, you should be strong enough to at least tell them to their face instead of letting them find out about their exclusion from other sources. Nobody wants the stomach-churning experience of seeing all of your besties tagged in a photo at a place you weren’t invited to.