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Top Comments: The Twilight (Friend)Zone [1]

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Date: 2023-02-08  

The headlines describe K Kawshigan as suing a woman for “friend-zoning” him. That’s not quite accurate. He tried that first, had the lawsuit thrown out, and came up with more legalistic-sounding grounds:

The woman first met Kawshigan in 2016, according to court papers, and problems began to arise in 2020 when they became “misaligned” about how they saw their relationship. “While the defendant only regarded the claimant as a ‘friend’, he considered her to be his ‘closest friend’,” the court papers say. The defendant requested for their interactions to be reduced, the judgment said, which caused displeasure to the claimant, who felt this would constitute “taking a step back in the[ir] relationship”. The defendant emphasised the need for boundaries and urged him to be “self-reliant”.

The woman actually spent eighteen months going to counseling with him, attempting to make him feel better about accepting that they weren’t going to be a couple. Finally she cut off all contact and charged him with harassment. He first tried to sue her for violating an “agreement to deepen their relationship,” and when that got thrown out, he changed to suing for defamation, and for causing him “trauma” and “depression.” Somehow I think the person suffering from trauma & depression in this story isn’t him.

By the end of the story, all I could think was: don’t worry, dude. No woman will try to be friends with you again. Ever.

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