Relationships

Friends..and close relatives,not close as regards to nearest of kin but close in feelings and special treatment.
I have had many friends and many of them were relatives,sometimes we take things for granted but the worse is when we,ourselves are taken for granted by others we have special ties to.
You do good things,you go the extra mile for these poeple,they also do good things and stand by you in your troubled times,I'm a fair person and I always admit the good that has been done to me.
One day you notice that it was really one-sided and they were only returning favor for favor,but nothing really genuine.You spill your feelings all over,you do things out of love,but from the other side its just return (tit for tat).
What happened to me this month really threw me off balance,one of my closest and best friends(so I thought)and one of my closest relatives(again so I thought)both chose this month to reveal what their insides were made of,I mean how much could a person take??
Since I am the kind of person who feels strongly about people and relations ,to see what the way people acted towards me , was just a real bummer.