7 Ways To Deal With Someone Who Doesn’t Like You | In a social group
This post discusses how to deal with someone in your social group who doesn’t like you.
When someone in your social group doesn’t like you for no reason, it can bother you to an extent.
But you must understand that not everyone will like you.
In short, wanting everybody to like you will only bring disappointment.
So this post will discuss reasons why some people dislike you.
And tips for dealing with someone who doesn’t like you (in your social group).
Let’s begin.
Why do some people dislike you for no reason?
If you can’t pinpoint why someone dislikes you, they may have no concrete reason.
But here are possible reasons:
1. They think they’re superior to you
Like it or not, some people have this class or hierarchy mindset.
So they see some of us as beneath them.
And if they imagine or believe you’re beneath them, they’d avoid being friends with you.
You’d think the clique mindset ends in high school.
But unfortunately, some people continue being in cliques even in college and beyond.
Such people will dislike you because they believe you’re not up to their class.
Or you’re not worth talking to.
Silly, right?
2. They think you’re looking to gain something from their friendship
To me, friendship means being there for each other through good and bad.
But some people think too highly of themselves that they believe you’d gain something significant from being friends with them.
And if you gain whatever from that friendship, you’d be on the same level.
And they don’t want that because they enjoy feeling superior to you.
So they’d avoid being friends with you.
3. They believe you have nothing to offer
Sometimes, some people look at you and think you have nothing to offer.
Such people are only looking for what they can gain from friendships.
They don’t see friendship on a deeper level.
To them, it’s always about:
- How much you earn.
- Where you live.
- What school you are in or graduated from.
- Or how influential your family is.
And if you don’t fit their ideal person to be friends with, they’d never befriend you.
And you can only feel sorry for them because they don’t know better.
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4. They’re jealous of you.
When someone dislikes you for no reason, they’re probably jealous of you.
Maybe the way you carry yourself.
Or you’re easy-going and get along with most people.
While they can’t because they’re stuck up.
And let me tell you.
It is hard to switch from being stuck up to being more relaxed and yourself.
Especially if the person has been stuck up all their lives.
So seeing you – someone not up to their class getting along with your mutual friends throws them off.
They wonder why you’re so comfortable talking to their “high-class” friends.
And jealousy starts creeping in.
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5. They just don’t like you
Another reason someone would dislike you for no reason is that you guys don’t flow.
Sometimes some people don’t gel.
And it’s okay.
So how can you deal with people who don’t like you?
And if someone thinks you’re not good enough to be friends with, by default, they’re not good enough to be your friend too.
How to deal with someone in your social group who doesn’t like you for no reason?
When I see that someone doesn’t like me for no reason, I don’t try to convince them to.
I’ve gotten to a point in my life where I know you can’t force friendship.
If you’re going to be friends with someone, it will flow naturally.
And if it’s not going to happen, well, too bad.
It doesn’t hurt you or me if we aren’t friends with people who don’t like us.
So here are simple tips for dealing with people who don’t like you for no reason in your friend group.
1. Understand that not everyone will like you
The first step to managing people disliking you for no reason is acknowledging and accepting that not everyone will like you.
In short, you should be worried if everyone likes you.
It’s the truth.
Because it means there is some form of pretense there.
Also, dealing with it becomes easier once you accept that some people will never like you.
2. If someone doesn’t like you for no reason, please ignore them
Another thing you can do when someone dislikes you for no reason is to ignore them.
If someone who doesn’t like you always ignores you or pretends you aren’t there, please ignore them too.
When someone treats me like I’m not worth talking to, I treat them similarly.
You’re not going to be rude to them.
But you’ll live your life like they don’t exist.
You don’t want to act goofy.
3. To deal with someone who doesn’t like you, don’t suck up to them
Never make the mistake of sucking up to someone so they’ll like you.
Some people will tell you to start showing interest in what this person likes, to make them like you.
Please don’t do that.
Even lovers don’t always enjoy each other’s hobbies.
How much more someone that’s not interested in being friends.
No matter how much you suck up to them, they’ll never like you.
Besides, trying to suck up to someone so they’d like you is exhausting.
If they don’t like you, they don’t like you.
It’s not the end of the world.
4. Hang out with those who love hanging out with you.
If you feel uncomfortable hanging out with the group because one of them dislikes you, then focus on people who like you.
Sometimes we say we don’t care that someone dislikes us.
But sometimes you’d feel alone if this person interacted with everyone except you.
So in that situation, I’d rather hang out with people who love to hang with me.
I know of someone like that.
I used to hang out with a group of ladies.
They knew each other before I came into the mix.
So when I’m with them, she’d talk to all the other ladies but me.
After it happened twice, I stopped hanging out with them.
And I started hanging out with a few that liked chilling out with me.
It makes my life so much easier.
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5. How to deal with someone who doesn’t like you? Stop hanging out with them
Sometimes you’d think as friends, you can call out someone’s behavior towards you or another friend.
But you’ll be surprised that many people in social groups don’t do that.
And if friends can’t do that, then the friendship isn’t real.
And you don’t want to be in such a group.
I stopped hanging out with them when I noticed no real friendship in the social group.
Though I don’t have many friends, I have a couple with whom I can have dinner and a couple of drinks.
You might feel you won’t meet anyone if you leave the social group.
But having a couple of good friends is better than many toxic ones.
Also, you’ll be happier when you don’t have to deal with fake friendships where people don’t trash things out.
6. Stop being nice to them, instead be indifferent
Some people will say be nice to them.
Maybe they will start being nice to you.
Yes, it may work sometimes.
But being nice to them while they treat you like you’re beneath them is just you begging for their affection.
Which again is losing your self-respect.
So leave them be.
You don’t need to interact with them.
7. Not thinking about them is a smart way to deal with someone who doesn’t like you.
Next, if someone doesn’t like you for no reason, it’s expected you’d think about them a lot at first.
Then you’d get used to them not liking you.
Or you’ll dwell on thoughts about them and not think about what’s best for you.
But what I’d do is not think about them and their behavior towards me.
You don’t want them living in your head rent-free.
So please don’t make them important in your life at all.
In fact, when you remember them, try to dismiss the thought.
And think about your good friends instead.
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Conclusion on how to deal with someone in your social group who dislikes you for no reason
In life, some people will like you, and some won’t.
Instead of focusing on people who don’t like you, hang out with those who want you.
It makes your life much easier.
And if someone thinks you’re not good enough to be friends with, by default, they’re not good enough to be your friend too.
That’s my two cents on the matter.
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Thanks for reading.
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