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  • not want to be friends
    turn your back on someone
  • immediately not like someone/something
    take an instant dislike to
  • stay alone
    keep yourself to yourself
  • understand the truth
    see through
  • make someone feel less important or stupid
    put someone down
  • feel superior to others
    look down on
  • to show a possible explanation is true
    back up
  • leave a person or place
    break away
  • deliberately treat in a bad or unfair way
    have it in for someone
  • a relationship that is not all plain sailing, it has its ups and downs
    a rocky relationship
  • gradually fall asleep
    drift off
  • admire
    look up to
  • lower your defences
    let down
  • create problems in a relationship
    put great strain on a relationship
  • have a great relationship
    get on like a house on fire
  • when a partnership ends badly
    the relationship went sour
  • find by accident
    stumble upon / on