i’m ngl it kinda sounds like they’re gaslighting you, and that’s not what good friends do. true friends would have communicated with you about this to help improve your friendship, not make it an excuse to leave you. i’m really sorry you’re going through this. you deserve people who care about you. don’t ever let people think you’re a bad person, because you’re not.
you’re right, gaslighting probably isn’t the correct term to use here. this is more like giving judgement without providing clarity. my original understanding of the post was that they could have potentially convinced them that they were never a good friend to them and to mistrust themself, hence why they were accepting harsh labels assigned to them. we can’t confirm or deny what happened but what i can say is that OP is not a bad person and didn’t deserve that.