Should I forgive and give my friends another chance?

Yes and no. Yes, it's heathy to forgive, but no, you shouldn't give them another chance. You have a codependent personality and your relationship with them is very unhealthy. The suffering they cause you is obviously filling some sick need you have, of which you are probably unaware. The fact that you keep letting them torment you is proof that, at some subliminal level, you are getting some sort of pleasure from the pain. You woud be disappointed if they didn't offend you. If you didn't enjoy it, you would not keep coming back for more. You are allowing what would be a relatively insignificant, easily remedied situation to most people to become the focal point of your life because you need the drama. And you are getting even more mileage out of it by airing it for all your readers to see. You are loving all the attention you're getting from complete strangers. And you're enjoying the thought that your "friends" are worried about you. That's why you're "dragging it out". I'm sorry for you. You can end your relationship with them but that alone won't solve your problem. You will just move through life from one drama to the next, never finding happiness. In fact, you will set yourself up for similar negative situations that you can blow way out of proportion until they take over your life, as you have done with this one. A person who is emotionally healthy would just ignore them and move on but you are building your whole life around the way they treat you. You're feeding on it.You need professional help to look inside yourself and your dysfunctional family so as to get to the root of your sickness. Only then will you be able to move ahead and avoid such negative relationships in the future.