Top 10 Ways Friends Could Have Ended
She never managed to get her life back on track after her mother’s suicide, and she’s desperately wishing for a group of friends. She sees the gang at the coffee house each day, makes up names for them and builds her dream life into theirs.
All six of them are residents at a mental asylum, and they have built perfect lives to hide from the harsh realities of their mental health issues.
Chandler was scarred by his parents’ divorce; Joey crumbled under the pressure of being the only boy in a family of fiery Italian women; Monica was left scarred by her school bullying; Rachel had serious Daddy issues and was self-destructive; Ross has abandonment issues, and Phoebe never came to terms with her Mother’s suicide.
It ends before Rachel's decision is clear.
By the end, the characters were getting too old to be living the same lifestyles as they had for the previous 9 seasons.
Ross and Rachel were too old to be constantly going through on/off relationship breaks, and the premise of the show kind of stopped working.
Chandler becomes a grown up dad while still being his sarcastic self and Monica stops being such a control freak.