>>537782
I cut off a friend about 6 years ago. He was actually my best friend. We met in 7th grade and stayed friends for about a decade, even when we went to separate high-schools. We got along through our mutual interest in wrestling and we had the same sense of humor. At some point in high-school he started hanging out with the wrong crowd so sometimes when he would talk to me through a PS4 party he'd try to put on some gangster act. He wasn't like this before and it was obvious he was forcing it. He used to get bullied in middle-school by that same crowd. The way he was acting wasn't that bad because when I'd tell him to shut up he'd go back to his old self. It was when he started drinking all the time was the problem. There'd be nights where we'd hop on the mic and the conversation's are all good, we're laughing and having a good time but over the course he gets drunk and starts "jokingly" shit talking me but it was him projecting his insecurities. He was a 5'6 chubby mexican dude who lived with his grandma and would get bullied by his uncle. I felt sorry for him, but I wasn't going to just let him use me as a punching bag. So I told him one day to cut the shit or I'd cut off contact with him. He said alright but not long after that he went back to it. So I end up deleting him off everything and blocking him just like that.
A year ago I looked his name up because I actually wanted to get back in contact with him but sadly saw that he had an obituary. From the looks of it he was killed by someone.
>>537816
You're not wrong. I think you would be wrong about 30 years ago before the internet and social media took over. In today's society people view friends as a collection. Like how grown men collect funko pops or women collecting men they've slept with. It's all a numbers game. Even then, you can have a single friend you've known since school and is like a brother to you like OP and shit still happens.
>>537872
Curious why your brother trooned out. I'm older than my brother by about 10 years and his father was never around. I never really tried to be a father figure to him. I stayed an older brother and I think that left a bigger impression on him because me and him believe just about everything and have the same sense of humor and view on life. Were you not there for your brother, or did some woman in your family corrupt him?