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A childhood friend of mine has always been problematic. He was the quintessential "hot couch" guy.
I've helped him stay out of juvie, when he didnt have internet at his house, because poor, I bought him PS2 games to keep him occupied.
He treated his girlfriends like shit and he bad mouthed every friend he had behind their back. Always lying about everything, the one I remember lately that he was in a drive by shooting and almost died. Or the time he hooked up with a girl in a community college fitness class, while it was in session.
He has never really been a good friend to me, but I've known him forever so I didn't want to drop him so easily.
A girl he had been dating on and off for almost two decades found out he had playing her the entire time. He always bragged that he had multiple girlfriends, but it wasn't because of how cool and confident he was, it was because he found insecure girls and manipulated them.
I didn't know he was doing that either, I thought she knew because he keeps his personal life in the dark and he'd brag to us about girls he was seeing.
I think I'm done trying to find the good in him and I'll just keep him at arms length forever. He needs to go to therapy.
I also walked away from a bunch of random libs I was hanging out with at a yearly anime convention.
What I think happened was two things one girl from the group had a crush on me, boyfriend was genuinely pissed. Did not like me for this. My bad, I didn't try to do this.
The next year, some other girl in this group who was married tried hooking up with me. Which i found kind of gross, her husband had a cuckold fetish. I never thought this shit would happen to me until it did.
And I think me rejecting her pissed her off so the other girl from before colluded and started taking shit I said out of context.
I'm leaving a lot out but I saw the writing on the wall and just left the situation. It felt bad, I want more friends but these people weren't going to be it.
The people there sucked, it was a bunch of rich white kids. A doctor and a finance weeb furry rented a hotel and they'd all party there at the con but clearly it was some stupid vanity project for these two.
I just finished up school and I wanted to make new friends so I tried this group out, but combined with all the drama and the weird power dynamic I didn't want to be there.