The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/themindhunt3r on 2024-12-25 04:20:34.

I (18), have been drifting away from my best and closest friend (20) for a while now, and recently I have had the impression that he no longer appreciates our friendship as much, as he talks in the groupchat we have with others friends and takes a long time to respond to my private messages.

The last time we spoke, he mentioned another friend of his (who I know), and he ended up commenting that he plays online with said friend every day. So I started thinking: he has time to play, but doesn’t have the consideration to respond to two or three messages I sent? Also, as we’re both writers, we usually exchange piece of fics we wrote, and recently he’s been so distant that he doesn’t read any of what i send anymore.

These days he opened up to me about personal issues because I said I cared, that I was his friend and that I wanted to know these things. I didn’t tell him I missed him, but I did. Talking to him again king of fueled me. Since that day we became closer again. And today, he sent me a message saying that he had a fight with this friend from before, that he won’t talk to him for a while.

I was really happy about that and almost wished he would walk away from the guy right then and there and cut off the friendship. Am I an asshole for this?