Maintaining the friendship isn't even worth it..

@breepeace (3014)
Canada
September 9, 2009 1:53pm CST
So I have this 'friend' whom I've known for around 14 years. We weren't especially close until this past year when I moved back to my hometown and in with my boyfriend. However, over the past 8 months that we've sparked up our friendship, I really feel like it's not worth it. There have been a lot of factors, but the most recent was when he called me up late one night because he's been in a minor car accident while drinking and driving and needed a designated driver to get him home. Of course I came through for him, but now almost a month later I haven't seen him even once. He calls periodically and texts sometimes to make tentative plans, but he's awful about following through on plans so I've given up on him unless it's a spur of the moment thing and we're both there and ready to go. He's always telling me how I'm his best friend, and how much he adores me, but honestly I feel like I'm just being used when he needs help. I discovered that he's gone camping and out for coffee several times with a mutual friend in the past month and hasn't once offered to do the same with me. I'm a little fed up. Everytime in the past I've brought up that he's not being a good friend he and everyone says I'm overreacting and I should just understand that that is how he is. So maybe it's just time to give up on the friendship altogether?
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@killersss (638)
• India
9 Sep 09
i think someone who doesn't cares for you and only calls or text you while he needs your help is not a friend, he's definitely using you. i think you should talk to him in person and tell him all the things that you feel for him and if he's sensible then he will say sorry and will continue your friendship.
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@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
9 Sep 09
I've tried talking to him before, and while he'll say to me that he understands and won't make the same mistakes, he then turns around and tells other people we both know that I'm being unreasonable. The running joke seems to be that I'm always angry with him. And I am. For good reason.
• Philippines
9 Sep 09
I won't even consider calling a relationship like yours as friendship if he's the only one who's benefiting from associating with you. He seems like the type of person who goes in and out of others' lives by moving on when there's someone new who can provide for what he needs at the time. Unless you can recall at least one time when he was there for YOU and not the other way around.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Sep 09
Only you can decide if it's worth it. But somebody who never gets together with you or talks to you doesn't sound like a best friend to me. More like an acquaintance who uses your help a little bit more than the friendship is worth.
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@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
9 Sep 09
I know I certainly don't consider him MY best friend, or even a close friend. My best friends are those people who would come through for me when they knew I needed support, and who call or otherwise make an effort to get in touch on a regular basis. He doesn't have very many actual friends though. He's burned a lot of bridges in his past.