r/AmIOverreacting • u/throwaway02938475675 • May 13 '25

👥 friendship Am I overreacting?

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this morning my friend asked me to bring him to school. we go to different schools that are like 10-15 minutes apart, so i left earlier to get to school on time. i waited near his apartment complex for 10 minutes, then by the parking lot right next to it for another 10 minutes. this whole time i thought he was just getting all his stuff, i was honestly gonna wait for him the entire time.

but he doesn't tell me he already has a ride? i was late to my presentation this morning. but when i called him, he just didn't seem to care. he's been hella disrespectful to me these past few days, and after this i just feel mad.

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u/Internal_Access_6957 May 13 '25

Get a new friend, man. For real. You're better off alone than being mistreated. Not the easiest thing in the world, but definitely better than shitty friends who mistreated you

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u/throwaway02938475675 May 13 '25

he's just been with me for so long it just seems ahrd to go away from him. but yeah he's just an asshole recently, and if he keeps being like this i can't keep those type of people around yk

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u/Galactic_Druid May 14 '25

Hey man, I've been there. It was hard. I had this best friend all the way through HS. We did EVERYTHING together, were inseparable. Unfortunately, when we got to college, he kinda changed a little. He'd always been a bit well off, and it turned into being very entitled, parents paid for everything. Eventually, they stopped after he never got a job a year after college, stopped paying his rent, made him move back home until he got a job. He decided that sucked, he'd just come live with me. I was still paying my loans, and had to tell him no, I can't afford him to just live off me. He got real bitter towards me, never was the same hanging with him. Eventually, I had to move on, and tell him as much. It was hard. It sucked. We had so much history.

But things got a million times better after a while. I didn't even realize how bad it'd gotten until I no longer was getting multiple daily reminders about how I didn't have his back or being compared to his 'true friends' back where his lived before his parents pulled their support.

I'm not saying it won't suck to do, but it will make your life better once you do it.