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28-09-2016 05:35 PM - edited 28-09-2016 05:45 PM
28-09-2016 05:35 PM - edited 28-09-2016 05:45 PM
@pip and everyone else who has posted:
Since you've all given me so much advice, I feel you deserve to know what has happened.
For the last week or so, I hadn't heard from my friend much. A text here and there. Usually I'd get no response. We talked on the phone once, very briefly, and just a casual conversation about nothing. I usually get worried when I don't hear from him for a long time, as he used to call me multiple times every day.
He texted me yesterday and said something along the lines of "they're going after the people I care about now, doing physical and psychological damage." I tried to call him immediately, he didn't answer. I text him back right away and said "You can't text me something like that and then not explain!"
He text me back again and said "I can't bro, I'm sorry. For the sake of my relationship."
A few more texts back and forth and I found out that he's going to be focusing on keeping his relationship going instead of talking to me. I have a feeling his girlfriend told him to stop talking to me, but he never said so. The reason I feel this way is, after that conversation I text him back and asked him if we could still talk as long as we didn't talk about the "bad stuff happening to him". Or if he was just flat-out not allowed to talk to me anymore. He didn't answer me.
So, today, I text him one last time and asked him "did you not receive my last two messages?". No response again.
It seems as though I'll be giving him some space in order to work his relationship issues out. To be honest, I feel a bit sad. I feel like I was there for him when he needed someone to be, but now if I need someone to talk to about something, we can't talk. It isn't important enough? I don't really understand.
Here's the last thing I can't decide on: when we first started talking again, he asked me if I had a Comcast internet account. I told him I did. He explained that him and his girlfriend don't have internet, but they wanted to know if I would be willing to give them my Xfinity wireless password because there is a hotspot near where they live. I did, since I don't ever use it.
However, now that we aren't even allowed to talk anymore, and I don't seem to be high on the list of priorities now that I'm not needed any longer, do I continue letting him use my wireless, when I can't even get a response from him? Do I be the d****bag and change the password so they can't use it anymore? It seems like a mean thing to do, but then again it also seems kind of mean to just bail on a friend who has been helping you for the last few months. I honestly can't tell if I was just a person to be used because they needed internet and someone to talk to.
EDIT: I feel I understated things a bit. To be completely honest with you guys, this really hurts my feelings, and it's been on my mind since it happened. I really do feel like I was there as a friend when he really needed someone, and no one else would listen to him. I'm not saying I'm some amazing person who saved his life, but I was definitely there when he needed me. The other day, I needed someone to talk to about something I had on my mind. I didn't get a response from him for three days, and that was just him telling me he was sorry he didn't pick up but he's been busy. This is really bothering me. I have a history of letting people into my life/back into my life, giving it my all, opening myself up again, and getting hurt. I'm not saying "two wrongs make a right", and he deserves for me to change my internet password, but I am saying it seems a little rude to not even respond to me and clarify what's going on right now. I literally only wanted to know if we're straight-up not allowed to talk at all for a while, or if we just can't discuss the stalking. And I'd really like to know what prompted this, such as if his girlfriend told him we can't speak anymore because she thinks I'm encouraging him too much, or if this is just him thinking I'm part of the stalking again. If the latter is the case, I don't think he deserves to continue using my wireless.
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