I hate my best friends.

im sure a great majority of people here can relate to this. i, too had a group of friends from middle/high school i grew up with that i dont talk to anymore. the reason i stopped talking to them was because they havent changed AT ALL... they still act like a bunch of teenagers. I realized that they were no longer my friends when they only came around when they needed something. they used to love to talk shit not only about me but eachother too. every week there was new drama, new gossip and whats more fucked up is that theyre GUYS! my advice is you should find a new group of friends but dont stop talking to your old ones right away. gradually get away from them... if theyre bringing you down theres no reason you should hang around some more.

what size are your titts?

get rid of them!!!

I have a particularly similar obstacle as you Sheila, My friends at the local county are giving me a down right hard time. They sure give me a rick-a-rollin, as if they don't know that i have feelings. they usually do not include me in their fun times. It hurts me to my inner soul. the only solution i had was to kill them where they stand. It started with disturbing threatenings of burning their various pets and relatives. Three days, later they noticed that I was acting somewhat peculiar, but I would not tell them why. Then, they came home, only to notice that their pets had all been shaved. Then, they got mighty angry, and gave me an even more rick-a-rollin' time. So, I proceeded with more in-docile threatenings. Three days later they realized that all of their most dearly close relatives were blindened. Now, I have lost their wandering feelings, and their desire to be close to the warmth of my soul. Now I have a jolly jumble of friends in the home county prison.

Basically, make new friends. You're just realizing the fatal flaws(maturing), and as such regardless of the past you need to do what's best for yourself.

If you wish, you can keep them around for awhile and let them down easily.

"I'm starting to mature" - says it all - and it is they who are stuck, not you. Make new & separate friends. Keep them separate because they will likely try to topedo them. The group thing is a little out of hand.

That said, keep them on as a separate group of friends. There is a lot that is good about having so much history. Just don't let them hold you back.

I feel kind of in the same boat. I've slowly drifted from them though and they just sort of get the message that I'm not into what they are so they don't really invite me around anymore, which sounds upsetting, and it can be, until I realize it's not personal and I need to move on. So just move on. You obviously realize that you are too different than them to find them agreeable, so try, even though it seems undoable, to make new friends. You seem like a mature, smart enough person that people will want to be friends with you :]

dump them, then u'll miss them. but in the end your better off witou. i had the same prob