Is it normal to feel nothing over losing my best friend?

Background story: I HAD this best friend (let's call him Bobby) who recently ended our friendship abruptly. My boyfriend always suspected Bobby of using us when we would hang out with him. He would text us an hour before he works to "chill" with us, but it began to seem more and more that we was using us as a ride to work. He would also text me asking to hang out after work in which he would accompany me for about an hour and a half and then ask to go home, because he was tired and wanted to sleep. I started finding out that he was going home only to be picked up by another group of friends to go and hang out with them. I graduated 2 years before Bobby, but I would always give him a ride to school if he missed his bus, or if he had a spare. I would buy stuff for Bobby when he forgot his wallet, one time I even bought him a $50 dinner at a steakhouse. The frequency in which he "forgot" his wallet seemed to increase the more I bought stuff for him. Up until recently I also partook in the use of marijuana and I began to notice a pattern with Bobby -- when he was aware that I had weed on me, he would text me to hang out and when I knew I was dry I would not receive a single text. Now, the fight that caused the demise of our friendship happened on his birthday. My boyfriend and I decided to surprise Bobby for his 19th by renting him a very expensive hotel room and paying his cover AND drinks for all the bars we went to. My boyfriend and I got into a very heated fight at the end of the night and it caused me to storm off back to the hotel. Long story short, a lot of drama happened and we were all back in the hotel room. My boyfriend was in the shower and Bobby was consoling me. He told me, "we're all drunk right now, so in the morning we will talk it all out. I am not mad, you guys did not ruin my birthday, don't worry. We just all have a lot of fired up emotions and we will sort through them tomorrow morning." That reassured me a lot. In the morning I dropped everyone off at their houses and texted Bobby once again apologizing for the what had happened. He then assured me it was perfectly okay and that he was not mad. The next day, I texted him so we could meet up and talk and got no reply. Same with the next day. And the next. Finally, he decides to text my boyfriend telling him that he is actually mad at the both of us. So, after reassuring me at least 5 or 6 times that he was not mad whatsoever, he decided to be mad at us. I called him out for it and also told him that he should have talked to us instead of ignoring us. He played the pity card on me and claimed that "everything is always his fault" and then he ended the conversation. Bobby likes to play the pity card when he cannot justify his actions and has done so multiple times. So, based on everything that I have just said, do you think I am an asshole for not being upset about losing Bobby? Or is it within good reason?

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  • αвαdσηтнєDєѕтяσуєя

    I knew a guy EXACTLY like your friend. He was one of my boyfriend's friends, emphasis on was. He was unemployed, and my boyfriend always ended up paying for his entrance into a place, his drinks, his snacks or his cigarettes, ever since they became friends.

    When my boyfriend and I started a relationship, he started taking me out and what not, and said friend didn't like this one bit. He wanted to have my boyfriend spend his money on him like he used to. So, this friend, who knew me for aslong as my boyfriend knew me before we got together, started being a jerk towards me. He made these not so subtle comments about how friends should come before girls and that friends are what's most important. He would constantly guilt trip me via text if my boyfriend wasn't in the mood to visit them after working all damn day, without actually saying a word to my boyfriend.

    I started to ignore this childish behaviour and he eventually started a rumor that I was pregnant. I knew it was him, but he didn't know I knew, and after he made a bunch of pregnancy jokes imtended to offend me or something (which was pointless because I wasn't even pregnant), I retaliated and without letting him know I knew, I said that I heard there are such rumors going around and that the culprit is probably a lonely, bored, single douche with nothing better to do.

    He got so mad that he told me off, ultimately but not directly confirming that it was him who started all the shit in the first place. I laughed at him and when my boyfriend heard how rude he was to me, he told his friend off. We don't care that the guy is out of our lives, because he was a douche. So yes, its normal that you don't care about this friend or the fact that he's not a friend anymore.

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    • cliffMFclavin

      lol! what a dick. daddy issues is what it sounds like to me

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  • RoseIsabella

    This so called friend of ya'll's is a leech so it's good to be rid of him. My Gawd, think if the money ya'll will say, probably enough to go on an awesome vacation!

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    • Spankz

      Honestly, if I were able to add up all I have spent on him, I could have probably bought a 5-star vacation in Fiji. I have already saved hundreds (literally) and it has only been 2 weeks since we haven't been hanging out.

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      • RoseIsabella

        See you're already reaping rewards.
        :-)

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  • cliffMFclavin

    is it normal to be glad a douche is out of your life? yes. even if you were friends...sometimes even more normal to be glad if you were friends because you know firsthand how f'ed up their concept of friendship is. have fun now

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  • Blu-and-Jewel

    I see not feeling anything as a subconscious self-defense mechanism of the mind... but maybe that's just a bunch of bologna.

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    • Spankz

      You could be right, though. I mean this guy WAS my best friend, he was there with me through some good times. There are good memories there and it sucks knowing that someone I was so close with could jade me the way he did.

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  • Spankz

    I also forgot to mention this: last night my boyfriend and I found out that Bobby has been telling everyone an incorrect story of what happened. We found this out from someone who has been hanging around Bobby for the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately the spreading of this incorrect story has caused a lot of our old friends to turn against us. But, I guess that's all predictable 20 year old behaviour. I find these actions alone reasonable ground to be completely emotionless about losing my "best friend".

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