My friend is all about himself and never wants to do anything i want?
I have a friend that I hang out with frequently. We started off getting along great, but now I feel as if the friendship is very one-sided.
First off, everything always has to be about him and what he wants, which mainly consists of playing video games and expecting me to watch for hours (while he gets in a foul mood if I "distract" him too much by wanting to have a conversation since we planned to spend time together) and going to stores that sell video games so he can look at them. I've told him that I want to try some different things, but he always poo-poos all of my ideas and has some sort of a childish bullshit excuse for why nothing except video games is an option for him. I've flat out told him that I don't want to just sit and watch him play video games all day, and his response is that watching video games is fun. Maybe for him, but not for me, especially since that's all we do anymore, and he doesn't seem to have any consideration for me whatsoever.
Any time we do something I actually want to do for a change (since I finally did say enough is enough and we're going to do something else), he asks me why we always have to do what I want to do, which is a joke, and acts like a complete child in stores. Seriously, if we're in a video game store, he can stand there for 3 hours with no problem and I won't hardly be able to get him to leave when the store employees are just looking at us like "When are they going to leave?", but if we look at something I enjoy, he sits on the floor like a child and says he's way too tired to stand and that his knees just hurt sooo bad. Seriously. SITS ON THE FLOOR. IN PUBLIC. LIKE A TODDLER. It's actually humiliating.
He also can't take any form of criticism whatsoever, is a grade A victim, has an excuse for everything, and constantly makes everything about himself. He started acting extremely rude to me one day over a fucking video game and so I told him very firmly that I didn't appreciate how he was treating me and that maybe I just shouldn't hang out with him anymore if that was how much he thought of me, and then he started throwing himself a huge pity party about how I wished he was dead and all of this dumb bullshit. He doesn't put any effort into anything, but feels sorry for himself and blames everything on other people or "bad luck". He's constantly treating me and other people like shit and making up all sorts of very obviously bullshit excuses for it, like that ignoring all forms of contact for a week straight is because he was "busy" when he doesn't even have a job and all he does is play games all day, yet he's constantly texting people when I'm around him. Any time something bad happens to someone, it's always a competition to him to see who has it worst, and he feels weirdly threatened by anyone else being complimented except for him.
He also feels entitled to other people's money and expects them to pay for shit for him, and has even lied about having no money so he didn't have to spend his fucking "video game money". I don't help him pay for anything since I witnessed that.
Deep down, I know I deserve better than this and am ashamed I've allowed this to go on for this long. But I'm afraid of burning bridges and losing a longtime friend.