Friendships

 

Why is it that people choose the holiday period to get ignorant and start destroying longtime friendships and burning bridges (forever in some cases)?

From a different post, I made this comment:

"A wondrous thing about some of these relationships is that you can meet, befriend, know personal things about, enjoy laughter, have a simple disagreement, agree to disagree, have a stronger disagreement, exchange harsh words, get ugly with, say bridge burning comments, drop and block each other....and never even have MET this person.

Life is crazy."

I just recently experienced a situation with a longtime friend....someone I actually worked with, had many lunches with, I had been to his house many times and he has been to mine. We shared a lot of life experiences together....and for some reason after 22+ years of friendship, he chose Christmas day to say things that he knew would generate an angry response which led to more angry words and ultimately, after having the last word (of course), this guy drops and blocks my from his facebook friends list.

Now, this guy has always been the 'chicken little' type always saying that life will always take a turn for the worse in every aspect. Terrorism will be in our back yard, Hillary will become President, Trump will never win the nomination, Obama will force the country to accept a third term.....all very outlandish thinking.

He has a strong 'bromance' with Vladimir Putin and has been to Russia a couple times. Even got married to a 'phone whore' that he fell in love with. One who only used him for money and has had men living with her after they were married and continued her 'phone whoring' job after he left.

He was married to another woman who he met online from Texas, who came here under an assumed name and took him for everything he had...then left him.

He recently sold his house and took the profit of over $45K and spent it on a phone whore from South America and never even had video contact with her.

I really feel sorry for this man. In fact, I think our entire friendship has been based on pity. He was handed a raw deal at our former employer, he has made horrible decisions in life concerning real estate and relationships. He was constantly complaining about his health, his life, even his dog.

As I said, he has dropped and blocked me from facebook, but I have reached out to him via email, basically to let him know that he should not waste his time to contact me back, because his latest round of words really hurt and were very personal.

This is why, in some cases, the holidays really suck. In some aspect, I am a bit relieved that this friendship has ended. He has been one of the most negative people I had ever known in life.

I wonder if anyone else has had a similar situation?