Hi guys. I’m 35. I will be honest, I’m a good looking and tall guy and was kind of popular growing up. I’m also kind of smart and went to a good college. I feel like I got a good hand in life genetically. I’m also a nice guy to people. My weakness is that I’ve had some demons and anxiety and have some financial stress and drink too much. But I have a good job. I went to high school in a small town and have an old friend/acquaintance who is kind of like an angry dweeby nerdy guy. He is very smart and makes a lot of money but he has a hard time getting women and might be a bit Aspergers or something. Don’t ask me why we stayed friends. I guess I see the good in him and appreciate that’s he’s intellectual. We had a business idea together and I did most the work. I ended up dropping out of the business idea because he was being too disrespectful. He told disrespectful stories about me to my gf and has said other disrespectful things. For years he’s been working on himself but he has this fantasy of being like Suge Knight and doing 48 laws of power stuff and getting rich. It’s part of his demons. I personally don’t think he’s ever going to make it big like he wants. He makes everyone feel disrespected, even when people are good to him. Recently he sent me a text screenshot of some loser burnout guy from 20 years ok mentioning me to him in a low key condescending way, asking how I’ve been but using an old disrespectful nickname this loser guy had for me back in the day. He knows I don’t want to associate with people from high school from 20 years ago but I feel he’s doing weird power dynamic manipulator stuff because he’s angry. It really got under my skin. He did get a gf recently and I hoped it would make him happier/cooler but he’s still thinking weird power stuff. He is a parent. I’m not. He’s implied that he wishes he could experience what I have socially. Do I confront him or let the friendship slowly fade off?
