AITA For dropping a friend for venting to me?
A year or two ago I used to be friends with this one guy, I (16M) Knew him(16M) since we were young kids.
Now I don't mind if someone vents to me but I do feel like it was draining my mental health as well. He randomly stopped talking to me only if it was for him to vent. I told him that I wasn't comfortable with him constantly venting to me because it was draining me too.
He didn't care and would guilt trip me into listening. I told my other friends about it and asked them what to do and they were all saying to drop him. I didn't want to do that because he was depressed and I didn't want to be the reason why he would commit suicide.
So It went on for a couple more months and I kept trying to tell him that I was drained due to all of the times he vented to me when I told him I wasn't comfortable with it. He called me selfish and cruel for not wanting to be vented to. And the day I dropped him he would spam my phone cursing me out.
I still feel bad about it often and I wonder if I am the asshole.