suddenly lost my best friends, Was I the victim of a bad friend?
I (29m) will admit my emotions are very raw right now because it just happened and I'm feeling very devastated, but I need to know if I am in the right for feeling the way I am
I just got a text message from a friend (23m) of 3 years saying they wanted to end our friendship, not elaborating just saying "I've changed, I'm just not enjoying the friendship anymore" and that was in reply to me asking if he wanted to join me for my birthday next week
Me and this guy have been pretty good friends, at least from my perspective, for many years now. He's very charismatic, he's fun, he's incredibly social (versus my social anxiety autism), he's very humorous, and everywhere he goes he's able to make new friends. Throughout our friendship We got into sports together, we got each other into our biking hobbies, we found fun little obsessions to get together with, he's seen me at some of my worst and helped me through it and I've done the same to him, I felt like we were really good friends
We're both in college at the moment and I will admit that I haven't talked to him much this last semester because I've been busy and so has he so I don't have a lot of reference to go off of, but about 2 months ago I asked him if he could help me out with one of my projects and he said sure, project ended up going fine he didn't tell me or signal to me that he was upset or angry in any way just interacted with me like normal
But now suddenly, he's telling me he doesn't want to be friends anymore. He's not elaborating on why that is just saying "I've changed, I don't enjoy the friendship anymore"
I'm going to admit my emotions are incredibly raw at the moment, I struggle with maintaining friendships and I suffer from a lot of anxiety and PTSD from it but he didn't tell me that he was upset or angry, this just feels incredibly sudden
im kinda realizing suddenly who does that? i thought this guy was my friend and not some new one we've known each other for awhile now. was he just a bad friend all along?
(ill put the exact words of his text in the first comment)