hello. so my brother has a “best friend” who he thinks he should drop. they have been friends since the start of high school and it has been good. there wasn’t any competition between any of them. but very recently something makes my brother feel like the friendship has gotten competitive. for example, my brother has depression and alot of it is school related so he told him not to talk about school or sats with him. but regardless he brings it up and he brags about his “high grades”… like one time he was forcing my brother to look at his grades. and when my brother tells him he gets mad. he also doesn’t help when my brother needs someone to talk to. he just says he has to go or “not again!”. sometimes he makes his depression and anxiety worse.i feel that his friend is really fake and he should drop him. but our problem is that our parents are great friends so how do we back out. my brother has talked to him but he doesn’t understand. they were talking about depression among teens and he was basically saying that depression is their own issue kind of like its their fault. my brother got really mad! depression is no one’s fault. he claims he was depressed as well but he wasn’t because if he was he would brag about it. in short, i feel this “friend” is not good for my brother, should he drop him? if so how? thanks!
A friend of mine was in the same situation. She dropped him low key though. She just stopped talking to him unless she had to. Don’t get the parents involved and it’ll be good.
It’s really not for you to make this decision for your brother. Urging him to give up a friend is not going to make you look good if he has few friends. If he has asked you what to do, I would say there doesn’t need to be a big dramatic “break up.” Your brother can just “be too busy” to talk on the phone or text or to go do things with this person. After a while a normal person will get the subtle message.
@OspreyCV22 he came to me for advice