Ok I'll try to make this short and as simple as possible. Lets say friend "1" is my best friend, we been through a lot and I've always been there and vice versa and we always hangout yaadaayaadaa. Then there's friend "2" who I introduced friend 1 to not that long ago, but friend 1 went away for a couple months and returned about a month ago. Basically whenever we hangout now Friend 1 and 2 always are going against me and friend 2 is always trying to point out my deficiencies and try to make me feel bad about my self while friend 1 doesn't do anything. Friend 1 is suppose to be my best friend, but lately it seems like he always mad at me now especially when friend 2 is around. He's also doing stuff I never thought he would do to me like gang up with friend 2 and try to pull a wack prank on me or something.

Then there will be times when I'm with friend 2 and I try to text friend 1 to come over and hangout, but ill get no response and I'll find out he was texting friend 2 the whole time while he was ignoring me and i'm like wtf? I'm your best friend and I've been through everything with you and now your treating me like a piece of crap?? Then I found out this girl friend 1 is trying to hangout with has a friend who likes me and told him, then I somehow found out that he knew and didn't tell me, but if I was in his position I would have told him right away if a girl liked him or whatever. I'm also always the last one invited to chill like i'm some after thought or something and I've had enough. I'm feeling really pissed and paranoid because I feel like friend 2 is secretly a covert hostile and is trying to destroy my reputation and say to friend 1 I was talking bad about him or something because he's a sketchy person and its just a gut feeling but I don't know. I also feel like if this is the case then friend 1 isn't even worth trying to talk to and fix the situation if he's so easily manipulated by friend 2 if that's what's going on. Like I said i'm really paranoid and don't know who to trust or believe or what to think right now I'm currently avoiding them right now and trying to chill with different people, I'm just really confused and not sure what to do.

The only winning move is not to play.

Just ignore them altogether.

You will find comfort in:

1. Not dealing with them anymore.

2. Watching them try to still be friends, but you keep ignoring them.

Your over-complicating a bro-to-bro relationship.

Your nit-picking everything like a female, brah. Stop over-anolyzing. If they don't want to hang out with you, don't force your way to hang out with them. Find someone else to hang out with. It's not that hard.

If he's really your best-friend, he'll come back eventually.

Edit: I just noticed I had a lot of words with -'s in them..

I think you need friend 3 and friend 4.

1. Listen to Gamgee.

2. If in the future 2 upsets/plays mind games with 1, and 1 wants to be friends again, be understanding: we all make mistakes.

3. Enjoy the feeling of being a decent human being.

You should take a break from them, simple as that. While I understand your frustration, you shouldn't actively try to involve yourself too much into their business either if you feel that you're slowly being drawn away from them, so don't do that.

Yeah you could take all these reasonable suggestions...

Or you could take my advice which may or may not be legal...

Destroy friend 2.

Give friend 1 space and ignore friend 2 altogether.

Steal them grilfriends!

This.

And for some reason I get the impression you're quite young. Not that that's bad, but you don't really have the experience yet then to know that these are not friends, simply because they don't behave in a friendly manner.

It's sad but true, people can grow apart. Sometimes they have nothing to say to each other anymore, sometimes a new person comes along and becomes a wedge, sometimes there evolves resentment for one reason or another.

Don't worry, these things just happen.

It's far better to spend time with people that are actually your friends than try and repair something that doesn't work anymore, especially if you're not the cause and have already tried to adress and fix the issue.

Very rarely do others stay "best" friends for the whole of our lives, we all grow and develop in different ways, find different interests and find other friends to have relationships with. It sounds like the time has come for you to go your different ways but maybe down the road aways your paths will cross again and you can rebuild your friendship.

This goes perfectly with your avatar, haha.

Also, distance yourself from them, etc., which it seems that you're already doing. If you do that, that leaves them with less material to use against you in ridicule and conversation. And who knows, maybe the major thing they had in common was you and it'll fizzle out after a while.

I had something similar happen when I moved an hour away from where I was living. These girls began telling my best friend (as if he wouldn't tell me...) that they thought I was annoying. I wasn't close to them to begin with (mainly just hanging out with them only if it was a group hangout initiated by someone else) and just distanced myself from them further.

Leave them dudes alone.

Friends come and go if they're not real friends.

Plus you just holding on to them despite their obvious lack of respect for you is very soft and weak.

Please don't be soft & weak .. Stand on your own two feet because you're better than them.

I respect your loyal heart btw but don't let something good be a weakness.

This is why I have no friends. No stupid BS to deal with. My advice, get rid of both of them.

Sounds more like enemy 1 and enemy 2 to me.

Recently experienced this.

Take Gamgee's advice.

This is EXACTLY how I handled my situation, and I felt much better.

Don't you guys think I should confront friend 1 by myself and ask wtf his deal is and if friend 2 is saying fake crap about me to piss him off? Im on the fence with that decision, but him and I have always been able to talk about stuff. Just to make something clear it's not like this has been going on for months and ive just been sitting there like a pushover taking everything friend 2 says it even almost got physical at one point were I was so pissed at him this has been about two and a half weeks.

If you're haven't done that already it's worth a try but it's always best to keep things at your own experience when having the talk.

That means not going: 'wtf is your deal' but rather: "Lately I've felt this and this way around you guys and I don't like it.' Don't talk about other people, talk about yourself.

And for heavens sake don't get into a ping-pong match. You know: "you did.." 'no but you' "no but you" etc.

I'd say if you wanted to, but for something like this, you don't want to fight... ugh, I hate using this word this way... 'drama' with 'drama'. Ignoring them would show more that you're above that kinda stuff.

You can talk to him if you want but take the fact that he turned against in the first place into consideration.

My closest friend wont hesitate to hurt others for my namesake when I'm not around to defend myself.

You two may be cool but friends you are not

Like my mom always tells me, don't kiss anyone's ass to be their friend.

I must stress that you should leave them be. You're doing yourself more harm trying to salvage something that the others no longer appear to hold dear. I know what you're going through, and I know how it hurts, and how bad it hurts. You owe it to yourself to escape the situation.

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If your good friend isn't immediately coming to you to discuss what friend 2 is saying then it might be that your friendship wasn't as strong as you thought. Or he changed, [censored] happens and people change.

If one of my friends started saying my other friend was saying bad things about me, then I would just confront them. Then see what is up because I know that doesn't sound right to me.