I posted a thread about a somewhat similar issue a few months back, about a friendship that had become unacceptable to me. I had known the guy for going on ten years, and had been a maid of honor in his wedding (even though I hardly knew the girl; that was around the time it started feeling really weird). We hadn't talked for 1.5 years before this year, and he still thought we were close apparently... but I wanted out of it by then. So I ended it outright, which was a difficult decision because I generally like to help people's suffering, not cause it. But in the end it was what I needed to do to get out of an increasingly uncomfortable situation.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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