It's a bad idea to cull your real friends at the request of a false one.
He's afraid of losing you. Fear is a terrible motivator in a relationship.
Are you afraid of losing him?
If you both can't get over this fear, I'm afraid you're doomed.
Your friends are not the problem.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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