Do I need to cut him off completely?

[henryallen]

I have a friend in my college. We live in the same town. I always thought him as my best buddy and shared everything with him , few weeks ago a junior from my college told me that my friend talked rubbish about me. I didn't believe him at that time and few days ago another one of my close friend also told the same thing , so now I'm pretty sure that he is talking bad about me to others behind my back. Now should I need to cut him off completely.

[Dude_777]

I wrote you such a beautiful strategy, but it just disappeared while posting.

Play it cool, and don't confront him. Don't let him know that you know all that. Slowly cut him off, while indirectly telling him that you have your people everywhere and you know who your true friends are and you keep big secrets safe from telling anyone.

Indirectly act as if you knew everything about your fake friends from start, but you just like to play dumb and enjoy their fakeness, but don't directly point fingers at him.

They say keep your friends close and enemies closer.

[Dude_777]

Its funny i have my trusted people everywhere, cross checking all the people i interact with, but i love to play dumb and use situation to my advantage.

Like one of my fake friends (i know he is fake, but i use him to my own advantage 😂), he sells our confidential business info to our rivals, but i love to play dumb and feed him info that is not remotely close to reality and now my rivals are going to spank him really hard, for misleading them 😂.

[henryallen]

You are a legend dude... thank you so much for the advice. I'll follow this for sure.

[Vikkrram]

You can just confirm these things before breaking ur friendship. It will cost nothing for you.

[Espresso-Grande]

I'd confront him about it first. To hear what he had to say. Just in case what he said has been twisted or taken out of context.

Make your decision about cutting him off or not based on his response
and reaction to the gossip. It's so easy to misinterpet what people say.

[henryallen]

Two people who don't have any connection told me the same thing at a different time. i also confronted him. He said he didn't say anything to anyone and later accepted that he did

[Espresso-Grande]

Then i'd just cut all ties with him.

[Espresso-Grande]

Thanks for the MHO

[mooky06]

You don’t have to completely cut him off, but you don’t need to also treat him like a super close friend either.

If what his done bothers you tell him, but just keep him at arms length. Be careful what you say and tell him next time around.

[henryallen]

I've confronted him for that... nd haven't talked to him yet.
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Thank you so much for the advice. it really means a lot

[mooky06]

It’s ok :) just hoped that it helped that’s all ☺️

[exitseven]

Give this guy the heave ho.