Im best friends with this guy, and we developed a close bond. One day I asked did you ever expect us to be best friends. And his response was yeah kinda (he’s shy so I had to ask why). His response goes “because you showed me love”.
my best friend has only been able to become vulnerable with me, even when he was fixed up to date two girls by some toxic friends he told them that our friendship was always deeper and he was more comfortable with me and could always open up and be himself. I felt guilty naturally because I did realize he didn’t feel all together in any of those relationships, and losing our friendship always scared him. His family caused some issues which made him finally crank out after years of being mostly emotionally abused, hurt, and used by mostly everyone around (family included). He wasn’t able to open up about his family as he wished (has a complex family dynamic with a dad who died at a young age and brothers+A mom who hold him down by cultural standard). I guess he didn’t want to antagonize them, so he pushed everyone away. I was pretty much the only girl he had left that was around who was there. He’s been depressed and anxious for years and everyone always had said my words and support always helped him day by day , people tried breaking the bond outside of his family like toxic friends but he was always set on our friendship. He’s stuck working a lot now that he’s graduated this past spring and had completely lost concepts of self care. He said we couldn’t talk , and he used this thing he had met someone (proven to be a cover for his family later) but he dropped that entire thing and kept mentioning his family and this idea of them not being happy. He asked if I cared about him and his family, and of course I care— I’ve never been done wrong by any of the sort. And he told me for now we can’t talk. It’s been about 2 months since we last spoke.
