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the strength of a "best friend"?

my (well, ex now) best friend is a guy, and we were alot more than that to be honest and slept together several times. he just found out that i got with someone else quite a while after we finished doing other stuff but before we started sleeping together. so anyway, he blew my getting with this other guy way out of proportion and refuses to speak to me. now, a week on he has a new girlfriend even though he told me we could never go out as he moves away in october and he can't trust relationships. i guess what i'm trying to say is is this how should a best friend really react? the guy i got with was cheating on his girlfriend with me who this guy is friends with, but shouldn't a guy stick by his best friend at that time? i don't know, i just think he's over reacted and i don't understand how he can go from loving me to thinking i should be avoided at all costs just because i got with someone else when he never wanted to go out with me anyway.

how would you react if your best friend hurt another one of your friends, stand by them or block them out?
Reply 1
Sorry?

I would say I have two best friends. Unfortunately, one is a borderline alcoholic on anti-depressents.
Depends, if he or she has big muscles.... :p: :rolleyes:

Edit: You've filled in the rest of the post now....
Reply 3
yeah i mucked up at first with the post... sorry :/
Reply 4
best friend or not, cheating with someone when you know about it is not good.

You friend is probably really hurt that you could do something like that. It might have made him feel like he doesn't know you so well after all. Or maybe he's jealous cos he has feelings for you.

you need to sit down and have a good chat with him
Reply 5
I would block them out. This happened (well, not exactly) in my friendship group. If one person is hurting another, then obviously it'd hurt the other person if you were still friends with them. If this person is really that horrible to hurt someone you care about, and think they can get away with it 'cos they're your friend, they don't deserve to be your friend.

Dump him and move on with your life.
Reply 6
well it sounds as if you blew your *best friend* relationship out of proportion by sleeping with him, best friends are those that you tell everything, someone that gives you a shoulder to cry on and make you happy when you are sad, boyfriends however do all that and sleep with you. maybe, to him, you were more than a best friend and it hurt him that you slept with someone else without considering his feelings. thankfully my best friend is a girl so i dont think il ever have that problem but perhaps when people say i dont want to go out with (sleep with) them as it will ruin our friendship, they are right?
Reply 7
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my (well, ex now) best friend is a guy, and we were alot more than that to be honest and slept together several times. he just found out that i got with someone else quite a while after we finished doing other stuff but before we started sleeping together. so anyway, he blew my getting with this other guy way out of proportion and refuses to speak to me. now, a week on he has a new girlfriend even though he told me we could never go out as he moves away in october and he can't trust relationships. i guess what i'm trying to say is is this how should a best friend really react? the guy i got with was cheating on his girlfriend with me who this guy is friends with, but shouldn't a guy stick by his best friend at that time? i don't know, i just think he's over reacted and i don't understand how he can go from loving me to thinking i should be avoided at all costs just because i got with someone else when he never wanted to go out with me anyway.

how would you react if your best friend hurt another one of your friends, stand by them or block them out?


Well you don't SLEEP with your best friend! It's just wrong and if I did that I'd be gay. My best friend would never be a member of the opposite sex...girls just don't understand and are basically evil :P

I'd say you brought it on yourself, when you have sex you become more than friends and that causes all sorts of problems.
He's a d**k that led you and then dropped you by saying that he didn't believe in relationships at this age. He's a melodramtic atention seaking poohead with too many emotions.

Sorry had to let that out, In my opinion he's just hurt that you got with someone else when he didn't. He's also annoyed you didn't do anything wrong to him as you weren't going out (his fault) but he has to be annoyed with you in some way so he's saying that he's sticking up for the person you got with's girlfriend and that you lied to him about it.

I'm, sure you can quess who this is and by the way (I think) that he is one of the most immature people I know and I think that this is because he is so obcessed with being mature.

Sorry if I've confused anyone, I know the OP :smile:
Reply 9
You shouldn't have slept with your friend in the first place. My best friend is a guy and the thought of doing anything with him freaks me out, hes just him, hes like another brother and there is no way at all anything would happen between us... its wrong! It'd be like insest! In my opinion the minute you crossed the line from being best friends to sex friends your relationship was bound to get confusing and messy. You need to talk to him to work out your relationship, does he class you as a best friend or something more than just friends? Be honest with each other then hopefully it will work out if you set boundaries.

Think about it from your best mates position: He is with someone (X) who he thinks is special and he has a good relationship with, then he finds out that whilst hes been sleeping with X, X has actually got with Z, and seems to think its ok because you were just mates with abit of extra stuff going on. Then he finds out that Z was actually cheating on their boyfriend/girlfriend with X!

If my best friend were to hurt one of my other friends I'd stay on mutal grounds with both of them. He used to go out with my best girl mate and they had a bad break up, but I'm still close to both of them even though she hates him. Its all about priorities and circumstances.