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(Short version) should I leave my 2 friends?

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  • JGB1955
    JGB1955 Posts: 3,853 Forumite
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    Just walk away when they say something you're not comfortable with - they'll soon get the message...
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  • sim2335
    sim2335 Posts: 588 Forumite
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    JGB1955 said:
    Just walk away when they say something you're not comfortable with - they'll soon get the message...
    Walking away is that really rude, or even hanging up the phone.
    I do hang up phone if my 1st mate swears.
  • Compromise option is to cut contact for a month and see how you feel and how they react. It’s not a permanent intention so you won’t have the feeling that you will be alone forever with no mates. You can use the month to go do other things. Go to the go-karting place? Meet other random blokes who do that.
    Doesn’t sound like any of you are very good with women. All single? Living at home with parents doesn’t make you an attractive prospect but you sound nicer than your mates! Rare for someone to dislike swearing so much.
  • sim2335
    sim2335 Posts: 588 Forumite
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    That’s what I’m gona do cut them for a month, and just say I’m busy to meet?
    what if they call though say I’m busy too?

    im Moving out next year friend one has had 10-12 girlfriends he’s most chinse f girlfriends he’s Indian, he does street approaches he’s obbsed about it.
  • Don’t need to say anything, don’t need to answer the phone. Just disappear as if I you ended up unconscious in hospital.
    Your mate sounds…dangerous to women. 
  • sim2335
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    gozaimasu said:
    Don’t need to say anything, don’t need to answer the phone. Just disappear as if I you ended up unconscious in hospital.
    Your mate sounds…dangerous to women. 
    What happens if I come back after a month they will ask me, why did you ignore me, or they will message why you ignoring me.

    then even if I do wanna go back they may just say bye.

    From what I’ve seen he’s not been dangerous, he wants multiple girlfriends, all he talks about is his approaches and how they went and litterlly wants to approach 24/7., of course does normall things like sleep etc other then that just approach.
  • gozaimasu
    gozaimasu Posts: 860 Forumite
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    edited 14 November 2021 at 7:56PM
    Surely you would want your mates to ask if you were ok rather than get annoyed if you ignore them? Put your phone on airplane mode. I don’t know, it’s up to you what to do and how to do it. If you want to tell them just say you’re busy like you suggested. 
  • sim2335
    sim2335 Posts: 588 Forumite
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    gozaimasu said:
    Surely you would want your mates to ask if you were ok rather than get annoyed if you ignore them? Put your phone on airplane mode. I don’t know, it’s up to you what to do and how to do it. If you want to tell them just say you’re busy like you suggested. 
    That’s the best idea I’ve had so far thanks  and that to what I’m gona do.

    A friends done that to me when he was busy, if they want to turn me away after that no point knowing them.

  • Jude57
    Jude57 Posts: 734 Forumite
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    I suspect there's more issues here than can be dealt with on a public forum.

    I would say that, while friends should be honest with each other, they should not deliberately or carelessly hurt each others feelings. OP, if your friends are doing that, perhaps you would be better off without them.

    OP, your friend who makes random approaches to women on the street is following ridiculous online chat-up 'experts' who treat women as objects in a game. Women are just people, not an alien species. I've recently had to step in to stop a young man trying this with a girl far younger who was trying, unsuccessfully, to politely get away from him. I'm a middle aged woman so had no hesitation in telling him off. The girl, who turned out to be 14, was terrified of this mid-20's man accounting her so I walked her to her bus stop and made sure he didn't follow her on to the bus. If your friend can't see how frightening it could be for a lone woman of any age to be approached by a stranger like that, he's not a very nice person.

    It's not easy to make new friends but it can be done at any age. How about volunteering for a cause you care about? You'd automatically have something in common with other volunteers and could learn new skills as well. You'd be doing something worthwhile and could find new friends too.
  • sim2335
    sim2335 Posts: 588 Forumite
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    First friend doesn’t care too much about my feelings… don’t get me wrong he’s not continuously  rude or swearing.

    2nd friend does he try’s not to insult etc, other then changing his tone…sometimes he will insult but not randomly like first person.
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