In my point of view I think that your friends don't want be your friend anymore but he is waiting for you to end it. You ask him and he doesn't answer. Yeah, I think he can't be honest and he wants you to do the dirty job. Maybe because then he can say to others that he is a good guy and you have broken the relationship.
It happens to me something like that and now my ex friend is telling she doesn't understand why I am being so bad with her...
And I simply have erase her of my life because is the kind of people that is smiling you at one side and is criticizing you at the other. I prefer being alone. I'm pretty sure of one thing, and this is that I want people around me I can trust. I am so old to waste my time.