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Originally Posted by scorpiosis37
I think not wanting to be friends anymore, or needing time to oneself, are perfectly good reasons to end a friendship. Just because you've been friends for a period of time doesn't mean you *owe* it to the other person to be friends until the day you die. People change and grow apart or meet people whose company they enjoy more.
We have so little free time in the first place, we deserve to spend it with people whose company we enjoy. Or being alone and recharging our batteries.
It is selfish of the other person to *demand* that we owe them a better explanation or maintain the friendship, even if we don't want to.
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I think, a lot of the history should come in to play. Telling someone you have "hung out" with here and there for a year or two that you need "time" and "space" is perhaps enough.
If it's a friend you've known for years, a friend who you have invested time into their lives and vice versa, a friend you've been with as they've gone through Hell and back, the whole "I need time to myself now" isn't good enough. In my opinion.
Just my take on that. Not saying what these two individuals involved should do. I don't agree with the "friend" but I don't have to and it doesn't matter anyway.