Friend is ignoring me for no reason

Well, I’m sure there’s a reason but he is keeping me in the dark. He’s almost like a brother to me, so I’m hurt. I spent a lot of time with him and his family this weekend.. he messaged me last night late, and thus morning I sent him this brief text with an emoji and he replied back with an emoji. Fine. Well, I called him on my lunch and it says the number isn’t in service. I looked up the error code and it says that it’s the code if an account has been suspended or bad reception. It’s not the reception because I see he was still able to watch Netflix on his firestick. Also, he hasn’t been online so I wonder if he restricted me on there too...I even went as far as texting from an alternate number...he never ignores me even when mad! It’s not like he hasn’t gone mia before, but if he’s mad he lets me know..he can text with WiFi (I think) so I’m feeling really anxious. I’m not going through this every time he is having mood swings. We are supposedly best friends but the way he is acting I don’t know.

For now, give it time and don't assume. It sounds odd but maybe his service was disconnected via unpaid bill? Or maybe he'll let you know when he's ready.

You mentioned you spent time with his family. Did anything happen?

Not between the two of us..but with him and his sibling something happened and he had a bad anxiety attack. I don’t want to have to go to his house to see if he’s ok, but if I don’t hear from him soon I will have to. I’m worried

Ah, well it's been said here, already. Blood is thicker than water. Whatever happened that's caused anxiety for him is likely the reason why he's taking space away from you. This isn't between you and him. It involves his family member and if he's living there, it's a tough situation to be in. I would not go over. Respect his decision for now and accept things for what they are until he's able to talk with you about it.

No he lives alone...but I am going to give it a few days before stopping by...I will just say I was in the area or something...

Update: he finally reached out this morning. So his phone was not disconnected but he made it so his phone wouldn’t ring I guess...he said he wasn’t looking at his phone because he needs to relax. I get that but I don’t appreciate the childish game like I’m supposed to just guess? Anyways, he can take all the time he wants I am not playing games.

How is having his phone on silent a "game." I think most people from time to time do the same thing just to get some peace for a while. Our phones run our lives at times, and sometimes we just need to turn it off (or on silent). That's a pretty healthy adult coping skill actually.

ETA: Is this the same guy who you have been on again off again with because of his poor behavior towards you? Why are trying to get in touch with him IF that is the case? (If it is a different person ignore this edit.)

I agree with this post. I'm unclear why having his phone on silent is a ''game''... sometimes a lot of people do this at times to get/feel more peace. I also think its quite a healthy coping skill. (am I missing something?)

I'm glad he reached out.. but I don't know the story about this guy. He's just a friend? He sounds like a boyfriend to me.

I, too, don't think he was playing games. If he was feeling anxious, it's a good strategy to limit contact with others. He did so to help him "relax". Sometimes we don't realize how heavily attached we are to our cells.

Is this the same man who wanted his space but you wanted daily communication? He isn’t obligated to communicate to you daily, you aren’t married or anything like that. Is there anything you can find to keep you occupied so you don’t need him every day? Work? Hobbies? Other friends? Give this man his space

For some reason when I called I got an out of service message. So maybe it was down and he didn’t see.

I'm sorry that this has happened to you. You don't need someone like that in your life.