I like friends and I'm sure we all do
but the best time to leave a friend in my opinion is when they feel more like a sickness than a person you can have silly discussions with.
I from my experience had friend that I thought just wanted someone to talk to. Until that talking couldn't end without him keep asking me to keep talking to him until I was too tired and really wanted to sleep. I almost didn't sleep for I think 3 to 6 days because he still wanted to talk to me. And yes I did say I was going to go to sleep but he'd ask if we could talk for a bit longer, and I said no and I'd just turn off my phone while he was still messaging me. It'd be almost 4 to 5am when I'd sleep after that.
I finally blocked and unfriended him when my friends told me to. I'm kinda the type of person to think about what others want before doing what I want. so even tho I wanted to leave I thought it'd be selfish of me and it'd hurt my new friend's feelings.
I wanted to leave even more when he said that a certain character I liked very much wasn't real and would never be real, and that he was real and I shouldn't be so into a character that doesn't exist.
(I liked the character's design and the voice of the Youtuber using it, that's what I liked about It I would actually be terrified if the fictional character actually existed. and I do know about parasocial relationships)
He even got mad at my friend who suggested well more like told me to leave because they saw how different I was from before I was friends with this person. I kept talking about how I was worried about him and how my relationship with my sleep felt like my pillow wanted a divorce.
so when I finally was about to leave this friend he begged me not to leave.
but I left because I wasn't feeling well after staying up that much.
so if a friend starts becoming energy draining then please leave them it's only a small chance that they'll change.
Two more chapters of FH will be published tomorrow.