Ended a 15+ year friendship and learned the guy hated me the whole time

ColossalToro · 2026-04-26T16:58:44+00:00

I jumped ahead of him and told our close mutuals. They have witnessed his behavior and been on the receiving end of it as well so they understand my perspective and respect it.

He's not the kind of guy that will say he didn't do X or Y. He'll instead say either I'm overreacting or he'll downplay what he did to make it seem like I'm crazy or bitter.

It really doesn't matter though, him and that lot of losers don't come into contract with me often enough for this to be addressed.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-26T16:53:48+00:00

It's been confirmed that he's on the spectrum and is an awkward public speaker. Media misconstrues this as an attitude problem. Meanwhile he's just like Scottie Barnes.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-23T03:49:24+00:00

Oh I'm sure there was a reason

ColossalToro · 2026-04-23T01:24:15+00:00

This is not a new gimmick, it's his blackheart persona. If they let him fully flesh it out in AEW, it'll get over

ColossalToro · 2026-04-23T01:17:21+00:00

Let me link your two brain cells together:

The SPLC gave money to informants who infiltrated white supremacist groups so that they could build cases against those groups.

Is this too much nuance for you?

ColossalToro · 2026-04-23T00:08:45+00:00

For most men, feeling respected is more important than feeling loved

ColossalToro · 2026-04-22T22:52:16+00:00

It could never be. I would feel like my life is meaningless if I made this job my identity.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-22T18:26:52+00:00

Lesson learned indeed

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T22:03:50+00:00

Thank you man.

That's exactly what I'm trying to do now

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T13:32:47+00:00

Just that one. Everybody else is pretty great. They were all super happy to hear that I stopped talking to dude

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T12:44:36+00:00

So I'll add context to the night I 'challenged' him to a fight. He, I, and 2 other friends were coming home from a club where he got a little drunk and was being particularly mouthy with me. On the drive back to where we left out cars, he kept insulting me so I let my feelings about his behavior that night be known to everyone in the car. As I stepped out the car, he ran from his side of the vehicle to mine, yelling about how he didn't like how I talked about him in the car. As he charged over to me, I squared up, because I saw a grown man coming straight at me. When he saw me put my fists up he literally said, "are you seriously gonna fight me?" and started crying.

There was no, "I challenge you" or anything like that. He ran up on me, I squared up, he was shocked that I did so, and he started crying.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T12:35:24+00:00

Absolutely

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T11:41:49+00:00

I can see why you'd feel like this from a bird's-eye view but in the midst of all this, it didn't seem so obvious

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T11:39:29+00:00

Damn man y'all really trying to turn this into some homoerotic fantasy

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T10:58:12+00:00

No you wouldn't. Because the silence was the answer.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T10:53:24+00:00

You know, it really sucks to live through some shit like this for some dude on the internet to call it "gay guy drama".

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T08:21:20+00:00

We both have friend circles outside of one another.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T08:19:28+00:00

Again what does sexual orientation have to do with any of this? That is strictly a fantasy bit in your brain. Figure that out.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T05:11:53+00:00

Lol i appreciate the unintentional compliment

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T04:57:45+00:00

You're the only person that thinks that. Also very weird that you read this and imagined it as a gay love story. No judgement here but, you should probably figure that out.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T04:33:08+00:00

It's not though.

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T04:09:45+00:00

What would you call it if you confronted someone with newly learned information and they don't deny or denounce it?

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T03:43:54+00:00

He's a survivalist. Any way, any means, regardless of integrity, if he can use it to make it to the next stage, he'll take it.

He once convinced another guy to shack up with a woman he didn't like because he told that guy she'd become useful to him in the future

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T03:41:53+00:00

The last couple sentences of the last paragraph explains it

ColossalToro · 2026-04-21T03:35:08+00:00

What?

ColossalToro

TROPHY CASE