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Love Cary,

Several months agone, I took a trip with a longtime, close friend. Nosotros are both gay men and have traveled many times together over the years with few issues and a hell of a lot of fun. My friend can be high-maintenance but I am pretty easygoing and we've managed to piece of work out our unlike styles and to bask ourselves.

Nosotros take shared many rooms together over the years, but this fourth dimension our housing arrangement required us to share a bed, which did not give me a moment of break. Like many gay men, our ideal friendship began with a scroll in the hay. That beginning time was something of a quirk for both of us, fueled by besides much drinking and ecstasy. We are not each other's types at all. I should too mention that I have boyfriend and my friend is married, but neither of our partners came with us on this trip.

It was very early on in the morning of our first full day of holiday when I woke up to feel him pressed upward against me. I had already told him that I demand my space when I sleep, and so without rolling over I asked him to motion, which he did with a snort of impatience. I went back to sleep but awoke some fourth dimension later when he started to moan. I causeless he was a having a nightmare and decided to wait for a chip to let it pass earlier I woke him. It lasted only a few seconds. Information technology did cantankerous my mind that the noise he was making was also very similar to an ejaculation, but I instantly dismissed the idea.

Later that morning as we had breakfast with our housemates, I asked him if he'd had a nightmare. He said he didn't, but I wondered if he'd simply forgotten and gave it no more thought.

The next morning, I awoke again. I don't recollect what woke me, but it was alarming plenty for me to rising up and cheque my surroundings. There was no mistaking it this time -- he was looking at me while he masturbated. Stunned and confused, I plopped back down on the bed, ignored a cursory caress and went back to slumber. (I tin slumber through annihilation.)

Hours later on, the implications of what happened all of a sudden occurred to me. Both times he must take shaken me awake, and I was incredulous that he thought it appropriate to interrupt my sleep but because he was horny. I tin understand waking a spouse or a romantic partner for sexual practice, but not a platonic friend. I also became angry when I realized that he had given me no selection in the matter -- at least I was awake for our 30-infinitesimal fling from years earlier. This time I was simply parachuted into a situation I didn't wait or want, and I had no say or control over what was happening. I was struck by how cocky-centered information technology was.

Needless to say, the rest of the week I slept on the sofa. Several times, he asked why I was sleeping in the living room, but e'er in forepart of others. Since our housemates take to count pennies for a trip similar this, I did not want to create tension for them, and invented excuses. But I also began to suspect that my friend was manipulating the situation, forcing me to lie in forepart of others in order to create an "official" version of events that let him off the hook. In any case, nosotros never discussed what happened.

His behavior also gave me new insight into the falling-out he had with a mutual friend several years agone, while we vacationed in the aforementioned resort town. They had been sharing a bed, and I noted that our other friend had begun to sleep on the sofa, likewise. They had an angry fight one night on that trip and they've never spoken to each other once more.

I was securely depressed and upset. I rarely left our holiday house and I began to encounter my friend in a new light. While I ordinarily overlook his trend to orchestrate plans, I became increasingly irritated and aroused at the way he expected everyone else to conform to his schedule. He also takes not bad please in discussing the shortcomings of common friends, and more once I had to bite my natural language while he regaled others with his disdain for sure people. The beliefs became more pronounced as the days went by, and the concluding forenoon he was so thoroughly obnoxious I could barely look at or speak to him during our plane ride back.

After we returned home, I decided I needed some infinite. For several weeks we had no contact and I kept up with him merely through his posts on Facebook. I saw all of these in a new low-cal as well, and became angry at the dishonesty -- he made several claims I knew immediate to exist untrue, and all of them seemed tailored to lead to a bitchy remark that would end his post with a flourish.

And so nearly a month later his mother died.

She had get seriously ill merely a few months earlier, and they were very shut. I was sorry for his pain -- I vividly recall the unbelievable daze at losing my male parent even though I knew he was dying for almost three years. He had very fiddling fourth dimension to adapt to the imminent loss of his mother, then I'one thousand sure his hurting was severe. I sent him a annotation to acknowledge his grief and he replied with a polite thank-you.

Through Facebook, I know the ceremony of his mother'south expiry lasted for a while -- culminating in a huge funeral about ii weeks after she died. While all of this took identify hundreds of miles from where we live, I would have participated in well-nigh of it had information technology not been for his outrageous beliefs. As it was, my simple note and his answer was the only contact we had during this fourth dimension.

It saddens me that the timing of these events means that our friendship has been irrevocably torn and I have begun to second-guess my response. I don't think of myself as the kind of person who would disappear when a close friend is experiencing enormous pain. My boyfriend says I did the right matter, that the timing of events is irrelevant and that my response was appropriate. Merely I would dearly beloved some other opinion.

2d-Guessing Myself,

Dearest 2nd-Guessing,

It sounds like this ended in the manner one would look. What he did acquired your friendship to cool. You were hurt and outraged. So yous backed off. And then, as can be expected, the unexpected happened. His mother died. You lot however had conflicted feelings. On the ane mitt, you had compassion for him. On the other hand, because of things he had done and things yous had observed, you didn't experience that previous fervor for your friendship that might have driven you into action, to be at that place past his side enthusiastically.

This all sounds reasonable. When we are hurt we back off.

When someone asks if their behavior was "correct" I hesitate, because I think, inside certain limits, in our social arrangements, it is right for us to behave according to how we feel. Feeling is a groovy regulator of human being behavior; we behave well toward others partly out of our own goodness and partly out of self-interest because we want their feelings toward u.s.a. to exist total and kind, in part so that when there is a death in the family they will show up at our side.

So we try to refrain from behavior that will outrage them and injure them and disgrace united states. But this is not easy. If we are still growing emotionally, if nosotros are cocky-centered and immature, then we are likely to practise things that will outrage and injure our friends. Nosotros will definitely larn some hard lessons along the fashion. We will detect that for some people, enough is enough. We will find sure doors are closed to u.s., and this will come as a shock. It may be that your friend is learning such things at present.

Simply homo worthiness runs along a continuum. I consider myself to be a deeply flawed person, and I identify with those whose character flaws have led them into grave troubles, whose momentary impulses have caused lasting harm.

He is not perfect but that doesn't hateful you can't be friends -- that is, if yous still want to be friends.

Y'all may feel a desire to punish your friend. It's natural when we have been injured to want to lash out. But I retrieve the best course is to spend some time with him and endeavour to reach a new understanding that contains a further frankness. What has gone betwixt y'all requires you, in fact, to find a farther frankness. The casual arrangements yous have fabricated in the past are no longer enough to embrace what you lot now know.

I suggest you lot run across with him and have a frank talk. You might begin by maxim that you care deeply almost him but there are some things he has done that yous find hard to take. Possibly he tin tell yous something most what'south been going on in his life, things that he has not mentioned, things that don't brand him look good, things that will help you understand why he did the things he did.

Maybe you can be the i to elicit the darker truth. Recall about it. His mother was dying. He was alone. He was scared. You don't have to become his therapist to propose that he exist frank with y'all about the emotional needs that are driving his behavior. Perchance his marriage is unsatisfying. Peradventure he feels people don't respect him. Mayhap he's trying too difficult.

Maybe you will find it in you to forgive his shortcomings. Or perchance not. Either way is OK to me. That is, what I prize in people is the ability to be who they are. For some people, these breaches would be and so severe that they would have to cease the friendship. Others might notice it possible to overlook them. That is a personal affair.

I may be as well liberal in my view of homo bear but I have done some adequately awful things in my time, and however many of my friends stuck with me, and I capeesh that. I wish the aforementioned fortune for you lot and your friend.

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