I had a good friend like that.
Everything was me, me, me with him and his level of insecurity was epic.
Whenever we would go out in a group of friends, he always took the piss out of people in the group just to make himself look good - particularly if we were talking to females.
I've lost count of the number of times he said in-appropriate things at events in front of people we had just met due to his lack of social skills and constant craving for attention and need to be seen as funny.
When he split from his girlfriend of a few months he was feeling very low and would constantly call his friends to meet up and within a few minutes the "dark cloud" would appear and the rest of the evening would be spent telling everyone his tales of woe again. Any advice given would be dismissed/ignored - it was always someone elses fault, never his.
In the end, I had enough but rather than stop contacting him, it came to a head on a lads holiday a few years ago where I blurted out what a c0ck he was.
Bad move - I played right into his hands as he portrayed himself as being the victim - yet again.
I don't have any contact with him now but we still have the same mutual friends and I know, when I do meet up with them, that since my outburst he has given them a forensic account of that episode and spun it so that he was the victim and I was the aggressor.
Thing is, most of our mutual friends feel exactly the same way about him as I do, yet they still humour him which, I think, is the worst thing you can do as it re-enforces his behaviour.
That said, best thing I ever did was cutting him out of my life as I no longer have to put up with his sh!t and can laugh when we are at events and I can see our mutual friends cringe when he is around.
Everything was me, me, me with him and his level of insecurity was epic.
Whenever we would go out in a group of friends, he always took the piss out of people in the group just to make himself look good - particularly if we were talking to females.
I've lost count of the number of times he said in-appropriate things at events in front of people we had just met due to his lack of social skills and constant craving for attention and need to be seen as funny.
When he split from his girlfriend of a few months he was feeling very low and would constantly call his friends to meet up and within a few minutes the "dark cloud" would appear and the rest of the evening would be spent telling everyone his tales of woe again. Any advice given would be dismissed/ignored - it was always someone elses fault, never his.
In the end, I had enough but rather than stop contacting him, it came to a head on a lads holiday a few years ago where I blurted out what a c0ck he was.
Bad move - I played right into his hands as he portrayed himself as being the victim - yet again.
I don't have any contact with him now but we still have the same mutual friends and I know, when I do meet up with them, that since my outburst he has given them a forensic account of that episode and spun it so that he was the victim and I was the aggressor.
Thing is, most of our mutual friends feel exactly the same way about him as I do, yet they still humour him which, I think, is the worst thing you can do as it re-enforces his behaviour.
That said, best thing I ever did was cutting him out of my life as I no longer have to put up with his sh!t and can laugh when we are at events and I can see our mutual friends cringe when he is around.
and I got ostracized, so did she. I moved to Australia. 
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Not really for me...
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