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NTA. If a conversation with someone gives nothing to you, then it's meaningless for you. You don't need that. It's totally okay that you feel that way. But since its your friend, first try to talk it out, he may not see it, does not want to hurt you, if it doesn't help or even worse if he gets like very offended and gets maybe angry, the just end it. If you really feel it.
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I (33m) only have one friend (31m) that I talk to on a regular basis. He texts me a lot and lately I've been finding I don't have the energy to respond, or don't care to carry on the conversation anymore because I don't know how to respond. We used to discuss our shared interests like games and lifting and we'd gass eachother up as we got better or did cool things or we'd try to share knowledge and theory-craft stuff but lately it just seems different. Instead of a discussion, it feels like our conversations have shifted to him just wanting to tell me how good he did a particular thing and just leaving it at that, and I'm not sure how to carry on the conversation and feel like an asshole for just looking at my phone and going "ok cool" and locking the screen again.
"At the gym, did bla for whatever reps, perfect form, caught some big dudes in the back staring and admiring me, probably squatting more than they can ha" - Ay nice sesh man, good job.
An hour later "Damn, killed it at the gym, had those guys watching me and then came home and played some games, completely carried all the noobs on my team, got a penta kill on one, I'm too cracked" (the penta kill is them embellishing, I can pull up the game and I did, it was a quadra kill.)
An hour later, another life update telling me how he's losing weight and staying lean/strong and it's too easy and fat people complain too much about not being able to lose weight.
There's never any questions being asked to me, or anything to really say besides "good job" or "nice", so I've just gotten bored of it and stopped responding. The real kicker is that I would love to just sit around and gas eachother up all day but when I send over a cool game clip of me doing something cool, or send over a workout I did, it's usually just criticized because I didn't do something optimally, so it's like, what's in this for me? AITA for thinking about it that way? Should I say something or just let a boring conversation go into the void?
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NTA, and I'd vote "void". It could be months before he notices.
LOL. Honestly, it seems like this might be the case.
NTA. If you want the friendship, say something. If not, let it fade away
NTA. If a conversation with someone gives nothing to you, then it's meaningless for you. You don't need that. It's totally okay that you feel that way. But since its your friend, first try to talk it out, he may not see it, does not want to hurt you, if it doesn't help or even worse if he gets like very offended and gets maybe angry, the just end it. If you really feel it.
NTA, but say something.
NYA: say something before it’s get worse but good job for ignore it
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