I ditched my mate I grew up with and was my best man at our wedding. He went south, I went north. we had a friendship that lasted 42 years. we drifted so far apart, in particular, I tried to explain to him what I had been going through, my spiritual awakening. He saw that I was a nutter and had lost my mind. It was becoming a toxic relationship. When he rang me for my 51st birthday, I didn't answer. He tried the landline and that was it, poor effort on his part for giving up so fast. I warned him about 3 years prior we need more effort in keeping our relationship together, on his part. But, too little, too late. The strain on it eventually broke it. My best mate is my wife now. She always was, but you know what I mean.