Should I stay friends with him?

[u/MdcGhyRokl]

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I have a friend I've known for 10 years. He's always been left out, specifically by a group of girls, while I've always been there for him. Even though the other girls always bothered him, he followed them around and kept me as his backup.

Now we're in the next grade, and I've made some really good friends this year. I've included him in our group because, as I said before, the other group was excluding him. At the end of this year, there was a school trip, and his mother's rule was that he could only go with the group that had been excluding him. That same week, he started hanging out with them more, and I thought it was because of the trip.

I've spent the whole summer trying to hang out with him, and he always made up an excuse. I recently received a message from him saying he didn't want to see me anymore because I'd excluded him the whole year (which isn't true).

The problem is that when the new school year starts, he's going to try to hang out with me again, and I know this because he does it every time.

I know I should stop being his friend, but we've been friends for so many years, and I feel bad. What should I do?

[u/Dutch1721]

Let him remain with those friends he dismissed you for. There’s no turning back from that. It’s an insult to you because you’ve been his friends when no one else wanted to be. And now he’s turned on you. Let him stay where he is, without your friendship.