My (25M) best friend (39M) just told me to never contact him again because I wasted his time and I am worried that he actually means it.

Tl;dr: My friend is gone

I love this guy and all - but during a camping trip with him and another friend I took a drone marketing video for a product that his other friend made. I told him as I was getting the drone out that I was only doing it to sell the video. Idk if he heard me or not, maybe he didn't understand. I do not make a lot of money and I think that if you are good at something, you should never do it for free. When we got back from the trip he kept demanding that I send the video to him, I told him that I was not going to send it without my companies watermark and that the video rights are for sale. (the guy that made the product is rich) I am not providing free marketing material for people especially since it took a whole battery from the trip in one of the most beautiful parts of the world.

Anyways, he messaged me saying that he does not joke about money and that he thinks that it is time to move on as friends. He has always helped me in my professional career and now that he is gone I am kinda anxious. I feel like I just lost a brother... We had so many memories, good times and bad... I gave him his dog even... I guess we all are really alone at the end of this...

I hope that this is not the end of our friendship as my whole goal in this life is to build lasting healthy relationships, and I do not even know what I did the first time to waste his time. If he told me not to contact him I guess the only thing I can do is to do just that. I respect his choice but at the end of our conversation I told him to go fuck himself and that demanding things from me will always get shitty results. I hope things are not over in our relationship, but I guess they are so there is only time to reflect and move on at this point I guess.

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Edit 1:

I know I am being vague, It is because I know that I am an asshole friend sometimes. This guy has given me so much time and effort and was pretty much is my older brother. I know you guys think that saying, "Go fuck yourself." at the end of a convo is the end of the relationship - but we treat eachother like that all the time. It is just part of the way we act I guess... I can understand how this can sound like emotional abuse - and it is, but, both of us already have huge egos so it is nice to be taken down a notch.

I was not cutting him out on selling the video, it is just that I dont know the guy that he is giving the video to, and I just felt like I was not going to get the credit for making the video and using my skills for a product... He wanted the video to give to his friend so that he could build a better relationship with him while I am just sitting on the sidelines it feels.

He did not explicitly agree to the thought of me selling the video to his friend, but, I do remember him mumbling and saying something like, "sure..."

No he never charged me for things that he did for me, but I was not doing the video for him. I had it in my mind that I would be selling this video.

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Submitted November 03, 2020 at 09:15PM by Altruistic-Win-4533 https://ift.tt/3oRByBA