Bree
August 31st, 2008, 12:07 PM
I need help now! My guy friend and I are really mad at eachother, and we are like best friends. Its a long story, but to make it short, he wants to beat up some kid in the band that is new, and I told him that its not going to solve anything, and he thought I was taking the side of a guy I have only known for 3 weeks over him who I have known since 1st grade. Then he said some really hurtful things. I am open to talk to him, but he hasn't called me or gotten online or anything. I don't know what to do.
Waahoo, why don't you try and get the two of them together? Maybe one night after band practice. Explain to the two of them about how you feel. Tell the new guy that he needs to lay off the verbal abuse, because it's not a redeeming quality. Tell your old friend that he still is your friend, he has to realise you are allowed to take another's side at times. And you are making the new guy feel welcome by befriending him, you're not blowing your other friend off. Let them both know that their disagreements are not helping with the band, especially since they are both in drumline, and so it's not only having a toll on you, but on the entire band. If they both care about you, as friends should, they'll wise up and try their best to get on. If not, just tell them that they're not to bring their problems to you, that they have to sort them out themselves, and away from band practice.
And you don't sound pathetic at all. You sound like you want to do what's right. :)
Waahoo, why don't you try and get the two of them together? Maybe one night after band practice. Explain to the two of them about how you feel. Tell the new guy that he needs to lay off the verbal abuse, because it's not a redeeming quality. Tell your old friend that he still is your friend, he has to realise you are allowed to take another's side at times. And you are making the new guy feel welcome by befriending him, you're not blowing your other friend off. Let them both know that their disagreements are not helping with the band, especially since they are both in drumline, and so it's not only having a toll on you, but on the entire band. If they both care about you, as friends should, they'll wise up and try their best to get on. If not, just tell them that they're not to bring their problems to you, that they have to sort them out themselves, and away from band practice.
And you don't sound pathetic at all. You sound like you want to do what's right. :)

