Friends And Other Mythical Creatures

Squaredonutwheels wrote:While you did something to try make the relationship more authentic to you, you may have made it feel less authentic to him.

Mutual symbiosis is pretty authentic.

What exactly did I do to try make it more authentic as opposed to try to maintain the balance that kept me (never mind him) there as a friend?

Squaredonutwheels wrote:In essence though, you tried to deny your own emotional needs by trying to deny they existed, negating the emotional work that he did for you.

I thought I've been conveying the point that I missed the friendship because it met my needs.

What 'emotional work' was he trying to do for me?

Squaredonutwheels wrote:He may have tried to get the smokes out of you as a symbolic gesture, so that i his head the debt was even so he wouldn't tire of you taking emotional advantage of him.

How was I taking 'emotional advantage' of him?

His 'symbolic gesture' backfired, I'm afraid.
As I already said, I got my smokes elsewhere after that, and he didn't have much access to his because of it.

Squaredonutwheels wrote:I could offer some insight into this if you'd like.

I've noticed this tends to be a thing for you - to debate and deflate any Non who speaks on this topic.
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Why is this important for you to do?

This topic is one of the extremely rare times where you don't show insight.

You don't seem to even take it in; it's like you're responding to something in your head - or maybe redundant conversations about it from the past.