This actually just happened to me recently and I guess it's less of a "break-up" and more of just avoiding hanging out but I had this friend who was one of my closer friends in high school and part of my 'group.' He was 1 of like 4 guys I still hung out with after high school (we're 26 now) and up until recently I realized that he just never grew up and how he was living his life somehow influenced me to be super lazy and was basically just bringing me down. He accidentally knocked up a girl right after high school and he wanted her to get an abortion but she refused and had their daughter. Every time I went to his place to hang out (which mostly consisted of me sitting next to him watching him play video games), I would see his daughter and she's the cutest and sweetest thing ever. But from what I saw, he hardly put in any effort to raise her and instead had his parents (who he still lives with) take care of her as well as the child's mother (who isn't exactly living a lavishing lifestyle). While I was in his room, his mom would literally walk in and pick up all his dirty laundry and do them for him, so this 26 year old friend, who has his parents take care of his 7 year old daughter for him, also doesn't even do his own laundry. Other things include: -Whenever I tried to have a text conversation with him, he either does the annoying 1 word type of reply or just straight up doesn't reply at all. -He hates absolutely every 'outgoing' activity - sports, eating out, going to the movies, etc. so the only time I would hang out with him is in his room watching him play games. I would always be the one to initiate 'hanging out' as the only times he would text me is to tell me how he hates WRX drivers (I drive a WRX, his parents bought him a brand new Evo X when he was 17) obviously trying to trigger a response/defense even though I never talked bad about Evos, in fact I like them a lot but I guess he has to be part of the whole Evo vs STi culture and never giving me good explanations why he hates the car other than it being what it is. -He has talked shit countless times on things I would purchase or do (getting an iPhone, getting a WRX, playing COD back when it wasn't complete shit, trying out Pokemon GO, etc.) and then do exactly the thing he was talking shit to me about less than a month later. The last time I texted him, he said he was busy trying to fill his pokedex for Pokemon GO.. I was basically the person who recommended it to him and he didn't even ask if I wanted to play with him or anything. -I graduated from college with a B.S. in IT and I have not yet found a job in the tech industry which he likes to remind me of every time I see him and goes on a tangent about how there's no point in going to college and would repeatedly make jokes about random things I don't know - "pff shouldn't you know that Mr. University?" He has a high school diploma and currently has a job selling used vehicles. He still asks his parents for gas money.

Nowadays, the only things I do with my friends most of the time is go out to eat and I would always ask this friend if he wanted to go eat with us but he's pretty much the most picky eater I've ever met and eats ONLY fast food types. And even when we go eat fast food, he's the type who has to have everything custom (no ketchup, replace this with that, etc.). His main excuse for not wanting to go watch the movies or go hiking or ANYTHING is because it's not worth the money but he says this when he has spent, not even joking, at least $30,000 on modifications to his car. I'm not going to lie, his car looks awesome and probably the coolest looking Evo I've seen but after he has spent this much on making his car look cool and claiming how he would win at every car show, he has yet to enter any car event and drives it at most 3x a week. It seems like he basically has the car only to tell people he has the car. But anyways, yeah I know I should've dropped him a long time ago but somehow I always looked past these things because he was one of my oldest friends. I pretty much just kept hanging out with him out of habit it seems and the fact that he seems to have no other friends besides me but after he just ignored me again when I asked him if he wanted to chill, I just didn't want to put in the effort anymore for someone who seemed to give less of a shit about me than I did for him.