James, it's hard to say what the deal is between you guys. Based on what you wrote he may have felt you weren't representing him well in front of his co-workers, but his reaction points to a more long-simmering issue with your friendship.
I might get some shit here for saying this, but friendships are based on each person getting something from it. I can't say never, but it's rarely some altruistic bond that can never be broken. There's always some underlying psychological glue that holds it all together.
It's the same deal with "true love" in regards to a woman. True love is really just an underlying psychological/metaphysical glue that binds one to the other.
In part, this glue is an assumption by each person that the other will have a specific kind of relation to them. When that no longer exists, the friendship has to either evolve, devolve, or end completely.
A personal story of mine. I lost my best child-hood friend of 20 years. We were closer than brothers, but he went down a road of criminality and hard-core drug use that I could not follow. He felt I abandoned him, and the fallout of that was not good. That was over 15 years ago, and we still haven't spoken since that day.
I wish I knew then, what I know now. Maybe I could've saved him/our friendship. I miss him, and I'll always love him as my brother, but some friendships, no matter how tight, just can't last forever.
I might get some shit here for saying this, but friendships are based on each person getting something from it. I can't say never, but it's rarely some altruistic bond that can never be broken. There's always some underlying psychological glue that holds it all together.
It's the same deal with "true love" in regards to a woman. True love is really just an underlying psychological/metaphysical glue that binds one to the other.
In part, this glue is an assumption by each person that the other will have a specific kind of relation to them. When that no longer exists, the friendship has to either evolve, devolve, or end completely.
A personal story of mine. I lost my best child-hood friend of 20 years. We were closer than brothers, but he went down a road of criminality and hard-core drug use that I could not follow. He felt I abandoned him, and the fallout of that was not good. That was over 15 years ago, and we still haven't spoken since that day.
I wish I knew then, what I know now. Maybe I could've saved him/our friendship. I miss him, and I'll always love him as my brother, but some friendships, no matter how tight, just can't last forever.