[Nyororin]

I seem to have had the unfortunate luck through life of making friends with people who are incredibly possessive.
Any childhood friend needed to be my ONLY friend. Other friends were looked on as something like "cheating"... I can name a string of friends, one succeeding the other, but not really any "groups" of friends.

I always got the feeling - no, make that direct experience of - having friends be very unhappy with me having other friends. Thanks to this, I have probably seriously hurt all of my friends over the years. The incredible possessiveness is entertaining while I am, well, in the mood to tolerate it. But once that passes, I have no clue how to deal with it so generally just cut said friend off with no pain on my end.

The whole thing is a pain, and tends to make it very clear to me just how incredibly cold I am when it comes to "friendships". I`ve always experienced having to literally "break up with" one friend to have another. But I really am a horrible person, and have taken advantage of this strangely blind devotion to me... Until it becomes an annoyance.

I have a bit of a feeling that this is why I see sustained friendships as more trouble than they`re worth.

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ETA;
Confirmation here - normal "friends" don`t want to lock you in rooms for their personal entertainment... Or tell you that they wish they could kill all the other people who talk to you, right?
I am operating on the assumption that those sort of things are overly-possessive behaviors for a friendship... But have to admit that I haven`t had much experience with friends who didn`t fall along those sort of lines. And those who have been here a while will know that I am not one to lie or be dramatic.