QotD: Friends Forever?

What would make you question a friendship?
Submitted by stueykins.

Actually this is quite topical for me.  I just got a message on facebook from a former Canberra friend who I haven't spoken to in 10 years.  The message was all chatty and friendly and finished up saying "I don't know why we lost touch.  I have a feeling I did something stupid.  A pity ...".  I am really not sure what (or if) to reply to him as my recollection of how we lost touch was that he and his partner (with whom he now has two children) just suddenly started giving me the cold shoulder treatment and never told me why.  I actually rang his partner once after I moved to Sydney and she was really brusque on the phone so I never bothered contacting either of them again.  I felt quite hurt at the time as we had been really good friends for about 5 years prior to this and thought he could have at least told me what I had done to upset them.  I remember racking my brains at the time as I really had no idea whatsoever (and still don't).  I did remember him doing the same thing to other people in the past for some perceived misdemeanour but had thought we were better friends than that.  Anyway, I am not sure that I am prepared to let bygones be bygones without at least some sort of explanation and even then I am not sure if I want to.   I have pretty unhappy memories of my time in Canberra and this was really just the icing on the cake, ie, it happened shortly before I moved away from there and probably helped reaffirm that I was making the right decision in leaving.  Kind of weird that I could live somewhere for five years and not have any real regrets about leaving.  I like Canberra now but only ever go there as a tourist or for work - not to relive old memories. 

Canberra from above