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So my friend told me some scary news and I think I blew it. How can I fix it?

Asked by Sayd_Whater (439points) March 30th, 2016

So one of my friends told me recently he was a father of a two year old. At first he told me it was from a one night stand with a local from a far away country and that the mother told him when she was still pregnant but he decided to ignore it. My reaction was kinda bad, and I snapped at him for ignoring a young life like that and started to tell him to man up. Afterwards he got really nervous and changed his version and then told me he only knew about it now… And that he already had other plans for this next year… There I got really angry, and told him he should change whatever plans he had to go meet his daughter at once, before she grows any older because he was missing the best years of her life! And well, he just hang up the call and stopped replying my messages. I know I was a bit mean towards him because I was shocked and honestly it really pissed me off the way he disregarded a human life, his own daughter. I guess I just expected more from him. So despite the fact that he is being a terrible liar and a coward, somehow now I feel bad for not being “a supportive good friend”, and I fear he won’t talk back to me anymore. Should I have done anything different? Is there anything I can do or say now to solve it? Or should I just leave it there, doing or saying nothing else at all?

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