You do not need this 'friend'. In life I have learned that friendships are fleeting .....and that is the best way ! The true friends I have I never seem but talk to regularly once or twice a week online ...two are from the age of 4 or 5 when I first met them a school (we are all 70 this year !) and whose lives I have followed, through leaving school, college, work, marriage, divorce, children, grandchildren, etc etc ...we all knew each other's families boyfriends, etc ...then there are others I met at the next school aged 11 who are still friends ...and some work colleagues I keep in touch with !
We never meet but exchange photos, things that have happened in our lives, etc etc ..it has been (well so far still is ) fascinating to see what has happened in the last 65 years to all of us ! We are scattered all over the UK and the world now ....The USA, Greece, Spain, France, the North of England, Scotland, Holland, et al (we all came from Ipswich in Suffolk) last time a lot of us met was at the 40 year school reunion arranged by my friend of 65 years who lives in Texas ! Itwas amazing to see how we looked ....we actually even had a couple of very aged teachers turn up !