I've cut off 4 friends so far. Two of them were drug addicts. Both of them were unreliable. The third friend was someone who disappeared as soon as he got a girlfriend. This was my best friend for 7 years, and as soon as he got a girlfriend, it's like he became another person.
The fourth friend is someone who I cut off last week. He's pretty fat, and all the time he was cock blocking me with girls and making sarcastic negative comments about me. There have been many times when he messed things up between me and a girl when we were going out. Last week he coughed in my face at a BBQ, we got into a fight, and I got him into a submission until he could barely breathe. After that incident, I decided to cut him off.
As I'm getting older, my social circle is getting smaller (I'm 26). I have no more time for low quality friends, I'm trying to level up, and I don't have time anymore for friends who drag me down. So what are your guys' stories from friends you have cut off? Why? Was it the right decision?

ogrilla99 2y ago
I've never cut off a friend. My basic attitude has always been that everyone out there in the world has something interesting / useful / passionate about / etc that makes them worth getting to know. Sure, some people are more interesting than others, but no one has ever been a net negative in my life. I'll caveat that by saying I've never had friends who were hardcore drug users or things like that, where they could be a net negative and it's totally fine to cut them off.
But I've never cut anyone off just because they were blue pill. That said, I have different friends for different things. I have dear blue-pilled friends and I'd never go clubbing with them. But they're fun to grab a beer with and talk about our days or our troubles. And if they do want to go clubbing or bar-hopping or whatever (say, married folk who finally get a hall pass to have a guys weekend), then I just chalk it up that the night will be a waste women-wise, and just focus on enjoying my time with the guys. Not every night has to be full-on gaming chicks and trolling for ass.
That said, as I got more red-pilled, I found that most of my new friends are all red-pill, even if that's not why I selected them. They just had the right DGAF attitude that allowed us to gel in our day-to-day lives, and then it turns out they're pretty fuckin' fun to hang out with outside of the day-to-day too. So I guess the percentage of my friends who are blue-pilled continues to go down, but only because most of the new adds are all red-pill.
FWIW, one guy I got so fed up with I almost started fading from him, was a red-pilled guy. Not exactly, he'd been a ladies' man all his life, even before game and TRP was a thing. And I admired that part about him. But literally every single night out, his goal was to hit on women. After a while it got annoying when it's like "Dude, I just want to grab a beer tonight and chill out". I realized how much of his life (not just going out, but dealing with all of his plates, etc) was spent on women and it got old. That said, I never cut him off and we're actually still quite good friends. Because he's a solid guy otherwise, and you take the good with the bad.
If guys don't want to be redpill, that's fine. To each his own. While I'll help if I can, I don't hold it against them if they don't change, as long as they have other redeeming qualities. Pussy is not the only thing that matters in life, or else male porn stars would be the happiest dudes in the world. Friends can add value as long as you can recognize what their good and bad points are and compartmentalize accordingly.
slowlylearning1 2y ago
I haven't cut off any friends, but I've learned who is a good one to be around and who isn't it. I would get annoyed but never saying anything about some of them before TRP, now the ones I'm not bothered about losing on the way, I basically let them do all the chasing.
I was a complete beta before, would listen to everyone even people who I didn't particularly care for or find interesting but just to be a 'nice guy'. It's so odd though when you start to see through people's masks ; some people are miserable and living a lie.
Many of my friends are 40, long term relationship and most with kids - next to all of them married their high school sweetheart or someone from the local area. Small town of 20k. I think 90% of them are miserable as they're all blue pilled mortgaged up whilst their wife piles on the pounds.
I'm hardly living the dream but I've got a decent income, and do lots of hobbies and interests in my free time, I'm still monk mode after a long depressive period but there's been some women showing interest yet I'm more focussed on completely believing and being happy with myself first.
I'm only really interested in speaking to genuine people, so some women who've been somewhat attractive but bitchy boring, entitled or shit personality I won't put the effort in at all - I literally won't put up with spoilt behaviour.
The most mind-blowing thing about finding TRP is people you previously thought had it all/looked up to or were out of your league bollocks, you see all their faults and so many are just putting on a mask anyway. Crazy.
Men especially over 35 are incredibly boring. I'm loving my late coming of age and learning new things, instruments and DIY etc. When you start talking to others this age, many don't do anything at all! Just sit on their arse watching films or TV.
Typo-MAGAshiv Endorsed Contributor 2y ago
Zero.
The only friends or acquaintances I've ever cut off (whom I recall at the moment) were prior to TRP's existence, and for reasons not related to TRP.
Vermillion-Rx Admin 2y ago
I've cut off I think zero friends. I have limited my interactions with a lot of them but I don't think I've outright cut off a guy yet. I have slowly faded out of friend groups after getting red pilled specifically due to red pill and knowing they were not good for my journey. I suppose there was one friend I technically cut off even though it was a months long slow ghost.
however
I have been cut off, backstabbed, undermined, accused, you name it because I am red pilled. I have been turned on by my turncoat blue pill friends many times and at that point yeah I have cut them off
I've never really been the first one to nuke a bro or acquaintance over TRP but I have returned fire and made sure a number of them regretted it
I could probably give stories
I will say I regret fading away from my 6 year friend right after I got RedPilled in 2016
I slow ghosted him after getting red pilled because I thought he was a super retarded beta
I was not sympathetic and if anything as blue pilled as he was he was a sincerely good friend. He never fucked me over or anything. I slow ghosted him and told him "I changed" when he pleaded me to re-enter his life
I matured a year later and when I hit him up again he ghosted me. I hit him up a second and third time and never got a reply those two times
I actually sincerely regretted that. I still do. He was an amazing bro and I was callous
I thought he was going to hold me back and that I would just find a bunch of RP friends to replace him and that never happened
I never could avoid blue pills. It's just not practical to go your entire life avoiding certain men. Even a lot of my theoretically Chad friends have stupid blue pill tendencies
It's been 7 years since I cut him off and I actually regret it pretty fucking hard. He was a true friend, I was selfish. Red Pill didn't make me cut him off my own ambitions did it only left me feeling emptier.
I didn't even really use or fully apply red pill any way for 3 more years so I basically cut him off for absolutely nothing and lost a good friend out of it
We used to play guitar all the time and have phenomenal conversations and there was always good times. I haven't even found a new guitar buddy since then. I just fucked myself over acting the way I did.
But further, I feel bad what I did to him. He didn't deserve a closureless slow ghost. I never told him why I did it
koedeloe123 2y ago
Sucks to hear that, a 6-year friendship down the drain like that. I hope you learned some value lesson from this, but it seems you did. I have almost made the same mistake, but he's still around. I'm sure you'll meet plenty of other good friends. Sucks that this one had to go, though...
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Bozza 2 2y ago
I haven't purposely cut anyone off. I've naturally drifted away from people as I had less in common with them and our lives moved in different directions.
For the most part I try to pick friends well. They might not be TRP aware, they might be overweight etc. and have other qualities that aren't exactly TRP. But I value them because I enjoy their company, they're loyal and I can trust them to have my back no matter the situation.
I do have a friend that may need to be cut off soon though. He's suddenly started becoming extremely jealous of my success with women.
MidgetSpinner 2y ago
Story of my fucking life.
koedeloe123 2y ago
Crabs in a bucket mentality. I feel like it's necessary to cut off 'friends' sometimes. They're happy when you're at the same level, or even doing worse than them. But as soon as you start making progress, it feels like they don't want you to succeed. Girls wise or career wise. Instead of being happy for you, they are jealous, and that's when their real colors start showing.
Bozza 2 2y ago
Yeah we went to a bar last weekend and he got pretty salty.
I can kinda get why. He goes out, and tries pretty hard to game chicks. He's there talking with them for ages and has to work on them for most of the night. If I walk anywhere in the vicinity they'll instantly fuck him off just to talk to me. Even if I turn them down they'll run off to find someone else. I can see how that must be fucking brutal for him.
What pisses me off though is instead of thinking to himself, oh shit, if I got jacked as well, maybe I'd also get that reaction from women. He decides to take the woe is me route and complains about how it's unfair and he can't go out with me because I steal all the girls.
koedeloe123 2y ago
Story of my life. These guys know what they should do. Work on themselves, hit the gym, get a haircut, work on their style, ... But instead they choose to be jealous, because they're too lazy. Even when you're doing well, you know that deep down, they resent you. Like you said, they're doing all that chasing, while you walk away with the girl 'without any effort'. The thing is that you and me worked hard to achieve the life we have. Be it career wise, fitness wise, or something else. That's why I can't be arsed to hang out with these kinds of people anymore, it's so exhausting.
I went out with my fat friend a couple of weeks ago. He bumped into a couple of guys and girls he knew from middle school. They stood next to us, and one of the girls kept staring at me. One of her friends came up to me, and said her friend liked me. I talked to her, and we were kissing within 5 minutes. My fat friend was passive-aggressive all night long. Eventually, he told me that he was into the girl, but I 'stole' her from him. He even told me he doesn't want to go out with me anymore, because girls don't even bother looking at him when I'm around (no brag).
MidgetSpinner 2y ago
If I was his friend, the temptation to be brutally honest with him and try to help him would be too damn high because I wanna see my friends succeed, but doing that in the past has also taught me that that can sometimes backfire.
Bozza 2 2y ago
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink.
I have suggested and encouraged him to go to the gym for the past 3 years. I've even gone with him, shown him how to do the exercises, sorted him out a diet plan etc. But it never lasted more than about 2 weeks before he gave up.
He is a man of complacency and inaction.
I got so sick and tired of him complaining about hating his job that I went to my then manager and forcibly applied on his behalf. At that point he was essentially forced to show up to the interview. He got the job and he now loves it.
But he never does anything off his own back.
Durek_The_Bald 2y ago
None. I only have one friend who I'd call "blue pill", and even he has his uses (decent guitarist + will do you a favour if you ask). I just stay away from the topic of "how stuff works", whether that's women or society at large, and we're good. The rest are various shades of purple. I don't really think it's that common, in today's day and age, to be full-on blue pill. I mean, you have to have been living under a rock not to have taken a few red pills as suppositories, if nothing else.
Intrepid_Place53900 1 2y ago
Ya, sounds like those were low quality people.
As you get older and are working more,etc. your friend group will likely get smaller.
Yup, as girls come into play, they often do more of the social planning than guys, so guys lose contact often with their guys, especially if the friends are single.
keep your hobbies, add hobbies/interests and connect with guys there, also at work.
Do you cut them off? Generally overboard, normally you just drift apart. The fat friend who messes things up, block him for sure
Problematic_Browser 1 2y ago
As you change, you notice that those around you aren't.
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MidgetSpinner 2y ago
People always come and go, especially as you change and improve. I'm used to it after 34 years, and it's not a big deal. I have definitely cut a lot of people off through out my life, usually due to disrespect or jealousy. However, there are a couple of friends and even my two brothers who were acting like complete losers; wasting their lives, drinking, doing drugs on a consistent basis... and I admit I was also like that once upon a time - and I know the go to here might be to automatically cut people like that off, even sadly if they're family, but I didn't.
Instead, I showed them how I live my life without judging them; I would make a few jokes and that here and there, but overall I showed them how not to be a loser rather than preach it to them and it took a little while, but they finally dropped all of the shit of their own accord and now they work out 3-4 times a week, no drink or drugs, they eat better, sleep better, don't play video games anymore, and aren't as whiney and don't complain so much either. People say you're the product of the people you surround yourself with, but it's not always true, especially if your frame and your purpose is unshakeable: YOU become the one who inspires change. Sounds corny as fuck but it's true.
If there's people in your life you value, and you want the best for them but they're holding themselves and others back, of course cutting them off is an option, but if you simply show them the kind of life you lead then they'll either follow suit, or continue down the path they're on and that won't be the same path you're on. The thing is, I don't think these people are actually losers, they're just choosing to be, and the reason I say that is because I know I've always had potential, and at times I made great use of it, but a lot of the time I pissed it away choosing to be a loser instead. So really it is a fundamental choice. No one is born a loser, apart from maybe the people who work for Vice News.
koedeloe123 2y ago
I like this reply. Becoming the one who inspires them. But in reality it doesn't work that way from my experience. I have loads of fat people in my family or group of friends. I bring them to the gym, teach them everything. I even make food for them, tell them to count their macro's, ... But in the end, it's up to them to complete the task.
I'd never cut off a friend for being 'a beta'. But I'd gladly cut off people who drag me down with them. Good on you for improving yourself and the people around you, though, I'll try my best to do the same.
User4566 2y ago
I recently stopped interacting with two of my closest friends because they were bums who were blue pilled simps that do nothing but smoke weed and drink and be wage slaves. They have zero ambition and are boring as hell. Other friends I cut off because I know they are fake and only use people to network.
Being red-pilled has tought me to rely on myself and also to look after only myself. Lots of my friends stopped communicating with me soon as they get a girlfriend so I figured fuck it.
Bozza 2 2y ago
What is it about fucking blue pills doing this. They get a girl and they become their entire life. Stop hanging around, stop doing anything fun.
On the rare occasion you do see them, their gf is there and you have to sit and listen to them tell the most mundane and boring inside stories. "She went to the store with toothpaste on her face, isn't that hilarious!". Yeah, hilarious.
koedeloe123 2y ago
+1. It's crazy how much guys can change once they find a girlfriend. Or maybe we are wrong? This was their personality all along? Who knows... It's actually ridiculous how boring men can get once they get into a relationship.
User4566 2y ago
I think it's because they were friends for convenience just so they wouldn't be lonely.
Boosted_Arrow 2y ago
I stopped going into my karate-club one year ago. Even though I was quite 'successful' with it, since I went to a european championship and would have gone to a world championship if it wouldn't have been for covid. But the people there didn't give a fck about me at all. And after all that time I just broke down and had to leave.
I stopped contact with all the people from highschool. I outright ghosted them. That was during 2020.
Now I just try to avoid people that are not productive for me. Basically I look for 'genuine desire' in people. And if they are somewhat useful to me.
I never had many friends. But I think it's important to avoid people that are not good for you. "Rather have no friends than bad ones."
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