Note.

My success was making Teni feel inferior.

So he was constantly undermining me and downplaying my value and worth.

By saying things like,

“you are not good at poetry and storytelling, your advice is not helping, you are not funny”.

Etc.

Even though he was quoting my advice and words that I write here on a regular basis.

He was doing this to exert false superiority and to protect his fragile ego and insecurities.

The reality that I’m existing in gives him the leverage to do the same.

He sees wanting credit and convention for my hard earned work as power play.

He was constantly being combative.

By using my own words against me.

He never really saw me as a friend.


Ending the friendship was the right thing to do.