Greetings!

I happen to find myself in a bit of a dilemma. A long term friend of mine recently spoke up about me expressing myself disrespectfully. Apparently I have been doing this for a very long time and he has now grown tired of it.

I know that I may say things that might offend people because I choose not to sugarcoat what I say, but rarely do so unsolicited. But what surprised me is that this came straight out of the blue as our conversations are usually very unfiltered man to man conversations.

And since he didn't even give me an example of what he got butthurt about and said that if I want to bring this up with him again i shouldn't bother and it will just end badly for me. So he basically threatened me and cut the conversation short.

My reaction was naturally to just say "fuck this shit" and we haven't spoken since.

On one hand I want to leave this friendship in the gutter seeing as friendship is built on mutual respect, of which he seems to have none.

But on the other hand he is a very important person for my social life, he opens up alot of doors to exclusive parties and has an impressive social network. So the choice is either me keeping my pride and remove this person from my life, or cripple myself socially.

What the fuck do i do guys?