Circle

Maybe my stalker was right. My friends are falling off the list faster than I can say hey! Is it me? Is there something about me I'm failing to notice that chases people off, or is it them?
I don't get it.
The latest "casualty" is a long term friend. We've been through many phases in our SL lives, and I thought she was someone who I could always consider my friend..
last week she removed me from her list.
I know it has to do with the situation a couple of weeks ago involving her guy friends. She brought a few to come vote for me in the contest I later disqualified myself from, and a couple of those guy friends ended up on my friend list. One of them was pretty hunky for an avatar, and we occasionally chatted in the few days that followed meeting him.
Then I get an im from this longtime friend stating how she's hurt by my flirting with this one particular hunk...I can't believe she's saying this shit..so I send him an im letting him know that while it was nice getting to know him, that my friendship with this longterm friend was my priority..and said goodbye. Removed him, removed the other guy from my list. I guess one of them let her know what I was doing, and she asked me to stop..not nicely but to stop. So after I deleted those two, I stopped. I didn't talk to her again, and it was only 2 days ago I noticed she disappeared from my list. It's her choice.
For the record, I didn't have any interest in either of those guys. THEY were interested in ME, but our lifestyles just don't mesh. It was nice talking to them as potential friends, but that was all..and yes, I did mention this to the former friend, but what is done is done...and so my circle tightens smaller as the days go..