? A separation between best friends can be a hard thing to cope with, but in this particular case, the 16-year-old boy has to cope with the fact that his best friend has switched allegiance from Jeho

Question: I a 16-year-old boy and I’m a Jehovah witness and a spiritual one and for my whole life my best friend has been my cousin Samuel we would talk every day we would call every day. We will FaceTime every day. We will play every day sometimes I wanna go to sleep over at his house and we were younger, he recently well not to recently him actually two years ago he moved from Manassas Virginia to Fredericksburg Virginia close to where I live in the same city and we would still we were still close. It was to call text every day we just wouldn’t sleep over like we used to because his family has problems and the big one is his dad who is an alcoholic, but my cousin Samuel is also a member of Jehovah’s Witness although he is not baptized, but his mom never really taught him to put Jehovah first, but that didn’t really affect him too much when he was younger, we didn’t worry about the things like that I would still play and I will still all good but as we are older things have changed he did homeschool in 2020 with us because I did homeschool along with my sister so he also tried it along with my other cousins, and he did it for one year but then he decided to go back to public school and now he is in high school and we have realized he hasn’t been doing correct things. He has a girlfriend in school which in our religion it is not a good decision to have a girlfriend first of all of the age he is in and when you look for a partner, they have to be in the same religion. They have to have our same believes he plays violent games, but I told him not to play, and I have a relationship since last year has not been good. He switched up like very quickly. We went from calling every day texting every day. FaceTime me every day to going days weeks and months without talking to him and then when we go to his house, my parents never knew what our relationship was not good because I would go to his house. We would act as if nothing happened, but we both know that we weren’t really the same anymore. I would go up to his room now and wouldn’t play like we used to when I go to his room. He’s just playing with his other friends online completely ignoring me while I’m in his room and now pretty much. I don’t talk to him at all because he is no longer a good example of a girl and a good friend to have so I’m no longer going to his house no longer talking with him because we found out that he has a girlfriend and he has done things like sticking the middle finger up and there’s just things that we do not accept in our religion. What do I do? Should I try to help him or should I just leave it because it seems like this is far from being able to be fixed how can I find other friends? How can I fill a big void that my cousin Samual has left behind