But people want to feel that you are on "their side". If you side with new people against older friends, then naturally the older friends are going to wonder how valued their friendship really was.
If it comes down to it, I’m always going to support my older friends over newer people.
But I do try to see both sides…
This can sometimes mean I get trapped in the middle.
It can appear to my older friends that I’ve abandoned them in favour of newly people--when this was never truely the case.
I have in the past associated with unpopular people (Lucie1, Wilky etc)--I make no apologies for this; but I've never for one second forgotten where my loyalties lie.
But not all sides are equally valid in all cases.