Well Graham, like someone else said, it is good that you didn't break your own sense of personal values.
However, like you said, REAL friends won't let girls or THEIR egos get between you and a friend who would let something like this ruin a friendship isn't really worth it anyway.
I consider myself pretty advanced and, like I said, my greatest intermediate problem was that I had the mindset that you described and then realized that I had not had sex with so many women on so many different occasions that I was barely getting laid anymore!
I "could have" had them but I didn't because I didn't want to hurt some other guy's feelings or because she was a guest at a disco where I work as a bouncer and the manager was jealous because he was the boss and still never got laid or some other bullshit reason.
It's like missing one day at the gym or cheating one time on your diet . . . then another . . . then another . . . then you realize that you haven't worked out or eaten properly for weeks.
I mean, what if you go out with another guy next week and start some non-verbals with a girl and the guy you're with sees her and says he "would do anything to get her" or some similar crap and, even though you know that he doesn't have a chance, you don't close her either because you don't want to hurt his feelings or show off in front of him.
As a matter of fact, I was in a very similar situation last sunday morning. I was working security in a tabledance bar and one of the strippers (I hope nobody who knows me is readingh this!) took interest in me. I didn't "approach her," I just asked her about her "pickup style" for approaching the guys in the club to get them to buy lap dances and we realized that we had very similar direct methods for attracting the opposite sex.
I stayed aloof and alpha and she made me kino her, she handled logistics and wantet to bounce me to an after hours place.
As we were going to leave after closing the manager told me to leave because he had to talk to "his employee."
Later I texted him to ask what that was about and he sent me a text:
Ok, did I mention that I consider him to be a friend of mine?
Ok, I also laughed it off, drove home, jerked off and went to sleep, but I'll tell you one thing: I will have intercourse with this girl and if he has a problem with it, then that's his problem.
We "were" friends, but I think that it's pretty fucked up what I allowed him to do to me and, you're right, its not really about the sex, rather that I don't need or want a friend who is going to try to lower my state or ruin my fun every time he gets jealous.
In the end, you need to decide to lead the life you feel most comfortable living and, the older I get, the more I realize that I don't want other people telling me which life experiences I should deny myself.
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