How to loose a friend

I guess we all have our own patented ways to loose a friend, and for the most part, these ways are all intended or willful.

My way is different. My way, I am trying to help, and to be a good friend, but I make such an ass of myself that it ends up pushing the other person away. This is how you can loose a friend:

Wait till he has a problem with someone else he knows. This will happen eventually, since every relationship goes through both good and bad times. Then, make it your business to 'resolve' the conflict. Offer to bring the 2 parties together. Perhaps over dinner or lunch. Offer to arbitrate and help them understand each other. Unless you are a psychologist, with a known track record for resolving conflict, your friend will likely decline to let you wash his dirty laundry for him...

Now here's the clincher...

Be persistent. If you can not convince him to let you solve his problems, then hint vaguely that he is too proud, or to stubborn, or whatever....
And there you have it - one friendship down the drain, and not because of him, but because you were an insensitive asshole and just assumed you could solve other peoples problems for them.

But there's more.....

Invite him over to join your family for a holiday celebration - say Christmas or Hari Raya or Chinese New Year.... the dynamics of such celebrations are always focussed on family, so making such an invitation is fraught with risk and assumptions. More likely than not, your 'good' intention will offend your friend for any number of reasons, and that would put the proverbial last nail into the coffin of your friendship.

How do I know all this? - well, I am guessing, but then he has not accepted my dinner invitations for a long time already, and I dont think it is purely because he is busy.

I'm sorry Al, I was an asshole. Twice. Forgive me?