ending a friendship with a leo, How?

here is the story...i am a scorpio looking for some advice on trying to get out of a self destructive friendship wtih a leo. we have been friends for four years...and have crossed lines of friendship a few times before into the intimate realm, but that was a long time ago. right now, he is attached to me...like seriously. he is such a baby, and can't do anything for himself. he makes me feel bad about myself, and the decisions i make...and he lies all the time. i have just realized that he is not teh kid i love, he is something dirty and different from what i thought.

here is an example of his childish manipulative side: complicated...so bare with me. he liked this girl....i thought she was hot, but didn't think i had a chance...me being a girl, and her being straight, (or so i thought). he had a major crush on her, but she was so far from being interested in him. basically i started hooking up with her after it was quite obvious that she wasn't interested. he got jealous...and told me i had to choose between him or her. i told him it was ridiculous...but to him, i had betrayed him adn choosen her over him. i told him i wouldn't choose...and we fought for like a week. now, i have closed myself off emotionally from him, and he really takes advantage of me...like i drive him everywhere, pay for shit, and i actually got him a job where i work...which was a bad mistake. anyways, i am planning on finally telling him that it is not healthy for us to be friends....he has burned a lot of my friends lately, and they are all fed up wtih his s*** and are waiting for me to finally say all the things i have held inside for so long. being a scorpio, i decided to just close myself off emotionally to him and to basically not confront him...but it isn't working. he makes me feel sorry for him...and things just keep sucking the way they always have...so, today is the day...in a few hours i am going to talk to him...and hopefully dealing wtih his blow up afterwards will be easier if i had some advice....from you all. any leo's out there that have any insights? i want him to really understand that it is because that now that i really know him...i realize that we simply are not good for eachother. we are easy together....but negatively easy you know? he also may be in love with me...but, i am not into boys all the much anymore...and he is so not my type. when we first became friends i was dating his ex-girlfriend...and i think he secretly keeps me in his life and so close to get back at her...i know, sounds f*** up...but this summer has been so annoying with him in my life...any thoughts?
aloha,
Leiana

Honestly...Just start to ignore him completely..I say this without malice towards him..I too am a Leo and I know how we are..You have to make a full clean break in order for order to return to your life and possibly his...We are Leo's and I can see how he would get extremley attached..I do as well...He probably is so used to the situation that he cannot see any other way of life without you..But be cruel to be kind..Good Luck...🙂

thanks for teh advice....exactly what i needed to hear....

well, yesterday i did it...i picked him up in my car...and was like, "we have to stop seeing each other' i felt like we were breaking up without the sex part of the relationship. he got very angry...and the longer we spoke the more he was able to make me feel really bad about it. but, i kept going, and feel good about telling him to just back the hell off of me. he told me he had feelings for me, and that he didn't know how to deal with them properly...blah blah blah. i was like, well...that is just it. he has me on this pedastal and i am so sick of all teh pressure when i simply want him out of my life. so hopefully he will get the hint...and funny thing is, is that my other friend whow just came home for a week from college is planning on doing teh exact same thing...just telling him flat out, that she is done with him...and that she simply doesn't ahve the energy or the care to continue to be his friend. sucks....for him, but maybe he will realize what teh hell he is doing. hopefully...but, i think he is just going to be angry adn sad...and no do a damn thing about it.
aloha,
Leiana

Well if you feel better after doing that i am glad..Honestly we Leos hate being ignored in any way...But it will stop everything..It will do trust me!!I hop you get some clarity with the situation and remember that we Leos do Love to death sometimes...We are emotional souls..but sometimes you have to let us go 😢...Take Care and again Good Luck