>be friends with "Jake" for years >lately when

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>be friends with "Jake" for years
>lately when Jake invites me over (he asks I come at a specific time) he texts me like 10-20 minutes before (I live 15 minutes away so I am already driving) saying he's "too shot from work" to hang out

>one day he asks me to come over at a certain time
>before then I go visit mutual friend "Nick" at his work
>tell Nick I am visiting Jake and ask if he wants to come, but was already hanging out with "Ben"
>suggest we all go to Jake's
>ask Jake and he gets autistic about Ben coming over his house (usually Jake, Nick, and I hang out together at Jake's house)
>suggest we all go to Nick's house instead
>he says he is "too shot from work"
>I tell him I am going to Nick's house because it's a 2 minute ride home to my house and it is a change of scenery, and that he can come if he changes his mind
>he gets mad and says that I "promised" to come to his house and that I am "choosing" them over him
>try to tell him that I can't help it if he is too shot from work but he just doesn't listen to reason

Next time I see him he says something like (I'm paraphrasing) "I think we should only hang out when we're all together because we're like a group of friends like the characters in Big Bang Theory." I try to point out that he is basically acting like an abusive spouse who doesn't let their spouse be around anyone else, and also that the characters in sitcoms have their own side plots that only involve one or two characters at a time, but he insists we don't care about him, we're "drifting apart," etc.