E's Double Standard

How is it, that one day E is admitting he can't tell me what to do, when just weeks before he was berating me for still calling O a friend?? I don't get it. He knows he can't 'tame me' and yet presumes to tell me who I can be friends with, and who not...??!!??

I get that the people I chose to befriend aren't necessarily the best people, but they're the ones that need my brand of help (as I see it).

Im making myself sick trying to understand that man's logic. He can't tell me what to do, or where to go - but he can tell me who to be friends with?!?! Something is rotten in Denmark...